in his new england accent, charles sumner liked to refer to grant as grant. you can imagine that was somewhat irritating to the ref ian general from illinois. sumner never missed a chance to level the most damning rhetoric against the president. i want to share with you a few lines of a speech he made in 1872. this was on the eve of the republican national convention, that was the year ground was going to be reelected. sumner had this notion that he could somehow prevent that from happening if he went on the senate floor and gave a speech that pointed up all of grant's short coming. republicanism versus granted them. i suppose some would've said republicanism versus grant isn't. let me read from my book here, on the one hand, sumner accused grant of laziness and detachment, treating the presidential off this in his words as little more than a plaything for palace cars fast horses and seaside loitering's figured more than doings and on the other hand, he denounced the president for being too domineering and intrusive for exercising pretension making the republ

so what does grant do? grant becomes the person who controls that army in mississippi completely because grant outranks mcclaren. you have this situation. and then halak, who can't stand mcclaren and one of the reasons being he's not a west pointer, not even -- >> whatever that's worth. >> whatever that means. yeah. >> i'm not going to miss a straight line. the whole idea being that grant will command and he gets halak to agree to make mcclaren one of the core commanders in grant's army. grant just outmaneuvers all of these people. he doesn't have to outma new mer -- >> does he resent the fact that lincoln put him in this position at all? >> he doesn't seem to. that's the part that i find amazing too. it just seems that he understand what's going on, the issue of the politics of it. >> later on grant does relieve mcclaren of his command. do you know if he checked with lincoln before he did that? >> no, he didn't. in fa in fact, that's one of the most amazing things. later on when they're fighting in the vic

grant. let's introduce you to our two guests of the table, a member of our academic advisory panel for this year, we are delighted to have him here. he's a longtime white house a story in and the author of the president's house. bill, it's so great to see you. pam is a historian at the ulysses as grant national historic site and st. louis majority and working on a biography of julia grant. let's start with you, we last left the cities with the johnson,'s after impeachment. and the politics with the radical republicans and the reconstruction, so set the stage for us as the grants come into the white house. >> well, grants election started off with a campaign, let us have peace. so people were really looking to grant to kind of bring some peace and quiet to the white house and to the nation after the war and then the years of the johnson administration so those who are grants initial efforts as he took office. >> and those are the themes that we brought who were looking at his inaugural, the t

grant, a work of tremendous scholarship that has greatly enriched our understanding of grants classic autobiography. i should also point out on her behalf, that she is with us tonight in her personal capacity so the views she expresses our her own and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the department of the army, the department of defense or the u.s. government. we are especially glad professor samet could join us because if the annual ceremony had gone forward today, she would have been the keynote speaker. by the way, both of tonight's panelists will be featured in a three part series on grant that the history channel will air starting on memorial day may 25th. with that, i hope you all stay safe and we will now turn the program over to general petraeus. general? >> thanks very much frank for the kind introduction. thanks for elevating me. i wish i were the chairman of the kkr. thanks to all those in the audience for joining us for this virtual celebration of grants 198 birthday. it is great to be back with the grant monument association. it's a wonderful

grant. i have to start with a question that has a good story behind it. who is buried inside grants to? >> when i started writing this story into doesn't 11, i realized i was going to get that question. i got interested in the origins of the joke. i traced back a i and some of you might, be able to remember in the 19 fifties, he was dismayed that some of the contestants couldn't answer one of the questions, so he said he would ask questions that the contestants could answer. to his astonishment, half the guests got it wrong. such as the staying power of a great community, and the line has become part of popular culture. >> let's start at the beginning with grant. where was he born? what were the conditions of his upbringing like? >> he grew up in a series of southwestern counts in ohio. you the significance of that was that it separated the free state of ohio with the sleeve owning state of ohio. it's very important in terms of thinking of grant later on really straddling the worlds of both

to admire grant. what about grant's opinion of lincoln? he says in his memoir, page for 73, you might want to check it out, john. he says that he was by no means a lincoln man. when does he become one? >> i think -- and it's right. he is not interested. you should pardon the expression, but actually, grant voted for buchanan in that first election and he was a douglas guy more than he was anything else coming from illinois, etc etc. i think that he does not really recognize the greatness of lincoln until he gets to washington. i really do. i think when he visits lincoln in the white house and lincoln says some of the things that he says to him, they agree on how they are going to fight the war, he just finds that lincoln -- later on he says lincoln is the greatest man i ever met. >> he had to meet him to know that. >> he had to meet him. they had never seen each other until that famous episode. >> speaking of that meeting, i put a picture of the hotel here on the screen. this is a famous scene in marc

my name is sarah bloom, grant program administrator for the green infrastructure grant program at the sfpuc, and walk you through how the first pilot year went and the approach for the current timeline for our applicants. before we get started, i wanted to quickly review what green infrastructure is. it's a set of sustainable engineered storm water management tools designed to slow down and route storm water away from the sewer system, a variety of different green infrastructure, some like rain gardens or bioretention planters or green roof, or things like permeable pavement or rain barrels you may have in your home. and the puc has a long-term vision of managing a billion gallons of storm water, using green infrastructure by the year 2050. so using techniques to reach the goal, management ordinance, capital projects as part of the agency approach and supporting incentive and grant programs, that's the program i'm here to talk to you about today. so the program, we came to you in february of 2019 for the first round of delegated authority. we launched our program shortly after that. i

why grant mandamus now? >> well fokker made clear that there are different considerations at different stage of a criminal case to the extent that you, even if we credit that fokker is binding on rule 48a in here we have two different district judges that poofrt their obligations made factual findings as to the basis for plea, et cetera. and so the government's motion doesn't just implicate the government's position. it implicates those rulings that two district court judges so the case isn't the same as it would be prior to the plea agreement in that respect. >> i certainly agree with that. it is true there are different pleas at different stages and fokker says accepting the plea agreement calls on the court authority because it has to ascertain whether there's factual basis with the plea. but it contrasts that with dismissal. the part i disagree with is once you cross that plea line, a defendant has pleaded, that suddenly everything that follows invokes the court's authority in some way that changes the c

grant some kind of limited mandamus relief. you are making that argument even though you don't have a mandamus petition before us. none of that is regular order. that very little about this case is regular order. i don't think not filing a mandamus petition should be taken as legally relevant in any way. we already responded to supporting a petition. we make the full range of arguments in our legal argument. my only point was it gets back to regular order. take off the table the evidentiary proceedings in question. even if you chests narrowed it to the legal meaning, it is no longer relevant, you still ought to take the additional step of granting mandamus. those were questions and first impressions. principlesutional are clear when it comes to mandamus. here we have not just the constitutional concerns of article two and three, but the decision itself. to theep coming back dick schaap knew what the district court did. we did not know there. >> it says it doesn't different times that there is prosecutorial discretion. there is

it would do to grant a motion. the move that to make is key to the merits on page 19 of replace is a that fokker issues for the -- doesn't apply once the court has accepted the plea. i think that's got to be wrong for no fewer than four reasons. first, once we know it's not the concern of the rule in most of the cases which pre-plea cases didn't we know it's not what the rule writers of it. the constitutional concerns of the same after the plea. when no one want to pursue the executive and the soul of a controversy between parties. third, we know as you said they use can dismiss even after judgment, even after trial at alone after a plea. there's no magical plea line. fourth, fokker rejected exactly this distinction. it said accepting the plea agreement to be sure of the judicial act, that falls on the courts authority. once you know that plea line, there's nothing magical about that in terms of the rule 48 of the constitution, i think the case on the merits collapses and they're just back to judge henderson's ques

it may very well be granted. it would be inappropriate to case wheremus in a the government is raising novel arguments that were not raised below. this court has said these questions are essential to be raised. to maintain the regular order. you cannot second-guess's a legitimate prosecutorial discretion. the issue is whether a federal district court judge consigning expedited grieving -- briefing schedule. >> in a case such as this where the the government and senate agree that the motion to dismiss, isn't the amicus creating controversy where there isn't one? is a case of controversy here for several reasons. they are both asking for the motion to be dismissed with prejudice. the parties once that because they do not want another prosecutor to come back and look at these charges and bring these charges against mr. flynn. everyone in this case agrees , the chargesion are ended. if the district court said this should be denied, then what happens? then we go on to sentencing mr. flynn even though the executive is

however, as we go forward and refine the process as we did with the sb-2 grant, the prior grant we applied for under similar program from acd, there was some refinement of our process and our projects as it went along. so we are going to get the application in prior to july 1st, and it will probably be subject to negotiation with hcd and potential changes as we go through sort of a technical assistance and consultation program with them. i'm sure that our planning staff would be happy to work with your office and with the committee however possible to address any concerns in terms of how we've specified or scoped the projects before a final grant agreement is signed. unfortunately, this was a bit of a scramble to pull a draft together so that we could both submit it to you and get it submitted in time to hcd. >> got it. has there been any consultation with the west side? obviously this is primarily impacting part of the west side. wondering if there's been any discussions with either district one, district four, or district seven about the scope of it. >> let me ask paolo or mary ann to sp

this grant program, the grant programs have been administered by the u.s.fire administration through fema. they've worked remarkably well the last 18 years since we've had these programs the in place. the reason that they work so well is that we do peer reviews. in other words, other firefighters actually sit in on the reviews of those grant applications and that has worked amazingly well. we're sort of the experts in this field and it's worked tremendously well. now that they're able to do peer reviews in a remote setting, i think those are going to move fatherly quickly. >> and i'll add from the international association of fire chiefs, we fully support the current afg and safer programs, the way that's been delivered it's a very clear and transparent process. there's no middle agency, middle person. the funds go directly from the federal government to fire departments. there is a very transparent and clear process with that with the peer review process that steve spoke of. and it has been a proven system that has worked for multiple years, 18 years or so

grant's right-hand man. grant is going to get promoted to the east, sherman will get command in the west, and that is all basically related to vicksburg, with a subsequent success in the chattanooga area. that rolls it all up right there. the question begs itself, could the war have been won without sherman and grant? can the north win the war without sherman and grant? that is an open-ended question for you to ponder. be note takers ought to writing right now. if you think about it, which those of you up front, because you paid the early bird special of can now see that small print $130 and you in the back cannot and will not get that joke. this actually happens to be the only picture that i can find with all three generals in it, including the subsequent president andrew johnson. grant, sherman, and meade. out of those commanders, which are -- which ones are indispensable? debatable question, but grant obviously has to be up there. if you think about it, what about the parks to the veterans? what does it m

they could apply for a safer grant. they are going to have attrition in their next budget year that they already know is going to occur. but the grant as the rules are currently presented do not help them. so they are not going to apply for that kind of assistance. if we could get that waiver enacted into law, it would help cities. and i'm sure there are others around the state or the country that are similarly situated tulsa. those are important. that is the flexibility i'm talking about. >> to follow-up, for smaller departments with 10 or fewer firefighters in some cases, the safer grant, no cities, is that making a difference, between whether or not a community could retain professional fire department? a differencemaking between whether or not they are continuing to keep their fire department going or not? >> it could, it actually could. the cost associated with hiring firefighters and personnel, we all know that it is expensive. but we have already experienced furloughs in pauls valley, furloughs in mcalester. the

the carry forward of grants -- the carry forward of unused grant amounts or the unused one million grant amount from the fiscal year '18-'19 was 179,000 and there were reserves that were relieved as a part of an initial reserve package back in 2016 and that was 25,000. and then, there was money on reserves for doing the accessibility work for the legacy businesses at 143,000 and so that's how we got to the total of the $1,900,000. and then, we outlined the expense, the rent stabilization grant expense is at 728,000. i think that i will -- and so on. we have our contracts out with -- our contract out so that we can start putting up slack and we hope to have that ready to go by the end of june. again, there was a delay in the issuing of the contracts just because of the covid situation. and so moving into 2021, our baseline grants will be a million dollars and our baseline program expenses 20,400 and then, i will be working very hard to maintain this 75,000. if we're not able to have that in a position that we are able to utilize in relationship to a -- be able to do a contract. and the re

total assets of 1.1 million are related to program receivables from federal and regional grants. total liability of 658,000 include 375,000 of payable to consultant for services provided and 283,000 payable to the transportation authority for cost, incurred and paid for by timma. we earned 1.5 million of revenues and for the federal advance transportation and congestion management technology deployment grant in the first three-quarters, timma incurred 669,000 of expenditures, including 472,000 in technical professional services and 297,000 for personnel and non-personnel expenditures. work on the program from january through march proceeded more slowly than anticipated, mainly due to the delay to better align with the t.a. san francisco pricing study and the current construction scheduled on treasure island right now. okay, moving on to the next agenda item, we have agenda item 5. this is the fiscal year 19/20 budget amendment. this increases total revenues by 228,000 primarily due to the timing of grant invoices for the work and fiscal year 18/19. this is a timing difference bet

grant and not change what he said but to fully annotated. basically if you consider the fact that the grant memoirs had

good morning i think it should be primarily grants if this is to be an insurance it's should be grants because in enter into a contract you don't normally land there is one issue here though which is incentives so if the idea is that this is not pure insurance but also an instruments and instrument to to induce a report that in itself is debatable but if that's the objective of some incentives are needed and one possibility would be to say ok if countries make promises about reports and realize there was a ripple of past successful they could keep the money and if not it could be it could become a loan that's a possibility. generally if solidarity is what or what this fund is to be think it should be grants not loans because currently ok it's can lend money themselves at very low rates so why do we need europe for that ok you're saying solidarity equals grants the for the frugal for would not be agreeing with you on that and they'd be saying what kind of control mechanism mechanisms can we put in place to make sure there is no corruption that's 500000000000 euros and in grants we're ta

total assets of 1.1 million are related to program receivables from federal and regional grants. total liability of 658,000 include 375,000 of payable to consultant for services provided and 283,000 payable to the transportation authority for cost, incurred and paid for by timma. we earned 1.5 million of revenues and for the federal advance transportation and congestion management technology deployment grant in the first three-quarters, timma incurred 669,000 of expenditures, including 472,000 in technical professional services and 297,000 for personnel and non-personnel expenditures. work on the program from january through march proceeded more slowly than anticipated, mainly due to the delay to better align with the t.a. san francisco pricing study and the current construction scheduled on treasure island right now. okay, moving on to the next agenda item, we have agenda item 5. this is the fiscal year 19/20 budget amendment. this increases total revenues by 228,000 primarily due to the timing of grant invoices for the work and fiscal year 18/19. this is a timing difference bet

grant program. the aasc is a carbon tax funded program that focuses on the development of transportation housing and infrastructure that achieve greenhouse gas reductions and benefit disadvantaged communities. on november 1, 2018, the department of house and community development issued a notice of funding availability for the program and on november 14th, the tida board authorized staff to prepare a joint application with mercy housing. similarly, on january 29th, 2019, the board of supervisors approved a similar resolution. and we filed our application in february of 2019. we received our issue of notice of award from hcd, june of last year and this resolution would authorize us to execute the standard grant agreement and related documents. i should note that the board of supervisorred similarly authorized the execution of this standard grant agreement yesterday. a little background on our lord, roughlaward, 13.75 million is to the catholic charity's building being planned for parcel c 3.1, a 138-

grant language and conditions. a copy of the amended resolution has been provided to the clerk, and the budget analyst's report has a recommendation to approve and reflect the higher grant totals. the airport's -- excuse me. a copy of the amended resolution has been provided to the clerk, but i would be happy to send that to the committee, as well. the second item is item number 9, it's a grant accept and expend s.f.o.s portion of the c.a.r.e.s. act. as stated in the airport's financial recovery plan which was shared with the committee last month. s.f.o. will use the grant funds to pay for debt service on general airport revenue bonds. a budget analyst's report is not required since there is no matching requirement with these moneys. the airport's finance team is currently projecting a $364 million shortfall through fiscal year 21, request a conservative estimated recovery by fiscal year 22-23. the $254 million in c.a.r.e.s. grant funding will apply to this shortfall. the rest will be covered through identified con

or lose eligibility for grants.25,000 difference. that unfair and it could cause distortion to competition and some businesses want to survive and continue and others just because of that one pound difference in the value of property. also... tell us what how this can be fixed. there are two ways, one is that the schemes could be changed so that the schemes could be changed so that rather than having the big cliff edges in support, support gets tapered away and that is how it often works with these schemes, the other issue that could be changed is that rather than have national thresholds who define who is eligible for grants, so if you're in london, over 20% of properties are above the threshold, regional thresholds could be set to reflect the differences in property values, to make sure the schemes are more fairly providing support to different parts of country where values are different. we will have to eleven it, because we have a busy morning. thank you for explaining that clearly. the queen's official birthday

taxpayers, but they have paid these grant recipients to take their research over to china at chinese universities, again, universities affiliated with the chinese communist party. this is not about the people of china. this is about the chinese communist party. they have been very clever. they want to make sure that congress is a stronger competitor, that china is a stronger competitor against u and so they take the research delivered from the united states to a lab in china where they try to replicate the research, provide the money to these researchers. just last week we released a fourth p.s.i. report that shows that this problem of china not playing by the rules extends to the telecommunications space as well. let me explain that situation, and then i'll go back to the thousand talents program. you may remember that in may of last year the f.c.c. prohibited a company called china mobile, and their u.s. subsidiary from providing telecom services from the united states on the grounds of doing so was jeopardizing our national security, the first time such a ruling had been issued. t

another 22% is granted to our c.b.o. partners to provide a variety of services to our city's most vulnerable residents. mohcd is said to achieve the goal set forth in 2014 to preserve or construct 10,000 units of housing affordable to low-income households by 2020. as of march 31, 2020, we have achieved a new or preserved count of 9,744 units, with exactly 306 homes on target to be completed by the end of 2020. we currently have 23,551 affordable rental units across 377 projects and 1,583 inclusionary rental units as well as 2,831 inclusionary rental home units. there are 133 projects that are 100% affordable in the pipeline, totaling 11,725 units. of that, 9,729 units are family housing, 1,929 units are set aside specifically for senior housing, and 1,806 homes will become permanently supportive housing for households that were previously unsheltered. the mayor's office of housing and community development has accomplished much over the last 12 months. i'd like to highlight a couple of achievements that exemplify how we

the carry forward of grants -- the carry forward of unused grant amounts or the unused one million grant amount from the fiscal year '18-'19 was 179,000 and there were reserves that were relieved as a part of an initial reserve package back in 2016 and that was 25,000. and then, there was money on reserves for doing the accessibility work for the legacy businesses at 143,000 and so that's how we got to the total of the $1,900,000. and then, we outlined the expense, the rent stabilization grant expense is at 728,000. i think that i will -- and so on. we have our contracts out with -- our contract out so that we can start putting up slack and we hope to have that ready to go by the end of june. again, there was a delay in the issuing of the contracts just because of the covid situation. and so moving into 2021, our baseline grants will be a million dollars and our baseline program expenses 20,400 and then, i will be working very hard to maintain this 75,000. if we're not able to have that in a position that we are able to utilize in relationship to a -- be able to do a contract. and the re

she must -- risked much to be with grant during the war.traveling more than 10,000 miles over four years to bring him the sunshine he desperately needed. it was julia's natural tendency to spread sunshine that led her to urge grant to invite lincoln to city point in march of 1865. and it was only after mary lincoln rained on julius perpetual sunny disposition that she nerve herself to disappoint the president and insist that her husband refuse the invitation to the theater. the reader of the civil war cannot help but be struck by the symmetry in these two sets of generals. the first set, fremont and mcclellan were like meteors. they blazed at first sight, raced high in the public eye, left chaos in their wake, and then faded from view. the second set, william sherman and ulysses grant were like stars. in the fading light of dusk, they were only dimly perceived but their brilliance emerged as night fell. and the darkest hours, they shone brightly enough to light a path home and they have endured. there is symmetry as well in the wives storie

another 22% is granted to our c.b.o. partners to provide a variety of services to our city's most vulnerable residents. mohcd is said to achieve the goal set forth in 2014 to preserve or construct 10,000 units of housing affordable to low-income households by 2020. as of march 31, 2020, we have achieved a new or preserved count of 9,744 units, with exactly 306 homes on target to be completed by the end of 2020. we currently have 23,551 affordable rental units across 377 projects and 1,583 inclusionary rental units as well as 2,831 inclusionary rental home units. there are 133 projects that are 100% affordable in the pipeline, totaling 11,725 units. of that, 9,729 units are family housing, 1,929 units are set aside specifically for senior housing, and 1,806 homes will become permanently supportive housing for households that were previously unsheltered. the mayor's office of housing and community development has accomplished much over the last 12 months. i'd like to highlight a couple of achievements that exemplify how we

we launched temporary assistance grants through the c.a.r.e.s.fundingal kalted to ccdf and the first payment was made to the programs on april 1st just weeks after indiana initial cases were identified. over the course of the last 12 weeks our early childhood division has supported over 2,500 providers. we also opened pop-up centers in areas of need. to date we have spent around $55 million of our $78 million in the c.a.r.e.s. funding. we anticipate spending all of it within the next 2 1/2 months. there is a significant return on investment for the use of c.a.r.e.s. funding in this manner. had we not given those grants the vast majority of childcares that closed would have had to lay off people, putting them on unemployment. to open back up and stay open, childcare programs required a trusted source for covid-19 communication. fssa released detailed, evidence-based health guidance for childcare throughout the covid pandemic. we have weekly provider calls and webinars. the supportive environment created the confidence and reassurance needed for ma

another 22% is granted to our c.b.o. partners to provide a variety of services to our city's most vulnerable residents. mohcd is said to achieve the goal set forth in 2014 to preserve or construct 10,000 units of housing affordable to low-income households by 2020. as of march 31, 2020, we have achieved a new or preserved count of 9,744 units, with exactly 306 homes on target to be completed by the end of 2020. we currently have 23,551 affordable rental units across 377 projects and 1,583 inclusionary rental units as well as 2,831 inclusionary rental home units. there are 133 projects that are 100% affordable in the pipeline, totaling 11,725 units. of that, 9,729 units are family housing, 1,929 units are set aside specifically for senior housing, and 1,806 homes will become permanently supportive housing for households that were previously unsheltered. the mayor's office of housing and community development has accomplished much over the last 12 months. i'd like to highlight a couple of achievements that exemplify how we

because i'iow their lives less for granted because now you see , their lives less for granted becausepriorities have been shifted. let's go now to california in the united states and toa california in the united states and to a student there, angela matterson. what you want to ask our panellists? police brutality and racial discrimination are injustices felt across the world, and i would like to address what actions the people can do to be more connected to the world in order to create international change and how do we use our social influence to the highest benefit? as a supplement, in the light of what has been going on in the united states, in the aftermath of the brutal killing of george floyd, we have had social media, of reaction on that, can there be a future where it is ok to be black and not instantlyjudged? how can we be antiracist? jameela jamil, you are in california, how do you... what is your take on this? we are way too late to get into this point in the conversation and i can't believe this is happening in 2020 but now we are here and now the world seems to be paying

we did miss out on a grant, $24 million grant from the board of corrections. because the office of cannabis didn't have the capacity. it's not their fault. it's the fault of the system that is not recognizing that we need to have that capacity so that we can apply for this. i expect there will be more grants coming next year. i would make a recommendation, supervisors, so that we can fast-track the rest of these equity grants so we don't have to have them stuck in committee unless it's absolutely necessary. the equity applicants need these funds. one more comment in this go biz, there are three allocations for r.f.p. i would like for you guys to start on some of those r.f.p. processes concurrently. i would like for us not to have to wait to get to the next stage before we start the discussion on how the r.f.p.s should be shaped. >> speaker's time has expired. >> again, urgency is here -- >> next speaker. >> make a recommendation, supervisors so that -- [inaudible] >> are there any other callers in the queue? >> yes, i wanted to make a public acknowledgment. yo

general also tonight we'll talk about exactly how the cops are protected from lawsuits arguments for granting them legal immunity from misconduct on the job may be headed to the supreme court later in the show amazon's been caught red handed in its latest p.r. stunt feeding sponsored news content to local t.v. stations 'd across the country don't go anywhere america's war starts right now. riots in america where does it all lead how what does it mean for the next presidential election i have fair and cousins with me we're going to talk about this fair and you know this is this is complicated it's tough to do in 8 minutes to round all this out but as i was watching a couple of commentaries the thing that struck me was rick perlstein you and i did actually we interviewed rick perlstein my memory is who wrote nixon land and as i look at nixon land it plays right into what i see happening what is your take on it i think there's a lot of moving parts to this obviously you know we've got the the act. sins of the police officers not just the one you know who killed george floyd but what's been happe

grant historical home advisory board in detroit, michigan.ncoln's generals wives published in 2016 has won national awards and will be available for the book store and signing later today. please welcome candice hooper. [ applause ] i first want to thank herald for this wonderful invitation, it's a great honor, and catherine clinton, with the blush on the cover of my book, thank you so much. i have to thank jean and john marlack and michelle cowell without whom my book would not have been written or published. like so many others stories of the civil war mine begins and ends with abraham lincoln. it begins in his office in the white house at the outset of the war with his unprecedented open door to all, including wives of military men seeking redress or advantage for their husbands. it concludes in the cabinet room after his assassination with the death of his hopes for a soft peace. in between those two points in american history, lies my tale of four women who influenced the civil war by influencing their husbands who fought it. in large pa

and grant has not had a professional trim since march. so bridget wrote me a letter saying that it's easy to cut hair, she did her dad's hair and even sent me money so i could buy a kit and cut it for grant. well grant vicki and debris said a little fun with this whole situation bridget in the letter said it was easy to cut dad's hair. >>and so just seen asked him about it and the debt goes. >>a it doesn't look like just he never cut your hair grant but it looks well. >>really you you're supposed to get it cut on monday when san francisco allows her to him, but you know today of course the mayor says that's not happening. monday's so wow. wow is right instead we donated the money from bridget to haircuts with hart. >>a nonprofit that gives haircuts to the homeless in the bay area. you can read bridge its original letter and my response back on my facebook and instagram pages and for the record i do like grants here very long. i'm justine waldman kron 4 some good coming out of long hair let it go man just be a happy and it's and it's an al

grant is a president who had his faults.s human, but he accomplished a great deal to get america right. in the same way i think roosevelt is one of the greatest presidents, he interred the japanese, he didn't allow the st. louis ship in 1938 to come to the shores of the united states. on the other hand he agrieved great things. in toppling that statue -- i understand the desire and i don't want to throw it it with the civil war honoring confederate soldiers. that's a mistake and it's wrong. he made mistakes. on the other hand, you learn from that and he learned from it and became a better president. >> governor christie, i want to turn to this president. the firing of geoffrey berman, i fully understand presidents have the power to nominate and appoint u.s. attorneys and the right to fire them. isn't at least there a serious appearance of a conflict here? >> no, there's not. the fact is that, you know, u.s. attorneys -- i was one of them for seven years. you serve at the pleasure of the president who appointed you. this is n

they wore t shifrts and masks to remember oscar grant. a b.a.r.t. police officer shot and killed grant. police were responding to a call about fight on a b.a.r.t. train returning from san francisco. the b.a.r.t. officer was charged with murder and later convicted of manslaughter. many speakers demanded reform and defunding police, and the director responded to a comment that grant was murdered. the family said it was murder. >> she is not apologized to us as a family or apologized how we feel and what we saw in our family member being murdered. it's like her saying, all lives matter and yet, we can not say black lyes >> it brought back the feelings of they say she hurt them before by questioning the mural grant to honor oscar at the station. >> we heard b.a.r.t. pd murders people and that's not true. the definition of murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of of a human being by another. it's simply a false statement. you know, statements made like this, right now, in a time of such turmoil and unrest, really, i can only guess are politically m

we have been waiting for this to begin since 2014 when the first cof grant was awarded. rec committee. we are for having this happen within the baseball field and we have been in discussion for quite some time about this project. lastly, on a personal note i want to thank rec and park for keeping the park open. it has been a place of respite for myself and others. i want be to congratulate you for keeping it open for the employees and daycare and keeping it open so folks can get out and actually have mental health aspects needs met. we heard there is an uptick in engagement at bayview park which we are happy to see people taking advantage of the opportunity during this time. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> please state your name. you have two minutes. >> caller: this is mia rogers. i am a bayview resident and parks advocate. it is nice to hear everyone's voice. i am commenting on the bayview park renovation as well. happy to see that is coming along. i am echoing what they said. also, i am thankful the parks are thought of in such a progressive kind of way that invol

>> kennedy: you can't have grant. you may not have ulysses s. grant. these people are incredibly shortsighted and they don't have an understanding of history. not only what he did as the union general against all odds,, and lincoln wanted him to eat lead the army because he said he fights. i don't necessarily agree with all facets of the civil war, but general grant was a hero, and when he was president he had to fight so hard against some of andrew johnson's overtly racist policies, where johnson was trying to return the south to prewar status by enabling some of these plantation owners to continue to subjugate free people who are then enslaved under various systems, and grant had to fight against that in his two terms. he worked and was friends with frederick douglass. you may not have him. >> dagen: charlie, let's talk about last week, when a crowd set fire to a statue of george washington in portland, oregon. i will point out that the teddy roosevelt statue is a little different, because it's not a crowd tearing it down. it is a decision backed by

my name is sarah bloom, grant program administrator for the green infrastructure grant program at the sfpuc, and walk you through how the first pilot year went and the approach for the current timeline for our applicants. before we get started, i wanted to quickly review what green infrastructure is. it's a set of sustainable engineered storm water management tools designed to slow down and route storm water away from the sewer system, a variety of different green infrastructure, some like rain gardens or bioretention planters or green roof, or things like permeable pavement or rain barrels you may have in your home. and the puc has a long-term vision of managing a billion gallons of storm water, using green infrastructure by the year 2050. so using techniques to reach the goal, management ordinance, capital projects as part of the agency approach and supporting incentive and grant programs, that's the program i'm here to talk to you about today. so the program, we came to you in february of 2019 for the first round of delegated authority. we launched our program shortly after that. i

they have got a loan, but are banking on a new cash grant as well.o so many of our customers are in hospitality, cafes, universities, workplaces, that are all closed, so we lost 90% of our revenue overnight. the government has done a huge amount to help small businesses get through this crisis. this new fund is a top—up designed to help businesses who have missed out on earlier cash grants, but demand could well outstrip supply. in bristol, the applications have been pouring in. we think there are 2,100 businesses that qualify for the new grant scheme. if we gave each of those £10,000, that would be roughly £21 million. of course, we've been given 3.5 to 4.5 million. so you can see the gap, it's huge. you've got a trickyjob, then. yeah, it's very, very difficult. it's going to be very hard. and we will of course face the brunt of a lot of those businesses, who, we're unable to support them because we just don't have the funding from government. meaning helena and simon may not be on track for what they had hoped for. i found out that while we would h