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barbara ryan, managing director with fti consulting joins us to talk about the deal.ee you again. >> nice to see you, sue. thanks for having me. >> you know, celgene has been aggressive in pursuing different pipelines if you will. this seems to be another kind of innovative deal on their part? >> absolutely. i think there's two important things to note. you're right, this following deals with epigene and blue bird that celgene has done as well as agio, all companies that went company for break through potentially early but break through therapies. the second point is we've had nearly 40 companies in the biotech space go public this year, raising about $4 billion. that has allowed these companies a long runway to develop their own pipelines. in order for the larger companies to participate and play, they've got to step up an we're seeing, obviously, the financial magnitude of potentially what celgene may pay for this collaboration. >> in other words, the financing window is open now, you know, and the cash is froe to flow allowing some of these deals to go through. >>

the report that was released in february and thank liz and ryan from the tender loin neighborhood development center and their work and also barbara and the food bank and meals on wheels. to see, bonina from saint anthonies, and monique from the tender loin hunger task force and paula jones for the important work. i also wanted to thank paul ash, the executive director of the food banks for being here as a resource and as well as and also kevin wing from project open hand and from saint anthony and rita the director of glide as well. now, for the translaters, i wanted to again, remind or to say that we have translation in chinese, spanish, tagalog and russian and i would ask if the staff from the services who are doing the translation to come forward and say in spanish, in tagalog and russian that they are available to translate the public comment. >> and also grace yee from the department of public health come forward and if you could make that announcement that you can translate. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> i am going to call the names in groups of ten, one more, thank you. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> come

barbara, hello. what's your comment about this budget deal? caller: i was pleased that congressman paul ryanator murray were able to negotiate an agreement. we have been really discouraged by how the senate and the house have not been able to work. and it's time now, and we are pleased that they have reached this agreement. host: do you think this is something that will show better relations in the future? caller: i think that today it shows that the with it party, the democrats and republicans, are able to work together. and i think it's a first step in getting our congress and senate back to working for their paychecks. host: thanks for your call. a reporter with "roll call" was at the press conference. what did you hear at the conference? guest: thank yous for having me on. i heard a lot of congratulations to one another between paul ryan and patty murray. and optimism that this could herald in many a new era, at least over the next two years, of bipartisanship, where they can start to address the larger, root causes. host: what does the agreement do to the sequester budget cuts? >> for t