congratulations to building inspection donald duffy, praised for his response of helpful customer servicen early november. they failed to obtain a permit for a retaining wall issue and inspector duffy issued one. and housing inspector yee, inspector yee provided the proper permit and inspected the proper setting for the timer. nice job there. finally, nominate qualified staff for our employee of the quarter appreciation program. we are accepting nominations for quarter three, july, august and september and ask you again to send them to caroline jane and william strong to continue to recognize the work done each quarter. b.i.c. to take comments not part of the agenda. >> i have some material. thank you. you can begin. >> good morning. my name is jerry dratler. a construction project across my house is root cause of unpermitted construction work. i handed out a detailed explanation. i'll highlight six of the more important root causes. number one unpermitted demolition work carriers low financial penalties because of the value of the work. the work is labor only and no materials and it is v

and thank you to donald duffy of inspection service who is received a special compliments for his outstanding customer service and work with customer. another record management division honoree is joann wong who received a letter thanking her for helping obtain building plans for the home and provide thoughtful and prompt service and went the extra distance in helping me near closing time. kudos to director hugh and members of the dbi staff who hosted the state department delegation of 20 from china on december 7. the china communications construction group which were members of beijing and shanghai were particularly interested in the classifications and types of buildings in san francisco as well as dub dib's role in facilitating major construction projects and congratulations to dbi's mis staffer mark langon who recently produced a report on the turn around time lines to review issue permits covering the construction of single father and mother lu homes, mixed used developments -- single family homes, and kitchen remodels, part of a new survey being conducted by the building department of p

you think anyone next november will think donald trump tweeted something from london but the gdp is 4.2%. >> that was an example. >> laura: we have to get duffy in here. i want to get byron york. >> i don't think it matters what donald trump does. the media hates him and go after him. you are partially right, laura. i don't know if it's a fireside chat or not. he is great at rallies. get out there and talk directly to the american people. >> better for african-americans, latinos. >> what is his national urban agenda. he wants to take credit for black employment. >> some of the lowest rates in the african-american and hispanic community we've seen in decades. >> hold on a second. he talks to american people better than anybody else. he is doing a rally every month. do a rally every week. pass tax reform, grow the economy, put more money in people's pockets, accomplish the agenda and this guy and our party will -- >> laura: i love the view the voters want a calmer landscape. that's not easy because lots of incoming and he is -- he wants to smash back. when someone hits him he hits back and it has worked for him usually. in the long run it has u

sean duffy joins us live now. >> these are the same people when donald trump was elected saying the stockn and economy will crash. they are wrong. when they want to compare it to obamacare, that was a government takeover of healthcare. they promised that your premiums in healthcare would go down and you could keep your doctor. those things didn't come to pass. your premiums went up and you weren't able to keep your doctor. tax reform is far more simple. what we're saying is american families and american business get to keep more of their own money. we know they spend their money better than government and we know when we let people spend their money, invest their money, be creative with their money, our economy grows and we know when we have government spend people's money it shrinks. this is common sense stuff. we're staking our future that americans will be happy with it. >> sandra: what do you say to democrats -- the democrats are pointing to the revision process alone and the flaws there that resulted in the bill -- the revised bill having to go back to have another vote in the house