. >> i'm barbara graham from the lower patrick heights neighborhood i want to personally thank all of you for having given us the extra 4 weeks at the last meeting it was very prouf used and i also want to thank aaron starr and the planning staff for a collaborative meeting it was a model for the way we would like to move forward to give input to you all as well as to the planning department and i also wanted to acknowledge commissioner hilliss participation in the meeting that we had with the planning department so this is really a great start for moving forward with the consolidation and the simplification i'd like to undermine the vail of unintended consequences being reviewed in the at the end of a year or so thank you very much for your support for the community. >> thank you gadget planning commission members i'm jeff wood i'm just go back to repeat same compliments from the other speakers we very much appreciate the extension you gave the neighborhoods and public to make comments and understand better the changes that were proposed in the amendment and it's been very productive

barbara mikulski, and she went against it. let's just talk about ted cruz for a second. bob corker, orrin hatch, lindsey grahamout statements criticizing ted cruz because, they say, he kept the senate in and gave the democrats, gave the white house, confirmation votes on nominations that they wouldn't have had if they had gone home a couple of days ago. >> it's interesting, both cruz and warren went about their opposition in different ways. david axelrod, i want you to respond to this. an anonymous aide saying this. if this party can't accommodate its clinton era folks and its warrenites, we're headed for trouble. do you think this party can unite those two wings of the party? >> i do if secretary clinton comes out. >> move towards elizabeth warren. >> and i think she will. let me say one thing about ted cruz. i think he was delighted to be i think that was -- he got everything he wanted. >> you agree with that. >> two years ago, when ted cruz shut down the government, everybody said cruz is finished, his career is finished, he's overshot and this will be -- republicans were saying this will be damaging to our