any questions for mr. ing? seeing none, thank you very much. i first want to appreciate our work of our staff, counsel, and administration. thanks to all your work and patience. i would like to propose that we accept the recommendation of the panel considering the lengthy and thoughtful process that they have gone through with applicants. mr. gobel as the top applicant appears to bring the skills and character necessary to bring lafco into the next phase. his experience with research analysis and policy and management of systems including budget management. i have confidence in his ability to move this body forward. now let's open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number nine? >> hello again, commissioners. eric brooxz, san francisco green party, our party san francisco and san francisco clean energy advocates. so sorry to throw a bit of a wrench in here, but the public, as you know, has not been able to see the bid documents, any of the communications that these applicants have ha

bruce, let me start with you because mike pompeo went over based on my reporting and eye mrs. ing obviously in his role as cia director but it was an intel-led effort than a diplomatic state-led effort as pompeo is connected to be confirmed as the next secretary of state. does that strike you as unusual or would you expect that the intel chief would actually be having these conversations? >> well mr. pompeo is wearing two hats, both the cia director and secretary of state designate. so in a way he's straddling both wor worlds. up until thousand the talks with north korea has been in intelligence realms. so he's carrying the message from the president regardless of what title he uses. >> is the trip a good thing or a bad thing or does it have to be one or the other? what do you make of it, bruce? >> i think it makes it certainly more likely that the u.s./north korea summit will occur. some had doubted that it would. whether we have a break through or not really depends not only on what mr. pompeo and kim jong-un discuss but what happens during the meeting with president trump. so i

mr. speaker, i rise today to make clear that the dangers of a partisan farm bill that we're house ing in the agricultural committee this week. mr. costa: bipartisanship is not simply a buzzword. bipartisanship is vital for policies house agricultural committee this to range of americans. sadly, it's in short supply these days in our capitol. the house agriculture committee has for over 40 years traditionally been a very bipartisan committee. because our nation's food supply affects everyone, rich and poor, farmers and consumers, democrats and republicans alike. america's food bill, and it needs to be about feeding all of us. i always say it's really a matter of our national security. yet the bill we're considering this week is without question a partisan farm bill. fails to s and how it serve key parts of our nation and abandons many of their food security. a partisan farm bill's bad policy, plain fails to serve key parts of our nation and abandons and simple. it will not succeed legislatively, nor can it be implemented successfully. i ask that we put aside these partisan differences, do

mr. trump's upcn ing decisionether to withdraw s fore an upcoming deadline. >> i want to fix tal. that's the objective. if the questions cannot changed we're running close to the deadline >> senator-- >> yes or no. >> no, senator, it's not a yes-or-no question because it's a >> desjardins: as cardin pressed, at one point committee chairman bob corker stepped in. >> i understand thsipresident's on. i want to know your view, not the presidents. >> i think what director pompeo is saying is that's also his opinion, is that correct? >> yes. >> desjardin pompeo told the committee there was no evidence the iranians had broken their part of the deal, but it seemed more a question of the deal's importance. pompeo had this exchange with arizona senator jeff flake implying low risk if the deal >> iran >> iran wasn't racing to weapon before the deal. there is no indication that without the deal they would immediately turn and work to build a weapon. >>esjardins: iranians themselves have said they could resume enrichment within days if the deal ends. >> i want to quickly switch to russia. >> d

francine: are you looking at ipo-ing any other businesses or portfolios? mr.labbar: we have our hospitality business, india, turkey, saudi arabia. the reality is you can take all these businesses public at the right time. i think in the coming three years, we will probably have india going forward and hospitality as well going separately the public route. francine: if i speak to you in five years -- i hope to speak to you before, but if i speak to you in five years, how much will your holdings be worth? i think we should be double in value. we should be growing 20%, 25% on an annual basis. i hope my management, my boards really put that as a focus. to be honest, i think we are capable of doing that. we just have to focus and make sure you have the right people to do it. and we do this day and night. that is really how we do business in our region. francine: that's acquisitions or organic growth? mr. alabbar: i would look at organic growth. if you talk about acquisitions, which we have not done much of, i would expect we do more acquisitions. francine: thank yo

and mr mock romney is now running the risk of being widely stigmatized as tramps boy in europe lose a lot of credibility at home and abroad if he continues on this very perilous journey of bandwagon ing with france and his irrational approach to our international issues mr trump has called the iran nuclear deal insane and so forth where the five hundred parliamentarians from europe insane hundreds of the us . experts military experts nuclear experts and former officials urging trying to stay with the nuclear deal are they insane it's mr trump himself who is showing signs of irrationality by a court. boxing in this very incendiary language and discourse against a nuclear deal that could then justify his exit from the deal. and fortunately we saw today this absolutely horrendous act by mr crone has absolutely no ground whatsoever for it it will be interesting to see where this does go from here with the leaders and those other countries involved in those negotiations for advisor to iran's nuclear negotiation team cover for selby thanks for joining us today great to hear your take on this. oh he wanted terrorist organizations are demanding answers over an alleged saudi led coalition air

mr. lough: my campaign motto is aim high, vote low. ♪ ing aboutim high, ta single payer health care.aim high, let's raise ctour exions. vote low is vote for me, steveh. >> the democratic party has become a joke, literally. they are running clowns for congress mr. lough: i've been a professional circus clown forrs about 30 y now i'm running for congress because i want to try to make a difference in people's lives. juggling should be a prerequisite for enter congress. i hope that i can use my ability from working the circus and being a clown to make people feel at ease so we can come to some agreement. the two biggest issues for me -- number one, gun violence. our children are afraid to go to school. we've got to do something. the other big issue for me is single-payer health care. people should not be terried to go to the doctor because they cannot pay for it. >> ♪ proud to be an american, l where st i know i'm free ♪ mr. lough: i think we are in kind of a seachange moment for america, right? those parkland kids are protesting. people are googling what other countries do around the wo

mr. cobb: the thing that harlem,ing is 1975, in there is a puerto rican teenager who was beaten by police and it results in a riot. they issue a report, the commission to this report and it says the conditions of black people in harlem largely factor in july we had this riot in harlem in 1935. they go through this riot in detroit, 1943, you get a commission out of that report, 1967, there is a report on newark and that report on the front line project is like seven or eight volumes and 1500 pages maybe or longer than that. this huge book where they come down to the conditions of black people in newark, they been excluded from opportunity the collated in this riot in 1967. and the current report -- the current report -- the kerner and the current report is almost a second coming of these things that have happened. police were under this consent decree, i look to their report in 67. freddie gray happened, looked at their report from 68. we are now the 50th anniversary and there's a national conversation when he to have. it goes back to the fundamental question of the american will to break

the president's legal team joined in a federal courtol hearing ing his personal attorney, michael cohen. and, mraimed more barbs at fired f.b.i. director james comey, over hiscathing new s book. yamiche alcindor begins our coverage >> is donald trumpsinfit to be pnt? >> yes, but not in the way often hear people talk about it. >> reporter: james comey led off cus media blitz by criticizing president trump, ng much of his attack on the president's character.ri t came an "abc news" interview ahead of tuesday release of his memoir, "a higher loyalty." while comey told abc he doesn't support impeaching trump, comey pointed to mr. trump'sion to last year's charlottesvilles unrest, his past treatment of women, and what comey said were mr. trump's constant lies. >> our president must embody respect, and adhere to the values that are at the core ofv this country.s the most important being truth. this president is not able to do that.h e is morally unfit to be president >> reporter: in the interview, comey also opened about theou 2016 election. he said, for him, having to h handle tlary clinton email inve

mr. president what about michael cohen, are you dr. ing -- >> president trump: thank you very much. [calling out questions] >> president trump: stupid question. >> he paused to make sure that was heard, too. we'll bring you that news conference live as it happens. then we'll just move on. all right, so you've got a situation where the president said exactly what he was thinking, that's not breaking news. but brought to it a halt for a second. >> i'm so sick of this. >> uh-oh. >> it's ticking me off, these reporters, jim across if a and this guy from abc -- jim acosta and the guy from abc. his attorney isn't charged. no evidence of wrongdoing at this point. there's not a conviction. you're asking if the president is going to pardon him? >> that's what it sounds like, sarah sanders yesterday said how can you comment onning? that hasn't happened. >> this is what is ticking off americans. and i believe, look, i try to be fair with the press but they're literally carrying the water of the democratic party. this is the same talking point that the democrats are using right now. i don't get

mr. trump's pressure. this morning, presidump responded tocall of this, by ing comey "a weak and untrhful slime ball."added, "it was my great honor to fire james comey." while briefing reporters today, press secretary sarah sanders did not mince words. >> i don't think we're surprised by the fact that james comeyea continues to sfalse information. the guy's known to be a liar and a leaker. comey's higher loyalty is pretty clear that it's only to himself. >> reporter: those comments so far are the most visible parts of the republican effort to defend the president.ne onit's anchored by this "lyin' comey" website. it highlights past democtic rebukes of comey, and is "paid for by the republican national committee." comey has criticized mr. trump and his administration before. it happened last year, when comey testified before the senatentelligence committee after his firing. >> the administration then chose to defame me, and more importantly, the f.b.i., by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly led, that the workforce had lost confidence in its leader.e thwere lies, plain and s

trump is cal ing for a tond complete shutdown of muslims enteng the united states until our >> brown: lar, as president, mr. trump also re-tweeted anti- muslim posts from britain. regardless, the justice department argued today the ban is not based on religion. white house press secretary sarah sanders followed up. >> the focus of this travel ban has been on safety and security. s 's limited to small number of countrd a lot of muslim- or brown: the issue has followed a winding courseore than a year. president trump signed his first travel ban order, one week after taking office. it blocked most people from iraq, iran, libya, somalia, sudan, yemen and syria from enorring the united states f 90 days, and indefinitely banned entry for all syrian refugees.up chaos d at airports where newly arriving travelers were detained, followed by a wave of protests. as i made a determination that i believed that itnlawful. >> brown: acting attorney general sally yates refused to defend the ban, and president trump quickly fired her. eventually, key provisions of the policy were blocked in federal co and three other states

clapper text or tweets out at the president yesterday, taunt ing him basically almost threatening him, you know, stay tuned, mrp is on his tweet , saying that he doesn't believe that there was no collusion. the house intelligence committee just told us there was no collusion he's calling it a highly partisan in complete and deeply flawed report by the broken house committee and then he says stay tuned your thoughts on clapper and brennan and their role. >> oh, i think it's outrageous. i think they are in fact threatening and who are they to be threatening the president of the united states? they're not in the government any more they're private citizens they can say what they want i guess but it's just outrageous and i have no doubt that they've conspired with others including james comey and others unnamed at this point, and the big tragedy, the big catastrophe for the country, we haven't even talked about yet and that's the unmaskings. that's the samantha powers claiming she didn't even know about it, that's the john brennan, that's the people probably nsa. that's this violating the rights of american citize

ing to you, jonathan. >> most of the assets have been consolidated to mr. trump.'d like to talk to you off the record if i can. >> okay, sure. that's fine. >> you know, the okays. anyone listening of course it's now very familiar. but look, we listen to it now. that all makes sense, but at the time, you were talking to this dude again and again and you didn't think it was trump. did now not think anybody would do what he was attempting to do here? >> no one could imagine in the media a donald trump. we were doing the forbes 344-00. it started it in '82. '84, i got a call from his xwek executi executive assistant saying donald wants john barron to speak and i got this call. the idea that someone would impersonate themselves, i hasn't met with him for a year. it just never occurred to anyone to do this. donald trump as you know, as much as anomaly. he is a consummate con man and the way he conned the media about business, including mee i that's how he's conned the media about politics. >> talking about this, feels like you're talking about split personalities here.

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ing health tonight and choosing to remain at home in housn for palliative care. the office of her husband, former president george h.w. bush, releastatement saying that mrs. bush will no longer seek medical care for undisclosed illnesses, and that she "is surrounded by a family she adores." barbara bush is 92 years old. that's all for this edition of pbs newshour weekend. i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watching. have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>ma pbs newshour weekend i possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. nd philip milstein family. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. j.gelos. thb. foundation. the anderson family fund. rosalind p. walter barbara hope zuckerberg. e corpornding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual group retirement product that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs yostation from viewers lik thank you. sonoko sakai: well, i grew up in a very small town called kamakura, which is about an ho

mr. comey:'t buy the stuff about him being mentally incompetent or the early stages of demtia. he strikes me as a person of above-average intelligence who is tracking conversations and knows what is ing on. i don't think he is medically unfit to be president, i think he is morally unfit be presiden >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, general mike flynn. dejon: a key epioncerns michael flynn, the first s nationalecurity adviser. he was under criminal investigation for lying about his contacts with the russians. at a one-on-one meeting, the fbg director a the president enked him to drop the case. george: was prestrump obstructing justice? mr. comey: possibly. there is certainly some evidence ofbstruction of justice. jon: the white house did not wait for the interview to air before taking careful aim at the former fbi boss. sarah sanders: james comey continues to spread false information. a liar is known to and a leaker. there's not a lot about james comey we find to be very surprising. ern: undermining james comey's credibility is dele strategy. if there were ever impeachment proceedings brought against donald trump for obstruction of justice, the former fbi director

mr. johnson says we shall persist in our operations in the north. >> bobby kennedy was an assessed president the creation on vietnam. he was involved when his brother was get. ingto late '60s, bobby kennedy is turning against the war. >> ken b day said all men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong and repairs the error. the only sin is pride. >> bobby was being seen increasingly as a figure around whom the left could rally. if it's going challenge lyndon johnson. >> in 1968 there's a meeting at bobby kennedy's house to discuss the possibility of him running for the presidency. >> at that time he was having this debate within himself. >> he didn't want to be seen as just running against lyndon johnson out of bitterness. >> also he knew enough about politics that it's hard to run against a sitting president. >> bobby was insecure. bobby had doubts. but his wife believed he was a great man fulfilling his destiny and he ought to be president. ethyl hangs a sheet to get the kids o to paint run, bobby, run. >> on march 16th, 1968, robert kennedy addresses the nation from the very same room on capitol hill where john f. kennedy announc

mr. trump to delay this matter. >> reporter: the lawyer for cohen said daniels case should be delayed and whatever he said in the daniels proceed ings coud be used against him in the investigation. and the judge telling him comby needs to file his own application about his concern his fifth amendment could be compromised. >> will you file to protect his fifth amendment. >> we're not commenting. >> reporter: his attorney did not make comments to the press, but agreed to file the declaration. >> i don't think this could be overstated. we're talking about the personal counsel to the president of the united states who presumably knows where a lot of bodies are buried and it is come to the fact or come to the point in time that it appears that he will plead the fifth amendment against self incrimination. i think that is a staggering turn of events. >> fbi agents raided cohen's home, hotel room and office last week and the search warrant mentioned his 2016 payment with daniels according to his attorney and the fbi is also looking into an agreement between ex playboy playmate karen mcdougal and american media inc. which prevented her from

mr. bolton's abilities. he is unstable just like the president. cabinet,ingt the they are untrustworthy because they have been fired, removed or under investigation. thank you and have a wonderful day. d.c.,mike also here in also an independent. go ahead. guest: as it pertains to the new national security agent, public service don't do it for the pay. i am truly an independent. you have to give anyone who serves our nation an opportunity to succeed. we have to just look at their deeds and today's reality and today's reality. having him come into office today for his first day, we have to give him an opportunity to succeed. the second thing, i think the media is really biased in a lot of things. i say they are biased because i am not sure what the process is, but i think they want to show donald trump is ineffective by not having a staff. i hear a lot of nonsense going on. i think we need to give the man an opportunity. host: how long are you willing to give him, and what results do you want to see? guest: when you have someone who never ran for public office

mr. cohen stating if he went through publishing the story, quote, i'm going to mess your life up, so i'm warning you, tread very f 'ing lightly because what i'm going to do to you is going to be disgusting. >> trump called that fake news but then cohen told cnn that he had said things out of anger. >> who hasn't said something or done something that they regret simply trying to protect somebody that they care about. and i care about mr. trump. >> michael cohen was slightly nicer when he threatened college pranksters with the harvard lampoon with the harvard student newspaper and took this photograph with him sitting on the chair of the student newspaper's president. >> he said, i'm going to come up to harvard, you're all going to get expelled and if this photo gets out and you'll be out of that school faster than you know it. i could be up there tomorrow. >> and take this guy, mr. trump's former personal attorney mr. kasowitz, asking him to quit his job after an unflattering media report and he mailed the stranger, quote, i already know where you live, i'm on you. you might as well call me. you will see me. i promise,

individuals,ing but it could be the ex-dividends that are pulling us to the downside. the volkswagen stuff is fascinating. my thought is mrler is not one who feels comfortable. that he is moving aside is an interesting story. dieselgateafter the scandal kicked into gear. we may hear more news on the back end of that later in the week. the european market just opened. we are waiting to see what happens in syria. u.s. futures are pushing lower a little bit. treasuries turning a little higher. inflation data is out later on. we will see how the market deals with the story. let's bring in our guest. let's deal with the bigger picture. your sense is that we are returning to normal. i am not sure what normal is. >> no one knows. it is the framing that is important. qe era is shifting. the impulses changing. it is dangerous to use strong language like tightening. i think that is incorrect. . the fed is slowly withdrawing. normality is the period before the qe started. in terms of spreads you can start with libor. you can look at the equity i think we need to think about how we are pricing assets. to me, it is dangerous that in t

spanish]ing >> [speaking fopreign language] russian]aking [speaking gustavo meza-cuadra: [speaking spanish] >> thank you very much, mr. president. think -- thank the deputy high representative for the briefings. president, only five days ago in this council, we mourned when we consider to be attacked a year ago. this weekend, again, the devastating gas attack was carried out on the city of douma, killing more than 45 than 500, with more people suffering the consequences of this attack. this is unacceptable. of the netherlands is one of nine security council members requesting this emergency meeting, because we all felt the urge and you needed to address this horrific attack. we need tont, reinstate the prohibition of used chemical weapons. we need to confirm the basic norms, into stop the tragedy of eastern ghouta and the city of douma. president, one permanent member of this council seems not to want to follow the discussion on the issue at hand. , does this question member state cover for the crimes of the syrian regime? these crimes amount to the were crimes of syria, but this council should not stand idly by. it

ing the rangements in place as i say nobody, nobody will be, no mother in these circumstances will be granted the exems. they'll with granted it by dealing with specialist professionals. >> thank you, mr. speaker. can i add my support to the prime minister for the action she took at the weekend regarding the use of chemical weapons in syria? we have a huge despairty between average house prices and between average wages. many families working earning between 20,000 pounds a year would need to earn ten times their income for an open market house. with the average salary, about 18,000 pounds a year. the challenges of housing delivery are different in you are you are urban areas. will she therefore meet with me and agree with rural mps to discuss this? >> my honorable friend raises a very important point and he's right to do so. home ownership is a dream that people have. too many young people today feel they're not going to be able to achieve that. although we've been having success, last year, we saw more homes built than in 30 years. we need to help people into home ownership, seeing more homes being built and i'd be happy to meet with my honorable friend to discuss this matter. >> th

, the -- the process and i think all the interview results will be public after, is that correct, mr. ing. >> correct, it'll be available after contract award. >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you very much. so i'd like to make a motion to accept the panel's recommendation and direct the interim administrative officer to begin working on a contract. colleagues, is there a second? okay. commissioner pollock has seconded. moved by commissioner fewer, seconded by commissioner pollock, without objections that we accept the panel's recommendation and direct the interim administrative officer to begin working on the contract. thank you very much. madam clerk, please call item number ten. >> clerk: item number ten is public comment. >> supervisor fewer: any members of the public like to speak during this time? seeing none, public comment is now closed. madam clerk, please read item number 11. >> clerk: item number 11 is future agenda items. >> supervisor fewer: this item is up for public comment. is there any public comment on this item? >> eric brooks again, san francisco green party and our pa