i look forward to looking closer to a.b. five and how we can do something at the board of supervisors to effectuate change with the income equality growing in not only san francisco, was quickly in san francisco, we absolutely have to do something. thank you for coming today and sharing your stories with us. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor walton? >> thank you. again, i want to thank you for calling this hearing. both you and supervisor mar. this is important. i want the public to know, i want everyone in this room to know, thank you for coming out and testifying today and talking about the issues and the concerns, and what is happening as you go to work every single day. i want everybody to know that we have been bound by state law and we are working to find ways to attack what state law has and it is our job to make sure that you are protected. it is our job to make sure you get all the benefits of employment. we are going to work hard to do that. there are some things we will be continuing to try and do to push the state.

five to six years. the housing component was dealt with in a side bill, a.b. 110, or 101, i'm sorry. it largely provides general fund resources for housing and homelessness. it provides funding for incentives for cities and counties to develop pro housing policies, and interestingly enough, as you may recall dating back to the last session and continues this session, there had been a desire to some members of the legislature and later by governor newsom to try to tie. >> chairman brinkman: -- to tie s.b. one. the final bill allows an increasingly regular -- rigourous series of penalties to be imposed and sought by the attorney general and cities that are not compliant with the housing element. and the ultimate penalty would be the ability, if they not able to pay the penalties, that the state would have the authority to intercept these funds. however, it would not apply to any state and local funds for which there is constitutional protections such as s.b.1. that is off the table for now. finally, two bills to update you on. a.b. 1487, which is mr. chu's housing finance bill for the

a.b. stoddard, associate editor and columnist at real clear politics. juan williams, cohost of "the five." fox news analyst. good morning to all of you. eab, why don't you start us off with your response? >> i think he was prepared to double down, quadruple down about the corruption in urban democratically run cities, but at the same time, probably do a little bit of damage control. i think he has taken a few phone calls. maybe from an anguished congressman, mark meadows. we know reporting has shown that the staff is little concern. some of them about whether or not this was politically injurious to the president. so you saw him try to make the case that he has been the best president for african-americans. instead of doing things like insinuating that congressman cummings has been stealing -- >> but as he just said again, let's deal with the facts. look at the situation in baltimore let's look at what's happening with the poverty rate there. 22.4% in 2017. juan, that is high. the national rate is just over 12%. it is double. you have the unemployment rate. you have it pouring in. $17 bi