and finally, obtaining professional services, harrison associates is the one who reviews all the work that fossil m.b. does and approves it, as well as administrative expenses to cover staff costs. and -- how it breaks out, work for the bond proceeds going to do all the infrastructure work with the sliver for the admin and the other funds, which is the arts programs and the harrison associates. here and available for questions at the end, but now shane hartz. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is shane hart, project manager for transbay. you can see from the slide we have a very busy year planned in transbay. we will begin the construction of the folsom street improvement project, anticipate completing and bidding out underramp park, provide community outreach and complete the design of transbay park. anticipate construction of blocks 5, 8 and 9, and following up to the construction reimburse certain developers for streetscape work. we plan to negotiate the block four dda and complete design. you can see from this slide that the bulk of the transbay funding is bonds, and then i

i'm joined by jamie harrison, the democratic national associate chair, former chair of the south carolinaty. good to see you. so, we saw what the republicans got. what do you guys got? >> well, chris, we're working on a lot of things right now to rebuild the infrastructure of our party. we recognize that for the past decade we allowed our infrastructure to atrophy. so, tom perez and his new administration at the dnc is working on improving what we do at the dnc internally, but also externally. we have added new staff, particularly in our technology department, coming from silicon valley, who are bringing new ideas, cutting edge technology to bear. but at the same time, we are going back to the roots of the party, which is we have to be a grassroots organizing party. >> that is exactly the point of this, they're using this to build up the number of people that they have to go out there. and to be realistic, this is something they started working on after they lost again in 2012. they put $200 million in it. so, this is the result of years and hundreds of millions of dollars of investment.

herderson, david israelite, beth matthews, michael neil, greg barnes and chris harrison with the digital media association. these individuals have all worked together and negotiated for months to try to produce a consensus legislation to help songwriters modernize the music licensing laws. so, mr. president, let me end where i began. this is a bill to help songwriters. this is a bill to modernize a copyright system. this is a bill to help our laws keep up with the digital age, the internet world. this is the bill that has consensus among digital companies and songwriters and publishers for the first time. and this is a bill to honor orrin hatch who has served in this body since 1977, who is a songwriter himself, who has been our leader on modernizing copyght lawfrom the very beginning, and i intend to work as hard as i can in a bipartisan way, both in the senate and the house, to pass this bill for the good of our country and as a capstone of the career of our senior united states senator, senator hatch. i thank the president, and i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the pre

harrison. michael mckee is at the meetings of the american economic association and he will speak with the alwaysuis and bill glass and jim gross will join us and then from the white house lawn, jon ferro in conversation with mr. cohn. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ taylor: this is "bloomberg surveillance." i am taylor riggs. belgian food distributor's attempt to buy dole foods has failed. the company says an agreement cannot be reached. dole may be valued at $2.3 million. billionaire tech investor peter thiel is considering starting a conservative news outlet according to revelations in the new behind-the-scenes book about the trump white house and report from buzzfeed news. buzzfeed says thiel is talking to robert mercer and his family about backing the news venture. computers, -- the company insists users have not been impacted. apple says recent software updates will mitigate one of the vulnerabilities and they will come out with updates for safari web browser to defend against another security flaw. that is your bloomberg business flash. tom: we want to begin with kevin cirilli in washington with a