ms. sanders: good afternoon. the images from the honorable carry ceremony at joint base pearl harbor this month made us all proud to be americans. president trump is committed to getting the almost 8,000 left behind from the korean war home, and bringing closure to the families who have been waiting for more than 60 years. the process of identifying and verifying the remains is challenging but one that this administration is committed to. overseeing this process is kelly mckeague, the director of the defense for pow and mia accounting agency. leading dod's worldwide operation of research, investigation, recovery, and identification, and supporting functions, director mckeague strives to provide the fullest possible accounting of our missing personnel. the director, along with his colleagues, dr. john byrd, the defense pow and mia accounting agency laboratory director, and dr. timothy mcmahon, director of dod dna operations, have joined us today to offer remarks and take your questions on

ms. was working at the los angeles times. i started as an intern, spoke spanish, covered spanish-speaking communities, and in doing that, it became a natural progression that i would go to mexico for short assignments and eventually applied at "the baltimore sun" to be there latin america correspondent, but i think from the beginning, writing about people in spanish-speaking communities was of interest to me. host: how would you describe the difference between el paso and juarez? is one ofon: el paso the safest cities in america, rez has become one of the most dangerous cities in mexico. uarez has become a booming industrial time. el paso is dependent on military for its financing. it's a military base, military hub. they are divided by this border, and they earn their money in different ways, but the families in those communities are very interconnected. kids go to school on both sides of the border. people go to the hospital on both sides of the border. families on one side of the borde

ms. nixon? ms. nixon: i would say there are a number of issues in which andrew cuomo claims credit but which it is something he has been forced into by labor, like the $15 minimum wage, but now he calls himself a champion on it. and months before he passed the $15 minimum wage, he said it was a nonstarter. wasaid the $13 minimum wage too much and was advocating for $10 $.50. the same for paid family leave. a his first term, he declared war on unions, which is why the koch brothers gave him $87,000 when he ran in 2010, because they knew his policies were going to benefit millionaires like them and corporations like theirs and were going to gut public pensions, which is what he did. canrnor cuomo: if i respond, because you cannot have so many accusations that are so false? upsetk my opponent is with the koch brothers, because they are the only ones who take more corporate tax loopholes than she does. ,n terms of catering to donors i am not the one who gave $50,000 to politically affiliated organizatio

ms. pressley: thanks for having us. first i want to say that i don't define the totality of his job or leadership simply by votes or years served. i am running because i think there are many opportunities to lead that are not just about voting. but yes there are some votes , that i would have taken differently. when the aca was in committee and my opponent -- it was in committee before it went to the floor -- supported extending the hyde amendment, which prohibits access mostly to low income women to abortion. i also would have cast a different vote on the blue lives matter legislation. mr. braude: how about those votes, congressman? rep. capuano: i have no memory of voting for the hyde amendment, and if i did, every democratic woman -- and i did not vote in the committee when the aca was done, we only had votes on the floor. we did have to vote for certain things we did not like because it was a big bill. but remember, no republicans voted for it and the only people who voted for a bill

ms. vaughan: i'm jessica vaughan, director of policy studies for the center for immigration studies. director cissna, you've been involved in the immigration issue for a long time and i think everyone is interested in hearing how you got involved in the immigration issue. what was your path to becoming director of u.s. citizenship and immigration services? dir. cissna: well, it took a long time. i think i first began working in immigration back in the mid-1990's when i was at a law firm. i represented a couple pro bono asylum cases back in the mid-1990's. the law firm i was at from time to time would pick up immigration cases from other clients. in that way, i slowly began acquiring experience and expertise in the field. eventually, i left the practice of law and entered the foreign service in 1999. there, during the time i was a consulate officer, i truly learned the field. ms. vaughan: where did you serve? dir. cissna: i was temporarily assigned to haiti for a couple of months but my re

ms. ms. trump: thank you. hello everyone. thank you. backstage you are telling me what you are thinking about. ms. trump: intern. i just heard all about -- i just heard all about his trip to disney world and it sounds epic. childrening to take my and in a future life, that sounds good. >> behind the curtain i was foring you that the rsvps this event has broken all of our records. you have gotten more response then bill gates. ms. trump: that's pretty impressive. i said you should tell everyone that. >> so if you looked, if you saw the crowds around the block, lots of young professional women here to see you. what's the most important thing for them to know about how the workforce is changing? ms. trump: well, and i think it's very on-topic why we're here today and one of the recent -- reasons i was very excited to participate in this particular been such ahave thought leader and such a champion, the subject of the future work and of workforce development and the rapid pace in which work a

ms. [applause] ms. trump: thank you. hello everyone. thank you. mike: backstage, you were telling me what you are thinking about. ms. trump: yes, marx in turn. i just heard all about his trip to disney world. it sounds pretty epic. i am waiting to take my children. but in a future life, that sounds pretty good. mike: behind the curtain i was telling you that the rsvps for this event has broken all of our records. in 12 years of doing conversations of like this. that you have gotten more responsive than bill gates or mark cuban. you said what? ms. trump: that's pretty impressive. i said you should tell everyone that. mike: so if you looked, if you saw the crowds around the block, lots of young professional women here to see you. they are here to see you. what's the most important thing for them to know about how the workforce is changing? ms. trump: well, and i think it's very on-topic why we're here today and one of the reasons i was very excited to participate in this particular conversa

ms. vaughan: good morning and thank you for coming this morning to our third newsmaker interview. this morning i will be talking , to francis cissna, the director of u.s. citizenship and immigration services. we've got lots and lots of questions this morning. we are so glad you are here. my colleague is now passing out cards for you to write a question if you have one. we will have a section at the end for those questions to be read. i apologize in advance of that we won't have time to get to everyone's questions, but i would do my best to find some of your questions that are of general interest and we can ask director cissna. i will speak for about 45 minutes, for our conversation, and then move to your questions. glad you are all here today and i am looking forward to this. please join me in welcoming francis cissna. [applause] ms. vaughan: i'm jessica vaughan, director of policy studies for the center for immigration studies. director cissna, you've been involved in the immigration iss

ms. trump: that's pretty impressive. i said you should tell everyone that. >> so if you looked, if you saw the crowds around the block, lots of young professional women here to see you. what's the most important thing for them to know about how the workforce is changing? ms. trump: well, and i think it's very on-topic why we're here today and one of the recent i was very excited to participate in this particular conversation, is that you've been such a thought leader and such a champion, the subject of the future work and of workforce development and the rapid pace in which work and the jobs of the future are evolving. so i i was excited to come here and talk about this topic and elevate awareness around the skills that are required to succeed in the modern economy, the areas where we are not doing enough both on a federal level and within the private sector, and to talk about our goals for how we can do better. but i think one of the things that's so exciting about this particular moment

ms. todd: we all know the british stopped the war every day for tea. oss had their parties. every week, they would print up an invitation, get into the most formal attire they could, make bathtub gin and they would have a dance. of july, betty radioshack, the black radio station on the outskirts of coming on her way in. kunming on her way in. she always had coffee. when she arrived, the scriptwriter was stomping up and down because he could not think of something good to being into japan that would really upset them. he was blocked. about the first week of august, there will be a big catastrophe? something from the sky, you know, with fire. said, that isly so lame. no. she went off and got her coffee, puthe decided he could not up anything better. so he broadcast that. --ty flew back to june king chongqing to visit another base, and she flew back and her great catastrophe had occurred. her co was looking for her. how did she know? disbanded october 1, 1945. president truman summarily sent

why is your party soft peddling ms-13?i want to make sure people understand we are not embracing ms-13. that would be political death to us. jesse: nancy pelosi said she saw the beauty never one *'s soul when she was talking about ms-13. >> i didn't like how she handled that. she was right to invoke her faith. we are all god's children. but i don't like the message. i wish to god she hadn't been elected speaker again and i hope she doesn't win reelection. jesse: tomi, i'll give you the last word. >> this is bigger than just calling out ms-13. these people are coming over here, many are illegal immigrants. at the end of the day you can call ms-13 what they are. but until you acknowledge illegal immigration we are still in the same boat. >> we have a lot of work to do. thank you very much. a trump supporter assaulted at a concert by the lead singer. you haven't heard in the anywhere, i'll bet. diamond and silk are here to weigh in. oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (vo) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once

ms.oes this change anything? >> most of the midterms are already packed in. here on inatter from his the last thing the voters will hear. if this hurts his public opinion polling, even if it just moves 42% to his lows from last summer when he was only at 37%, that could cost another 10 or 15 seats in the house for republicans, maybe one seat or two in the senate that they could otherwise win. more governorships and state legislatures. we can't be sure what is going to happen. what part of it is counterfactual. if everything was going swimmingly, with the economy really good, with no overseas casualties on a large-scale, you would expect the president right andto be fairly popular have a very mild midterm, maybe even gain but certainly not lose much. instead, republicans are looking at deep losses. shery: yet none of these developments have yet to link the president directly to the key of the mueller probe, russian collusion. how will this play out? >> but we don't know all the facts yet.

ms ms-13 kills for sport and kills for fun. she is wrong.>> "propublica" are very, very hard left. they are very progressive. they are anti-trump they would get to the place where they're almost pro-ms-13. i think it is, it is, it's a desire to put down the president, a desire to oppose the president in everything he does, and anything he does i think it is -- ashley: it's a reporter versus tom homan. a reporter spent a day, however long with them and that is their, that is their impression. brian: with 13-year-old voiceover. ashley: with 30 years experience. >> 30. 50. brian: talk about new mexico, the compound made out of garbage in middle of essentially two states. turns out these are muslim extremists it seems. plans include training children to go in and shoot up schools. some schools start in the middle of august. i was just on with a special forces guy says this is similar to a what grows out of the desert. this is how mohamed lives. >> i first thought they were survivalists. i wasn't on the air on monday when the story broke. i was s

what can be done to hurt ms-13? >> it's not about hurting. it's not about the repression that we've had. the current administration is just one of many administrations that have tried to take this on through suppression. clinton started with the 1996 law that basically took away legal status of any immigrant people that were here legally and it hasn't worked. what it's done is worsen the situation in the -- across the world, and especially in central america. so it's about looking for where it starts, and that starts in our communities. it starts in our schools. it starts at our homes. if resources not being allocated to do that prevention piece, that pre-prevention, the helping the families, i don't see much of that happening with the una accompanied minor's family beyond reunification and that's where we really need to be focusing is how are these kids integrating into the communities. we need to understand that ms-13 is one of 30,000 gangs in the united states and we have to ask our question, why are u.s. citizen, children also destroying

ms. rice: fair housing simply means that people have the right to live where they want to live in their community of choice free from discrimination. soledad: you had hoped that dr. ben carson who runs hud would challenge and aggressively challenge housing discrimination. has he done that? ms. rice: not when it comes to lifting up and enforcing a key part of the fair housing act, which is affirmatively furthering fair housing. soledad: what does that mean? ms. rice: no federal funds can be used in a way to promote discrimination, engage in discrimination, support discrimination, and federal funds should be used in a way that promote and supports inclusive, safe, diverse neighborhoods. t being dismissed? ms. rice: it eliminated what is called the assessment of fair housing tool, so it is the part of the rule that municipalities and housing authorities can use in order to hrof questions and f steps to first identify fair housing issues and barriers to fair housing, to identify where discrim

-13. >> you know when ms-13 sees the ice people when they come in, ms 13 says we've got problems.untry. they're brave. got tough job. and we're getting these gangs like ms-13 and others. we're getting them out of the country, one by one getting them out. >> it's important to note ms-13 is one of 33,000 different gangs in the united states. it makes up roughly 1% of all gang members in this country and it isn't the largest and it isn't just made up of undocumented immigrants. we went to one area directly impacted by ms-13 gang vile taopbls get a better understanding of the gang and its target. >> her life was taken, stolen from me. she had dreams, goals, a future. >> just 16 years old, a talented athlete nicknames the bulk. >> because she was so quick. >> sadly unable toe scape the violence just outside her door. kayla and her best friend savagely murdered just blocks from home, september 13th, 2016. >> this is where it happened. >> reporter: attacked with baseball bats and a machete, a gang better known as ms-13. ms-13 is one of the most violent street gangs in the united states.

ms. and i know personally, for you all, that is the most impactful , having theprogram opportunity to interact with the presidential scholars. so to help make this more of a conversation today between you and the scholars, not just me talking, we asked the scholars to submit questions ahead of time, and there were lots and lots of questions. i'm going to try to get through soi'm going to try to get through as many of them as possible today, but i will start with the first question and we will go directly to the scholars. it has been mentioned, approximately five years ago, you came up with this fabulous idea and announced this program in washington, d.c. at the museum. and a lot has happened in our country and in our world since that time. share could both briefly your thoughts about the importance, what you think is the importance of the program today, and the impact it can really make. present clinton, i will ask for you to start. president clinton: we are in a time where everyone was h

ms.ao: it feels like he is standing on his own, that he feels like he can change twitter without following what other platforms are doing and without learning. we have learned so much in the past five years. he is not incorporating any of that, building empathy for the people being harassed on his platform. instead, he believes they should be a free-for-all on twitter that he can somehow control and manage. emily: it seems to revert to some of the press that twitter has made. ms. pao: it really surprises me. i have seen people leaving the platform. i haven't decided for sure that i will leave but i'm not tweeting. i don't feel at participating anymore. you feel like you are contributing to this site that is allowing harassment, allowing this hate speech and harassment that comes from it and contributed to it if you are participating in it. emily: despite the fact that facebook -- facebook, google, spotify -- the app info wars is rocketing up the app charts. it is more popular than cnn, fo

ms. she was named president and ceo of the charles wright museum in detroit. she was named president and ceo of the american civil war center, and in 2013 she helped orchestrate the merger of museum ofr with the the confederacy to create the american civil war museum, serving as co-ceo and then named the chief executive officer of that museum. ms. coleman lectures extensively. she will be no stranger to many of you. she has written a number of articles as well as served as a screen writer for educational productions and she is a sought after historian for media outlets. the boards of on the american alliance of museums and for state and local history and continues to be engaged with these and other organizations, active in every community in which she works, her accolades business 40oit's under 40 list in 2000, the key to the city of toledo, she has ist, recognized on an it l and her honors go on and on. it is our pleasure to introduce to you our friend, christie coleman. [applause] ms. c

we have ms. ruggle. >> i'm here with the department of public health to present on this item. thank you. this is a new contract. we just did a solicitation. it's following the solicitation effective july 1st. this vendor, however, has been ongoing and currently contains dph clients. it says, along with the facilities that are emptyed by crestwood behavioral health are long-term care mental health facilities with varying licenses to meet the needs of our patient placement. the average term of a length of stay is between nine months to a year. so essentially to continue these services ongoing and to allow us the ability to place clients into facilities when they need this level of care. >> could you talk a little bit about -- so this is a new contract? who previously provided these services? >> it's the same vendor. they did it again. we did a soatilicitatiosolicita. the same two vendors applied, and the -- they were selected. >> is the only contract the new care facility at st. marys? >> essential

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people, when they come in, ms-13 says we got problem. i.c.e. been fantastic for this country, they're brave, they've got a tough job. and we're getting these gangs like ms-13 and others, we're getting them the hell out of the country one by one. >> but the problem is anything but gone. authorities say the gang has been on a killing spree in recent months and is making their way into more suburban neighborhoods. ana cabrera went to long island to see how ms-13 is impacteding that community. >> her life was taken, stolen from her. it's not right. she had dreams, she had goals, she had a future. >> kayla, just 16 years old. nicknamed the bullet. >> they called her the bullet because she was so quick. >> reporter: unable to escape the violence just outside her home. >> this is where it happened. >> reporter: attacked with baseball bats and a ma sh mache investigators say. ms-13 is one of the most violent street gangs in the united states. a entrance national gang. up to 10,000 in the u.s. and as many as 1,000 on long island alone. >> we have about

ms. yu? >> thank you. >> good afternoon, directors, my name is angelina, an aide can supervisor fewer's office. >> chair c. brinkman: what is your last name? >> yu. she asked i share a statement. it was concerning for us to learn through our rep ms. sue vaughn that the lanes painted across the city wouldn't only be used by muni vehicles but by private vehicles and charter service vehicles. this is concerning because san francisco and muni is currently grappling with transit reliability as the city is becoming increasingly congested and already fighting with t.n.c.'s and many other private vehicle traffic. so for the board to consider red lane, this really should be the space where muni isn't having to jostle and fight with tour busses, casino busses, other charter shuttles, medical shuttles and just other emerging types of vehicles that had yet to become a big thing in the city. for the 54,000 transit riders who utilize the 38 and 38 rapid, the reliability is critical and a big part of what's

cassidy: ms. o'boyle: -- ms. shabo? ms. shabo: the lack of paid leave in this country is a real problem. creating ais part of thriving economy. there are a lot of numbers being thrown around here with a lot of confusion about how we might do this. it's not that confusing, jackson simple. the need for paid leave is clear and it doesn't distinguish by political party, family type or care need. no one should be forced to miss their baby's first smile, be prevented from helping apparent or god forbid a child it's cancer, or being kept away for caring for a spouse as she recovers from serious injury sustained in a military service. we fervently hope that today is the beginning of a congressional debate the thickly brings urgently needed change from more than 100 million working people that don't have paid family leave through their jobs. in my short time today am going to do my best to touch on three things, the importance of addressing family and medical leave, not just parental leave, the reasonable features of the parental ac

ms. sanders: good afternoon. since the beginning of his administration, president trump has implemented a whole different approach to safeguard our nation's elections. the president has made it clear his administration will not foreign interference in our elections. last year the president signed an executive order to strengthen cyber security. the president chaired a meeting of his national security council to address ongoing threats. he asked the officials standing next to me to protect the integrity of our elections. efforts are underway to provide cyber security assistance to state and local authorities, and actions to prosecute and hold accountable those who would illegally attempt to interfere in our political and electoral process. welcome dan coats, fbi director christopher wray, secretary of homeland security kierstin nielsen, general paul madison and national security advisor john bolton, the answer questions on this topic very we have addressed what occurred during the 2016 ele

propublica now under fire for defending or painting in a good light rather ms-13. >> the ms-13 membershat i have been following taking afterschool jobs, living with their parents. they get around on bicycles because they can't afford cars. >> these are gang members who machete people to death in kid to ride bikes and work afterschool jobs. we have that debate coming up and the nfl preseason begins. protests including kneeling the president responding. will bring in a former nfl player and look who's here burgess. he's going to react after the break. stay there. polident is specifically designed to clean a denture. the wonderful thing about polident is the fact that it's very, very tough on bacteria, yet it's very gentle on the denture itself. polident's 4 in 1 cleaning system consists of 4 powerful ingredients that work together to deep clean your denture in hard to reach places. it kills 99.99% of odor causing bacteria and it helps to remove stains. polident should be the first choice of every person that wears a denture, to clean their denture. of every person that wears a denture, m

yeah i'm ms-13. >> what's the mo? >> kill, rape, control. >> ruling by fear, victims are often young. local law enforcement says the gang first came on their radar in 2010 but they started to see an up tick in gang violence in 2013. that's when leaders of ms-13 in el salvador made an effort to grow and establish new branches of the gang in different pockets of the u.s. including the affluent suburbs of new york city and long island. >> why new york is the question. and the answer is that in suffolk county at least there's a large salvadorian population. there's also a record number of unaccompanied minors coming to suffolk county during that time. >> since 2014 the u.s. government placed more than 9,000 unaccompanied minors. undocumented children and teenagers that crossed into the us. without parents and guardian with sponsors in long island communities. >> many don't speak english. they don't have money in their pocket. their parents aren't with them. they're seeking a sense of belonging and ms-13 says we can provid

so of course, the left now supports ms-13..com has published a video portraying the gang as a bunch of cute teenagers who ride bikes, listen to music, and work after school jobs. >> when you think of the street game ms-13, what do you see? may be something like this. or this. but what if i told you the typical ms-13 gang member in the u.s. actually looks like one of these young men on facebook? >> the ms-13 members that i've been following our working after-school jobs, they are living with their parents, they get around long island on bicycles. >> there is no indication that we are seeing a bigger surge of ms-13 then we've seen in the past. >> mark: so basically, ms-13, they are like high school valedictorians with machetes. timothy is the district attornen long island in the county's former police commissioner and he joins us. tim, these guys are all over your neck of the woods. are they just have a lack of my kids doing after-school jobs, riding around on bicycles? >> here the facts, and 2016 and part of 2017, we saw 17 hom

ms.: it really surprises me. i have seen people leaving the platform. i haven't decided for sure that i will leave but i'm not tweeting. i don't feel at participating anymore. you feel like you are contributing to this site that is allowing harassment, allowing and harassmenth that comes from it and contributed to it if you are participating in it. emily: despite the fact that facebook -- facebook, google, spotify -- the app info wars is rocketing up the app charts. it is more popular than cnn, fox news. is all of this hubbub helping him? ms. pao: we will see. the jury is still out but at least those companies feel like they have stopped the spread as much as possible. apple? not really sure. you make it harder, you put friction into it, and it is better than doing nothing which is what jack is doing. emily: there was a post written about how rules won't save twitter, values will. the rules have never been clear, nor has how they are enforced. is there a different way to draw the line? ho

of course the left now supports ms-13..com has published the video will portray the gang is a bunch of cute teenagers who ride bike bikes, listen to music and work after-school jobs. >> when you think of the street gang ms-13 what do youme see? may be something like this. or this. i told you that typical ms-13 gang member in the u.s. actually looks like one of these young men on facebook. >> they're working after-school jobs, their living with their parents, they get around long island onon bicycles. >> there is no indication that we are seeing a bigger surge of ms-13 then we have seen in the past. >> mark: ms-13 they are like high school valedictorians. he joins us, tim these guys are all over your neck of the woods. are they just like kids doing after-school jobs running around on bicycles? >> we saw 17 homicides that ms-13 committed, that's 17 homicides in just 16 months. two of those homicides were 15 and 16-year-old girls from brentwood high school. another homicide was a quadrupln homicide were four boys were chopped

>> certainly the administration's focus on ms-13 is helpful. both in terms of awareness,

and i'm very pleased that ms. christiansen has decided that years after this became law, years after i finally learned that something was named after me once i had a cow named after me and the cow died, i'm glad it is being expanded. what you think ms. christiansen. so we got a lot of heavy lifting to do, folks. senator cantwell and i and a few others will be getting on a plane to the northwest where lots of folks are really hurting. so this is about office. glad we ended fire borrowing. these are the next steps reducing hazardous fuels, and senator cantwell i sit next to each other in both the energy and natural resources committee and on the finance committee, and i just couldn't have a better partner in the pacific northwest and a country senator cantwell, and i'm proud to introduce her now. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, senator wyden. it's so good to be you with our colleagues from the senate, senator murkowski and senator daines and senator wyden. and since mr. secretary carter it's a good to be with yo

ms. your tomrow is now. purepoint financial. >> and now, "bbc world news." jane: this is "bbc world news america." reporting from washington, i am jane o'brien. a year after fleeing myanmar, hundreds of rohingya muslims are in makeshift camps, facing an uncertain future. >> half of them are children, and there is little sign of them being able to return home to the myanmar anytime soon. jane: bewaref impeachment -- resident trump warns people they may become poorer if congress takes that step. pres. trump: i don't know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job. i'll tell you what, if i get impeached, the market will crash. jane: and nearly 40 ars after jimmy carter left the white erhouse, he continues to s in his own inimitable style. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. over the past year we have reported extensively on the plight of the rohingya refugees fleeing myanmar. the united nations warns that half a million young people caught

ms. collins: mr. president, i call up the following amendments and ask that they be reported by number -- 3464, 3522, 3524, and 3402. the presiding officer: without objection, the clerk will report the amendments by number. the presiding officer: the senator from maine, ms. collins, for others, proposes amendments number 3464, 3522, 3524, and 3402. ms. collins: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from maine. ms. collins: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that i be permitted to proceed with a closing statement for up to three minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. collins: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, as we near completion of the fiscal year 2019 appropriations bill for transportation, housing and urban development, and related agencies, which has been included in the appropriations package before this chamber, i would like to thank all of my colleagues for working collaboratively with us. the managers' amendment incorporates more than -- incorporates 14 t

ms. feldmann: did you have any idea about his context in ukraine with pro-russian leaders -- about his contacts in ukraine with pro-russian leaders? mr. lewandowski: he was recommended to the campaign by a 30-year friend of the president. a lengthy story was written on this. as campaign manager, i had to pump options and as i had to prop -- i had two options. one is that i could take the email and show it to then candidate trump and let him make the decision. he is to bring paul and for a discussion. it was the first time i ever met paul manafort, in mar-a-lago in march of 2016, and there were four people at the dinner, including myself, donald trump, and men afford. -- and manafort. ms. feldmann: next question from "dallas morning news." >> -- raising money for john culberson, and they donated money to pete sessions' campaign . three republican held districts in texas that hillary clinton won. how much of that is a concern, those districts, and what are the chances the vice president cou

thank you, ms. stein. >> clerk: ms. chair, moving onto your regular agenda. ask the board to make environmental review findings, designate transit only lanes on gary boulevard and approve various traffic modifications, along the 38 geary, r corridor between market and stanon street associated with the rapid corridor transit project. >> chair c. brinkman: ms. bryson. >> good afternoon, chair brinkman and board members. i'm liz bryson, i'm the project manager for geary project, improvements between market and sandyon street. there's been a huge team at sfmta working on this and i want those helping me to stand up so they could also be recognized. so with that, you may recall that about a year ago we came before you to make findings under ceqa and since that time the project has transitioned from the lead role being sfcta to sfmta and sfmta has conducted significant outreach on the detail of the design of the project to be able to take action today. so what i will cover today is a little bit of background on the project and the scope of the project as well as so

ms. norton: thank you, doctor. i'm going to invite members of the audience to begin coming up to the two microphones. this is very important to us to hear from you. and in order to promote the most candid conversation, i hope nobody here is seized with white guilt. obviously, we have been talking the about what whites do, majority of the population. there is a white-skinned privilege in this country, but i want to lay to rest the notion that i have heard some blacks say themselves that blacks don't ngage in racism. they are emboldened to do so, not very openly, but someone who represents the district, it is now 50-50. you have heard these things. this is not a country in which the whites are big on thed and the blacks are -- bigotted and the whites are pure. just erase that if you would and make it as candid as possible and if you want to role model about ourselves and perhaps what almost all of us have been guilty of, there are something for which john mccain will always be remembered an

ms. clayton talked about serving as the congressional freshman class president, her assignment to the agriculture committee, and her focus on national hunger and nutrition legislation. the u.s. house of representatives office of the historian conducted this interview. it is about two hours. mattasniewski: i am withewski here congresswoman eva clayton to talk about her time in congress. thank you for being here. ms. clayton: i'm delighted to be here. mr. wasniewski: i thought we would talk about the origins of your interest in politics to start. first off, when you were young, i'm curious to know, did you have any female role you looked up to? who were they? what do you to them? ms. clayton: the first female .odel was my mother she was a person who wanted the best for her daughter. as i grew older and recognize -- contribution of certain the high school where i went, a small presbyterian high school, and lucy craft lane was her name. i admiredew her, but knowing of her. i would say the mod

she said ms. jenkins had a problem where the coal trucks were coming and idling outside of the shop and the omissions were coming in so ms. jenkins understood the power of the vote. she would take and get a number of the ladies who came into her shop to agree that they would vote so she took that list down to the town hall and said i need your help. if you don't give me that help we will find somebody else who can. you all say, go ahead ms. jenkins. say go ahead ms. jenkins. as i was walking a the array i heard her say remember james baldwin when he said that if you loved me then you have to raise your consciousness and address of things that people don't see. so i started to think about the power of our polls. i was thinking about environmental climate issues, health care-related issues, gun reform and how it all comes together. you guys do me a favor. everybody take a deep wrath. let it out. the power of your vote can change that dynamic because in our country 200,000 people die prematurely ever

this is an information item. >> ms. fong? >> this is typically the time when we report back on our quartzly investments and quarterly debt reporting and assets and liabilities. since we're approaching the close of june 30, 2018, we'll be reporting out our financial information later in november when we complete the annual fiscal audit. today aye like to report out how we're doing in our investments. as of june 30, 2018, we have approximately $43.6 million of cash sitting in the bank. 47% of the funds are invested in the city and county treasury pool. we alsos have sufficient liquidity in funds in terms of meeting our fiscal year 18-19 budget at this point in time. in terms of debt reporting, back in november of 2017, eight months ago, we issued the t.a.'s very first sales tax revenue bond. as of the first eight months, we are approximately 43% spent on these bond proceeds. this is healthy for our program and we've been spending them on the five major cash flow projects. there is a document in this packet that lists out how we