de loretto. my district in southern california sits in the ports of los angeles and long beach. 40% of the imports that come from those ports go to the rest of the nation. and 25% of the nation's exports go out to other countries through those ports. most of those products then go through freight rail lines, through my district in the san gabriel valley, one of the most congested areas in the nation. unless fixed, there are excess emissions, train horn noise and the potential for collisions. and by 2040, there is an expected dramatic increase. the ports are projected to handle about 35 million units of cargo, which will generate close to 120,000 truck trips per day, nearly double the current levels. of course, we have some that are working on this. the alameda corridor east project, or a.c.e., is responsible for constructing grade separations to facilitate the movement of all these freight trains through this urban area. they have constructed 19 grade separations and more than $1.6 billion has be

. >> so rich loretto from fran loretto, provide an update on subphase submitted in january. >> good morning. i'm happen to be here to today to report on the status of the subphase application. my name is rich loretto, bob had mentioned i'm with the prime consultants on the project. as bob had mentioned, the subphase application was submitted to the city agencies in january. and happy to report that we did not get any major comments as part of that subphase application. i think partially because there was a lot of work that was done in advance of that subphase application, to inform the city of what the project is. and all of the elements of it. the comments that we did receive were more technical in nature, that will be addressed during the design process. but nothing that changed the overall plan and program for the subphase. so we are going through the design process now and we have met with the city agencies already to go through the comments that are design-related, to be in advance of that. when we do submit the construction drawings, they will already have seen that we are addressing

loretto and cleveland, ohio. caller: good morning, representative. i have like three quick mueller questions. cil- pen a handy? the sanctions. who authorize the changes in the sanctions language? -- andhe mueller up for did the mueller report or barr say anything about the sanctions? why was the form changed? russia or didact putin make this a demand for his help? host: will take that question because we are running out of time. fort: she is making a case wanting to see what is in the report pushing at the information she needs. question thats a a lot of american public has, so reall -- releasing that report, obviously things that need to be you -- be red part of thed be a report, but we need to have transparency. next.paul, your call is caller: i appreciate your station. is going to do just as much as he can possibly do to get away because we do not have anybody to override him to see what he is doing. paul, butink we lost we will give you 30 seconds or so, congresswoman. caller: we have a constitutional -- have a constitutional responsibility to pr