>> good evening, my name is jerry bernstein and i am the chief operating officer for the light house for the blind and we welcome this project and not only will it make the neighborhood safer it will improve the alley which has always been kind of a sore spot, and i am also a remember of the board director of the cbd, the civic center and i back up what don said and i think about this project and thank you. >> thank you. >> any additional speakers on this item? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner moore. >> this is actually quite a remarkable moment to see not just one new building as along vaness, which we approved a few months ago and seeing the district fill out. that rarely happens, i mean it is also a thing on van ess and we have been focusing on the streets but rarely have been able to see a district happening at once and i think that is where the transformation and how it communicates to the other buildings and i love the engagement of the civic center and the auditor um which in itself has always been an odd ball on its own and use youthful and important

we'll start with jerry bernstein. >> we know that the white house is really going to blow by a lot oftation of affordable care. listen to @ t's speech. i'm hoping they keep a stiff spine on that. >> we now know the prices that hospital charge. it's revolutionary and sounds mundane, but up until wednesday this week, those prices were kept private until the obama administration through medicare released hundreds of thousands of prices and now you can look at two hospitals on the same street and see that one doubles the price of health care. >> that shows the population changing so much and becoming diverse. that's a big challenge of the republican party. you cannot continue to lose 70% of the minority vote and expect to win elections. >> there will be hundreds of thousands less abortions in america because of obama care. a university of washington study shows cut unintended pregnancies 80%. 90% of abortions happened because of unintended pregnancy. my thanks to msnbc contributor jared bernstein, sharon kliff of the "washington post," harry bacon jr. and former congressman pathry murphy.

bernstein, do you want a budget deal at this point? do you want one? >> i thought they don't care about the deficit. we've stabilized it for a decade, i hear. >> it's coming down, jerryit's dropping to 4% gdp. >> spend, spend, spend, hooray, hooray. >> by the way, it's 2.1% in 2014. >> it's never supposed to be that low again. >> so, right, look, as far as the -- i want a budget in the following sense, sloging through all these continuing resolutions where you kind of do everything by patchwork and you run into cliffs an debt ceilings, it's far from optimal for the real economy. that said, i think you got a good point this is not a group that will put together coherent budget. they can't come together with regular aura and have a smooth trajectory. >> i'm going to make a forecast here. the gop message with these investigations, whether it's the irs or benghazi or the secret wiretapping of the phone records for the a.p., these are the evils of big government and the evils of government overreach. jared, you will hear this term, government overreach, time and time again. >> i don't disagree. >> the republicans have finally found a message. it may not be the greatest. t