lee regard himself first and foremost as a virginian. in fact, he called the state is homeland, and attacking his people that was inconceivable to him. when he gave general scott is into, scott parnell himself was a virginian, the old commander bray i could not in anger and sadness. you have made the greatest mistake of your life scott told lee that i feared it would be so. when he left scott's office lee speech was yet to be decided as he still faced another question if you couldn't oppose his region could join and fight the nation had served for all those years? he had been offered a commission as brigadier general by the confederacy a number of weeks before but he had refused at that point because virginia had yet to secede. he had dismissed the session. in fact, it was nothing but revolution. which brings us to the evening that lee learn in the days after the cannon fire at fort sumter and its surrender, the virginia delegates had finally voted to become the confederacy's eighth state. so we are here at arlington house, lee is upstai

so that became the more contemporary argument against sullivan. >> lee, -- steve lee said the court expanded sullivan from public officials to public figures and then to any newsworthy matter but that raised some hard line questions about who counts as a public figure and there's the famous gorse case where justice brennan advocated for a standard embraced by the lower court i remember from law school -- he said you're a public figure if you thrust yourself into the vortex of public debate. and justice powell said, that's fair because public officials have more access to the media. someone says something false about them they can respond. is that true in the age of the internet? now everyone is a 15-minute celebrity and everyone can thrust themselves into the internet vortex and also respond to falsehood. how has the enter northwest changed the definition of a public figure. >> i'm not sure the courts caught up to the changes the internet has made but the ability to -- both ways, the ability of something that you say about somebody to go viral, instantly, and i turn to jeff and say something

mayor lee and laura to come up here. laura has spent 25 years understanding the world fair, she started when she was ten and it's been a lifelong process. she would like to make a presentation and afterwards we will all exit and i give you a truly amazing scholar and phenomenal woman deeply dedicated and passionate advocate and this book that was brought into world is one of the shining stars to this centennial. >> thank you so much, cynthia. mayor lee, may i beg your presence on back of the historical society and myself i would like to present you with a copy of my book. mayor edwin m. lee: thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, i hope you enjoy it. thank you. >> all right. mayor lee, you have to come up one more time. this is an official badge. c'mon up. thank you for the honor of making me the liaison for the centennial. i'm thrilled. i would like to present you with this original badge from the 1915 exposition, the opening day. can i pin it on you? mayor edwin m. lee: sure. >> this is what would have been wo

lee: thank you very much. let me thank the gentleman from colorado for that very succinct and clear statement and for your continuing leadership for a policy that really is in the united states' best interests, so thank you again. let me now ask and yield to my friend from california, congressman sam farr, who has really forged a path toward where we are today for many, many years with the administration as it relates to establishing diplomatic relations. one who -- someone who has visited cuba, who has the respect of the cuban people, but also has the respect of our own administration, and someone who continues to plug away each and every day for normal relations with cuba and ending the embargo. congressman sam farr. mr. farr: thank you very much, my dear colleague from california, and our distinguished member of congress, barbara lee. i don't think any other member who has made more trips of anden more people and influenced -- and taken more people and influenced this change in policy in the united states c

[applause] i want to give a shout out to olson lee. he's been involved with the shipyard for decades now. it's important to acknowledge his contributions and we're pleased to be bringing this to you today. now i'm getting to the construction [inaudible]. it's our privilege and we've partnered a great deal on a number of affordable projekts and that's where charmane comes in. of course as you know, community development banking is dedicated to lending and investing in low and moderate income communities. that's all they do. they focus on increasing the supply of affordable housing for renters and homeowners, small businesses and providing economic development in stressed and underserved communities. she brings 34 years to real estate with the last 20 years focused on affordable housing and economic development. please join me in welcoming charmane atherton. [applause] >> thank you so much. good morning everyone. this is a great day. a really great day. we have heard about collaboration and partnerships and that is exactly what this requ

good morning ladies and gentlemen, to introduce mayor ed lee please welcome san francisco resident nicole banks (clapping.) good morning, everyone good morning. >> welcome to the bayview. >> this is where i grew up and where i work and will and where i'm raising my four children as a single mom including but not limited to it nicole banks and i'm proud of the san francisco mayor (clapping) it is such american people your honor to be here with the dignitaries and our mayor ed lee we're here at the san francisco with wholesale produce market a place to buy healthy food i remember coming here and shopping with my grandmother as a child the produce market is a place you can get a good job i know that's when my family wishes if he can stay and live here in san francisco let me thank you a little bit about me i frup on potrero hill very close to where we are today just as my young chshlg children do i attended san francisco public schools and went to city college and transferred to sfusd i received a bachelor's decree in psychology and just implemented graduate school and received a matter of t

i got four proclamation one from mayor lee [inaudible]. in two of board of supervisors [inaudible] and now they evicted me 83 years old i was a world war ii survivor. it's only in one country that could evict 83 year-old person on the streets to die without medicine and doctors. chief of police i call hitler. two times in his face i called him victor because he evict me. six men came at 12:00 at night and evicted me on the streets. it could only happen in germany. [inaudible] you will laugh from god. i need help. i am 83 years old dying on the street without medicine and doctor in ga fascist country. >>thank you, next speaker please. >>hi my name is marion jackson and i'm here to represent the office for justice peace officer association. and we want to wholeheartedly endorse supervisor breed. i work with supervisor breed in the past and i know she's dedicated to her job. she's also a consensus builder and i think as president she will work toward the good of san francisco and not just one district. i also have seen her at work for the fir

mayor ed lee and ms.gins, and stewards of this powerful place of fine arts and from at & t, our exhibition sponsor the hertz corporation, fred is here. centennial sponsors, wells fargo, ecology, town school and so many people have sponsored this organization. the may beck foundation, richard pet ler is here right over there in that lovely blue shirt and truly a genius and you will hear from dan shine, the ceo and curator of innovation and an additional sponsor is scott of sterling bank. there he is, thank you, sir. i also want to extend a very special welcome to the job corps, two incredible women of esteemed presses kristin shine and mary and all of you who braved the elements in joining us. we are bring together p pa 100.org. this went live a couple minutes ago look on your phones, as long as they are at & t phones. we are bringing businesses that will participate in the ppa 100 to participate in huge varieties of exhibitions, thrilling events, lectures, dances, the list goes on. these partners include

i'd like to welcome next to me mayor lee here. thank you for joining us today. i'd like to welcome john stewart here who will be swearing all the newly elected supervisors in today as well as our new district three supervisor as well. with that i'd like to ask madam clerk if you can please call the role. >>supervisor avalos. >>present. >>breed. >>present. >>supervisor campos. >>present. >>supervisor, christensen. >>president. >>cohen. >>present. >>farrell. >>present. kim. >>here. >>supervisor mar. >>here. >>supervisor -- and president tang. >>present. >>supervisor wiener. >>present. >>yee. >>present. >>all members are present. >>thank you ladies and gentlemen. will you please join me with the pledge of allegiance? >>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stand, one nation under god indyivisible with liberty and justice for all. >>and now i'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the many, many many department heads staff of our city family who are here

i'd like to welcome next to me mayor lee here. thank you for joining us today.

this can happen in san francisco because ed lee puts that to rest. everything has happened and can happen through his leadership. rick, why don't you talk to one of the biggest warrior fans we had. i know he was building the arena and talking to the warriors last night. >> before i bring mayor lee, i want to say how proud and happy i am. it means so much to me and i'm sure the audience as well. [ cheers and applause ] the first chinese american sportscaster i have always tried to spotlight asian american athletes and asian americans love sports just as much as everybody and you go to warrior games and you see chinese american faces there and it's great to see the warriors recognize the strong fan base they have in this community and now they are wearing these jerseys. hats off to the organization. okay, mayor. some tough questions here. are they going to ask you who is your favorite team or local sportscaster. we'll skip those questions. i know you have been a warriors fan for a long time. to see those jerseys, what does it make you feel like? >> >>m

sadness that today i'd like to acknowledging a dear member of our family we lost over the family jerry lee the sf board of directors incredibly well known for his contributions to the community i apologize - and he served on so many nonprofit boards which is where we got to know him the united way of the elderly and the development center and angle foundation he has done so much and he joined sfmta board of directors in 2008 he was reappointed in you 2011 and he served as the vice chair of that board for many, many years i have a served on the policy and governance committee he was director lee the son of a restaurant cook and grew up in chinatown he went to all the schools here in san francisco and married his high school sweetheart in 1975 today he's he survived by 3 children over 4 decades dle worked at ups worked as a loader and unlowered while he attended college an incredible employee and became the manager the community affairs he becoming began his charity work and assist with the establishment of the department of traffic he served as a liaison and developed the manager structure

i want to introduce mayor edwin lee. [applause] thank you very much for that -- i like these construction hats. it means we're getting things done. morning! >> morning. >> welcome to the bay view, as always. this is a good time for the still. it's a good time to get together with friends. it's a good time to get together with community, to celebrate, but also, as always, to get road work done for our residents. i'm out here again, as i've said over and over again, i hate making new promises. phase one's about ole promises. i want to thank the commissioner for helping me keep that promise. this is the promise to build 60 units of 100% affording housing for this community. this is a great holiday story and -- [applause] yes, be proud of ourselves and of the city working together getting that done, and while we're doing i want we're doing it the right way with good companies, good sub contractors, good people that utilize the talent of this community already. 30% of the work force is from bay view and 50% san francisco resi

>> aye. >> commissioner lee? >> yes. >> commissioner moshoyannis, are you... >> abstained. >> commissioner frost. >> aye. >> president tan. >> aye. >> all right. >> so thanks for those action and we are going to move on to item three which is the report from the staff and executive director, director king. >> good evening, commissioners i am going to be short and sweet. i wanted to update you on the late night/early morning transportation test work that i always forget to put that in. as you know we have been meeting since i don't know, i guess this summer, or late or early fall on basically trying to come up with a road map for integrated plan and president tan has been present for most of those meetings to move this city into a more efficient and late night transportation and we are ininclusive of the early morning and the workforce issues as well as for the folks who are in the industry after closing time and so we are having another meeting on the tenth of december, we are really excited about kind of coming

>> you have two periods of general lee. when is he is absolutely incapable of controlling subordinate commanders. he does not know anything about jubal early and can't do anything about it, or lee is complicit when early spends through four days capturing blacks and enslaving them and when they retreat from gettysburg, these black prisoners are taken back with them. either one or the other. by every known rule of law of war of the mid-19th century, it is against the rule of war to enslave civilians. it is against the rule of law to ask for payment and bribery in order not to destroy a town, as again jubal early does and some other commanders do. and my assumption is lee knows this is going on. maybe he is incapable of doing anything about it, which of course raises a different kind of lost cause history question the incompetent general lee. but i think he does know what is going on and is competent and does not have any problem with this. but i preempted your question maybe, or was that it? >> therefore he is culpable and s

sullivan" and they are a lee levine and stephen for me. lee is basically the leading first amendment libel lawyer in the u.s. anyone who has worked with him on those of his reputation would turn first to him if we had a knotty question involving press freedom or defamation. is an advocate as well as scholar, a partner in his law firm. is representing media clients and libel, invasion of privacy copyright and really first amendment cases for more than 25 years, recognized by the best lawyers in america and teaches at georgetown university. stephan verdier i've also known for many years. he said professoprofesso r of practice and associate rector of the summer institute on law and government at the american university washington college of law, past chair of the aba section of individual rights and responsibilities, rights for scotusblog and is written of the great and defend the bug of justice brennan liberal champion which is also superb. so silenced your cell phones prepared to write down your questions on note cards c-span audience start

so i want to thank very busy fellow mayor ed lee are coming here today. and being with s&ls began a moment. i want to thank the milken institute for asking me to convene this. i was actually down at their summit calorie florida and los angeles last month speaking about innovation in cities and giving some examples actually in san francisco's something this thing he has done amazingly well that is resulted in transition to becoming one of the absolutely top model economies not only in the country but in the world. so, after they heard my pitch they asked if they told me was going on and asked if i'd be willing to can being with them and reach out to mayor lee and his team and they said they be light delighted to do this. milken institute is apparent spastic asset to have them here in california. they are leaders in leading-edge innovative thinking a whole number of topics and one of the things they delightfully focus on is innovation in cities. what that means to economies and what it means to our country, and we are really proud to be able to partner with

director lee. >> here. >> lee present. >> director nuru. >> present. >>> director reiskin present. >> director harper present. >> i will note for the record that director sartipi will not by able to join us today due to scheduling conflict. >> do we have any communication or board of directors old or new business? seeing none we'll move to the executive director's report. >> good afternoon everyone and happy new year. we start with some good news today, having to do with our bridge loan that we reported on last moment we will be closing next week, that is a great achievement. also we had reported to the board that we're looking at syndicating the loan. it turns out that we no longer have to do that. golden and wells fargo have committed to fund the entire $171 million, $86 million and $85 million respected [sp*-ebgt/]ively and that is very good news and we're closing next week. i can't tell you what a testament it is to our organizion and the growth of our organization to apply for $171 million loan and close on it. it's a good achievement and i want to thank our ffo and staff for the

lee cornell arrested yesterday at a gun store in cincinnati.uring an undercover fbi operation. now, the fbi says it first learned about him after he posted online messages showing support for the islamic state terror group. cornell reportedly told an fbi in fact manhattan he planned to set off pipe bombs at the capital building, then gun down people as they ran out and pan i could. a retired fbi agent tells ktvu the loan terrorist often posed a bigger danger than militant groups. >> it's a big problem, because you don't have to actually associate yourself with an organization. you have to associate yourself with an idea. >> they're holding his luggage. he's a new member of the house jones committee. he says the u.s. potentially faces several terror threats. we caught up with him last night at sfo, where he just came back from washington, and says the terrorists increasing use of social media is a big concern. >> what with we see from these individuals is how they intend to telegraph what they're going to do on social media because they want to

i don't see any on that motion to continue to the february 3rd and commissioner frost commissioner lee. >> commissioner perez commissioner moshoyannis commissioner tan that motion passes next up is whole foods. >> all righty so this one is doing business as whole food effort to revitalize ocean avenue and do their second sunday event first one in january whole foods times to get in on the action so we have a lady for the live permit here not past 10:00 p.m. >> hi you want to introduce yours and let us know. >> i'm the store manager on ocean avenue and we are applying for the permit to senator of o m a and revitalize our cultural in the neighborhood we did the test to program with the painter last month and our customers like it we would like to add live music as well. >> can you talk about the type of entertainment and i've been to this whole foods. >> the last one took place in the cafe it will probably stay in the venue we can use the top window at the top of the ram for folks to buy groceries and have a shopping experience not anything loud or crazy it will enhance that experience a

shock i want to wish his family and colleagues and mta board and department again we'll miss director lee very much. >> thank you supervisor tang it's indeed a great loss we lost jerry when i thought about back about his background i also thought him as anybody in the same neighborhood i grew up in and how much overlap i actually know more about the community more so than being at city hall and like he went to washington irving and we were probable having overlap there i'm a little bit older than him i didn't have any overlap of junior high at the time when we went to galileo and we offer los angeles police department there and went to city college when i was probably around when he first started we overlap i never knew him before being an adult i met him working in the community in the chinese new year parade he was your how do you say you can't have a parade without jerry he's been there ever sense he was in college he kept on doing this is type of commitment someone from the community that didn't turn his back from the community and continued to as he served citywide continued to be se

lee and the others say letting undocumented workers stay in the u.s. will benefit their cities. the mayors are in washington for the winter meeting of the u.s. conference of mayors. >>> saudi arabia has bid farewell to their king. the 90-year-old monarch died yesterday after nearly two decades in power.

can get a good education you've got to put your best foot forward that's where a i had to do mayor ed lee is an inspiration to many people making sure we have strong schools and neighborhood and making sure that san francisco is a city where we can outline call home as a mom education is at the top which my list i want to mayor to focus on i time thankful the school district is his work so my kids got a get a great education here i've heard that mayor ed lee is focused on houses (laughter) that's something i know something about because the mayor's office of housing i was able to get an affordable apartment for my family in san francisco close to the neighborhood i grew up being able to say in the city is the world to me i'm looking forward to raising my children here in my oppose community because of san francisco's investment in mayor edwin lee me and the support of my famed and friends and neighboring neighbors i stand here today proud successful mother of four standing here to introduce our mayor it truly takes a village i'm proud to introduce mayor ed lee who is making sure all of ou

we can talk to laurence lee now. he is there. laurence lee, we have been seeing vehicles consistently. charles charles. >> we'll move away we'll try to get some height so you can get a sense of the sheer numbers of cars about underneath the motor way brim. and the town the center of this, and the small roads, a kilometer in the distance - it's the position we are in at the moment. you probably get a sense of a lockdown i was talking about from the police from the outside going in or going out. and certainly ensuring that the two suspects who we know are holed up in there. >> this is the route there's nothing to the north or the south that they can get out. the point at the moment is to give and try to control the situation on the ground. >> laurence lee, you can see that half the authority's problem is us the media. you can see - already, just behind you is many satellite dishes. the media have descended, of course, upon this which must be a graphic situation, the most important news story that occurred in france for certainly th

mayor lee. >>good afternoon everyone. welcome to city hall. i want to briefly say congratulations to each and every member of the board that's been reelected and sworn in. i also want to say thank you to their families and parents who are here today. you are in the great city hall of san francisco three time world series champion, san francisco. i pledge to you i will work closely with each member of the board of supervisors to improve the lives of everyone in the city. this is important to us and this is why we come to this public office so i con grand jury congratulate all the supervisors and i look forward to working with you as i do each and every member of the elected city family and appointed members of the city family. thank you and congratulations. [applause] >>thank you mayor lee, and now madam clerk, if you can call item 4. >>we will proceed to nominations for the board president. and madam president i have a few nomination principalsesipalsprincipals. a member may nominate themselves. there can be one nomination per supervisor howev