. >> vice chair kopp: good morning, members of the committee. i'm quentin kopp, a former member of the board of supervisors, and i'd like to divide my remarks in procedural and substantive categories. this has been a long, long process which began in san francisco in 1973. the trivia question before the committee this morning is what is the first municipality in california to adopt an ordinance to control campaign contributions and expenditures. it's not san francisco. we were second. san diego was first. after san diego adopted an ordinance, i telephoned the city attorney, obtained a copy of it, introduced it in 1973, and it was enacted -- my memory fails as to whether it was unanimously enacted by the board of supervisors, and it had both spending and donation limits in it. and those spending limits remained in effect until one of the cases john gollinger referred to, buckley versus vallejo was decided by the united states supreme court which held that the first amendment was violated by a spending limitation. and so american government, local

me, commissioner renne, and senator kopp. and it was just a blunder bust -- i'm not an impulsive guy, but when i announced the vote, saying the measure fails, these four votes, measure fails by three -- i said the measure fails, i resign, and i walked away. i'm not someone who is dramatic for the sake of being dramatic. my family will tell you i'm a rather dull guy. but when i did that, after i did that, john gollinger and tom ammiano and i said let's go as directly as we can to the voters. the voters want this, because they've been frustrated on so m many levels. and you, supervisors, have put it on the ballot for november. and i, someone who was not a pr -- who is not a prophet, it will win overwhelmingly. so i want to thank you very much. i want to add one other person to the long list of individuals who you indicate thd that have endorsed it. i think former mayor art agnos should get noticed. he's backing it, as are many people as we go along. thank you very much for this measure that you made. you have made a wonderful s

and by the time then-state senator quentin kopp transferred the property to the city for one american dollar, willie brown was mayor. and there was a little neighborhood fight about what we were going to do with those parcels. one was going to be a police station, one was going to be a butterfly museum, one was going to be affordable housing. i am pleased to say that today, they are all affordable housing for the city and county of san francisco. that is remarkable. [applause] >> supervisor peskin: now, it is true that i wanted this site, even though my friends at the barbary coast neighbors disagreed, i wanted this to be a temporary navigation site. but the mayor and i and supervisor haney have teamed up to find one not so far away. and i also want to agree with the mayor that affordable housing is actually not that affordable, and we all know the numbers that we just saw, the homeless count. and it's just not san francisco, it's portland, seattle, and los angeles, continue to rise. so here are 53 units that are going to keep some of my seniors -- and this is the district that has th

let's get reaction from kopp copenhag copenhagen. joining us now is the former u.s.ark. ambassador gifford, thanks for being here. the prime minister used the word absurd. you used the word sad. what do you mean that this episode is sad? >> i think it's sad, honestly, because this is not the way you treat an ally. so if we look at what's happened over the course of this last week or so, or the last few weeks, he committed to come and it's not just a bilateral visit with the prime minister. this was a state dinner. the first state dinner that a sitting united states president has done in denmark since bill clinton in 1997. it's a big deal here. it's a big deal here. and in essence, he made this visit his -- his visit contingent on the kingdom being willing to negotiate the sale of part of their territory. now, this is a country, denmark, that has fought and died alongside american soldiers. i had the great responsibility of going to the danish government and requesting troops to go to iraq, to syria. and they went and they fought along i'd our troops and died alongsid

tonight we are very pleased to welcome elizabeth kopp. elizabeth is an award winning novelist and documented filmmaker, author of eight books including nonfiction and america's first lemon soldiers in the new york times best-selling historical novel the hamilton affair. her newest novel the command is available for sale after the program outside of the lecture hall. with that said, i know were alla in for a fascinating talk, without further ado i would like to please join me in welcoming elizabeth cox. [applause] >> thank you so much. i really honored to be here, i cannot think of any better place to launch a novel like this, here in washington, d.c. and at the smithsonian. thank you so much for being a part of my first audience to talk about. tubman. i am very honored. we began with a mystery. we all love mysteries. [laughter] we begin with a mystery on jun june 1, 1863 to u.s. gunships craft upper river, blackwater river and south carolina towards confederate rifles in a river that studded with underwater mines in infested with alligato

emily cop of -- emily kopp of "roll call."s far as impeachment is concerned, how are democrats and republicans addressing that in their home districts? emily: we're seeing a lot of the freshmen who flip republican districts in 2018 being pressed by democratic voters to stop slow walking impeachment. the polling on this is a little bit all over the place but it indicates that while a major of voters don't support impeachment, a majority of democratic voters do. yeah, we're seeing a lot of really animated town halls with democratic freshmen taking questions from constituents who want to see movement on this faster and are not satisfied with the ongoing investigations. host: as far as a specific democrat, your story addresses some of those town halls and the topic of impeachment. what stands out as far as the freshmen or the democrats you profiled in that piece? >> i think new jersey representative is really interesting. he promised s -- voters he would hold a lot of town halls and be accountable to them. his district is really c

of women, the rights of gendered identity people, the rights of religious minorities, christians, kopps, yeznis, kurds. if you care about basic human rights and democratic and supposed, i think -- and i thinkic principles, we as a generation and as a society need to protect our education system because if we lose it, we're in serious trouble. >> the frightening fact is that this is not restricted to certain types of universities. and it's not restricted to just universities. the dehumanizing of zionists now is a -- is becoming mainstreamed and it is -- it may have started and we may see it really egregiously on the campuses but it's moving beyond. we now see it in our daily lives outside of campuses. >> yeah, i would like to add that, there's no way to restrict this to one kind -- certainly there's a lot of anti-zionist activity at my alma mater, columbia. you can note other famous liberal arts schools where that's true. wherever middle east studies are taught, those departments have become the bailey wick of anti-zionists who spread these negative attitudes and really false ideas about