she also had the name before she wore this costume, green gwynn.an't imagine the san francisco action network without you. i guess i'll have to get used to it. but when we started the action network, we started the grassroots arm of the department, green gwynn was a lead organizer. she was the first one to knock on the doors in the sunset to promote composting. i couldn't have done my job without her consistent volunteer time. so i just want to recognize you today and so happy that you're moving onto -- to something that you've been wanting to achieve for a long time, and i have a reason to go to portland now. >> so sunshine, can you identify yourself? >> oh, sunshine. >> and your role? >> the community relations coordinator for the department. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm kevin duram, the residential zero waste coordinator, and i had a pleasure of working with gwynn in those early days, particularly -- it was before environment now. in some respects, gwynn fore hawed owed and -- fore shadowed and showed the kind of work we could do when we

gwynne shotwell makes spacex work. amazon is consuming everything, yet he's been methodical with his space company. you watch him and you're like, this is a methodical way of doing business. who knows what happens? jason: next, we speak with one of the engineers behind nasa's mission to bring a space shuttle to earth. carol: and the columbia mission from 1981. jason: this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." jason: you can also find us online. carol: and our mobile app. jason: a plan at the space agency to do something that has never been done before. carol: bring peace of a planet back to earth. dimitra: the caesar mission is a team of people led by steve squires, a professor at cornell, who successfully led the mars rover mission. this is going to travel out to a specific comet, 67p. >> a well-known comet? dimitra:comets are very important to nasa. it is a top priority. there is a lot of organic material, clues in pristine condition that will give us answers to questions abo

gwynne shotwell makes spacex work. amazon is consuming everything, and disrupting everything, yet he's been methodical with his space company. which has yet to reach orbit. we have seen a recent lift off and landing. you watch him and you're like, this is a methodical way of doing business. who knows what happens? jason: next, we speak with one of the engineers behind nasa's mission to bring a piece of a comet back to earth. carol: and what was it like for the first much of a space -- first launch of a space shuttle, the columbia mission from 1981. jason: this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." jason: you can also find us online. carol: and our mobile app. carol: in space this week, a plan. -- a profile of nasa's posh mission. jason: a plan at the space agency to do something that has never been done before. carroll: and that is to bring a piece of a comment back to earth. dimitra: the caesar mission is a team of people led by steve squires, a professor at cornell, who succe

gwynne has probably very high emotional intelligence. she is very good at managing people and very positive and probably not swinging as much in various directions. she is in sales and that is where she came up with the company. now she has expanded her purview. but she is very good at leading -- reading a room and translating the technical stuff into a business model and a story that customers can understand, that employees can understand, and as we see now, to some extent, the public can understand. jason: we are here with the editor in chief joe weber. what inspired the space issue? joel: we were looking up at the sky and the idea came to us. why don't we do a space issue? it is the next economic frontier. we are on the brink of watching businesses open up this vast potential that has never had the opportunity to be tapped. we are talking about on the ground and in orbit, and by looking at mars. jason: we are also talking about huge amounts of money and some of the biggest personalities devoting an infinite amount of time and resource

james comey, he says reach out and try to gwynn it for the democrats -- gwynn i go win ie democrats.sort of curious. there's been so many lines, is cohen flipping, is he rolling on trump. what does that mean and what does the end game there, meaning what does the landscape look like three months from now if he quote, rolls or flips? then what? is it unsavory information or is a violation of campaign finance laws? what is it exactly? >> in the last 18 months, it's been how do we undercut that president. they started off by talking about collusion with russia. turns out that hasn't been accurate. they haven't been able to prove any facts on that. they seem to kind of move the goal post to try to undercut his agenda. many have been attacking his agenda, not just from the democratic sides but they're easy to see where they're coming. we know they have no agenda moving forward. we know they're going to attack. even the republicans or never-trumpers or folks that are parts of washington establishment, he railed against them. they're trying to prove a case against the president. they're com

the county fire started in the community of gwynn da on june 30th. acres and destroying 20 structures. it's 86% contained. >>> history this morning in san francisco. you're looking at london breed taking the oath of office. breed is san francisco's first african american female mayor. she sent out this tweet. shortly after growing up in the western addition neighborhood. it never seemed possible i could serve as mayor one day. i would not be here without the community that believed in me. i will do everything i can to afford those opportunities to the next generation. >>> the trump administration has missed its deadline to reunite undocumented migrant children who have been separated from their parents. fewer than half are back with theirre mrert f immiat even as his administration struggles to meet a court order to reunify families. a day after a court ordered deadline, families still separated and the president blaming democrats. tweeting brussels, democrats in congress must no longer obstruct. judges run the system and illegals and traffickers kno

. >> this is gwynne shotwell.lks about elon musk making comments to a news affiliation before a launch of one of the rockets and says something like, it may work or it may not you do not do this if you run a rocket company. she had to go to london to say everything is going to be ok and she had to go to california for the launch. woman, one of three kids, she is an engineer. she talks about her mother taking her to an engineer society. it made her become a mechanical engineer. came to tesla, she went to spacex. there were a handful of employees. she gets along with elon musk and people say she is a rocket scientist, a star in her own right. business,s is a real it is $20 billion. maybe that is the successful way of doing it. what is interesting and this is something we should note, spacex changed the economics of space exploration in sending a rocket up. they do it more cheaply in any of the companies. , 50% lessnch alliance than sending a rocket up. they show you can make it reusable. it has changed the equation.

over the course of ten years we've gwynn 5.74 billion in aid to guatemala, honduras, el salvador. people are living the northern triangle because of poor governance. we're putting money into our aid program, usaid, mcc, opec, other organizations to get good governance, to get economic development in those countries yet we're not getting the return on that. we've got to do something different. we can't do the same thing over and over again. if i throw in the war on drugs, we spent over $2 trillion since the '70s on the war on drugs. i think we're all convinced we're not winning the war on drugs especially with mexico with 72,000 acres of poppy fields which goes into heroin which goes into my country. colombia has more coco planned. -- coca planted today than when we had the drug cartels. so i want to know, what do we need to do as a nation, more specifically this committee, to direct foreign policy to we get good governance, we get a better economy and we get allies onboard with us that seriously want to fix this problem. ambassador merten? >> thanks for the question. and, you know