the revolutionary war. charleston is one of the cities -- wealthiest cities. he eve of the american revolution, charleston was closer to london then it was to the other colonial cities. more charles tony and's were sending their children to be educated abroad people from any other colony. that wealth is based on trade. it is based on the trade for indigo.- spice, through -- four indigo. we are really fortunate here in the museum to have our collection, one of the great views of charleston from that. a painting of the city done in 1774. he was an english painter who came to charleston and actually advertises a newspaper that he is preparing to paint a view of the city. he's going to send that painting back to london and have engraved. you have to imagine in the back of his head in the back of those reading the advertisement, there is the implication that if you print, yource your house is better delineated in it. he paints the view of charleston harbor right on the eve of the revolution. he shows charleston at the height of its commercial supremacy. he goes back

the wealthiest people in north america. industry -- the objects in this room represent some of the earliest thing is made in the bay. charles is one of the wealthiest cities in north america. on the eve of the american revolution, johnston was in many ways, closer to london that it was to other colonial cities. more tropical storm vance were sending their children to be educated abroad. that will is based on trade. is being grown in huge quantities on plantations. we are really fortunate in our museum to one of the great views of charleston from. h was an english painter who came to charleston and actually advertised in the newspaper that he is going to take a view of the city and is going to send back to london. you have to imagine in the back of his head, there is the advance,on if paid in hech is a man of his word paints the vehicle right on the eighth of the revolution. , takes back to london the painting and has a engraved. city onproduces is you the eighth of the revolutionary war with all of they identifiable landmarks. you have a shift commitment to harbor. these waves and clouds in the sky are meant to portray a revolution to come. these colonies

city squarely to them. >> we're having the tough conversations, we have been, our median income is 89 $,000. one of the wealthiestin the country. there is a lot of old wealth here, and there are people who are trying to -- people are going back to the way things were, they had a very comfortable life, and i think people are still tugging with whether or not they want a return. whether they want to return to that, or have authentic conversations. some people don't want to have the conversations. or they don't know how to have the conversations. >> for a lot of people, some people who may not know thousand have that conversation is the hard part. >> well, when you are -- we have a very privileged, if you're talking about being white and privileged and challenging individuals to talk about white supremacy and how they benefitted from it, that is a hard conversation from people that benefitted to the privilege. they are having to work to convince us to join. there are people in positions of power who when they start to question how they abuse their power or they have per spell chew waited some of the december par --

even though it is labeled, for wealthiest city, it is actually the most expensive city to live in. this. >> neil: aren't they at the people that you want to tax? wait a minute. who is going to get the bill? if you put it on businesses, it may very well be people, and i assume it will be the approach he takes, to put on wealthy people and businesses. we know businesses in california were leaving, a lot of them to texas. a lot of wealthy individuals are very fearful that estate tax rate for them could be double from 8.484% could be. at what point will they say it's a beautiful everything, but i'm outta here. then what? >> i don't think anybody in california is going to go anywhere as a result of this. let's be clear. taxpayers already paying -- >> neil: are you saying what's happening a taxes? they are booming. >> taxpayers already paying for undocumented people to get health care. when they show up to the e.r., hospitals are not turning these people away. when they cannot pay -- >> neil: it is the same across the country. you're right about that. if your income and your sick, they t

they walk on the i mean the wealthiest are living they walk on the side of that old you know we have twenty two checkpoints one hundred movement in one kilometer square in the city center of people on. the issue of illegal migration is shaping chancellor angela merkel's tour of africa germany sheltered a vast amount of migrants of course and is now struggling to resolve the problem of failed asylum seekers because many lack basic identification papers are europe correspondent peter all of a report. migration policy in germany is firmly in focus right now but what to do when it's been decided that the person doesn't have the right to be here and should be deported well at the bizarre end of the spectrum is the case of one man in frankfurt who the city's office of public order confirmed to r.t. its how a whopping five hundred and forty two criminal investigations against him the man who doesn't have a passport can't be deported because the authorities can't prove which nation he originally comes from oh and by the way this has been going on since ninety ninety eight over the last twenty years most of his offenses have involved drug charges driving offenses driving

the wealthiest americans are paying more because they can no longer deduct state city local taxes which we can have that argument another day. but i do not believe that the wealthy have disproportionately benefited from the tax cut it all on that as a talking point for the democratic party that frankly is wrong. i can give you some if you need some on taxes. >> lisa: i think that president trump is aware of potential political impact with the trade back and forth because we saw that with the bailout to farmers, also when he hit iowa and illinois, what were the key constituencies he was talking to? he was talking to farmers and two steelworkers in his blue-collar workers that brought him across the finish line in 2,016 so i think he's acutely aware of the potential political impact and i think he's trying to mitigate that and get out in front of it and i do think that that press conference ahead of the e.u. helped a little bit and i wonder, does that give president company leverage in working against china if he squares things away with the european partners? >> chris: a significant if.

on the table, and have a decent life in the richest city in the richest state in our country, we know that we still have a lot of work to do. we have the wealthieststate. we are the fifth largest economy in the world to pick larger than great britain. but we also have one in five people living in poverty in california. this year, we were so proud to expand our earned income tax credit increase and put more money into medi-cal and work to get our healthcare access up. we know we are not done in san francisco. we are not done in california. have a long way to go and we need to keep fighting here in san francisco. those fights, it starts here. those fights that start -- sound crazy when we first put them out there, eventually, we know everyone will follow. thank you so much for coming and thank you so much for fighting. we will celebrate today and celebrate july 1st. but we know that on july 2nd we will get back to work, and we will keep fighting. thank we will keep fighting. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. yes. first, i would like to acknowledge the president of the board of supervisors, thank you for your attendance today. i