. >> i am tiff chang. i work in district 8 for transgender nonconforming youth, maybe the first in the country. when i was 10, i wanted an ipod. i started measuring the cost of things in ipods. let's take a moment to measure the budget in houses. back in april the medium cost of a house in san francisco was estimated at $1.6 million. the services for lgbt communities is $1.2 million, less than one house. lgbt communities one house. youth leadership 300,000 that is a room in the house. supervisor cohen that is a room in one house for youth leadership. that is for services for seniors and disables me, my grandma and friends belong to is 3 point $2 million for two houses. finally what if you were to measure in terms of sales force towers. homelessness with one of the highest rates of income inequality $45.3 million. 2.5 floors for housing and homelessness. thank you. >> this is for item two. youth commission that we are taking public comment for. i am not sure if those comments are for that. >> i thought it wa

i am from a small town in ohio. and now that someone has finally called for the removal, i didn't think it would be a problem. it should be easy. and this is san francisco. we're supposed to be the most progressive, forward thinking, leading city of the nation. and discussing the removal of the the racist statue. i had to come down here and say something. i can't believe it. that this board as an appeal that won't reverse the decision of of unanimous ministries and the majority of the people of san francisco once the eare mooufl of the statute. it's disrespectful. it is highly offensive. and way past time that it needs to go. thank you. >> thank you. with respect to the ohlone people, thank you for letting us be here. i decided to come in. i am an k o o.k. cherokee db oklahoma cherokee choctaw. my grandfather fought in an all native american unit during world war ii. i can't believe we are here in 2018 trying to bring down a white supremacist statue. really? >> thank you. >> i live in san francisco and i am a white w

thank you. >> hi, here i am again. i just want to echo what andrew was talking about, professor andrew, and we both made a sunshine ordinance requesting all your email, and rick swig, we saw some things that you said and were unpleasant and unprofessional disrespecting the thousands of people who have emailed and made comments. i would suggest you make a personal apology and i don't know how you can do that, but i would love that you look t a those things to not fill in the comic book and stuff like that. we have the emails. they came from your office. i did a sunshine orders request. i can send them to the personal email which is included in the sunshine ordinance as well if you want, or just do this from the board of appeals. we were a small contingent. as you can see, there is a lot of people here. it would be nice today if after public comment you apologize for the disrespectful comments. anyway, moving on, i wrote a statement today that i was asked to share as well. thank you, rick. i'm talking if you could not hav

i am here on behalf of of an organization. we are here to stand in support of the centre and urge you to move forward with implementing a memorandum of understanding at your next meeting. i wanted to speak to the value of community-based partners and partnerships. community-based organizations are an invaluable resource to and sfusd education. they bring in critical language skills, cultural programming, additional resources, community expertise, in valuable, authentic community relationships like all of this only enhanced on a public education here in san francisco. in addition, now more than ever, it is critical for sfusd to be partnering with organizations such as aroc, immigrant communities are under eat -- attack. muslim and arab americans are unfairly profiled, and we need sfusd to model the racial tolerance and injustice at this being taught in our classrooms with model collaborations with organizations like aroc to bring diverse community perspectives on to challenge the profiling of arab and muslim americans. we're her

i am currently earning a ph.d. at uc berkeley where i study how to increase public trust in government and improve our political system starting with our elections. i've also worked in political reform organizations for almost a decade o fighting for policies that help regular people make our voices heard and respected by our elected leaders. in one sense, elections are complicated. they are technical, they require a lot of administration, they're expensive. but in another sense, elections are simple. they're how we, the people, fold -- hold our politicians accountable. they are the mechanism that translates our most fundamental needs into public policy. that's why i am especially concerned that in san francisco today, we are not hearing from all of our voters. the 2016 primary turnout, it was below 50 % and five neighbourhoods. meaning that half of registered voters did not turn out. and there were big differences across neighbourhoods. we saw turnout ranging from a low of around 40 % in bayview hunters point to a

i am interested in the group van ask. one of the first presentations i forgot who it was for the group vans to buy new ones so the paratransit. they are not getting around to bring people in isolation. employment i am interested in employment pathways for youth in general. i also want to put something in there that there should be emphasis on helping seniors and people with disabilities if they want to be employed. make sure there is a pathway for them. i would be supporting increased food security, and that one i guess goal of sustainable funding to eliminate the wait list. i would be supportive in getting us closer. the pedestrian safety piece is always there to me. the neighborhood was mentioned several times to my surprise. i am supportive of trying to give funding to make sure this is implemented. the senior strategy campaign i would be supportive of that. families for safe streets, that is important that it is hopefully supported. if it is not i see urge we continue to support their efforts. they are the voice we nee

i am a doctor. routinely, i have dealt with that have been fda approved, and as those medicines were released, we found after two to three years of thousands using those medicines that they have problems we never knew about. often it seems the medicinal use of marijuana is merely a front of the recreational use, and i do not support that. i want more studies, and one of the things i want to promote in the federal government is we need to move marijuana off of ,chedule one into schedule two so we know what this substance is and how to use it safely with our population. governor romney: i agree with dr. kennedy in that regard. let me elaborate for the moment. this ballot initiative is really not medicinal marijuana. i support medicinal marijuana for a person with a condition receiving a prescription from a real doctor, filled by a real pharmacy. that is something we ought to have. we ought to move there as quickly as we possibly can to get prepared to people who need pain alleviation as quickly as poss

i apologise, i am dripping wet. emma, nice to meet you. this is lucas. to sophie? does lucas know to be quiet... yeah. when i take him in there, he knows now that i whisper and i am always liked, hi mummy, we will be quiet. he starts to do that and he doesn't raise his voice too high for a couple of. they are the couple of minutes that she gets to see him. the second he gets loud again he is aberdour because it is just loud again he is aberdour because it isjust agony to loud again he is aberdour because it is just agony to her. and loud again he is aberdour because it isjust agony to her. and it is something that she hates, it is something that she hates, it is something that she thinks she is a bad mother because she can't stand his own voice. sophie is 21 and has been diagnosed with me recently. she thinks it may have started in childhood. at the moment she can get out of bed at all. he! it can take hours for sophie to wait properly. phil will come and go several times to wa ke phil will come and go several times to wake herup phil will come and go sev

i am tired of hearing about blended water. i think what we really need to do is have a new definition of taking the best water hetch hetchy and blending it with the lowest quality water available to the city. so that's my definition of what we're doing. and as to neighborhood outreach, a day and a half ago many of the people that saw you a year ago were contacted by supervisor yee's office. there would be many, many more people here had they known that you were even having a committee meeting today, and they will not have a chance to talk or say anything. i would like to say many of the wells that were going to be started were not start ed. the amounts that have been used have been so minuscule most of the time to be tested and is an average of an average of an average, and so you basically are not looking at the real impact of what is happening here with the water. i think this has been done poorly and not done well and the outreach has been done poorly and not done well. or we would have this room packed right now. i wish i c

bad grades or to say i am disappointed we work together we are partners. i think that the chancellor and her government is going to join us and this historic moment and work together for a stronger europe and more united and more sovereign and more democratic europe that's our challenge. yes for those who follow the events i think you will see that. the german government is not working as quickly as you had expected because we have a different method and we also have different views if you are speaking about e.u. finance minister germany is not endorsing that. everything that you envision is not going to be a person possible are you aware of that of course well i never said that everything that i propose has to you have to take it or leave it all i have an ambition i make proposals but i am convinced that it was my duty to do so the current status quo in europe is bad for everybody our sovereignty is being tested by everything that is happening the iranian crisis trade crisis the challenges of the digital world of internet and there are g. transition migrat

i am a rape survivor. one afternoon in early 1990s a stranger pushed his way into the bathroom in an empty office building while i was at work. i screamed and tried to push him away from the door. he kept telling me to shut up and i couldn't move him out of the way so i cried and i begged for my life. i negotiated with him not to kill me. i stood there with a man in rubber gloves, a knife and i gun i found out later. i begged him not to kill me and when he finally said he couldn't i asked him please not to rape me. i have told him i couldn't deal with it. he said why can't you deal with it? i said i was abused as a child and i wouldn't be able to take it. he asked me you were abused as a child? i told him i was and started to cry. he smiled at me, found it humorous and made me sit on the toilet and made me manually cop pew late him while he had his hand on my head and a knife at my throat and said does that feel good? immediately following the attack i did everything a rape victim is supposed to do and more

i am against the terrorist group, the viet t cong and the national liberation front. i do not think that they deserve to be in the government, if you let them be represented in the peace talks and set up a government with them having an equal voice, a voice with the other groups in south vietnam, you are setting the basis for a take over of the viet co thrks g for the government of south vietnam. >> do you see hope for a political sment. >> i did -- political settlement. >> i do not know, i do not think that the president knows or the republicans know, we have to wait and see what comes out of the peace talks, we can pray about it and hope about it but if they do do not get an honorable settlement, we should bring the american servicemen home and we should stop the folks in this country from advocating communist victory and building the moral of the coneu any of the. >> stop them how. >> by stopping the speeches, by the men that raise clothes and money for people on the campuses, you have a right to say get out of the war but you do not have to right to ask for a commu

i am getting emotional. i just say when i viewed the resolution what touched me was the talk about increasing access to environmental programs and community engagement. i am really an advocate. i think as the environment allows the community to feel like it is actively participating. for folks like that i was someone who around 2007 or 2008 was graduating. i didn't know what to do. i heard an opportunity to volunteer. i knew i care about environment, i knew i lived in the central district and i knew i wanted to do more. now, i have been in the recycling profession for seven years. i have been learning best practices from san francisco and applied that consulting practices in new york, hawaii, san francisco. i hope you can continue to bring diverse voices, races and experience. that pipeline gets people to share what they learned from the san francisco program. it is not passing about the flyer to say good luck, do it. folks like myself are previous volunteer interns can know there is a possible job afterwards

i am amy farah weiss. o city hospital rolled out shortsighted hospital -- policies that displace hundreds of residents pick in 2011 i joined my neighbour to push back against the chase bank the displaced local businesses on the car door. i realized eight years ago, in an additio, andin addition to ao against displacement, we also needed a strategic yes for inclusive and culturally enriching and sustainable development. i platform is ahead of its time politically. the policies i'm proposing can all be developed and implemented over the next year. no matter who you vote for, as your first, second or third choice for mayor, please promote my actual initiatives to stabilize and heal our systems,, neighbourhoods and neighbours and crisis. let's talk about homelessness. it's clear that san francisco's next mayor must achieve a significant reduction in the thousands of people living in crisis conditions on our sidewalks. san francisco currently spends $30 million a year on a move along strategy for d.p.w. and sfpd

i am dan ashley. >> and i am ama daetz. laura anthony is live in danville. >> reporter: we just learned officially that this young man has passed away. danville police just wrapped up their investigation here. the 911 call came in as a possible drowning just before 2:00 this afternoon just as a freshman pe class was about to begin here at the pool. >> requests medic 31 with truck 35edical emergency. >> reporter: the 911 call came in just before 2:00 p.m. just after lunch at san ramon valley high school. a male student was found at the bottom of the school unresponsive. a defibrillator was still sitting near the deep end. the student was discovered at the start of the fifth period freshman pe class. they spotted a body at the bottom. >> the pe teacher quickly jumped in. and was doing cpr until the medics came. >> reporter: a team of investigators around the pool but have not released any details about the victim or his condition. >> i have known the kid and it is hard knowing that he is there one second and now he is not. i

we have a housing crisis and i am not prepared. we have plenty of new t hotels everywhere else. >> commissioner fong: i recall when we restricted a property from corporate rental 30 days or more. i this i we will have them continue it. that direction is probably something if it comes back and we want to try to impose that, that is something to do at that time but i hear you though. >> commissioner moore: i think what you are saying to me is fair, i would like to set that out as sensitizing the project. that is all i'm talking about sensitizing it for the neighbors and ourselves. these are tool. none of us can at this moment make it a conscious. condition. >> we would like to see these not transient. >> not with such larger windows and design the building more on the neighborhood. [roll call] so moved motion passes unanimously 6-0. >> president hillis: all right meeting is adjourned. >> self-planning works to preserve and enhance the city what kind hispanic the environment in a variety of ways overhead plans to fwied other department

>> i am very confused by this. ourse i recognize the of -- beastiality of weinstein and this shocking behavior. he worked for me in script doctoring, i guess it is called. for pretty obvious reasons. it is grotesque, and i can't imagine how vile it must be from such a powerful man, and he was. i used to play a game at the cans film festival -- cannes film festival during his years in power. you would get 10 points every time you heard the word harvey, and usually in a 10 minute walk you would have 300 points. because harvey has the script, i have a meeting with harvey at the majestic -- he was immensely powerful. it is obvious that someone in that position abusing threatening and hindering the likelihood of women, it is grotesque in the extreme. but i have to say, there is genuine feeling amongst many people i know that we cannot speak our minds. we cannot actually speak to the ceo new ones and -- true nuan and true depth of sexual, romantic feeling between men and women. it's not a subject i am absolutely expert on

i am humbled by them every year. i find them impressive, now i am in a place that is probably weird and unusual. [laughter] >> i do think there is a hunger. i have seen a lot of great scholars, lauren hall, abby hall, alex salter. if you think of the number of people in their late 20's, early 30's who are doing fantastic things in political science, economics, and so forth. i think there is a lot of possibility. i think this decentralization, problem,is always a always has opportunities. as long as we can find someone to find a voice to give us one like reagan did, goldwater in between. i think there is always a possibility of someone coming forward and being able to grab the imagination of a generation. i don't want to pontificate, but my own experience has been as students contrary to being immoral or watched, they want stories of truth. they want stories of heroism, they want exemplars. as theyt these things are looking for those answers. they are not as subjective as we think they are when we look at them from age

how sure am i against it how yanny i am against the laurel that was a good time to buy some more put i don't want to sell what i own. i think the biggest risk to laurel is the spike in inflation that it is commodity related and the feds sort of feels like, you know it is getting away from us a little bit and let's pick up the steam and be a little more aggressive the flow rises are fine. that's good. >> what we have seen is fine >> that's good that's the best case scenario. a little bit inflation and decent growth. we don't have earnings anymore most of the earnings already happened we kind of had macro to drive the market i prefer to have earnings. >> we have an industrial production brian talked a little bit about commodity. if you think about the sector that makes sense here. we had an inflation trait that's largely intact for about 18 months if you look at some of the names and some of this is back to the future again and some of the eog's. i just think banks are the place that are the entrepreneppie cenl of this. what's good for banks now is not always good for banks. banks are t

i am sure there is other material that you write. i believe you make your living as a professional writer and editor. you pay your rent and tuition at uc berkley. it sounds like you are an active catholic evangelist or speaker. in a typical day, you mentioned last friday, i said how do you spend a day, what happens? tell me about last friday. >> oh, yes. last friday, i woke up at 6:00 am and took the bart from berkley to san francisco to meet with seth of 1 billion stories. >> 1 billion stories is? >> he runs a company that makes videos and tells the stories of the 1 billion catholics in the world. he uses both video, instagram, and i think he is moving into pod cast as well, to really help people understand the faith through the eyes of the people who are living it. so we had a little chat. and right after that, i had to take bart back to berkley for my classes and immediately following my classes in the morning, i had to take amtrak, which is a train from berkley to sacramento, which was a two hour long ride, because i was speaking

"i am getting tired of being tired, i'm getting sick of being sick. "it is so hard to focus on the good when all i want to do is disappear." i would go online and sometimes i would talk to people with me. i started to notice some people were just literally disappearing, and at first you just assume, "0h, they're going through a crash, like i did last week." that's why i haven't heard anything from them in so long. and then a few months would pass and somebody would tell you in the community that that person had actually taken their own life. although thankfully not many people actually have terminal me, it doesn't get to that stage with most people with me, so many people out there who are suffering, they choose to disappear forever. and, you know, no one is really speaking out for them. and this is an illness that affects 250,000 people, we think, in this country. it is the most commonest cause of long—term sickness absence from school. but it is estimated only a quarter of sufferers will be severely affected at any one time. and you have some people,

i became who i am. i was about seven years o old, living in tennessee, the year at the bicentennial, someone threw rocks at me because i was different and because i am asian. growing up, i did not understand this but along the way, i met so many wonderful people who strengthens me and made me who i am today. when i had an opportunity to move to san francisco park to become involved with this community, at that was my dream come true. i am so honoured to be a part of this place. last night i was my tree, okay, don't cry and this is a very special place in the city. is the last independent aids care facility. i have the honour of donating all the furniture and arched back in 1997 and it changed my life. and as i walked in last night, because a friend of mine is dianne, i walked in, as just a friend, and just as a local san franciscan to show up to support a loved one, i was so struck by all my fellow asian-americans, mixed race, diverse people who have been there from the very beginning of that agency who

one of the things i struggled with was, how am i going to contain my work? how am i not going to get lost in the spiral moment -- viral moment? an interesting thing happened to it i did not tweet at the time. i'm 44. [laughter] a: you all know what i mean. i was on facebook. it hadn't quite made it to facebook. so i called my daughter and i asked her to find #metoo on twitter because i didn't see it here it. so when it was set up, i could what the hashtag. so i sat up all night obsessively watching this hashtag. i was calling friends and consulting people and saying what am i going to do? that thisg to believe 44 euros woman started this thing? in an interesting thing happened. somebody tweeted #metoo with a link. i clicked the link and when i clicked the link it opened up to this woman's story. her full story of what happened to her. it was wrenching. i'm a christian woman. in a baptist church, we say we get convicted. i was convict did in that moment. i read that story and i thought to myself, my god, i have spent his entire day trying to figure out how to

i am really lucky. when i am in a room full, i am like, at least i am honest. something like that. i do look at the bright side. that is a temperament thing. i remember my first time in liberia. there was a woman who told me the most horrific, most awful rape story. i sat down at lunch and they served me a plate of food. i almost threw up all over the table. i had to lie down. i was not listening to my body. i was in a state of adrenaline. i had never had anything in -- like this in my life. i did not know how to incorporate it into how i understood humans to behave. once in a while, you had to lie down or you have to meditate, or you have to do whatever. i have been meditating, lately, and honestly, it is one of the most major changes i have ever made in my life. i feel like it is huge. i also went back to church, which is funny because when i hang out with the evangelicals, they are all in this big contest to see who can take me back. the last thing i wanted to do is tell them i was back in church. because he was like, yes. but, i was thinking, as much as i did not miss my upbrin

all that i am i give to you. and all that i have i share with you.e love of god, father, son and holy spirit. harry, i give you this ring. as a sign of our marriage. with my body i only you. all that i am, i give to you. and all that i have i share with you. within the love god. father, son, and holy spirit. in the presence of god and before this congregation, harry and meghan have given their consent and made their marriage vows to each other. they have declared their marriage by the joining they have declared their marriage by thejoining of they have declared their marriage by the joining of hands they have declared their marriage by thejoining of hands and by they have declared their marriage by the joining of hands and by the giving of rings. i therefore proclaim that they are husband and wife. distant cheering. organ music. # god save the queen # god save the queen # god save the queen # god save our noble queen # god save our noble queen # send her victorious # send her victorious # happy and glorious # happy and glorious # long to reign over u

i am grateful i don't have to take a final exam, although it may be easier than what i am doing now. is is my county where i practice medicine. i love serving the people. i have been in the state legislature for utah county people and citizens. it is a pleasure to serve them in that way as well. working with the legislature and our governor, we have helped to support such a great economy that even a boston, massachusetts businessman has seen fit to relocate and practices business. we are grateful to have you here. i welcome you to utah. utah is open for business. it is a pleasure to serve here and the people are outstanding. i want to make sure we have an outstanding representative to make sure that washington works for utah. >> governor romney, what qualifies you? thank you, and thank you to the debate commission, and byu. i want to thank the people of utah. i have had the chance to go to 29 counties and i have loved the experience and the beauty of our state, only matched by the beauty of our people. we lose a lot of clout in washington as orrin hatch retires. nobody can replace tha

i am sorry. i have tremendous respect for politicians. very much because they have already a difficult life and they are already sacrificed lives. they have always people not recognizing the sacrifice they are making in some cases. i recognize and try to do my best to recognize the things i am making, but i am already not the type of person. so, i am sorry. i am catholic, but i can never be a priest. francine: jose ignacio galan, thank you for joining us. jose: thank you. ♪ rishaad: malaysia's political shift. and bring it whose tumbling on the news. it is saying that some of his policies appeared to be credit negative. inclusive insight into what is next for the country. haidi: also coming up, and inflation has shot for investors in central banks. this is bloomberg markets: asia. ♪ rishaad: indonesia under a bit of pressure let's look at what is going on with the jc are. -- jcr. we are expecting a moderation in the first quarter from 655% in the -- 65% year on year. the inflation issue as well. that brings us to the philippine central-ba

because i am what i am. that is my name. yes. the name is my thing.ength in your future. my deep faith in god and the love of my family and friends have allowed me to grow into the person i was born to grow into the person i was born to be. somebody decided that they we re to be. somebody decided that they were supposed to be our lives. it is incredible that we have been given a second chance. to have life.

no secret i am a shark. i know i am going to be healthy when i come back.ething out. >> i have no doubt, and i told him that, no doubt that he can recover from this. i saw him do it last year. >> giants and phillies, san sann sandoval threw something at th h f phanatic. >> al farro, just a few minutes ago, paxton of the mariners toss a no hitter. six no hitters in mariner franchise history. and paxton is canadian and he did it in his home country. oh warriors tonight at oracles. they want to close this out and beat the pelicans. we will have the highlights at 9:00 and 11:00. dan and ama, back to you. >> get it done. >> join us tonight at kofy-tv 20. the threat from the latest eruptions. we will have that for you at 9:00. >> his proud heritage helped shaped his vision. >> at 8:00, it is roseanne, followed by the middle. 9:00 blashish. splitting up at by for the people. it is jimmy kimmel ton >>> i am dan ashley. >> and i am ama daetz with spencer christian, larry beil out at oracle. thanks for being here. >> go warriors. we will see you at 9:00 and 11:00. ♪

i am having a technical difficulty here. i will take a couple more calls and we will finish up that piece. bill calling on our republican line. caller: i thought i was on the independent line. my comment is this -- it is very disturbing to think that most of the news we listen to has to do with mr. trump's actions or behavior from many years ago. aboutr almost no details the issues of social security, medicare, what actually might be done in terms of solving north korea, the middle east. veryevel of discussion is thin. my second comment, a person that is president of the united states that has a tremendous amount of issues to deal with, i cannot believe it is in our that -- aboutest things that went on 12 years before in his personal life. host: more about the resignation of lisa page, who served as a comey, had been criticized after text messages emerged between her and and fbi special agent in which they voiced disdain for then presidential candidate donald trump, as well as for hillary clinton another politicians. she repo

i am still not 100% but after five years of recovery and feeling much better than i did, i am finding out what life is like for other me sufferers. they don't believe you. you are fighting an illness, but then you are fighting every health professional. i'll visit the labs at the forefront of research, who are trying to find a breakthrough to make life better for those living with this hugely debilitating condition. she still never gave up hope, she never ever gave up hope. the day this video was shot was the last time i felt well. this was my greatest passion. i dreamt of a life of dance, but it wasn't meant to be. when i was 17, i was diagnosed with glandular fever. it then turned into something called post—viralfatigue, which, because at the time i kept pushing and pushing my body, it eventually led to something called me. the way i describe it to my friends use, imagine you had the flu, and then imagine you had the worst hangover of your life at the same time. for me at the worst, i had crippling muscle pain in my legs, i had such a dull ache in my body, i was always so tired and

i am partial to standards and poors 500. i like total return fund that has a broader array of stocks. a mix of both is a good start. your broker or the brokerage site you use might have a fund these kinds of funds can compound over time if you let it run, the money can build upon yourself. why am i watching a show about stock if all of this guy is talking about index funds. p the comparison we hear about index funds is to actively manage funds this show is geared towards people interested in their money and want to be involved in making it grow or are curious and want to learn about stocks i believe you can build a portfolio yourself they can coexist their lack of flexibility is so stunning, yet i have had a career of picking stocks better than the market and saw so many investors who would never settle for average and didn't so i say let's give both a try i think you should pick two. one with the dividend. meaning that each year dividend might increase and you might be able to buy more stock with that dividends. companies th

i would love to say, but i am no fan of this deal. i worked in the senate and i am a fan of prerogative deals. the president gets to choose to submit something as a treaty or not. last 70 years, we have seen this many treaties and as many executive agreements, which is what the iran deal is. the reason for it is ratification is hard. it is is your to do. it goes for republican as well as democratic -- it is harder to do. it goes for republican as well as democratic presidents. what obama loses is the force of law in the united states. the next guy, donald trump, can tara and say, that deal -- can turn around and say, that deal stunk. the president can walk away from treaty obligations as well. it is a much different process. treaty is a good political decision. it was not going to win. -- what do you think about a concept? great question. the reauthorization of military force. what is related to the iraq war and the other one is related post 9/11. as a lawyer said recently, this has been stretched thin. if you want to think about a str

i am rod dreher. i am up from the bayou today for this event. before i get started saying what i think is going on with conservatism, i want to reference one of my countrymen who was asked, doctor percy do you despair? he said i like to drink beer and eat crawfish. is that despair? that is the spirit in which i want my remarks to be heard. i'm not optimistic about conservatism or anything else in our political culture but i am hopeful and hope we can get into the reasons why a little bit later. i am on the losing side of the fusion nest contract which brought together traditionalist culture -- with the libertarians who are more concerned about economics and the over leaning state on the other. we did find 50 years ago we had a lot in common and that is where the modern conservative movement came from. we had more in common than separated us. now in 2018 i wonder as a believing christian and a cultural conservative, i wonder what the conservative movement has conserved. from my point of view, the heart of conservatism is spiritual and indeed relig

i really am. and since you say people who don't agree often don't talk, i will buy you a cup of coffee and we will talk about that. and i will ask you why the attorney general is so opposed to prison reform. we will have that conversation. i want you to know that whenever you say evangelical, given the way you talk about the evangelicals, you have to say white evangelicals before every time you say evangelicals because that is what you're , talking about. and there was a phone call right after the election, i remember, i was on with evangelicals, black and white and hispanic. and the white evangelicals said, well, we did not vote for donald trump because of his racial bigotry. it was for other reasons. and the black evangelical said, so i guess his racial bigotry was not a dealbreaker for you. and the "new york times" was purporting this math -- this mass exodus of african-americans churches, evenl multicultural churches because , of the election and this feeling by black church members as betrayal

that i am ok with. for instance on an issue that i care with i appointed a muslim judge in new jersey, a guy that i knew very well. when you have a senate confirmation hearing, the first question from the democratic chairman of the committee was, will you explain jihad to us? said, i can tell you what it is, but i have never been involved in jihad. then he senior republican asked him whether or not he was going law?proach sharia on there all banging guy. all i can say to you is i got up and i got asked about it the next day, and i said listen, this is crazy stuff. he is an american. and a lawyer. he is going to impose american and new jersey law. i am tired of dealing with the crazies. it got a lot of attention. that kind of stuff i am willing to do. purely doing it just for political gain, that's going to cap -- come back around and bite you. if you are being talked with me i will be temp with you back. i have had this discussion with the president many times. mr. axelrod: across the stage a few times.

i am now raising my two little girls here. i have dedicated my life to building a justice system that acts with humanity, with empat empathy, with fairness, and with equity. i wake up every day, and try to build a system that nurtures communities, instead of tearing them apart. policing is grounded zero in this struggle for justice. my story begins with my father. he served five years an in solo debt state prison for armed robbery. he then went to college, got a ph.d., became a professor at san francisco state university, and a prison reformed activist. my father spent three decades, the eighties, the nineties, and the 2,000, trying desperately to stop our impending imprisonment -- imprisonment binge. it was a lonely and unsuccessful struggle, but he persisted, until the day he died. i learned two guiding principles from my father. first, stand up for what is right. even if it is unpopular at the time, history will be on your side. don't dehumanize. every person is worth fighting for. every person deserves empathy, no matter wh

he said -- steve, i am worried about you. i think you are going to go over and try to shoot down a mig and get yourself killed. and i said -- bob, don't worry. i will never see one. we never know, folks. that is what is so exciting. you know what, if we get there and we are not prepared, we won't be able to take advantage of the opportunities. what i am saying to you is prepare yourself every single day and savor and enjoy and appreciate every day. two, three people with dignity and respect. my goodness, if we could just do it. treat othersust the way we want to be treated, wouldn't it be a different world? we would not need any other roles, would we? does anyone know about usaa insurance? do you know who the founder of usaa was? he was the dean when i was a student at the academy. i got to know him well. he flew bombers in world war ii. he retired after 25 years in the military, a brilliant career and ended up at the dean at the fourth academy and became the chairman of usaa and build it into one of the greatest insurance com

i am happy we have put that together we are a small team. i have three part-time staffers but we reach almost 10 million people i would like to talk to partnerships throughout the day how to leverage and now i am out of time. [applause] >> releasing the updates a few months ago but we will be ready for android soon. and to clean your own house and then vote to all the house to my kratz mom -- democrats but they are important and democrats are urged to vote yes or no so they are timely pieces of information that is a responsibility the whips office has with members and staff. so we realized e-mail doesn't cut it is a mess so this was moving out with clean notifications members love it most of the democratic office is using it the whole room raise their hand when they were asked. because they need to know when to vote just like everybody else. the staff likes it because now we can open the information to the public. we throw in some sweeteners like a queen calendar like job announcements and that's for free by the way to .0 came out and the big