vote as soon as he gets back i will vote for the time being in the meantime we will turn it over to senator flake for questions. >> thank you, i want to congratulate you all and your families, it's a tremendous sacrifice for families to have user like that. ron, it's good to see you here in this capacity. i know of your good work in chicago. ambassador nichols, we had a good visit in my office yesterday, we all know, and if you don't, zimbabwe is going through an election for the first time in about 40 years. they free and fair election after the departure of robert mcgaughey. it is an important time there. can you talk about the importance you are hoping to get there by the 17th of february -- i'm sorry, of july? why is that important, for us to have an ambassador there for the election? >> thank you, senator flake. it is an honor to talk with someone who has such deep experience in the continent, and in zimbabwe in particular. the voice of the united states in calling for a free, fair, credible election, that gives the zimbabwean peopl

in a few minutes, i will be leaving for singapore. i will be on a mission of peace. and we will carry in, in my heart, we will be carrying the hearts of millions of people, people from all over the world. we have to get denuclearization. we have to get something going. we really think north korea will in a veryndous place short period of time. we appreciate everything going on. we appreciate working together with north korea. they are really working very well with us. i say so far, so good. we will have to see what happens. and we will know very soon. i will be leaving as soon as we are finished with this conference. i very much look forward to it. i think it is very important for north korea, south korea, japan, the world, and the united states. it is a great thing. we will see what happens. ok. any questions? yes. >> we are about to embark on what may be the most important meeting you have ever had in your life. what is in your gut? steel nerves or butterflies? >> really everything. this has really been done. it is unknown territory in the truest sense. but i really

any delays or snags will not be, i just don't think it will be accepted by this committee. the implementation of the rules established in the standing of the community care networks, i talked about them in my opening statement. i'm troubled that these contracts, that the wards have been delayed. i think they could potentially undermine your ability to establish a robust program and we would fall right back into the same pitfalls we have with no choice. the question is, day one when you get on the job, as it applies to the mission act, what are you going to do to make sure this program works. >> the last project i began before i had to leave and return to the department of defense was a deep dive on the integration of the three regional community care network contracts. my understanding is they are on schedule to be signed or implemented at the end of the year. i didn't get much beyond that. i will pledge to come back here, if confirmed and give you a report as soon as i get there. it can't be delayed any longer. >> you talked about one of the problems is getting through the

i will make a nomination today, but i will not comment on this issue. but after supervisor peskin made his statement, i think it is extraordinary that we've never had a case in which the mayor elect does get to participate in the voting process for the head of another branch of government. that is what it is in today's vote. i want to take this opportunity to nominate a colleague of mine who i came in in the class of 2010. we have spent eight years, close to eight years working together. i really have to say it. we have both grown so much on this board. in fact, we really spent our doubt -- adult life serving on the board of supervisors together. we are the same age and we went through many of the challenges that occur when you join an elected office that can be, at many times, unpredictable, challenging, and rambunctious. sometimes a little mean but also incredible. incredibly great. i have really enjoyed watching supervisor melia :-colon develop and grow as a public servant, and as an elected leader over the past eight years. it has my pleasure to serv

i promise someday i will return. here today be especially because of the nomination of ron gidwitz to be our next ambassador to belgium. i won't replicate the kind remarks of cory gardner of colorado on behalf of ron and his family, that i will tell you that ron and i share something in common, a life experience that goes back a few years. we were both interns in the united states senate the same year, working for the same senator. morris udall, a cumbersome from arizona, once said if you have politics in your bloodstream, only embalming fluid will replace it. during the course of my internship in that senate office, i got politics in my bloodstream, and i have never quite left capitol hill since. path.ok a different he went back to chicago, into the business world. successful in that world, with business as well as his investments and other endeavors. did well for himself. but he did not just sit on that success and bank the money and walk away from his responsibilities to others. i have known him for a long time. we

how long will it take? i think within the first minute, i will know. just my touch, my feel, that is what i do. how long will it take to figure out if they are serious. i said, may be within the first minute. you know what they say, you know whether you like somebody in the first five seconds, you ever hear that one? well, i think very quickly i will know whether or not something good is going to happen. i also think i will know whether or not it will happen fast. it may not. i think i will know pretty quickly whether or not, in my opinion, something positive will happen. if i think it won't happen, i'm not going to waste my time. i don't want to waste his time. yes, ma'am. reporter: are you concerned at all the just by giving kim the meeting, that he is getting a win out of you? president trump: no, no, no. only the fake news says that. we just got 3 hostages back. we paid nothing. they came back, they are happily as const in their homes with their families. they are the happiest people in the world right now. we have not done anything. everyone said,

and i will stick with that. it was something important for us to get -- as we know, we're trying to do a lot of reform at the police department. and these two candidates to me would be the strongest in terms of moving things forward, being able to compromise. being able to collaborate. being able to stand firm in what they believe. so i will not be supporting the motion. >> supervisor breed: thank you, supervisor yee. supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, president breed. i really want to thank supervisor cohen for actually why the meeting was 7 1/2 hours, because supervisor cohen grilled every single candidate so extensively. and knowing this was such an important appointment, my staff actually watched the entire hearing, which was something that i would have expected of most supervisors. i was able to mt with cindy elias and i know that's my job as a supervisor to meet with appointees if i have any issues or questions and especially on this appointment, which is so, wanted to mention that -- i know

i think it will change. it probably has to, but i think it will. thank you. steve, right there. sanctions? scientifically, i have been watching and reading a lot about this and it does take a long time to pull off complete denuclearisation, it takes a long time. scientifically, you have to wait certain periods of time, a lot of things happen. but despite that, once you start the process, it means it is pretty much over, you cannot use them. that is the good news. that will start very soon. i believe. we will do it as fast as it can mechanically and physically be done. and the sanctions? the sanctions will come off when we are sure that the nukes are no longer a factor, sanctions have played a big role, but they will come off... i hope it will be soon. as you know and as! hope it will be soon. as you know and as i have said, the sanctions right now remain. i look forward to taking them off at a certain point and they will come off when we know we are down the road, not going to happen, nothing is going to happen. yes, go ahead, please? thank you. congratulations on this historic s

walsh: i will just start said,as gen. beaudreault, the strategy is the most clear strategy i have seen since 1980 nine, the reagan administration, clear strategy. the department is clearly turned in that direction. so clear strategy is telling us to move in that direction. i will start with concepts. our training, our equipping, our manning, how we organize. with the clear guidance from in operationslike the in a contested environment gned b the commandant -- getting very close to being signed from the commandant and mainno, and another one, a battle that we are working on with the army, another concept, so the concepts will drive very much where we drive our , where we put our s&t. that is driving everything we do. the concepts are unifying, socom on the main battle site, but certainly in base operations, driving everything we are doing in the department all the way down to the operating forces. so, i would just hope the concepts, as a piece, are a major driver, and the operating concept that the commandant signed in the

[clapping and singing] >> i will remain, i will not get back. i know that today, a black man of 21 years of age or older who is still alive has been dealing with this all their life. >> marshall must be alert, keeping his eye on the entire situation, giving constant surveillance for the safety of the people in the march, they made depend on the alertness. >> they cannot put their hands on me because i have been hurting all of my days. i ain't never had nothing. >> they use tear gas, dogs, bullets. are you able to put your life on the line to protect the ladies? >> we will do everything to keep everything nonviolent. the one thing that could probably hinder us would be violence. >> you might be nonviolent yourself, but what about those people waiting for you to come up there and groups with different names. when this march does get here, we will wait for the chance and then we will burn the city down. how can you control those people? >> even those who do not agree with our nonviolent approach, have enough respect for us that they would not do any

i will not forget the values and lessons and i will continue to advocate for these same values throughout my life. >> i just want to say thank you to the board, to the city, my teachers, fellow students. you all have been ir replaceable in my life and for a long time i didn't know what education was. i went to school. i studied. i learned, but i didn't know the individuals that made my education and the education of 56,000 students in our district possible. my time on the board really changed that. sitting here alongside allese great people and hearing the stories from people that stand up and raise their voice, i think i will remember this the rest of my life and i will be sure to take all the things i learned from my time here in s.f. and continue to implement these things years and years in the future. thank you. thank you. [applause] >> pre mensidentza-mcdonnell: i wanted to give board members an opportunity -- go ahead. that's part of the student delegate report? >> yes. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: go ahead. now you are all prepared to think about something lovely to say. >> i wo

i think china will help out. i think japan will help out. i do not see united they -- united states spending a lot of money. we had three hostages. how much money did we spend for the three hostages? we are very far away. we are very far away. those places are very close, in the neighborhood, within a -- we are 6000 miles away. so i already told south korea, you are going to have to get ready, and japan, also. and i think they really want to see something great happen. japan does, south korea does, and i think china does, that is their neighborhood. >> yesterday you were concerned about the meeting with lavrov with kim jong-un. president trump: i did not like it, but it could be positive. i did not like the russian meeting yesterday. i said what is the purpose of that? but it could be a positive meeting. if it is positive, i love it. it is a negative meeting, i am not happy, and it could well be a positive meeting. >> [indiscernible] president trump: that could happen. that could happen. we talked about it. we talked about ending the war. thi

i will be firm about defending canadian interests and i always looked to have a constructive relationship that will benefit canadians. closelynature of our integrated economies. ? he did personally and directly attack you as he left the g7. politicians we developed a certain amount of thick skin. i stay focused on what we need to do to advance the common causes we have. i am not going to react to personal comments. i will stay focused on the work we need to do together. today president trump is in las vegas where he will make a couple of appearances starting with a speech to the nevada state republican party convention. you can watch his remarks live at 3:20 p.m. eastern on c-span. the c-span boss is traveling -- bus is traveling across the country. it is in juneau alaska asking folks what is the most important i think theska? >> most important issue is we are in the middle of a budget crisis. we are used to having a lot of oil money coming in and as a result of lawyer oil prices we are not getting the revenue we are used to. there are other revenue streams that he to happen and doesn't s

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i don't know if it will go down as the best commencement speech ever, but i do think it will go down as one of the most appreciated. because it was six minutes and 18 seconds long. [laughter] so i understand that there was a little wager going on as to how long graduation will last. i want to mature i get a portion of that when i am done with this each. . mesh this speech i have always had a fascination with georgia tech. and goes back to 1980 something, it was a lovely before most of you all were born. and also, when georgia tech had a really, really good basketball team. . i was watching basketball all day long. my mother owned a hair salon, and if i didn't get up saturday morning's early enough to go to the shop with her, than i was stuck at home and on tv all day, was basketball. so i was completely obsessed with georgia tech basketball. and one player in particular, i will not call his name today. but i had a high school-esque about coach, who would indulge me and listen to me about everything -- listen to me talk about all the fascinating things and you about georgia tech basket

i will be respectful. what did kim jong-un say to you to give you the confidence that they are not cheating the system the people who will have to go in and make sure that they are actually giving up their nuclear arsenal. he mentioned the fact that they proceeded down a path in the past and ultimately nothing got done. dollarsk billions of and nothing happened. it was a terrible thing. he brought it up to me. he said we have never gotten this far. i don't think they have ever had the confidence that they have right now to tting things done and having the ability to get things done. he was very firm of the fact i think yous to -- might want to do this as much or even more than me. they see a bright future for north korea. you never know. we never know. very -- signed a very cumbrian's of document today. i believe he is going to live up to that document. i think that he willtart t process right away. i can only say that i've known him for really well. he has been really resourceful. without the rhetoric, it

if confirmed, i will implement the law. >> my time is expired but i will come back. i don't want you to think left out of my questions. senator isaacs? >> i agree with your comments about the admiral. he's ary qualified and great nominee and i appreciate you all being here today. thank you for accepting a tremendous challenge. do you happen to know one of your predecessors johnny carson? >> yes, senator. he's a good friend of mine. >> of all the people i've got to know in my travels i've done in africa, johnny is the most knowledgeable, insightful, and most well-received american on the continent of africa. so if you'd had an known him, i want to make sure you do. take advantage of him because he's a terrific asset. >> when i was ambassador in ethiopia, he was ambassador in kenya. >> you focus on the sudan and parts of your testimony. you mentioned the sudan. that is a horrible problem that's getting worse by the day. we tried a special envoy, cover has a these agreement to get a referendum for independence, which we finally got but it never did anything because the v

see the chaos down there and i don't know if it will get worse. i don't know if it's a question or comment but as a whole, we really should be thinking about, i know people want to get people out of cars, b people also have a choice and if they have a car and they want to use it, you should be able to use it. if you have a bake you should be able to get on your bike. mong more and more away fromis allowing people to have that choice, so that is one thing. the second thing regarding the plants, you have the large cape rush that i see and i see that on some of the other neighborhoods like i live in the mission and i see a lot of that type of planting there. t only thing that concerns me is at night i also see a lot of rodents coming in and out of those bushes, so i would just nt hopefully, i don't know what we mea need to do because s nice when we want to put plants up on the street and in the mission you have at lot of people that want to put plants everywhere but they are not maintained. >> in this neighborhood we are in a lucky situation where you

i will give you more updates as we shape what the project will be. we expanded training with investigators. i want to make sure my staff was getting both internal and external training. one thing we did in may we brought in from the police department to watch some of the films of the officer involved. we invited the officers involved to the behavior science unit for the panel discussion talking about perspective of officers engaged in uses of force and specifically with officer-involved shootings. it was good training for my staff to attend. we also did a couple more outreach opportunities for the office. i am trying to expand to make sure more people in the community know about what the agency does and how we do it. we participated in housing expo at city college, and we went to a city wide public safety forum. the mediation director attended that sponsored with the board of supervisors. this wk we will have a booth to support the june celebration. they will see us png we have a couple of investigator positions coming in. we are interviewing for seni

if confirmed i will further an already robust partnership. and finally i'll work to deepen our historical alliance with the belgium government and the belgium people. mr. chairman, ranking member and members of the committee, i thank you for the honor of appearing before you today and i look forward to answering your questions. >> thank you, mr. gidwitz. last but not least, u.s. representative of the united nations. management and reform and ultimately of the united nations assembly. she has served since 2014 as the deputy counselor from 2012 to 2014. she also served as a special advisor to the u.s. mission from 2008 to 2011, a senior advisor of the state department bureau of legislative affairs from 2007 to 2011. prior to working at this department, she was a staffer in greenville, south carolina. miss chalet. >> thank you. i am honored to appear as the nominee to serve as the representative to the american for the united nations for u.s. management and reform. i'm grateful for president trump and ambassador haley for their confidence and thi

i will submit those for the record and ideal. -- i yield. i thank you for your work. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. >> we have worked to try to have more information sent electronically with paper only being sent when requested. when you were here in october, i ask you about rule 30 e-3. i want to thank you for moving forward with that rule, which will modernize the delivery method from paper to electronic while preserving a permit right to paper. you're going to save investors to billion dollars -- $2 billion. is, what more can the sec do in terms of electronic delivery that can benefit investors and trees? step.t was a big i appreciate all the comments from this committee and others. stopnk we landed in a good -- spot, but it is just a start. rules, including communications methods, is front of mind in our division of investment management, and throughout the sec. next thursday i expect we will xbrl and the inclusion of tagging which, again, modernizing our delivery of data to the investment community. .> let me mov

i will never forget, i had to make weite. show up and you do your work and you make your websit i remember going, our website will have the phrase security breaches are inevitable, don't be a headline. it was wildly unpopular in 2004. the analyst said you're flat- out wrong and your concept is ridiculous. but my concept of the company was, let's get on the front lines and respond to every single breach that matters because that is the front row seat to what needs to be made. i felt at the time that every time antivirus triggered, people would say thank god it triggered but the reality is, what didn't miss for the last year? we better investigate it. i felt we need to get behind everyone else and do what's required behind everyone else's and point. at the time i stard,someone named john keegan wrote intelligence and war. it was probably published in 2003. i almost named the company orange leonard. pretty cool. we can get there but it was neat. when you start a company you have to name it. you spend more time trying to name it

with a 10,336 time i will quit smoking as soon as i get back from afghanistan. after two hours of climbing day break over the peak and then to capture the moment on video. and then to with the pubic hair and exposed genitalia and with those non- to blow just after a few missions it is a common problem others are also having crotch lists fatigues and there is no running water he is not the only one not running -- wearing underwear. and then not to alert any tele- ban in the midst of the present urging him to keep his legs close and try not to laugh. it sucks not having the high ground for the videocamera about that distinct disadvantage soldiers have where they have the geographic advantage i wrap up the interview then grabbed him shots just for fun. after a short break continue on and several hours later the summit doesn't look any closer. are we there yet? knowing damn well we have a ways to go. i grow like a child on the last nerve of their parents. i am running out of gas to get heavier with every step. i should not bitch my load is not as heavy as what they

i think we will see that when you see the numbers. i could talk all night about what we have been doing to improve the outcome and the transparency for the agency in terms how we interact with the community making the complaints. i don't want to tie it up. i think you would rather tie it to specific numbers. i will get the numbers. you can see them in the annual report. do you have a breakdown as to the outcome or the resolution or how you sort of track how successful these mediations are? >> yes, and i will say that the mediation is our highest rated, one of our highest rated elements for the program, but there is no stock answer. we are pro actively creating a case approach with each case with mediation. one complaint may be a sit down with the officer in the arrest or transgression. another may involve the captain or chief or the district commander saying something about this policy is wrong and we changed it because of what you have said. this is how it works. people walk away. it is restorative justice. we want them to walk away w

that is my story and i will stick to it. i would be glad to take any questions you may have. >> [applause] i went a bit long though if you get tired, we will quit. no questions? it was brilliantly and articulately laid down? sir, if you would. >> could you say more about schwarzkopf and powell? >> norman schwarzkopf gave a briefing called the mother of all briefings in which he said the war is over, the door is closed, no one is getting out. he gave that briefing two hours before the biggest tank battle in the history of the planet happened. then the next day, having told powell he needed 44 more hours, powell -- 24 more hours, powell calls him, saying he thinks we should stop. norm put himself in that position because he was gadfly ing for cnn. when i saw that, i went ballistic. i was in a position where i could have been killed. thank you, i don't like to hear that. schwarzkopf is one of the reasons we had a problem at the end of the war. he was a screamer. he didn't listen. powell didn't either. they had a notion that 100

i think i will take a slightly contrary view. to me, one of the biggest challenges for the marine corps and strategy, or strategy, is how they institutionally come to grips with what i think is an interesting challenge. one, the emphasis on dynamic force employment or in a more deliberate approach, reziness and surge capacity suggests there willless of a more persistent presence that we have worked so hard to try to sustain in recent years. and you couple that with the access challenges, and that, i think, makes the problem a little bit harder. it is, again, i think the most acute for the marine corps because of their forward presence that would, in theory, enable the access, they have been working to exploit that but how you do that is the navy is not as present, or on a sustained basis, as they might have been in the past, is something i think that is going to require some additional adjustments to the growing relationship, i think maybe suggest the marine corps needs to be taking more deliberate actions to collaborate with othe

the last thing i will say, i have never seen anyone more fully understand how to integrate the different the military sanctions, power. to achievetrade, and strategic ends in service of diplomacy will stop it was like a master cla in the use of american power and influence. we all have a great deal to learn from her. so, thank you for your example in t[applause] >> madam secretary, i admire your faith and diplomacy. teddyre your courage and roosevelt's arena and i admire your resilience and faith in our country. thank you for everything you have done for us. [applause] announcer: here is what is live on tuesday. the houses in on new at tuesday for speeches. historic work on measures for trails, monuments, and heritage areas. on c-span2, senate continues debate on judicial nomination. on c-span3, education secretary betsy devos testifies at a senate hearing about the budget request for heard department. in the afternoon, a congressional panel investigates sexual abuse of athletes. former usa gymnastic president and former michigan university president are on capitol hill. eastern.t at 3:0

i promise someday i will return just like macarthur. ut he wanted to be a today especially because of the nomination of ronald gidwitz to be our next ambassador to belgium. i won't replicate the remarks, converts of cory gardner of colorado on behalf of ron and his family, but it will tell you ron and i share something in common, unlike express the goes back a few years we both interns and the united states said the same. working for the same senator. mars udall, a congressman from arizona once that if your politics in your bloodstream, only embalming fluid will replace it. during the course of my internship in the senate office, i got politics in my bloodstream and i never quite left capitol hill since. ron took a different path. he went back to chicago in the business world, successful in the world with private business as well as with his investments and other endeavors. did well for himself but as corey has reminded us he didn't just sit on that success and bank the money and walk away from his responsibilities to many others. i've k

i will tell you, john helped so much. he was a leader. [applause] >> thank you. h. everybody said, you can't get accountability done. and i said why, i have too much power, too many unions that just don't want it done? people in arizona robbed $300,000 and everybody agreed they robbed the money, but they couldn't fire the people. so now you have accountability done and even more important -- i'm not sure, but even more important, va choice. now you go see a doctor when you have to wait in line. okay? optimism among america's great manufacturers has hit 95% the highest number by far in the history of the survey, which is a very old survey. we would have eliminated record numbers of job-killing regulations. [applause] as the tax cuts are the regulations. our country was joking, and let me tell you, if our opponent, our wonderful opponent -- when is she going to get over at? windows that she over it? [crowd chanting "lock her up"] when do they get over it? but you know, it is pretty amazing, point after point, guilty, guilty, guilty. oh, she's okay. and then they go

if confirmed, i will support u.s. efforts to tap additional opportunities and what i see as nation opportunities in the energy, medical technology and information sectors. i would support and enhance access for u.s. firms in the korean market and more investment into the u.s. finally if confirmed i will strive to further deepen our culture exchanges, scientific collaboration and cooperation on global issues. ladies and gentlemen i fully appreciate i will have to come up to speed quickly. i have spent my life in uniform, and that's where my expertise lies. but i promise i will work hard to learn the language. i have a lot to learn, indeed. but i do understand the importance of diplomacy. as chief of a large embassy, i pledge to this committee to do my utmost to keep them safe and similarly commit to keeping the american community informed of anything that could affect their safety. i received last month to your colleagues that a fully resourced state department is as important as a fully resourced defense department. ro

but they will come off it that way. i hope it will be soon but they will come off -- as you know, the sanctions right now remain it at a certain point actually look forward to taking them off. he had, they will come off when we are down the road and know nothing is going to happen. yes, go ahead. >> congratulations on this summit. pres. trump: thank you. congratulations to everybody, by the way. you signed aocent with kim jong-un, essentially appease pisa paper. essentially had -- a piece of paper. lots of people of done so, only to find they reneged on what it happen. what is different? president trump: you have a different president, a different secretary of state. your people that, you know, it is very important to them. and we get it done. the other people, maybe it was not a priority. i do not think they could've gotten it done if it was a priority, frankly. i don't think they could've gotten it done if it was a priority. it would've been easier back then will stop it would've been easier if it was five years ago or

i don't think it will be in one meeting, i think it will take longer than. this is been going on for many decades. that's the thing that should have been saw by other presidents as i said often before. long before this point. wewaited for the last second . and they should have waited, they should have been solved by many others. i'm not just saying president obama, i'm saying other presidents, long time ago this would have been salt a lot easier manner . in a less dangerous manner but it wasn't. and we will get it done. as far as the prime minister's concerned, we will agree and we have agreed that we are going to be helping. if the deal is done we are helping north korea, working with china, working with south korea, president xi china has been terrific. the border has been more close ever before, i to close a little bit more but more close than ever before. china has never worked with us this way and i give them a lot of credit because as you know we are in a dispute as to the in balance of trade. is a massive imbalance in china's favor and that way for man

but they will come down to that point. i hope it will be soon. as you know and as i have said, sanctions right now remain. but at a certain point, i look forward to taking them off and they wilco off when we know we are down the road and nothing is going to happen. >> yes. >> thank you, mr. president. congratulations on this historic summit. >> thank you, very much. >> congratulations to everybody by the way. you signed a document with kim jong-un. essentially a piece of paper, you say we had a briefing by mike pompeo. he said the following. many presidents previously have signed off on pieces of paper. only to find that the north korean leader did not promise or reneged on promises. what makes this different? >> you have a different administration in a different president. you have a different secretary of state. you have people that are -- and we get it done. other groups, maybe was not a priority. i don't think they could have done if it was a priority, frankly. i do not think they could have done it even if it was a priority. and it would've b

i have no doubt that will continue to happen. i think it has been eluded to that when people talk about access issues to keep in mind that medicare is part of the broader healthcare system. generally speaking medicare has done a better job of controlling spending per beneficiary than private health insurers. i think you have to take a broad look at this and not stay focused on the medicare program per se. i am going to say more about medicare advantage. clearly medicare advantage in recent years has been striving. the affordable care act reduced payments for medicare advantage and the expectation was enrollment in those plans would go down because they did not have the opportunity to provide extra benefits. ppo, actuary, everyone was flat out wrong. since payments were cut in the affordable care act, medicare advantage has grown dramatically. it is now about one third of the program. even though congress and the administration may not be taking efforts to reform the medicare program radically, beneficiaries are doing that. why? pr

>> yes, there will be. i expect there will be. the smaller reporting company thresholds are something we will be examining, providing more public companies with the opportunity to use scaled disclosure. there are thresholds for when 404b four '04 b is applicable when companies have to comply with it. i believe those thresholds should be examined and expect aa discussion of that at our meeting. >> well, i must admit when i meet with a lot of entrepreneurs and venture capitals, startups,, what i typically, and as the question, i just recently came back from the trip to silicon valley and one of the things and when asked have you considered going public, and one answer was it costs too much and it's too big a hassle. and of all the cost factors from particularly early growth stage companies, is for a 4b of sarbanes-oxley. so looking at that on-ramp is something i would commend that you do. speaking of accommodations of the treasury department has 15 different policy recommendations in the capital formation space that the commission h

i will say it, they are mean but they have heart. island and these are towns that i have known all my life. they are being liberated like a foreign power. and we get them out of the country. and the democrats aren't constantly complaining that we are too rough on i.c.e. can you believe it? you see what they are doing? they don't need guns, they like knives because knives are much more painful. they cut people up in small pieces. beautiful young women walking home from school and the democrats complain that we are treating them too rough. and they are getting them out by the thousands, as i said. [cheers and applause] just days ago, a brave border agent was shot multiple times while protecting our border. every day, border agents are keeping drugs, crime and gangs from entering our country. we are going to get that wall built. we have already started it, $1.6 billion. we are getting the wall fixed . it's already begun, and it's beautiful. and i will tell you why, they may not want to talk about it in california but those people in san

and i will say i didn't bring any poetry with me. and to some extent, you know, i think it's interesting for me personally. my finding as a speech writer was that in college i would skim the introductions of books and then later in discussion sections i would pretend to have done the reading. and that turned out to be pretty good preprofessional experience for speech writing. [ laughing ]. >> but it also means whenever i'm sandwiched with two people from university backgrounds, my palms start to sweat a little bit. i was thinking about what you all said. and i actually think there's an interesting -- well, there's two things that i thought about. i think that president obama while i'm sure that he has favorite poems or enjoys py is probably even more -- was even less likely to use poetry than most presidents who came before him. i think robert what you sort of talked about is a trend towards plainness or a value for plainness became even more pronounced and as we've gone on, it's just become plainness is almost fetishized. but i thin

i will get right with you. bear with me. as i talk, some of the other characters who i liked who are fascinating he. one was ebenezer allen, who i find fascinating. ethan allen's cousin. he was a stone killer. he had rangers and headed arranger company and he didn't like what ethan allen was doing. he got into this, sorry. he got into, he was handing rangers and he, sorry. and he organized, they were going after british troops who were retreating and they had a convoy and grabbed two people, they took the convoy and these guys carried scalping knives and used them and grabbed two slaves, one was a slave the british had and her daughter and he got together with his rangers and said what do we do? it is against the side of god to hold slaves. so he wrote out the first emancipation proclamation and what i think was in america, to freedom. in bennington, the origin thing, he was a good character. another one i liked was -- sorry. sorry. was -- nora jermaine. i don't know if you know, nora jermaine was a lord who ran the british t

swear that i will be around for you, i will do what ever it takes. will make the world safe and sound for you, we will come of age with our young nation. we will fight for you, make it right for you. lay a strong enough down nation. , weill pass it on to you will give the world to you and , somell low us all away day, some day. yeah, you will blow us all away, some day, some day. don't stop, don't give up. [cheers and applause] [indiscernible] >> good afternoon. are you ready? my name is alicia keys. thank you. mother, my son is here with me today, his name is egypt. i couldn't even imagine not being able to find him. being separated from him, or scared about how he is being treated. becauseall of our fight if it can happen to any child, it can happen to my child and your child and all our children. here to read the words of another mother whose son was held in immigration detention. the names have been changed but the words are hers. my name is margarita. i am the mother of carlos who is being held by the office of refugee resettlement in a detentio