. >> mr. ramos. >> thank you, chairman, i appreciate an update on this vision. i want to compliment the idea of effectively developing a portion of the 280. i don't think it's taking down the whole 280 just a portion of it. it's nice that we are at a place in our city's development and we can look at this portion of the freeway not necessary to serve the community. and i feel that the community is designed to serve and the freeway is not designed. if we have no use for it, we need to think of how better to allocate the space and respond accordingly. one of the things that vice chair brinkman had said, there is a sore need for housing, and i agree. and i would emphasize that there is a need for affordable housing. and as public land this is a primary opportunity to help accelerate and move that kind of housing along. i encourage you to think about this from here forward that there should be and there needs to be people thinking about how if we are going to do anything there, we can maximize the leveraging of this publicly owned space to get the below market housi

mr. ramosyou for being with us tonight. >> great to be here. >> that was pretty remarkable interchange between you and the house leader and the senate leader today. what did you make of speaker boehner's response today when he looked at you and explained or at least he said he explained why he is blocking immigration reform. what do you make of his response? >> he's blaming president barack obama and the only person right now, the only person that is blocking immigration reform is speaker boehner. he can bring to a vote immigration reform next tuesday but he simply doesn't want to do it. my take is that they think that they can get away without immigration reform, win the mid terms and wait for presidential candidate in 2016 to define what to do with immigration. latinos will remember and they'll remember in 2016 and they'll lose the white house again because 60 million latinos are going to go to the polls and they'll remember that speaker boehner decided not to bring immigration reform to a vo

you know there are exceptions to the rule, mr. ramos, do you not?urse there are exceptions but we all have biases. you have your own biases whenever you are covering benghazi or or republican party than the democratic party. >> whoa, whoa, have you ever seen my do a softball interview with anybody. >> i have seen you tough interviews and supporting more republicans than democrats. >> maybe editorially never in an interview. >> transparent when we do our job. i am registered independent. and i'm not partisan. i criticize both president barack obama and speaker boehner. i think if we're transparent, that's a way to do it. >> okay. but i'm a registered independent and i have never done a softball interview in my life. not only on this program or any place else. that's 37 years. now, what is going on though here in the united states, and i'm glad you brought this up. is access. so, a guy like me, i can't get nancy pelosi to come on the program, even though she said to my face she would, because the congresswoman knows. >> because can you get republicans