of humanitarian assistance to the places that need it, including a places like mckelly and a far david chin is a former us ambassador to ethiopia. he says, revoking that trade agreement with him, he'll pay a, we'll have big implications for its economy. a very significant decision by the united states. it is important to understand that it hasn't happened yet. in other words, as of july, there's a january 1 day at which it may become effective if there is no movement towards he's in ethiopia. and yet that happens. i think he is. ready likely to lose about a quarter of a $1000000000.00 and potential exports to the united states. so that's a lot or come through like the p o p. and the reason now for this session is the situation is getting worse on the ground. what is driving us concern at this point? the magic area prices as clearly worse and worse and t gray region. it's now expanded into part of our region. the small part of our region was getting out of control and it absolutely has to be brought to a hall. are you going to have the death of many civilians, ethiopia, several countries alo

let's continue this conversation with david chin and washington d. c. professor at george washington. university and previously us ambassador to both ethiopia and mccain, and foster and bass. the thank you for your time. i actually spoke to another former ambassador earlier this week, vicki huddleston. and the 1st thing she said in our interview was that no one could . and this was on the 1st day of fancy blankenship no one could deny that the united states doesn't care about africa and that africa isn't on the u. s. right now do you agree with that? why agree with. ready it, i think that clearly the binding ministration is making a great effort to get africa back on the agenda and this trip. my secretary, lincoln is an indicator of that is the thing that are in some of the more acute problems in africa right now. the most, you're referring to what we thing in ethiopia, but not the countries as well. is us intervention. what's needed on i'm using that word very loosely intervention, but, but what, what can the us do? and that's what is that what is w

david chin is a former us ambassador to ethiopia and keno fast. so he says people in sit on a still facing uncertainty and they're struggling to trust their leaders poorly. it was the best option for the military. and for the general's impact, it may have been the only realistic option. well, since the protests were going very much against them, remains to be seen. whether this is going to be the best option for the people in the straight for the civilian elements. i'm sure the society could be a useful 1st step, but it is nothing more than that. it's only a 1st step. and it's a question of where does this go from here? are there generals really serious about you have enough power or at least some power over time? and if so, one cannot rule out the possibility of my worth. but if they're not willing to give us any power, this is not going to work. in effect, the queue all ready took place. so what we have now is sort of picking up the pieces after the 2. and clearly the journals are trying to make the best of a difficult situation for themselves.

is it your sense, david chin that these comments from mr. deck low, make the situation on the ground, less combustible. i mean, he clearly wants it to be less combustible, but from what you're saying, that doesn't necessarily follow. now, it doesn't necessarily follow, it could follow. but it all depends upon the sincerity of the generals and their willingness truly, to eventually turn power over $2000000.00 government. and if they're willing to do that guy, there could be a good outcome to all of this. but if this is nothing more than a ruse, in order to keep particularly the international community quiet or sort of out of their hair for the time being, and then it's not going to solve anything. david should good to talk to you. thank you very much and you can watch the full interview with general dec low on our program. talked to 0 that since 730 gmc friday morning. and then after that 1st transmission via the website al jazeera dot com, thousands. the sudanese have been back out on the streets, renewing their demand for a full civilian government. the security forces create some of

david. make one prediction about hand chin based on prior -- manchin based on prior experience in the past, you up on that. >> bitcoin, there's a technical factor here which has a lot of people thinking bitcoin can hit 100,000 by the end of the year. the factor is somewhere between 85-90% of bitcoin is still being held by long-term investors, okay? that's good. it's being held, it's not being traded. people are storing it as a value potentially against inflation. which, as you know, is starting to become more than transitory. another thing on top of that is that you had a bunch of institutions, apparently, plowing into bitcoin, particularly after the etf sale, and they think there could be more etfs this bitcoin. this is essentially a futures etf, it's priced off the future -- as the futures trading bitcoin. youagain, you could have further developments in etfs where it's directly invested in bitcoin, normalizing the cryptocurrency. there's a bet there too. the one thing i would say, david, in terms of this whole bitcoin party which may stop the 100k bitcoin movement is that if the fed ever

chin was willing to withdraw her review but we never heard back from her. this slide illustrates what david was pointing out. they are asking for a nine foot set back on the upper level, which we feel is a little extreme and wouldn't allow the floor plan to be feasible. or the three foot set back on all three levels which would be ownerous. we ask that you approve the project as proposed. thank you. >> thank you. that concludes project sponsor's presentation. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission by pressing star 3 to be added to the queue. seeing no members, public comment is closed. you have one minute rebuttal. >> i want to point out, i'm in my 60s, in a few years with a bad hip and bad knee, i would be moving down stairs. i would no longer be able to climb the stairs, it is detrimental to our quality of life growing into our old age. i kindly seriously ask you to consider, this is very difficult for us. thank you. >> project sponsor, you have a one minute rebuttal. >> i just want to say, we do completely understand that with projects that we take on i