>> the general counsel and the fbied and team said what about this idea?i think the general counsel had a heart attack and when he got up off the floor he said that's a bridge too far. we're not there yet. >> president trump tweeting this morning that mccabe and rosenstein, quote, looked like they were planning an illegal act and using a quote from peter strzok, the 2016 text messages to write this was an illegal and treasonous insurance policy in full action. joining me now nbc justice correspondent pete williams, msnbc contributor sxhchuck rosenberg, former federal prosecutor and nbc political analyst robert costa, national political writer at "the washington post." welcome all. first to you, pete williams, this is a very angry presidential response to rod rosenstein. he may be nearing the end of his tenure, but the mccabe details here that there was a second conversation about it and he talked about the wire with his general counsel. let's put aside right now all of the revelations about the 25th amendment and this is in some ways a more serious indicat

this is bloomberg. ♪ >> tesla's general counsel didn't stay in his post too long, leaving after just months. this in the week of elon musk's run with s.e.c. regulators. hitting send too soon on a tweet on tesla's forecast, revising it hours later. person.ing in our we saw musk's tweet on numbers, and he had to retract that, and then this announcement of the general counsel leaving. were they linked at all? >> i don't think so. i think the departure was going to be announced. it was an unfortunate time that it was announced after this tweet that elon revised hours later. it brings up the question of s.e.c. settlement and if there is anyone monitoring or screening the tweets before they go out? >> how much damage did that do? that is an ongoing open file with the s.e.c. he has just lost the lead counsel on it. it looks like one of the primary conditions is that he not publish information without some kind of screen is being violated. how does that affect with him the s.e.c.? >> the ball is in the s.e.c.'s court. are they going to take this company to task for it or not? we didn't see m

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the cfo, the general counsel, the previous head of hr.oes it concern to you that he cannot keep these roles filled? tasha: i would agree that musk is a particular person to work for. you need to jot with that style in order to be happy at tesla. let's talk about the cfo. in terms of the cfo leaving, that you can leave as, he came in during a difficult time at tesla and felt the company was ready to fly on his own. that's why he was ok to leave again. this departure was brought on and people were worried. now, when he is leaving, there is more worry. it's kind of like, pick one. in this case, it could, as you said in the beginning, the assign he did not get the litigation he expected. he said he would stay on in and outside counsel role, so you would think if there was some relationship damage he might not want to do that. emily: on a podcast this week, musk made interesting comments that might speak to both of these issues. he said people think sometimes i'm like a business or finance person. i am an engineer. i do engineering and always

at tesla dane budwinskis, the general counsel brought in when the s.e.c.nvestigation was going on worked that investigation with elon musk and tesla. they got it resolved he became general counsel in december he's wanted to go back to his previous law firm in in december he's decided he wants to go back to his previous law firm in washington, d.c. says it's not a good cultural fit at tesla so as he leaves jonathan chang has moved up. he's been at tesla for seven, eight years now and immediately has the skeptics saying a-ha there must be something nefarious going on why would the general counsel leave after two months keep in mind, we've seen a lot of executive turnover at tesla, and this is just in the last 12 months not even going back over the last couple of years by some estimates more than 50 executives at the vpo higher level have decided to leave the company. bottom line is this, kelly elon musk is not an easy person to work for. he even admits he's not an easy person to work for he is demanding, and in many ways that is likely a contributing factor

the cfo, general counsel, previously head of hr.s it concern you he cannot keep these roles filled? tasha: i would agree that musk is a particular person to work for, and you sort of need to jive with that style in order to be happy at tesla. in terms of the cfo leaving, that you can view as he came in during a difficult time at tesla, and felt the company was ready to fly on its own, and that is why he was ok leaving again. this particular departure, when on,winkas was brought people were worried, tesla will get a lot of litigation, and now that he's leaving there is more worry. so pick one. case, asis particular you said in the beginning it could be kind of a sign that he didn't get the litigation he expected, and he said he will stay on as outside counsel with tesla, so you would figure if there was some sort of relationship damage he wouldn't want to do that. emily: on a podcast earlier this week, musk made some interesting comments that might speak to both issues. people think sometimes i am like a businessperson or finance per

in december, the previous general counsel left two general counsels ago i should say chief accounting in september, vp of engineering leaving in july. these are some of the most notable departures in tesla from the last year on the executive side stock under a little bit of pressure today but not as much as you might expect given that many people, investors are out there saying this is an example of why something is wrong at tesla. but others are saying this is simply elon musk being a tough guy to work for and executives saying i'm going to move on and do something else. >> phil lebeau, thank you. joining us now joseph osha from jmp securities and craig irwin from rock capital. good afternoon to you both joseph, i want to start with you. you need a spreadsheet to keep track of all these executive departures at tesla. doesn't that worry you >> it does look, we pointed out when we initiated coverage of the stock that the management style was a bit of a problem elon is a great leader, great innova innovator. i'm not sure he's the greatest manager. i'm not going to sugar coat it. >> what

mccabe number 2, leaker, baker number 3, the general counsel, leaker. er 3 under criminal investigation, page, lots of leakers and, of course, criminal investigation, first counter intelligence investigation and now in terms of the special counsel's office, i've speculated that they are leakers and that's one of the reasons the media treats them so well, of course, they hate trump and they want to see trump hanging from the telephone pole but also, you know, these are their sources. so when this buzzfeed article came out they basically pointed to the special counsel's office, where else would you get these documents, texts, emails even if there's a pass through to anonymous law enforcement officials they would have had to come from mueller's office. i went on the radio and i said for an hour, 8 and a half million listeners and that's just radio, i don't know satellite or the internet. okay, justice department, now you have your -- your basis for leak investigation, you need to conduct a leak investigation in the mueller's office, what's leak investigatio

dana: they announced the new general counsel, which is a promotion from within. jonathan chang.t you sees as tesla growth of the company, there has been internal promotions but not big outside hires. vonnie: which is interesting. it is a company you would want to work for no matter the problems. sure. a lot of people want to work at tesla. it has a great reputation as being a hard place to work but nothing like it in the world. you are the popular person at the party but at a higher level, recruiting high-level executive talent has been a challenge. vonnie: very lucky to have you in the city with us today. coming up, our global battle of the charts. this is bloomberg. ♪ the latest innovation from xfinity isn't just a store. it's a save more with a new kind of wireless network store. it's a look what your wifi can do now store. a get your questions answered by awesome experts store. it's a now there's one store that connects your life like never before store. the xfinity store is here. and it's simple, easy, awesome. vonnie: it is time for our global battle of the charts. taking

they can simply not vote and let the general counsel's recommendation to move forward. note that first general counsel will be appointed by the chair with concurrence of two of the commissioners. those will all be people appointed by this first president who makes that appointment. once he's in, can he stay in indefinitely unless you can muster a majority of vote. mr. comer: the asserted purpose of h.r. 1 is to increase transparency in the electoral process. i think we would all support that. but in what way does creating a secretive taxpayer funded blue ribbon panel to lobby the president about whom to appoint to the f.e.c. increase transparency. mr. smith: fascinating part of the bill. one part of the bill requires the creation of this blue ribbon panel that's supposed to make religiouses to the president as to whom he ought to appoint to the f.e.c. it's not clear what the purpose of the panel is since they don't have binding authority. it is interesting the first thing the bill does is take this body out of the requirements of the federal advisory committee act, whic

>> i think the general counsel had a heart attack. when he got up off the floor, said that's breath too far. we're not there yet. >> the president in ten tweets just this weekend at our last counting making clear that mccabe strikes a nerve of the one of the most aggressive tweets from the president coming just this morning when he wrote this, wow, so many lies by now disgraced acting fbi director andrew mccabe. he was fired for lying and now his story gets more deranged. he and rod rosenstein, hired by jeff sessions, another beauty, looked like they were planning a very illegal act and got caught. there's a lot of skplaniexplain do to the millions of people who had just elected a president that they really like. sorry. and who has done a great job for them with the military, vets economy and so much more. this is the illegal and treasonous insurance policy in full! if you're in your car. and mccabe also spoke about the level alarm in the fbi over trump's actions around james comey's firing and why those actions led him to open that c

>> i think the general counsel had a heart attack and when he got up off the floor he said, that's a idge too far. we're not there yet. >> reporter: but baker, who was counsel mccabe was referring to, pulled something out to house investigators. quote, my recollection is that there was discussion about it over a longer period than the course of one meeting, a couple of days he testified. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein has consistently disputed mccabe's allegations and he's consistently refused to go to capitol hill to clarify his statements about wearing a wire and the 25th amendment. that may be about to change with republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee pledging hearings in the not too distant future about these discrepancies. he's also indicated he may be willing to subpoena mccabe and rosenstein as well, dana. >> dana: maybe lindsey graham will make them appear together. we'll be right back. >> reporter: that would make good tv. >> dana: we'll be right back. we're family. we'd do anything for each other. but this time... those bonds were definitely tested. f

>> pelley: the general counsel of the f.b.i.dership team you spoke with said what about this idea? >> mccabe: i think the general counsel had a heart attack. and when he got up off the floor, he said, "i, i... that's a bridge too far. we're not there yet." >> pelley: that it wasn't necessary at that point in the investigation to escalate it to that level. >> mccabe: that's correct. >> pelley: but mccabe says rosenstein raised another idea. the 25th amendment to the constitution allows the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to remove the president. >> mccabe: discussion of the 25th amendment was simply rod raised the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort. i didn't have much to contribute, to be perfectly honest, in that-- conversation. so i listened to what he had to say. but, to be fair, it was an unbelievably stressful time. i can't even describe for you how many things must have been coursing through the deputy attorney general's

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jonathan chang is the new general counsel for tesla.kes over for duane butsw butswinkis who is leaving after just two months. these are just the major executive position that we've been able to call up, just today, off the top of our heads saying, who's left in the last year got the general council today, last month, the cfo said he's going to be hiring in december the previous general council left in september. the chief accounting officer left and he had doug field leaving last july. here's is gene munster talking about the executive turnover and the concerns behind it for investor investors. >> this is more, elon is a difficult person to work with. he's a one in a billion type of person and this is further evidence, and that's the biggest problem the company has, is retaining top talent >> as you take a look at shares of tesla, keep in mind, this is one of those moves that, guys, people will sit here and say, is there something more here? duane says, it's just a cultural fit, that's why he's leaving tesla. that has not stopped the sk

we are talking about key roles, the general counsel, the cfo.oncern you that he can't keep these roles filled? >> must is a particular person to work for. styleed to jive with that to be happy it tesla. cfo, you could view that as he came in during a difficult time and felt like the company was ready to fly on its own. archer,this particular people were worried. this is probably going to get a lot of litigation. again, there are more worries. case,k in this particular it could be a sign that he did not get what he expected. think if there was a relationship damage that he might not want to do that. emily: he made some interesting comments this week. he said people person. i am an engineer. we have vastly more data and increasing exponentially. talk to us a little bit about what he said here. >> the podcast was on autonomous driving. that is the picture. our target is $4000 on the stock. what he talked about here is focused on collecting data off cars on the road. no one really else has. they are testing on this intervention rate. they have 10 mi

but, the fbi former general counsel, james baker who met contemporaneously with mccabe and lisa page e effort went further. quote, i had the impression the deputy an attorney general had already discussed this with two members in the president's cabinet. and that they were on board with this concept are ready. on twitter the president responded to mccabe on 60 minutes. quote, while, so many lies by now disgraced acting fbi director, andrew mckay. he and rod rosenstein look like they were planning a very illegal act. mccabe another say president's firing of james, he left the fbi in justice department in turmoil. they concerned the firing was designed to be synced the russian probe. >> the deputy attorney general offered to wear wire into the white house. he said, i never get search when i going to the white house. i think the general counsel had a heart attack. when he got up off the floor he said, that's a bridge too far. >> but, baker who could face criminal penalties for lying testified quote, my recollection is that there were discussions about it over longer period than the cours

i did discuss it with my general counsel. i think the general counsel had a heart attack. when he got up off the floor, he said that's a bridge too far. we're not there yet. >> the justice department notably has called mccabe's account here, quote, inaccurate and factually incorrect, adding that the deputy a.g. never authorized any recording. well, today mccabe was asked about that distinction. >> while the deputy attorney general says he never authorized anyone to wear a wire, that is true. he never authorized it because we never asked him for that authorization. >> meaning that his seeming denial of this story is not actually a denial? you don't think he denied anything you just said? >> i don't think he can. >> more about this in a moment. that's an npr interview. this book tour is just starting. the book doesn't come out until midnight tonight. mccabe had a contentious relationship with trump during his final months a the fbi. he was attacked regularly by our president and his allies as the russia investigation intensified. the president had him fired 26 hours before h

emily: the general counsel leaving after just two months.ang is taking over after musk surprised investors saying the cfo will be leading -- leaving. >> we do not know much besides this vague reference to it being a poor cultural fit. that is reminiscent of something we heard from some of the many executives that departed last year. one executive who comes to mind is justin machinima, who joined the company from seagate and was supposed to be the chief accounting officer and left a couple months into his tenure. he took for granted how much attention there was on this company. you also had a situation where he was up routing from washington and moving to the west coast and focusing on this company on a full-time basis, and decided against this. it is clear weather last night's tweets had anything to do with this. it does not appear to be the case. generally, another indication that elon musk may be a bit of a difficult person to work for. emily: turnover is nothing new at tesla. ,e are talking about key roles the cfo, general counsel, the he

helping you better. >>> in your capacity as acting attorney general have you ever been asked to approve any action or request by the special counselman, i see that your five minutes is up and so -- we -- i am here voluntarily. we have agreed to five-minute round. >> what's he? an egg timer? he's acting attorney general matt whitaker sparing there with nadler. the question on many minds of democrats has he, the ag, talked to president trump about the special counsel's prob. he insisted he hasn't talken any actions to interfere with it. >> we have followed the special counsel's regulations to a tee. there has been no eevent, no decision that has required me to take any action and i have not interfered in any way with the special counsel's investigation. >> to discuss his interactions with the president, they grilled him on a host of issues. >> in your final week, keep your hands off the mueller investigation. >> are you over seeing a witchhunt? >> it would be inappropriate to talk about an ongoing investigation. >> i want to know if you talked to president trump lat about the southern district of new york's case involving michael co

tesla's general counsel leaving the company after just two months on the job.ng up to be as agonizing as last year for ceo elon musk?

kay adams came from honeywell, the new general counsel, and shoveled it there.re is a deep legal bench. $225,000 or so, as you said, is the seller at that level $2 million base salary and an additional $2 million in stock options. it is good to see apple taking swift action. emily: bloomberg tech's mark gurman, thank you for filling us in on that one. coming up, akamai's fourth-quarter numbers are out. what to expect for the rest of 2019. they have a unique view of what is going on across the internet. technology and follow us on tictoc on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: nasa's opportunity, the mars rover, was supposed to last three months. but today after 15 years, its mission was finally declared complete. flight controllers tried numerous times to make contact with the vehicle and sent one final series of recovery commands as will is one final wake-up song, billie holiday's "i'll be seeing you." there was no response from space. had a good run, though. akamai reported better-than-expected third-quarter results tuesday. his as the cloud security business

allowed to make any statement about tesla's overall position without getting approval from a general counselid not happen. the next day, the general gned after two months. that is a crisis. what can the board do? they should take his phone away cannotem and say you make any statement without prior board approval and the general counsel's approval. morning, mr.y this -- itas tweeted out again has moved the markets because you have this contempt thing. something is broken with sec oversight. elon musk has decided to go toe to toe with the sec. who's going to win? >> it's up to the federal judge. i believe the federal judge will see the court as desk case as much stronger for the sec -- will see the case as much stronger for the sec. think a federal judge is going to accept that for very long. this as apresent modest mistake, not a fraudulent act, and thereby get the court to settle on a response from the board. in thiskes this on total frontal confrontation, he could lose very badly. the sec has authority to suspend an officer from serving at any public corporation. david: elon musk seems to b

kate adams came from honeywell as the new general counsel.he shuffled some of the top people there there is a deep bench in the legal department. . something really important to note\, he avoid losses of about $350,000, he profited around $245,000 or so, but the apple employee salary for someone at that level is probably close to $1 million base salary and a few million,million or $10 in additional stock options on an annual basis. forfeiting all of that and a career over $300,000 or so seems like a poor choice on his part. good to see apple taking swift action. emily: all right. mark, think is a much for filling us in on that one. coming up, fourth-quarter numbers out. the ceo and cofounder tells us what to expect for the rest of 2019. they have a very unique view of what is going on across the internet. bloomberg tech live streaming on twitter. check us out on technology. follow us at tictoc on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ mars: nasa's opportunity rover was supposed to last three months. after 15 years, its mission was finally declared in

on one matter of anticipated litigation, the gave direction under general counsel. that concludes the meeting tonight. this meeting is adjourned. . . . [gavel] >> the meeting will come to order. this is a special meeting of the budget and finance committee. i am supervisor sandra lee fewer joined by vice chair kathrin stefani and rafael mandelman. our clerk is ms. wong. i would like to thank michael ballotazar and maya hernandez from sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes. please silence all cell phones and electronic thank you. >> thank you, madam clerk, please call item one. >> ordinance appropriating approximately (22) 000-0000 of educational taxes and rainy one-time fund for the small housing site and single occupancy and behavior health acquisition and behavior health and educator funding fo thank yu very much. >> good morning. >> please call item number two. >> ordinance appropriating $381.1 million in access revenue augmentation funds to the sfmta and the $19 million for the light rail vehicles and $13.8 mil

just hours later, this announcement of the general counsel leaving.he two, were they linked at all? >> no, i don't think so. i think the departure was going to be announced, and it was just unfortunate timing that it came after the tweet. it brings up the whole question of elon and social media, and if there is anyone in the legal department monitoring the tweets before they go out. >> bernie sanders is giving it another go. to vermont senator has announced he will run for the democratic presidential nomination in 2020. have any of his policies changed, or is it just a more favorable environment for a self-described socialist to come back and hit the campaign trail? >> well, one of the policies he promoted in 2016 he is promoting again, but it has shifted. he lit a lot of fires under progressives, young people, and progressives, young people, and energizing them for 2016. there's now a lot of candidates in the democratic race, being warmed by those same fires, most notably elizabeth warren. so, he has a real challenge here in trying to set himself out

and i know that because i filed a grievance against andrew wiseman while he was deputy director general counseli under mister mueller. the department of justice was defending him against the grievance with the new york bar in unbeknownst to us the new york bar printed to the department of justice professional responsibility to decide it while they were defending him so that we get a letter finding absolutely nothing was wrong even though mister wiseman had yellow highlighted evidence they knew before trial was favorable to the merrill lynch defendants completely favorable to them that is the language we needed to send them before the trial to exonerate them completely and they hit it. mark: he just seems to get away with it. >> is not even on the edge that shows that the prosecutors plainly suppressed the defense they just bailed out the government by saying it wasn't material that the fifth circuit court ruling material or not shows sketchy conduct with the supreme court reversal. you have this man who was told the dossier is tainted he winds up in the special counsel's office. the other judge

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david: tesla's general counsel is now leaving the company.'t think i've ever seen dana face-to-face, actually. this, give us a sense of who the general counsel is and thisuch of the turmoil is for tesla. dana: there was this feeling of, oh, great, tesla is finally stepping up and bringing an adult into the room. it's only been two months and now he's gone. elon started tweeting about production volume again. the new gc is jonathan chang. after arture of dane short amount of time is problematic. it's a washington-based firm -- --a: he is a defense trial there's a lot of speculation. is dane moving to california? he's remaining a partner at the firm. there's always speculation of how long this gig is going to last. it did not last very long. he's justld this be taking care of the business he needed to take care of and then going home? >> they are still investigating tesla. they hired this guy to be in control of the legal team. the fact that he's going back so quickly is raising a lot of questions for investors. you are seeing the shares in the

bush and for that was general counsel at the department of transportation.his change comes with firestorm created by andrew mccabe who believes he was fired for opening an investigation to look into donald trump, claims rosenstein plan on using the 25th amendment to remove the president and rosenstein was willing to wear a wire. tweeting in response, the biggest abuse of power and corruption scandal in our history. it is much worse than we thought. andrew mccabe plotted a coup, government overthrow when serving the fbi, before he was fired, for lying and leaking, treason. senate judiciary committee chairman lindsey graham wants to know more. >> if it is true, what i will do, oversight is part of my job. we have checks and balances in congress, we will watch those who watch us. trying to find out who was in these meetings and talk to all of us and find out who is lying. >> reporter: no timeline when hearings begin but an official announcement could come as early as this week. jillian: thank you very much. rob: former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe and rod

he serves as the transportation secretary and was previously the general counsel in the senior policy advisor from 2006 to 2009. rosenstein is expected to step down next month. set a judge ordered roger stone to appear in court tomorrow. judge jacksonsays stone has to prove why his bail should not be revoked after he posted a picture of her on instagram that shows guns crosshairs near age-related the photo and apologize. he has pled not guilty to lying tempering. , obstruction and >>> the oakland raiders may play at the coliseum one more season. we told you the raiders and the coliseum authority resumed negotiations both sides are closing in on eight deal for the raiders to play for the 2019 season the option for 20/20. they would pay $7.5 million and they only exercise the option if this stadium and las vegas is not ready. the announcement could come this week or early next week. >>> a truck went up in flames and it was caught on camera we will show you the location made it dangerous for responding crews. >>> around of wild weather impacting the u.s..i've got det storm coming up. >>>

he consulted the general counsel. he consulted colleagues.the deputy attorney general. when they decided to proceed they went to the gang of 8 of congress. this is how the fbi is supposed to function. it's also important to point out they didn't bring a criminal case against the president. they didn't try to have him removed from office under the 25th amendment. so all they did was conduct a good faith investigation which did not lead to anything that would suggest a coup. so i think it is a completely frivolous accusation. >> sean turner, ceo of news max, a right-leaning news operation, is speculating that the president might fire the director of national intelligence, dan coats, on the kar argument that dan coats disagreed with the president publicly. to be clear coats was expressing the view of the u.s. intelligence community. if the president were to dism s mu mishim would it be seen as personal about coats? it's their findings here. >> there is no doubt that's a larger broad side attack on the intelligence community. unfortunately it's n

before that, he was a general counsel at the department of transportation. now, these changes come amid the fire storm created by andrew mccabe who believes he was fired for opening an investigation into president trump, claimed rosenstein considered using the 25th amendment to remove the president and that rosenstein was willing to wear a wire. the president you see here tweeting in response the biggest abuse of power and corruption scandal in our history and it's much worse than we thought, andrew mccabe admitted to plotting a coup when he was serving in the fbi before he was fired tore lying and leaking. treason. well, now senate judiciary committee chairman lindsey graham wants to know more. >> it's one of the most significant moments in american history if it's true. oversight is part of my job. we do have checks and balances so the congress will watch those who watch us. i'll try to find out who was in these meetings and talk to all of them and figure out who is lying because somebody's lying. >> reporter: we don't have a time line for any senate judic

on one matter of anticipated litigation, the gave direction under general counsel. that concludes the meeting tonight. this meeting is adjourned. >> this meeting will come to order. this is a regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. i'm supervisor filling in for chair. i'm joined by supervisor rafael mandal minimum anman. i woulmadam clerk, any announce? >> yes, please silence all cell phones and devices and documents to be included as part of the time. it will be on the agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. >> before we begin, can i get a motion excusing supervisor fiora from attendance? supei take this motion without objections? >> yes. (gavel). >> this motion passes without objection. >> madam clerk can you please call items one and two? >> ordinance of authorizing the treasurer in the event of a partial shutdown of the united states government occurring between february and june 2019 to secure a short-term line of credit if an amount not to exceed 20 million or in the alternative partnered with one or more financial institutes for the purpose

on one matter of anticipated litigation, the gave direction under general counsel. that concludes the meeting tonight. this meeting is adjourned. [gavel]. >> chair peskin: good afternoon and welcome to the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors for today, february 11, 2019. i am the chair of the committee, aaron peskin. joined to my right by vice chair supervisor ahsha safai and to my left by committee member matt haney. our clerk is miss erica major. miss major, could you please give us any announcements and then please call the first item. >> clerk: yes. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. items acted on today will appear on the february 26, 2019 board of supervisors agenda. item one is a resolution to designate theodore roosevelt middle school, 460 arguello boulevard as a landmark under article 10. >> chair peskin: thank you. i went through the pending items of this committee and realized there were a few landmark nominations that came from the

but the fbi former general counsel james baker who met contemporaneously with mccabe and f gaylor lisat their conversations with rosenstein testified that the ee the impression that they deputy attorney general had already discussed this with two members in the president's cabinet and that they were on board with this concept already." on twitter, the president responded to mccabe on "60 minutes": "wow, so many lies by now disgraced acting fbi director andrew mccabe. he and rod rosenstein, who was look like they were planning a very illegal act the firing of james comey left vin justice department in turmoil. make concerned that the firing was designed to -- the russian program and obstruct justice. >> the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the white house. he said i never get search when i go into the white house. i think general counsel had a heart attack. he said that's a bridge too far. >> baker who could face criminal penalties for lying to congressional investigators, testified "my recollection is that there were discussions about it over the longer period of the

he then went onto serve as general counsel for some great companies. he's had a great career.t's hard to believe that a man like this would want to go out and end his clear. he didn't have to come back and be attorney general for a second time. he had done that job when he was in his 40s. why come back and do it a second time? only to handle it in a way that most lawyers that he knows would think was a swing and a miss. hard to believe that he would not handle it in the straightup, straight forward fashion that we might have expected from a rod rosenstein. another serious lawyer who believes in the law enforcement and believed in the principles of a justice department. >> what a terrific conversation we're indebted to you both for having it. thank you both for coming on tonight. we appreciate it. coming up, michael cohen's testimony just one item as we said on a crowded calendar ahead, a preview of what's shaping up to be another consequential week. prestige creams not living up to the hype? one jar shatters the competition. olay regenerist hydrates skin better than creams cos