. >> president adams: welcome. it's our custom to begin and end each small business meeting with a reminder the small basis commission is the only place to start your new small business in frisk and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in san francisco. the office of small business should be your first stop when you have questions about what to do next. you can find us on-line or in person here at city hall. best of all of all of our services are free of charge. the small business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, start here at the office of small business. thank you. >> clerk: item one, call to order and roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: mr. president, you have a quorum. >> president adams: please. thank you. next item, please. >> clerk: item 2, allows members of the public to comment generally on matter t

>> president adams: no. miriam, you can come back. >> clerk: presentation on 18123, building, vacant or abandoned storefronts. >> president adams: and you don't have to stay here unless you want to hear the rest of the meetings. >> drinks at st. mary's. >> clerk: -- annual registration fees at the time of the registration, require annual inspections of registered, vacant, or abandoned storefronts, update penalties for violations, and affirming the planning department's determination under the california environmental quality act. the presenter is chelsea baylard, aide to supervisor sandra fewer. >> chelsea, why don't we just wait one second. >> okay, good evening, everyone, director andrizzi and commissioners. it is a pleasure to be here with you all tonight, and thank you for the opportunity. also really wonderful to hear all the legacy businesses. we're a big fan of the program, and

adams. and adams, you know, is the most well read in politics especially, i think. and he's a contrarian, but he's my favorite one because he spills the beans. >> right. >> if you're a historian or a biographer, you can't do it unless the letters give you stuff, okay? there are 1,200 letters between abigail -- >> plus a diary. >> and a diary. that's right. the adams papers were edited in a brilliant way, what is it, the library of america. you can get them through the library of america, which is a significant contribution. >> absolutely. >> those are the -- now there's then these lower-tiered people that you sort of want to let people know they were important, that they were more important then. like jay is -- >> forgotten founders. >> forgotten founders. john jay, john dickinson, morris, robert morris, these are players that did crucial things that have dropped out of the story line, you know? and there is a series -- i forget -- i think cy bunting is the editor of the series called "the forgotten founders" that's doing this thing. some of these people are really

adam smith: no. as we were discussing this, i often said, we have not suffered any casualties in syria and now we have. it is worth noting, having been unfortunately i was one who suffered through serving on the and ghazi committee -- benghazi committee, can you imagine if president obama had announced we were going to be unilaterally withdrawing from syria and days later a terrorist attack happened? can you imagine how the republicans would have reacted? i am not the irresponsible or partisan. i do not draw that connection. i do think the president's decisions, doing so much of what he does by tweet on the spur of the moment, does undermine our ability to have the allies we need. isis has no doubt been trying to hit us. anyone who drew a connection between those two, we would be making it up. it does underline a very important point that when the president said isis is defeated so we can leave, he was clearly wrong. isis have been greatly diminished by a plan president obama put in place and the pre

>> president adams: okay. anymore questions? oh, commissioner yee riley? >> commissioner riley: yeah. my question is whenever we come up with the legislation, we always do outreach, so have you had a chance to talk to property owners to find out what is the problem, why is it vacant? because some might have legitimate reasons. >> yeah, thank you for that. so a couple of things i just wanted to mention. i think the reason why -- so supervisor fewer, we did a #fewervacancies effort in district one and worked with the richmond blog to get the word out and really listed, to your point, commissioner dwight, and said to neighbors, help us report. this is after d.b.i. said we have zero vacancies in the richmond. within two weeks, 159 vacancies were reported. there was an on-line reporting form. we gave that to d.b.i. d.b.i. went from having 40 properties on the list to over 200. i'm proud to say our neighborhood was instrumental in increasing that number, as well as the press and media around that. we then, based on

german adam smith. let me -- chairman adam smith. these two reporters who cover todaylitary, tom for usa and john donnelly covering the military. thank you for coming back to newsmakers. , i want toet started ask for an update on the shutdown. it is day 35 of the partial federal shutdown. it seems like there is movement but we just learned the laguardia airport and other major u.s. airports are calling for flight delays because of staffing shortages. what can you tell our audience about if there is movement toward resolution. adam smith: the senate has made a reasonable proposal to reopen the government for three weeks and debate border security. people have to keep in mind this is a relatively new crisis in president trump's mind. president trump submitted his budget request in february of 2018. the house and senate both passed the budget request. there was 1.6 billion for a barrier. all of a sudden after democrats won in november, he decided it was a crisis and he needed more money. this is a new thought on his part. it is perfectl

adam: good morning. lemonis: i'm marcus. adam: adam. lemonis: nice to meet you. to medmen west hollywood. lemonis: adam bierman is medmen's co-founder and c.e.o. do i call that a pot store or marijuana store? adam: you can call it whatever you want. i call it the future. lemonis: wow, this place is cool! it was definitely not what i expected. medmen was open, airy, and modern -- nothing seedy about it. adam: there's no bars on the windows. there's no guy with a gun at the front. you're walking in, we're open to the community. lemonis: i like the design. there were ipads everywhere loaded with information right next to gizmos that let you see and smell before you buy. adam: this allows the consumer to actually see it through a magnifying glass, to smell it through a little door that slides open there. lemonis: this door right here? adam: yeah. so, you would actually stick your nose in there. lemonis: i caught a whiff of madmen's strategy -- more style, less stigma. was it just window dressing, or would it entice customers to actually pay more? have you ever been i

adam smith: our witnesses -- we're working on that. the north com commander is confirmed and we want the assistant secretary in charge of the area to come, as well. we are working on who the civilian at the pentagon will be. e want transparency. what is the purpose of active duty troops that are sent there? it is a great cost to the pentagon. these troops are not doing the training they need to be prepared to meet the national security threats that are paramount. what are they doing at the border? why is it necessary to have active duty troops at the border? i don't think that has been explained. we want to understand. there are larger concerns about the demilitarization of the border. the u.s. military is constitutionally prohibited from enforcing law in the u.s. if they crossed over the line, the white house has been ambiguous, the pentagon has not. secretary mattis was clear they will not do that. we want to make sure the lines do not get blurred and the military is not being used as domestic law enforcement. >> you mentioned cost.

thank you so much. >> president adams: thank you. [applause] >> president adams: okay.p to public comment now. >> clerk: okay. i have some speaker cards here. would larry white like to come up, followed by sarah davis, followed by mary eliza. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm larry white. i was a commodore 2008-2018. our clubhouse now at 49 terry francois, half a mile from -- is it oracle or at&t was originally razed on a site in india basin used by allman brothers boat yard. it was moved to its present location by barge. a lease agreement for the new site was granted by the port authority in may 1964, the socializing that naturally developed among customers, friends and local boaters evolved into the birth of the club. we've been incorporated since april of '63 as a 501 (c) (3). the boat club, an all volunteer decidedly eclectic mix has approximately 300 members. we hold membership with the pacific interyacht association, and the recreational boaters of california, along with races including the well known plastic raising regatta, which pays tributes to nonwood sailb

then at the end of adams term, adams loses the election of 1800. to thomas jefferson, it is their rematch. adams had been him narrowly in 1796. 1800 was a blue wave. jefferson won the white house and jeffersons party took both parties of congress from the federalist. so in this lame-duck., adams and his secretary of state are trying to fill the federal judiciary with federalists. then adams gets a letter from then-current chief justice ellsworth. ellsworth said he had gout and so he was leaving the job. and adams had to fill this post. so the name he sent to the senate was that of the first man to be chief justice of the united states, john j. the great spymaster, diplomat, federalist author pick chief justice from 1789 to 1795 and then, he is left to be governor of new york. adams sent the name to the senate and the senate confirms him. then they got a letter from j saying he wasn't going to take the job. jay said the federal judiciary lacks energy, wit and dignity. and he was not going to be chief justice again. so we have to imagine adams and jo

mark adams.ause) dr. adams and other doctors throughout the clear choice network transform people's lives on a daily basis, including right here in the bay area. we're about to find out how their team tackles the chronic dental issues that can make life miserable for so many. (applause) dr. adams, you truly help to give people a second chance at life. - mhmm. - all by improving their smile. why is a healthy smile so important? - the ability to be able to smile at a loved one, to be able to walk into a restaurant and order anything you want, those are things that those of us who have healthy teeth, we take for granted, but not let's think about the person who doesn't have that, who can't eat the foods they like, wants to hide their smile. it's a terrible and devastating effect on their life. - i can't imagine, and you're right. i do take for granted that i can chew a piece of steak, but for those who can't why is that? what gets in the way of their healthy smile? - most of the people that come to

adams seized that.dams is my kind of guy too because he is a contrarian he said things like the greatest thing i ever did as president was lose the election of 1800. because i lost it because i did the right thing. i avoided war with france. i knew if i did that i would lose the election. how many politicians today would do the right thing when it cost them the election? i can't think of a single one. from north dakota, she was going to lose anyway, but it is assumed that you as a candidate or as a congressman or senator have to have your own reelection as the highest priority. none of the founders would understand that at all. they would think that, if that is the case, count me out. none of them run for president in this economy. it is prostitution as far as they are concerned. >> one of my favorite lines is adams is most relevant when he is most irreverent. i truly love that and i could spend half an hour talking about your thoughts, his thoughts as you listed them here but a couple other topics to g

adam: it has.nd so already this week we had heavy snowfall on monday and that led to the cancellation of many hundred, i think over 1000 flights at o'hare airport, which is one of the busiest airports in the world. amtrak, the railway company, has canceled trains in and out of chicago today and i think tomorrow. the local rail provider, the metro and overland rail which servrves the city, has also canceleled various services. so, in terms of getting work done, getting freight shipped, getting passengers to and fro, it has become a lot harder for people to go about their business for thehese crucial da. brent:t: definitely. adam roberts with "the economist" joining us tonight from a very, very bitterly cold chicago. adam, we appreciate your time, and d please do ststay warm. thanank you. adam: thank you. brent: here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world. german police have arrested three suspected islamic extremists on suspicion of planting a bomb attack. the m

jim himes said last week, the opposite of what adam schiff put in a memo that he released to the american public last year on that summit. on that subject. but then again, those of us on capitol hill know that adam schiff and truth have always had a strained relationship and haven't gotten along very well. maria: adam schiff was out talking about, you know, him seeking the truth in other areas but nothing about this. p let's go through these transcripts, because you say to bruce ohr, okay, so again so the record is clear, what the department of justice and the fbi were aware of prior to the first fisa application was your relationship with christopher steele and glenn simpson, your wife's relationship with christopher steele and glenn simpson, mr. steele's bias against donald trump, your wife's compensation for work, glenn simpson and fusion gps, correct? is and then he answers you -- his lawyer gets involved and says can i have a second, and then bruce ohr answers you and says, right. so to reiterate, when i spoke

. >> president adams: okay. any members of the public like to make a comment on the director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there anymore questions from the directors from the commissioners? seeing none, item closed. next item, please. >> clerk: item eight, commissioner's report. allows president, vice president, and commissioners to report on recent small business activities and major announcements that are of interest to the small business community. discussion item. >> president adams: do we have any commissioner reports? commissioner dooley? >> commissioner dooley: oddly pertinent after today's meeting, supervisor peskin's office has been working with the north beach business association. we will be having a press conference on january 23, around 11:00 a.m., to call out in public the two business owners in our -- two landlords in our neighborhood that between them own 20 vacant storefronts. so we have decided to take the bull by the horns and have a press conference, get it out there tha

adams had to fill this post. so the name he sent to the senate was that of the first man to be chief justice for that united states, john jay. the great by master, diplomat, federalist paper author. jay had been chief justice from 1789-7095 and then left to be governor of new york. adams sent his name to the senate and the senate confirmed him. then adam got a letter from j saying he would not take the job. jay said the federal judiciary lacked energy, weight and dignity. he was not going to be chief justice again. so we have to imagine adams and john marshall sitting in adam's office in the still unfinished white house and the exterior shell is done but the interior is a construction site. ... is the winner of the election of 1800, thomas jefferson, marshall's second cousin once removed. marshall detached him and jefferson hate them in return. marshall didn't hate many people here and jefferson hated a fair number of people, but marshall was always high on his list. and jefferson's mind, marshall would twist any

mesh of adam mesh trading group adam welcome back happy new year to you my friend. happy new year and healthy and prosperous as well and everyone else so when we look at this adam of the vast majorities of markets all around the world were down although the u.s. markets did less poorly it reminds me of that line from that movie argo this is the best bad idea we have sir u.s. markets adam are the best of the bad markets out there which sector is sort of a save the day for the u.s. i know of and we just spoke about there before the break the drug companies and maybe the health care sector but why did they do well and which other sectors did well last year adam. and that's a great line because anything else you look at is too risky so it is the best of the options out there in terms of health care technological advances health health care speed of f.d.a. approval mergers helped a lot you saw cigna buying express scripts and then you saw getting bought by c.v.s. so those were two big mergers and that's always going to prop up an industry and they're also not going to be

us about cosco stuck out with them in doing and how do you think they're going to do going forward adam. so cosco had its worst december that i can remember in a really long time along with the rest of us stocks unlike united airlines which raise prices and did well cost to lower prices to compete with their competitors and it didn't pan out so well for them one thing they are doing is they just bought a chicken farm which they announced recently at area. there you go yeah so they're going to be able to keep their prices low which is a good thing they have such a head start in their demo so i think cosco should consolidate around here i'm not a big fan of the stock here but i would be shorting the they're just more of a neutral outlook for the near future but they're doing some fun things and the macaroni and cheese is real big of. the doomsday in this errs yeah right you put it in your survival hot adam are you still big on paid hell. look at it i mean it's kids go and it's still one of the stronger stocks i'm nervous with everything this is a really big earnings season we're heading i

of adam mesh trading thank you so much adam thank you so much. and speaking of hot hot on the heels of a major victory for striking teachers in los angeles which we told you about yesterday teachers in denver colorado have voted to authorize their union leaders to call a strike that could be good as early as monday the strike proposal received overwhelming support of ninety three percent in the vote among the five thousand six hundred educators represented by the denver classroom teachers association the group has been rigaud sheeting with denver public schools for higher base pay instead of bonuses tied to standardized test results for over a year but the school district has refused to budge the denver action is just the latest in a series of labor actions by. u.s. teachers which notably began last year and repeatedly conservative red states including arizona and west virginia the wave is now reaching work or progressive areas of the u.s. in cases that we talked about in los angeles and now in denver. and time now for a quick break here because

mash of adam mesh trading i thank you both for being here it's great to see you we always have such great information danielle i want to start with you yesterday on the program reported the news about j.p. morgan beating expectations big time and wells fargo doing better than expected although it cost them seven billion bucks in stock buybacks to prop up the stock but what do you make of the goldman sachs and the bank of america news today. so bart i think this is absolutely critical to the economy when we go back and look at the problems that we've seen in the stock market slide that we saw throughout november and december one of the major issues that investors were looking at was rising interest rates right and at this point we've now had some of our major banks come out and say hey look guys we have had some blowout earnings reports we're not seeing an issue here we're seeing a strong consumer sector we're also seeing a strong business segment and i think that this honestly is creating a complete switch and trend especially when you go back and look at the technicals of the chart

popular liberal mayor of dance who died monday after being stabbed at a charity event killing over pawel adam overage sent shock waves around europe today he'll be laid to rest we'll go live to dance as mourners prepare to pay their final respects also coming up u.s. special counsel robert miller disputes an explosive buzz feed story implicating big u.s. president a buzz feed's report says president donald trump order his former lawyer michael cohen to lying to congress about his ties to russia now miller says the story is inaccurate. and byron munich kicked off the second half of apprentice leaders season with a strong statement against hoffenheim byron are hoping to get back on top of the league by season's end. i mary and i haven't seen it's good to have you with us we begin in poland where mourners are gathering for the funeral of murders of dance mayor jim of which the fifty three year old liberal politician was stabbed at a charity event last week in front of hundreds of onlookers the killing has stunned poland with many and blaming politicians for inflaming a toxic political climate. c

>> president adams: okay. next item, please. >> clerk: item six, approval of draft meeting minutes from june 11, june 25, july 9, july 23, august 13, september 10, and december 10, 2018. >> president adams: okay. do we have any comments on any of these meeting minutes? okay. no comments? public comment, is anybody in the public like to make comment on any of item number six, approval of draft minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion? >> move to approve the draft minutes as presented. >> second. >> president adams: okay. roll call vote. [roll call] >> clerk: motion passes, 7-0. >> president adams: great. next item, please. >> clerk: item seven, director's report, update and report on the office of small business and the small business assistance center, department programs, policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor, and announcements regarding small business activities. >> good evening, commissioners. regina dick-andrizzi, director, office of small business. i'm jus

eack to you. >> adam tuss on th move. a good clip there in our 4 by 4. >>> to breaking news in prince george's county. we're getting new details about the two people after a shooting in bowie. this unfolding in the past 90 minutes near the intersection of fleshertown road and old eshertown road. this isn't far from the country club if you know the area. >> let's get to tracee wilkins. what's the latest, tracee? r orter: we're here on flewn fletcheroad where they have the roadblocked. if you come down this way they're going tourn you around. so prince george's county police gave us an update a few moments ago.w let me shoou video from a few moments ago, this is the suspect being taken into b custody prince george's county police. the way they're telling us this happened is the was five ther.e in a vehicle to at person was in the passenger seat. shotuspect took a gun a the driver, who is now in grave condition, shot one of the passenge o in the backthe vehicle who has a flesh wound and evidently that suspect took off toward

tand adam out put that to you first and then we'll go to separate. well i just came back from south sudan and i think there's an interesting dynamic there where i think the mission is doing work at the local level to do conflict resolution around issues of cattle land riverine rights and seeing that as related to the national peace process in south sudan seeing that for example roughly eighty percent of the cattle actually have partial ownership by the powerbrokers in juba and understanding that resolution of local conflicts can filter back up and help stabilize situations to support the peace process but also that when the leaders of a country like salva kiir and react machar make a statement that they're willing to explore peace there is the possibility for greater reconciliation at the local level and i think that the civil affairs for example in an miss is doing an excellent job in seeing those links and beginning to tease them out it doesn't mean it solves the problem but that that analysis of understanding that there is no distinction between l

connell: we have to interrupt, adam. here is sarah sanders to give us a the briefing. >> thank you for coming on short notice. certainly happy new year. welcome back. good to be back. we'll kick 2019 off slightly differently. i would like to welcome a very special guest for an appearance here in the briefing room. our very great president, donald j. trump. >> hello, everybody. a beautiful place. i haven't seen it. it's a beautiful place. happy new year. happy new year to everybody. >> [inaudible] >> thank you very much. i appreciate that. i first want to start off congratulating nancy pelosi speaker of the house. it's a very, very great achievement. hopefully we will work together. we'll get lots of things done like infrastructure and so much more. i know they want to do that very badly. so do i. hopefully we'll have a lot of things we can get done together. i think it will actually work out. i think it will be a little bit different than a lot of people are thinking. so i congratulate nancy. tremendous, tremendous achie

adam tuss, live for us. thank you. >>> 6:51, our timew. right get a check on the weather conditions and the forecast. chuck bell is here with that. >> off to a freezing cold start this morning. fortunately the winds are not much ofe. an is temperature, 28 in washington, with a wind chill of 23. you get away from the urban heat island and away fromhe open waters of the bay and potomac, it's a colderstory. 14 in k.freder 14 in lorton. 19 and 10. manassas dn in t single numbers. your school day forecast, slippery and frigid start to the day. plenty ofsu hine. temperatures near 40 later today. the ill need a heavy coat, the hat, the scarves. everything butn umbrella. the rain chances go back up on thursday. the latest forecs available on the nbc washington 4. you can send me a snow pic, or any weather reports ontw itter. tomorrow's outlook, another nice day with melting. this storm in california will bring us unsettled weather for the weekend. mostly a rain chance for the weekend. but it could end with a little chance for snow. onthursday, we'

back and share in lightness with your great information and intelligence and fun to daniel she and adam mesh thanks to you bill. so if i can has nine lives it appears that iconic retailer sears may not be far behind we've been watching the saga unfold as the company which filed for chapter eleven bankruptcy protection back in october had been left for dead by most observers but after a couple of last minute offers to save the company and a bankruptcy auction that we told you about last week it took place this week in a new york court room sears has been saved but it what cost here to fill us in is conservative commentator steve malzberg hey steve thanks for being here sure so it reminds me of that scene in that old money python film holy grail that movie where the death collector is picking up bodies and a fellow turns to the death collector and the guy is trying to turn and says i'm not dead yet and the other guy tells of the death of the actor but he will be soon just hang around for a few minutes he's very ill will sears really been dead i mean what's the latest on them. ok well the

what is the status of this investigation now, adam? >> you know, don, if i knew that, ie'd be on tv hosting my own show. i'm kidding. i don't know what the status is, you know, but my assumption is that, you know, mueller will have -- since he did inherit this investigation, if he does write a report, he's going to have to -- it would seem likely he's going to have to answer that question. but more importantly, don, i think the american public wants an answer to that question. doesn't the american public want to know if the president was, in fact, colluding or conspiring with the russians? isn't this what the mueller investigation's about? isn't that the expectation? >> yeah. adam, will you stand by for me, please, because i'm going to need your help as we go through this. i would appreciate it, sir. >> sure. >> let's bring in now john dean and juliette kayyem. good evening to both of you. i got to ask you, john, reading this report and hearing what ad adam said, just give me your initial thoughts. >> my initial thought is that it wasn

thousands of residents braced freezing temperatures to join mayor pavol adam ovitz coffin on its final journey. past the schools he attended and the childhood home grown parents still live. winding through the streets of the city he went on to govern for over two decades. sadness here equaled only by horror. horror of the killing of a man celebrated by many for his liberal values and criticism of the conservative ruling law and justice party. everyone homosexuals refugees everyone could come here. not say searched everyone mourns together and then the accuse each other or. the mayor was stabbed on sunday while the stage of the children's charity event and he died the following day. the twenty seven year old former convict with a grudge against an opposition party that adam overage once belonged to was charged with this murder. now poland's toxic political climate is under the spotlight with many blaming politicians for violin up hate speech but. the murder is also political in a certain sense when the perpetrator has been listening to aggressive political talk over a long period and wh

adam receives the command adam and his wife here the command and they both immediately together repents. there is no flaming, she gave me the fruit, no, they immediately repent. and god immediately forgives him. he said you have to go down from it so they went from paradise down to earth. then there will be a judgment, life's judgment just like everybody else. but he had a good life. so it is over at that point you don't need the whole long saga of how ancient history, you don't need redemption, god is johnny on the spot. >> i know from the story of noah and chapter three you proceed those two full chapters on abraham that you mention, of course many would maintain that, and all the biblical figures that know is more important than abraham but actually the biblical figure who is mentioned moats often is moses. so walk us through how the account differ in qur'an. >> let me progress just a moment to say that a formal difference, a literal larry difference that one could draw between the koran and the bible is that the bible very often, most often as a novelist narrator. who is it that say

david: also we have tried so much of this stuff before adam to no a vail. there are housing projects that have had to be torn down because they not only haven't worked, not only been much more in efficient and dirtier than anything the private sector put up but they became crime dens and just had to be torn down like cabrini green in chicago, places in los angeles and now he wants to expand public housing it's crazy. >> i think it's also a numbers game as well. northern europe is admirable but we have hundreds of millions in our population. obviously now speaking beyond new york, but those are smaller countries i think that can manage a bit differently. david: well great reporting today, congratulations on that. the ongoing government shutdown is now the longest in u.s. history, so are we any closer to a deal? we are live on capitol hill with all of the developing details, coming next. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate helps you. with drivewise. feedback that helps you drive safer. and that can lower your cost now that yo

i'm joined by lynn swede, jennifer rubin and adam eidelson. i want to pick up where we picked up about the dynamics of the showdown. you worked in harry reid's office and you've been through these back and forths. one of the asymmetries that happens in a shutdown is republicans by and large don't care. they're not big fans anyway. they think that all the people that work for the federal government are libs who don't vote their way. so who cares if they aren't getting a paycheck. what do you think about that dynamic this time around? >> yeah, i think that's absolutely right. and i think this time there is an extra layer of bizarreness for lack of a better word where so in 2013, when we're going through the shutdown, you at least have the feeling like the players involved were responding rationally to what was happening in the world around them. so if republicans endured days of terrible press stories, you could reliably count on the fact that they would respond accordingly, and that that would weaken their position. but so far republicans have