my name is karen mauney d.c. brodek with the planning capital division. i'm here to bring back to you an item that the capital committee heard on august 3 about the glen canyon park improvement plan. for you the item is to recommend to the board of supervisors to accept a gift valued over $483,000 from the trust of public land for the development of a park improvement plan and the related outreach process. approve the agreement with the trust public land for use of the gift. and direct the general manager to commence, tell me, to commence further design development and outreach to implement portions of the project to be funded with the neighborhood parks fund, clean and safe neighborhood parks bond. let's get started. i wanted to review again the goals that we set out to work with the community, to come up with a long-term plan for this very complex and beautiful asset in our system, which is glen canyon park. it was important to work with the community to sign a long-range vision and also figure out what we could build with the funding we have at this ti

i would normally use my cell phone mauney emergency communications commander called me and got through to me within the first minute or 2i was not in the office with them wheat communicated and i had to actually go back to my office in my car but by the time i was in my vehicle there was a communications channel set up on the public safety radio systems we continue to communicate, but it just wasn't working for us. >> i just want to follow-up on tim's plight given that this is a multi jurisdictional area, chances are you probably want to communicate with alexandria or washington, d.c. or fairfax. were you able to do that as well? >> absolutely. we have a phone system called the washington area alert system so we can communicate with each other and it's a secure system where you basically take up a telephone and you can speak over the net to all the capital jurisdictions including the federal government infected sexually hosted by the federal government so we do that. we have automated systems and a web based program that we use to enter data and the resource request for the practitione

executive editor of the news hour jam lehrer who's just written a fabulous book called "tension city: mauney view from the middle seat," which is going to be on bookstands on september 13th, and it's all about the presidential debates. we will watch the presidential debates, some of us cover the presidential debates but you are the only person i know was moderated the presidential debates how many of them? >> guest: 11 of them. >> host: 11 of them alone and you are the man in the middle seat at the center of the stage. you've written fiction about these debates but you have never told us what it is like to be in the middle. and why did you decide to write a nonfiction book about debates this time? >> guest: i thought it was time to do it. i felt that 2008 when i did the obama mccain debate i knew this was probably going to be my last presidential debate and so i decided pretty much that was the case, so i started collecting my thoughts and i'd taken a lot of notes through the previous ten and i realized i had things i wanted to say that it would be hard to say if i were still about to do ano

mauney impression is that the energy goes with mr. putin in any job. so when he assumes the responsibilities and language on energy will become more. and i leave it to you to describe the next phase of russia's energy policy. since we have representatives with different administrations of this country, i can say that for years now america has insisted on the diversification including my own country and the discussions with the bulgarian officials and get nothing much has been done on the american side of that. how do you see the american role in the energy diversification which is not just an intention but already a decision by the european union in other words there should be a kind of partnership between the u.s. this energy. >> i guess that there are two energy parts. on the diversification, the u.s. talks about that a lot and it's remained in the realm of talks and there are other people here qualified to talk about that who work for or have worked for companies in the area and the government in that area but my own view would be the united states