. >> good afternoon john lao. i know have you many moving and complicated pieces that the central soma plan. a possible contribution to the restoration from the cfd revenues from the central soma plan. it's a small piece of the overall public benefits package but it would be of great significance to the public itself. secondly, let me offer to come back we're putting the finishing touches on the campaign feasibility study and it should give us of the ability to raise funds from private, corporate and philanthropic sources and we're in conversations with the state of california about a project and they've been an early investor -- and a contribution from the soma plan would be of great importance to the project. it would make every subsequent dollar that much easier to leverage. >> commissioner: do you think what's in there is enough to get you to that number. >> i won't opine on what the right figure should be. i'll leave that to policy makers. staff has had a dedication to the program from the start and have comm

i'm john lao on economic development. let me state that we would like to come back with a fuller presentation on our work around the mint restoration project. i've been talking with the preservation coordinator on how do that in the coming months. we want to gette get more inforn back from the technical studies. we look forward tie broader conversation -- to a broader conversation in the next few months. we're in the due diligence period conducting technical studies, answering questions that need to be explored towards developing a rehabilitation project here in a year's time. one of those is financing. we're essentially building the capital stack as we go through this due diligence effort. we estimate -- we're using a project construction cost of $100 million at this time. one of the things we're doing is part of the assessment is to refine that figure. hopefully we're not wildly off on that. assuming now a hundred million, yes, it will be a blend of funds and we see a commitment from the central soma plan would be a sig

john. i think it more fundamentally speaks tie lao a lack of a relationship between the president and his secretary like abby said, they didn't know one another from the beginning, they never hit it off. there was no relationship there. there has been talk for months and months and months that rex tillerson was on his way out or soon to leave or would be fired, however you want to characterize it, and i think that statement today says everything we need to understand about what the situation was of longstanding between these two men. >> so why did it go on for so long? you're right, this goes back months. why did it go on for so long? i get the white house perspective, if they had done it right away the media would have said chaos, trump brings in people and doesn't give them a chance, constantly undermines them. but as to the bigger point, he is the president of the united states. he has the right to have whoever around him that he wants to. if he lost trust with rex tillerson months ago, why not? >> to be frank right now, if you talk to senior republicans on the hill, they're kind of exhaling a l

woi uld lao toik submit statements from congressman david kusoff, national chain of drugstores, university of texas, johns hopkins university, cvs health, rayburn and pursuant to the committee members, they have ten days to submit questions for the record and i ask the witnesses to submit those responses within 10 business days of the receipt of said questions. and without objection, this hearing is adjourned. >>> on capitol hill, the house is back for legislative work starting at 2:00 p.m. and house lawmakers will consider gun violence bills, and also a measurement to fund the government past the march 31st deadline. the senate is meeting today at 4:00 p.m., and they are going to look at banking regulations the be eased by the end of the week. at some point, the senate plans to consider the nomination of kevin mcalin for the borders and customs organization. you can also see more information on this on c-span 2. >>> vladimir putin had unveiled what he called a new generation of missiles, and this speech came a few weeks before the russian presidential elections where mr. putin is expected to win the pres