and one of the merchants complained that they felt they were not given adequate opportunities to giffin pu giveo the meeting and i heard director torres quiz the project workers like how was input object taped from seniors who centra who hado the area in cars. the topic i wanted to bring was, to me it seems like the method, there whether two open house and san vaasing cause performed but the metric wasn't obtained, for example, 15 bike riders were interviews, 80% of the merchants were interviewed, 20 seniors, 15 disabled pedestrians. there was no metric that the method provided the data that you needed to ensure that all the demographic groups were represented. long story short, i wanted to propose to the board when the sfmta project workers are submitting proposals they provide a metric that all demographic groups were met and their needs were addressed. thank you very much. >> thank you. very good advice. next speaker. >> eric wong. rowen catu and shin shang and christopher pettersson. >> mta directors, my name is eric wong. have you seen the movie the godfather. in that movie the god

that our all media are able to do their work in sudan without harassment 100 cocoa is a member of giffin or a nonviolent resistance movement in sudan he says journalism in general is now under threat. you moving the freedoms of press and trying to have the world not see what's happening is a big deal. and i think this is a turning point because what happened after 11 o'clock the government said only the government allowed journalists from all over the world to the sudan to come to sudan to cover this and for them now to decide that no the world doesn't need to see this anymore is a sign for us that some things are changing and we're going back to them a crackdown and things and we are actually getting ready for a crackdown on the protests there i mean what's happening with the negotiation between the. declaration of feedom and change talking from the point of the protesters with the transitional council there reached a point where we supposed have a civilian government and they reached a point where they are not moving forward either the transition many council is going to give up power

griffin -- giffin, the united states ambassador to canada under president clinton. mr. giffin states that i have no do that the experience gained over two years as ambassador to canada has prepared kelly kraft well for the next assignment. with that i'll turn this over to ranking member senator menendez for his opening statement. >> thank you mr. chairman. ambassador kraft welcome to the second confirmation for a deeply consequential position. the united states was instrumental in creating the united nations in the post-war era. built on founding american values of democracy and human rights. multilateral institutions like the united nations and nato ha have und pinned the peace, proermts and stability the american people enjoyed for decades. the fundamental values and international institutions, however, are under assault today from actors seeking to exploit them for their own agendas, as well as those threatening to abandon and undermine them completely. if confirmed, you will represent the united states at an exceedingly complex time. with mc's growing influence at t