mr. mark gonzalez. mr. gonzalez, welcome. >> hello. thank you for having me here. i was born in san francisco. my parents were born in san francisco. my european ancestors came to california in the 1700s. my indian ancestors came over thousands of years ago. when we think about the status of the rivers in california, we have to consider what we have done over the last 150 years. i know we're not going to restore it to that degree, but this is an opportunity as a population of caring people to take a step in restoring what has been taken. if you look at the populations from 50 years ago to today, what's the answer -- drastic reduction. what has been done? there's been some mitigation. but the research shows that the necessary river flows keeps more fish in the river in a healthier state. so that's an important consideration when you make this consideration. and peter would like to thank you for the time. >> president kwon: thank you. any other general public comment? yes, sir. >> let me make a couple of comments, if i might. first of all, i think that this is not th

next three speakers, michael adams, fred mohime, and mark gonzalez. so mr.ms, welcome. >> thank you very much. michael adams with the small grassroots group city college first coalition, one of several groups springing up to try to address the potential for transferring the balboa reservoir, which we call the west parking lot, to private developers, at great consequences, negative consequences, to students and neighborhoods. during previous moves to put housing in that reservoir, serious concerns were raised about the safety of the basin, especially involving fire and drought situations. no one is addressing this as it's already a basin, which never had water in it, but the potential is there. all parties involved have publicly admitted that no research has been done current and future ridership needs of the 20,000 students a day that attend city college's main campus and need to get to their classes ontime, to say nothing about professors that have to move from site to site and need their cars. muni is great, but it's often late. they had voted to finish th

gonzÁlez is here to talk about the offset between the president and mr. sessions, so we will talk to former ag about that, former utah congressman chairman jason chaffetz, former senior adviser markpenn, interesting op-ed yesterday, we will talk to mark about that. first u.s. and china wrapping up trade discussions but fail to go make any progress, chairman of the federal reserve jay powell is set to speak at 10:00 a.m. here is what kansas city federal reserve esther georgia told us about implications of tariffs. >> if this looks like this will continue, persistence to discussions, if it leaves businesses feeling uncertain, that could flow through holding back on investment or less investment. that's something that i want to watch carefully to see if that will show up in data at some point. maria: joining us to talk more about that jon hilsenrath, jon, good to see you this morning, isn't that the crux of this, the fact that it's uncertainty that will stall investment plans, stall companies from putting things in place that keep those economic growth engines turning? >> well, you know, maria, we have factors pulling in both directions on investment right now, on the one hand, we h