host: mike gonzalez of the heritage foundation, joining us. greg, north carolina, independent line, you are next up. caller: i'm a 21-year-old military veteran -- i'm a 21 year military veteran. you mentioned that there were riots in the street, but you omitted the fact that that was reaction from george floyd, giving the misleading perception of what he's speaking about to begin with. secondly, jim crow is a major reason for programs like dei, because of race-based hiring practices america was already participating in, which is insane for you to perceive it as not being necessary now. lastly, dei practices trying to be implemented now, it takes away the ability for tuskegee airmen to be mentioned in air frace -- air force training, which my grandfather was one of. what is your response to that? guest: thank you for your service. you are quite wrong on several fronts. when you talk about the riots in 2020, i don't think that they were -- it was a manipulation of organizations founded by marxists who wanted to change the country and we had a gr

mike gonzalez talks about the effort to dismantle federal d.e.i. programs. join the conversation live at 7:00 eastern on tuesday morning, on c-span, c-span now or online at c-span.org. >> on wedsday, president trump's health and human services sretary nominee, f. nnedy jr., ttifies at a senate finance comm confirmation. he's an environmental lawyer and activid also the 2024 independent presidential ida he eventually withdrew from the race to endorse donald trump. a.m. eastern on c-span.:00 then on ay, mr. kennedy returns to capitol hill to take questions senate health committee. that's live at 10:00 a.m. eastec-span3. you can also watch both hearings on c-span now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org.

host: mike gonzalez of the heritage foundation, joining us. north carolina, independent line, you are next up. caller: i'm a 21-year-old military veteran -- i'm a 21 year military veteran. you mentioned that there were riots in the street, but you omitted the fact that that was reaction from george floyd, giving the misleading perception of what he's speaking about to begin with. secondly, jim crow is a major reason for programs like dei, because of race-based hiring practices america was already participating in, which is insane for you to perceive it as not being necessary now. lastly, dei practices trying to be implemented now, it takes away the ability for tuskegee airmen to be mentioned in air frace -- air force training, which my grandfather was one of. what is your response to that? guest: thank you for your service. you are quite wrong on several fronts. when you talk about the riots in 2020, i don't think that they were -- it was a manipulation of organizations founded by marxists who wanted to change the country and we had a great de

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host: mike gonzalez. thanks for your time. we will take you to a senate hearing that takes focus on the panama canal. they will look at the strategic importance and the impact on u.s. trade and national security. that hearing set to start momentarily. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> good morning. welcome to the senate committee on science, commerce, and transportation. we are here to examine a monument to american ingenuity. the panama canal. senator marino suggested we open the hearing by playing van halen and panama. we may not do that. between the american construction of the panama canal , the french effort to build a canal, and america's triumphant completion of that canal the major infrastructure projects across panama cost more than 35,000 lives. the final decade of work on the canal the united states spent nearly $400 million, the equivalent to more than $1

welcome news to mike gonzalez, a senior fellow at the heritage foundation, a conservative think tank based in washington, dc. >> people should be able to be recognized. their achievements be recognized as the product of their of their effort. and i think this is this is exactly what what we americans of all races expect and want. >> gonzalez believes dei programs have become too divisive and actually discriminate against certain groups of people. he also thinks the pushback against dei efforts are more than just a temporary shift. >> it talked about a cultural turning point. we are seeing a cultural turning point, not just in america, in the world. >> many disagree with the shift away from dei policies, though, and some say the changes will harm the most marginalized communities in the country. that includes people like suzanne ford, the executive director of san francisco pride and a transgender woman. >> it's punching down. and we know that the group, the most marginalized group, especially black and brown trans people, will be harmed by this. and it's a license for people to treat

heritage foundation's mike gonzalez discusses efforts to dismantle d.e.i. rules. join us on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. uval lee american enterprise institute constitutional studies director and also the author of the recent book "american covenant: how the constitution unified our nation and could again." thanks for joining us. guest: thank you very much for having. host: we had you want to talk about it before, but how does that parallel to the days we are seeing now under a new resident when it comes to unity in the united state. >> the argument is that the constitution brings us together helping us fight properly's agreed with our constructive, and that it assumes there will always be divisions but establishes procedures and institutions that are set up to but americans agree in ways that lead to negotiation, bargaining and compromise. especially in the time when we are intensely, deeply divided. the kind of 50-50 moment that we live in now in the united states the last generation means that we have to let our institutions function. that's goi

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vanessa gonzalez, mike hawkins, christian martin erika walter mead and liz kirby. and we want to thank them all for their dedication to the projects and their service and their continued stay engaged with things as they develop. with that, i'll hand it over to alison. >> thank you, rachel and good afternoon commissioners. alison alberici with the citywide division of the planning department, the manager for the s.f. railyard planning program i'm joined this afternoon by my planning department colleague tam tran as well as dylan harvey, deputy director of engineering and land ecology project coordination manager with the transbay joint powers authority jesse koehler route rail program manager with the san francisco county transportation authority council. cheeta director of systemwide planning and navid dhaliwal, government and community affairs manager both from caltrain and genevieve cadwallader, vice president and investment officer with prologis and lee lieutenant state deputy director of joint development in the office of economic and workforce development. >>

with that, we bring in our meteorologist, roberto gonzalez, with a closer look at those conditions. roberta. mike. >> i took a look at some of the local buoys and they have been exceeding 18ft in elevation. as far as your wave heights are concerned. hi, everybody. good evening to you. and depending on your location, the water temperatures roughly about 53 degrees. but here's the story. we do have a lot of activity out over the open waters. it's generating some high waves. and therefore the national weather service has issued that beach hazard statement in effect through tomorrow night. again, these waves lap on shore. so, as mike was alluding to, never turn your back to an angry ocean. and here's that area of low pressure causing all the storminess all the angriness out over the open waters. it's going to continue to move to the east and drop to the south and stay positioned right over that four corners state, setting the stage for an offshore push. but right now we do have the dense fog that is pushed into sfo. the ceiling is roughly down to 300ft. the fog will be pretty patchy and then it's goi

seems to need to be like i didn't know miss gonzalez this this is will bill i suppose you all think this a started out to be sold right now, so he can, mike is for you for all the things. yeah. they'll separate the zillow. you could still have it all pool doc would a chuck, you will notice good post or you all go to web. so it's a sorry for all stood all somebody as far as you want to hear. there is a special cruelty since even germany, they let the stablish a specialist comes for 14 to in the comes to are mixed with men and women that children knew it well nodded at 1st, but as a host of created attempts in the framework of the big p as in about strain of attempts which were aimed for children alone or children with mothers, without food, without syndication, without any human minimum conditions. and does no, no wonder that the mortality was immense from, from the very 1st minute of thousands of serbian joey and drove by the other, you know, since like tips or most of the in the camps which was stuff created all over at gratia and so we see 2 very similar regimes, the german one, the ration one um with no moral values was extreme cruelty

gonzalez joins us now. we were talking about it monday night and sure enough, it happened tuesday morning. >> actually, mike, you and i were here on sunday and sunday night and we started to talk about it. we had that much warning about it. but what do you do when you're forecasting 100 mile per hour wind gusts? and that certainly was realized. in fact, let's take you back to early this morning when we saw 83 mile per hour winds. that was pretty much in the palisades area, 100 mile per hour winds were seen and experienced over near the eaton fire in pasadena and altadena. meanwhile, 60 mile per hour winds were noted at high noon and 50 mile per hour winds at 3 p.m. that gives you a good indication the winds are beginning to subside. at this hour. we're seeing the calming of the winds, and even though we're allowing that high wind warning to expire as of 6:00, that will probably become a high wind advisory by this time tomorrow night, as those winds do pick up again. meanwhile, the red flag warning has now been extended into friday at 6 p.m. red flag warning it's strong winds 30 to 50 mile per hour with very

gonzalez. the santa ana's always very dangerous. unusual to talk about them though in january. here. >> good call there, mikeand let's give you the setup on why this is actually occurring on the first month of a new year. now, we had the abundance of rainfall here in northern california, up to 31in of precipitation in crescent city, 26in in santa rosa. and then the cutoff line was right around san luis obispo, arroyo grande, that particular area. and then we went bone dry for southern california. so we have the santa ana winds kicking up there. we call them diablo winds here. but the bottom line is up to 80 mile per hour winds will definitely cause some windy conditions. and throughout the cajon pass, when you're leading into the san bernardino area out of the mojave desert. malibu a key area we'll keep an eye on as the relative humidity drops into the teens. this particular bird's eye view from sutro tower looking out towards san francisco. you can't see the fog there, but we do have visibility down to a half a mile now in santa rosa and also socked in around the bay bridge leading out of the golden gate br

gonzalez, right now. winds dying down earlier. but now, maybe possibly picking up here. where we headed? roberta? >> oh, yeah. they will be fluctuating, mike, for the next several days. and right now i want to go ahead and talk about what greg alluded to. and that is the kenneth fire that is now up to 960 acres. that's a lot, because this just started at 334 this afternoon. the wind gusts are up to 19mph. now let's go back to the east portion of the los angeles basin, where the air temperature right now is 63 degrees. at the eaton fire, the winds are relatively on the flat side, but the humidity is into the teens. then we head due west. now this is the palisades fire where the winds are flat at this time, but they will be fluctuating. now. what is new is we do have a high wind warning that went into effect at 6:00 straight up. and then meanwhile we do have a wind advisory still in effect. in addition to that red flag warning, you can see the plume of smoke from the palisades fire and also the eaton fire that continues to blow out towards the open waters. however, we still have poor air quality and that will be a factor all the way through

mike gonzalez talks about the effort to dismantle federal d.e.i. programs. join the conversation live at 7:00 eastern on tuesday morning, on c-span, c-span now or online at c-span.org. >> on wedsday, president trump's health and human services sretary nominee, f. nnedy jr., ttifies at a senate finance comm confirmation. he's an environmental lawyer and activid also the 2024 independent presidential ida he eventually withdrew from the race to endorse donald trump. a.m. eastern on c-span.:00 then on ay, mr. kennedy returns to capitol hill to take questions senate health committee. that's live at 10:00 a.m. eastec-span3. you can also watch both hearings on c-span now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. >> defense secretary peteing he seth arrived at the pentagon for his first day of work following a senate confirmation vote of 51-50, with vice president advance's tiebreaking vote securing his position. secretary hegseth says he's excited to work on president trump's military agenda secretary heg set: it's an honor to be here. honor to serve on