jim patrick, patrick and company in san francisco. on page four, we have a contract compliance officer and that position is vacant. data point. on the market -- on the leasing commission, we have a budget item of $2,600,000 that will not be ongoing because we'll lease and we'll don't pay that. that is important. operating revenues, we're talking about operating revenues of almost $13 million. and i look at our staffing. i fail to see a marketing director, someone who's going to be a salesman, someone who's going to sell the transit center to everyone, including our potential funders and including other people that come in here. i think that is a big gap. i don't know about you, but the first thing i -- we have a phone -- [phone ringing] we have a company, we hire a sales manager and we have to go out and make a call. we need sales. we need excitement. we need excitement about the transit center. we want more people coming down because that will increase our lease ruff gnu. we want more people coming down because of more transit riders

jasper also bringing up the differences between patrick shanahan and jim mattis.his is missy ryan writing in the washington post talking about the difference between mattis and shanahan. she wrote in her piece last week, president trump selected the offense secretary who spent his career willing to throw around his stature and buck other advisors to the president if he felt necessary. the president has found much of the opposite in shanahan, a corporate worrier who trained his sights on the pentagon and succeeded in speaking the president's business language, but has found himself unmatched. story want to read that last week in the washington post. from washington, d.c., good morning. military am retired and i think the uniformed leadership is very good. what i fear is the top leadership and our president, who has never experienced any also -- when we were going to serve in vietnam, do you think i am a fool? and he did not serve and also said he knows more about isis than the general does. how can you trust a top leader who has no experience? when i served in viet

patrick fitzgerald, u.s. attorney of chicago. he's now representing jim comey. and the echos of prosecutorial abuse and the use of government and state authority, to target people, any thoughts? >> yes, we found the prosecutors, including the fbi contribution, offering absolute untruths, almost every day. there was never any sanction for it. i have to say, lawyer, a i know are you a well qualified lawyer, i'm a lawyer, i haven't practiced for 50 years but i am in theory a lawyer. any serious jurisdiction except the united states would disbar most of these prosecutors. it's absolutely outrageous what they do. as everybody knows, basically what they do, they target somebody, they round up everybody near them, in whatever activity is objected to, say you better jog your memory or whether's an obstruction of justice going on here and conspiracy to subvert justice, you will be charged. if you can jog your memory and help us, you have a community for perjury and carry on. >> laura: well, they use -- >> that's how you get 98% conviction rate. north korean rate of convi

patrick shanahan has been the acting defense secretary for four months now, ever since jim mattis stepped down after he had a dispute with the president. but the president continued to not nominate him over the last several months, including part of which had inspector general's investigation into allegations that patrick shanahan had been partial to his former employer boeing while at the pentagon. he was recently cleared of that and now the white house says the president does intend to nominate him and, wolf, we're told in part that came because of the chief of staff mick mulvaney who was advising the president he doesn't need another general in this roll. when the president was speaking with reporters today for about 30 minutes, patrick shanahan was not one of the many topics that came up. >> my son is a good person. my son testified for hours and hours. >> reporter: a mix of surprise and frustration from president trump today after the senate intelligence committee subpoenaed his son. >> i'm just very surprised. i really am. >> reporter: the president blasting the decision by republic

where we have seen, you know -- his predecessor, jim mattis, really get -- tried to get sideways with the trump administration about policy issues. patrick shanahan is going to have old a firm ground if he wants to force the administration to see the pentagon -- what's in the best interest of the pentagon. and as someone with a very shallow resume when it comes to those issues, to foreign policy, u.s. military, he's going to have a tough time backing that up. >> we heard it right there in his quote. he didn't talk about policy. he talked about equipment and equipment is exactly what he knows about. he spent 30 years at boeing. >> and he knows some of these big challenging facing the pentagon and the military. one is china. a big one they're facing right now is problems with the -- with production and chinese parts getting into u.s. military equipment. everything from tiny little microchips to giant engines. that's something that patrick shanahan knows well. he also knows space very well. look at some of the challenges he has going forward, the u.s. is getting ready to withdraw many of the u.s. troops from syria, it's uncertain what's goi

. >> president trump has tapped patrick shanahan as the nation's official pentagon chief. since filling in for the role after jimre shanahan has steadfastly stuck by trump's decisions including supporting a border wall and pulling troops from syria. white house announced the news via twitter touting his outstanding service to the country and demonstrated ability to lead. but according to multiple officials that spoke to nbc news, shanahan was not trump's first choice to lead the department of defense. it follows a month long pentagon investigation into whether shanahan acted improperly in official meetings discussing military contractors including boeing. he has since been cleared of any wrong together but some lawmakers are also skeptical about his limited foreign policy experience having never served in the military. >>> joining us again from washington, scott wong. patrickti shanahan is not the first civilian to lead the department of defense. will the current investigation of the boeing 737 max planes, do you think that's going to have an effect on shanahan's nomination process? >> oh, i think it's almost ce

kailey: president trump will nominate acting defense secretary patrick shanahan to get the job permanently. he replaced jimho december. you quit in in venezuela, president nicolas maduro's exacting his revenge for last week's up the rising -- for last week's uprising by issuing arrest warrants and sending opposition leaders into hiding. the head of the opposition has again called supporters back into the streets, but they run the risk of being rounded up. in china, car sales fell for the 11th month in a row, and there is little relief in sight for automakers. trade tensions, a slowing hurting and trends are the demand. global news 24 hours a day, on air and at tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm kailey leinz. this is bloomberg. lisa: thank you so much. coming up, the new music kingmaker. we will look at how tictoc is changing the path to fame. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ kailey: this is "bloomberg daybreak." coming up in the next hour, craig allen, u.s. business council president. ♪ "bloomberghis week's businessweek," three streaming stories. tik

patrick fitzgerald? >> nothing like a sleazy prosecutor. >> laura: horrible prosecutor. >> that's the u.s. attorney who was also looking into jim baker that's where the investigation was taking place. if that's who bill barr selected and it's not just the dossier remember what we learned two weeks ago. "the new york times" reported the fbi took someone posing as someone else, those are two cases where something took place.so >> laura: we also have to play bernie sanders who was out there tonight, i want to play george papadopoulos first and get you and ray and joe to talk about it, let's watch. >> i fly to greece, i have dogs sniffing for money, i'm arrested in dulles with agents rummaging through my bags looking for money. clearly this was some sort of sting operation andki by the tie it happened the special counsel was appointed. >> laura: they were dangling money at him, they all knew how this was all going to go. this was all rolled out according to plan. >> they put somebody posing as somebody else with george papadopoulos and started asking all of these questions early on in this investigation. >> laura: that is what kick

and sustainable profit, i felt after this quarter, patrick, you are well on the way to doing all of those >> yeah, i think we're doing great now, jim and one of the most important things for us now is to continue to deliver on the plan the plan that we laid out in investor day and our strategy around winning with our customers, making sure that we're driving this brand back to the premium position it deserves and to also make sure that we're driving it with sustainable growth, profitable growth through ryc and driving shareholder return is important to us and i'm sure my partner here kevin would love to talk about the brand. >> well, it is a fact. it is always the brand, the brand. it has to come through in everything we do but we're thrilled over the last two and a half years as a trans formation for the company and we haven't been as loud as we want to be, you're about to start hearing that but it is about getting operational house in order and so coming off a quarter where we are able to take inventory down 24% year-over-year and expanding gross margin a hundred bips and the gross margin is a great indicator of brand health and

president trump plans to nominate patrick shanahan to be secretary of defense.e the whuse announced it today. shanahan became acting secretary in january, after jim mattis quit over mr. trump's call to withdraw from syria. the president said today that he is not hap with north korea after it fired short-range missiles for the second time in five days. t south korea sa weapons were launched today near kusong, north of pyongyang. they flew up to 270 missiles out to sea. lymeanwhile, the u.s. form seized a north korean cargo ship that has been detained in indonesia for a year. it allegedly was used to violate sanctions. european union leaders are urging iran to adhere to its 2015 nuclear dl. but, the e.u. said today that it will continue trading with iran despite u.s. sanctions t tehran heatened to abandon key parts of the agreement, unless the e.u. helps makegep for daone by the sanctions. the u.s. withdrew from the nuclear deal last year. pope francis today mandated that priests and nuns report sexual abuse and cover-ups to church authorities. i the new law alludes procedures making it easier to investigate bishops. a senior vatican prosecutor sai

patrick shanahan to remain in his current top job at the pentagon. shanahan is a former executive at boeing. he served as acting defense secretary since his predecessor jim mattis resigned late last year over differences with the president. shanahan's confirmation must still be confirmed by the u.s. senate. >>> president trump today said he was surprised republicans have subpoenaed his son, donald trump junior, as part of the ongoing probe into russian interference in the 2016 campaign. kevin corke tells us some senators are concerned that the younger trump may have lied to investigators about a meeting with russian officials at trump tower. >> my son is a very good person. works very hard. >> reporter: the republican-led senate intelligence committee would like to hear more from donald trump junior about russia. specifically that 2016 meeting at trump tower with russian operatives, as well as aborted plans to build a trump tower moscow. the committee has subpoenaed the president's son to answer questions about previous testimony he gave about russia. the president says it is unnecessary, because the investigation has been put to rest and his son has alr