give it up one more time for .amika mallory national organ size are -- national organizer with the women's march and the cofounder of mpower change. nothing has really changed into years. youill stand before unapologetically muslim american, unapologetically palestinian-american, and unapologetically from brooklyn, york. york. [applause] we are in a very serious situation, and when we are in serious situations i remember the words of great people. if you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. brothers of our dear malcolm x. sisters and brothers, there are no perfect leaders. we are all flawed human beings. we should not be throwing stones from glass houses. said, i want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. even if i made mistakes, they were made insincerity. if i was wrong, i was wrong insincerity. i can deal with a person who is wrong, as long as they are sincere. sisters and brothers, we come to this movement not because we choose to come here, it is because we have to be here. o

this is my new friend, amika. she's 21 years old, and san francisco spends more than $300,000 to lock up one youth a year. instead, employ seven youths with full-time jobs for a year. house 16 youth at median income rent for a year. pay for family or individual therapy for 28 youth. send four youth to stanford college to receive their b.a. it's time to reimagine youth justice. it's time to look at sisters like mika and tamika and say we really do for real believe in you. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> i would like to say that the food isn't good. they need better food, showers. youth shouldn't be sent far away from our families. i feel that sending us out of home placement puts us in more danger. that's why we try to leave. >> hi. i think they should be referred to real programs that benefit youth color. they need to be treated with the same respect. they need new clothes, as well. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. my name is drew min.

amika, is that foreign policy or is it not having a foreign policy? >> i think it's not having a foreign policy. and what we see is this president undercutting his senior advisers, not really consulting, not setting out guidelines for what hep wants in terms of negotiations either with iran or with north korea or in syria and just sort of winging it. so when they say all options on the table, they don't have anything else to say. >> are they threatening war or the potential or possibility for war in all of these scenarios? >> well, it's certainly bolton's preference. he has been a strong interventionist in all of these things. he's fighting with the president and trying to lead a president down a path to war when this president very clearly doesn't want to deploy american troops in all kinds of places. he's trying to pull them back from syria, from afghanistan. bolton doesn't like that and he's trying to tell the president to do otherwise. >> mika o'yang, ken dilanian and jake sherman, everyone, thank you very much. >>> and next up, are democrats over