second by supervisor farrell. colleagues would take that without objection get without objection those amendment past. >>[gavel] >> all right. supervisor farrell. >> thank you president breed i won't belabor the point too much but i think a few things need to be very clear about. this, in no way at all is printing first amendment speech. at all. that is falsely misleading. this is saying, you cannot use public taxpayer dollars for political campaigns. period. if any organization nonprofit or otherwise, especially nonprofit, ozone by 501(c)(3) of the irs code, seek to have a fundraiser, to raise money for political things they're welcome to do so in private funds conjure to that organization. ira says you can spend more than 10% of your proceeds. not touching that. what what i'm saying is san francisco test their dollars should not be used for those purposes. period. right now, even though during the budget process and was commented during some comments earlier, the budget process nonprofits do get city funds but t

and before i do my presentation i wanted to ask supervisor farrell's office the author of this letter to speak. >> i'd like to talk about the policy and then i will sort of give you our situation we're in or the process we're in right now, i'm asking you to consider those citywide adu many have been support by the department those provisions are strengthen the adu provision and allow the property owners to trishlt allow the building with temporary evictions or capital improvement when tenants are allowed to return to utility the program and adding the adu requires temporary eviction you can't penalize people for doing what we want them to do and number two, caps undergoing the retrofit should be cleaned up and allow vacate space to be converted to adu if it didn't reduce the commercial space more than 25 percent it was discussed in february by randy shaw and proposed in the origin legislation again not a new idea we shall allow the roofs to be converted to adu the rooms were at the time, we didn't encourage the unit times have changed to allow the multi generational housing this was p

. >> item one roll call commissioner breed is absent commissioner cohen is absent commissioner farrell present commissioner fewer commissioner kim is absent commissioner peskin present commissioner ronen present commissioner safai absent commissioner jeff sheehy present and xhaung and commissioner yee we have quorum thank you item 2 vooiks report on information report. >> sir welcome. >> welcome chair and others several items on the agenda today and want to go over a few of them the manifestation of prop k the cac brought up a few things the boulevard for signal urban designs and a reason for meeting the environmental clearance the professional of the w aa strategy plan this was explained to me once again by mike but is category way was not addressed and my disappointment stems mainly if the cu in district 10 awhile relatively easy to manage the blue avenue are getting a facelift there are misrepresent jurisdictional and a coordination of single language so hope you can get those projects moving on faster on the potrero gateway these numbers have positive candle stick point and impress

regarding the zoning district on february if the commission also received a letter if supervisor farrell and supervisor sheehy with 6 sets of amendments 6 amendments on that date the commission decided they don't have enough information for those amendments and did not recommend those or not discuss those modifications those elements come back to the commission last thursday and then on that after the commission had a discussion they also deferred that decision and until this file is duplicated and brought back as an ordinance that concludes my presentation. thank you. >> okay. i have to say in the interest of time i'm happy to put those items forward the amendments we're all interested in making sure they comply with the state law so happy to pushed forward a number of amendments we talked about but in planning i'll make and we can make those amendments on a duplicated file the planning commission has discussed those certainly supervisor peskin anything else to you want to convey this morning. >> we'll hear from john gibner, deputy city attorney. but on page 4 i believe that is line 22

. >> commissioner london breed pr supervisor cohen supervisor farrell not present supervisor fewer supervisor kim supervisor peskin supervisor ronen supervisor safai supervisor sheehy supervisor tang supervisor yee supervisor farrell madam president all members are present. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join us for the pledge of allegiance. >> america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you madam clerk are there any communications. >> none to report madam president and colleagues any changes to the approval of the minutes for july 20, 2016. >> a motion to approve moved by supervisor cohen and seconded by supervisor yee approved an public comment. >> items 1 through 4 >> items 1 through 4 consent agenda all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine by the board of supervisors and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the board. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the board so requests, in which event the matter

for banners and look forward to seeing the amendment on the 6 ideas in the letter from supervisor farrell and supervisor sheehy we think they'll been great additions to the body of law favor of this so thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello supervisors chris from spur i'll try to keep it short i'm in agreement with the speakers and thank you to supervisors for continuing this conversation and 3 years i've been at spur radically transformed with the people in the room and the direction their bent is a complete shift that is due to the leadership you guys have shown us i want to say we support the legislation with the planning commission represents and the modifications add clarity to the ordinance and align it with the provision if the code and further consider the recommendations in supervisor farrell and supervisor sheehy letter from april 4th and hope that we can continue even beyond that into further efforts to make it an easier ordinance to use and encourage the homeowners to make those decisions on their own thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next spe

for visor farrell. >> i have 3 items today. first of all today is equal pay day in the united states. it is important april 4 why today is equal pay daand what it represents. rements how far women have >> student work to earn what a man earns. the total is 94 days thmpt gender wage gap is real and cost billions and right here in san francisco. there are a number of businesses offering women discount baz they earn less than men. it is a great way to highlight the issue and pay disparity but women shouldn't need discount they should be paid equally for equal work. it is unbelievable this is something we continue to deal with in 2017. unfortunately given the way the president and republican colleagues think of women we know the feelings of discrimination are pervasive. just last week he revoked the 2014 fair pay which allows pay check transparency. we agree we need to stand up with women and push policies that advance equal pay. in san francisco, women earn 84 cent on the dollar for what men make. this totals thousands of dollars

for visor farrell. >> i have 3 items today. first of all today is equal pay day in the united states. it is important april 4 why today is equal pay daand what it represents. rements how far women have >> student work to earn what a man earns. the total is 94 days thmpt gender wage gap is real and cost billions and right here in san francisco. there are a number of businesses offering women discount baz they earn less than men. it is a great way to highlight the issue and pay disparity but women shouldn't need discount they should be paid equally for equal work. it is unbelievable this is something we continue to deal with in 2017. unfortunately given the way the president and republican colleagues think of women we know the feelings of discrimination are pervasive. just last week he revoked the 2014 fair pay which allows pay check transparency. we agree we need to stand up with women and push policies that advance equal pay. in san francisco, women earn 84 cent on the dollar for what men make. this totals thousands of dollars

for visor farrell. >> i have 3 items today. first of all today is equal pay day in the united states. it is important april 4 why today is equal pay daand what it represents. rements how far women have >> student work to earn what a man earns. the total is 94 days thmpt gender wage gap is real and cost billions and right here in san francisco. there are a number of businesses offering women discount baz they earn less than men. it is a great way to highlight the issue and pay disparity but women shouldn't need discount they should be paid equally for equal work. it is unbelievable this is something we continue to deal with in 2017. unfortunately given the way the president and republican colleagues think of women we know the feelings of discrimination are pervasive. just last week he revoked the 2014 fair pay which allows pay check transparency. we agree we need to stand up with women and push policies that advance equal pay. in san francisco, women earn 84 cent on the dollar for what men make. this totals thousands of dollars

brian: john farrell, better known as jack, author of the book "richard nixon, a life."e very end of your book , in the footnotes, you say this. "he hoped that billy graham or norman vincent peele would handle the prayers, and 'doesn't want a catholic or jew to partip

everybody welcome to the board of supervisors language for that monday, april 17, 2017, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing and joined by supervisor peskin community member supervisor tang and with us is supervisor hillary ronen thank ms. alicia and others from sfgovtv for covering this mooring and madam clerk, any announcements? >> electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the april 25th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you very much madam clerk temperature item no. 1 - green building and environment codes - requirements for installation of electric vehicle electrical vehicle chargers undergoing major alterations and making appropriate findings. >> thank you this was sponsored by supervisor katie tang so i'm going to turn it over to you. >> very much we're here to make a simple amendment to the ev readiness we heard at land use and hearing concerns from various associations the indictment has met with organization as much as as sf apartment association

. >> on the amendment by supervisor peskin supervisor tang no supervisor peskin supervisor farrell nope. >> there are 2 - one i and one no i'm sure that is part of discussion in a few minutes and i want to thank commissioner tang and the dipt for working on this issue it is awesome legislation about a year since electrical vehicles and an awesome experience but feel it is for the right reasons so the more we deal with legislation i want to thank and supervisor tang for this issue so with that, the underlying item a roll call vote. >> supervisor peskin a roll call vote. >> okay motion by supervisor tang. >> through the chair with a positive recommendation as amended and a committee report. >> without objection. >> all right. item no. 2 - urging the evaluation and allocation of properties for urban agriculture. >> the properties fushlg. >> it was sponsored by supervisor ronen and supervisor tang so supervisor ronen. >> thank you colleagues today i'm proud to assume the officeship of a resolution together with supervisor tang on urban agriculture supervisor avalos the former district 11 su

francisco board of supervisors land use and transportation for monday, april 3, 2017, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this our vice chair supervisor peskin as well as supervisor tang and joined by supervisor breed do i want to thank leo and jim smith from sfgovtv for covering this as well as eric schizophrenia and madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. items acted upon today will appear on the april lovingly board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you mr. clerk a super long agenda of one item. >> housing requirement and fee in divisadero and fillmore neighborhood commercial transits districts. >> as a result of zoning district of divisadero commercial transit district court. >> 0 integrity okay sponsored by supervisor president london breed so supervisor president london breed i'll i'm going to turn it over to you. >> thank you supervisor farrell good afternoon, supervisors and members of the public i'm glad to present this legislation to you today it will provide more homes for people

everybody welcome to the board of supervisors language for that monday, april 17, 2017, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing and joined by supervisor peskin community member supervisor tang and with us is supervisor hillary ronen thank ms. alicia and others from sfgovtv for covering this mooring and madam clerk, any announcements? >> electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the april 25th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you very much madam clerk temperature item no. 1 - green building and environment codes - requirements for installation of electric vehicle electrical vehicle chargers undergoing major alterations and making appropriate findings. >> thank you this was sponsored by supervisor katie tang so i'm going to turn it over to you. >> very much we're here to make a simple amendment to the ev readiness we heard at land use and hearing concerns from various associations the indictment has met with organization as much as as sf apartment association

francisco board of supervisors land use and transportation for monday, april 3, 2017, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this our vice chair supervisor peskin as well as supervisor tang and joined by supervisor breed do i want to thank leo and jim smith from sfgovtv for covering this as well as eric schizophrenia and madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. items acted upon today will appear on the april lovingly board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you mr. clerk a super long agenda of one item. >> housing requirement and fee in divisadero and fillmore neighborhood commercial transits districts. >> as a result of zoning district of divisadero commercial transit district court. >> 0 integrity okay sponsored by supervisor president london breed so supervisor president london breed i'll i'm going to turn it over to you. >> thank you supervisor farrell good afternoon, supervisors and members of the public i'm glad to present this legislation to you today it will provide more homes for people

supervisor farrell says he wants to break that cycle. >> so how much did you make at your last job? companies can ask that if you apply to work for them but supervisor mark farrell wants to stop that. at today's san francisco board of supervisors meeting, he introduced a pay parity law. >> it bans all private employers from asking applicants for the salary history and bans the setting of a wage or salary based on previous salary. >> reporter: questions about a person's pay history are a common sight on employment applications. and they can indicate the amount an applicant will accept leaving employers to offer them less. >> if women are always held back and held down by their salary history they are prevented from ever catching up with men. >> reporter: jim lazarus is a senior vice president of public policy with the san francisco chamber of commerce. he says pay equity is important. but the city should be careful about the burdens it places on local businesses. >> especially on microbusinesses that don't have hr departments or larger international or national businesses that have t

. >> thank you supervisor farrell good afternoon, supervisors and members of the public i'm glad to present this legislation to you today it will provide more homes for people along the dpris and fillmore fillmore street neighborhood commercial transit district. >> or nct that is a good thing for the neighborhood and for the city let me first make it clear before we get into the details of the legislation i want you to understand this legislation does one fundamentally critical thing it sets affordable housing requirement for pipeline projects in the fillmore and divisadero nct as at a higher standard that is required their taking advantage of the nct d

. >> commissioner london breed pr supervisor cohen supervisor farrell not present supervisor fewer supervisor kim supervisor peskin supervisor ronen supervisor safai supervisor sheehy supervisor tang supervisor yee supervisor farrell madam president all members are present. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join us for the pledge of allegiance. >> america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you madam clerk are there any communications. >> none to report madam president and colleagues any changes to the approval of the minutes for july 20, 2016. >> a motion to approve moved by supervisor cohen and seconded by supervisor yee approved an public comment. >> items 1 through 4 >> items 1 through 4 consent agenda all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine by the board of supervisors and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the board. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the board so requests, in which event the matter

. >> farrell? >> absent. >> fewer? >> absent. >> kim. >> absent. >> peskin. >> present. >> rohnen. >> absent, safahir. tang, present. >> yee, is absent. we have a quorum, commissioner would like to make a motion to excuse commissioners farrell, ronen yee and fewer. motion made by commissioner safahi, is there a second for that >> seconded by breed. without objection >> this has been a big month, with the passage, that will provide, 52 million for the road transit and biking and walking facilities through a combination of gas, and diesel fuel, taxes and the vehicle fee increase, and truck weight restoration and we join with the cities and counties up and down the state for thanking the senator, and assembly man, phraser from the transportation committees in the legislature as well as governor brown for the leadership in getting this across the finish line, we also want to thank our own assembly members, and senator weiner who pushed for and obtained increased transit funding levels within the bill for the city and count

times" team who broke the story; and, noreen farrell, executive director of the civil rights organization equal rights advocates. >> i started by asking schmitt what changed the minds of the mrdoch family? thethey're the owners of fox ne. >> we wrought our story two and a half weeks ago where we said mr. o'reilly had slelted harassment cases with five women, including two in the last year, since roger ails had left the network. and at the time the our story, the murdoch family was standed by mr. o'reilly. they looked like they wanted to keep him on. what happened is he began to lose advertisers. first he lost mercedes-benz, the first one to go, and dozens and dozens of companies, up to 50. what you had was eight of the 8:00 hour, the prime time on the network, that had just a few ads running on it. and at the same time, fox brought in an outside law firm to do an investigation into mr. o'reilly, and there was a real trickle of women that came in that were saying different things about mr. o'reilly that

everybody welcome to the board of supervisors language for that monday, april 17, 2017, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing and joined by supervisor peskin community member supervisor tang and with us is supervisor hillary ronen thank ms. alicia and others from sfgovtv for covering this mooring and madam clerk, any announcements? >> electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the april 25th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you very much madam clerk temperature item no. 1 - green building and environment codes - requirements for installation of electric vehicle electrical vehicle chargers undergoing major alterations and making appropriate findings. >> thank you this was sponsored by supervisor katie tang so i'm going to turn it over to you. >> very much we're here to make a simple amendment to the ev readiness we heard at land use and hearing concerns from various associations the indictment has met with organization as much as as sf apartment association

francisco board of supervisors land use and transportation for monday, april 3, 2017, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this our vice chair supervisor peskin as well as supervisor tang and joined by supervisor breed do i want to thank leo and jim smith from sfgovtv for covering this as well as eric schizophrenia and madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. items acted upon today will appear on the april lovingly board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you mr. clerk a super long agenda of one item. >> housing requirement and fee in divisadero and fillmore neighborhood commercial transits districts. >> as a result of zoning district of divisadero commercial transit district court. >> 0 integrity okay sponsored by supervisor president london breed so supervisor president london breed i'll i'm going to turn it over to you. >> thank you supervisor farrell good afternoon, supervisors and members of the public i'm glad to present this legislation to you today it will provide more homes for people

>> woodruff: thank you, michael schmidt, and noreen farrell.appreciate it. >> thank >> woodruff: democrats came close, but republicans managed to avoid a potentially brutal loss in georgia for now, forcing a runoff in a closely watched special congressional election. >> this is already a victory for the ages. >> woodruff: 30-year-old democrat jon ossoff fell just short of an outright win in tuesday's crowded special election. but by capturing 48% of the vote, the filmmaker and former congressional aide easily outpaced the other 17 candidates. >> we've defied the odds, shattered expectations. we will be ready to fight on and win in june. >> woodruff: the seat in atlanta's suburbs came open when tom price was tapped by president trump to his cabinet. no democrat has won here since 1979. and now, ossoff faces a runoff against karen handel, a former georgia secretary of state, and the top republican with 20% of the vote. >> on june 20, we keep the 6th district red and kick a little ossoff. >> woodruff: handel never mentioned president trump last ni

and before i do my presentation i wanted to ask supervisor farrell's office the author of this letter to speak. >> i'd like to talk about the policy and then i will sort of give you our situation we're in or the process we're in right now, i'm asking you to consider those citywide adu many have been support by the department those provisions are strengthen the adu provision and allow the property owners to trishlt allow the building with temporary evictions or capital improvement when tenants are allowed to return to utility the program and adding the adu requires temporary eviction you can't penalize people for doing what we want them to do and number two, caps undergoing the retrofit should be cleaned up and allow vacate space to be converted to adu if it didn't reduce the commercial space more than 25 percent it was discussed in february by randy shaw and proposed in the origin legislation again not a new idea we shall allow the roofs to be converted to adu the rooms were at the time, we didn't encourage the unit times have changed to allow the multi generational housing this was p

everybody welcome to the board of supervisors language for that monday, april 17, 2017, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing and joined by supervisor peskin community member supervisor tang and with us is supervisor hillary ronen thank ms. alicia and others from sfgovtv for covering this mooring and madam clerk, any announcements? >> electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the april 25th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you very much madam clerk temperature item no. 1 - green building and environment codes - requirements for installation of electric vehicle electrical vehicle chargers undergoing major alterations and making appropriate findings. >> thank you this was sponsored by supervisor katie tang so i'm going to turn it over to you. >> very much we're here to make a simple amendment to the ev readiness we heard at land use and hearing concerns from various associations the indictment has met with organization as much as as sf apartment association

. >> commissioner london breed pr supervisor cohen supervisor farrell not present supervisor fewer supervisor kim supervisor peskin supervisor ronen supervisor safai supervisor sheehy supervisor tang supervisor yee supervisor farrell madam president all members are present. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join us for the pledge of allegiance. >> america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you madam clerk are there any communications. >> none to report madam president and colleagues any changes to the approval of the minutes for july 20, 2016. >> a motion to approve moved by supervisor cohen and seconded by supervisor yee approved an public comment. >> items 1 through 4 >> items 1 through 4 consent agenda all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine by the board of supervisors and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the board. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the board so requests, in which event the matter

san francisco supervisor mark farrell is one of three proposing new laws to fight illegal eviction.would make it easier to file crimin criminal charges against landlords who kick out tenants. over the past ten years, they haven't prosecuted a single landlord for abusing these kinds of evictions. >> it was the great work of nbc to turn up the volume to talk about and identify and expose the amount of fraudulent practices that were happening in this area. >> reporter: farrell's legislation would require proof of residency after they move in, like an electric bill or voter registration. right now they don't have to provide any of that, which left nicole skeptical, since she was only paying $1450 for her one bedroom apartment. >> the people who moved in were paying over $3,000 for the exact same unit. >> reporter: to find out, the only option was to sue her ha landlord, which meant her attorney got to question the brother-in-law to see if he was really going to move in. >> i don't know anything about it. >> reporter: neither he or the landlord would talk to us. but when talking to her a

once again they're facing these issues. >> woodruff: noreen farrell, i'm going to turn to you now. how common is the kind of thing we're hearing and these accusations from these women? >> you know, unfortunately it's incredibly common. i think that sexual harassment very much remains the price of a paycheck for women across the country in hundreds of industries, no matter if they're a low-wage worker or high-wage worker, which we've seen a lot of news about. i think this reporting really shows the pattern, not just of multiple complaints within a company, but how often one person can receive many complaints and remain in the grace of a company, like many o'reilly. >> woodruff: based on "the new york times" reporting, none of these women who made these charges, legally raised these charges against bill o'reilly, and then the cases were sended, have gone on to work in television news again. in other words, it had an impact on their livelihood. is that something you typically see? what do you see in that regard? >> you know, i think when people talk about sexual harassment, they minim

seconded by supervisor farrell. mme.rk, on the motion, please, roll call >> cohen aye farrell aye fewer aye kim nay peskin nay ronen nay safai aye sheehy nay, tang aye yee aye breed aye. there are seven aye and for nay. >> item 14 is approved and i am 15 in 16 our table. >> [gavel] >> mme. clerk let's go to >> item 22 >> yes. >> >> item 22 is a resolution to urge the office of the treas. and tax collector to convene a municipal public bank task force to increase transparency and equity across the cities financial functions. >> supervisor trenton san francisco >> thank you very much pretty quickly the item before us as the office of the treasure to convene a task force six point a possibility of pulling together a municipal public bank. the task force will of course be committed to the public process. it is going to be bringing the city,, the treasure, the san francisco residents together to have a substantive conversation about finances and towards implementation developing an implementation plan for financial transparen

. >>> mark wahlberg and will farrell on "daddy's home 2". >> kris prat pass is the challenge. >> is that a gravy thing? >> that's egg salad. >> my sniffer stopped working. >>> now this is "entertainment tonight." >>> a lot of concern after richard simmons was hospitalized for a second time in less than a year. >> the question is, is richard okay? that is the question since he disappeared nearly 1200 days ago. >>> here's what we know now as richard speaks out. >> richard, please, are you okay, richard? give us an okay. give us a thumb's up. >> that's richard simmons right there under a blanket covering himself to avoid being photographed on thursday. he walked slowly assisted by his housekeeper and manager. he was returning home after a four-day hospitalization for severe wiindigestion. he has not been seen in public for more than three years. here's the time line. he and his housekeeper arrived at 5:12. you can see him in the backseat. for are 45 minutes he waits inside the car as the housekeeper tries to work out a plan to get richard inside without the paparazzi getting a shot. at 6:01

. >> john farrell, longtime journalist and author of a book regarding it in and his longtime political career. >> the way that the watergate burglars -- the way the team was assembled was clumsy. cynical, burnt out former intelligence or fbi bynts that were supervised young men on nixon's staff who just wanted to be, as one of the famous quotes go "the cat that brought the dead mouse to the door of the president." >> tonight on c-span's q&a at 8:00 p.m. eastern. , theis morning, joseph president of the plowshares fund, talks about his book asclear nightmares" as well north korea's nuclear program and the recent chemical attack in syria. and then craig shirley discusses his book "raisin -- reagan rising." and later, randy cap of the migration policy institute looks at the sharp capps is have a sharp drop of apprehensions at the u.s. and mexico border and president trump immigration policies. as always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: good morning. it is sunday, april 9, 2017, and on today's "washing

john farrell is the author of three biographies. first, the great american attorney clarence darrow. second, speaker tip o'neill which one the lyndon johnson foundation award for the best book on congress and third, richard nixon. the book will be discussing tonight. this will be published on march 208th. somehow, we arty have a copy. he came to biography after a long career as a newspapermen most oddly known for the boston globe in the denver post. in late 1970s, as youngsters, john and one of her other conversational partners david maraniss competed as reporters while covering the legislative rivalry spirits. mr. farrell says he did not fare especially while in that position. to farrell, david is an associate editor at the washington post for his work for 40 years. he is the author of 11 books including biographies on bill clinton, barack obama, vince lombardi and roberto colletti. the final book in that series was once in a great city: a detroit story. winner of the robert f kennedy book price. maraniss is also a recipient of a p

tonight on c-span, "q&a" with author john farrell. then a look at the impact government policies have on poverty. ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," longtime journalist and author john farrell discusses his book "richard nixon, a life." farrell, better known as jack, author of the book "richard nixon, a life." at the very end of your book come in the footnotes, you say this. "he hoped that billy graham or norman vincent peele would , and 'doesn'tyers want a catholic or jew to participate.'" what was that all about? john: this is that his funeral. some -- nixon grew up in orange groves and hills and small towns in between. he grew up with a certain provincial bigotry. i think he got some of that from his father, an unlearned man. .ver the years, nixon learned to deal with it because he had to he could do -- nixon to do with it because he had to. he could do anything if he had to. he could be very ugly. i think this was sort of a blanket statement. -- holdeman had his own biases, but nixon wanted a protestant, mainstream, white american.

farrell, but because the centre—left belief injeremy corbyn is so low, this would else will vote go.emain vote for the lib dems, will vote go. there's also a bit of a remain vote forthe lib dems, and that's because jeremy corbyn was lfi’:;‘.if§ smut never very convinced about remain. there will be places like richmond and sussex, where labour voters labour votes to the lib dems are the well again. there is a lot more of a soft tory vote, where when the election campaign goes on and receive the relentless nature of it, they may decide they are remain first and tory second. it'll be better than they had, but it's not good to be huge. the impact will be about those who switch from labour to the conservatives. in northern ireland, there's the debate over the border with the republic of ireland and the snp are desperately wanting another referendum. bloggers create extra problems for the british government. this will be the great crack. this will be the time when they say, theresa may, helped by david cameron's appalling judgment on the referendum, hacked apart the united kingdom. ithink o

farrell's right is david maraniss. is an associate editor at "the washington post" where he has worked for 40 years. he is author of 11 books including biographies of bill clinton, barack obama, vince lombardi and roberto clementi. the final book in his series was once in a great city: a detroit story, winner of the robert f. kennedy book fried. maraniss also is the recipient of two pulitzer prizes and was a prettier or finalist three other times for his books in journalism. this semester for the third time we're so happy to welcome him back to vanderbilt as a visiting, as a distinguished visiting professor where he's teaching classes on political biography and america in the mccarthy era. he and his wife linda have welcomed vagabonds, spending time in washington, d.c., madison and wisconsin, and here in nashville. he is known here mostly for being the father of andrew maraniss, the author of strong inside, the book about vanderbilt athlete and alum knew perry wallace but has become the freshman book reading for the se

up next, san francisco supervisor mark farrell joining us live in studio. >> well, back in 2006, the francisco 49ers proposed constructing a new stadium at candlestick point the site of the existing home candlestick park. it would have included retail space and housing improvements to the neighborhood. but negotiations with the city fell through and then the team focused their attention further south. >> in 2011 a construction loan was secured and the following april work on levi's stadium began. it officially opened in 2014 and home to super bowl 50. >> now that the raiders have been given the green light it move out of oakland, could be a positive or negative for the city. to talk about how san francisco is faring without an envelope stadium, mark farrell is joining us with the stadium. >> is san francisco better? >> i think we miss a team in san francisco without a doubt. someone born and raised in san francisco, i remember going to candlestick but the civic pride when you have a city and a team together. of course winning super bowls always helps. >> sure. >> i remember those tim