joining us now mark cohen, formerly chairman and ceo of sears canada, currently director of retail studieslumbia business school. and former toys 'r' us chairman and ceo jerry storch great to have both of you. mark, is there a more recent moment that you would call pivotal, a turning point, maybe there was hope of saving sears from bankruptcy before but that moment nailed it >> sears holdings was toast about a day after it closed. that is the merger between kmart and sears roebuck. there was never a strategy that would have been viable the way lampert chose to run the business from day one. this is an outcome that just had to happen and the notion there's been some turnaround or transformation in place is just plain bogus. >> jerry, when you look at the lessons from this, is it mostly about leverage or is it about overall missing online and mobile they didn't have the money, they didn't have the capital to invest isn't that what this comes down to >> i think it's broader than that you have to be good at something to win in business, have a place where you have a sustainable competitive val

mark. >> supervisor cohen: just to interrupt, i want to make sure i heard you correctly pick the legislator took a vote that passed that said putting a limit on how much we can save. >> correct. >> supervisor cohen: ok. do you know how they came to the figure 7 million? >> on the next slide, the formula that was designed for that senate bill was that 33% of the five-year revenue of the community services of supports should be the max we can have. so the community services of supports 33% of the five-year revenue from that component is the max we can have and that amount is approximately $7.7 million. that is how i came up with that amount. >> supervisor cohen: do you know who carried this legislation? >> i want to say bill but i need to get back to you on that. >> supervisor cohen: no thank you -- no problem. thank you. go on. >> we are looking at the risk and we are required by law to distribute our revenues across the five components of percentages. some of our revenue goes to that component and 19% goes to prevention and early prevention and five% goes to innovation. the other two compon

market can speak more to the detail. >> supervisor cohen: that's fine. thank you. mark?> thank you. good morning, supervisors. i'm the executive director with a trance state joint -- transbay joint power authority. the spending here is to complete the project. it is not necessarily to pay for the cracks that we found in the beams. the cracks that we found in the beams could be a result of fabrication, installation or design issues. once we find out what the cause is we will be asking for a responsible quality to refund the costs. our intention is not to fund the costs but our intention is to ask the contractor to fund that cost or the designer to funds that cost depending on the responsible parties. >> supervisor cohen: what is the plan if the contractor or the folks that you plan to fund the cost refuse? >> we would take legal action to force them to do it. >> supervisor cohen: you would not come to the -- >> we have no intentions to ask for more money. you have given us plenty of money. >> supervisor cohen: i agree. ok. how much revenue would go towards -- anna said a

cohen. well it is true that mark mohamed bin saumur believes that with him and the leadership of saudi arabia they can be much more proactive in the region although he is very upset with iran that iran gets to act. with near impunity and that the people in the country of iran support the government much more than they do in sort of really good sort of arabia everybody knows that the royal family it's corrupt everybody knows that there's no justice in saudi arabia instead it's just the saudis rule for themselves and they don't care about anybody else but mom and and song and things that they hear can move saudi arabia into a position where he can intervene in syria and yemen in other places and then eventually. i mean movement calling can call and he's he has been doing that. with disastrous effect. disastrous results and. you know we have to look how it's being presented to the american public. the people who are watching his case will go are shocked about saudis killing someone they said oh here's a humanitarian or freedom right here some more and and that is why i said that's why we ran out

cohen: 150th anniversary. >> i would like to bring up the executive director of gloria chance, along with her vice president selena su, and volunteer markenman. are they in the chamber? i know they are here. >> president cohen: we'll go check the overflow room to bring them in. >> thank you for your patience in waiting, for the staff and volunteers to come, the chamber is all full today and so they were in the overflow room. but i did want to just be able to take this moment at the board of supervisors to be able to recognize gamoon women's residence. achieved 150th year anniversary of serving our great city and county. [applause] founded in 1868, and long history reflects ever-changing needs and developments of our asian immigrant community, along with our woman community here in the san francisco area. gamoon was first created as a ministry by women. the methodist episcopal church and through the asian women's resource center and residence hall attempted to address many of the issues that women and children were facing here in the san francisco bay area. located in the heart of chinatown, primarily served our chinatown community but o

answering the questions. >> thank you very much. >> president cohen: the next speaker from the california department of public-health. mark star. the deputy director for environmental health. he has, on his team, anthony chew, his chief, the division of radiation safety and environmental management and also dale sureknack, who does public affairs. good to see you. >> thank you so much, president cohen for in invited us here today and we're happy to give you an update on our parcel a and we can answer the questions. i'll be begin with closure and i spend my time on parcel a and find preliminary and the up-to-date numbers from the work we're doing there. our department has a role in overseeing the safe use of materials in california in general and this includes medical uses and such as diagnostic x-rays, ct scans, training the staff that handle those, things like that. there's cancer treatment and many areas we oversee but also industrial uses, research uses and and others. it's a important component of our department public-health protection programs. you just heard from mr. nazimi, because of the skills set and expertise,

board with a positive recommendation, and i have copies of the marked up amendments for the committee members. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you, miss chan. the language amendments that you're passing out, it's just to ensure that the application complies with the state grant requirements, is that right? >> yes, that's correct. >> president cohen: okay. is there anything else that you want to highlight for us? >> no, that's it. >> president cohen: okay. thank you. there is no budget legislative analyst's report. thank you. we will go to public comment on item three. >> this, too, is a good program and an example how in order for it to be a success, when you calculate the amount of money that the tenant must be charging rent, you must be sure that no price fixing is done. sf, viewer, please. >> president cohen: any other member of the public? oh . >> here's a true and correct copy of the income brackets. the people who you trying to help are mostly on social security benefits, the program that's called s.s.i., when you have a mental disability and a chronic mental disability, a combination of both mental and physical

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mark spencer and virginia. >> we have 12 and 14 but it also says seat number 6 exceeding eugene. >> that's malia cohen's seat. >> district 10 supervisor. >> got it. >> so that's an individual. 11 of the seats are appointed by each individual supervisors and then five of the seats are appointed by the rules committee and then the rules committee also appoints the supervisor the 17th seat. >> seat 12 and 14. >> correct. >> ok. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so, sounded like this is not an easy decision. i think that ms. brasssky as your story was gut-wrenching and i'm sorry for your experiences. i can't even begin to imagine. same with you mr. dancer, i know you are still continuing to live with that. ms. parks, i would be comfortable reappointing miss parks. sounds like a strong recommendation from the director. any other thoughts from supervisor stefani. i think the thing that tips the scale in my opinion is the director saying that we need more males on the board. and there's not as much male representation on the board. i think that's an important voice from the director here. i also understand both of them

. >> president cohen: i'm introducing lemgs lation introducing legislation to declare november 6 domestic violence day in san francisco. yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the #metoo movement. it's come to signify not only the experience of sexual assault survivors, but also how we treat and believe survivors in our society. it represents how we conceptualize sexual assault and what americans, particularly women, what they experience on a daily basis. we've been grappling with these issues here in these chambers through the leadership of supervisor ronen and the creation of the sharp program. the united states department of justice just reported that an american is sexually assaulted every 98 seconds. according to the rape, assault, and incest national network, one in three women in the united states will experience some sort of sexual violence in their lifetime, and one in every six american women have been victim to rape or attempted rape. by declaring october 6 sexual assault survivors day, we recognize not only -- rerecognize not just the power of the survivor experience but the importance of that citywide and national co

the president told his former lawyer, michael cohen, to figure something out with his son, eric, and this is a big deal because if it's true, it would marke trump ever delegated anything to his son, eric. so, you know, i have to say, when i was a kid, american history was like the most boring class. i feel for future kids, thanks to trump and stormy daniels, it's going to be a lot more interesting. so, stormy's here to tell all about her book. she will be promoting it all week long in various venues. meanwhile, yesterday, melania flew africa for a week. i'm sure that's a coincidence. melania trump was in ghana today, as in she's never ghana come back. she was -- this is a -- an historic trip because not only is it melania's first solo trip overseas, it's the first time that a member of the trump family has ever gone to africa without shooting an elephant, so that's nice. it's progress. so -- oh, you didn't hear about that? here in l.a., sports fans are -- baseball fans are excited because the dodgers won the national league west and they're going to the post season. hosting the atlanta braves on thursday. the season went down to the wire

marks on your shirt. gillette clear gel antiperspirant. >>> donald trump for the first time answered a question about his former attorney michael cohen's pleas interview with the ap yesterday. and just like cohen flipped on his former boss, trump turned and and flipped on cohen. cohen testified under oath in court that you directed him to commit a crime. did you, sir? trump responded, totally false. it's totally false. the ap followed up. so he's lying under oath? trump answered absolutely he's lying. michael cohen was a pr person who did legal work, very small legal work. he represented me very little. very low level. for a low-level employee, trump was angry when cohen's offices and hotel were raided back in april. >> it's a disgrace. it's a real disgrace. it's an attack on our country in a true sense. >> i'm not sure jonathan lemire it's an attack on the country when your low level pr guy flips on you. is it? >> no, probably not. that's not who michael cohen was, of course. yes, he was not a lawyer in the traditional sense for the then candidate and celebrity businessman donald trump. >> he was dirtier than a lawyer in a traditional sens

cohen shielded tump from bad press. one method-- blueats to journalists. >> mark my words sport. i will make sure that you and i meet one day over in the courthouse, and i will take you for every penny you stil don't have. >> narrator: the call was to reporter tim mak at "the daily beast. >> i'm warning you, tread very (bleep) lightly because what i'm going to do to you is going to be (bleep) disgusting. do you understand me? don't think you can hide behind your pen, because it's not going to happen. >> michael cohen, just this basically, just... just threatens this guy like, like some kind of low-life thug. >> i'm more than happy to discuss it with your attorney and with your legal cosel because, mother(bleep), you're going to need it. >> narrator: cohen was infamous s role in the stormy daniels story-- orchestrating a atsh money payment to the adult film star who thed to reveal a sexual encounter with trump. >> he cleans up messes, d an accusation about an affair, a demand for some kind of compensation to keep quiet, that's exactly the kind of problem that cohen would like to t

marked change in that attitude. now, we may not know and probably do not know the full extent of any agreement, whether written or otherwise, that michael cohenas with the government because prosecutors do not broadcast these things. they don't broadcast them for very specific reason which is in many of these criminal cases. it's dangerous to put it out there that a cooperator is giving up information or possibly even wearing a wire. so as a general rule of thumb, prosecutors are very careful about revealing there is or is not any actual greet. >> michael cohen, never say never. and apparently try not to say always. up next, money, power, politics. my favorite part of the show and the return of obamacare. how health care has become a key message for democrats this time and some of the most contentious races this election cycle. ction. i landed. i saw my leg did not look right. i was just finishing a ride. i felt this awful pain in my chest. i had a pe blood clot in my lung. i was scared. i had a dvt blood clot. having one really puts you in danger of having another. my doctor and i chose xarelto®. xarelto®. to help keep me protected. xarelto®

mark signed a nondisparagement agreement with the trump campaign back in 2016. zeke, let me start with you. what else did the president have to say about michael cohen?well, he called michael cohen a pr guy who essentially acted as a contractor. obviously, that's not -- that's minimizing michael cohen's role, understandably, given what has happened to michael cohen since and then went on to say that all the things that michael cohen, that got him in trouble, had nothing to do with him as the president, that they had to do -- they had to do with his other business dealings. that is not true, given that -- given what two of the charges michael cohen pleaded to regarded those payments, involvement with the president, but you know, he's correct that some of the other things that drew prosecutors' attention to him did not involve the president, but the question when it comes to those two payments the president denying that he had done anything wrong, michael cohen had a very different opinion sort of and the federal court had a very different opinion a couple months ago. >> harry, from a legal perspective, this michael cohen case is with the southern dist

cohen: i'll come back to them. i have a few more questions. are there other areas in the surrounding communities tha that could have been impacted by the contaminated matter? the deck mark. they will explain that. that was the only thing that they found at parcel a. parcel g is an area that is secure and the rest of the hunters point as well. that those will be it will determine whether or not contaminations left in those areas and then they have to be remediated before the area is curbed in for protection. >> president cohen: based on what i'm hearing, you are saying the scan is only -- i shouldn't say only. the scan is 95% complete. it's out scanning 5% that needs to be scanned. that there is no contamination around the -- i'm not just talking -- my question, is not just for the shipyard but other areas uareas up on west point. other people that are fearful, as far as going to third street and even when you cross third street, there's a large number of fear. so what i would like to do, i think i heard it and i wanted to put a finer point on it is people are safe. the deck mark was obtained and there isn't a reason for people to be nervous about living on the shipyard

frontline," which of those is closer to the mark in terms of how trump coped with this threat to his presidency? >> one of the things we do, we go back to cohenr name for you, who was part of the initial showdown in washington back in the '50s. cohen was the father to donald trump, taught him what he knows about how to fight back, how to be aggressive, about how to never let anybody win, how to always declare victory. you're seeing an awful lot of that at every step of this process. at some moment people in the film say he spent his life looking for another roy cohen. at some point in this process, john he becomes his own roy cohen. that's what people tell us. his strategy as a life long strategy of using the law and resisting certain kind of rule of law, you also of rule of law. you also watch him test what will work all the way through the film leading up to that failing when michael cohen is taken down and you see him take another kind of lawyer on, rudy giuliani. and alan dershowitz tells us in the film this is a red/blue division strategy that's all about the midterm elections. and that's what you see take place in this film and it reson