based colleague on the news our jim walsh is in boston he's a senior research associate at mit's security studies program welcome to you both gentlemen jim first donald trump is talking about a drift away from american values going back one or two or three presidencies is he factually correct. well no you know you mentioned both the bush and the obama national security strategies i actually took time out today and went back and read both of them hadn't read them in a while read them and really i would say values play a much larger role in both those earlier national security strategies strikingly in george w. bush's strategy remember this is after nine eleven you expect it looking back to lead with terrorism as the big thing but it actually begins by talking about human dignity and so in some ways it sounded themes they got overwhelmed by events in the bush administration but nevertheless had a values focus as did obviously president obama this one and i think you had now both kimberly and kathy both used the word fit in normally national security strategies aren't very substantive but th

. >> >> people were insisting with experience so finally jim walsh. sodium said what you think of this whole thing? so whatever it was over there and did montana those that make those sacred objects they were so good and he did this for years until he died. [laughter] he just understood when you love something. >> maybe we could circle back to the issue. >> next question. >> for those that are translators does that help them to find their voice? one year ago if that happens to either of you?. >> so with those highly experienced translators does that ever influence your own development?. >>. >> but translation is the close as possible teaching literature 50 years but when you translate it is more than any other kind of reading it can just see how things are made. and though certain metaphors are made. and that was also influenced so if you can they get a lot of different traditions and they kept telling everybody. because that is how you learn about poetry. >> which languages?. >>. >> serbian and other it eastern european languages?. >> the language th

sunny jim walsh gave my uncle his first job when he took over his father's teamster contract at age 16 with the city, because my mother was the daughter of a widow, he then drove my mother to a job downtown. know what you are capable of doing. the last time i appeared in your presence was to get the stop sign on linkle way and dan wright was in charge. i'm hoping we can come to an easier solution for irving street. i am the mother of three, the grandmother of three. i have a small day home for handicap children. i no longer walk them on that side of the street. it's filthy. >> thank you for the comments. >> good evening, my name is lonnie, as a native san franciscoen and choose to go settle in the sunset, i echo the comments made by fellow neighbors and merchants in opposing the opening of the barbary coast. i, too, walk on irving street every day and fear the impacts on our safety, increased crime and health, and the detriment to the lifestyle of our family neighborhood that we have all come to love. we need you, the board of supervisors to respect our concerns and that these concerns

jim comey on twitter. this is "the washington post" reports mccabe is planning to retire early next year as he faces republican attacks in the probe. joe walsh is warning the president tweeting president trump, quit attacking the fbi on twitter. it's wrong and it's going to bite you in the bleep there and reminding trump it's almost christmas, telling him put your phone down. choining me a former assistant fbi director for intelligence. did these continues attacks on andrew mccabe, do you think that's what has contributed to his decision to retire soon? >> i think andy mccabe is trying to do the right thing for the fbi and the timing is not unusual, alex. it's very typical when a new fbi director comes in there for there to be a clean sweep particularly at that position. what i think we should be