you have james wilson and governor morris who wrote large parts of the united states constitution.fathers are well known to historians but they have pretty much been totally left out of popular histories. >> ifind fascinating yoay we shouldn't be looking too much to briton, the united kingdom as the foundation for conservative thought and philosoph but rather, you say thathe fst modernconservative was british statesman edmond burke. >> most histories trace the conservativism back to burke. i discovered that everying burke stood for and said was said a dade and a half earlier by the american founding 3 c1 conservatives. it struck me as strange and fascinating that conservative similar that is all about heritage doesn't know its ownn har tank. >> the thinkers, the intetuals, thomas jefferson, a conservative? >> he was far more radical. one of the most rprising things i discovered in the book is john adam was quite radical throughout the revolution. he changes his thinking toward the e of it. >> conservativism itself, give us your viewtoy of what statement its in. i have to tell you,

jame wilson and governor morris to grow large parts of the nazis constitution.ding fathers are ll known to historians, but every must begin to be left at a popular histories. lou: i find it fascinating, it should not blooking too mh to the united kingdom. e foundation of more conservative thought. whether, you say tt the first mode conservative was british stement -- stasman edmund bue. >> most histories actually trace the birth of conseatism back to edmund burke, a british statesman, as you say. i discovered that everything he stood for and said was sd about a decade afterarlier by the american founding i service it's actually rather strange and fasnating that conservatism, which is all about traditn and heritage,he roots of its own heritag these founding in service unded modern conservatism. in fact, i argued thatoder3 conservatism was born on july july 41776. lou: and the thinkers, the tellecals, often cremating thomas jefferson, a conservative? >>>jefferson was actually far re radical and one of the surpsing things that discover in the books john adams is al

james wilson is professor at the american university of rome. and joins us for more. thanks for joining us. what will this tell us about support for this coalition? >> well, the most important thing which we can say already now unless things change extraordinarily between now and 3:00 in the afternoon is that people are not interested. it's gone down dramatically even from the first round a few weeks ago. italians used to vote very seriously and they used to vote for national elections well over 80%. last february it was the mid-70s. two weeks ago at local elections, it was down to almost half. and it seems to be rather lower than that. and in the sense that it is good for mr. letta because it means that there is not too much rivalry between his supporting parties, he's from the center-left, as you said, but he's also supported by the center-right. and if the two mayoral candidates here in rome are really at each other's throats, that would cause divisions within his government, and that hasn't happened so much. his desperation is to keep these two parties together. a

wilson, do i have your permission to do roll call first? >> yes, roll call first. >> harriet wong? >> present. >> sarah burgett. >> present. >> wendy james, absent. co-chair wilson. >> present. >> chip supanich. >> here. >> denise senhaux. >> present. >> tatiana kostanian. >> present. >> roland wong. >> present. >> now i will read the agenda. one, welcome, introduction and roll call. two, action item, reading and approval of the agenda. three, public comments, items not on today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mdc, each speaker is limited to two-three minutes. four, information item report from the chair. five, information item report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. six, information item, accessibility planning for the 34th america's cup and update on the city's plans to make the 34th america's cup the most accessible and international sailing event in history, including accessible paths to travel, transit, seating and signage. presentation by adam van de water, assistant project manager, office of economic and workforce development. at 2:10 the council will take a 10-minute break. 7, information item,

[speaker not understood] wilson. james marbury. [speaker not understood]. angie brown. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. manny flores, local 22. i'll give it a shot. [speaker not understood], that represents much more diversified groups for the city and county of san francisco, the people. and i hope i said that right. thank you. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is helene [speaker not understood]. i am the general manager of daniel berham court. we are a [speaker not understood] right across the street from the proposed cathedral hill location. because of our proximity to the upcoming project, we had a lot of concerns. i want to thank the planning commission, the board of supervisors, specifically supervisor farrell's office, and cpmc for meeting with us, for hearing us, and for implementing some of the changes that we were very concerned about. thank you all for your efforts. we support the project and we would like to see it get started. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> thank you, superviso

james? absent. cochair adele wilson? here. council member sarah burr get, council member, harry wong. >> reading and approval of the agenda. >> item one introduction of roll call. item 2 action item. reading and approving of the agenda. no. 3, public comment. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. >> item 4, information item report from the chair. no. 5, information item report from the director of the mayor's office and disability. >> item 6, information item. proposition c. the affordable housing. the impact on affordable and accessible house ing in san francisco. at 2:10 the council will take a break. no. 7, improvement plan. no. 8 information item, report from disaster preparedness committee. >> no. 9, public comment. no. 10 information item. >> no. 11 announcements, no. 12, adjournment. >> is there a motion to approve the agenda ? >> so moved. >> all those in favor, say aye? >> okay. thank you. >> let's go to team 3. public comment on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mod. each speaker is limited 3 minutes.

wilson international center. and author and journalist james bamford, who has written extensively about the n.s.a. and other intelligence agencies. welcome to you both. is edward snowden a leaker or a whistle blower? >> definitely a whistle blower. he's not profiting from this in anyway. he's going to be harmed very severely because of this. he's doing this because he thinks it's right because he thinks that the public should know that the government was picking up and storing billions of their telephone records. you know, they had a debate about this in england in the last few weeks. it was public. it was about a bill going through congress to do a similar thing. over here we don't do that. we just secretly do all these things. the public has a right to know what's being done with their telephone records. >> he's a leaker. what he did was inappropriate. i do think we should have a public debate. we actually had a public debate around the 2008 amendment, the foreign intelligence surveillance act. this law has been on the books since 1978. it was passed in response to the abuses in the nixon admini

wilson: it's amazing how the need has increased. >> jeff bridges: charity is a great thing, but it's not the way to end hunger. >> james mcgovern: we're weakening our nation. >> rosie: i don't really know what to do. i struggle a lot and most of the time it's because my stomach is really hurting. and my teacher tells me to get focused, and she told me to write "focus" on my little sticker, and every time i look at it, i'm like, oh, i'm supposed to be focusing. i start yawning, and then i zone out. so i was looking at the teacher, and i look at her and all i think about is food. so i have these little visions in my eyes. sometimes when i look at her i vision her as a banana so she goes like a banana and everybody in the class is like apples or oranges, and then i'm like, oh, great. >> kristi jacobson: what struck me so much about rosie is that her story sort of embodied everything about this issue which is that while she's experiencing this hunger and food insecurity, it's affecting her self-esteem, it's affecting her ability to learn, which is very upsetting. but at the same time she has this incredible spirit which gives you this, yo

james, greg greene, >> gentleman yields back. gentleman recognizes the gentlelady from california, miss davis. >> thank you. i want to thank chairman wilsonult. and while it may seem that it's only recently that this became a focus of congress, i want to remind everybody that we have been working to resolve this issue for the last several years. so i'm pleased that the mark continues to build upon the foundation that we had established. i particularly want to thank many of our members, many of our new members who have been so actively involved in this issue at this time. i know, that there may be some disagreements on the way to move forward. i certainly hope that all members will focus on the fact that the goal here is to eliminate sexual assault in our armed forces, and to do so in a way that keeps the trust of the all-volunteer force, and of the american people. i am also pleased that the mark contains and to continues our focus on the dependents and the families who are sacrificed so much and have the backbone for the support of our servicemembers for the decade of war. they too, are seeing the stress and the cracks of multiple deploy

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