mr. brooks apparently is asking too much of us coming here asking us to keep mr. assmann against his will. but, hey, you know, we're the can-do department commission so what can i tell you? that being said, item 9. >> vote on whether to hold closed session to hold department of the environment executive director interviews. this is an action item. >> i move we go into closed session to conduct the interviews. >> second . >> public comment on the vote? you are now going to go into the closed session. >> let the record note that closed session will not occur here. >> and it is 4.40pm >> thank you. all right. >> the commission will be going into closed session pursuant to government code section 54957, administrative code 7.10b, personnel action executive director interviews. >> okay. so it is 7920 open session we'll convene an open session to disclose all the items and the administrative code 12 b this is an action item that. colleagues motion to disclose or not disclose >> i mom. >> there's no public present without objection. >> all in favor, say i. >> the next it

mr. brooks. next speaker. >> i am barbara and i come from senior and disability action group. today we actually had a meeting of senior disability action and -- okay. we had a meeting and there were 100 people there all trying to get together, even to get transportation to the meeting, into the meeting by various means. seniors are often not very able to get around even if they have money to prepare the food every part of the life is more difficult, and today you can see people with canes and wheelchairs and everything. we think this program of ending hunger and food security in san francisco and important and really key for our group of people who we are serving. we serve scpeerns disabled people so these people are not only vulnerable they're still in many ways capable and they're difficult need to be supported. their incomes are often very low and when you are on a fixed income and i live on one so i know your whole picture changes when the paycheck stops coming in i guarantee you and the budget is a critical part of your daily life. also in san francisco today costs have g

mr. brooks. seeing no more public comment, i am going to close public comment now. i'd like to entertain a motion to approve the budget or any discussion you may want to have. >> i move we approve this budget. >> second. >> any objection? the budget has been approved. going back to item 3, public comments, member s of the public may

and to stand here with somebody like mrs. brooks who worked in the college arena and saw the devastation. for me to come up here, i got to tell you, i'm here as a dad. i'm here as a father to a 17-year-old daughter who in a year and a half will go to college. in my district in central illinois, we have nine universities and colleges, over 45,000 female students. what the -- with the c.d.c. estimating that 19% of women have experienced sexual assaults since entering college, let me do the math for you. that's 8,500 women in my district that have, if the statistics remain true, will experience sexual assault. i represent a district of 14 counties. this is unacceptable. that's why i rise with you, mr. reed, to say no more today. i'm alarmed by the fact that my daughter is going to go off to school, get in her car. my wife and i are going to be very, very sad when we drop her off at school and i hope and pray that these statistics don't come right to my mind. but you know as a dad they will. and we have to do something in this instituti

mr. brookes was just pointing out, the zero margin out pouring all revenues into build. but the point of pouring those revenues into the local build, if you look at the basis of all the discussionses that we're having, the basis of all these amazing benefits to the city, all this largess that we've been able to provide to the general fund, it's all coming from selling a very valuable city-owned renewable resource that just keeps oncoming and making us money. so, what we're talking about is pouring this funding, pouring these revenues into the local build which will increase the pool of renewable assets that just keep oncoming and provide the entire basis for the puc's future budget and all capital costs that we will need to pour that money into going forward. so, we're talking about hundreds of megawatts more of renewable resources that will be locally owned. and once that system is paid off, it will be just another revenue source for the budget. so, kind of talking about making an investment for our future, but not just environmentally. also financially. i know that thi

mr. brooks. seeing no more public comment, i am going to close public comment now. i'd like to entertain a motion to approve the budget or any discussion you may want to have. >> i move we approve this budget. >> second. >> any objection? the budget has been approved. going back to item 3, public comments, member s of the public may address on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. >> well, i was going to wait for item 7 because it sort of fit because it mentions this. but i might as well do this as i think it's more appropriate to raise this as public comment, which i thought you were done with. let's get to this issue of the fact that, you know, the mayor clearly -- i'll just say i'm willing to say this out loud. the mayor's office is heavily in bed with the pacific gas and electric corporation. former mayor willy brown is a $200,000 paid political consultant for them and helped in a big way to get mayor lee in office. mayor lee has received donations for his campaigns from pacific gas and electric and other parties th

mr. brooks left off, which is 50% clean energy, 50% of our energy load within 10 years. that was what was originally envisioned in the work that has been done and we believe that that is demonstrably possible. i would like to also echo lafco's staff, thanks to lafco's staff for working with us. it was definitely a collaborative process and track changes is never fun. i would like to -- i'll also mention that we did send both commissioners and staff some recommendations for folks that we think would be great experts for the review panel. and that did include both commissioner and staff from the sfpuc. ultimately, having been to many of these puc meetings and having heard the concerns last august with the lack of approval of the rates, i think we heard largely about rates not being competitive to pg&e. we heard about shell and the problems with contracting with shell and a company like that. and we heard about a lack of demonstrable jobs. on the rates issue we are using old rates. i think everyone here knows that, marin and sonoma, especially sonoma recently putting out th

mr. brooks mr. brookser -- longs for a day of a more bellicose foreign policy. rate, it is fair to say he adapts to a situation and takes each thing one at a time. i think some chance iranian policy is at least continuing. continuing to talk that could be a game changer. >> we will know in a month. >> will know in a month. i'm not sure if putin is doing all that well now either. he starts to admit that the sanctions are hurting him. if he does anymore. is he going to be facing pretty serious. >> does he veto do anymore. he just picked off crimea and added that to the russian landscape. i don't know really if he has to do anymore. eastern ukraine. it's costing him a lot in terms of his. >> he doesn't look like is he hurt to me. maybe you are seeing him in otherwise office. he is looking like is he is having a grand old time to me. >> read robert -- modern person of russia he doesn't think it's going well for putin. these things we don't know at one time we will know in the future. i do say it is a valid point that it does seem that the president and his foreign p

mrs. brooks: i rise today in support of my hoozeier colleague todd young's excellent bill, we're a country built on hard work where people want to work but right now the affordable care act is stopping people from working the hours they need and want to work. by redeed de-fining a full-time employee as someone who works 0 of more hours a week, the affordable care act has caused workers' hours to be reduced and vital industries across the nation. 2.6 million workers are losing because of this provision. america is losing because of this provision. a school employee from my district in elwood, indiana, recently shared with me the pain of lose 10g -- the pain losing 10 hours from her workweek has caused. she said it doesn't make sense to me, i'm trying to be a self-supporting purpose and i was doing good. it could be better but i was doing ok. how am i supposed to make my house payment, let alone food? this must be repealed, we must restore the traditional 40-hour workweek. let's pass the save ameri

mr satellites. they had made this calculation, remember, brooke, so many days we were looking at a northern arc and a southern arc. now at the bottom end of the southern, 150 miles, you have the ocean spray on one end, and the hms echo, a british ship on the other end. they will converge on the line. it's a shot in the dark as you said. the u.s. navy commander leading this told me it was a shot in the dark. but at this time they feel the equipment is out there. they will continually look at information, see if they can refine it a little bit more. but right now what they have is a guess.

mrs. brooks: madam speaker, i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. mrs. brooks: i want to congratulate the outstanding ability one program that is committed to providing employment opportunities for people suffering from vision loss. since 1915, indiana's very own bosma enterprises has been a partner of the program with a goal of changing lives. bosma is indiana's largest employer for people with vision loss, helping over 50,000 people find employment since it started. it's more about the numbers though. take chris, she was born with glaucoma. meaning she had the eyes of an 80-year-old at the time she was born. at the age of 4 she lost all of her vision and began orientation and mobility treatment at bosma enterprises. following that training she began as a braille instructor. she continues to volunteer in her free time, teaching braille and keyboarding in the very center she gradua

you see the headlines because that's close to you is real money mr brooke jennifer that you don't have to negotiate we have to dictate terms is that they will shoot we break you see i'm struck. joining me now to talk more about cesar chavez and his legacy is our tour rodriguez president of the united farm workers union arturo welcome. thank you very much for having me today tom thanks for joining us judging by the outrage when obama designated chavez's grave site a national monument i think a lot of people thought he was designated a monument to who were shot as. but nonetheless there are unfortunately probably a lot of americans who don't know who cesar chavez is or was. why do you think it is that he's not as well known as some of the other activists in the sixty's. well i think you know that cesar worked continued to work and know very hard like you know martin luther king and so many others here in this country but you know the the reality is is that the work of says a child has continues on today in the various organizations that he would together he formed during his lifetime you

ambassador to ukraine, now director of the brookings arms control and nonproliferation initiative. mr, thank you for being with us. pleasure to have you here. >> thanks for having me. happy birthday. >> thank you. why has the russian energy sector been off limits to sanctions so far? should we see that as a sign that it is off limits in total or just that it is being held out as something to further squeeze russia with in the future if they do something really bad? >> right. about ten days ago president obama signed an executive order. among other things, that gives him the authority to impose sanctions on certain is sectors of the russian economy. the financial seconder, the defense sector, and also the energy sector. so that potential is out there. i think the hope in washington and, perhaps, in brussels is just the threat of those sanctions will have an impact on the thinking in moscow. >> when i look at the size of that deal, that historic deal between exxonmobil and rosneft and all the details around that are so amazing. not only just the connections of vladimir putin to the russ

brookings institution. and in ber inberg in berkeley, kerry . >> can hobby lobby protect out to its employees their political police, and papa john and mr. mackey from whole foods. phil robinson from duck dynasty, spunke suspended and off the air for expressing his views . should a thoughtful consumer be examining the beliefs the corporations. >> first directly to your question, absolutely. if you're going to be giving your money to someone, you better be sure that the organization or person you're giving your money to is worthy of your patronage. there is no reason t to patronie someone who is going to take your dollar and donate to an organization that will take away your rights. with you we could go further. the supreme court is also look--and other courts, are looking at private companies to deny service to gay persons. arizona looked at doing that. mississippi is looking at doing that just because they don't like gay marriage. it highlights the problem with simply saying that we should just let brandon ike live and let live because there are other options, or because mozilla itself is a pro- equality company. when someone denies you

brook melton's tragic death is not acknowledged as part of this recall because it involved a side impact instead of a front impact. mrs. melton's parents, ken and beth, they are not here today i don't think but they deserve answers. ms. barra, is brook meltton included in general motors death count, yes or no? >> to my knowledge, no. it was a side impact. >> right. why did general motors not include the nondeployment of air bags from side impact accidents resulting in loss of life or injury in this recall? >> as you look at a frontal collision in the way the air bag is to operate, i believe the assessment, the assessment was made that would be potentially be related to the switch. >> but if you connect the dots, the ignition gets knocked off to the accessory position and there was a problem, using faulty, even by your own standards, equipment, and so maybe what happened was that all of a sudden the car stalls and she's driving perfectly, trying to control without any power steering and power brakes, may very well have -- i don't know the details of that zept. may have run through a four-way or red light and slammed in

>> brooke, first of all, bear with us. mr. bundy actually did pay his fees prior to 1993.did things change? the government came in and said that they wanted to protect the dese desert. >> so he stopped paying the fees. the government got totally fed up and they filed a couple of lawsuits against p him. they won the suits and came in here armed with two court orders to remove all of the cattle. they brought in armed marshalls and you had armed militia men on plchl bundy's side. faced with the prospect with a bloody confrontation, it to wade into controversial issues. >> tortoise, some cattle? this story has been bouncing up and down. let's talk political commentary. so, dan, i want you to set the political stage for us, a number of conservatives they were calling cliven bundy an american folk hero and now they are washing their hands on this guy. the list includes rand paul and also shawn hannity who made this his cause and even the local home state senator. they all supported him and supported the cause that he was pushing and as soon as this story broke his comments got o

mr satellites. they had made this calculation, remember, brooke, so many days we were looking at a northern arc and a southern arc. now at the bottom end of the southern, 150 miles, you have the ocean spray on one end, and the hms echo, a british ship on the other end. they will converge on the line. it's a shot in the dark as you said. the u.s. navy commander leading this told me it was a shot in the dark. but at this time they feel the equipment is out there. they will continually look at information, see if they can refine it a little bit more. but right now what they have is a guess. not even what they would call an educated guess as to where that plane may have come down. good news, the weather is good. the equipment, they have full confidence at those depths, that topography on the ocean floor they will have a very good chance of hear it if it is pinging. >> if, a couple of days to go, more or less. there isn't total precision in the battery life. but to underscore the point, this is a painstakingly slow process. >> reporter: well, as the commander explained to me, it's like a slow walk on th

. >> once again, eric brooks, san francisco green party and local grass roots organization our city. i'm going to speak specifically to the appointment of mr. ahn and i'm not going to speak either in favor or opposed to it, but i feel like i can elucidate some information on that a little bit. personally i have a deep respect for mr. ahn and for the bright line defense project. that group helped us stop a natural gas power plant from being built in the bayview hunter's point and close the last natural gas polluting power plant in san francisco. with that said, i think it was very appropriate that supervisor campos pushed this point of clean power sf because we need to make sure that the people that are actually working on work force policy are very dedicated to making sure we do a real large green new deal for san francisco rapidly to address the climate crisis and also to address our jobs crisis in san francisco, which really hasn't gotten that much better. the lues daition that i wanted to add is that bright line defense project over the past decade has worked pretty closely in many positive ways to support clean power sf and that workin

mr. cooper. this document was withheld from the lawyer representing the family of brooke mountain. he didn't even find out about this document until after his case had been settled. how do you justify withholding a key piece of documentary evidence in a litigation concerning a part that was change without a part number change that is spelled out in this document for anyone to read? how does that happen? >> i cannot, i don't condone not providing information when requested. anin a legal proceeding. and if that was done we will deal with the individuals accountable for that. >> i think it's very important that we find at many cases this title was provided to counsel when it is requested. clearly from the scope i guarantee you there's not a request for documents be made of gm around these cages that the scope of the requested not include this document or i would've how many cases they buried this document because this is what happens in america. corporations think they get away with hiding documents from litigants. there will be no consequences and of what to make sure there's consequ

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brook melton's tragic death is not acknowledged as part of this recall because it involved a side impact instead of a front impact. mrs. melton's parents, ken and beth, they are not here today i don't think but they deserve answers. ms. barra, is brook meltton included in general motors death count, yes or no? >> to my knowledge, no. it was a side impact. >> right. why did general motors not include the nondeployment of air bags from side impact accidents resulting in loss of life or injury in this recall? >> as you look at a frontal collision in the way the air bag is to operate, i believe the assessment, the assessment was made that would be potentially be related to the switch. >> but if you connect the dots, the ignition gets knocked off to the accessory position and there was a problem, using faulty, even by your own standards, equipment, and so maybe what happened was that all of a sudden the car stalls and she's driving perfectly, trying to control without any power steering and power brakes, may very well have -- i don't know the details of that zept. may have run through a four-way or red light and slammed in

ken and beth melton lost their daughter, 29-year-old brooke, when her chevrolet cobalt spun out of control and crashed. they join me now. and allow me, mrso sorry for your loss and appreciate your being here. >> thank you. >> mr. melton, i know it was four years ago almost to this week on highway 92 in paulding county, georgia. that very day, that very night you, sir, say you knee it was the automobile. how did you know? >> yes, i did, michael. the reason i knew is about four or five days before the accident the car had shut off on my daughter. luckily she was in the neighborhood and going very slowly where she could wrestle the car to the curb. so she called me immediately after it did that. and i suggested that we get it into the dealership first thing in the morning. and i took to the dealership because i thought they would have the most current information on mechanical workings of the car instead of a local mechanic. now, when we picked the car up, even though they said they fixed it, they cleaned out the injector jets, the fuel injector jets, that did not fix the car. that did not do it. i knew in my heart and my mind that somethi

brook melton's tragic death is not acknowledged as part of this recall because it involved a side impact instead of a front impact. mrs. melton's parents, ken and by beth, they're not here today i don't think, but they deserve answers. is brooke melton included in general motors's death count, yes or no. >> to my knowledge, no. >> no? >> because it was a side impact. >> right. why did general motors not include the nondeployment of air bags from side impact accidents resulting in loss of life or injury in this recall? >> as you look at a frontal collision and the way the air bag is to operate, i believe the assessment -- that was the assessment was made that would potentially be related to the switch. >> yeah, but miss barra, if you connect the dots, i mean, the ignition gets knocked other ee the accessory position. there was a problem using faulty even by your own standards equipment, and so maybe what happened was that all of a sudden the car stalls, she's driving perfectly trying to control without any power steering, without any power brakes, may very well have -- and i don't know the details of that accident, but

mr. sterling, and recognizes that if he can fall, so can you. >> welcome back. i'm brooke baldwin.s kevin johnson speaking moments ago in los angeles. standing alongside a lot of former and current nba players, as well as the mayor of los angeles. johnson is an adviser to the nba players association here as we continue to hear reaction to the news from commissioner silver, with regard to the l.a. clipper owner's racist remarks. we can now definitively say, according to the nba, the man we've all heard on that tape is in fact donald sterling. and he is banned for life from the nba. let me bring back my panel. rachel nichols, let me go to you in new yorkment you were in the room. you had question number two to commissioner silver, talking about the ownership group, and this urging of this forced vote. but back on kevin johnson's point, i wrote this down because this really struck me. this is so personal to so many people, including the commissioner of the nba. it was so clear just looking at him. kevin johnson said, i have a message to bigots, if he, being donald sterling, if he can

brookings institution. we go to larry joining us on the republican line. caller: mr. hanlon, with all due respect, personal outrage does not trump physics nor does it knowledge and the evidence that they tore down building seven on 9/11. host: this is a different topic and we move on to jesse in michigan. caller: >> good morning. good morning. i have heard of different characters in afghanistan -- in afghanistan, i want to ask -- what is -- what is so special about afghanistan, all these wars going on. host: thank you, jesse, we will get a response. why afghanistan? guest: there have been a lot of conflicts in afghanistan and in the 19th century, we talked about the great game with the british and russian empires colliding in afghanistan and standing up for their own country and pushing out these foreign powers. but in terms of the modern era it does begin with the soviet invasion. the soviets tried to install a true communist government, in the late 1970's, so the outside world again intervened in afghanistan. we decided we had to oppose that hartley for the good of

mr. reddy, what is right on crime? guest: right on crime is a project of the texas public policy foundation here in austin, texas. it is a think tank like any institute, the brookingsitution -- we focus on state-level policy. we focus on things like andation and health care criminal justice. we have been finding ways to improve criminal justice in texas. to get better results and spend less, improve outcomes for offenders and improve public safety. we have been very successful. we have launched a national campaign based on the texas model. that is what right on crime is, our national campaign to get conservative thinking people back to first principles when it comes to criminal justice policy. host: you have some high-profile supporters, who is on board? guest: we have a statement of principles people can find our website, rightoncrime.com. that has been signed by newt groverh, governo norquist, many prominent lights and american conservatism. host: what are the principles you are putting forth the comes to crime? we need tol, s get back to basic ideas of accountability and transparency in criminal justice and the same way that we do in every other sphere of govern

mr. chairman. >> next, q&a with oklahoma senator tom coburn. your calls0 a.m., and comments on "washington journal." >> today, experts and authors will discuss human rights in north korea. live coverage at the brookings institution begins at 3:00 eastern on c-span. >> the first thing i would do is cable tvhe largest second-largest cable tv company. that is where i would start. my job here on the judiciary , at these hearings, is to raise my concerns. mr. cohen is a really smart guy and a really great guy. my job was to ask some tough questions. they have 107 lobbyists on .apitol hill they are swarming capitol hill, their lobbyists. hundred thousand people, more than a hundred thousand people write neither objections. so the first thing i would do is stop this deal. i would not let this go through. is up to theme, it fcc and the doj. >> senator franken on the warnerd comcast/time merger. this week on q&a, the republican senator from oklahoma talks about his health, his relationship with president obama and his thoughts on the state of congress and the country's financial situation. senator coburn announced to retire at the end of next year. >> time we could borrow money against the future of our kids.

brooks, are out on bail. the next court date is set for next month. natalie? >> thank you, stephanie gosk. >> let us get a check of the weather now from mr.>> we've got some really warm weather that's going to be making its way through the southwest and the plains. that's good news if you like that heat. amarillo, 89. the same in roswell and phoenix. up to 87 in dallas. 93 in del rio. the problem with that, it also comes with it a red flag warning. wind advisories and fire weather watches stretching from texas, new mexico, all the way up into the dakotas. and so with that, we have a fire risk again today. elevated for much of the southwest. but look at the critical fire danger area from albuquerque, on into roswell and el paso. sustained winds, and so we're looking at dry line winds across texas and oklahoma. so we're going to be watching out for wildfires starting later today on into tomorrow. that's what's going on around >>> 7:35 on a wednesday morning. good morning. temperatures today are going to be comfortable. we are going to end up in the upper 60s. meanwhile low 60s today at the coast low 70s on the way. as we head throughout the