mr. cohengood to be with you. laura: you know what it takes to be defense secretary. what would general mattis bring to the role? mr. cohen: he brings the skill of a great warrior. i don't like the term "mad dog," and by virtue of the powers i once had as secretary, i've decided to call him braveheart. so he is braveheart mattis because he is very, very courageous as a warrior. he has the warrior spirit of being concerned about the welfare and well-being of the soldiers. i mentioned that earlier in talking about how after when he left the military he was going to seattle to live, and he crisscrossed the country, stopping to visit 10 gold star families, with sons who had been killed under his command while he was in office. that tells you something about the man that he is. he is quiet, strong, deeply patriotic. laura: and understands the sacrifice of military families. what about the tradition in america of civilian control of the military? does it bother you? mr. cohen: as a general rule it is

mr. cohen: several years, in fact. we talked to several years ago about having a season where the manager in rescue people could provide relief for refugees. breedlovet general said, the weaponization of refugees, the russians and the syrians were due really poorly -- were deliberately targeting civilian areas to destabilize those countries. katty: is this the end for the rebels now? mr. cohen: i think pretty much so. the question is can we play any role in providing safe passage and relief for refugees come some sort of help in terms of rebuilding and providing homes for people to go back to so they can leave european theaters they had to leave. absent that can we have a little role to play. me,y: bill cohen, stay with because i want you on the next story. the top republican in the senate has disagreed with the donald trump on cia findings that russians interfered with the election to get mr. trump elected. today senator mitch mcconnell says congress will investigate the cia's conclusion. gary

mr. cohen: mr. speaker, i'd like to yield 2 1/2 minutes to the lady from texas and carrier of the spirit of barbara jordan, the honorable sheila jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. i thank the e: speaker very much, and i thank the manager, mr. cohen, and the chairman of the committee and both sponsors and of course the leader of sponsorship, mr. nadler of new york, and i thank the ranking member, mr. conyers. i rise in strong support of h.r. 6130, the holocaust expropriated act -- recovery act of 2016. and i'm very grateful that my colleagues have brought this to the attention of the house but also this important legislation to try to bring some remedy and solace to a depeff stating era of jen -- devastating era of genocide, the holocaust, to bring some relief to the victims of the holocaust era, their heirs, a fair opportunity to recover works confiscated or nazis. ropriated by the they would have the proper time necessary to do so under

mr. cohen said he didn't know he was looking at a todd -- it was dark, it was happening, and i guess that's when i saw this midget looked like a midget and i thought it was a midget. anyt that >> mr. cohen said this was not a sex crime but the actions of a blackout drunk. he used the rest room got himself a glass of orange group before the father confronted him. he said sis address told us he's a great guy who served in the us railly army. >> he remains behind bars on that and a quarter million bail. as expected. a star awards story soar toed top of the weekend box office, scored the second best december opening ever with 155 million dollars an estimated ticket sales, the story from oh galaxy far, far away. in thursday night debut of the year. star wars the force wake ends held the december record with an almost 248 million dollar opening last year. i cannot wait to go see it. our producer says it's fantastic. people cheered at the end. functional it's called here in page. imagine alaska. think

mr. cohen, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. barletta: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on s. 2971 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. barletta: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for such time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for such time. mr. barletta: let me thank chairman shuster for his tremendous work on this issue. for eight years the bipartisan leadership of the transportation committee has been the driving force behind trying to get these reforms through congress and today we are closer than ever. i also want to thank ranking member defazio and ranking member carson for their bipartisan support. the house unanimously passed a nearly identical measure earlier this year as part of the fema disa

mr. cohent at all. my question is, why now? any questions -- any country worth its metal would react if the pillars of democracy like dnc and rnc were hacked and we know russia did even worse things enough past. they hacked the joint chief of staff email account. wayobama administration was behind the curve and did not do anything when that happened. yes, it is good to send a message. congress, republicans and democrats want to punish russia for that malicious hacking, but why now? why three weeks before they exit the scene? why restraining trump -- president-elect trump's freedom of action as he tries to open a new page in the relationship with vladimir putin? vonnie: to that point -- oliver: to that point, is this kind of a jabber by the administration to make things more difficult for incoming president trump or did they think we have to do something on this regardless of what it means for the incoming administration? mr. cohen: clearly they had to do more and they had to do more a while bac

a separate report said mr. cohens considering leaving goldman sachs after 25 years. >>> the president-elect also said he will leave his business to focus on the presidency as concerns grow about how a global businessman can quarantine his personal interests from the nation's. robert frank now with what we know about the incoming president's evolving personal business plan. >>> donald trump tweeting this morning that on december 15th, he will announce he's officially stepping away from the trump organization. quote, while i am not mandated to do this under the law, i feel it is visually important as president to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses. hence legal documents are being created, which take me completely out of business operations. now trump is referring to the fact that ethics rules that apply to cabinet members and other government officials do not apply to the president. but there has been a wave of publicity in the last week about his meetings after the election with business

i'm going to ask mr. cohen so i can ask him a couple of questions. mr. cohen, when the issue came up first, you were the first one coming out of the chute same on the state density bonus student housing is not applicable and since you spent a lot of time in sacramento, in the battle about the state bonus law, could you take us through that interpretation again, including how we are looking at affordability here, 25% and what the steps are that are required we >> thank you commissioner. i would also say i don't know the student housing interpretation. i think it's the gray space that's troublesome here. state don'ts in the applicable dowsing or not? i'm nicely learning as conversations like can't claim to be the expert on that interpretation. but i can't claim to know a lot about is what's happening in front of you i think is a very simple story and it's very troubling. it is one frankly we been talking about in summertime and in your informational month ago which is you are now going to see as a matter of standard practice the roman projects will be using

how influential will mr. cohen be when it comes to formulating actual economic policy? >> very.his is going to be a administration like most recent administrations where power is concentrated in the white house. and gary cohn, who is the coo, as you mentioned, of goldman sachs, is somebody who is going to be very close to the president, trying to help him figure out how to finance some of the things he wants to do, like that big infrastructure program. and when you look at gary cohn at any sea, steven mnuchin, steve bannon as white house strategist, the firm that was demonized by not just bernie sanders, but also donald trump, has certainly got a big role in donald trump's administration. >> let's talk about rudy guiliani, no longer in the running for secretary of state and as of a few minutes ago, i saw a report he has taken himself out of the running for any cabinet position. tell me about that, and who is the leading candidate for state right now. >> well, we're trying to figure that out. first of all, on rudy guiliani, this is somebody who was all-in as a surrogate for donal

two ways to fix it fix state law i understand that people think that difficult to change or like mr. cohen talked about adjusting our percentages we take advantage of the density bonus program you come back this to this program and some projects may not be able to take it that's a touch thing to figure out we spent a lot of time with the local affordable housing density bonus program here i don't know if this about work in this case i don't know if you continuing of this city's program if it is passed may not this is still a better thing that is odd you know the laws out there for thirty years we find ourselves unprepared for applying the law we say steady the states and pretty progressive density program where we don't have density limits not one unit per three hundred feet like the density bonus program it puts us in an awkward position this is a good project i don't think that causes you were able to design it in a way the additional units kind of works i think but i foresee a cased it didn't work that two extra floors of height in a different context would not be good i think that you

. >> what is your complaint with mr. cohen right, so, historically we have had many grievances with gary cohen. he is one of the board members who is the reason why we have $62,000 per year in tuition. and so the board of trustees, without any kind of democratic student input every two years decides on tuition increases. >> right. >> and so historically we have had student movements to try and get tuition freeze at the very least. so tuition will stop rising. buts the board of trustees has met every single movement with disdain. >> right. >> they don't listen to the students. and so this is one in a along line of events that. >> let me just say i'm with you. i want to raise my voice in agreement with you. schools are too expensive. you don't get your money's worth. they are all that price, basically. i mean all schools, all private universities are in that same rage range. gary cohen has given money to the school which in effect subsidizes tuition rather than raises them. he is a trustee thus gives money to the school. your gr

and asked him questions, which made mr. cohen uncomfortable.sponse, his reaction instinctively apparently, threaten the reporter. was to threaten to bankrupt him. was to threaten to sort of destroy his reputation, go after his personally, financially, and it was revealing in two respects. first of all, this was apparently considered best operating procedure. tone comes from the top of organizations. and this was apparently a way to deal with the free press. second of all, we published the threat. something they were not used to. but it does speak to the fascinating sort of twisted relationship donald trump has with the press. he craves media attention unlike other politician. a creature of immediate attention but at the same time deeply resists any attempt to hold him accountable and will target individuals or news organizations by name, and sets the stage for a contentious environment between the president and the press in which we need to do our duty to hold the president and people in power to account. >> do you think that kind of thing, whi

earlier this week i asked mrs. cohen a generation that rarely spoke about their faith. faith got into john glenn at a young age and took root with a deep and be lifelong connection to guide and into the church that changes the trajectory of its life been giving him the courage to dare greatly in the wisdom to live humbly and he knew him life and death in all belonged to god. he did something that is rarely known and not any of his accomplishments that were mentioned today but the rare thing that he did he lived life fully incompletely reflected the values that is by that passage is appropriate to whatever is true or honorable ward just or commendable if there is any excellence or anything worthy of praise for think about keep doing about the things that you have learned in john glenn and peace will be with you. the tradition that i represent that he was baptized makes the claim that today but this very moment he is alright he is not lost but found at this very moment complete and well and cradled in the arms of god he is

mr. trump. steven cohen is professor of russian studies at nyu and princeton university. y this is the president trying to cripple mr. trump a bit? >> it's one of things i have said. i'm not sure. look, we have got a really strange situation i would say exceedingly dangerous. >> why? >> well, our relationship withussia is worse than it's been since cuban missile crisis in 1962. and we're taking steps that are going to escalate it, make it worse. on the other hand, they haven't given us any facts on what the russians actually did. so between this, i would say, semihysterical reaction by the american political class and the absence of facts, we don't ask what's the impact of this going to be on rushing shah itself? what kind of decisions is going to produce in moscow? >> so what went wrong? we talked through some of the history, it appears that barack obama, to say least in the 2012 campaign down played the idea that russia was a big political foe. >> you don't want to ask me that question. you really don't. first of all we need a lot of time. secondly i will commit an act o

then look at steve bannon, whose views are not conventionally republican, and then mr. cohenc council. a democrat from goldman sachs. so i don't know who is going to be running these things but oniously, anything that is legislated has to go through congress. it's not clear to me whether there's already a strategy or the strategy is in formation, but the main thing to me is, as much as mike pence is a traditional conservative republican, trump's not beholden to the republican party the way a normal president would be, and he may have different ideas about what kind of coalitions he wands to build to pass big things. >> one of the things, to kasie's point, that might be confusing democrats around whether they can find common ground, i think is this omb chief pick, who obviously comes from a more conservative wing of the party. he is someone who has been, who is perceived, i think rightly so, who puts a pencil and pen to the paper to figure out where money is going. not only do democrats have their concern. it raises, i would imagine, some concerns among some of mr. trump's ind

briefly, a comet and then i would like to yield that balance of my time to mr. cohen 15, 20 years ago i was a local elected official in the san francisco bay area. i can back it with a service application polic pulse projecth some emerson, formed to look at wmata and the land-use decision-making as a model for california where we know we have to get transit right or ship out and in the bay area specifically where -- rapid transit system to secure new the number that you do. it's still 5% of our total. when they went out on strike we saw the implications. so mr. wiedefeld, the challenges you have as somebody who is believed for over 20 years as we become more urbanized we have to change our land-use patterns. youth great examples of development that we try to replicate around the country. you are in this conundrum as a retailer where your ridership is going down, has a lack of confidence. you have to lay people off and support system. how do you get that backwards understanding safety is first but the regional aspect of you got to get ridership up. operatives in the co

if supervisor cohen founded on the website. >> yes. all right. thank you. supervisor--mr. shaw-supervisor kim >> questions for mr. starr. i am supportive of a fee out in this particular site. because it is clear that this project owned open spaces publicly a public open spaces not well utilized and even with the additional signage. it makes much more sense for us to use funding for this to improve open space which will require more open space in the south of market area. but i'm curious as to why if we pass the ordinance that would take care of of violation this already occurred. that's the first question is the second question is, what is the penalty or fee associated with that violation of this law? >> to the first question, if we try everything we can to make the violator abated so we don't go to that step of charging a fee.. so we have been working with them over the past few years to try to get them to abate. as for the fee, i'm sorry i'm not sure i can try to check with my colleagues to see if they can let me know >> we do have a set fee, though >> yes. i believe- >>

if supervisor cohen founded on the website. >> yes. all right. thank you. supervisor--mr.haw-supervisor kim >> questions for mr. starr. i am supportive of a fee out in this particular site. because it is clear that this project owned open spaces publicly a public open spaces not well utilized and even with the additional signage. it makes much more sense for us to use funding for this to improve open space which will require more open space in the south of market area. but i'm curious as to why if we pass the ordinance that would take care of of violation this already occurred. that's the first question is the second question is, what is the penalty or fee associated with that violation of this law? >> to the first question, if we try everything we can to make the violator abated so we don't go to that step of charging a fee.. so we have been working with them over the past few years to try to get them to abate. as for the fee, i'm sorry i'm not sure i can try to check with my colleagues to see if they can let me know >> we do have a set fee, though >> yes. i believe- >> w

mr. steve stamos, could you please do the roll call? >> item one, avalos? >> here. present. >> breed. >> present. >> campos. >> present. >> cohen npresent. >> ferrill, absent. >> kim? >> absent. mar? >> present. peskin? >> present. tang >> absent. commissioner yee. >> present. >> we have quorum. >> item two, chair report, as our director will be recounting the accomplishments of the year and we will hold our chair elections in a moment, i am going to make my remarks extremely brief. with the adoption of plan bay area preferred scenario by the mtc and abag we are well posed to advocate for the priority projects in the bridge toll talks, which commence this week at the mtc. that is the met political transportation commission. thank you, so much, commissioner david campos for representing us in those discussions tomorrow and we look forward to see the culmination through 2017, 18, when the voters will have the opportunity to approve much needed funds for transportation, i am hopeful that our local communities will also come together next year to develop a companion local transportation funding measure that can integrate closely wi

cohen? >> thank you. i also wanted to speak directly to mr. lam and association myself with supervisor mar mentioned not moving forward not to discourage you but it is to encourage you to get in there and roll up your sleeves and to get active and attend a meeting and become in many ways a subject matter expert. okay. >> thank you mr. lam. >> and thank you colleagues. >> there was a motion and seconded and we will do that without objection, congratulations. >> madam chair. >> just for clarification on the motion was that a motion to forward as the committee report to the december 13th? >> yes, sorry. so yes, why don't we clarify that is to as a committee report to december, 13th. >> okay, thank you. >> thank you. and congratulations. >> and item three, please. >>hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending april 30, 2018, to the police commissi commission. there is one seat and four applicants. >> so we are actually planning on having a special rules committee meeting on monday. and where this will be one of the items that we will co

mr. trump has selected gary cohen to head o head in the neck council, the couple was established in 1993 are in then-president bill clinton. the council advises the president on national and international economic issues. and is an extremely influential mission. >> the president-elect set to meet with carly fiorina and manchin. >> reporter: man chip is a democrat, senator from west virginia. coal cup country is and considered one of the most conservative in come, and is a outpoking credit rock of president obama's policy and heard his name mentioned as possibly the role of energy secretary. also on monday, mr. trump is going to come face-to-face we carly fiorina during the campaign, he criticized her, saying, look at that face, would anyone vote for that? fiorina ran briefly as ted cruz's running mate. after the election she did congratulate mr. trump on his victory. and lastly, now, also on monday, we understand that mr. trump is going to have a might with the former pennsylvania senator, rick santorum, two-time presidential candidate. santorum was an advisor to mr. trump during the cam

cohen. hey, see mr. ma. >> hey, scott. building ahead of the fed statement. traders here are really ready to dissect every word of chair janet yellen, and it is a day like this where it's great to get the insight from an industry veteran. someone with more than 40 years of experience in the world of finance. we're talking about the chairman and ceo of cowan group, we have peter cohen. your first interview in over four years, peter. >> yep, it is. >> tell us, you have seen dow 10,000, 15,000. what does dow 20,000 mean to you? >> dow 20,000 is really no more thanc compounding of the dow since i started in this business 48 years ago. it was like 786 in 1968. if you compound it at 7% for 48 years, guess what, you get to 20,000. the historical return on equities has been 9% for the last 100 years, so in effect, we're a little behind. you know, 20,000, it's an interesting number. you know, it's not so unusual. >> some of the words that are being thrown out, peter, irrationale exuberance, euphoria. i spoke to mark about new capit

fact, my favorite comes from a deposition from trump's first divorce and michael cohen, who was the special counsel to mrpened? >> correct, so one of our daily beast reporters tim mack called up michael cohen to ask about the deposition and some of the accusations that had been made. and in a exchange that involved him saying there's no such thing as marital rape which made some headlines -- >> there was an allegation out there that donald trump's first wife accused him in the divorce proceedings of marital rape. >> of feeling violated and then it had been retracted after a settlement but it had been a matter of fact that had not been raised in some time. in the course of that, michael cohen explained to our reporter tim mack that if anything was reported of this nature, that what he would do to him would be f-ing disgusting, that he would effectively bankrupt him personally as well as his news organization and ruin him. in terms of such that -- referring to other things he'd done to other people who made claims or accusations against donald trump in the past. this i think was a big reveal. this was just

cohen? >> thank you. i also wanted to speak directly to mr. lam and association myself with supervisor mar mentioned not moving forward not to discourage you but it is to encourage you to get in there and roll up your sleeves and to get active and attend a meeting and become in many ways a subject matter expert. okay. >> thank you mr. lam. >> and thank you colleagues. >> there was a motion and seconded and we will do that without objection, congratulations. >> madam chair. >> just for clarification on the motion was that a motion to forward as the committee report to the december 13th? >> yes, sorry. so yes, why don't we clarify that is to as a committee report to december, 13th. >> okay, thank you. >> thank you. and congratulations. >> and item three, please. >>hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending april 30, 2018, to the police commissi commission. there is one seat and four applicants. >> so we are actually planning on having a special rules committee meeting on monday. and where this will be one of the items that we will co

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mr. steve stamos, could you please do the roll call? >> item one, avalos? >> here. present. >> breed. >> present. >> campos. >> present. >> cohenpresent. >> ferrill, absent. >> kim? >> absent. mar? >> present. peskin? >> present. tang >> absent. commissioner yee. >> present. >> we have quorum. >> item two, chair report, as our director will be recounting the accomplishments of the year and we will hold our chair elections in a moment, i am going to make my remarks extremely brief. with the adoption of plan bay area preferred scenario by the mtc and abag we are well posed to advocate for the priority projects in the bridge toll talks, which commence this week at the mtc. that is the met political transportation commission. thank you, so much, commissioner david campos for representing us in those discussions tomorrow and we look forward to see the culmination through 2017, 18, when the voters will have the opportunity to approve much needed funds for transportation, i am hopeful that our local communities will also come together next year to develop a companion local transportation funding measure that can integrate closely with

we could have spent the entire hour with abby joseph cohen speaking about the tumult of 2016. that shocking night -- not shocking for mrp -- the shock as we move towards late january and president trump. we continue our conversation with abby joseph cohen when here ahead. ♪ ♪ pres. elect trump: we are representative to what is happening in the world. the world is going to start looking up to us again. we will be good for the world, not just good for the country. tom: he will be president trump, and it will be an extraordinary four years by any analysis or definition. we welcome you back to our "brilliant surveillance" special. i'm tom keene here with abby joseph cohen, goldman sachs senior investment strategist. you and i could go, i am thinking 4-5 hours on the impact of this election. what was your thought on election night? abby: like many people, i was surprised by the result. clearly this big gap between the popular vote, which mrs. clinton won versus electoral college, is something that helped confuse the polling that was done before the election. after the election, we obviously have to do our analysis about wha

if supervisor cohen founded on the website. >> yes. all right. thank you. supervisor--mr. shaw-supervisor kim >> questions for mr. starr. i am supportive of a fee out in this particular site. because it is clear that this project owned open spaces publicly a public open spaces not well utilized and even with the additional signage. it makes much more sense for us to use funding for this to improve open space which will require more open space in the south of market area. but i'm curious as to why if we pass the ordinance that would take care of of violation this already occurred. that's the first question is the second question is, what is the penalty or fee associated with that violation of this law? >> to the first question, if we try everything we can to make the violator abated so we don't go to that step of charging a fee.. so we have been working with them over the past few years to try to get them to abate. as for the fee, i'm sorry i'm not sure i can try to check with my colleagues to see if they can let me know >> we do have a set fee, though >> yes. i believe- >>

mr. clerk, any announcements? >> can you call the roll. >> the roll call commissioner avalos absent commissioner cohen commissioner kim commissioner mar absent commissioner yee. >> we have quorum. >> thank you very much it's very important call item 2. >> all right. the consent calendar teams 2 and 3 are considered route and the staff is prepared to present and my number of items maybe removed i'm sorry mr. clerk items 2 and 3 together any staff presentation let's take public comment welcome please come on up you'll have two minutes. >> marina for the planning organization to the divisadero on item 3 i want you guys to thinking what 10 east is happening that the mta for 10 years i've personal almost at every meeting saying you need to change the light is as follows on lombard street because people will get killed and not crossing the strts street vision zero is a failure recently a young man 45 years old died because someone ran a red light if there had been the 12 second wait i've requested for the record years this man would not be dead i think that the mta programs are not license to the public and granted this is the a plan for 2017 but

cohen speaking about the tumult of 2016. that shocking night -- not shopping for everyone, not for mr. p -- the shock as we move towards late january and president trump. we continue our conversation again with abby joseph cohen. this is "bloomberg surveillance." ♪ >> we're representative to a large extent of what's happening in the world. the world is looking up to us, but they haven't been looking up to us much and they are going to start looking up again. we'll be good for the world, not just good for our country. >> he'll be president trump and it will be an extraordinary four years by any analysis and any definition. we welcome you back to our bloomberg surveillance special. of course, very generous in giving us her entire hour. you and i could go, i'm thinking four or five hours on the impact of this election. what was your thought election night? >> like many others i was surprised by the result. clearly a big gap between the popular vote which mrs. clinton won probably by 2.7 million, versus the electoral college. it helped confuse the polling that was done before the election.

cohen speaking about the tumult of 2016. that shocking night -- not shopping for everyone, not for mr. the shock as we move towards late january and president trump. we continue our conversation again with abby joseph cohen. this is "bloomberg surveillance." ♪ . . . i've spent my life planting a size-six, non-slip shoe into that door. on this side, i want my customers to relax and enjoy themselves. but these days it's phones before forks. they want wifi out here. but behind that door, i need a private connection for my business. wifi pro from comcast business. public wifi for your customers. private wifi for your business. strong and secure. good for a door. and a network. comcast business. built for security. built for business. pres. elect trump: we are representative, to a large extent, of what is happening in the world. the world is looking up to us, but they are not looking up to us much. the world is going to start looking up to us again. we will be good for the world, not just good for the country. tom: he will be president trump, and it will be an extraordinary four years by an

cohen? >> thank you. i also wanted to speak directly to mr. lam and association myself with supervisor mar mentioned not moving forward not to discourage you but it is to encourage you to get in there and roll up your sleeves and to get active and attend a meeting and become in many ways a subject matter expert. okay. >> thank you mr. lam. >> and thank you colleagues. >> there was a motion and seconded and we will do that without objection, congratulations. >> madam chair. >> just for clarification on the motion was that a motion to forward as the committee report to the december 13th? >> yes, sorry. so yes, why don't we clarify that is to as a committee report to december, 13th. >> okay, thank you. >> thank you. and congratulations. >> and item three, please. >>hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending april 30, 2018, to the police commissi commission. there is one seat and four applicants. >> so we are actually planning on having a special rules committee meeting on monday. and where this will be one of the items that we will co

mr. clerk, any announcements? >> can you call the roll. >> the roll call commissioner avalos absent commissioner cohen commissioner kim commissioner mar absent commissioner yee. >> we have quorum. >> thank you very much it's very important call item 2. >> all right. the consent calendar teams 2 and 3 are considered route and the staff is prepared to present and my number of items maybe removed i'm sorry mr. clerk items 2 and 3 together any staff presentation let's take public comment welcome please come on up you'll have two minutes. >> marina for the planning organization to the divisadero on item 3 i want you guys to thinking what 10 east is happening that the mta for 10 years i've personal almost at every meeting saying you need to change the light is as follows on lombard street because people will get killed and not crossing the strts street vision zero is a failure recently a young man 45 years old died because someone ran a red light if there had been the 12 second wait i've requested for the record years this man would not be dead i think that the mta programs are not license to the public and granted this is the a plan for 2017 but

mr. steve stamos, could you please do the roll call? >> item one, avalos? >> here. present. >> breed. >> present. >> campos. >> present. >> cohenesent. >> ferrill

mr. steve stamos, could you please do the roll call? >> item one, avalos? >> here. present. >> breed. >> present. >> campos. >> present. >> cohen npresent. >> ferrill, absent. >> kim? >> absent. mar? >> present. peskin? >> present. tang >> absent. commissioner yee. >> present. >> we have quorum. >> item two, chair report, as our director will be recounting the accomplishments of the year and we will hold our chair elections in a moment, i am going to make my remarks extremely brief. with the adoption of plan bay area preferred scenario by the mtc and abag we are well posed to advocate for the priority projects in the bridge toll talks, which commence this week at the mtc. that is the met political transportation commission. thank you, so much, commissioner david campos for representing us in those discussions tomorrow and we look forward to see the culmination through 2017, 18, when the voters will have the opportunity to approve much needed funds for transportation, i am hopeful that our local communities will also come together next year to develop a companion local transportation funding measure that can integrate closely wi

cohen. >> thank you, mr. chair. and thank you for calling this hearing. it's important that we discuss these issues particularly as we look upon this past election. and the coming vote of the electoral college. i have introduced recently hj res 104 which would amend -- on the electoral college and call for direct election. it is hard for people to fathom that at such a large plurality, 2.5 million people voted for one candidate and she is not the president. since i introduced my resolution, i have had quite a bit of comment on facebook, on twitter and with letters to the editor. it is amazing that most of the people that have responded have been against the proposal and that they consider these are most of the people who supported the candidate who was the populist and going to drain the swamp, but in their arguments they argue that allowing direct election would be the tyranny of the majority. and that you would let the rabble rule. well, it's ironic that their presidential candidate was kind of just the opposite. he was for the common man. he was for dr

cohen speaking about the tumult of 2016. that shocking night -- not shocking for everyone, not for mr. shock as we move towards late january and president trump. we continue our conversation again with abby joseph cohen. this is "bloomberg surveillance." ♪ >> we are waiting for some inflation numbers out of tokyo. looking for a national cpi. about in line with estimates. you're on your about -- year -on-year about 0.5%. still quite a way to go. 4/10 of 1% lower. we were looking at cpi to come in at 3/10 of 1%. looking at the jobless rate, 3.1%. 3% for november. let's talk about prime minister shinzo abe, who has arrived in hawaii. the historic visit will commemorate the victims of the attack on pearl harbor in 1941. abe will be the first japanese prime minister to visit the memorial. he will visit with president obama, who this year was the first president to visit the site of hiroshima. he will not apologize. clearing up after a powerful storm in the philippines, killing at least six people in seven provinces. almost 400,000 people were forced to seek shelter as the typhoon made landf