mr. james davis who is taking place. >> i'm assister ant caltrans director. i have 30 years with the department and i've been the project delivery division chief. $1.8 billion budget and $40 billion of projects in the pipeline much that's what i've been doing the last five years. pleasure to be here. >> welcome. next we will ask mr. bruce armistead. >> director of operations and maintenance for the california high-speed rail authority. prior to that, i was the director of rail transit running the p3 project in denver. extensive railroad and construction experience as a contractor. >> thank you. welcome. nadia sesay. >> thank you. i'm the executive director of the office of community investment and infrastructure. i've been in that role for over a year. interim for nine months and permanent as of october of 2017. prior to that i was the public finance director and i've been in the office for 19 years responsible for the city's financing for over $3.2 billion portfolio. we've worked over the years on various financing solutions. >> welcome. everybody else, comm

mr. macron and his visit to the u.s. with james davis, he joins me from munich. thanks for talking with me, james. >> good morning. >> good morning. let's talk about mr. macron's visit. we had the excellent set up piece by our reporter in paris, about the unusual push/pull between macron and mr. trump. do you expect things to go well? do you expect mr. macron to get what he needs from the u.s. president? >> i think there are two things we need to distinguish between here. one is the personal relationship that seems to have developed between the two leaders. they do seem to get along with one another. trump responds to flattery, we know that. the saudis proved that and france did as well with the lavish welcome they gave to trump at the bastille day celebrations. so i think the personal rapport is good. but let's face it, each of these leaders is representing his own country, the interest of his country as he perceives them. the french have different opinions on a number of issues, the trade issue comes to mind. the trump administration wants to slap tariffs on eur