but serving on the state department policy planning staff twice and as the deputy under dennis ross. and as you know, there's been a distinguished group of people who have served as head of the state department policy planning staff, george cannon, sam lewis, winston lord, robert, dennis ross, people who have a passion for public service. let's begin with the questions. and international that was a wonderful overview. maybe this question is too specific and not general enough. but you began by saying, you know, how do we get to be denmark? and there's now open -- a big -- a divide opening between england and us. and your -- their vision of the state involves a lot more state responsibility to take care of retirement, to organize health, and we seem to be going in exactly the other direction. is theringe something in your theory that speaks to that? >> you got to wait for volume ii for that one. no, it's a good question. it is a volume ii kind of issue. but, you know, i -- most of what i know about the subject, i learned from seymour martin the great sociologist and political scientis

dennis ross, whom you know, rks with us on my staff, has for many years, he worked on the first stratic dialogue between the united states and israel in the early '80s in the reagan administration and his observation is it was as close today and deeper than it's ever been. >> rose: on the security level. >> on security. bob gates, my colleague who's now left to go smoke a cigar and write a couple of books, wre, out in the west. but he who was a wonderful colleague for us in the administration, he will tell you that in terms of our support for them on security he doesn't think it's ever been stronger. and that really is a fundamental shared interest that we have. >> rose: but you know on the perception on the relationship because of the settlements issue early on in your administration caused a lot of controversy. >> yeah. >> and there are those who say today unless there's some peace process in september, there will be a vote in the united nations for palestinian statehood. the only thing stopped that would be some kind of relationship... the beginning of negotiations in a satisfactory

i remember when ross mirkarimi were trying to do with, dennis, myself, we were all at the table. i think, supervisor avalos, -- i thank you, but more important that, you would not do this to the nurses or the hotel workers were the teachers, and you should not be doing it to the corridors and laborers, the good men and women that we represent with the parks department. it is not right to make it happen this way. i think you need somebody who can bring everybody together, check it all out, and then we all win. supervisor avalos: next speaker, please? >> good afternoon. i am really glad that we had this meeting today because i was interested in hearing the intent of what is written here. i read this a lot of times, and i am not a lawyer, but i am a native english speaker, and i don't think that what is written here matches up with your intent. the process by which we have got this language to was has not been looked at enough. it squeezes every possible outcome out of what it may be, and about the process by which this is going to get on the ballot. that has a lot of possible appli