with me are the political commentator, lance price, who was director of communications for the labour, giles kenningham, who was director of communications for the conservative party. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in and you guessed it — the brexit deal dominates the front pages. the telegraph's headline quotes theresa may — as she acknowledges the enormous task of getting parliament to back the deal. the paper says three ministers are considering resigning. the guardian focuses on the deep divisions on brexit among politicians as well as across the nation. ferocious brexit battle is how the financial times describes the cabinet meeting which led to ministers backing the deal. it says she is now facing a severe political backlash from conservative eurosceptic mps. the i highlights the divisions within cabinet, saying they were split on whether to support the brexit deal. the express headlines the stark choice it says ministers faced after the five hour meeting — back this deal orface having no brexit. the metro has a message for conservative mps — back may or sack may. it

i mean, the strategy is very clear, of her new director of communications, ex—bbc man, ithink directorications, ex—bbc man, i think there is a two—week pr blitz coming up, as the paper reminds us, and this letter is part of it. one of the things i find most interesting in the letter, where there is a lot, most of it is taken up... this is the letter that has just been released that the pm is seen writing on the front of the sunday express. and i think the last... i would sunday express. and i think the last... iwould pick sunday express. and i think the last... i would pick up on when theresa may says am in brussels with the firm intention of agreeing a brexit deal with the leaders of the other 27 eu nations, one that works for our whole country, and all of oui’ for our whole country, and all of our people, whether you voted leave remain, that is a problem, that she is trying to satisfy both leave and remainers. at the very end, we will then begin on the 29th of march 2019 new chapter in our national life, i wa nt new chapter in our national life, i want that to be a moment of renewal

with me are the political commentator, lance price, who was director of communications for the labourcal commentator, giles kenningham, who was director of communications for the conservative party. welcome back. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in, and you guessed it, the brexit deal dominates the front pages. the telegraph's headline quotes theresa may, as she acknowledges the enormous task of getting parliament to back the deal. the paper says three ministers are considering resigning. the guardian focuses on the deep divisions on brexit among politicians, as well as across the nation. "ferocious brexit battle" is how the financial times describes the cabinet meeting, which led to ministers backing the deal. it says she is now facing a severe political backlash from conservative eurosceptic mps. the times says the prime minister is papering over the cracks saying she has forced her draft deal through a divided cabinet. the sun has a rather blunt take on the night's developments. it says the deal threatens to blow her government apart. the express headlines the stark choic

the new director of communications has something to do with this.n she called with this. the election she called with the result that we know was run ina with the result that we know was run in a presidential style. here she seems to be, last saturday, she gave an interview where she cancelled her gym session after the very good ldc interview answering a lot of callers and handling it rather well, even though she is embattled from both sides and quite extraordinarily, she gave a lot of details about what a rock her husband is. and how they have beans on toast and she opened the chin and put the washing on. it worked, though, because remember it. when you are under attack like that, you need someone, whether it's your husband or partner, someone you can really let your hair down with. and comfort food, and/or two. let's look at the sunday times and the sunday telegraph has this story. these are remain as you are suggesting, within the cabinet, not the same gang of five who are threatening to resign if they didn't get another look at the deal, they ar

you have both been directors of communications for opposing parties, have you known cabinet meetings to last as long as this, five hours?” haven't, no. ifind it amazing last as long as this, five hours?” haven't, no. i find it amazing that how things leak out so quickly. i would probably be briefing stuff at the head of the cabinet finishing because early on in the day, there isa because early on in the day, there is a huge mistake for a media management point of view because other people will frame the agenda and subsequently they will, make the statement so obviously it was a difficult encounter in there. usually cabinet meetings to go on anything like this long because by ministers like to have them pretty well fixed before they start. back in the ladies when i sat in on cabinet meetings —— tony blair days. didn't last so long that, the prime minister preferred debate to be done elsewhere. but when there is a difficult position like this is the only option the prime minister has is to allow everyone to have their say so nobody can come out and say we did not have the opportunity.

with me now is the calfresh outreach associate of the alameda county community food bank, crystina esparza, and michael altfest. he is the directorf community engagement and marketing. welcome to the show. both: thank you. robert: michael, give us sort of an overview in terms of--for what the organization does and sort of what its goals are. michael altfest: sure, alameda county community food bank is the hub of hunger relief for alameda county. we're serving one in five county residents that's primarily through food distribution that goes through 200 or so partner organizations like food pantries and soup kitchens, but we do a lot more than that. we've got a very bold vision that we're working through which involves calfresh outreach, which is the common name for food stands, advocacy work, nutrition, educational; a whole host of work that we're doing to really improve the lives of the people that we serve. robert: that's right, and of course, anybody familiar with the bay area knows alameda county is very diverse. you have a lot of different kinds of communities and people to kind of serve. how's the demand? getting bigger? mic

community stakeholders and they're well underway for completed an early renewal process and we believe that north of market tenderloin will lin. >> my name is simon bertrand. i'm the executive director of north of market tenderloin community district. i've been so for five months. here to report on the fy16-17 annual report. repeating some information. the tenderloin was founded in 2005. it covers 30 blocks in the tenderloin between mayson and larkin of farrell and market. the year 16-17 was really a year of capacity-building and adding programs. you've marched it was the under the stewardship of a consulting firm and they focus on building the administrative stability that the c.b.d. needed in order to build its capacity to run its programs. they supported initiatives in strategic planning, worked with the board, substantial fundraising programs, again the new interim leadership provided by steve gibson and the initiation of several new neighborhood improvement projects. the fundraising campaign produced 561,000 additional dollars, non assessment sources. over 40% of the budget was from non assessment sources and that led us, it allowed us to implement the security camera project w

of our update is on outreach and communications. for this portion of the update i will turn things over to tyler gamble. the acting director of communications and i will rejoin for the regulatory update. >> thank you. >> thank you. good morning, commissioners. i will go through a presentation first. i will reintroduce myself. i am tyler gamble. and the acting communications director. i have been here about a year and a half almost. i started out as deputy communication director for power so is very focused on putting together the bones and implementation of the enrolment strategy for the summer. i was here back in may telling you about the plan that we had and i promised to come back and talk about the results. here i am. first, i wanted to reintroduce what the team looks like so you all get a handle on what we are doing on a day-to-day basis and how mate staff and resources that we have. we have a communications team at the p.u.c. dedicated to the power vertical specifically and to talk about public outreach for our clean energy programs. our team handles earned media, owned media, paid media, engaging with partners and t

the kind dreamed up by san jose earthquakes director of community relations marissa silver. >> we're a soccer team. we can give back with health and wellness, but what's the most simple thing we're here with every day is a soccer ball. >> reporter: so she gave one soccer ball to every member of the quakes organization and let them choose who to give it to. but not just any soccer ball. the virtually indestructible kind created by berkeley-based one world play project. the ball specifically designed for those constantly replacing punctured or torn balls is not practical or is too pricey. >> i thought it would be really special just who they chose and why and be able to noty ended u how they came to choose that beneficiary. >> reporter: some of the balls have gone as far away as mozambique and south africa. others to every teacher at a san francisco elementary school and one to a homeless shelter in san jose. that was the choice of earthquake youth academy players. >> it's just like giving someone an opportunity to be like -- be a kid. >> in all, some 400 soccer balls are making their

jonathan charles, director of communications, european bank for reconstruction and developmentjoins us do. not in italy but in many countries. brussels had questioned its budget and now this will require more money. italy is prone to flooding, especially in the north. italy abbas budget is definitely under pressure and now the italian government is really at loggerheads with brussels because it wa nts to loggerheads with brussels because it wants to spend more. it wants to borrow money, spend more on what brussels as saying, as we know, that is at odds with membership of the single currency and it would be too much. italy has huge accumulated debt. the deputy prime minister is saying it we think what we're doing is right by the way, the rest of europe should do the same. but a country hosted cleanup and rebuild. you have to remember, this is an economy which has had ten years of lack of growth. many young people have left the country to look for jobs elsewhere. huge criticism in italy about the lack of investment in infrastructure. the collapse of the bridge and other events...” have b

well, a little earlier, i spoke to the former director of communications under tony blair, alastair campbells life. jeremy was not somebody who was terribly status conscious. i think he was unflappable, actually. i don't think i ever saneremy lose his cool or feel that any situation was not one where he could make a difference. and i think that some people find it strange that you can move effortlessly from government in one colour to another, but i think if you look at it... tony blair, gordon brown, david cameron, theresa may, very different personalities. butjeremy made himself indispensable to all of them because of who he was. it's striking, as you say, that there have been tributes paid right across the political spectrum. what was it about his character that enabled him to apparently work so comfortably with all of these different... ? the best of the civil servants, that's what they do. but i think he did have something very special. he was incredibly straight. i heard him earlier described as a modern—day sir humphrey. i don't think there's anybody less like sir humphrey then jeremy

killing those who fight for democracy all joining us now is johann a small skin who's the director of communications at the right livelihood award foundation is via skype from the award ceremony in stockholm thank you so much for being with us so why did your organization choose to honor these three saudi human rights defendants what is your message. well thank you so much for having me. well first of all what's special about our award is that anyone in the world can nominate candidates and we received a very interesting nomination. around these three prominent gay rights activists defenders in saudi arabia and we of course want to send a message that it's high time for saudi arabia. to choose a different path which is respect in reforms and human rights you were going to zation is appealing for their release but don't you worry that process sentences could be handed down to the recipients of this award. well you know it's difficult not to be worth it when you see what's happening both inside salary of the r. and outside. this is so on everyone's lips these days or the horrible killing of subtlety f

of our community benefit districts. we have the vast majority in our district. i do want to thank our executive directors and your teams many of it is a really tough and difficult job. i think it is only become more challenging over the last two years and so, i do want to just thank your on the ground workers because it's one of the toughest jobs in our city and they really are working to make you're district cleaner and safer and so thank you for all of the work that you are doing to partner with our city agencies. can we take a motion to move these items forward with recommendation to the full board without objection. >> thank you. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 11. >> clerk: number 11 resolution of improving agreement for the non-profit owners association for administration of management of the established property-based community benefit district known as the discover polk community benefit district. >> i want like to thank the community for getting the discover polk c.b.d. up to this point and on july 24th, 2018 the board of supervisors approved the resolution establishing the discover p

my name is nancy chan, and i'm the director of communications for san francisco zoo and gardens, and i will start with our little report -- here we go. veterans day, we honored veteran's over the veterans day holiday by providing free admission to military members, veteran's, and their families. next, we have our -- we introduced just recently a new six-minute video and sound installation created by the acclaimed san francisco artist, henry jackson, who also created a successful film about the polite of wild elephants called red ivory. this is called madagascar, island in peril. it faces an uncertain future due to its deforestation and slash and burn agriculture. this video is visually moving and transform ative. it plays in our -- in the theater in our primate center. next, the next phase of our grade 8 passage opens next week. we're calling it old places transforming in new spaces. visitors will be able to see the chimps in their new indoor day room which has new climbing structures and platforms. as an aside, the climbing structures are made of reclaimed douglas fir lodge which we

to talk more about this, adrienne elrod joins us now, she is the former director of communication ofwere trying to work out whether this had been a success for the democrats, was it a blue wave or blue trickle? it was somewhere in the middle, i would say. earlier in the evening things came in slowly and i in particular thought newjersey particular thought new jersey and pennsylvania would come in faster than they did and they did not do as the night went on we started seeing lots of big winds for democrats and women lead the charge, which is very exciting, 23 women foot seats from red to blue which is very exciting, no over 100 and women serving in the us congress so still not as far as we need to be but we're getting there. florida back and play. what is it about florida, every single time. folder that is basically three different states, the panhandle is very very conservative, the central pa rt very very conservative, the central part which tends to be pretty progressive and the middle which is an amalgamation of a bunch of different voters. it isjust an amalgamation of a bunch of

of someone who has been leading in community. and i've had opportunity not just in the past eight years as the executive director of community developerso work and develop these projects and bring them into community and make sure that things happen the way they're planned. when we talk about the projects in hope sf and hunter's view and west point and sunnydale, these are going to be new buildings in communities that have existed for a long time. so we'll have families that finally have an opportunity that have been living in roach-invested houses. who have been living in communities where they need to be cleaned up. i have lived there, so i understand that. so now that we have the opportunity for the new housing coming in, we know we will have 100% affordable, low income and market. so when we're talking about inclusionary housing and bringing communities together, the first thing we need to do is make sure that everyone has the same amenities in our new houses. when you bring, when you redevelop hunter's view, we need to make sure that they have the same open-space opportunities. that they have the same community rooms, so they can

joining me now, i want to bring in cnn national security analyst shaun turner, a former director of communication for u.s. national intelligence. all right, what is your reaction to this phone call that the president had with u.s. military, greeting them initially and then sort of turning it into a political event? >> yeah, thanks for having me. first, i think it's important to point out that i give the president credit for making the phone call. it's the right thing to do. he needed to call troops. he needed to thank them on thanksgiving day. like is so often the case, when the president goes off script, oftentimes he goes off script in ways that are particular harmful, particularly unfortunate. i think that's what happened in this case. you have service members who are serving overseas. on thanksgiving day. they are in harm's way. and the one thing that the president should not do is he should not seek to bring politics to that. that's not where they should be focused, not what their mind should be on. i served 21 years in the marine corps. i can honestly say that having been on the receiving e

omarosa manigault newman, of course the former director of communications for the office of public liaison at the white house. always good to see you. thanks for being with me. the name that keeps coming up, this nick ayers as a replacement for general kelly, nick ayers, vice president, pence's chief of staff. you've got a history with both men here. what's your sense about what's going on in the white house right now? >> i think that nick has been gunning for the chief of staff job for a long time, but you have to also realize there's another name that's mick mulvaney. he also is still in the running. everyone's saying nick because nick is putting that out probably through his camp. don't forget that mick mulvaney also was a name thrown around often for this position. so yes, nick wants it because he's incredibly ambitious and has always cozied up to the president. i remember being in some meetings with him, and he would always try to say the right thing to kind of impress the president. doesn't forget about mick mulvaney. >> is he a sycophant? >> yes and no. he plays two different roles

applause] i would also like to introduce the cohost one of the advisors the white house director of communications under president obama from 2009 to 2013. the senior adviser to the president from 2013 to 2015 is the author of yes we still can politics in the age of obama for her and trump. [applause] and finally the host of free speech tv, former cohost of msnbc and cnn crossfire. the author of several books including the obama machine and s trump must go to top reasons o want to keep in. let's welcome bill frist. [applause] i will give a few opening comments about my book and then we will take questions. we are on an agreement of some of the things happening around the country. my book i started at the end of the presidency and president obama like everybody else is trying to t make sense of what happened then we were driving at the conclusion and he turns to me andnd he says wha that if wee wrong. i didn't know what he meant. i hav had been wrong about a lof things. he said what if we pushed too far. what if i was 15 to 20 years too early and they realized it was a much more profoundiz question

also with us adrien elrod, strategic director of communications for hillary clinton's 2016 campaign.n outstanding probably a better panel than i deserve at 4:00 in the morning. thank you all for being here. john, you brought some dry-cleaning with you. >> did. >> you've taken some notes on it. >> did some research. >> that's a dry-cleaning cardboard. >> it's from marsha blackburn's statement. >> let's start in tennessee, the state where you live. surprised by the result and how quickly it was called? >> surprised by the margin. >> yeah. >> tennessee has a tradition, a complicated state. so it's 4:05. let's talk about 1860. so we were a state that was the last to secede, the last to get back in, very divided historically, therefore a complicated state. so statewide has often sent people like howard baker or the gores or jim sasser, people who are not an extreme side of one or the other. senator blackburn, whether you agree or disagree with her, is very much a fox news conservative, comes straight from that tradition, and we've sent more moderate folks in the past. and now in the cultu

the kind dreamed up by san jose earthquakes' director of community relations, marissa silver. >> we're a soccer team. we can give back with health and wellness. but what's the most simple thing we're here with every day is a soccer ball. >> reporter: so marissa gave one soccer ball to every member of the quakes organization from ceo to youth players, and let them choose who to give it to. but not just any soccer ball. the virtually indestructible kind created by berkeley-based one world play project. the ball specifically designed for those who are constantly replacing punctured or torn balls is too pricey. >> i thought it would be special to be just who they chose and why and not only follow where the soccer balls ended up but how they chose the benefit fish. >> reporter: some of the balls have gone as far away as mozambique and south africa. others to every teacher at a san francisco elementary school. >> oh, good shot! >> reporter: and one to a homeless shelter in san jose. that was the choice of earthquake youth academy players joaquin and justin collins. >> they could have fun wit

my name is yolanda menzoni, i'm the director of community management and social responsibility at the public utilities commission, and i'm delighted to be here to explain how we at the p.u.c. operationalize these concepts around being good neighbors and environmental justice. so as general manager kelly mentioned, we have two landmark policies, our environmental justice policy, and our community benefits policy, and those two policies together enabled us to create what we call our "community benefits program," and that is a program that's agencywide that's across water, power, sewer, and it is organized into six discreet program areas. i'm going to go speak specifically to a deeper dive on our social impact partnerships, or how we embed community benefits into our contracts, because i understand that to be of most interest for the commission today, but before i get to that, i'll give you a quick overview of the various program areas for a little bit of context. so our first program area is education, and it's quite simple. we're growing the next generation of environmental stewards, w

and greg beales who is the director of communications, policy and campaigns at the homelessness charityno. flintons said you are made aware ?we no. flintons said you are made aware ? we were not aware at all. we would not have paid. it does not make sense. have people come to you about flintons? we have been inundated by complaints from people who feel they have been let down by letting agents and flintons figure very prominently amongst the people who have come to see us. amongst the people who have come to see us. so many messages about this. this is from all over the country, an this is from all over the country, c this is from all over the country, an agency in my town because they are 200 quite upfront as an end administration fee that's how we get round it, and you don't get it back, thanks for covering this. a letting agency in london took £450 from me before viewing a property and never returned it. i cried my eyes out but they said i had failed the reference so the money was gone just like that. i had to stay another six months at my friends before i could save up for another p

lance price is a former labour director of communications, whojoins me now from skipton in yorkshire. now it is in her interest to do so. participants want to make sure the format is one which suits them best and there will be wrangling over this and there may be wrangling because one side or the other is not wanting to go ahead with it at all and they are looking for an excuse to pull out but at the moment it looks as if they are keen to go ahead so we will have to wait and see what happens. is it a risk for the broadcasters? it is a huge risk and i‘m surprised they are so enthusiastic about it, because we could end up with a lot of households up and down the country, i‘m a viewer, get me out of it, and i don‘t think it will be a popular piece of tv. 0r i don‘t think it will be a popular piece of tv. or a particular use for one in the debate over brexit. piece of tv. or a particular use for one in the debate over brexitm has most to lose? jeremy corbyn has the most to lose. theresa may has a clear policy and some people would say thatjeremy corbyn doesn‘t and he doesn‘t have a worked

i hope through hope church, in the back of us here, and also tabernacle community development organization, i am on the board of directors of that particular program. what is so exciting, all those times, all those years at the planning commission, at the board of supervisors, and talking in our community meetings, one of the greatest excitement that one can have to see their dreams realized -- somebody said what a tragedy assist not to continue your dream, but the greatest tragedy is not to have any dreams, not to have any hope at all. so about 50 years ago, 50 years ago when i came to bayview-hunters point, when i came to this particular area, i saw land space and all those -- and i had a dream, to do why we're here today. and today, that dream is released. anybody here know what i'm talking about? come on, given great hand praise. [applause] >> i'm going to do the invocation, but before i do, i'd like for any grand kids just to stand, wherever you are, just to stand. i also have great grand kids, about six of them in this complex. and my lovely wife, she didn't walk down here, she rode down here on her scooter. would

grassroots economics, the first ever digital currencies to fight poverty in kenya. , bancorp as director of communityet's break down what we are really talking about here. basically if i'm an entrepreneur in kenya and i want to sell my vegetables you're giving me the currency to do that. break down what you're doing. communities telling and entrepreneurs they are able to use their own production as the basis for creating a currency or token and put those currencies on entire market across the nation. for the first time in the block chain itself we had the ability to connect tokens together and back them by local production. alix: part of that in the beginning it was localized. you might have local block chain technology but that would not be able to trade with the community over here. how fast can this grow? we are into the third generation of block chain technology. the size of this is pretty much unlimited. these networks are just about as visa is today. we are really building emergent economies out of the ability for local producers, local farmers, to create their own credit. alix: marina, you rea

last year in response community and state leaders gathered to come up with ways to reverse the trend. one of those involvedth in talks is jeff dannick. he is the executive director of the jewish community center. he says the synague massacre in pittsburgh is a warning for everyone. >> the fac that pittsburgh happened a week later makes us feel like spray paint is the tip of the iceberg and that anything ise possi now. >> also at the table virginia ritorney general mark herng is working to strengthen laws against hate crimes in virginia. >>> it's 4:04. now to a story that has 'skins fans talking. a repeat domestic violence suspect is set to join the roster. his most recent arrest was saturday. news broke yesterday that the 'skins hadui ared him. reports came outol thate were called last month for another incident between foster and the same woman. 'skins fans have mixed reactions e this team addition. >> if you h history of battery or violent behavior, you should not be involved withny sort of organization because you pose a risk to that organization and their fellow employees. >> got a lot of alabama players on the roster that might be able to corral him and uti

of rallies today. member slides schlapp the communications director will join us very shortly. e only have 100 hours basically, four more days before we talk to mercedes, give you more headlines today, additional headlines here is jillian. jillian: maxine waters is vowing political pay back after the midterms. >> i will be the first african-american, the first woman to chair the powerful, emergency services committee. that's all of wall street. that's all the insurance companies. that's all the banks. what i'm going to do to you is fair. i'm going to do to you what you did to us. jillian: the california democrat previewing what's in store if her party regains control of the house. the results of a study about cell phone radiation is causing a major clash. the national toxicology program finding claude clear evidence to high exposure to cell phone radiation and cancerous tumors in rats. the fda saying they high levels of radio frequency than cell phone admits. they agree the findings do not agree to people. actress h heather lock ler getting sue you had after attacking a emt. kic

let's bring in adrian elrod, former director of strategic communications for hillary clinton's campaignson, the author of "everything trump touches dies" rena shah, a republican strategist as well, and jonathan at, kolter, column for the daily beast. as a republican, do you think the media is creating violence? >> of course i don't. i look at all of us and i think all of us are at fault. we are a country that is divided and we've allowed our leaders to divide us so for the people in the grocery store and see their neighbor who voted for trump, for the person dreading thanksgiving because they'll see their neighbor, a relative who voted for hillary and don't want to be near them, we are contributing when we don't want to hear the other side. we have a man that goes out and incites violence in the way he does and he's out president. so i don't blame the media. >> >> what do you think is motivating the president to blame the media? >> he's a demagogue. we saw a few minutes ago, those of you who have been watching for the last 20 minutes or so, where he's saying beat the crap out of them. h