we have our small business development centers. our score offices i was talking about. e these different points of outreach are very, very helpful. >> intensive small business ownership statistics, what proportion of small businesses are truly owned and operated by women? how is it changing with your initiative? >> women actually own about 66% of businesses -- do you have that stat? 66% sounds high now that i said it. i think that's high but women are starting businesses often than men are in today's environment. women are getting more higher degrees than men are. i think women businesses clearly are rising and we want to support them in every way we can. >> fantastic, thank you. another gender question. failed administration, mostly, right click you think that as a woman you approached him to do or negotiation any differently than most men would? and how has your ginger worked for you as a net positive over the course of your career? [laughing] >> i never really ever felt that i was disadvantage because i was a woman. >> i never did either applaud the. >> if anything i'

we have our small business development centers. our score offices i was talking about. o do have these different points of outreach are very, very helpful. >> intensive small business ownership statistics, what proportion of small businesses are truly owned and operated by women? how is it changing with your initiative? >> women actually own about 66% of businesses -- do you have that stat? 66% sounds high now that i said it. i think that's high but women are starting businesses often than men are in today's environment. women are getting more higher degrees than men are. i think women businesses clearly are rising and we want to support them in every way we can. >> fantastic, thank you. another gender question. failed administration, mostly, right click you think that as a woman you approached him to do or negotiation any differently than most men would? and how has your ginger worked for you as a net positive over the course of your career? [laughing] >> i never really ever felt that i was disadvantage because i was a woman. >> i never did either applaud the. >> if any

. >> we were growing a business but it was a great opportunity with the challenge is, how do you scale? moved across the country to develop grow from a northeastern regional the international business really a good opportunity and good vision and creative vision and push the company to grow. >> cable was very big for anybody who goes back we had show on one week when the next market in the next market and usa cable was the first national reach we had and get the opportunity to expand. >> what we are responsible this? >> ceo of the company, a lot of strategic planning and hr, finance, operational issues and i would pitch my wagon to a star. full throttle all the time. someone who has great vision needs people who can execute so make sure we can execute through contracts, television negotiations in the world of licensing and aspects to make them work and chill together. >> did they come by it naturally? >> they both enjoyed seeing how the business developed. i think stephanie worked as the development at one time. putting up the ring the very first job was working in the warehouse where they were stopped and he had to sweep

trade policy impacts small business growth andwt development? s with current relationships with china. for the reorganization of enough? >> is a whole lotta question their. [laughter] whole different aspects. small businesses are often exporters. small businesses ask for the goods and services. we want to make sure towards us businesses.. we've had an unfair policy. it is fair, it is reciprocal. that american businesses first. but sba it might be doing to make those policies more fair. we have a seat at the table. international trade office in negotiations. they're just ongoing at this point. also all we know this particular point. that's in place we want to make sure it's favorable into our country. >> of other federal agencies like the department of commerce or state agencies. especially on improving the export atmosphere for small business. the sp international trade person is located around the country. in the e-commerce office they have access to guiding small businesses into those areas. it's called step and they are grants to states to pro

you're now director of business development at telegram.meetings and business deals for telegram. hola! aqui, genial. un abrazo. it's interesting because there's so much evidence. there's so much people that can vouch for the work that we did. and i can't help to question, why would they do that? so, these bits of lack of integrity, i think it's what's been mostly disappointing for me over the last few years. telegram doesn't only help criminals, it helps promote extremism, too. i've come to north carolina to meet one of the few people who have studied how telegram actually works. she says that the site has an algorithm that pushes users towards ever more extreme content. the southern poverty law center is about to publish research based on a study of 28,000 telegram channels. it reveals how a new feature introduced by telegram makes toxic recommendations. professor megan squire is the lead author. on a scale of one to ten, telegram, i would say, is an 11. it's a one—stop shop. it's dishing out enormous amounts of criminal content, extremis

and what that means is, i'm here to help mentor young people, help with business development, look afterlients that can be helpful to the overall organization. but at some point in time -- this is a hard business. we are in 30 countries. we have lots of people. it's better to have younger people grow the business. i took over at 30 -- in my early 30's. and -- and i'm probably slower today than i was then. not that i have slowed down, but i am slower today. and at some point in time, it's the right thing just to bring -- to give the people those roles. and so, we are continually evolving the organization in that way. francine: but are you going anywhere anytime soon? bruce: no. [laughter] francine: bruce, is this the biggest mistake, actually, for politicians and chief executives is staying on for too long? or is it, you know, leadership in 2024 different to what it was in the early 2000's? bruce: you know, i think it all depends on the organization. some organizations fit one way, some fit another. i'm not suggesting our culture is what works for everybody else. but we have a culture whe

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we have developed through a new business and we have pioneered the long solutions.quinor is in a good position going forward. by doing this, we optimize oil and gas in the uk and, of course, building a new company and making a new company. this will be outside of equinor and the confidence we have. >> what are the implications here in terms of esg? do you have to rethink or rechange some of the strategy here? >> i think when it comes to those things, we need to understand that better when we make the company and how we look into that. of course, we have a strong focus on that and we will build on the values we have from the company. it is up to the new company also to set those targets. so, this will kind of be operated by quinor with the non-operated assets. of course, we work closely with our partners and all assets to improve the footprint. >> in terms of what this means for equinor at this stage, should the investors expect further deals of this size? what are you planning in terms of potential consolidation going forward? >> good question. i'll speak on the bus

i knew about the grand through the renaissance entrepreneur center, and through the small business developmentr. i thought they were going to be perfect candidate because of their strong values in the community. they really give back to the neighborhood. they are from this neighborhood, and they care about the kids in the community here. >> when molly -- molly first told us about the grant because she works with small businesses. she has been a tremendous help for us here. she brought us to the attention of the grand just because a lot of things here were outdated, and need to be up-to-date and redone totally. >> hands in front. recite the creed. >> my oldest is jt, he is seven, and my youngest is ryan, he is almost six. it instills discipline and the boys, but they show a lot of care. we think it is great. the moves are fantastic. the women both are great teachers. >> what is the next one? >> my son goes to fd k. he has been attending for about two years now. they also have a summer program, and last summer was our first year participating in it. they took the kids everywhere around san franc

sector experience to the job and she's worked around the world on issues ranging from small business development to infectious disease prevention, to women's empowerment. she is recently served as peace corps's chief executive officer. prior to that, she's served as its acting director and she was africa director no less a peace corps volunteer herself in romania some years ago. it's really a pleasure to have her here today. the way that we're going to proceed today, director spahn will come up and offer comments about the mission, the trajectory of the peace corps and we'll have a conversation about spanning the globe and more precise about the indo-pacific and i would love to open up the conversation to all of you for questions. director spahn, would you please join us? [applause] >> good morning, good morning, good morning. thank you, doctor, and thank you to charles and the centers for strategic studies for welcoming me todayment thank you for coming out on this thanksgiving week and your comments were spot on. there's a lot for us to be grateful for. i am grateful for all of you who do the

comcast business. developingver the weekend, daly city police spent most of saturday negotiating with the woman accused of lunging at them with a knife. this is video from the scene. this all happened after police responded to a domestic disturbance report at a house on 88th street. officers say moments after they arrived, the woman charged at them with a knife and then lock yourself inside the home police negotiators and swat team members eventually took the woman into custody after 28 hours. she's charged with assault with a deadly weapon. 6 people were arrested for targeting a business in san jose and stealing more than $3,000 worth of merchandise. according to officers, the arrests were made at a marshals on north capitol avenue. police sharing these photos of some of the items that were recovered. they also found a gun on one of the people who was arrested. >> for your health this morning, a standoff last county resident has tested positive for bird flu after coming into contact with infected dairy cattle. t

i know that small business development centers is come from federal and we have a lot of just workforceding may be not this office but the other side i'm trying to understand like if some of this stuff we relied on is -- at risk >> you know. many of the upon grands osb is not rely on the forces outside of spdc i will let tammy speak to that. with regard to workforce this come through fdz and state graf grants we okay for services and programs we initiated urngd the grands it is hard to build a budget that continues those moving forward there is uncertainty there. the other area that may affect small business and keeping an eye on funds about which funds our community economic division and work in someplace our most person corridors. we have that funding and keeping an eye on it. we'll watch for that. is is that contracted out. >> yes. i know 400 million is larger do we talk about it. who are they the 400 million in business. >> the litigation. we don'ts because that is confidential at this time city attorney's basis on what litigation they received. assume it is large are not a cluster

business owners to succeed. mayor london breed and her team, including sarah dennis phillips and the office of economic and workforce development have been critical partners and champions of our work. they've allowed us to scale that work, and they've allowed us to provide critical support to small business owners that who define the economy, culture and identity of san francisco, sf new deal was born out of the crisis of the covid 19 pandemic, but over the past several years, small businesses have faced many and constantly shifting challenges. and sf new deal with the support of city hall and private funders like wells fargo and jp morgan chase, have worked to be responsive to the needs of small business owners and communities. since our founding in 2020, we have supported 656 businesses citywide, with $449.8 million of direct financial support. thank you. and in 2024 alone, again in partnership with the city, we've supported over 500 businesses with $6.4 million in direct financial resources that have supported storefront improvement grants. sf shine's capacity building, small business training grants, accessible grants. as y

brand and grow through public policy analysis and advocacy, marketing, communications and business developmenthere if my wife is watching she'll be so proud. just a couple of quick thank yous. two tim hartman and connie, i want to say thank you very much for partnering with us on this. also for dell and chelsea cook, the lead for this program. woody delight to work with you. molly is from the govtribe team. i hope you all got a chance to take a look at govtribe. i will note since i'm in marketing they have got one of the coolest, a whole bottle of hot sauce for what they bill as may cost sudden urges to bid on hot government contracts. aaron heffron and, of course, and annie pettijohn from govexec. great team to work with. i hope you got insights you can take from and help you grow your business. we are delighted to be with you today. enjoy the rest of the week, and have a great holiday. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> tonight a a look at federal spending and the national debt crisis with testimony from former u.s. comptroller general david walker and fiscal p

brand and grow through public policy analysis and advocacy, marketing, communications and business developmenthere if my wife is watching she'll be so proud. just a couple of quick thank yous. two tim hartman and connie, i want to say thank you very much for partnering with us on this. also for dell and chelsea cook, the lead for this program. woody delight to work with you. molly is from the govtribe team. i hope you all got a chance to take a look at govtribe. i will note since i'm in marketing they have got one of the coolest, a whole bottle of hot sauce for what they bill as may cost sudden urges to bid on hot government contracts. aaron heffron and, of course, and annie pettijohn from govexec. great team to work with. i hope you got insights you can take from and help you grow your business. we are delighted to be with you today. enjoy the rest of the week, and have a great holiday. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]this i.

fact but to simply being a rubberstamp for what we have but hey, , we got law, business creation and workforce development. [applause] sit down. how y'all doing, cpac? good, good. thank you all for joining us for an important conversation. gentlemen, , i been going across the country with fox news talking with my nordic communities come urban communities that need help. i've been telling them that with the trump administration the caliber is coming, i think about jobs, if you're an american you want to work in the conversion back to work. businesses get why should the out here care about this issue? so if you come scott. >> thank you lord am so happy to be it with you all at cpac. the president has set forth policies that give the people of america inside of distressed communities an opportunity to start businesses, to build new homes. to be self-sustaining, to be self-governing and fulfill the american dream and put it to fulfill their god-given potential. i have the honor of stewarding the white house opportunity revitalization counsel which works inside of our nation's opportunity zones. opportunity zo

development secretary in the xt administration. up next, another aparance by mr. turner in 2020 at the annual conservative political acon conference known as cpac where he talked about opportunity zones, business creation and workforce development. >> how are y'all doing cpac? thank you all for joining us for an important conversation. gentlemen, i've been going across the country with fox news talking with minority communities, urban communities that need help. and i been telling them that with the trump administration mcelderry is coming that they care about jobs. if you're american you want to work with you back to work businesses, why should the people out here care about thank you lawrence i'm so happy to be here with you all. the president has set forth the policies that give the people of america inside of this stressed community an opportunity to start businesses to build new homes. to be self-sustaining to be self governed and fulfill the american dream and to prepare their god-given potential. i have the honor of stewarding the white house opportunity and revitalization counsel. opportunity zones bring stakeholders together inside of communities they haven't seen investment in decade

rifkin baseball was the kids business we developed. you play tournament and we teach and those sorts of things. and you can witness right in front of you that the kids feel the same way about baseball that we did. i think what has happened in sports overall is that specialization happens earlier in the sport. so you are not playing baseball, basketball and football, you are specializing early on. there's a lot less kids that are playing baseball but the ones that are playing are actually playing more of it because they play spring, summer and fall. david: speaking of that, lots of pitchers these days have elbow problems, players have to take a year and a half the they are really able to lay again why are there so many who seem to have this problem when they didn't have as many when you were playing? is it because fairplay -- they are playing so young? cal: some of that is true because tommy john surgery has come down even the high school and plans he's younger than that some parents may feel like we just keep throwing and if it breaks

under the mayor's leadership, the town has seen a boon in local business development as well as economic expansion. stan's deep knowledge of the past, his commitment to the future, and his ability to listen and advise his colleagues, make him a trusted leader. while i was working on these remarks, mr. speaker, i called my good friend, wright cox, also the chairman of the school board, about how he would sum up stan joyner's tenure. this is what he told me. he said, stan led from the front. he always advocated for collierville. most importantly, he always fought for the needs of the town. in my opinion, stan filled the job description flawlessly as mayor. i think that he summed it up perfectly. beyond his work in the public atmosphere, he's a man of deep faith and personal integrity. his strong spirit has guided him as a sunday school teacher in his community. stan's dedication to his family is equally strong. he and his wife have been married for over 48 years. and together they have three children and are the grandparents of eight grandchildren. as he steps down after a distinguished pu

[applause]es, business creation and workforce development. [applause] sit down. how y'all doing, cpac? good, good. thank you all for joining us for an important conversation. gentlemen, , i been going across the country with fox news talking with my nordic communities come urban communities that need help. i've been telling them that with the trump administration the caliber is coming, i think about jobs, if you're an american you want to work in the conversion back to work. businesses get why should the out here care about this issue? so if you come scott. >> thank you lord am so happy to be it with you all at cpac. the president has set forth policies that give the people of america inside of distressed communities an opportunity to start businesses, to build new homes. to be self-sustaining, to be self-governing and fulfill the american dream and put it to fulfill their god-given potential. i have the honor of stewarding the white house opportunity revitalization counsel which works inside of our nation's opportunity zones. opportunity zones bring stakeholders

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i see it at the ripken baseball , was a kids business we developed. it is experiential when you play tournaments. we teach and those sorts of things. you can witness it right in front of you, that the kids feel the same way about baseball that we did. i think what has happened in sports overall is that there is specialization that happens earlier in the sport. you're not playing baseball, basketball, and football. you are specializing early on. there's a lot less kids playing baseball, but the ones that are playing are actually playing more of it because they play spring, summer, and fall. david: lots of pitchers these days have elbow problems and get a surgery called tommy john surgery and have to take a year and a half before they can play again. why are there so many pitchers that seem to have this problem now? they didn't have those problems when you were playing. is it because they are playing so young and throwing so many different kind of pitches that really hurt the elbow and the arm? cal: some of that is true because tommy john surgery has co

it's part of california's 1.2 billion dollar commitment to the state's small business program. developing news tonight, the supreme court will hear arguments over the federal law that could ban tiktok or early next year. >> they're going to be focused around whether the law violates the first amendment. freedom of speech, the law sets a january 19th deadline protect talks. chinese parent company bytedance to sell the platform or be banned here in the u.s. more than 170 million people use tiktok. >> potentially damaging ethics report on former florida congressman matt gaetz could be coming out in the next few days after the house ethics committee voted in secret to release the report. gaetz ripped a decision on social media saying details are embarrassing but they're not criminal. president elect donald trump tapped gates to be his new attorney general following the election. gaetz then withdrew his nomination after lawmakers from both parties criticized pick. former congressman is also being investigated on federal sex-trafficking charges. he denies any wrong doing. all right. let's get y

about being into this space, people of color if i sit up whether we are talking about business, investing, developmenteducation, if i wake up in the morning and watch cnbc or i watch the bloomberg business report i don't see really i rarely see anybody who looks like me. again this is the next frontier. everyone talking about it does not look like me or you, or you, or you, or you. how do you get more people of color into that space educationally or otherwise? >> that's a really, really deep question. part of the conversation of the green room before it was even is how do we find the panelists to talk about this in the first place within the companies that we work in? i'm going to rewind a little bit and get back to where you are at. thirteen years in government, for use at nvidia the 13 years in government led me too todayi was sitting in rooms represent the state of california. i was the only one that look like me in the room. so i started dedicating myself to createpo an access and opportunity for my kids but none of which you followed my path. and so the mensa kids who look like my kids that i nee

supervisors thank you for offering me a mobile home to speak to you i'm laurel i'm the director of business developmente office of economic and workforce development. with your support we have been work the past few dwreers make san francisco a good place to start and grow a business. we have dhn by focusing increasing flexibility for businesses and w to find ways to bring people back to in person work. this proposal guess against both goals. if this torch pass sage fran removing the ability from a brood business types all of which require a high in person attendance from workers. from operate negligent umu district the businesses have a bevy of entry level job students lab assistants, technicians research assistants. field service engineers, et cetera. these are businesses like those on blood safety. space that do specimen testing for someone who wants to if than i are pregnant or peanut allergy improved. life safety testing and business this is support our food businesses in getting labels and testing federal food safety. the proximity of the service system vital for san francisco doctors offices, fo

providing black entrepreneurs with access to resources, mentsership and business development opportunities helping grow and succeed in verchers. this year we are expanding food and beverage programming with the new food pavilion at indian basin water park and bayview hunter point providing black owned food business access to license kitchen and opportunities to support their growth. sip funding helps us meet community needs and drives a more inclusive economy in the bay area, particularly the bayview and with your continued support we are creating meaningful change and i look forward to continuing to make progress together. >> thank you caller. mrs. lennear, there are no callers who wish to be recognized. >> thank you. >> thank you for the public comment. commissioners, any further questions or comments? >> i just want to express support for the program and contractors and [indiscernible] and community have spoken and great to see the impact of the program so happy to support. >> commissioner arce. >> yes, just another thank you to staff, to our employer partners and community partners and

if i sit up, whether it's-- whether we're talking about business, investing, development, education, wake up in the morning and watch cnbc or if i watch the bloomberg business report, i don't see, rarely, i rarely see anybody who looks like me. again, this is the next frontier and everyone talking about it does not look like me or you or you or you or you or you. how do you get more people of color into that space, educationally or otherwise? >> so, that's a really, really deep question. so part of the conversation in the green room before was even just how do we find all the panelists to talk about this in the first place within the companies that we work in. so i'm going to rewind a little bit and then get back to where you're at. so 13 years in government, and four years at nvidia, 13 years in government kind of led me to today. i was sitting in rooms representing the state of california and i was the only one that looked like me in the room, right. so i started dedicating myself to creating access and opportunity for my kids, none of which who followed my path, so then it's the k

i knew about the grand through the renaissance entrepreneur center, and through the small business developmentr. i thought they were going to be perfect candidate because of their strong values in the community. they really give back to the neighborhood. they are from this neighborhood, and they care about the kids in the community here. >> when molly -- molly first told us about the grant because she works with small businesses. she has been a tremendous help for us here. she brought us to the attention of the grand just because a lot of things here were outdated, and need to be up-to-date and redone totally. >> hands in front. recite the creed. >> my oldest is jt, he is seven, and my youngest is ryan, he is almost six. it instills discipline and the boys, but they show a lot of care. we think it is great. the moves are fantastic. the women both are great teachers. >> what is the next one? >> my son goes to fd k. he has been attending for about two years now. they also have a summer program, and last summer was our first year participating in it. they took the kids everywhere around san franc

their brand and grow through public policy analysis and advocacy marketing, communication and business developmentif my wife is watching she would be so proud i said that. just a couple of quick thank you's. i want to say thank you very much for partnering with us on this. it also kelsey cook, the leads for this program, really a delight to work with you. molly is from the dash team. i hope you all got a chance to look at it. i will note, since i'm in marketing, they've got the tools for with a bill as may cause sudden urges to bid on a hot government contracts. aaron hepburn and from governor exec, great team to work with. i hope you have insights you can take and help you grow your business. we are delighted to be with you today. enjoy the rest of the weekend have a great holiday. i [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] click c-span's washington journal, our live form it involving you to discuss the latest issues in government, politics and p

develop. the business data between use live for fill in as well strikes miller trade targets across syria saying it's targeting weapon, stone pines. despite these attacks, hundreds of people who left syria during more than a decade civil war at the gun to return home. also in the private united states, tough diplomat says he's concerned to berber surgeons of the psychologist lennox died in syria. the worries the great could be trying to rebuild its capability and protect a little bit to control the full series of regimes and how it benefits from the asked us the i'm anthony out, welcome to the program. israel says that this carried out nearly 500 strikes on siri and military assets under the last 2 dice is really military. he says that this struck most of the serious, strategic weapons stockpiles. it says it wants to prevent weapons from the outside regime from folding into the hands of islamist extremist. the army also confirmed that its forces pushing further into a board of boxes are established following the 1973 middle east war. however, it denied reports that is rarely troops are advancing

and we think their business model, they're developing new strategies and response to market dynamics and consumer preferences. that is where it's a good position to be in where your factor is can be able to both be these, but also high tech, electrified combustion vehicles. so we have the flexibility in our production system, but we're also reading a next generation of vehicles. mercedes and v w. have put the brakes on their plans to be fully electric by 2030, reflecting a broader industry trend. the strategic pause allows them to further refine their i c. e models, while keeping an eye on consumer attitudes towards eaves. if you're a well run company, you try to match supply with demand overbuild leaves and there isn't the supply for them. they sit down the lives, the long term vision is through the electric plug that speeds that would take us from point a to the future would be dictated by that speed between consumer infrastructure. volkswagen has earmarked tens of billions of bureaus for the development of internal combustion engines. this shift is driven by consumer hesitancy tow

and developments, and also make sure that small businesses this map 2020, i know that there's also other action plan. i think what i'm aware right now is a tenderloin action plan. and this one is the mission action plan. and i wish there will be more action plans that will come in the other parts of the neighborhood of this, of the san francisco that is really struggling, especially when there are developments in ensue. so i also want to thank we see and it's very rare for me and i'm really thankful. and you know, also explainable when there are other organizations that come here and, you know, there has been a lot of narratives around a nonprofit or organization, but is this the organizations that make the community stay and vital? you see them, that who you know, the people that are working in these nonprofits are from the community, care for the community. they are the first responders. so it is quite, you know, painful when nonprofit and workers are being demonized in a way as if gatekeeping, when they're actually being in the community a