>> item nine, correspondence received since last meeting, a letter from james lee, chair of the guardians of the city. >> commissioners, we will take public comment at this particular item at this point. any member of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, any questions or discussion? i know that it is a discussion that will come up in the future commission meeting. we also wanted an opportunity for staff to be able to review the latest correspondence from guardians over the city so that we have some information. other than that, it is acknowledged. madame secretary? >> item ten, public comment on item 11. >> i will ask for public comment on item 11. we will go into closed session, but is there any member of the public that wishes to comment on item 11? at this time, seeing none, public comment is closed. madame secretary? >> vote on whether to conduct item 11 be in closed session. >> all right, commissioners, we have a motion in terms of -- ob hard for us to go into closed session. may i have a motion? >> so moved. >> moved by commissioner cleveland and seconde

>> there's been enough done for james lee wit, the fema district of bill clinton saying this presidentus on his fema response effort. the facts don't lie -- >> who cares? he could work for bill clinton and be dead wrong. there are 30,000 homes that have blue tarps on them. thank god dorian wasn't anything meaningful to them. we'll see what happens on the back end of the storm. why does he talk about a place that's part of this country that way? why would he talk about swapping it for greenland? >> there are corrupt politicians there. notice in his tweet, he doesn't talk about the -- >> since when is corruption something he goes after hard and heavy? >> he always goes after corruption. when we give money to puerto ricans, and federal officials find stockpiles of unused -- >> he goes after it hard and heavy? he's got an administration that's littered people who don't know how to keep their hands out of their own pockets and he's about corruption. >> i'm happy to go into corruption. because we got a lot to talk about obama from spying on u.s. citizens within the trump campaign. >> you can

of defense what does this mean for the stocks joining us today, rbc's mark mahaney and mizuho's james leek, that's a lot it sort of flies in the face of the quarter so far, which has been about reacceleration and revenue, right >> yeah. well, you just threw a lot by me so let me start off here, i think peter thiel is absolutely right with his comments, but they're more political in nature about google i think the ftc and facebook, i don't know what's going to be looked at there. i find it extremely unlikely that facebook will be required to unwind an acquisition that it did seven years ago. that would be instagram or whatsapp five years ago. i think that would be extremely unlikely, almost entirely unprecedented. and then, what i find really interesting for both the stock and also for the politics is what's happening with the dod and amazon here. i think it's very hard to see why amazon and also probably microsoft wouldn't win the dod contract if you're going to outsource cloud commuting by the pentagon to one company, if you're only going to do it to one company, i can't imagine you can

>> there's been enough done for james lee wit, the fema district of bill clinton saying this president on his fema response effort. that's straight from bill clinton's fema director. the facts don't lie. >> who cares? he could work for bill clinton and be dead wrong. there are 30,000 homes that have blue tarps on them. they have people losing power today for no good reason. thank god dorian wasn't anything meaningful to them, not yet anyway. we'll see what happens on the back end of the storm. why does he talk about a place that's part of this country that way? why would he talk about swapping it for greenland? why? >> because there are corrupt politicians there. that's who he's targeting. notice in husband tweet he doesn't talk about the people of pouerto rico. he talks about the politicians. >> since when is corruption something he goes after hard and heavy? >> he always goes after corruption. when we give money to puerto ricans, and federal officials find stockpiles of unused -- >> he goes after corruption hard and heavy? >> of course he does. >> he just suggested having the g7 at h

former air force secretary debra lee james talks about heading up a 6 under 60,000 resin, $139 billionrganization. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern on c-span2 and enjoy booktv this weekend every weekend on c-span2. >> watch booktv for live coverage of the national book festival saturday starting at 10:00 am eastern. our coverage includes author interviews with justice ruth bader ginsburg on her book my own words. sharon robinson talks about her book child of the dream. the author of the british are coming and thomas malone, founding director of the center for collective intelligence discusses his book superminds. .. and is our panel speakers and this again represents more of an institutional

morning we will have a lot to talk about so let's give a national press club welcome to deborah lee james. [applause] thank you to the whole team. the credit union just one quick word and vote of thanks. it's a really important foundation that works for the betterment of our military. it provides 100% of the funding for the overhead i am so honored to be involved with all of you. thank you. that is a good way to segue into my book aim high, chart your course and plan success. i hope that you will see that there is an awful lot about the importance of doubling down on people. it's why you get things done in very difficult constantly changing or even dysfunctional environment as we seem to find ourselves these days it is a book about why you however you are and whatever your role is in the organization how you can have a big impact and make a big difference with people and within your team. even if, and particularly if you have a different background than most of the people seated around a table from you. it's a book about how you cannot only survive through all the changing times in this f

morning, joining the conversation wall street journal assistant editorial page director james freeman, maslansky + partners leeter, former republican candidate steve forbes, i'm going to let you talk amongst yourself and let you talk, so interesting what you have to say about all the topics for the day and what's going on in this country whether it's china trade, i'm going to sit back. >> dagen, you never sit back, not for long. dagen: is that a compliment? [laughter] dagen: former u.s. attorney on new immigration rules of birthright citizenship, a lot of confusion, here to clear it up, member of the house appropriation's committee chuck on china, former senior adviser to george w. bush, karl rove and brian kelly on last-minute labor day travel destinations, you do not want to miss any of those fine gentlemen. right here right now signs of hope sparking rally, futures to the plus side big-time this morning at 245-point gain on dow futures, china says it will not retaliate against latest rounds of tariffs set to go into effect on sunday, chinese spokesperson saying that the country hopes to instead discuss remo

he was born on may 22, 1932 to james thorton and addy lee jones. he moved to louisiana at the age of ten and later, encouraged by his eldest brothe brother, came to california. he worked for the united states post office as a letter handling, advancing to manager. he retired from the san francisco municipal ray way after 30 years of service with numero numerous accolades. he established numerous businesses over many years partnering with his family and friends. in 2011, he established let's eat barbecue and more with his wife, miss monique hayes-thorton, and was operating this establishment until his untimely home going. other businesses were the horse and cow bar and bayview triple t bait shop. all of his businesses were in the great community of bayview-hunters point in which he shared his love and was loved by everyone. he was a pillar to his city and community. he served his city with great dedication and love for all. he was a founding member of the third street big boys, which for 30 years he and his colleagues sponsored many programs within

lee and his subordinates. this connection in turn, strengthen what had become a strong personal friendship during the wintering camp outside of fredericksburg. by the time of the chancellor's campaign, jackson had superseded james long street, as lee's primary lieutenant and along with stuart, when integral in helping the commanding general receipt victory over the federals against long odds. yet, fickle chance intervened in the woods on the night of may 2nd, 1863, as it had so many times both for and against lee in previous campaigns, shot accidentally by his own men and stonewall was dropped twice from the letter carrying him to the later rear and surviving the amputation of his left arm, succumbed to pneumonia ten days later. it was a personally crushing blow for lee who lost not only not a man who have been kim a) but also his chief strategic advisor and battle field operator. the damage done to the confederate war effort was perceived by nearly all in the confederacy from jefferson davis all the way down to the common citizens in texas. even little children. regardless, of postwar confederates who attempted to use his death as a lost cause excuse for rebel defeat, jackson says sudden demise was a strategic

we heard remarks from former air force secretary deborah lee james who served under president obama as well as a panel looking at how women served in the military around the world. th i

. >>> "the new york times" says james leavelle, the stetson-wearing dallas police detective at lee harvey when oswald was died by jack ruby has died. leavelle was handcuffed to oswald when transferring him to the jail two days after oswald assassinated kennedy in 1963. that's when ruby jumped out and shot oswald. leavelle died yesterday after falling and breaking his hip. he was 99. >>> still ahead, apple announces its new product. the features it may have that iphone fan users are eagerly awaiting. users are eagerly awaited. th support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting. chantix reduces the urge so when the day arrives, you'll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. stop chantix and get help right away if you have changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, depressed mood, suicidal thoughts or actions, seizures, new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, sleepwalking, or life-threatening allergic and skin rea

deborah lee james, the former air force secretary under president obama was one of speakers at a conference on issues women face while serving in the military. this session also included a panel on women perspectives from other countries' militaries. this is three and a half hours. >> thank you for joining us. >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning. all right. good morning. and ma'am, i am honored to be able to moderate you this morning. we will be talking about secretary james' new book. i have read it and listened to it. that is what we are going to talk about. ma'am, first and foremost, to break the ice, what inspired you to tell your story? , i wore debra: throughout my life i have been active in the business of our national security closer to 40 years. i have always been a civilian and i have worked in congress, worked in the pentagon for my several tours and been in private industry always working on defense issues. while i was making my way up, i would always look up to the people above me and there were very few women at that point to look up to but there were a couple. and som

. >> debra lee james, the former air force secretary under president obama was among the speakers at a women's leadership conference in washington, d.c. this is two hours and 15 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning. all right. good morning. honored to bem able to moderate you this morning. we will be talking about secretary jane's new book. i have read it and listened to it. that is what we going to talk about. , first and foremost, to break the ice, what inspired you to tell your story? >> throughout my life i have in the business of our national security closer to 40 years. i have always been a civilian and i have worked in congress, worked in the pentagon for several tours and been in private industry always working on defense issues. , ile i was making my way up would always look up to the people above me and there were very few women at that point to look up to but there were a couple. and some men. i would wonder to myself about how their lives were perfect. and here was my life which had some successes but plenty of failures and i felt like a hot mess compared

dallas police detective james leavelle in the tan suit and stetson was handcuffed to lee harvey oswaldwhen oswald was shot to death by dallas strip club owner jack ruby on november 24, 1963. ( gunshots ) >> oswald has been shot. >> dickerson: oswald had been charged with the murder of president kennedy two days earlier and was being transferred from police headquarters to the county jail. >> i told him, i said, "lee, if anybody shoots at you, i hope they're as good a shot as you are," meaning, of course, they'd hit him and not me. >> dickerson: "dallas times herald" photographer bob jackson won a pulitzer prize for this photograph, which appeared on age front pages of newspapers around the world on the day of kennedy's funeral. leavelle died yesterday in denver at the age of 99. his famous stetson and suit are on display at the sixth floor museum in dallas. for the record, leavelle, who investigated the kennedy assassination, said he had no doubt oswald acted alone. by the way, that was not the first time leavelle was a narticipant in a pivotal moment in u.s. history. he survived the j

we heard remarks from former air force secretary deborah lee james who served under president obama as well as a panel looking at how women served in the military around the world. this is two and a half hours. [applause] >> good morning everybody. >> good morning. >> the all right, well good morning. maam i am honored moderate with you this morning. as was mentioned we are talking about new book. it's absolutely amazing but i will say to you today that's what we are going to talk about. first and foremost to break the ice what inspired you to tell your story? >> throughout my life and as you have heard i've been active in our national security for actually closer to 40 years. times go by since the pie was written. i have worked in congress. i've been to in the pentagon and i've been in private industry always working on defense issues. as i was making my way up and you can figure out my career and the ups and downs of life i would always look up to the people above me and they were very few women at that point to look up to. there were a couple and there were some men and i always won

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a guy named elliot tiber called me and he is the subject of a movie that ang lee has just directed and produced -- or james schamus produced and wrote called "taking woodstock." it's coming out i think on the fourteenth of august. it's about elliot calling me and then his world changes as we descend in a helicopter it turns out. elliot called my office when we were sort of panicking at our lawyers, trying to figure out what moves we could make, and we were right, we could have won the lawsuit. we probably would have wound up sometime around christmas and the festival would never have happened. i said let's get out and i had everybody pack and start loading trucks. and anybody who wasn't busy packing the offices and the boxes and the files i put on the telephones to call radio stations, press, and anybody they could think of to get the word out that we needed the site. because i knew if anybody stood around for more than 30 seconds they'd get completely demoralized and that would be the end of it. that would sort of spread like wildfire through everybody's spirits. we kept everybody pumped up. i said, "don'

higher in the mexican war among them were ulysses s grant, robert e lee, william tecumseh sherman, stonewall jackson, george mcclellan and james long street. >>the mexican war was america's first war of invasion, it was thought on multiple fronts across thousands of miles from the texas border to mexico city san francisco bay, in snowy mountains and deserts in summer heat and winter cold on tropical beaches and in densely populated cities. >>general zachary taylor's army fought on the rio grande river and in northern mixico. i have a map here. this is where the war started and taylor is in northern mixico following this redline. >> the second front that opened after about a year was at veracruz by general winfield scott. he landed here in march 260 miles to mexico city. there were other fronts to john c fremont led fighting in california. general stephen kearney marched from kansas to santa fe to san diego and fought two nature battles outside of los angeles. a brigade of mormons that followed kearney's path nearly starved when they were fought. alexander donelson had missouri volunteers from santa fe to to allah mixico. the m

among them, ulysses s granted, robert lee, william sherman, stone wall jackson, george mcclellan and james long street. the mexican war is america's first war of invasion. it was fought on multiple fronts across thousands of miles. from the texas border to mexico city. to san francisco bay. in snowy mountains and deserts. and summer heat and winter cold. on tropical beaches and densely populated cities. general zachary taylor's army fought on the rio grande river and mexico. this is where the war started. taylor's thrust into northern mexico followed this red line. the other -- the second front that opened after about a year of the war was at bear cruise by general winfield scott. he landed here in march, 260 miles to mexico city. there are other fronts too. john c fremont led fighting in california. general stephen carney, marched from kansas to santa fe to san diego. and fought two major battles outside los angeles. a brigade of mormons that followed carney's path nearly starved and never fought. alexander donathan led a famous troop of mounted missouri volunteers from santa fe to mexico

henry lee has a closer look at the events leading up to the suspect's arrest. >> austin james vincent was freed by a judge after being caught in a terrible attack. >> i can't stop thinking about the fact that this man is free after what he did to me. >> reporter: the woman who was attacked doesn't want her last name used. she wants the judge recalled. the judge is from san francisco's superior court. the judge is not fit for the job and is putting our lives in danger. what are you waiting for? please. you have to do something. i stopped by the hall of justice and watched the judge at work. she played a key role in cases regarding marital equality. her clerk said she would have no comment. the judge rejected a safety risk assessment. the finding was made after the group plugged in factors like age, criminal history, and whether he has a history of skipping court hearings. >> our main concern is public safety and making sure people show up for court. the head of the program said vincent is a client and therefore he couldn't go into any details of the case, including how often he must ch

that help them avoid painful discrimination and segregated south jame crowd may be a saying of the past but for instance film director spike lee believes racism is ingrained in the day in day of the united states days think it will ever be overcome completely. well it's going to take a long time because you know with the development of the i guess the you know the country with the native americans and with the you know the the many many years of bondage by africans who were brought here you know and then you had the black codes after that and then you had. jim crow doing you had reconstruction and so is you know it's a lie it's a lie you know and what i will say that is has gotten better during my lifetime. i've seen changes but they came about because people worked to bring those changes black people white people and people of the same i so it wasn't easy the strides that have been made they were hard fought. it off hurt that there are special projects and local director is like new orleans black book or black friendly flat project that comprised black businesses making it easier for black customers to get certain services as

help them avoid painful discriminations and segregated south jame crown may be a thing of the past but for instance film director spike lee believes racism is ingrained in the d.n.a. of the united states days think it will ever be overcome completely. well it's going to take a long time because you know with the development of the i guess the you know the country with the native americans and with the you know the the many many years of bondage by africans who were brought here you know then you had the black codes after that and then you had. jim crow did you had reconstruction and so it's you know it's a lie it's a lie you know and what i will say that is has gotten better during my lifetime. i've seen changes but they came about because people who worked to bring those changes black people white people people of the same mind so it wasn't easy the strides that have been made they were hard fought. it off heard that there are special projects and local director is like new orleans black book or black friendly flat project that comprised black businesses making it easier for black customers to get certain services as thi

james crow laws that help them avoid painful discrimination. segregated south jim crowd may be a thing of the past but for instance film director spike lee believes racism is ingrained in the day of the united states days think it will ever be overcome completely. well it's going to take a long time because you know with the development of the i guess the you know the country with the native americans and with the you know the the many many years of.

lee. >> reporter: in court judge ross moody reviewed the surveillance video which showed the woman being attacked by austin james vincent as she tried to enter the lobby of her condo building near the embarcadero. this mugshot of vincent was released after he was arrested that night. audge later ordered vincent to wear a gps ankle monitor and enroll in a abuse ogram. in theays thathewoman identifie the man who attacked her with a knife south of market in february. this time the judge put him in jail. today in court, prosecutors dropped the most recent charge saying the woman had misidentified vincent as her knife-wielding attacker. they asked the judge to deny bail saying he was still a public threat. d.a. spokesman -- >> we feel very strongly that detaining him at this juncture while we figure out what the right outcome of this case is the right approach. >> reporter: vincent's attorney asked the judge to let him out with a gps monitor and enroll him in a rehab program. >> i think this case provides us with a powerful opportunity to decide what we want to do and how we want to help people like mr. vincent. >> r

lee. >> reporter: in court, judge ross moody reviewed the security video which showed her being attacked august 11th. allegedly by austin james vincent. as she tried to enter the lobby of her condo building near the embarcadero. this mugshot of vincent was released after he was arrested that night. a judge later ordered vincent to wear a gps ankle monitor and enroll in a substance abuse program. in the days that followed, another woman identified him as the man who attacked her with a knife south of market in february. this time the judge put him in jail. today in court, prosecutors dropped the most recent charge saying the woman had misidentified vincent as her knife wielding attacker. but they asked the judge to deny bail, saying he was still a public threat. d.a. spokesman alex bastian. >> we feel strongly detaining him at this juncture while we figure out what the right outcome of this case is is the right approach. >> reporter: vincent's attorney asked the judge to let him out with a gps monitor and enroll him in a rehab program. >> i think this case provides us with a powerful opportunity to decide what we want to do an

longstreet -- enter james longstreet, second in command at gettysburg, who after the war became a southern republican while urging reconciliation with the north, and question we's -- questions lee's judgment in interviews for william swinton's book, "the campaigns of the army of the potomac." longstreet turned out to be the postwar confederate group's low hanging fruit on whom they could place the blame for how the south lost gettysburg. longstreet's decision to become a postwar republican created a virtual environment for criticism, including against his wartime record, where because of his unpopular political decision, accusations leveled against him could more easily be fabricated as truth. as the group's general narrative went, if longstreet was a traitor to the south after the war, he might have been wondering it, and especially at gettysburg. the group's first salvo against longstreet's actions at gettysburg was their allegation that lee had ordered longstreet to execute an attack against the federal left at sunrise on july 2. this was debunked as early as the mid-1870's, largely as the result of several other x confederate officers -- ex-con officers writing letters to lon

deborah lee james, the former air force secretary under president obama was one of speakers at a conference on issues women face while serving in the military. this session also included a panel on women perspectives from other countries' militaries. this is three and a half hours. >> thank you for joining us. >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning. all right. good morning. and ma'am, i am honored to be able to moderate you this morning. we will be talking about secretary james' new book. i have read it and listened to it. that is what we are going to talk about. ma'am, first and foremost, to break the ice, what inspired you to tell your story? , i wore debra: throughout my life i have been active in the business of our national security closer to 40 years. i have always been a civilian and i have worked in congress, worked in the pentagon for my several tours and been in private industry always working on defense issues. while i was making my way up, i would always look up to the people above me and there were very few women at that point to look up to but there were a couple. and som