. >> and very wide-ranging topics with mr. cohn.se, he left a couple of months ago, recently said that he was interested in new opportunities but, of course, he left after the president unveiled steel and aluminum tariffs. mr. cohn insisted and reiterated again he does not support tariffs. however, he also said the president does not want a trade war. >>y think anyone wants a trade war. no one wins in a trade war and i think everyone understands that no one wins in a trade war. what we do need in america, and what i think everyone does believe in -- and we talked about this since day one of the administration -- is free, fair, open and reciprocal. what the team was talking about when they were in china was opening up more chinese markets to u.s. goods, u.s. services, u.s. businesses. >> and i asked him about his greatest contribution while he was at the white house he, of course, mentioned the tax cuts any unfinished business, anything that he regretted he did say he felt that there were -- or there still was some unfinished busines

. >> this is what he said, oge concluded that the payment made byt mr. cohn is reported to be a liability. the information provided in the note sheet meets the disclosure. >> we agree with that. we do not agree, i don't agree that it's a liability. i know the nature of it. it doesn't matter at this point. >> laura: another former ethics officer says this is tantamount to a criminal referral. >> no, it's not. >> laura: walter schwab is saying our government ethics officer has gotten him. this is tantamount to a criminal referral. >> he can't disclose more than he knows. it vindicates our original strategy and the fact that mueller should bring this to a close. it's been a year, he's gotten 1.4 million documents, interviewed 28 witnesses and he has nothing. that's why he wants to bring the president to an interview. tell uss what you have to get from an interview that you don't already have. he has all the facts to make a decision. >> laura: why would you agree to an interview now? given everything that has been discovered about documents and the possible an mu

. >> president hillis: thank you, mr. cohn. next speaker, please, miss hester. there it is. >> sue

. >> president hillis: thank you, mr. cohn. next speaker, please, miss hester. there it is. >> sue hester, tenant of the building since 1980. you've had two projects in my neighborhood. i don't have any problem with a conversion of their use of the building, but i want to add a couple conditions to the office allocation. i'm a cynic, i'm a realist. i've been around the bench a long time. when you have a project that has this kind of an office allocation, and it's 499 -- 49,999 square feet, if they go over it 1 foot, they need a different allocation. there's a lot of temptation here. there's a temptation to take this space, there's a temptation to take other spaces, so in the interests of honesty and doing things right and getting maximum amount of funding for housing and other fundings that we need for the city, i ask you to put on a condition on the office allocations. one, when the permit for building this project comes through, the planning depa

supervisor cohn. >> supervisor cohn: thank you for coming back to me, mr. chair. i'm going to switch it up on you because you have a great understanding of the intersectionality of law enforcement as it relates to the african-american community. i want understanding about how you know about particularly the asian community feels and how the muslim community feels or how seniors feel. one of the things that concerns me is that there are an abundant number of crimes that go unreported largely due to a lack of language access. my question is very poinient, would you create a funding for officers who speak a language, maybe chinese or spanish, that they can get paid more for having that skill set? >> without question. i think that it's important. >> supervisor cohn: all right. i want you to talk a little bit about your understanding of crime fears and issues that relate to communities outside of the african-american community, outside of the lgbt community and outside of the latino community. >> i know that car break-ins have been very, very hot button issues, especia

mr. trump's chief economic adviser gary cohn warned the chief of staff john kelly that he might resign.""steve bannon even threatened at one point to quit." quote, "former secretary of state rex till herson before he was fired by tweet was on the verge of resigning last july." fbi director christopher wray reportedly threatened to resign if andrew mccabe was removed from his job as deputy director of the fbi. attorney general jeff sessions offered to resign when the president expressed his rage over sessions's recusal on the russia investigation. and chief of staff john kelly has reportedly threatened to quit so many times that it's becoming his thing. getting chewed out at work to the point of threatening to quit is becoming just another regular day at the office for this administration. a small number go through with it, like gary cohn. a larger number get pushed out. and there are a few on the list whose fates are still up in the air. hello, jeff sessions. the latest to join the club has a secret weapon, and that's next. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. why acc

mr. rich, thank you for joining us. if the cohnlaybook is effective, how could society dale wi deal with that. >> cohn was a bomb thrower, anything he had to do to keep justice from taking its course. we really have to start largely in the city, because one of the pieces in my book was that donald trump and cohn were among people in the -- who liked this kind of fixer, likes someone who can get them yankee tickets or get the right concrete company to build the skyscraper or fix something at city hall, a tax abatement for a real estate development. and one of the interesting things about both these guys is they were helped by "new york times," 60 minutes in the case of roy cohn and all kinds of political figures in both political parties. >> that's a point in your piece, there is plenty of evil around, and for evil to survive, usually there's a lot of -- vichy democrats gained power and consolidated it with the help of the allies among the thee yacht it will and political establishment. it's reminisce septembnt of whe joker tells ba

cohn: it could also be argued that it's only been around for a little over a year. our department has not been fully been trained yet so it's a little too early to determine. mr. chair, i have no other questions. thank you very much, marilyn. >> thank you. >> supervisor safai: supervisor yee? supervisor stefani? while you're looking we had a good conversation, i asked you a blot of questions and i got a lot of good answers to those questions. what i want to hear you say something briefly about is the idea of officer recruitment from in the sfpd to hire from communities that are disproportionally effected by violent and what strategies would you have for that? >> i believe what we could do is have -- we have many non-profit organizations here in san francisco that serve various communities, marginalized communities. i believe that we can recruit -- help recruit through those non-profit organizations a deal daily with the most marginalized communities here. encourage them to apply and educate them about law enforcement careers. we could have out reach from the department going to different organization organizations, china town, community development, the native

mr. mueller is interested in joining the tv -- the reality tv world itself. >> he's not at all. but you look at the history of president trump, going back to roy cohn, the president has turned to attorneys who have combative personalities. giuliani when i spoke to him a few days ago for the story, he said he wants to be on offense. the president wants to be on offense. that's why giuliani went right to mueller's face in their first encounter, started questioning his credibility, bringing up former fbi director james comey. >> how do you square the two? you have rudy giuliani out there saying they're going from defense to offense, yet the gist of your piece that you coreported today is that mueller and his team of top flight lawyers are coming at him full steam. which is right? >> they're both right. mueller is coming at him full steam, chris, because he hasn't finished his investigation. he needs the president to sit down in front of him to figure out his intent on some of these key decisions as president. did the president have corrupt intent? criminal intent? he can't really finish his report on the president's conduct until he has that interview