and was also secretary of energy in the clinton administration he's currently chairman of avco worldwide global political strategies group and he joins me from washington bill i think for over thirty years you and i have been talking about the middle east and now we have another a tremendous tremendous controversy going on israel now agrees to a humanitarian pause in the airstrikes and after those four children terrible tragedy were killed in gaza over two hundred palestinians have been killed one israeli hamas declines a gym where what do you what's your assessment of all of this. well the good news larry in this turmoil in this tragedy is that egypt is stepping up and playing the role of a mediator as it did before trying to be moderate trying to be helpful to a potential cease fire peace process that's one good point the second good point is that actually the military operations of israel i think have brought hamas to some kind of bargaining table position i think the initial offer that hamas put out was really an acceptable their conditions for a cease fire but you know larry the who

should you guys not deny this suspension and i will site a couple of cases in support of that, there is avco verses the south coast recommission, from 1976, and 17 cal third, and 1785 and another case, volero v, the city of san diego. and so, if the board, grants this suspension, smart cycle will encan youer well over 300,000 in damages and out of pocket expenses and as a result of breaching the lease. and so, unfortunately, if the permit is suspended, smart cycle will seek to recover those funds and they will do it because they have a vested property right that is constitutionally protected but they will also, hold mr. sanchez, who issued the letter personally responsible, and understand that a lot of these decisions have immunity applied to them but they the immunity statute here is 820.4 and that requires and states that a public employee is not liable for his act or admission, exercising due care, and in the execution or in the enforcement of any law, it is our contention that mr. sanchez did not exercise due care and the test there is objective reasonableness and was it objectively reas