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a very provocative piece by andrew sullivan.an. >> coming - listening to music in the shower can help you conserve water, so start your favorite song when you get in, and when it's done, time's up. you've probably conserved at least ten gallons of water. saving the environment never sounded so great. brought to you by boeing. always working to build something better. >> back now with "endgame." we had such a good conversation. the panel is still talking, but i'm going to throw another little thing to you guys and let you have at it. andrew sullivan, a very provocative piece in "new york" magazine, a free society means being free of those who rule over you, to exalt in the blessed space where politics doesn't intervene. in that sense we are living in a country with markedly less freedom than we did a month ago. his larger argument being, greta, if we think about politics all of the time it must mean we're fearing our freedoms being taken away. >> we fought for the first amendment and now you go to college and you have these safe

andrew sullivan is just explaining.rence between you and him, whether you come on this show or not, i said to make a point, or whether he is sitting in class in an elite institution. you have a choice. if you don't come on this show, you have a good life. you're living a good life. if you are not left of center and you want to go to one of the best colleges in america, you don't have a choice. you have to go in class, you have to sit there. >> thesis is not there. >> well, no. ann coulter so offensive in so many things that she says. again, that is the point that andrew sullivan makes in this piece, which is you push him into a corner, don't be shocked. you kick him around every day, right? like imagine you're a big tough guy and so that is why we go back and forth and you do say afterwards, boy, that was fun. we had a good time. >> now you feel better? >> no, i don't feel bad. we go back and forth all the time and then the camera goes off. and you say, that was good, that was fun and you're smirking because it's the tr

- so i'd like to recommend that we move john john malcolm hillan to be appointed to seat one andrew sullivano seat 2 and dan flanagan to seat 4 and meg lowman to seat 5 and michael sullivan seat 6 and phillip pierce to seat 7 and to continue seat number 2 and to also 3. >> he did 12, 4 and 3 is open. >> and also provide a waiver or set the waiver from a residental waiver for meg lowman. >> thank you supervisor yee seeing no objection it is i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> mr. clerk mr. clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> there are no more items the last one with a with a positive recommendation. >> thank you, colleagues we're adjourned >> the office of controllers whistle blower program is how city employees and recipient sound the alarm an fraud address wait in city government charitable complaints results in investigation that improves the efficiency of city government that. >> you can below the what if anything, by assess though the club program website arrest call 4147 or 311 and stating you wishing to file a

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andrew sullivan, a very provocative piece in "new york" being free of those who rule over you, to exaltsed space where politics doesn't intervene. in that sense we are living in a country with markedly less freedom than we did a month ago. his larger argument being, greta, if we think about politics all of the time it must mean we're fearing our freedoms being taken away. >> we fought for the first amendment and now you go to college and you have these safe spaces. there are curbs on our rights, but i think we'll get through it and we've had bruising battles before in history and we'll get through it. i like a robust debate. >> national emergency is also another phrase he used. >> yeah. there is a feeling i think among a lot of people there is a national emergency and president trump said i alone can fix it. everything is going to hell, and people who oppose president trump feel his presidency is an emergency. as these executive orders come out and this flurry of >> i wonder whether the question isn't whether this is going to normalize. we all feel overwhelmed and the country feels over

- so i'd like to recommend that we move john john malcolm hillan to be appointed to seat one andrew sullivano seat 2 and dan flanagan to seat 4 and meg lowman to seat 5 and michael sullivan seat 6 and phillip pierce to seat 7 and to continue seat number 2 and to also 3. >> he did 12, 4 and 3 is open. >> and also provide a waiver or set the waiver from a residental waiver for meg lowman. >> thank you supervisor yee seeing no objection it is i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> mr. clerk mr. clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> there are no more items the last one with a with a positive recommendation. >> thank you, colleagues we're adjourned >> good evening and welcome to the the wednesday, february 22, 2017, meeting of the san francisco board of appeals dpoels is joined by commissioner sanchez and commissioner bobbie wilson and commissioner rick swig our president commissioner president honda will be absent brad to my left is the dependent and provide the board with legal advice and cable car and my name is cynthia go

. >> sreenivasan: reuters political reporter andrew sullivan, thanks so much. >> my pleasure. >> sreenivasan: next month, british prime minister theresa may is expected to begin the process of having the united kingdom formally exit the 28-nation european union. the u.k. is made up of england, scotland, wales, and northern ireland, and while a majority of u.k. voters in last year's referendum cast ballots to leave the e.u., a majority in northern ireland voted to remain. that's largely because of fears brexit could destabilize the two decades of peace between the catholic and protestant communities. for tonight's signature segment, newshour weekend special correspondent patricia sabga went to northern ireland to find out what's at stake. >> reporter: the sectarian violence that roiled northern ireland for decades is stamped on the belfast landscape. across this capital city, murals commemorate the more than three- and-a-half thousand people killed during the conflict, known here as the troubles. >> we're going to start on the shankill road. >> reporter: cab driver peter hughes is our guide.

. >> approximately supervisors my name is andrew sullivan i'm serving often the urban forestry council on seat 2 i'm a landscape arithmetic in san francisco over 20 years of experience for the last 1890 in san francisco my practice and my work is always been focused on environmental sustainability and stewardship and i always had a keen interest in the universe urban forest for the past 6 years serving on the university council and he served as a the chair the subcommittee of urban forestry council as well so i'll keep it brief if you have any questions i thank you for your opportunity to continue with my service thank you. >> thank you andrew sullivan i'm sorry do i say oh, colleagues - why not to have them all go through and if you have a question. >> same question i asked how is your attendance. >> close to perfect in subcommittee. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors the second sullivan seeking appointment to the urban forestry i'm a resident of woodland avenue in district 5 i don't work in the urban forestry area but it is been a passion of mine for a long, l

- so i'd like to recommend that we move john john malcolm hillan to be appointed to seat one andrew sullivano seat 2 and dan flanagan to seat 4 and meg lowman to seat 5 and michael sullivan seat 6 and phillip pierce to seat 7 and to continue seat number 2 and to also 3. >> he did 12, 4 and 3 is open. >> and also provide a waiver or set the waiver from a residental waiver for meg lowman. >> thank you supervisor yee seeing no objection it is i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> mr. clerk mr. clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> there are no more items the last one with a with a positive recommendation. >> thank you, colleagues we're adjourned >> welcome to wednesday february 22nd, regular meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee, i am supervisor ronan the chair of the committee to my right is vice chair supervisor, and we expect supervisor fewer shortly. the clerk is erica major and i would also like to thanks sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. can you call item one, please? >> yes. resolution r

andrew sullivan was writing how he think we should all be concerned on his lack of stability. you've done commentary about this. when somebody says there's 3 illegal votes and no evidence and misinformation or lies coming from him, what do we make of that in terms of that? is it a strategy, delusional? what is that? >> we can hunt for a meaning and psychoanalyze him for 1,000 years but there's a pattern that it represents. if the president want it believe there were 3 million illegal voters bussed, fine. it doesn't really have really a meaning except template and someone can say to him the real problem in asia is not north korea. it's south korea. we have to come down hard on the south koreans because they have a corrupt government or the australians are behind the trouble. what's when he believes something as fabricated as something as importance. that's why it's relevant as a warning to real-life issues. >> every time he says something that's not true when they have meetings at the white house they it's not true and setting the table for more voter suppression or mass incarc

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- so i'd like to recommend that we move john john malcolm hillan to be appointed to seat one andrew sullivano seat 2 and dan flanagan to seat 4 and meg lowman to seat 5 and michael sullivan seat 6 and phillip pierce to seat 7 and to continue seat number 2 and to also 3. >> he did 12, 4 and 3 is open. >> and also provide a waiver or set the waiver from a residental waiver for meg lowman. >> thank you supervisor yee seeing no objection it is i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> mr. clerk mr. clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> there are no more items the last one with a with a positive recommendation. >> thank you, colleagues we're adjournedmuch. >> (clapping.) >> say a special thanks to our new police chief and fire chief for being here thank you and to all of the departments the growing number of departments under the zoning administrator's office and say to all of you and staff thank you for being loyal to our zoning administrator and thank you for working hard and thank you for all your years of service i thinks if

andrew sullivan was writing about how he thinks we should be concerned about his lack of stability.'ve done some commentary about this. when somebody says there are 3 million illegal votes and is no evidence of that, and is a lot of misinformation coming from them or lies coming from him, what do we make of that -- is that a strategy? is it delusional? what is that? >> we can hunt for the meaning behind it. we can psychoanalyze him for 1000 years. what's right in front of us is the pattern that it represents to something important. if the president wants to believe there were 3 million illegal voters bussed for massachusetts to cost kelly ayotte her seat in the senate, fine. it doesn't really have any meaning except as template. then somebody could say to him, look, the real problem in asia is not north korea. we can deal with north korea. it is south korea. we have to come down hard on the south koreans because they have a corrupt government, or whatever the argument is, or the australians are behind all this trouble. what happens when he believes something as farcical and fabricat

- so i'd like to recommend that we move john john malcolm hillan to be appointed to seat one andrew sullivano seat 2 and dan flanagan to seat 4 and meg lowman to seat 5 and michael sullivan seat 6 and phillip pierce to seat 7 and to continue seat number 2 and to also 3. >> he did 12, 4 and 3 is open. >> and also provide a waiver or set the waiver from a residental waiver for meg lowman. >> thank you supervisor yee seeing no objection it is i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> mr. clerk mr. clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> there are no more items the last one with a with a positive recommendation. >> thank you, colleagues we're adjourned >> call this meeting for transbay joint power authority board of directors to order. would you call the roll, please. >> gee, present. kim, here. reiskin, here. nuru, present. sartipi, present. harper recollect present. mr. chairman you have a quorum. >> next item. >> next item item 3 and 4 chair harper requested to move those items to the end of the regular calendar agenda. if the

- so i'd like to recommend that we move john john malcolm hillan to be appointed to seat one andrew sullivan to seat 2 and dan flanagan to seat 4 and meg lowman to seat 5 and michael sullivan seat 6 and phillip pierce to seat 7 and to continue seat number 2 and to also 3. >> he did 12, 4 and 3 is open. >> and also provide a waiver or set the waiver from a residental waiver for meg lowman. >> thank you supervisor yee seeing no objection it is i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> mr. clerk mr. clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> there are no more items the last one with a with a positive recommendation. >> thank you, colleagues we're adjourned >> good evening and welcome to the the wednesday, february 22, 2017, meeting of the san francisco board of appeals dpoels is joined by commissioner sanchez and commissioner bobbie wilson and commissioner rick swig our president commissioner president honda will be absent brad to my left is the dependent and provide the board with legal advice and cable car and my name is cynthia

. >> item 54 motion to appoint john malcolm hillen, andrew sullivan, dan flanagan, megaloman, michael sullivan and phillip pierce. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you, madam president. just want to make a small amendment to this motion and saying that these aopponentments will be effective beginning tomorrow because as our meeting happening this board will meet and so we dont want confusion in the seats that are serving so if we can make that amendment then these appointments would be effective beginning tomorrow. >> okay, mr. gibbener, that's appropriate? >> yes, and i believe the request comfrom the urban forestry counsel staff. >> motion to amend to have the effective date tomorrow march 1, 2017. take the amendment without objection the without objection the amendment pass squz on the iletm as amended colleagues can we take same house same call? without objection the motion is approved unanimously. madam clerk please call the next item. >> i believe there are two three p.m. special orders. >> we are not there so need to kip over and go to roll call for introduction. >> supervisor pes

sullivan. joe and andrew are out today. >> power breakfast. >> it is. were some slight losses yesterday for the markets. you can see this morning the dow futures are up by 35 points. s&p futures indicated to open up by 2.5 points. if you look at what happened overnight in asia, you will see when we flip the board that there were losses across the board. the nikkei

sullivan. joe and andrew are out today. >> power breakfast. >> it is.here were some slight losses yesterday for the markets. you can see this morning the dow futures are up by 35 points. s&p futures indicated to open up by 2.5 points. if you look at what happened overnight in asia, you will see when we flip the board that there were losses across the board. the nikkei was down by a third. if you look at the european equities in the early trade, it looks like things are relatively higher. the dax sis up by a third of a percent. the ftse up by a half percent. if you look at currencies this morning, check and see the dollar is up across the board. the euro trading at 1.0664. >> earnings news overnight. shares of bp are slipping after the firm reported earnings that hit a ten-year low and missed expectations. a key measure of net income, underlying replacement profit missed estimates. that's an accounting measure that takes into account the fluctuations in the price of oil. the oil giant has been weighed down by lower oil prices and says an opec cut could a

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