or more in the 90 days before the election and that could be a contribution and in monetary contribution, or in-kind, contribution or a loan. and so, over on the left, here, this box, we are showing total contributions per day, and so you can't see on the bottom, it is showing the days and the amounts so the amounts are up to half a million dollars and so right away you can see that there are about peak days, where large contributions were coming in. so, a couple of ways that you can interact with this page, and you can either click on it, or one of the peaks, or you can filter it using the tools at the top. on the right here, it is very hard to see and there is actually a map of california, and you can see some contributions here and coming from the bay area and then down on the bottom there are some coming from the los angeles area and let's click on one of the contribution and let me click on this first peak. and so we have half a million dollars coming from the fcpier 70, residential group that is going to a committee that they are controlling and they loaned this committee the money

what this chart represents is a total contributions from all contributers who are supporting or opposing the measure and then they are labeled by color, whether they are supporting or opposing contributions and the size of each contributor indicates the amount of their contribution. and so, the measure that we are looking at right now is measure h and so you can see here that two-thirds of the total contributions are coming from three people. and we probably can't read it on there, but they are actually coming from the same family. and so, we have a 3 people coming from the same family and then on the supporting side we have two people coming from the same family representing this section and the system will allow you to now service some of these smaller ones and be able to do the names of these contributers, but the point of this really is to see, these large contributers and who is driving these measures. for instance, if i click on a different measure, there is a measure l of the transportation measure and we can see that you know, two-thirds of the money is actually coming from one p

how much would the employer contributions be? so it gives a sense of the size of the program we have to work with. what is affordability? how is it different here than other places and that calculation? so that's the number side of things and the second deliverable we're looking for in a consultant what are the mechanics of a program? do we give a subsidy after they have insurance? do we work with them to make it cheaper to the individual at the out set? do we work on out of pocket costs and where we can have an impact on that. we have spoken with consultants in the area and foundations interested in funding us and not just us but this has implications how other jurisdictions might want to make health insurance affordable too so we approached it with an eye of capcablity too so we're looking hard at that question. >> excuse me. just as a follow up what is the cost? you said you have foundations funding you. what are the numbers on that? >> i don't have numbers for you yet. we had one proposal come in at $90,000 to do that analysi

to -- contribution. great respecthas for general allen and secretary kerry and hagel, but it is up to the united states president to show the leadership. he has the u.n. speech and sideline conversations with the allies. you keep talking about general allen, great respect for him, but as the president going to build this coalition himself? >> the president has been gauging this effort for weeks and i'm confident his efforts will continue at the u.n. in public and private settings. >> he has been doing it for weeks and we only have france to add to the airstrikes. >> we are pleased with the commitment we have received from countries around the world, including sunni-led countries in the region, to make contributions to this coalition. ed that they have responded in this way and we look forward to working with this coalition to come push our goal of ultimately destroying isil. >> you are talking about military advisers who served alongside iraqi security forces. , thoughse u.s. forces they are not in comba

the individual of who you are working for and if you have multiple contributers working for the same company and it will represent the company in its own box here and two of the three contributers who are opposing will actually work for the same company. >> we also show where the contributers are from. and so right now you can't see it because this is a map of the entire united states, but, actually the contributers are supporting measure h, and some of them are coming from new mexico some of them from colorado and 20,000 that are coming from there and then if we zoom in on san francisco, we can see that also a large amount of money is coming from around golden gate park which will make sense because measure eight relates to golden gate park. >> and just by clicking on a different measure, they will rebuild the map and show where the money was coming from in san francisco or outside of san francisco, and this one was coming from morin. we are also showing the loans that are committees are receiving and so here is where we see, things that don't measure off and this is the half a mill

where the captions say we returned the contributions. >> did you find out anything before the money was returned or. >> i can't say. you you can't say because of the confidentiality or you just don't knows >> i don't know. >> is there a motion that the commission adapt vnth response to finding 2 and the recommendation? >> i'm going to leave it the way it is you don't need another motion. >> i've been advised we don't need a motion we're going to adapt it at the end for all those who didn't make a change we'll make a general adaptation at the end. >> mr. chair, i hate to be a dog but we have language we're giving back to the grand jury even though we're not required to make the recommendation if we want to take that language out but we respond there's this response if the committee returns a corporate or excess contribution the return contribution is not subject for for the it is your it clearly falls under the authority of the ethics commission for a reduction of the forfeiture it's almost like we're responding this thing it was okay for us to do that because someone gave it back an

the are still making contributions. i want to open it up, if we could speak more about how diverse we might be part of a metric, a national rating system. the notion of social equity diversity has to be a consideration in all of this. guest: thank you very much. there are three microphones. these come up right away for questions. we have rushed everyone along to save time for your questions. >> good morning. thank you to the panelists. my name is robin lee. interestsompeting with regards to enrollment come in needing to enroll a lot of international students come out thetate students, how might focus stay on closing the racial college completion gap? >> stella? i think that is a very good question. noterspective comes from only looking at the postsecondary sector. completion gap is not only what happens at the institution. it doesn't preclude us from enrolling more students from other countries or more diverse students. i'm going to keep pushing that we talk about the racial completion gap, it's not just what is occurri

so, the point is this inequality contribute -- to which our tax system contributes, actually weakens our demand. and that's one of the main messages of my report, which is if we had a more progressive tax system, we could get a more efficient economy. because there would be more jobs being created. >> so, these 20 million people i referred to, and you referred to in your report, who are looking for full-time work but can't find it, if they had that work, they'd be spending their money. they're not going to send it to the cayman islands, right. >> exactly. and they're going to be paying taxes. because they don't have the opportunities for tax avoidance that the people who have the cayman islands and can use these unlimited i.r.a.s and other ways of tax avoidance. you know, they don't keep the money in the cayman islands because the sunshine makes the money grow better. >> dark money, money in the shadows, money now going into our political process, as you know so well, to reinforce this tax code. >> that's right. reinforce the tax code, which has led america to be the country with the

our contribution has made a significant contribution to scientific study of the ebola virus.ts and specialists have successfully conducted preclinical vaccination trials against ebola. w.h.o.'s expectation is expected. after which if our assistance is required we will be able to provide it. furthermore in russia, high sensitivity test systems for diagnose ebola have been created and ready to supply all the hospitals in the w.h.o. madam president, help for the sick is criteria for primary importance, but this is only part of the problem. at the same time, the main reason why this deadly disease continues to spread is the lack of effective prophylactic and health awareness-raising systems in affected countries due to a lack of epidemiologists and specialists in bio safety, as well as managers in the field of sanitary and epidemiological health. here, the russian federation is getting to make an earmark contribution of 2.5 million u.s. dollars for the w.h.o. budget for 2014-2015. to promote the implementation of national health protocols which are the very basis of the global re

they are making really, really great contributions in that area. so i haven't looked across all msis. it would be a great thing to do. we have that david and could look at that, but it's a really good question. >> i would like to add though in our analysis in texas, black males disproportionately overwhelmingly choose to go to a hbcu over white, or black females. so while the stories of black women obviously need to be present in the conversation, the hot spots of where black males are attending college, at least in texas, they overwhelmingly choose in hbcu. >> i wanted to take a minute at the end before we think the panelists, just comment, you can find on the website of the civil rights project a lot of relevant studies that relate to pre-college preparation. we have shown in our recent study in california, for example, segregating california's future that latinas used to be in predominant white schools in california. they are now in 86% nonwhite schools, 75% poverty. african-americans are in a very silly situation but mostly in as minorities wit

all employer contributions, so that means that the people who are paying into healthy san francisco in the past we sent the money either to us or those who lived in the city or eligible and we sent it to a reimbursement account if they lived in san matateo or outside the city but now you're saying it would be sent into -- an account that the employer has that it goes into? >> let me preface by saying that the health security ordinance mandates the contributions and the vast majority of funds provide insurance for people so 88% of the funds go to provide insurance. some go to provide healthy san francisco or the city option or other accounts, so this is a smaller proportion of all of the employer contributions ever made in the city, but what happens now if it goes to the city option the city does one of two things with it. if the person is a san francisco resident and doesn't have health insurance regardless of their income then it automatically goes into healthy san francisco so the person is given an opportunity to enroll in healthy san francisco at a discounted rate. what we're seein

based on the contribution, the government has been drafting legislature that would enable japan to contribute more to peace and stability of national security. another area japan can make more of a contribution is in disaster prevention. many countries have been hit by natural disasters. the city of sendai is one of the hardest hit areas by the 2011 earthquake. the japanese government will host the third u.n. world conference on disaster risk and reduction next march there. >> we are unfortunately hit by natural disasters quite often and we have accumulated experien experiences, soft power and the sfrux infrastructure and we are right to use that for the forthcoming conference in sendai. he believes one of challenges the organization faces is how to reform the security counsel. the five current members have remained the same for decades. >> the last time the united nation's charter was changed was 50 years ago and we are working with the very like minded countries so, group of four countries, japan, india, germany and brazil. >> those are some top requireties. as world leaders gather here, th

contribution to that mission? mr. speaker, this summit demonstrated the nato alliance is strong and is needed by its member states more than ever. as president obama has said, the defense of riga is just as important as the defense of berlin and paris and london. the task for nato is to demonstrate this commitment and an understanding that wherever our interests lie, we need a strategy which combines military readiness with political, diplomatic and strategic alliances. we join the government in supporting a nato that meets that challenge. >> here, here. >> the opposition for his response. i think he's right to say this was the most important nato conference for a generation because of the multiple challenges that we're facing in europe with ukraine, in terms of isil and also the threats around our very dangerous world. let me try is and take the questions he had in turn. in terms of ukraine, the meeting, the mood of the meeting, both the nato meeting and the meeting i chaired with the ukrainian president is there sho

we are also considering further military capacity contributions. iraq will depend aavily on the move towards political solution in syria. in order to succeed, we need the -- a security council that is committed and united. this room,eement in the syrian people cannot be protected, nor can the destruction of syrian society be stopped. there is an urgent need, to stop thet, advance of isil and to start the to e--rm work needed allowate the roots that such groups to exist. this work has begun in iraq and it has begunnd here in the security council, whose mission is to be the guardian of peace and security of all nations. the people ofy iraq. >> thank you very much. we are all of us here always in norway's generosity and contribute to humanitarian efforts. and this no less. and we thank you for your that you've made. they're very important. next speaker is the north,ighbor to and i must say, immediately, perhaps one of the first to sign on, and one of the strongest in their commitments. we're very grateful for what canada does. they've already done so

contribution to this plan. 28 nato nations have pledged to increase their investments in defense and to move toward investing 2% of their gdp in our collective security. these resources will help nato invest in critical capabilities, including intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and missile defense. and this commitment makes clear that nato will not be complacent. our alliance will reverse the decline in defense spending and rise to meet the challenges that we face in the 21st century. fifth, our alliance is fully suppo supporting its right to defend itself. to back up this commitment, all 28 nato allies will now provide security assistance to ukraine. this includes nonlethal support to the ukrainian military like body armor, fuel and medical care for wounded ukrainian troops, as well as assistance to help modernize ukrainian forces, including logistics and command and control. here in wales, we also sent a strong message to russia that actionings have consequences. today, the united states and europe ar

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for us an incidentally debls contribution to our lives without sharing our homes we've been doing for more than 16 years long before air b and b consist there are a number of the organizations and to which people share their homes many are not well known but a power one word of mouth that's going on without regulation we support regulation and strongly urge you to allow for the achieveable and comparable rules that will cover the various categories of people engaging in this activity and even though it's complicated it's not rocket science you can do it and you can do it in a clear efficient manner thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i just have a few comment first of all, home sharing i could see the point that might be a great asset to people that benefit greatly from it my concerns primarily is on the rentals. and the reason why i'm concerned about the rentals san francisco i'm sure you're aware of is facing a critical shorthand of housing for moderate rate income people and i'm afraid that some people who are arresting constitute well awar

appreciate enormously your contribution. thank you for all of the things you're doing, notwithstanding other challenges that we know you phase. we appreciate it. now it is my pleasure to recognize his highness, the minister of foreign affairs for the united arab emirates. let me also say how importance as a partner in many of these efforts the uae has been. we appreciate it enormously. thank you for your advice and counsel. the floor is yours. john.nk you, thank you for your friendship and thank you for your leadership. step up -- allow me at the beginning to express to you my appreciation and gratitude for holding this meeting at this critical time, which is required quick response in court nation of international efforts. i would like to also extend thanks to the secretary-general of the united nations for all of his efforts. the united arab emirates extends its support for the security, stability, and integrity of iraq and welcomes the recently formed government of national unity under the leadership of his abadi, which a

estonia contributing its full share, its full 2% of gdp, to the defense of our alliance. in other words, estonia meets its responsibilities, and as we head into the nato summit in wales, estonia's an example of how every nato member needs to do its fair share for our collective defense. i have come here first and foremost to reconfirm the united states' commitment to estonia. we have article 5 duties to our collective defense, a commitment that's unbreakable, unwaivering, eternal, and es totonia will ne stand alone. as president, i have made sure we are fulfilling that promise. i urged to update the planning for the defense of the region and additional nato forces rotated through estonia for more training and exercises. in response to russia's actions in ukraine earlier this year, the united states increased our presence further. we've contributed additional aircraft to the baltic air policing mission, a mission to which 14 other nato allies contributed over the past decade, and we're now continuously rotating personal aircraft through the baltics. i look forward to joini

possible secrecy in campaign contributions so we'd have to fess up and if somebody was trying to get to us, we'd know who was paying for it. how could you think that's the worst thing that happened? only if you thought the best thing that happened was if the coke brothers could run black bag operations in every country and spend all this money driving people crazy and getting them to stop thinking and never be found out. i thought some of my friends were mad at senator mcconnell. i was profoundly sad. when i look back on my life in politics, after all those decades and fights and all those campaigns, if the worst thing that ever happened to me was an attempt to limit black bag campaign contributions. what about 9/11? what about the financial meltdown? what about the farm crisis in the 1970's and what about the middle of the country's manufacturing base hollowing out in the 1980's? and what about in his fative kentucky 70% of the coal miners losing their job before the e.p.a. said a word with no way to put them back to work in other ways? how could you possibly say the worst thing tha

. >> if elected i shall sponsor legislation to limit contributions and reward small contribut contributors and this will be one of my first acts because i think we need to limit it. as an independent i will not be raising money as a united states senator. i have only about 1% as much money available to my campaign as my opponent whose are running under the party nominations. i have a harder time getting my message out because of this so i will need your help. but people will have an opportunity in south dakota to vote for a shoe string campaign and vote for a campaign that is not drowning in special interest money and my campaign only has 1% as much money has the two-part candidates and that needs to change. >> one of the challenges facing the community and the world is this isis militant group that is engaged in ethnic cleansing and they have threatened the united states. what specific steps should the united states take to dismantle iisis and eliminate the threat? rick weiland starting with you. >> i am sure we will all listen to the president addressing the nation tonight and i wish him

but also contributes reap -- contribute 3500 personnel in eastern europe between now and the end of 2015 as part of a persistent nato presence on the eastern flank. we play a vital role in helping other countries defend themselves against all threats, including terrorist threats. in we consider the threats that nato faces coming from the middle east, africa, and elsewhere, capacity building is becoming ever more important and was a key priority for the u.k. at this summit. capacity undertake building missions beginning in georgia and jordan with the offer of a training mission in iraq as soon as the new all -- new government there is in place. use alld we must instruments at our disposal, humanitarian, diplomatic, and military, to squeeze this barbaric organization out of existence. we need to be clear about what needs to happen. we will continue to support the kurds, including providing arms for training there's troops. we will work for a new representative iraqi government, which we hope will see in place later this week. the fight must be led by iraqis themselves, but we will can team

my countries prepared to make a financial contribution, which will be shortly announce. thank you very much. >> i think the representative of chat for statement and the difficulty the representative of argentina. >> translator: thank you very much madam president, for convening this debate which make it possible for all member states of the united nations to share our vision and concerns on the current outbreak of ebola in west africa. because of the significance, it involves all of us and it calls for a global response but i also wish to thank secretary-general of our organization, dr. david navarro, senior coordinator of the united nations for ebola, dr. margaret chan, director general of the world health organization, for their briefings, for sure in the knowledge with us and above all for the commitment. i wish to express our deepest respect for all of the work you're doing in order to try to put a stop to the spread of the epidemic but on behalf of the people and the government of the republic of argentina i wish to express 2000 victims and government our deep sorro

you are not willing to say contributed, is that right? >> that is not right. >> the report says it may have contributed. >> you're undermining confidence we have in the i.g. but not answering that question. did it contribute to the deaths of veterans? yes or no? >> it could have. >> that is your answer and i know dr. davis agreed with you. >> i do not think he disagreed. >> he answered differently. in law, the facts speak for themselves in cases of negligence and deaths. we know people were on the waiting list. we know they died of conditions for which they were awaiting treatment. we know your office mate criminal referrals related to that. willingiate dr. day is to say wait lists contributed to the death of veterans. that is not the story that has come out as a result of the i.g. report. i yield back. >> i appreciate you letting me sit in on this committee. ofad the opportunity and joy representing a large offered -- area of phoenix and have had a number of folks that have been affected by the v.a. in my office. we have set down over co

day said we'll say it contributed. you're not willing to say it contributed, is that right?>> no, that's not right. i think what the report says is it may have contributed -- >> so you have confidence in the ig by not being able to answer that very simple question. did it contribute to the deaths of veterans, yes or no? >> it could have. >> that's your answer and i note dr. day disagrees with you. >> i don't think he disagreed. >> he answered it very differently. i'm going to conclude with this. in law there's the notion of res ip sew looker to. the facts speak for themselves. we know people were on the waiting list. we know they died as a result of conditions for which they were awaiting treatment. and we know that your office has made criminal referrals related to that. and so i appreciate, dr. day, you at least willing to say wait list contributed to the deaths of veterans. because that is not the story that has come out as a result of the ig report. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> thank you very much. mr. schweikert. >> thank you for letting me sit in on this c

would you be willing to say the weightless contributed to deaths ? the first 28 -- >> would you be willing to say the willis contributed to the deaths? >> yes. >> you would? >> in fact from the title of the first 28 cases were cases where we thought that patients are harmed because of the waitlist. >> did it contribute to their deaths connected the waitlist contribute to the deaths of a trust? >> yes. no problem with that. the issue is caused. >> of course. >> a direct relationship the difficulty is here. you have no ability to determine the cause of death. at the very beginning, what is the point of the setting. if you're not able to make a determination, then the analysis to suggest that it cannot draw a causation creates a great question that actually undermines most of what is an airport whereas if you say it contributed to that should be the headline. we talked a lot about that. there were 40 deaths. we can play with semantics all we want. it was a novelist that the wait list contributed to the deaths of veterans. that is an accurate statement c

. ♪ >>> penned by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you.hank you. ♪ >>> every week, a columnist for "the new york times." nicholas kristof delves deeply into the issue of our day, reporting on poverty, equality, conflict zones and of course the rights of women and children both in this country and abroad. a new work about to be published "a path appears" co-written with his wife, sheryl wudunn. good to have you on this program. >> good to be on. >> i want to jump into this in a second after i ask what you expect i'll ask about. recently you did a couple columns that got the attention of the nation. your columns tend to do that. these two were about what happens when white folk just don't get it. about racial issues in this country. why did you decide to write that? and tell me more, then, about the response you received. >> well, i mean, i'm enormously concerned with opportunity gaps in this country, and i think that there are an awful lot of people in this country who just don't want to talk about anything involving race, and who don't wan

not just contributions but expenditures.they could not spend their own money and support of a candidate. the underlying rationale for the three-judge district court decision written by judge kavanaugh of the district of columbia court of appeals basically was there was a justified interest in the government running the election, having the election -- control of the elections and not have outsiders come in and tell americans and that the canadians cannot spend their money. it's precisely the same rationale that would support michigan's decision that we wouldn't let citizens from indiana or wisconsin spend unlimited sums of money trying to influence our elections. >> host: how would you state the constitutional dimensions of that principle? do you states have an interest in preserving the integrity of their own elections? >> guest: there is a powerful state interest in having fair elections and it's an interest that can trump the first amendment right in certain situations. and the court in its views on this issue have treate

we're projecting to contribute to higher use. but also impacting not just 2014 but also 2015 growth is the new hepatitis c treatments that have impacted 2014 and 2015 growth in drug spending. so the final time period that i will discuss is the eight years of projection period 2016 to 20e 23. for medicare we are expecting afrnl growth of 27.3%. so the first factor here is continued -- about 3%. but we're expecting faster growth of 4.3%, which is which would be higher than what has been experienced in the recent past. and this is as a result of modest increases in use and in payment rates. not getting as high as it has been in the recent past, but coming off the low of the past few years. for medicare, we're expecting 6.8% average annual growth during this period and here enrollment is projected to stabilize. however, the growth is projected to be driven by high enrollment of the subpopulation of aging and disabled medicare beneficiaries, which are the most expensive to cover in that population. finally in this slide, private healt

to make that solid and significant contribution and i did not know if i could or not.ou don't know how you will get along. you don't know when you start the case is that will come up to the court that my hope is like to do well enough nobody would be unhappy they had no woman on the court. that was very important and it would make us valuable lasting contribution. >> host: i will test your memory a little bit. conservative supreme court chief justice 1888 is not a name that comes readily. >> but he is not particularly remembered for a significant case. but he was not there at a time to sign on to an incredibly important conceptual case said he is not remembered. >> lied to reno taney so well? >> if you remember all the things that he worked on. >> and their relationship with president lincoln? >> not the best spinach is important for the president and chief justice to get along? >> in basic ways. i think certainly you would want to be in a good relationship with the man who will fill that vacancy. because you may ask in opinion. what you think about someone so? it is s

this is your contribution. if we had to list all of our contributions, it would look like the phone book. >> i get it. >> it would look like the phone book. >> i get it. >> you think you contribute as much as me, and you don't. >> i've tried. >> that's just crap. >> words are hollow. >> but i've--guys-- >> crap. >> you've talked, dane, but we need doing. we execute. you have the option to execute, okay? >> you choose not to. >> i'm sorry you feel that way, 'cause, you know, i love the business. i love the product. i love you guys. >> that's your slippery, evasive crap. slippery, evasive crap. >> okay, okay. >> i don't want to talk to you anymore. >> okay. >> i think you're just full of it. you're just full of it. >> pete, come on back, bro. coming up... >> i have a large order. is this doable? >> i don't think that's possible. >> we have to find a way. we have to find a way. >> and later... >> i put my heart and soul into this business, just like you have. >> oh, my god, dane. i don't care how [bleep] hard it g