deei am josephine. i represent district four on the san francisco youth commission and serve as vice chair. in addition, i am a junior at lowell high school. we are a group of 17 youth representing the diverse needs of the city chartered by the voters to advise the board of supervisors on youth related policies like this ordinance. i am writing to share the youth commission support for closure of juvenile hall and give a youth perspective on this issue. the san francisco juvenile hall is inappropriately referred to as youth guidance center. the commission has advocated to expand alternatives to incarsservation through legislation and priority publication. the juvenile hall costs $270,000 to keep a youth for one year. our city's budget would be better used for investment in alternatives for incarceration like community-based restorative practices. we advocated in our recent budget priorities resolution. through tease youth would -- these youth would rehabilitate and grow in a safe space unlike the curren

and second republicans in washington seem to be deey reluctant to embrace the anti-abortion measure passedmber of states, particularly the one in alabama. senator cotton is the author of a new book about my favorite place to go here in washington, "a sacred duty." welcome back to "meet the press," sir. >> thanks for having me on, chuck. >> i want to talk about it a little bit at the end. but let me start with the abortion debate because you took your constitutional law. you went to harvardlaw. the question really is when do you believe a fetus has constitutional rights? >> chuck, like a lot of folks here in arkansas, i'm pro life. i think a basic responsibility of government in a civilized t society is protect innocent life. i know that that's a passionate question on both sides, one of the problems of having unelected judges in washington make that for us as a nation is that you can't have space for democratic debate where you can reach consensus to find a common ground. i think that's unfortunate. but i think what i'm most proud of here in arkansas is we have recognized the frontiers of