ambassador to israel, james cunningham. he's here to tell us of peace talk between the israelis and the palestinians can ever be revived. and apple ceo tim cook breaking his silence on what he and president trump discussed in the white house just last month. they talked about china, and they talked about the dreamers. yes, immigration. congresswoman martha mcsally joining me, she is the first american woman to fly into combat. she's running for senate in arizona. she's going to tell us if she's closer to the apple ceo or the president when it comes to issues of dreamers and immigration. i'm cheryl casone in for liz claman today, let's start the "countdown." all right, looking at your numbers on wall street. stocks pretty much staying for a while to a multi-day winning streak. dow dipping into the red for the year as a matter of fact. that key number, 24,719.22. that is the number to watch as we move into the closing bell right now. big piece of this has been the energy sector. now energy sector still holding onto gains at t

hear from chris -- my apologies if i mispronounce your name and the elections commission and james cunningham from is it slalom consulting? good morning. good to see you. >> so i am here to speak on the fiscal and technical feasibility of open source voting at today's hearing. and just to give some brief voting and to i a allow for the software code to be posted online and while the system is being developed and the code would be posted online after the city implements the system and is using the voting system and punts of the public can look at the code and write in code and suggest new improvements and also anyone can use code to create the own voting systems. but with this in mind, the department of elections issued a request for information, r. f.i., in and which includes the possible development of on open source coding system. the elections commission organized a hearing with r.f.i. in november of 2015 and inviting respondents to present information. regarding time and cost, theened were not ranged from six months to a few years or more and the cost ranged in $200,000 to $13 million or

margaret, karen, marianne kramer, steve, richard, carole, james cunningham, valerie, francisco, casey, chris, and lawrence. could i also just remind everyone that public comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the board's jurisdiction. we ask that you refrain from using employee and student names. if you have a claim, you may submit it to the supervisor. our first speaker, please state your name. you have two minutes. >> thank you to the san francisco school board and the doctor for the opportunity to speak tonight. i'm a teacher here in san francisco unified, my employee number 18505. i'm here to request the superintendent and president honor article 39.6.8 in the contract that simply states the program should be reviewed annually. i put in a public records request to review the annual report and on february 12, 2018, the legal department stated to me that the district does not have documents responsive to my request. earlier that month on february 5, 2018, the president sent me an e-mail that stated that since she has been president, ther

house reporter for the associated press, we welcome to our broadcast, nelson cunningham, a former prosecutors worked alongside jamesey and among other greats and the general counsel under president obama. jonathan, i would like to begin with you and more elegant about this. tell me what else rudy said to you? >> good to see you. i spoke to the mayor of new york city earlier today, he did say and it is clear from his conversation of how much president trump anger remains more than a year that jeff sessions recused himself. he was consulting a number of outside allies insiding what to do and one of them being rudy giuliani, more than not in a sense of i am going to fire the attorney general now but rather in a looking backward of should i have done it now. this is a moment that it does not seem -- in this case, by not firing sessions for three key reasons. first of all, as we know, the president is always mindful of how things played with the conservative base and that basis like jeff sessions. hest getti secondly, a lot of republican senators are on capitol hill. don't fire him and he's been loyal to you, if you ous