the history of the clift it's been here over 105 years. most of the people that have met in san francisco have had multiple stories about their times at the redwood room or at the clift. but in case you missed it, we purchased the hotel about three years ago put about a quarter million dollars into this property and every single facade, every brick on the facade has been redone. every room has been a gut rehab down to the stubs. the redroom has been refreshed with new furniture and we got rid of carpets that didn't smell the proper way. we have the clift paintings that professional restored back in the prior to 2001. we've modernized the entire lobby which you can see they're redone. we want to get the programming in the redwood room again to have different types of live music, djs, select djs, small bands, performance artists, things like that. we're looking to bring back some glamour and night life to the city and the neighborhood while being part of sf. we've reached out to surrounding businesses and the neighborhood as well and we've g

and eleanor clift, a longtime washington observer, of "the daily beast." welcome to both of you. this is an individual, jon, who in many, many ways lived an american dream. and really showed what was possible for him in his time, in his era, in his moment. and what we've emphasized, was willing to publicly say when he was wrong and break with orthodoxy. what are your reflections, and how much do we need it now? >> we need it enormously. we've always needed it. and i think general powell did represent the best of the political general tradition. he was not perfect. he would be the first person to tell you that. he actually loved the washington game. he was a great gossip. and understood personalities, understood how the human nature of institutions is often, if not totally decisive, certainly influential. what he represented was a vanishing tradition, if not vanished. that was the tradition of an eisenhower, george marshall, george herbert walker bush. people who were republicans, but for whom the country came first. and that often cost them politically. it's not to say those figu

have to reason because although the money the donald trump ran up, nonetheless were coming to the cliftwon't be able to pay our debts, tomorrow chuck schumer has scheduled a vote, i don't know why they're going to do that, nobody has revealed how he might be able to get ten republicans on board because so far that simply is not going to happen. brian: maybe if he passes the bipartisan bill and says i'll put that on hold and i'll do the bipartisan bill, do me a favor and raise the debt ceiling that would've been something but instead he wanted all in the vilified republicans and states donald trump's debt i love and they bring up the fact that look how much debt republicans ran up that a pandemic really destroyed the economy for the last year and what he has is a recovering economy and he's pretending were in a down slide it into great recession, great depression where the bottom is falling out of the banking industry, none of the sayings of happen that's what causes and raises the gangs in this country you wonder why the country took over and he was a little angry he said he was going t