lynette, i'm going start with you. how beneficial could the president's investment in down-ballot races be in the gop? >> it's unclear. if you don't have a heavy hitter at the top of the ticket, you have to get people energizend get them out to vote, and it's unclear whether trump will be able to do that. he needs more than his base to win 2018. he needs people as my colleague, josh called them, trump-curious. people who are like -- >> trump-curious. >> trump-curious. people who are like, i'm going to give this guy a chance, i'm going to give his party a chance, his policies, his politics. and you know, the republican party has gotten a little messy. you have the bannonites, you have the more old guard, mitch mcconnell type republicans. there's going to be infighting between them, and you don't know if you can necessarily trust trump's judgment on which candidate to pick, on which side to go down. he'll go down either way, but it seems like the bannonites get to whisper in trump's ear, and it seems like they hold sway

i kind of went in going oh, my god, this is so hard. >> lynette hates being a mother. it. she has a break down on the soccer field. they go out to comfort her and confess to her that they understand they had been through it too. >> lynette turns to them and says why doesn't anyone talk about this? because part of the pain is the shame of it. >> when you think back to leave it to beaver or any of those women, the whole idea was that you had to be perfect. >> the same way that women were fighting the icon of the perfect wife in the 50s or 60s that led to women's lib, the new icon is motherhood. the perfection of motherhood. when people say she is just a mother. do you know how hard that is. it's a lot easier to get-up-and-go to work when someone offers me a cup of coffee. >> when i decided to start writing the show, the first thing i came up with was the title, "desperate housewives." the woman running the test group said a lot of women will not like that. it became clear to me that they didn't relationship women who just stayed in the home. now you have to be the female

i wanted to thank staff for moving so forcefully on the lynette sweet matter. this was a 2010 public financing report that we extended to ms. sweet for the board of supervisors. it's been in away -- abeyance far too long. obviously now the matter is in bankruptcy court. i had a question -- since these were public funds that were absconded in part with, have we submitted to the court that fact and that as a result, has it put us closer to the i.r.s. than not? because otherwise, public funds may have been lost? [inaudible] >> secured creditor of highest priority. and we're not. the municipalities are not in the bankruptcy code specifically. we're a general creditor, the same way as anyone else. >> this is a u.s. court. >> u.s. federal court for bankruptcy. >> at least we'll get due process, one way to view it. thank you very much. >> any further public comment? okay. if not, we'll move on to item 9. discussion of the executive director's report. >> thank you, chair keane. i have a brief report summarizing some of what you heard from director bloom about our atten

storms have been raging in the east of the country but all the same one elderly woman in the soccer lynette's in far eastern russia decided to pop on top balcony for a cigarette and she was blown off the unlucky woman next had a bit of luck she landed flat in a huge pile of snow rather than meet the balcony which cushioned her impact that prevented her from sustaining too much damage too many injuries unfortunately for her though the ambulance couldn't actually reach because of the heavy snow according to local russian media it was decided to use an excavator not just to clear a path to her but also to whisk her to hospital right inside the shovel bucket. we hope she's not feeling too under the weather and makes a quick recovery so all the headlines from us for the saudi come back. for more global headlines will see that. i've. little bit of a bit of a l l a. p everybody i'm stephen ball. hollywood guy suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v. . this is my buddy max famous financial guru just a little bit different. with all the drama happening in our country ro

i will say that in december, i attended a meeting of the creditors for lynette sweet, who owes the city $74,000 as the result of an order that this body imposed on her for misused finance funds. it looks like we have a chance of recovering as a result of that proceeding, but we learned th

. >> what i felt about lynette was it gave voice to the difficulties and challenges of motherhood. >>at home. two on the way. >> oh, big family. you're so blessed. >> i just can't imagine anything better than being a mommy. >> my experience when my children were little is there wasn't a whole lot of room for, wow, i hate this. what happened to the old me? and i am not one of those women that went into motherhood with ecwin imity and grace. i went in going, oh, my god, this is so hard. >> you know, linnet hates being a mother. she doesn't enjoy it. and has a breakdown on a soccer field. susan and brie go out to comfort her and confess to her that they understand they've been through it, too. >> and that's when lynnet turns to them and says, why doesn't anyone talk about this? because part of the pain is the shame of it. >> when you think back to "leave it to beaver" or any of those women, the whole idea was that you had to be perfect. >> same way women were fighting against the icon of the perfect wife in the '50s and '60s that led to women's lib. the new icon is motherhood. the perfec

essential lynette new affordable housing units proportion of net new units in projects that have received entitlements and have yet to receive building permits. the slide provides the projected housing balance -- well it shows that the projected housing balance is at 16%. this is about the same as in the previous 10-year reporting period. again, this is provided at the district and planning district levels. >> could you go back to the 508 units that are t.d.b. does that mean that they either become low or moderate? >> we don't know what the affordability is yet. >> right. i assume you're countinging the first three in the total of affordable units. you are saying the 508 will either end up in the low or moderate categoris? >> that is correct. the housing balance ordinance specifis that three major projects have been entitled but do not yet have building permits not included in the projected housing balance, that is until a unit of -- until facing of these projects move to applying for and receiving building permits. all together, the remaining faces of these projects will provide about 22

alaska.ul in lynette, bountiful, utah, line democrats. good morning. caller: good morning. would like to urge everyone to call their senators and ask them killing of nst the 90,000 wild horses, there is an birth controlt is and blm has not given it a fair chance. more than ever spent birth heir budget on control and it is -- birth more l, although a little expensive up front, it would be eclining cost, whereas the killing solution proposed by my representative, chris stewart, passed so far to get it to the senate, that bill will never go down. will always be expensive to keep killing and birth control eventually bring the population down to stasis and at that point -- it : we'll have to leave there, the house of representatives is coming in. we'll take you to live coverage we'll see you back here tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. 4:a.m. pacific, on the "washington journal." le dave brat to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chai