john carroll president of u.s. trade and economic council welcome to my show it's great to have you with us so let's talk about but allow me to start with because it's such a hot topic right now in the news. from one side we have the u.s. government that is supporting the opposition leader as the legitimate leader putting in sanctions on the other hand the government is still somehow holding on or what do you think will happen at this point because america is so involved in this crisis and the crisis is no nowhere close to be resolved to using it will actually have to intervene directly in vain and so at some point venezuela has become a contagion in the americas just like syria has become a contained in the middle east it's quite likely that mr murderer will eventually leave the challenge will be how do you go about doing that i think that the chinese government in the russian government have privately come to terms that the relationship that's important with venezuela is a commercial one so this is now about how

and we're back with john carroll president of the us q about trade and economic council john do you see trump's logic behind his moves towards cuba because it was a big breakthrough during obama era the relations between the united states and cuba were finally starting to normalize i mean even people our heroes like lou that's great why do you think he has reversed that why seeing. everything that obama especially. the trauma station has of this world reaction when the president does basically whatever his predecessors did in office he looks to undo and whatever they didn't do he looks to do in the case of cuba. there's shared blame here the obama administration and the castro ministrations did do quite a bit but they also didn't do much of the hard stuff and primarily the reason that neither of them did the hard thing was because they both expected an election outcome in two thousand and sixteen and it didn't happen the way they expected the cubans were basically going along and slow walking because they figured mrs clinton would win during the transition then they could deal with the

. >> reporter: chad wegener and john carroll bought this 40 acre property 15 years ago. now it's a sanctuary for endangered goats, their livelihood. so when theifa floodwaters, they rushed in to save the animals. >> the water came in. the water came in so quick. excuse me. >> reporter: the damage to agriculture in nebraska this week estimated to be nearly a billion dollars. the latest blow to many farmers. bankruptcies in the region rising by 19% last year. from the trade war and international competition over agricultural products, to extreme weather, farmers are struggling to survive. >> as people put blood, sweat and tears day after day after day for livestock and their crops, to put food or whatever on the tables of people around the country. >> reporter: the forecast for so many farmers is uncertain. do you think you can afford to destation?cause of the >> we don't know. we don't know. >> reporter: kathy park, nbc news, omaha, nebraska. >>> let's take you to washington now and the growing war of words between the president and the husband of kellyanne conway, an unu

pushing for his removal as washington able to achieve political goals in latin america well ask john carroll its president of u.s. trade and economic council. states exclusively with washington imposing trade deals. of the region's countries with the continuing pressure on. the protestors in venezuela what. will the u.s. decisions help bring about any kind of peaceful resolution to america's problems. of a complex troubled region. john kerry president of u.s. trade and economic council welcome to my show it's great to have you with us so well let's talk about but allow me to start with that because it's such a hot topic right now in the news. from one side we have the u.s. government that is supporting the opposition leader as the legitimate leader putting in sanctions on the other hand the doors government is still somehow holding on or what do you think will happen at this point because america is so involved in this crisis in the crisis is no nowhere close to be resolved do you think it will actually have to intervene directly in. at some point venezuela has become a contagion in the amer

thank you to the erica major, filling in for john carroll carol. and i would like to thank samuel and corwin at s.f.gov for staffing this meeting. do we have a motion to excuse supervisor peskin? >> thank you. ms. clerk, do you have any announcements. >> yes, please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices, and speaker cards and copies of any documents as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 19th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> chairman: thank you, misclerk. miss clerk. i want to announce we're going to be taking some of the items out of order to accommodate supervisor brown's schedule and other considerations. please call items four to 10 foreclosed session. >> items four through 10 are various ordinances organizing lawsuits against the city and county of san francisco. >> chairman: are there any members of the public who wish to testify on the items that will be heard enclosed session? seeing none, public testimony is now closed. do we have a

thank you to the erica major, filling in for john carroll carol. and i would like to thank samuel and corwin at s.f.gov for staffing this meeting. do we have a

i want to thank our clerk, john carroll, for dealing with challenging times this morning.and so, um, impersonating supervisor peskin over here, we have supervisor haney. supervisor peskin isn't available right now. we're going to continue on with the a-soc presentation. i'm not sure exactly who is going first. but we have from a-soc -- i don't think we have sam dodge. we have nancy alfaro from 311, oh, there is sam dodge, and nancy, and navina bobbo from public health, and jeff cassinski from homelessness and affordable housing. but someone is making a presentation. >> supervisors, thank you so much for having me today. my name is sam dodge, i work at san francisco public works, and i participate in the health streets operation center. we might flip into a little bit of government and start calling it a-soc, and things like e.r.t., so if there are any sort of questions about these acronyms, please stop me and my colleagues as we present and we can clarify. i wanted to really start out by acknowledging the fact that homelessness is a crisis in our community and across the c

it later was taken up to cecil county maryland whe hung over the school where john carroll went to school, and then in 1862 the was an inscription put on it until a father stumbled over it in healy hall. he found it and they hung it up ll dahlgren chapel and that's where it s is now and tomorrow is the anniversary of the maryland day, and father murphy is going to this the back seat of his car and take it to st. clement and o cay r on the ferry. i get goose bumps, just like a jesuit priest, a jesuit priest who 385 years later ig mak the same journey with the same cross that another jesuit priest, and it will be the first time this cross has returned to st.nt cle island in all these years. it's on the website, just search iron cross but it's a cool story. >>ymbolic given the season of lent. very cool how it's all come together. >> after maryland day it's coming back to georgetown. >> it's staying there for the day and then bnk to georget because this is the first cross in the history georgetown university becau w know georgetown university got its start down on the eastern shore of marylan