i believe we have one card and that is kevin sullivan. and again, as a reminder, you have three minutes. >> public: good morning, i'm kevin sullivan. i'm the director at pg&e. i've spent my whole career looking at impacted sides and trying to figure out how to best reuse them and manage them and clean them up. i'm here to address the questions about the east harbor marina. what i really want to reaffirm for you is our commitment to the environment, our commitment to doing the right thing out there. your commission and pg&e, we have a lot of common interests. park and rec need to dredge the site to keep it operating as a marina. we have an interest in that there's historical facts from gas plants that operated about a hundred years ago that are underneath the harbor. we've been trying to figure out a way forward. we have designs for a large dredge project out there. the more our team looked at this, the more i think people just said this does not feel like the right answer. it's a heavy-handed approach. it has a lot of impacts of the actua

i believe we have one card and that is kevin sullivan. and again, as a reminder, you have three minutes. >> public: good morning, i'm kevin sullivan. i'm the director at pg&e. i've spent my whole career looking at impacted sides and trying to figure out how to best reuse them and manage them and clean them up. i'm here to address the questions about the east harbor marina. what i really want to reaffirm for you is our commitment to the environment, our commitment to doing the right thing out there.

there that kevin sullivan, and we owe him a great debt of gratitude because i was able to take his remarks and submit them for the record for the actual impact that this would have on connecticut residents, not in ine, not on average, not aggregate, but the actual impact . as kevin said, connecticut and even moreates will disproportionately pay in federal taxes far more than is received in federal benefits. notion gives rise to the -- and many of you have heard me say this -- that we are a donor state. what we mean by that is that we intostate paid far more the federal coffers than we received back as a state, and we do that gladly because we deeply believe in a strong national defense. we believe in a national parks system. the national institutes of health and science. we want to make sure our infrastructure is sound and secure all across the nation, but by the same token, since its introduction in 1913 as part of the irs code, as joe pointed out and in, states like ours the northeast and on the west coast, as you can see from that alwayss slide, have taken care of their own as well, by

bill, anticipating what would be we held at manchester community college, and it was there that kevin sullivan, and we owe him a great debt of gratitude because i was able to take his remarks and submit them for the record for the actual impact that this would have on connecticut residents, not in ine, not on average, not aggregate, but the actual impact . as kevin said, connecticut and even moreates will disproportionately pay in federal taxes far more than is received in federal benefits. notion gives rise to the -- and many of you have heard me say this -- that we are a donor state. what we mean by that is that we intostate paid far more the federal coffers than we received back as a state, and we do that gladly because we deeply believe in a strong national defense. we believe in a national parks system. the national institutes of health and science. we want to make sure our infrastructure is sound and secure all across the nation, but by the same token, since its introduction in 1913 as part of the irs code, as joe pointed out and in, states like ours the northeast and on the west coast,

bill, anticipating what would be we held at manchester community college, and it was there that kevin sullivanwe him a great debt of gratitude because i was able to take his remarks and submit them for the record for the actual impact that this would have on connecticut residents, not in ine, not on average, not aggregate, but the actual impact . as kevin said, connecticut and even moreates will disproportionately pay in federal taxes far more than is received in federal benefits. notion gives rise to the -- and many of you have heard me say this -- that we are a donor state. what we mean by that is that we intostate paid far more the federal coffers than we received back as a state, and we do that gladly because we deeply believe

we have kevin robillard who is with "politico" and sean sullivan with "the washington post." john sullivan for the first question. sean: you guys in the democratic caucus have narrowed the republican advantage in the senate this week. it looks like there are some other interesting senate races. some retirements. we are less than a year for the midterms. will democrats win the majority back in the senate this november? sen. van hollen: so this was a great week for the senate. for alabama and for the country with the swearing in of doug jones, who ran a campaign based on kitchen table issues. i am not your negro am not going to make any predictions about global happen -- i will not make any predictions about what will happen. all i can say is the signs out there that she have an energized democratic base and a lot of independent voters who are crossing over to support democrats as they did with doug jones. and a lot of disaffected republicans. and i believe that the steps that the republicans and -- in congress have taken are going to make things a lot harder for those republic

we have kevin robe lar who is with "politico" and sean sullivan with "the washington post." it looks like there are some other interesting races. the democrats -- will democrats win the majority back in the senate this november? >> so this was a great week for the senate. for alabama and for the country with the swearing in of doug jones who ran a campaign based on kitchen table issues. and a lot of this affectsed republicans. and i believe that the steps that the republicans and congress have taken are going to make things a lot harder for those republicans, including the passage of this attack which is a total giveaway to corporations while millions of middle class taxpayers, you're going to see their taxpayers go up. >> senator, when you are making priority i, your priority going to be defending these 10 democratic senator who is are up for re-election in these trump states? or are you going to go on offense and win races like nevada, arizona, texas and tennessee, where you have? senator chris van hollen: we hink we can do both. you've good lot of battle-tested incumbents

kevin sturgis of philadelphia was killed during the shoot-out. two other officers injured in the shooting are expected to be okay. >> well this image courtesy of louis sullivanws the flames that greeted firefighters at montgomery county high-rise fire last night. the fire started about 5:30 at the regency park towers on easton road in willow grove. two people were taken to the hospital. warming buses until firefighters got the situation under control, the cause of that fire is under investigation. >>> well, story developing right now out of brazil as car plows into a crowd at the famed copa cabana beach in rio >> getting report eight month olds baby was cents killed in the crash at least 15 other were injured. the boardwalk along the beach was packed, when the car jumped the curb last night. witnesses say the vehicle traveled for several feet before coming to a halt in the sands. police arrested the driver who toll them he had epp epileptic attack at the time of the crash. >> a tanker burst into flames on interstate in utah shutting down traffic and all directions, this was near salt lake city last night. a tanker caring 9,000 gallons of gasoline and a thous

and kevin's also been a regular contributor to proceedings as a regular contributor almost every month. and finally we've got retired captain who commanded the burke destroyer, the sullivans and destroyer squadn are 26. so instead of giving mini speeches we thought we'd get right if to a discussion after which we'll open it up to the audience, have q and a and we'll get right at it. so to kick it off, i'll ask this first question. so you've all read the comprehensive review of the recent surface war events that was released by the navy and based on your experience and maybe even based on some of the earlier comments today, do you see that -- in your view has it been comhehencive enough and is there any important things you left out and what would you highlight as an important thing you take away from it as a top level investigation. >> i did -- i also looked at the gao reports that came out slightly before it. the first thing i did was look at it back and see who was on the panel and look at the places they went. so the name's not recognized as experts are on there. so given the scope and the scale, i think it definitely was comprehensive. it's a little slow centric becau

we have kevin robillard who is with "politico" and sean sullivan with "the washington post."