mr. flynn has requested the right to speak. let me ask if they are present. if you could step up. here is how the hearing will go again. we'll start with introductory remarks, and in the former owner will have 10 minutes to address the board. if both of you are present, you can use this time as you see fit. after the presentation the public will have two minutes to address the board on any prospective that you have on this matter, and it will be submitted to the board for consideration. let's start with the representatives from parks and recreation. >> i am the supervisor for parks and recreation. in 2004 we approved acquiring the open space. at the time, the master planning process had not begun. we're not ultimately know how the site would be considered. as a result, the original resolution could not specify how the layout would fit into the final configurations. after a robust community planning process, the northeast library plan was created. this began in april -- with the hearing. the plan results in significant expansion of public space, reconfiguring the elements -- elemen

mr. flynn? >> thank you very much. dr. flynn is a leading expert on societal infrastructure agreements. he has published works, including those that came shortly after 9/11. more recently, the acclaimed book theme that the edge of disaster, rebuilding a brazilian nation. he has been working as the president at the center for national policy and has been focused on that work, leading the effort to organize a summit in washington, d.c., as we approach the 10th anniversary of september 11 and those attacks. in addition to those accomplishments, as it is cochaired by tom kean prior to being selected to lead the senate for national security studies at the council of foreign relations, an expert adviser that we have come to know as the rudman commission. that commission does make impressive recommendations about the high likelihood of terrorist attacks on our soil. dr. flynn, i appreciate your excerpt on the homeland security council. we serve on the resilience taskforce, which recently published to this report. we did our is am

mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall! but the historians say this did more to end the cold war. >> finally, we're all thought that politics changed history, but larry flynn historians say that politicians, as important. >> that's our show tonight. >> and now, john stossel. >> what built the middle class? unions, i'm told, but union leaders often tell me when i confront them about bad things that unions do, we built the middle class they say. here is the head of wisconsin's firefighters union. the middle class would not be where it is today without the unions. >> the unions claim they helped minorities. a sample of my interview with the head of new york city's 3400 member transit union. >> you discount the extremely positive impact that the trade union has had in this country launching people into the middle class, particularly african-americans and latinos, but that's just not true say tom woods and damon root. woods is the author of "33 questions about american history you're not supposed to ask" damon root writes for reason magazine. both have studied history and shocked how much of what they learned in school turned out to be wrong, like what? >> well