okay or commissioners that places you under our discretionary review calendar for the case at 27 hodge's additionally this is a discretionary review. >> good afternoon, commissioners mark i'm presenting that dr for planner kate conner before you a a discretionary review for a building application to contracting constrict a verizon side to the northern side within the telegraph hill the side encroaches 16 feet into the 4 inch rear yard, however, the site edition extends 5 feet beyond the neighbor to the north it doesn't noting extend the overall eligibility it provides a 9 inch rail yard it is on a 64 feet deep a rear yard surveillance was granted on december 4, 2014, after a public hearing on december 24th of that year the variance is piloted and hearing before the board of appeals is on february 18th i'm sorry on march 18 of this year rdt was amended that is third corridor be approximately the architecture given the mixed height and character of the block as well as the narrow width of the streets the edition will be comparable with the block character and the proposed site emission is

army europe, attorney general ben hodges.eneral hodges: this is more than 20,000 personnel involved. it is touching portugal, spain sardinia. it will have an air component, a maritime component, a special operations component and all the domains will be involved. i am excited about it because it is going to demonstrate alliance c capability. it is also a great opportunity for u.s. army eueurope to demonstrate what we do so well which is logistics. the command will be at the heart of logistics support for this multinational exercise, spread across three different countries. it is going to be a great function with communications working logistics in a way that unlike the past, where logistics was a national responsibility -- that makes zero sense in the modern way of fighting. we are organizing tasks at the technical level where it is completely infeasible to say it is a national responsibility. we are going to get better at that. i am excited about thahat. also, we are going to prepare troopers from the 82nd. we will participa

to the left is 14 hodge's 16 hundred square feet smaller at 16 feet wide you you know narrow and 20 hodge's a next door is smaller and has a rear yard the vallejo street is 11 by 12 feet witting wide they have a rear yard clearly the requirement is not met you need to meet all 5 variances the variance shouldn't be granted clearly two neighbors are harmed 26 hodge's their slide is 26 inches past the neighbors wall here's 26 hodge's and thirty hovjz and here's my house a lot of open space and the sun comes this way that's my light well this building shouldn't be coming out here this building is aligned with this small building this is inches beyond the neighbors wall they're required to you pull back to the neighbors wall and this is asked for consideration they said no, i'm asking for a 3 feet by 3 feet 9 square feet open space right over here pill back 3 photo by 3 feet 9 square feet i'm looking this i'm on a cliff i'm adjacent to a crystal-clear there's exceptional or extraordinary circumstances my light wells have a difficulty assessing lighthouse it's a near vertical slope at the

street i think that hodge's is narrow but buildings especially as i go on hodge's there are fairly tall already. >> yeah. the neighbors across the street are a lot a lot taller than that. >> - is that building dribble across the street i mean what's directly across the street. >> i'll show you just a second. >> this is from the roof deck so you can see how tall the neighborhoods are from across the street a lot taller. >> i think i generally okay with it i remember it would be ideal to have a larger set back in the front but getting another foot or two and the building adjacent to you on hodge's shared that light well, where's the visibility and which one. >> to the north on hodge's - south on hmos. >> do they have a shared light well what's on the one side of the light well. >> oh, it's the neighborhoods rear yard. >> so the structure you may have impact. >> we don't want to build into their light well. >> not into the light well but the roof. >> okay. thank you. >> let me ask a couple of questions about the neighborhood issues unites they're the project sponsors. >> who is occupying t

alley on the second drawings you'll see my house and light well and windows 26 alley and thirty hodge's alley it is open over here this entire area is open so i want to explain why i and submit a brief 3 weeks ago a that's not norma landslide of the variance hit my house on december 12th i've not been able to go home and green under a doctors care for are serious emotional distress at this point my attorneys have i don't let a contractor into the area without hodge bachelor's degree aware if you want me to talk about the landed slide i would like to move into the variance i'm asking that the variance be grant evaluated a 3 by 3 feet adjustment only 9 feet to justify a variance one special circumstances here that don't apply generally to other properties in the vicinity and two hardship if the variance is not granted and 3 denied a right to jiechlt and it will harm the neighbors and 5 the variance is in harmony with the planning code so here's the drawing or the site plan here this is the site plan and the 26 hodge's is right over here 17 feet by 63 feet they say they have a special circ

that, the tenderloin neighborhood, san francisco doesn't need miss hodge on the street. i have seen people commit crimes of plead or get convicted of crimes of violence who do way less time than her. >> elsie's path to drug abuse is depressingly familiar to many inside women's jails and prisons. she had been in an abusive relationship while struggling to support her two kids. >> and through that i been raped, i had somebody threaten...the same person that raped me threatened my kids if i tell. there's a lot of stuff that i've been through that i didn't...that i don't even tell people because it's so much. i don't even want to remember it. >> under realignment, elsie's sentence was to be carried out in the county jail. since realignment took effect some 30,000 offenders have entered the county systems. >> i brought shame to my family and everything else. and i don't want my kids to come and see my incarcerated. and touch them like barbie was saying, can hold them, can do nothing. and i have little kids. >> the question that is not being asked is what happens to her childr

. >> that inmate, convicted killer henry hodges, requires a team of five correctional officers to escortmate was a harsh reality check for me. >> officer robert moseley was one of hodges' victims. >> got medical on unit. took the pipe flap down, went to apply hans cuffs, i got distracted. as i was applying the handcuffs he grabbed my arm real quick and pulled it in and ran a razor blade down my arm. i didn't know what happened until i pulled my arm out and saw the injury. >> moseley's slashed arm required 59 stitches. and the scar isn't only physical. >> the psychological effect never goes away. i think you learn to adjust to it. but you can't take this job for granted. these guys are not here but for the right reasons, and the reality of it every day is there. keep your eyes on the inmates at all time. don't ever take your eye off them especially on death row because these guys got nothing to lose if they were to injury you. >> hodges declined to talk to our producers on camera. a chronically, the prison videotapes his every move. >> we film him everywhere he goes when he comes out of t

celin hodges there to my far right and her niece, the teen organization president, natalie hodges. thank you very much for coming in. natalie, tell me about the event going on saturday. tell me about what is going on. >> so on saturday we're having our second annual montco march madness basketball tournament. at 6:30 the event starts. and all the spectators and players will start to come in. we have 16 teams signed up right now. and it is just going to be a night full of fun and basketball and a little bit of competitive nature but it is going to be a lot of fun. >> awesome. dr. hodges tell us how much money was raised. tell us how many people came last year how many people you expect this year and how much money you'll raise and how the money will be used. >> absolutely. last year we had over 300 people in attendance. and we raised over $10,000. >> wow. >> just one night. >> one night. one night. and the teens come together and decide which charities to contribute to. and this year they decided on three charities. i believe they're the lupus foundation the edward taylor foundation

craig hodges of hodges small cap funds will tell us which asset class he believes is still king. chris robinson of top third ag marketing is here to tell us the safe place he believes he found for your money. it is not stocks. it is not bonds. what is it? mark lehman of jmp securities breaks down sectors he thinks will outperform the markets. how to play them. first bob iaccino in the cme. is this traced to the dollar which hit a 12 1/2-year high against the euro today? >> i think that has a lot to do with it, liz. the market has to accepted that the fed will hike rates sooner. i don't see a string of rate hikes. it will be symbolic. it will show economy is still gaining strength. not necessarily a blow to innation, going from zero% interest rates to 25 basis points will not slow it down dramatically. more symbol i can, moving in the right direction, normalizing rates. s&p, dow, nasdaq, they will all be a buy. david: craig, at the end of the day, there were a lot of buyers came into this market. do you see anything on sale today. >> yeah, there is quite a bit on sale. you know, s

. >> his best buddies, daryle h hodge, and daryle sweet.y say he was not much for partying. >> and family. >> he always took care of his mom and sisters. >> my brother and i were kind of like i wouldn't say best friends, but, you know, as close as siblings can get. >> in and out. >> branch, who also coached lloyd in high school, didn't hesitate to give him advice as an adult, and an occasional reality check. >> at some point, you realize you're not going to the nfl. this is just going to be for fun. what i got to do to get myself a life. >> he said lloyd was doing landscaping while figuring out what next. >> i spoke to him about taking firefighter tests. >> lloyd also began dating college student shayanna jenkins. she's the link between the young man who dreamed of the nfl and the all american who made it. >> what's your understanding of how they met? >> they were dating sisters. >> shayanna jenkins is the younger sister of shayanna, who is engaged to hernandez and mother of his little girl. >> but how close were the talented tight end and

. >> oden lloyd's best buddies, darrell hodge and darrell sweet say their friend wasn't normally a big partier. they know a different side of him. the friend they described was passionate about football. >> whistle blows, he's coming full throttle. >> and family. >> definitely always took care of his mom and sisters. >> my brother and i were kind of like -- i wouldn't say best friends, but, you know, as close as siblings can get. >> in and out! >> branch, who also coached lloyd in high school, didn't hesitate to give him advice as an adult, and an occasional reality check. >> at some point, you realize you're not going to the nfl. this is just going to be for fun. what i've got to do is stop and prepare myself for lloyd. >> he said lloyd was doing landscaping while figuring out what next. >> i spoke to him about taking firefighter tests. >> lloyd also began dating college student shaniya jenkins. she's the link between the young man who dreamed of the nfl and the all-american who made it. what's your understanding of how they met? >> they were dating sisters. >> shaniya jenkins is the

he is from the hodges fund. we tell us why now is the time to buy misunderstood and out of favor stocks. chuck from i sectors, pulling back positions on financials. he was really bullish last time. he is less so. we'll tell you where he is putting his money. todd horowitz, pitts of the cme. todd, i usually don't like to start with interest rates, we had a lot of bulls, people very bullish on the markets, saying there will be no interest rate rise. you're bearish on the market and but you agree with these guys saying there will knob interest rate hike this year. why not? >> hi, david, liz, bond is going up, taiwanese and chinese governments going up to. interest rates can not go up from here because the u.s. dollar is so strong and the spread between our interest rates and the world economy, the global economy is getting so wide, all that is going to do if they raise rates here, it will force the dollar even higher which will immediately put us into not deflationary times but into deflation. our commodities space

detailed back and forth i think we're okay to push it back 3 feet and set backing the building from hodge's consistent with the existence of the close even though it doesn't have to be equal. >> i think you understand it is clear in the design we can manage that this is basically, what the motion is. >> i'll - is there a motion and a second to increase the set back the same width of the depth of the closet and increasing the depth to the rear yard set back line as well as reducing the third level deck at the north corner equal to the depth of the adjacent building commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu. >> commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes national anthem 7 to doer commissioners that places you on general public comment i have no speaker card. >> any general public comment any public comment on this item? okay public comment is closed. and the meeting is adjourned

you've seen ben hodges make a calculation from u.s. army europe. i would say it's in the thousands and thousands. mr. higgings: nato -- ambassador nuland: sorry, let me also just while i have you here say that what we can say in this unclassified setting is since december, russia's transferred hundreds of pieces of military equipment, including tanks armored vehicles, raw systems, heavy artillery. the russian military has its own robust command structure in eastern ukraine ranging from general officers to junior officers, as the president said not too long ago. they are funding this war, they are fueling it and commanding and controlling it. mr. higgins: in practical terms, does that constitute invasion? ambassador nuland: we have made career that russia is responsible for fueling this war in eastern ukraine. mr. higgins: yes or no constitutes invasion? ambassador nuland: we have used that word in the past, yes. mr. higgins: if ukraine was a member of nato, under the collective defense posture of article 5, what would the consequence of russia's in

okay or commissioners that places you under our discretionary review calendar for the case at 27 hodge's additionally this is a discretionary review. >> good afternoon, commissioners mark i'm presenting that dr for planner kate conner before you a a discretionary review for a building application to

administrator asked to report on the board of appeals hearing last time they've heard the variance four 26 hodge's alley unifying you've heard the dr the board unanimously upheld and there was an appointment rick. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further we will move on to general public comment. >> we neglected to continue a variance and i apologize quickly reopen for 1-b at 4042 to continue to miracle 267 2015 and as a acting zoning administrator i'll continue that to mayor 26. >> commissioners that places you under our general public comment not to exceed a period of 15 minutes to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. i have no speaker cards. >> is there any general public comment? >> hello commissioners. i'm amy the founder of neighbors with the divisadero it is women's histories month i hope you'll join me in making history as someone born

colleagues just made a speech, and excellence each by our top military commander lieutenant general ben hodges, made a number of comments. perhaps chief of which was that it while it may not turn the tide overnight or soon, it will make the diplomatic solution more probable and that is exactly what happened as we all know when they -- the croatians were able to break the arms embargo and put milosevic to flight. the president's advisers are all saying it do it mr. president and he has refrained from doing it. when you get to world leaders from december and yesterday publicly admonishing president obama and joint sessions of congress it is time to wake up, i believe respectfully, and take their views into much greater account. delay is denial. people are dying. over 6000 are dead, many women and children. i do think it may even be speak another issue the hollowness of our military. they are not there yet, but we are on a slope to being weekend because of defense spending. as general hodges pointed out germany -- and merkel has advised not to go with it, 38 of 89 tornado bombers, special forces

hodges also said u.s.ns to train three ukrainian italian -- italians have been put on hold to see if the cease-fire deal forged last month will be fully implemented in general martin dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff also voiced support for army ukraine on march 3. because before the senate armed services committee, dempsey said washing should -- washington should absolutely consider providing nato. the ultimate goal -- goal was to fracture nato and i would add to destabilize ukraine. meanwhile, barack obama and european leaders have agreed actions would be necessary if the fire agreement is violated. it is almost like when i was a little boy and gary akin used to tell this door, too. his mother with tell him to do something and she would say i'm going to count to three and you better have this done. she would go 1 2. to an quarter, two and a half, and she was getting more and more time. that seems what we are doing. we are so waiting and hoping that things happened that just look at this as a

. >> the four and a half acre park is a hodge poj of rvs, neatly-kept homes and a few studio apartments rent is roughly a third of the average but the owner wants to sell. >> everything you know is going to disappear. >> she and her husband came back to this community she says if the park closes almost none of residents can afford to stay in the area. >> people are going to lose their jobs, kids have to move schools. >> buena vista has been owned by a family for 30 years. they've been trying three years to close the park and sell the land for luxury apartments. the property may be worth as much as $30 million. the nonprofit law foundation of silicon valley is representing residents for free. >> it's symbolic of how many working class families and families of color are being forced out of silicon valley. >> city regulations require the owner compensate current residents if the park loss but while this fight drags on a plan is taking ship to preserve the land for affordable housing. >> people are realizing these folks are seen shall part of our daily success as a city, counties and region

and hodges wanted a diplomatic solution. he also says the u.s. lines to train three battalions. battalions of an what on hold to see if a cease-fire deal will be fully implement it. general martin dempsey of the chief of staff's also voiced support for ukraine on march 3 speaking before a senate arms services committee. dempsey said washington should consider providing kiev with arms through nato. he says vladimir putin's ultimate goal is to destabilize ukraine. barack obama and european leaders have agreed that a strong reaction would be necessary if the minsk cease-fires violated. it is almost like when i was a little boy. his mother would say, i am going to count to three. you'd better have it done when it is three. and she would go one, two, two and a quarter, two and a half, two and three quarters. she would give it more time. that seems to me what they are doing. we are so waiting and hoping that things happen that putin just looks at this as a sign of weakness. i think the strongest thing we can do now is to provide kiev defensive lethal weapons. ambassador nuland: thank

. >> the four and a half acre park is a hodge poj of rvs, neatly-kept homes and a few studio apartments the rent is roughly a third of the average but the owner wants to sell. >> everything you know is going to disappear. >> she and her husband came back to this community she says if the park closes almost none of residents can afford to stay in the area. >> people are going to lose their jobs, kids have to move schools. >> buena vista has been owned by a family for 30 years. they've been trying three years to close the park and sell the land for luxury apartments. the property may be worth as much as $30 million. the nonprofit law foundation of silicon valley is representing residents for free. >> it's symbolic of how many working class families and families of color are being forced out of silicon valley. >> city regulations require the owner compensate current residents if the park loss but while this fight drags on a plan is taking ship to preserve the land for affordable housing. >> people are realizing these folks are seen shall part of our daily success as a city, counties and re

hodges reiterated washington wants the diplomatic solution.hey also said they also said us plans to train three ukrainian italians of -- battalions have been put on hold the see of the cease-fire deal we will be fully implemented. chairman of the us joint chiefs of staff voiced support for arming ukraine. speaking before the senate armed services committee he should absolutely consider providing arms through nato. his ultimate goal was to fracture nato and to destabilize ukraine. us. us president barack obama has agreed that action would be necessary. it is almost like when i was a little boy. his mother would tell him to do something. she would say, i'm going to count to three and you better have this done. one two, two and a quarter two and three quarters. that seems what we are doing we are so waiting and hoping that things happen. in my opinion he looks at this as a sign of weakness. the strongest thing that we can do now is to provide a defensive lethal weapon. >> thank you. this hearing gives us an opportunity to register your views. i w

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the white house hasn't decided to send weapons to ukraine and hodges wants a diplomatic solution.also said u.s. plans to train three ukrainian battalions have been put on hold to see if a cease-fire forged last month in minsk will be fully imflemented and the chairman of the u.s. joint chief of staff also voiced support for arming ukraine on march 3. speaking before the armed services committee, he said washington should absolutely consider providing diive with arms through nato and he said the ultimate goal was to fracture nato and would add to stabilize ukraine. and meanwhile, u.s. president barack obama and european leaders have agreed a strong reaction would be necessary if the minsk cease-fire agreement is violated. you know, it's almost like when i was a little boy and gary used to tell this story, too, his mother would tell him to do something and she would say i'm going to count to three and you better have this done when it's three and she'd go one two, and then 2 quarter 2 1/2 2 3/4 and give it more and more time. that seems to me what we're doing. we are so waiting and

hodge, a member of the school board was part of the meeting today which included school officials from all over the country. >>> vice president joe biden says the federal budget has $41 million set aside to clear a backlog of rape kits used to collect and preserve forensic evidence connected to a crime. there are 400,000 untested kids in the u.s. right now. the vice president toured a facility in maryland today where he said testing these kids needs to be a priority to bring closure to victims and justice. the i-team has investigated a rape kit backlog and found thousands of untested kids sitting on police shelves here in the bay area. >>> in southern california police are trying to track down thieves who stole $200,000 in merchandise from a high-end optical store. the thieves broke through the front door of the store early saturday. they smashed display cases and grabbed the optical wear and designer glasses. the seven thieves ransacked the store and left a complete mess behind. >>> we are following new developments into the hillary clinton e-mail controversy this afternoon. karen tra

. >> the four and a half acre lot is a hodge podge of rv's neatly kept homes and a few studio apartmentsa third on average, but the owner wants to sell. >> everything will disappear. >> erika grew up at buena vista. they came back to work in the community and raise their son here. >> if the park closes almost none of the rise dents could afford to stay in the area. >> people are going to lose their job, the kids will have to move schools. >> the family would not talk, but they have been trying for three years to close the park and sell the land for luxury apartments. the property may be worth as much as $30 million. they are representing the residents for free. >> it really is symbolic for how many working class families and families of color are being forced out of silicon valley in the greater bay area. >> palo alto city regulations require the owner compensate current residents if the park closes. while the fight overcome pen sayings drags on a new plan is taking shape to preserve the land for affordable housing. >> these folks who work in the community are part of our daily success.

craig hodges joins us with his small cap.of falling oil prices. and the best moments from this weekend's college basketball games. plus dave briggs who has the best shot of winning the tournament tournament. stick around. now with the xfinity tv go app, you can watch live tv anytime. it's never been easier with so many networks all in one place. get live tv whenever you want. the xfinity tv go app. now with live tv on the go. enjoy over wifi or on verizon wireless 4g lte. plus enjoy special savings when you purchase any new verizon wireless smartphone or tablet from comcast. visit comcast.com/wireless to learn more. >>> the squawk platinum portfolio is back. joining us owith his picks is craig hodges. what are you thinking overall? we've seen a lot of market moves recently, more volatility coming back in. does that look like a good opportunity for you? >> we viewed the volatility as being opportunistic. we don't feel like stocks are necessarily overvalued. there's not a lot of alternatives to invest in. and so at hodges capit

the next question is how does he advance that hodge podge coalition of conservatives and bring that into general election against hillary clinton who he is currently trailing solidly in early public opinion polls. >> even earlier this month, ted cruz is in the eighth slot of voters that see them supporting in the republican party. you see him at the bottom. you mentioned that he has a caricature of being a rebel texan, but seems to be something he embraced over time even to the point it seems he gets under the nails of other establishment gop. >> even though senator cruz trails the pack in early public opinion polls, his senior advisers and others argue his support is firmer. senator cruz's supporters come out on an iowa winter to caucus for him and be there no matter what. that to them is a key advantage, might not be able to said for supporters of governor bush walker or governor perry in texas. >> steve deace, let me bring you in. harvard educated, senator cruz has been criticized for a number of things including recent remarks on climate change. was on "late night with seth meyers" b

some of his writings contained some phrases and propositions, such as the hodges' letter and the letter i referred to and his speech at baltimore, all had a different kind of statement, but a recognizable statement of the same themes. coming about a year before. perhaps the most revealing of these is the private memorandum aimed at understanding what could be deduesed about the war from his major premise, which was the will of god prevails, what can be deduesed from that is the subject of his meditation. lincoln was a life-long fatalist who believed in the words of alexander polk that whatever is right. he was a religious skeptic but nonetheless the idea of an overruling providence and at least by this time, in a moral universe. the conclusion that he came to and maybe expressed in the speech he realized what at first would not be popular, but he called it a truth that needed to be told. this is the private context of which i spoke earlier and which i hope will occupy a good share of our attention this evening. mr. matthews: how did the speech get received? mr.|wilson jy everyone was wi

such as, the hodges letter, the letter which i referred to, and his speech at baltimore.t, a recognizable statement, of the same themes. talking about -- coming about a year before. perhaps the most revealing of these is the private memorandum aimed at understanding what could be deduced about the war from his major premise. which was the will of god prevails. what can be deduced from that is the subject of his meditation. lincoln was a lifelong fatalist. who believed in the words of alexander pope that whatever is is right. even though he was, for most of his life, a religious skeptic he nonetheless accepted the idea of an overruling providence, and at least by this time, in a moral universe. the conclusion that he came to and that he expressed the speech, he realized was at -- would at first not be popular. but he called it a truth that needed to be told. this is the private context of which i spoke earlier, and of which i hope will occupy a good share of our attention this evening. >> how did the speech get received? >> it was a tough one. it was a dire occasion, excep

secretary hodges supported providing weapons to ukraine, in order to provide the necessary muscle for a diplomatic solution. the chairman of the joints chief of staff have suggested the same. i have a question. are all these witnesses and all the congress all wrong? >> i take it that is a question to me? >> either you, minneapolis or secretary of the defense department, whoever wants to take it. but you have an overwhelming view from a wide spectrum and i just, i don't get it. so maybe you can elucidate are they all wrong and if so why are they wrong? >> i think as the interagency discussion on this subject has taught us, there are factors on both sides and we are continuing to evaluate, i think, from where we sit at the state department, if we can see these minsk agreements implemented, if we can see peace in eastern ukraine that offers the best hope for the ukrainian people but we will continue to go forward -- >> let's stop thereminsk i was a disaster. minsk ii -- it only went ahead and largely incorporated more territory that the rebels had taken since the first agreement and made

they drive five capitals in its drive for regional hodge hegemony. and they have increased its size of their nuclear missile arsenal. just two weeks ago iran blew up a mock naval aircraft carrier in exercises and publicized it with great fan fire. iran does all these things without the bomb. just imagine what it will do with the bomb. and imagine the united states further down the rows of appeasement -- road of appeasement largely defensive against this tyranny. you don't have to imagine much, though. simply look to north korea. because of a naive and failed nuclear agreement that outlaw state acquired nuclear weapons. now america's largely handcuffed watching as this rogue regime builds more bombs and missiles capable of striking the u.s. homeland and endangering our allies. but perhaps an even more obvious result of this experiment with retreat is the resurgence of russia. the president aspired with a reset with russia and made one-sided concessions like withdrawing missile defenses from poland and the czech republic. so vladimir putin saw thighs c

. >> margaret hodges' committee produced a report on the development group, which is generally speakinghought to be a good thing, but it actually says that it had concerns that funds were going to the looting of nigerian oil revenues. so how can we be sure that our money is actually delivering what it's intended to do rather than being diverted? >> i missed one person who's sitting around the table when we had the discussion which is the archbishop of canterbury. he came to the meeting and brought his experience of what should be done next. look, you can never be certain that monies aren't -- misspending or corruption, and when you're dealing with countries that suffer from corruption, you have to be especially careful. all i'm saying is i think we are in terms of aid spending probably the most transparent country in the world. we now have an independent body that we've established to check how money is spent. but, you know, you've always got to -- there's no -- there's no perfect place you're going to meet to get to. you've just got to keep your eye on this. >> it's said that yemen is

brzezinski, secretary albright secretary carter general hodges, general dempsey and unanimous congress all wrong? >> i take it that's a question to me, ranking member menendez? >> you, madam secretary or secretary of the defense department, whoever wants to take it. but i mean you have an overwhelming view from a wide spectrum and i just -- i don't get it. are they all wrong? if so why are they wrong? >> i think as the interagency discussion on this subject has taught us it is -- there are factors on both sides and we are continuing to evaluate, i think from where we sit at the state department, if we can see these minsk agreements implemented, if we can see peace in eastern ukraine, this offers the best hope for the ukrainian people. but we will continue to evaluate that situation as we go forward. >> let's stop there. minsk, nothing, a disaster. minsk two, went ahead and largely incorporated more territory that the rebels had taken since minsk one and made the boundary lines between ukraine and russia less capable of being pursued because it is all dependent on some votes. there have

with fishing, deforestation declining wildlife and sustainable cities might seem like a disparate hodge-podge of environmental concerns, the common factor is that they can only be resolved through the kind of integrated thinking and planning that includes genuine community participation, aided by the realization that at the end of the day these issues are also, at heart, security, social and economic matters. the question then ladies and gentlemen, is how can we speed up that integrated thinking, while there is still time to do so? one thing i believe to be vital is leadership. it is for this reason that so many people around the world are, for instance, waiting, with anticipation, for his holiness the pope's forthcoming encyclical letter on human ecology. i know how fostering leadership that all too rare quality, is one of the core concerns of the international conservation caucus and it seems to me that your bipartisan efforts in this arena, which are virtually unique in this day and age, could not be more important. the same thing must be said about your work to show how, in the end, conse

you've seen ben hodges make a calculation from u.s. army europe. i would say it's in the thousands and thousands. >> nato -- victoria: sorry let me also just while i have you here say that what we can say in this unclassified setting is since december russia's transferred hundreds of pieces of military equipment, including tanks, armored vehicles, raw systems, heavy arrillry. the russian military has its own robust command structure in eastern ukraine ranging from general officers to junior officers as the president said not too long ago. they are funding this war, they are fueling it and commanding and controlling it. >> in practical terms, does that constitute invasion? victoria: we have made career that russia is responsible for fueling this war in eastern ukraine. >> yes or no, constitutes invasion? >> we have used -- victoria: we have used that word in the past yes. >> if ukraine was a member of nato under the collective defense posture of article 5, what would the consequence of russia's invasion of ukraine be? victoria: well, article 5 would

remarkable and ann curry joins us live now from switzerland, along with nbc news contributor humon hodgest, of course, as supreme leader of iran whose office or he himself issued that tweet. he said and he also said that he made a very big distinction between annihilating the regime of israel what was in the tweet, a regime of israel versus the jur jewish people making it very clear neither he or anyone in the iranian government has any design on hurting jewish people and made a big point how there are jews in iran and how iran played a major role in saving the lives of jews including during world war ii but that that's not the purpose at all, but that they're very angry at the government essentially, currently netanyahu's government in israel, for a policy they say say he says has been very painful for a lot of people, including he accused netanyahu and the government for supporting terrorism. >> reporter: in syria, yeah yeah. >> and he named the -- >> on a front, yes. and i think you're right, ann. the main thing to understand is that perhaps dr. zarif wouldn't use that language, but t