vote as soon as he gets back i will vote for the time being in the meantime we will turn it over to senator flake for questions. >> thank you, i want to congratulate you all and your families, it's a tremendous sacrifice for families to have user like that. ron, it's good to see you here in this capacity. i know of your good work in chicago. ambassador nichols, we had a good visit in my office yesterday, we all know, and if you don't, zimbabwe is going through an election for the first time in about 40 years. they free and fair election after the departure of robert mcgaughey. it is an important time there. can you talk about the importance you are hoping to get there by the 17th of february -- i'm sorry, of july? why is that important, for us to have an ambassador there for the election? >> thank you, senator flake. it is an honor to talk with someone who has such deep experience in the continent, and in zimbabwe in particular. the voice of the united states in calling for a free, fair, credible election, that gives the zimbabwean peopl

i will be on a mission of peace. and we will carry in -- in my heart, we will be carrying the hearts of millions of people, people from all over the world. we have to get denuclearization. we have to get something going. we really think north korea will be a tremendous place in a short time. we appreciate everything going on. we appreciate working together with north korea. they are really working very well with us. i say so far, so good. we will have to see what happens. and we will know very soon. i will be leaving as soon as we are finished with this conference. i very much look forward to it. i think it is very important for north korea, south korea, japan, the world, and the united states. it is a great thing. we will see what happens. ok. any questions? yes. >> we are about to embark on what may be the most important meeting you have ever had in your life. what is in your gut? steeled nerves or butterflies? president trump: really everything. this has really been done. it is unknown territory in the truest sense

any delays or snags will not be, i just don't think it will be accepted by this committee. the implementation of the rules established in the standing of the community care networks, i talked about them in my opening statement. i'm troubled that these contracts, that the wards have been delayed. i think they could potentially undermine your ability to establish a robust program and we would fall right back into the same pitfalls we have with no choice. the question is, day one when you get on the job, as it applies to the mission act, what are you going to do to make sure this program works. >> the last project i began before i had to leave and return to the department of defense was a deep dive on the integration of the three regional community care network contracts. my understanding is they are on schedule to be signed or implemented at the end of the year. i didn't get much beyond that. i will pledge to come back here, if confirmed and give you a report as soon as i get there. it can't be delayed any longer. >> you talked about one of the problems is getting through the

i think china will help out. i think japan will help out. i do not see united they -- united states spending a lot of money. we had three hostages. how much money did we spend for the three hostages? we are very far away. we are very far away. those places are very close, in the neighborhood, within a -- we are 6000 miles away. so i already told south korea, you are going to have to get ready, and japan, also. and i think they really want to see something great happen. japan does, south korea does, and i think china does, that is their neighborhood. >> yesterday you were concerned about the meeting with lavrov with kim jong-un. president trump: i did not like it, but it could be positive. i did not like the russian meeting yesterday. i said what is the purpose of that? but it could be a positive meeting. if it is positive, i love it. it is a negative meeting, i am not happy, and it could well be a positive meeting. >> [indiscernible] president trump: that could happen. that could happen. we talked about it. we talked about ending the war. thi

i will make a nomination today, but i will not comment on this issue. superviso peskin made his statement, i think it is extraordinary that we've never had a case in which the mayor elect does get to participate in the voting process for the head of another branch of government. that is what it is in today's vote. i want to take this opportunity to nominate a colleague of mine who i came in in the class of 2010. we have spent eight years, close to eight years working together. i really have to say it. we have both grown so much on this board. in fact, we really spent our doubt -- adult life serving on the board of supervisors together. we are the same age and we went through many of the challenges that occur when you join an elected office that can be, at many times, unpredictable, challenging, and rambunctious. sometimes a little mean but also incredible. incredibly great. i have really enjoyed watching supervisor melia :-colon develop and grow as a public servant, and as an elected leader over the past eight years. it has my pleasure to serve with you

how long will it take? i think within the first minute, i will know. just my touch, my feel, that is what i do. how long will it take to figure out if they are serious. i said, may be within the first minute. you know what they say, you know whether you like somebody in the first five seconds, you ever hear that one? well, i think very quickly i will know whether or not something good is going to happen. i also think i will know whether or not it will happen fast. it may not. i think i will know pretty quickly whether or not, in my opinion, something positive will happen. if i think it won't happen, i'm not going to waste my time. i don't want to waste his time. yes, ma'am. reporter: are you concerned at all the just by giving kim the meeting, that he is getting a win out of you? president trump: no, no, no. only the fake news says that. we just got 3 hostages back. we paid nothing. they came back, they are happily as const in their homes with their families. they are the happiest people in the world right now. we have not done anything. everyone said,

and i will stick with that. it was something important for us to get -- as we know, we're trying to do a lot of reform at the police department. and these two candidates to me would be the strongest in terms of moving things forward, being able to compromise. being able to collaborate. being able to stand firm in what they believe. so i will not be supporting the motion. >> supervisor breed: thank you, supervisor yee. supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, president breed. i really want to thank supervisor cohen for actually why the meeting was 7 1/2 hours, because supervisor cohen grilled every single candidate so extensively. and knowing this was such an important appointment, my staff actually watched the entire hearing, which was something that i would have expected of most supervisors. i was able to mt with cindy elias and i know that's my job as a supervisor to meet with appointees if i have any issues or questions and especially on this appointment, which is so, wanted to mention that -- i know

walsh: i will just start said,as gen. beaudreault, the strategy is the most clear strategy i have seen since 1980 nine, the reagan administration, clear strategy. the department is clearly turned in that direction. so clear strategy is telling us to move in that direction. i will start with concepts. our training, our equipping, our manning, how we organize. with the clear guidance from in operationslike the in a contested environment gned b the commandant -- getting very close to being signed from the commandant and mainno, and another one, a battle that we are working on with the army, another concept, so the concepts will drive very much where we drive our , where we put our s&t. that is driving everything we do. the concepts are unifying, socom on the main battle site, but certainly in base operations, driving everything we are doing in the department all the way down to the operating forces. so, i would just hope the concepts, as a piece, are a major driver, and the operating concept that the commandant signed in the

i will say it was not contentious. t was strong was the language this could not go on, but the relationships are very good weather with president macron or justin. justin did a great job. i think the relationships were outstanding. because the united states' leaders of the past did not do a good job on trade, and i am not blaming countries, i'm blaming our people that have represented our past, it has got to change. it is going to change. it is not a matter of i hope it changes. it is going to change 100%. tariffs are going to come way down because people cannot continue to do that. we are like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing. and that ends. larry kudlow is a great expert on this and a total free trader. but even larry has seen the ravages of what they have done with their tariffs. would you like to say something, larry, quickly? it might be interesting. kudlow: one interesting point in terms of the g7 group , i don't know if they were surprised with president trump's free trade proclamation. but they certainly

>> i certainly will not go into detail. and i know you guys would like to engage on matters of conversation between the special counsel but we personally have walled that off so i will not comment on the outlying council.>> why can't you correct that?>> again i will not answer questions dealing specifically with the outside counsel. >> i will not get into the back and forth you on that. >> they are looking to, does he involve any key voters in the state? the statements that, he has?>> certainly we would hope that the people in pennsylvania would share the president's commitment, to the national anthem, the pride that we have in our country, it's not meant to be a slight to anyone but frankly a reaffirmation of the great country that we live in and to stand for the national anthem, it's something the president has been clear on.>> what wilon the agenda regarding the trade issues can they provide economic assistanced blic plto reach an issue?>> i'm not going to get ahead of the presidents meeting but we anticipate the summit w

[clapping and singing] >> i will remain, i will not get back. i know that today, a black man of 21 years of age or older who is still alive has been dealing with this all their life. >> marshall must be alert, keeping his eye on the entire situation, giving constant surveillance for the safety of the people in the march, they made depend on the alertness. >> they cannot put their hands on me because i have been hurting all of my days. i ain't never had nothing. >> they use tear gas, dogs, bullets. are you able to put your life on the line to protect the ladies? >> we will do everything to keep everything nonviolent. the one thing that could probably hinder us would be violence. >> you might be nonviolent yourself, but what about those people waiting for you to come up there and groups with different names. when this march does get here, we will wait for the chance and then we will burn the city down. how can you control those people? >> even those who do not agree with our nonviolent approach, have enough respect for us that they would not do any

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i will be brief. on the dates of peace, i would say we've made progress and there's a lot of things where we could have a separate conversation about what we are doing, i don't know the school district systems, but i have a three month old daughter and i would say, you know, if she is off track, i will stay on her until she is on track, as an example. i think that type of persistent commitment with our focal population across multiple schools and multiple grades and the life course is really the data we need and there were brilliant people including ones to my left were working on things like this. what happens is a transition point we lose our focus and i cannot look at the data and i know if i have a fifth-grader who is chronically absent and if i don't catch it soon, i know what they will look like as a tenth grader. this is an all -- it's not that many and i think dr matthews was right in that we need to get more granular in the on track and off track to get bigger outcomes. >> the resolution that

i don't know if it will go down as the best commencement speech ever, but i do think it will go down as one of the most appreciated. because it was six minutes and 18 seconds long. [laughter] so i understand that there was a little wager going on as to how long graduation will last. i want to mature i get a portion of that when i am done with this each. . mesh this speech i have always had a fascination with georgia tech. and goes back to 1980 something, it was a lovely before most of you all were born. and also, when georgia tech had a really, really good basketball team. . i was watching basketball all day long. my mother owned a hair salon, and if i didn't get up saturday morning's early enough to go to the shop with her, than i was stuck at home and on tv all day, was basketball. so i was completely obsessed with georgia tech basketball. and one player in particular, i will not call his name today. but i had a high school-esque about coach, who would indulge me and listen to me about everything -- listen to me talk about all the fascinating things and you about georgia tech basket

see the chaos down there and i don't know if it will get worse. i don't know if it's a question or comment but as a whole, we really should be thinking about, i know people want to get people out of cars, but people also have a choice and if they have a car and they want to use it, you should be able to use it. if you have a bake you should be able to get on your bike. it just seems like the city is moving more and more away from allowing people to have that choice, so that is one thing. the second thing regarding the plants, you have the large cape rush that i see and i see that on some of the other neighborhoods like i live in the mission and i see a lot of that type of planting there. the only thing that concerns me is at night i also see a lot of rodents coming in and out of those bushes, so i would just want hopefully, i don't know what we mea need to do because s nice when we want to put plants up on the street and in the mission you have at lot of people that want to put plants everywhere but they are not maintained. >> in this neighborhood

if confirmed, i will implement the law. >> my time is expired but i will come back. i don't want you to think left out of my questions. senator isaacs? >> i agree with your comments about the admiral. he's ary qualified and great nominee and i appreciate you all being here today. thank you for accepting a tremendous challenge. do you happen to know one of your predecessors johnny carson? >> yes, senator. he's a good friend of mine. >> of all the people i've got to know in my travels i've done in africa, johnny is the most knowledgeable, insightful, and most well-received american on the continent of africa. so if you'd had an known him, i want to make sure you do. take advantage of him because he's a terrific asset. >> when i was ambassador in ethiopia, he was ambassador in kenya. >> you focus on the sudan and parts of your testimony. you mentioned the sudan. that is a horrible problem that's getting worse by the day. we tried a special envoy, cover has a these agreement to get a referendum for independence, which we finally got but it never did anything because the v

i will be respectful. what did kim jong-un say to you to give you the confidence that they are not cheating the system the people who will have to go in and make sure that they are actually giving up their nuclear arsenal. he mentioned the fact that they proceeded down a path in the past and ultimately nothing got done. dollarsk billions of and nothing happened. it was a terrible thing. he brought it up to me. he said we have never gotten this far. i don't think they have ever had the confidence that they have right now to tting things done and having the ability to get things done. he was very firm of the fact i think yous to -- might want to do this as much or even more than me. they see a bright future for north korea. you never know. we never know. very -- signed a very cumbrian's of document today. i believe he is going to live up to that document. i think that he willtart t process right away. i can only say that i've known him for really well. he has been really resourceful. without the rhetoric, it

with a 10,336 time i will quit smoking as soon as i get back from afghanistan. after two hours of climbing day break over the peak and then to capture the moment on video. and then to with the pubic hair and exposed genitalia and with those non- to blow just after a few missions it is a common problem others are also having crotch lists fatigues and there is no running water he is not the only one not running -- wearing underwear. and then not to alert any tele- ban in the midst of the present urging him to keep his legs close and try not to laugh. it sucks not having the high ground for the videocamera about that distinct disadvantage soldiers have where they have the geographic advantage i wrap up the interview then grabbed him shots just for fun. after a short break continue on and several hours later the summit doesn't look any closer. are we there yet? knowing damn well we have a ways to go. i grow like a child on the last nerve of their parents. i am running out of gas to get heavier with every step. i should not bitch my load is not as heavy as what they

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i will certainly second and i think all of us as commissioners will second the fine work that maureen does for us on the commission. much appreciated, maureen for all of your time and efforts. and i agree, i think all of us as commissioners certainly the four of us that have been on the commission for a number of years here will agree with the chief that the key thing is to keep the replacement of both the equipment and personnel as the top priorities for our future budget. so, whomever the mayor is in the future, that will be our message from the commission is that we need to continue our recruitment and retention of employees and we have to continue our replacement of our fleet so that we have a modern and up to date fleet. so, that's really our mission as commissioners is to continue that message with the future mayor and with the board of supervisors. thank you very much. let's have our assistant chief jeanine nicholson come up and give us a report. welcome. >> good evening, president cleaveland, commissioners, chief. assistant maureen. deputy chief jeanine nicholson. this is my r

i think we will see that when you see the numbers. i could talk all night about what we have been doing to improve the outcome and the transparency for the agency in terms how we interact with the community making the complaints. i don't want to tie it up. i think you would rather tie it to specific numbers. i will get the numbers. you can see them in the annual report. do you have a breakdown as to the outcome or the resolution or how you sort of track how successful these mediations are? >> yes, and i will say that the mediation is our highest rated, one of our highest rated elements for the program, but there is no stock answer. we are pro actively creating a case approach with each case with mediation. one complaint may be a sit down with the officer in the arrest or transgression. another may involve the captain or chief or the district commander saying something about this policy is wrong and we changed it because of what you have said. this is how it works. people walk away. it is restorative justice. we want them to walk away w

i will tell a story on myself. spoke to -- i cannot remember the name -- i got the phone number of someone i'd worked with with the gore campaign of someone who was running these things for john kerry, and said i would like to help speech right. adhesive rubber, we will save -- and he said, robert, we will save you for what we want something really lofty. we want passion and intensity and color and i realized, oh shit. this is not going to work. what i think poetry has to offer is artful plainness. making something feel direct. it does take art to do that. i'm going to read you a 16th century poem written in the plain style, and i will just change one word. the poem is about courtship. instead of maidens or lovers, i will use the word voter. fine ax for voters. cheap to move. good pennyworth's, but money cannot move. i keep a fair but for the fair to view. a begger view of love. for all my wares be trash. the heart is true. that is the first of three stanzas. the second is great gifts are guiles and look for gifts a

>> i think i will see in august. i think i will see in august. but right now i think, you know, good comment, good lengthy comment period of 90 days. look, this issue has been around for at least ten years. >> don't i know. >> it's time for, you know -- people have been heard -- >> has the response to the industry been positive? it's the industry that represents the low and middle income investors and retail savers that we are trying to protect. has it been positive feedback? >> i think, you know, overall i'm very pleased with the feedback. >> so am i. i've got preemption questions, mr. chairman, that i want to talk about, but i think i will submit those for the record and i yield back the balance of my time and i thank you for your tremendous work in this arena. >> time has expired. chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. sherman. >> mr. luke meyer and i and others have worked to try to have more information sent electronically with paper only being sent when requested. and when you were here in october i asked you about rule 30e-3 an

i promise someday i will return. here today be especially because of the nomination of ron gidwitz to be our next ambassador to belgium. i won't replicate the kind remarks of cory gardner of colorado on behalf of ron and his family, that i will tell you that ron and i share something in common, a life experience that goes back a few years. we were both interns in the united states senate the same year, working for the same senator. morris udall, a cumbersome from arizona, once said if you have politics in your bloodstream, only embalming fluid will replace it. during the course of my internship in that senate office, i got politics in my bloodstream, and i have never quite left capitol hill since. path.ok a different he went back to chicago, into the business world. successful in that world, with business as well as his investments and other endeavors. did well for himself. but he did not just sit on that success and bank the money and walk away from his responsibilities to others. i have known him for a long time. we

i will never forget, i had to make a website. show up andyou do your work and you make your website. i remember going, our website will have the phrase security breaches are inevitable, don't be a headline. it was wildly unpopular in 2004. the analyst said you're flat- out wrong and your concept is ridiculous. but my concept of the company was, let's get on the front lines and respond to every single breach that matters because that is the front row seatto what needto be made. i felt at the time that every time antivirus triggered, people would say thank god it triggered but the reality is, what didn't miss for the last year? we better investigate it. i felt we need to get behind everyone else and do what's required behind everyone else's and point. at the time i started, someone named john keegan wrote intelligence and war. it was probably published in 2003. i almost named the company orange leonard. pretty cool. we can get there but it was neat. when you start a company you have to name it. you spd more time trying to name it t

greg: i will say this, i love playing it but i can't play it because i'm out of state.s impossible to play if you are out of shape. tryus: greg, you don't have to be in shape to watch it. greg: but you need to be interested in it because it's boring. greg: the world is called the world is covered by water and water is not that interesting. tyrus: would water polo be interested for you? go to commercial. greg: one less thing before we go to break, i wanted to share this video of a dream i had last night. ♪. greg: coming up, jimmy fallon apologizes for interviewing trump. we shake our heads in disgust. [cheering and applause] greg: they called him a trump for his interview with trump. remember this? >> go ahead. [cheering and applause] greg: that was back in 2016 about a month and half before he won the election. at the time to meet fallon took crap for that interview and its lighthearted tone but this week he opened up to the hollywood reporter about the gang mentality based online during the fallout he defended himself. >> i did not do it to normalize him or to say i be

i think what you will find over the next three have in five redefinition, but onhink greater clarity exactly when somebody says "v.a. health care" what does that mean. the pete and i were at v.a., what first came to mind was be at hospitals, outpatient clinics, the bed count. veterans goeded the to the community. at that community provider at as ans not looked integrated part of the health care system. it was in default. it was what we would look to because we could not provided. 15-18 years down the timeline and i think we're giving greater definition and clarity as to what we expect of health care being provided. address theit to real needs. homeless veterans are a part of that need. uyo help define the focus of that cohort. understand? said years ago when people "homeless veteran." a homeless veteran was homeless, living in tents. i spent a number of years living in florida and there were tent villages for the homeless integrated into those buildings. ofy were not well taken care by the health care system we had in the v.a. in tampa and st. pete. i was part of that. we didot do as

after the summit to continue to coordinate with them i will also stop in beijing following the singapore summit that it will provide them with the data underscore the importance of fully implementing all sanctions that are imposed on north korea. president trump recognizes north korea's desire for security and is prepared to ensure the dprk free of weapons of mass destruction is also a secure north korea. president trump's made it clear that if kim jong un denuclearize is there some where brighter path for north korea and its people. we envision a strong connected secure and prosperous north korea integrated to the community of nations. we think the people of the united states and north korea can create a future defined by friendship and collaboration and not by mistrust and fear. we believe that chairman kim jong un shares this positive direction to the future and committed to finding a path forward and we assume and hope that this is sincere. i looked or to being in singapore in just a few days. >> will take questions. >> what progress have you made in narrowing the gap in your underst

i said, you know, i will tell you the police station will not pay the fair. they said a bad word to my indian race, also. they opened the door and jumped out. i don't put glasses on for fashion. look at my face over here. it burned my skin and i had to drive to the general hospital. thank god those doctors took care of my i. >> thank you for your comments. thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i need the cover, please. >> okay. if you see this, i am a community activist for 29 years in san francisco. living 15 years in bayview hunter's point. what you see here, first of all, congratulations to yourself london breed in regards to your victory. i am happy that this is going forth. the spirit of truth, we need to see women of dignity and integrity. she ran a fair race. she ran a decent race. she ran a race without being faked, without being cunning, without being devious. i want to say that what we have observed here in san francisco was shocking. racism is truly alive. i was never naÏve to that, and neither are we. but to have a board

i don't think it will be in one meeting, i think it will take longer than. this is been going on for many decades. that's the thing that should have been saw by other presidents as i said often before. long before this point. wewaited for the last second . and they should have waited, they should have been solved by many others. i'm not just saying president obama, i'm saying other presidents, long time ago this would have been salt a lot easier manner . in a less dangerous manner but it wasn't. and we will get it done. as far as the prime minister's concerned, we will agree and we have agreed that we are going to be helping. if the deal is done we are helping north korea, working with china, working with south korea, president xi china has been terrific. the border has been more close ever before, i to close a little bit more but more close than ever before. china has never worked with us this way and i give them a lot of credit because as you know we are in a dispute as to the in balance of trade. is a massive imbalance in china's favor and that way for man

if confirmed i will further an already robust partnership. and finally i'll work to deepen our historical alliance with the belgium government and the belgium people. mr. chairman, ranking member and members of the committee, i thank you for the honor of appearing before you today and i look forward to answering your questions. >> thank you, mr. gidwitz. last but not least, u.s. representative of the united nations. management and reform and ultimately of the united nations assembly. she has served since 2014 as the deputy counselor from 2012 to 2014. she also served as a special advisor to the u.s. mission from 2008 to 2011, a senior advisor of the state department bureau of legislative affairs from 2007 to 2011. prior to working at this department, she was a staffer in greenville, south carolina. miss chalet. >> thank you. i am honored to appear as the nominee to serve as the representative to the american for the united nations for u.s. management and reform. i'm grateful for president trump and ambassador haley for their confidence and thi

i will break that down for you in just a bit. let's check in on traffic with won . >> we have street closures in place through downtown oakland. this is the parade route. the parade will begin on broadway at 11th street, turning right on 20th street, turning right on harrison to 19th street, and right on lakeside drive, ending on oak and 13th street. avoid all streets surrounding the parade route. these are streets to avoid. stay away from harrison to 17th, also lakeside drive. once again the best way to get to the parade is by public transit and barked. -- bart. more tips in just a bit . back to you guys for now. >> thank you robin, now let's get back out to the parade route. let's go and see where lidia is at. >> reporter: i am actually on the parade route. you can see people lightning -- lining the roadways. are you guys ready? [ cheers and applause ] a lot of people of already been here for hours. i talk to someone who had been here since 2.30 a.m. what time did you guys arrive? >> at 6 am. this is my second parade. i cannot w

i have no doubt that will continue to happen. i think it has been eluded to that when people talk about access issues to keep in mind that medicare is part of the broader healthcare system. generally speaking medicare has done a better job of controlling spending per beneficiary than private health insurers. i think you have to take a broad look at this and not stay focused on the medicare program per se. i am going to say more about medicare advantage. clearly medicare advantage in recent years has been striving. the affordable care act reduced payments for medicare advantage and the expectation was enrollment in those plans would go down because they did not have the opportunity to provide extra benefits. ppo, actuary, everyone was flat out wrong. since payments were cut in the affordable care act, medicare advantage has grown dramatically. it is now about one third of the program. even though congress and the administration may not be taking efforts to reform the medicare program radically, beneficiaries are doing that. why? pr

and i will say i didn't bring any poetry with me. and to some extent, you know, i think it's interesting for me personally. my finding as a speech writer was that in college i would skim the introductions of books and then later in discussion sections i would pretend to have done the reading. and that turned out to be pretty good preprofessional experience for speech writing. [ laughing ]. >> but it also means whenever i'm sandwiched with two people from university backgrounds, my palms start to sweat a little bit. i was thinking about what you all said. and i actually think there's an interesting -- well, there's two things that i thought about. i think that president obama while i'm sure that he has favorite poems or enjoys py is probably even more -- was even less likely to use poetry than most presidents who came before him. i think robert what you sort of talked about is a trend towards plainness or a value for plainness became even more pronounced and as we've gone on, it's just become plainness is almost fetishized. but i thin

i will be firm about defending canadian interests and i always looked to have a constructive relationship that will benefit canadians. closelynature of our integrated economies. ? he did personally and directly attack you as he left the g7. politicians we developed a certain amount of thick skin. i stay focused on what we need to do to advance the common causes we have. i am not going to react to personal comments. i will stay focused on the work we need to do together. today president trump is in las vegas where he will make a couple of appearances starting with a speech to the nevada state republican party convention. you can watch his remarks live at 3:20 p.m. eastern on c-span. the c-span boss is traveling -- bus is traveling across the country. it is in juneau alaska asking folks what is the most important i think theska? >> most important issue is we are in the middle of a budget crisis. we are used to having a lot of oil money coming in and as a result of lawyer oil prices we are not getting the revenue we are used to. there are other revenue streams that he to happen and doesn't s

i will ask it more directly. have you personally run into any issues concerning the public offering of a marijuana business? >> not that i recall. >> all right. so, let's broaden it. forget about marijuana, is there any kind of competition between the canadian exchanges and the u.s. exchanges? has that been where some of these ipos have gone that the chairman was concerned about? >> to be clear, there is competition now around the world for listings. where are you going to raise capital and where are you going to list your securities is a competitive is next. -- business. i do not know, i would expect there would be competitive pressures in that industry. >> in your position do you take a look at the limitations that they canada made it placed on its public offerings versus what the u.s. does versus an australian exchange? >> i do look at those, it's a competitive question but, i will go in a direction that is slightly different. the investor protection regimes in other countries can be substantially different tha

i think i will take a slightly contrary view. to me, one of the biggest challenges for the marine corps and strategy, or strategy, is how they institutionally come to grips with what i think is an interesting challenge. one, the emphasis on dynamic force employment or in more deliberate approach, reziness and surge capacity suggests there will be less of a more persistent presence that we have worked so hard to try to sustain in recent years. and you couple that with the access challenges, and that, i think, makes the problem a little bit harder. it is, again, i think the most acute r the marine corps because of their forward presence that would, in theory, enable the access, they have been working to exploit that but how you do that is the navy is not as present, or on a sustained basis, as they might have been in the past, is something i think that is going to require some additional adjustments to the growing relationship, i think maybe suggest the marine corps needs to be taking more deliberate actions to collaborate with othe

i promise someday i will return just like macarthur. ut he wanted to be a today especially because of the nomination of ronald gidwitz to be our next ambassador to belgium. i won't replicate the remarks, converts of cory gardner of colorado on behalf of ron and his family, but it will tell you ron and i share something in common, unlike express the goes back a few years we both interns and the united states said the same. working for the same senator. mars udall, a congressman from arizona once that if your politics in your bloodstream, only embalming fluid will replace it. during the course of my internship in the senate office, i got politics in my bloodstream and i never quite left capitol hill since. ron took a different path. he went back to chicago in the business world, successful in the world with private business as well as with his investments and other endeavors. did well for himself but as corey has reminded us he didn't just sit on that success and bank the money and walk away from his responsibilities to many others. i've k

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