. >> bijan: mr.man. she is a very good cook. >> anthony: bijan, like so many other iranians i've met, has been kind enough to invite me to his home. >> maeimeh: this is milk soup. milk-and-chicken soup. >> anthony: oh, it's really good. >> maeimeh: my mom said that iranian people loves guests, and they will never get tired if the guest likes their food. >> anthony: mmm! >> maeimeh: this call it fesenjan. >> anthony: a stew of fried chicken, onion, ground walnuts, pomegranate, and tomato paste. >> anthony: and this fruit, there's some kind of fruit? >> maeimeh: yes. there is a dried apricot inside this as well. >> anthony: delicious! so good! >> bijan: needed around twenty-four hours' time. >> anthony: these are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare. always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. you tend to kill your guests with kindness around here. >> maeimeh: tilapia. that fish is from the south of iran. >> anthony: from the persian gulf? >> bijan: p

my name is bijan karimi. i'm assistant acting deputy director for san francisco department of emergency management. i'll be talking to you about pg&e's public safety shutoff. psps. i'll be talking about four things today. information about what psps actually is and about three different exercises that the city has participated in and facilitated. one with other city partners. one with private sector and also with regional partners. many people may want to get a better understanding of what psps is. pg&e will turn off electricity transmission lines because of a perceived concern for starting some additional wildfires. there has been tremendous destruction and damage and loss of life that happened over the last two years in this sonoma area and as a result, pg&e has explored what are the ways to decrease the likelihood of another event happening? so based on different factors that pg&e uses, things like heat, wind, humidity, fuel levels, and individual observations, they may decide to turn off transmission lini

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and so the bijan kian conviction today has essentially been wiped off the books. fascinating.oday that the u.s. justice department has dropped what was reported to be an ongoing investigation of tony podesta and vim weber after about two years of running that investigation. these were essentially lobbyists and pr guys who were potentially going to be charged along the same lines as greg craig for having participated in a scheme in ukraine involving the president's campaign chairman paul manafort. paul manafort is in jail. greg craig was tried before a jury. his was the first jury trial to end in an acquittal for anything derived from the mueller investigation. now in the wake of greg craig being acquitted before a jury, podesta and weber say the justice department has also told them that they are not going to be charged at all. we also tonight have some indication, although we haven't yet been able to confirm it with any court filings or any documents yet, but we're getting reports from conservative media tonight that trump national security adviser mike flynn might have told

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his last post as ambassador to asser bijan. he joins this hour from istanbul, turkey.o have you with us. so you have served as a mediator in some of the world's most entrenched conflicts. given the tensions between the united states and iran. what do you make of the president's tweet stating that the u.s. has reason to believe that we know, he says, who's responsible for the attack and that the country is locked and loaded. they are waiting on verification from saudi arabia on the issue. >> well, yeah. well, it's a predicted escalation of the rhetoric by president trump. it's no secret that he had been favoring possible discussions with iranian president rouhani reportedly president trump wanted to take away some of the sanctions, and that's led to a big battle within the trump administration. and i think played a big role in ambassador john bolton's firing or resignation last week. in this case iran appears, if you believe what secretary pompeo said, iran appears to have escalated attacks quite seriously. this is a really serious attack on saudi oil production capabil

we will get over him bijan 2 january 2021 and have a good president >> one of the reasons i loved seeingyou were hammering the climate change issue. and i thought that was so valuable and important to bring into the democratic primary. among the candidates still running, who do you think has the strongest climate change plan and how do you think journalists like us sitting at this table, what should they be asking the candidates about climate change? >> any number of candidates have now joined in this effort and have come forward with plans in the last several weeks, which has been gratifying. i have to tell you i'm particularly impressed by senator warren's plan because hers has developed a real concrete requirements that will wean off fossil fuels. and the short time period to act, she has embraced really strong provisions. others have good ideas. i'm glad this is now in the fore of the democratic candidacy. and i'm looking forward to finding the strongest candidate to go after donald trump's weakest point. this is his weakest point. the thing that people distrust him the most about, i