brett kavanaugh his nomination ok rosen thank you for that update from washington let's speak to bill schneider he's a political analyst and public policy professor at george mason university joining us from washington thanks very much for speaking to us so it's been a very busy day out on capitol hill let me just ask you what the point that roslyn just raised about president trump do you think that trump is going to notify the f.b.i. that an investigation should take place or what will his position be on that. it's a losing business to try to predict more prison in trouble ever want to do he probably will resist the notion but flake has some cards to play he said there are several senators who are with him on this and they would may they may threaten to withhold an affirmative vote to confirm the nominee unless the president does that so in a sense they're holding the president hostage there holding the nomination hostage and speaking of senator flake he was pretty much a yes on cavanaugh just until a short time ago and now he is the one that came out and proposed this delay as well as an f.b.

inflames the partisan attack ism that's been going on in american politics for decades all right bill schneider thank you for speaking to us on al-jazeera the committee to protect journalists has held a discussion at the united nations general assembly to highlight global press freedom violations countries they highlighted where me and mar bangladesh kurdistan and egypt human rights lawyer amal clooney called on me and more as leader to speak out in support of the two jailed reuters journalists will mean more as a government leader in concert she has been stripped off another award for failing to act over violence committed by her military m.p.'s in canada decided unanimously to strip her off honoree citizenship a un report accused me and mars the military of committing genocide and war crimes against muslims forcing hundreds of thousands to flee across the border to bangladesh last year the united nations human rights council has voted to extend an inquiry into crimes in yemen the approval overrides objections from saudi arabia and yemen's government as bernard smith reports from neighboring d

majority in order to have a check on the president's excesses can i i ask this next question to bill schneider last break of course you know i'm a veteran commentator on american politics i want to put it he was well how has this white house the fives all of these things i mean even if you just took what's just happened in the last twenty four hours they could have easily spell the end of any other administration in any other country how does donald trump and this white house keeps the filing. there's kind of a dysfunctional marriage between the congressional republicans and the white house the congressional majority of republicans needs the president in order to pass their agenda which is a fairly conventional republican agenda. those republicans in congress also need donald trump's supporters the republican base to stay in their camp if republicans in the house in the senate abandon trump their supporters will abandon them they'll lose power the democrats will gain control and the republican legislative agenda is the logical agenda will be frustrated so the key to trump survival is that repu

you, supervisor cohen, so we'll go back to the presentation, and we had matt schneider here from planning first, and then bill and eowd with speaking next. >> president cohen: thank you. >> thank you, supervisors. i'm matt schneider of planning department staff. we will be making a presentation to you on the india basin mixed-use project. i will begin with a broad overview that puts the actual actions before you into a context and then we'll describe the actual actions that are before you. after that, i'm going to turn it over to nicole avril of recreation and park department staff. she will give you an overview of their portion of the program. you will hear from cord knee hash from build, inc's project. i'm sorry. it's just build, a project at 700 innes. after that, eowd will provide you with more specifications of the overall agreement. india basin is located in the bayview-hunters point community. it's skbrust northwest of the hunters point shipyard and north of hunters point hill. the entirety of the the project consists of 38 acres and can be further divided into two components. as you see on the diagram