i see emily cohen in the chamber. i'm going to invite her to come up and speak about the rebalancing plan. yeah, you were talking emily, so i thought i'd bring you on up. supervisor fewer is talking about need-based subsidies for families. it's not exactly in the spending plan, and the reason why it's not, is because i was under the impression that the rebalancing plan was taking care of them, so could you come and talk to us about how it is taking care of it or if it isn't taken care of. >> emily cohen from the department of homelessness and supportive housing. the need-based subsidies for families was funded last year is funded -- the funding is carrying through this year, but it is not -- they funded it in an ongoing way through the rebalancing plan? we have the housing subsidy pool which is a little bit different, so it is not fully covered by the rebalancing plan. >> supervisor cohen: so what is the outstanding balance that's -- that is not covered by the balancing plan? >> i think it's the whole amount, if i'm c

i don't know if emily cohen is here -- oh, emily cohen is here. i'm going to give her an opportunity to speak on the rebalancing plan. >> thank you, supervisor cohen, supervisors. just want to thank the mayor's budget office, kelly and her team for the diligent to rebalance the budget after the failure of prop d. we're very excited about this spending plan, about this new budget, and the items that reply with it will bring approximately 300 units of new rapid rehousing, the navigation center, and we wanted to express our sincere thanks to this board and the mayor's budgeting office for working through this, and i'm hoppy to answer any questions -- happy to answer any questions you may have. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. and i'm happy to recognize kelly kirkpatrick and her team, and i want to recognize emily cohen and jeff kovitsky for their patience and flexibility. since there are no questions, i'd like to make a motion to accept the rebalancing plan in the h.s.h. and mohcd budgets. all right. seconded by supervisor sheehy, and i will take that

. >> supervisor tang: with that, we'll bring up emily cohen. >> thank you, supervisors. as supervisor kim said, this resolution before you will extend operations at the original 1950 mission street and civic center hotel. you all are quite familiar with what navigation centers are, so i won't go into much detail. the 1950 mission street navigation center opened in march, 2015. it launched our building other centers. it's been part of a solution to address street homelessness. the development on site has been delayed until at least fall of this year. we're proposing to extend our operations there until the end of september, which will allow the replacement site to open in time, so guests that remain at that navigation center can transition and so that we don't have an ongoing, vacant parcel at 1950 mission. civic center hotel is a 93-room former hotel being operated as navigation center. it will be developed into housing and the construction has been delayed and they don't anticipate beginning the construction on that site until the end of 2021, so we're proposing to cont

as we know, emily jane fox has direct contact with michael cohen.s michael cohen. let's listen to what she told rachel about how michael cohen is feeling. >> the president has done nothing in order to make michael cohen feel like he has michael cohen's back. and that has been a problem. you forget the president went on fox news and basicallyd i barely know the guy, he's a coffee boy, he did a small and rudy giuliani has gone on television repeatedly making this harder for michael cohen. and the reaction from michael cohen, from everything i know from my reporting, has been these guys don't have my back. now a man who is frustrated, isolg alone and feeling very, very angry at the trump family in general and at the president. >> angry at the trump family in general and the president. and he has information about the trump family and the president. >> and lawrence, i think what's going to happen, look, nothing lasts forever. i know people think things last forever, they don't. so what's going to happen is the narcissism of this president, his arrogance

arettempting to build a criminal case against cohen to push him to cooperate with the special counsel probe, a prospect they see as potentially dire. emily jane fox who has direct communication with michael cohen, inclu today, michael cohen has felt isolated by president trump and his inner circle in washington who has distanced themselves from him. earlier this year he was telling eric trump that he felt they were sloppy in the way they handled the stormy daniels agent. which ran keled cohen. it's ruining my children's lives. it's ruining my wife's life. than a pit in your stomach. don quixote didn't have a wife or kids, and he was never raided by the fbi. so maybe he mnt some other fictional don. "the washington post" is also reporting that michael cohen, quote, is feeling neglected by the president, his long-time patron for whom he has long essed his loyalty. here's what sam noneberg said about michael cohen. >> i worry about michael. michael cohen got screwed he got screwed the most i ever saw by anyone. by donald trump. >> special prosecutor robert mueller referred his findings about michael cohen to the u.s. attorney in the souther

emily jane fox is senior reporter at "vanity fair." she has been covering michael cohenm the very beginning as well as jared kushner and ivanka trump. she has a brand-new book called "born trump" which comes out next week. emily, thank you very much for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> i describe woolly reporting here because i feel like everybody wants an answer to the basic question of whether or not the president has reason to worry that his personal attorney is going to start talking to prosecutors in a way that's going to pose a danger to the president. and i feel like everybody is leaning from the few facts that we've got into a potential answer to that question. but am i right that we really don't know if michael cohen is going to cooperate >> i don't think that michael cohen is 100% sure if he is and i think that's the honest truth. and i think there are a number of people who want this to go one way and some people who want this to go the other way there are a lot steps that have to happen between where we are and what we learn today. and what we learn

let's get the update on michael cohen, emily. everyone keeps asking him if he's going to flip. d what's the timeline on this? >> well, michael cohen is in a place of leverage right now. he feels like he has not been protected by the president, by the president's family and be his inner circle in washington and this is a man who's been around for more than a decade and seen a lot of things and done a lot of things. he has not been supported. his legal situation is mounting and getting more and more serious so he's in a position where right now the case is changing from document review to what happens after that. there's no sense of timeline. he, according to people around him, has not yet sat down with the prosecutors, he's not yet made a final determination. in fact, he's switching attorneys come tomorrow and he does not yet have a new attorney so there are several steps that need to take place in order for whatever happens next to actually come to fruition but he's entering a whole new sphere of this legal drama. >> we've been in the middle of this will he/won't he cooperate ga

former longtime personal attorney michael cohen has hired a new lawyer to handle this ongoing criminal investigation into his business dealings in new york. emilyfox of "vanity fair" reports, quote, cohen, according to two people with knowledge of the situation, has now hired guy petrillo to represent him. petrillo, a new york attorney who works with clients in criminal and civil matters prosecuted by the government, served as the chief of the criminal division in the southern district of new york from 2008 to 2009. after news broke last week that cohen was planning to part ways with his original legal team, speculation grew that he might be willing to cooperate with the government. well, today harvard law professor alan dershowitz, who has become a pretty dependable trump defender in his recent media appearances, told business insider, guy petrillo is, quote, the kind of lawyer you would hire if he wanted to keep open the option of cooperation. this as "the wall street journal" reports michael cohen wants the president to foot his legal bill. quote, mr. cohen has frequently told associates in recent months he's frustrated that the president ha

cohen, i believe -- donald trump knows what was in his lawyer's office. he also particularly knows because the reality is, and this is part of the emily jane fox reporting, for this whole time, michael cohen's lawyers and donald trump's lawyers are working together. they are sharing information. the president's lawyers and the president know exactly what is there. in real time, not just on the basis of memory. but they know exactly what's there right now as the documents are being -- and the audio is being gone through and determinations are being made about what's privileged and what's not. they're learning that very little is privileged and an awful lot is not. and we know what -- not just where bodies are buried, but the kind of work michael cohen did for donald trump, for that decade all around the world and the ugliest parts of the world, doing the ugliest business deals imaginable, or trying to. the president is starting to -- he's been acting out for 16, 17 months. but right now, he knows the moment is nigh. and he's coming british columbia and realizing he might get through it, but it's going to be a very ugly summer. >> it does have a scoscorsese

emily jane fox of "vanity fair" reports font as cohen debates whether to cooperate with the feds, one person she spoke to wished to get a message out to cohen. that person said, quote, please let him know he could go down in history as the man that saved his country. i think his family would be so proud of him. on that note, let's bring in our leadoff panel, kimberly atkins, jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the associated press. and cynthia alksne, veteran of the civil rights division at the justice department. cynthia, i'd like to begin with you if that's okay, and that is this. the center, the center left, and the left woke up this morning after the fog of the news about justice kennedy leaving the court with the realization that this president will be selecting a judge, a man or a woman who will be seated on the court presumably in time to potentially adjudicate the president of the united states. what's your thinking about that? >> well, i think their first thought was this was -- this would probably be somebody who would help overturn roe v. wade and that abortion would

. >> supervisor cohen: next we will hear from the department on the status of women, dr. emily r will present. re mosition hanges.stioning any the floor is yours, welcome. >> good morning, chair cohen and the memberf ohe finance committee, the comptroller and budget dirtor,c i'm joined today by the fiscal analyst natalie alvarez. >> hello. >> of the roughly 850,000 residents, 49% are female. we are proud that we have the strongest commission on h status of women in the country and the only local department on the status of women in the country. and i just want to acknowledge supervisor's aid, the early director of the commission on the status of women. and the commission has been around for 40 years. the mission of the commission and the department is to fs equitable enttin the adem al women and girls throughout san francisco through policies and programs. we have three primary service areas, and prevention and response, women in the workplace and the human rights of women and girls. and, actually, this year marks the 20th anniversary of the u.n. coneion on the elimination of a

. >> kim, emily jane fox from "vanity fair" has extensively covered michael cohen. she spoke about what cohen's current situation is like. where his head is at. >> his general feeling right now besides his feeling of betrayal from the trump camp is that his life has been collateral damage in order to get to the president, so his business has been destroyed, his family has been destroyed. he is a pawn in this game. and so he is just waiting for a next phase. >> so his wife, his kids, they feel like he's a pawn. i guess no problem with having years of paying off porn stars. that wasn't embarrassing. but this, this it sounds like it's possibly ruining their life. >> if you're talking about years in years in prison. to get these warrant, there has to be a lot of what's called probable cause. a lot of information that is going to go before a judge to justify this. and we have his business partner who's cooperating with respect to state charges. we have potential problems with respect to, you know, campaign finance violations. we have tax fraud, bank fraud. there's a lot

cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name's emily davis, and i'm reading this on behalf of an artist at the hospitality house, community program. in our country, we treat our cats and dogs better than we treat our people. you'll see strays getting shelter and medical attention, and other care. i live on market street, and every day i see people bundled in blankets with a smattering of their approximapossessions. we can put a few more resources to getting people off the street is and getting people working again. we are people, not the homeless. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm wendy click. i'm from hospitality house. i want to just ask for funding in restoring the mental health services. this is an assess to the program that i work for at hospitality house. each week when i see an individual come in for individual or group wellness groups, they come out lighter on their feet. those that are in our community receive the same case managers for various support, and with those case managers there's over 100 maintained housing once they'

we turn to emily jane fox, author of the new book out this week "born trump" and a known conversation partner with michael cohenwell. thank you for spending some time with us tonight, first, makes sense of these twists and turns on cohen today. >> sometimes we all like to think this is part of a calculated strategy and something that's well thought out or perhaps these are messages being sent to someone whether it is a president or prosecutors. i think you will have to take a step back and understand that michael cohen is under a tremendous amount of pressure and he's been spending hours with his lawyer finishing up the documents. i think he's just trying to get through the day and he's not thinking of a long-term strategy that's sort of putting out every fire as they come up. i will say this is coming to a different point in my michael cohen's life since his hotel room and office and home were searched by fbi agents. we are coming to a point where document collection and going into the documents is over. he's switching over to a new attorney. he still has no t from my reporting been talked to by the government

particularly executive director emily morase and commission president debi mezlo, that put forward the recommendations to the board of supervisors. i also want to thank my co-sponsors, cohen, stefani and tang, early supporters of this legislation. the city is one of the largest employers here in san francisco and we have long been at the fore front of advancing employment protections, which is why it's so important that we continue to lead by example. it is our collective responsibility to prevent, recognize, report and root out harassment in the workplace. my increasing training and ensuring more transparency in reporting incidents of workplace harassment, we're making it clear, no city employee should ever be subjected to harassment or retaliation for speaking up. colleagues, i have today two in memoriams. my first in memoriam is for mrs. barbara brown lopez. the mother of an incredible community leader in the mission and in our city, ms. tracy brown. barbara passed away on sunday, born in guatemala, barbara considered guatemala and the united states her homes. she proudly acknowledged her cultural heritage and taught her students to do the same. she worked for the san

emily jane fox. she's a senior reporter for "vanity fair" author of the new book out this week "born trump" and a known conversation partner with michael cohens well in more than chance encounters i should say. thank you for spending some time with us tonight. first make sense of these twists and turns on cohen today. >> i think that sometimes we all like to think that these are part of a calculated strategy, something that is well thought out or perhaps these are messages being sent to someone's -- whether it's the president or prosecutors. i think we have to step back and understand michael cohen sunder a tremendous amount of pressure. he's been spending hours been hours a day with his lawyers finishing up the document -- culling through all the documents the government took from him. i think sometimes he's just trying to get through the day and he's not necessarily thinking about a long-term strategy. it's sort of putting out every fire as they come up. but i will say this is coming to a different point in michael cohen's life since his hotel room and office and home were searched by fbi agents. we're coming to a point where document coll

emily is out with new reporting in a piece entitled, "that spell may be starting to wear off." talking to the feds, michael cohenell. what is the spell? by the way, do the trump women, are they under the same spell? >> i think a lot of people in president trump's orbit are under this spell. >> when i say trump women, i mean, daughter, wife and also anybody who works in the white house who is a woman. i don't know how they have their, nicolle wallace said, dead inside. >> ivanka trump, her ability to co compartmentalize. >> what is the point of it? >> so she can survive. >> survive or thrive? >> both. i think as a child, it was about survival, getting through her parents public and ugly divorce to be a functional child and human being and grow up. now, she's using it to her professional advantage. >> i digress, but it's fascinating. >> emily, you and i speak to michael a lot. how would you describe his latest mind set? >> from all my reporting and conversations we have had, the pressure is mounting. it is not going to get easier for him. he has a legal deadline that is a week away. he's not getting support from a