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when we look at our partners and the information that we gather from our partners, the intelligence that we gather from our partners, the intelligence that we discover ourselves, we plan around those things. we're flexible, we're fluid, and as things change, we're able to adapt, assess those situations and make necessary changes if those changes are necessary. i don't want anybody to believe that we think that we have to make changes. we do not at this point, but we are prepared to move with the flow of intelligence that we gather. we also look at best practices. so as we assess, as we move forward, we will continue to do what is absolutely necessary to keep the city safe. so our training, our training since this started, commander ralph cruz, i cannot say enough about him. he's headed up the training. he was also my partner during the nato event. we headed up the training for that event. we also had the first responding teams in the field when we went out. so i have all the confidence in the world that there is experience here in dealing with these types of events. also my team that you

you've been, are l as in partners all over the world, including our partners in the end of the civic, not only by it's undermining of the rules based international order, but also by secondary effects on prices and energy and other things. so one can easily imagine that something china might do in the region in terms of taiwan or even in other ways where it's undermining the world's based international order. and the south china sea could have similar impacts in europe. nato says it wants to engage more actively in the and no pacific. what exactly could that mean? well, so for one thing, you've seen nato a bring out new partnership, documents with it for partners in the region. they've all signed these partnership documents now, except i think is the language is still working on it. and these layouts um, clear plans for how these partners want to work together with nato. but just today at the nato public for, i'm secretary general, still numbered. mentioned some examples of the kinds of things that nato wants to do with his partners in the region, including working on technology, shar

but again, natal only has for partners in the region. so it's with those partners that's working mostly. yeah. some critics of the car and course argue that the united states should disengage from europe and pivot entirely to the in the pacific. while european countries take on greater responsibility for their own security. how do you see it? i don't know why it has to be in either or you know the us as effectively pivoted in terms of policy to the endo pacific for some time we have a strong in the pacific strategy. that mentions, but the endo pacific is not review the most important and dynamic region in the world in terms of economy, in terms of impact on us, security, etc, etc. and yet, at the same time, we are strongly supporting ukraine and the current war that russia is putting there . and we are continuing to support our european allies and partners on the continent. and we'll continue to do so. i think the idea that we can only do one thing or the other i think is a bit um not correct. uh, i wouldn't say that if it can be only on

superintendent snelling has a tremendous a partner has been a tremendous partner.perintendent is among 17 public safety entities including u.s. secret service and the executive steering committee this committee oversaw the development of dnc operational security plan. relying on subcommittee staff of experts on various topics. putting national intelligence, consequence management, maritime security, airspace security, traffic control and more. dnc plan is subsequently been tested hunt reinforced her multiple interagency exercises over the past four months. five tabletop exercises and numerous field training operations. these run through allowed law enforcement partners. will host a final training exercise just days before the official arrival of the first delegates. these exercises create experiences with large-scale events extensive planning all contribute to a level of confidence ahead of the convention. our preparation with detailed procedures of her plan and pop-up demonstrations. irt want everyone to know the secret service in our public safetyst partners resp

superintendent snelling has a tremendous partner, has been a tremendous partner. the superintendent is among 17 public safety entities, including the u.s. secret service, participating in the executive steering committee. this committee oversaw the development of the dnc operational security plan, relying on subcommittees staffed with experts on various topics, including national intelligence, consequence management, maritime security, airspace security, traffic control, and more. the dnc plan has subsequently been tested and reinforced through multiple interagency exercises over the past four months, including five tabletop exercises and numerous field training operations. these run-throughs allow our law enforcement are nurse to evaluate security plans through various scenarios. we have exercises days before the official arrival of the first delegates. these exercises create experiences with large-scale events and extensive planning contributing to a level of confidence ahead of the convention. our preparation includes detailed procedures for planned and pop-up

it was working with its partners there. and sometimes it's uh, you know, observing exercises but, but us l as in partners have in the region but, but nato is physically not present there. so certainly, you know, i think as far as that impact goes on other countries in the region, it isn't too much of a big one. but, you know, as to whether or not these countries want it, us sort of presence in focus. you know, i think the answer is yes, but they don't want to have to choose between that us in china, in many cases, that's really a country by country question. if you look at a country like the philippines, i think right now the philippines is having some strong problems with china in terms of the 2nd, thomas shoals and contested territory that the 2 countries have. and that's what it means is leaning very much on the united states in terms of supporting them and the same with japan and it's competitive territory with china and then other countries in the region. so i think yes there's, there's sort of a varying sort of set of

we partner with them and with others. i would welcome further conversation on that and putting you in touch with some of the folks that do that work on a regular basis. >> in fact if you want to consider someone to a pilot and a physician and a congressman go to on those missions now. >> o keep that in mind thank you. >> doctor goodman? it is no secret try to has a goal to surpassing assays by 2045. we cannot allow this to happen. the leading edge we have in space technology will protect the united states not just the economy but technology they can benefit humankind like we just discussed. as yes it's works recruit additional international partners how can we the government continue to promote diplomacy over china's no limits question you see countries like india putting a vehicle in the dark side of the moon for about $75 million. granted it's not man it does cut corners it may beat on the same bureaucracy requirements back we partner with other countries to make this a more efficient process? >> there will be effective

all of them our partners have these numbers. by the way, the us state department has already. stated that the first f-16s from denmark and the netherlands are already on their way to ukraine and will be used already this summer, but still, what should ukraine do if its needs in equipment and weapons cannot be met by western countries, and if the door to nato is open, but it is not clear how one can join them, which strategy of defense and possible counteroffensive is the most realistic, and will russia's ability to wage war really decrease in 3-4 years? we will talk about all this now, we are in touch with vadym prystayko, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of ukraine, head of the mission of ukraine to nato in 2017-2019. good evening. good evening. let's start with this briefing, which was held in washington for journalists by an unnamed high-ranking nato official. according to him, russia will be able to maintain the war for another 3-4 years. how do you feel about this assessment and what it could mean for ukraine? w

yes, but not a partner, thank you, friend, please, not a partner, yes, murder, um, daughter of a famoushowed up, they didn’t bother me, i have to work here alone, i’ve already done so much here with lenka, so i’m imposing that the missing karina pornarovskaya, the daughter of arthur parnarovsky, arrived in this car, went into the house and disappeared, and the maid bled. .. found it, well , it started too abruptly, so that’s what i think, they killed her, so they split her body, and the pieces were hidden in different places, so that it would be more difficult for us to put the bastards in investigation, they mock me, lena didn’t tell you how much time passed between karina’s arrival and the discovery of the loss, 5 minutes, so what? so tell me, how could they do it during this time? learn from insanity under your wing, you know, let anyone partner with you , i will work with maximov, i’m lesh, i’m on my own, well, work alone, hi len, hi, i’ve been embarrassed in such houses for a long time it wasn’t, well, yes, the interior is like a decoration, some rich people are also crying, for ex

i will now rely on my partner nation to do that. that they are eager to hear from us just as we are eager to hear from them. where are you. where are you investing. i think colonel benson will figure all that out for me and then the mechanism that we use to have that conversation with our allies. the process should be the same discussion we have and the same sort of slide deck that we use with allies is what we use with commercial. here is what we are investing. investing in the company to deliver that capability. we are working hard on that process. you have to deliver this for me. we are close. we have the capabilities. i think you see some documents on that. the budget detail leveling we are willing to make their. >> it always comes down to budget. >> that's right. we have a question here from mike sinclair who is a nonresident senior fellow with us. hi, mike. the commercial space ministry enjoys over the strategic rivals this industry is a bit different than traditional aerospace primes that tend to be big and established. given

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our partners in asia aggression to go unchecked everywhere. would-be aggressor who se that russia is being allowed to proceed with impugnny europe may get their own impunity in europe may get their own ideas in a world. we have the relationship between russia and north korea that's evolved as well so you now see, andy deliberate part of our policy, a breaking down silos between european alliance asian alliances, and even more broadly as we work in countries and not just countries, other partners from other parts of the world. i create a very powerful fit for purpose coalitions. different shapes focused on different discrete bring specific things to the table. that's part of new landscape, that we put in place. suzanne: i want to ask you a little bit about how you assess chinese intentions. they're obviously working to the war in ukraine. they've invested in a huge militaryell as a nuclear buildup. you said the united states isn of strength and confidence. and we're prepared to compete.the chinese looking to compete or looking to dominate? sec.

we will adapt measures and were working with partners to ensure a safe convention. i will now introduce the mayor of milwaukee. >> folks may recall republicans and democrats with one goal, to make sure we have a safe convention. things cost more than what they did so we have worked to get a $25 million increase. we take this seriously. and we work in collaboration with the secret service and local law enforcement as was mentioned, we are joined by aaron whiskey -- lipsky and jeffrey normans and. working with law enforcement partners from across the united states to help out with public safety. this is a national special security event, the highest designation in the u.s.. we will work to make sure public safety is tantamount. i will pass it over to chief jeffrey. >> thank you, mayor. 82 months these plans have been put into place. this is a collaboration between leaders and we've worked with community members. we can say we are comfortable in regards to the plans we have made. not where we just peru's, actual planning. as you can see the collaboration is real and th

we are going there as partners, real partners.he soviet people have ever been to africa or india, they have never been as a colonialist. we've always been there those who helped them build their economy and social sphere. so the color revolutions also shook, we know where they started, tunisia, because these countries at some point switched from such a simple trade with the west, which was expressed like this: there, relatively speaking, there is oil, there are diamonds, bauxite, something else , even in exchange for western goods and equipment, they began to develop the corresponding production in their own country, at some point a dilemma became for western countries, and so good, buy from them... oil, i buy from them some kind of resources, we have to drive something there, and if, in fact, they began to develop their own agriculture there, then neither wheat, nor vegetables, nor fruits will go there from europe, that is, assembly production has begun there , processing with the help of belarus, russia there, china and so on, w

the city has to be a partner little partnerships to make that work for small businesses and retail, to make sure that we are investing in public safety and to make sure we're turning s400 to into a neighborhood i can, live and in effect my budget invests $15 million in 0 o to that exist and that fun and enjoy that we so specially need in our city i'm grateful we have extraordinary partners to help us continue to do do work and build we get the resources, and work as a partner but the people who are on the on the ground in union square do the work every single day to make that best and the last thing i want to mention before i bring up mri rise roger's how many of you look at plaza not the most attractive design in an urban environment that is underutilized i introduced a bond before the divorces voters in november you providing $50 million to make is an attractive designation for people (clapping.) to enjoy make sure you vote 2307b that body in november so many xiecht and activation and fun and so many joy that's what we're going to do to make downtown san francisco the place we know a

this also requires our partners' engagement. for example, when it comes to some of the machines to help manufacture high-end semiconductors, we have worked with asml and tokyo electron. my understanding is there may not be the progress that we anticipated earlier. so my question to you is, when and if would the united states want to apply the foreign direct product rule in order to ensure compliance with our goals. i don't know what you're -- >> i'll take that, senator. thank you. from the view of the commerce department, multilateral it is crucial. we are constantly building export control coalitions around the world on different critical emerging technologies like semiconductors. the dutch and the japanese, as you alluded to, they imposed their controls on semiconductor manufacturing tools. they are comparable to ours, what we picked up last october in our amended controls, and that is a critical part of our work, ensuring that our allies understood the threat, that they understand what it means if we don't have controls in pl

and- any ho. >> (clapping) and did i get everybody i got almost everything and some partners beverlyor joining us as well (clapping.) i know that gil doesn't - but appreciate her work throughout california and for planned parenthood and our city attorney david chiu and jose cisnero and the state controller malia cohen a village of people and as you can see a fourth of a village here to not only roll up our sleeves but to bark and bite to get the job done and demonstrate it san francisco will continue to lead and continue to partner and collaborative and continue to doing everything we can to protect the pedestrians freedom of all san franciscans and people all over this country thank you for being here. francisco. >> (music). >> city and county of san francisco korean-american is one of the and preserve agrees in america we work with job seeker to make sure they're trained and able to enter the workforce by i work with the number of partners able to then recruit our residents from training and get a solidified trained up workforce the hospitality initiative started in 2012, we saw a

are further there, russia, the cis countries, china, in africa, our partners in asia are more reliablehrough organizations such as the shanghai cooperation organization, brix, regional organizations that exist in asia and latin america, in the middle east, we are all adherents of that new world of multipolarity, and these adherents are becoming more and more numerous. we take only one organization, the sco. the sco has a population of almost 3.5 billion, which is 40% of the world's population; if you combine the sco with brix, there will already be more half the world's population. if we take the sco as actually 30% of the industrial production of the entire world, we add it there. this is the heart of the world in general, that’s why we go there. now, in order to get to the same lithuania or latvia, yes, you have to stand at the border for 30 hours, yes, and minsk-beijing, in my opinion, what is it, 10 hours, it will fly even less, well, it turns out to be three seas away, yes exactly, it’s very close, the question is, what about the sco, we need to try to explain to ordinary belarusi

these are our strategic partners. mr.alentine, another figure that has appeared in... in trump's entourage and apparently, if the former president of the united states of america wins the next presidential election, he will become the vice president of the united states of america, is vance, senator vance, which is basically earlier was one of those who spoke against the provision of military aid to ukraine, although he had his justification there, well, he opposed trump too, well, he generally called trump hitler, if i'm not mistaken, american hitler or something like that. can we now say that the appearance of vance in trump's circle is some kind of long-term prospect, that he can become the 48th president of the united states of america in 2028, and this whole story that is unfolding before our eyes, it indicates that what the republicans are ready to be in power for a long time and they look like the people they really are right now. they can enter the white house in january of the 25th year and not leave it, well, re

congress has been your partner. sometimes as an independent branch we can help you advance our values. diplomats have a hard time pursuing and we have done that in trafficking of humans with our trip reports. we've done that in the sanctions and others that require you to consider personal sanctions as well as the secretarial sanctions. we did that with the anticorruption and in the last congress, so we look for you to give additional ways that we can be helpful to advance american values, western values, global values in our relationship with other countries. you have to set priorities and we have to set priorities. there is a limited amount of time left in the congress and i want you to give me how high of a priority is it for the senate to confirm particularly career ambassadors where we have so many that are vacant today. it takes floor time, kennedy time, this issues we have to deal with. how high of a priority is it to accomplish the missions to represent us in the state department for us to take up and confir

it will depend on the partners who have to put pressure on russia so that russia agrees to sit down and think about ending the war. this does not mean that all areas will be returned mr. valentin, how likely is it that the hot phase of the russian-ukrainian war will end by the end of the 24th year? i wouldn't give any dates at all, you know, you and i understand, we see the objective situation, even now, literally minutes before your broadcast, with an kh-59 missile russia, russian... terrorists killed now in mykolaiv, a child and other people, several people were seriously injured, and civilians in an ordinary yard, high-rise buildings, and nothing, they sent such a racket, they sent x-59, air surface, which, which is only 5.5 m long and weighs more than 800 kg, and what kind of end to the war are we talking about if the aggressor continues to terroristically kill even civilians. therefore, i would emphasize the main attention, i think this is exactly what was heard in britain right now, because there is currently a summit of the european political community, where president zelensky i

when we are aligned with others, working with europeans, asian partners, other partners, who are facing some of the same challenges, and all of a sudden we are aligning 50, 60% of the world's gdp against this problem, we will be a lot more effective. that is the other big thing we have seen the last three and half years, a much greater alignment, a much greater convergence between us and key partners in europe, asia, and beyond, on how to tackle some of these challenges, including challenges posed by china and the challenges posed by russia. suzanne: i do want to come to the question of alliances in just a moment to talk more about the upcoming nato summit, but i did want to ask you about an issue that is much in the news these days, especially over the course of the past couple days. since the debate between president biden and former president trump, there has been a sense of strong discussion and lots of reviews being elicited.- - views being elicited. you have worked with president joe biden for decades can you tell us what friends and foes around the world should know about america

in the 20240300 engagements with allies and partners.roximately 30 countries of proposed enacted or significantly expanded their foreign investment review regimes with our support. lastly, let me update you briefly to implement president biden's outbound investment security program. treasury issued a rule issued last month and my office is working closely with the interagency to prepare final report. this important program ultimately will depend -- depend on the resources we will receive and the president 25 budget for this program at 16.7 million. thank you and i look forward to your questions. >> thank you, secretary. secretary harris, welcome. >> distinguished members of the committee, thank you for inviting mee to testify today. as assistant secretary of congress, i lead a team of over 265 industry experts. our mission is to support the global competitiveness of u.s. industry. it sits in the national interest administration of the policy because it is the broadest industry expertise availableun n any one place in the u.s. government.

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this is in our interest and our partners interested. interest.the policy recognizes n and governance play a role here as well print that said we recognize we are not engaged in security cooperation with the country that someone else might. the formulation of if we don't sell someone else will neglects to account many of the dynamics white some countries in transition from one to another factor such as cost benefits, diversification and dependency all play a role but arms sales alone guaranteed neither access nor security, nor unilateral achievement of geopolitical outcomes but however they can pave the way for holding relationships and influence behavior for security outcomes that are in the u.s. foreign policy interest. concern over who will fill the void is one of the many factors to consider. reinforcing respect for human rights international humanitarian law, good governance and rule of law the policy strengthens to revolve in values that reinforce u.s. credibility and national security. therefore, by pursuing a policy of restraint

not going to so there are sources of mistrust between partners.elieve that if zelensky is honest and sincere in his intentions, then an agreement should be concluded with poland that would be ratified by the parliaments of both countries. this, this is more reliable. there is no need to invent this declarative mechanism, which does not oblige anyone to anything. yes, look, while we are talking with you, mr. volodymyr, i would also like to remind our viewers of the information concerning the current number of dead and wounded, i.e. 10 dead in kyiv, two injured men who were hospitalized, died in one of the kyiv city hospitals. this was announced by the mayor of kyiv vitaliy klitschko, in desanets it was noted that the liquidation of the consequences of enemy shelling in the capital is ongoing. rescue operations continue in podilsk, desnyansk, svyatoshynsk, and holosiia. dniprovskyi, solomyanskyi, darnatskyi and shevchenkivskyi districts of the city. it also became known that in kryvyi rih the russians targeted the northern mining and processing plan

and partners at carnegie. and everyone we've talked to in the greenroom and around this room. what is our mission and why does it relate to the goals women lead? we use ideas and relationships to promote peace informed by pragmatism as well as principle and allows people all over the world to live better livings. our work stretches over more than a century at carnegie since we were founded in 1910. what we've seen over and over again decade after decade is an enduring peace, sustainable peace is more than the absence of war, it's about cooperation and institutions that allow billions to enjoy greater prosperity and countries to meet the needs of their people. in the course of all that time, i think it's fair to say it's become painfully clear to us there's no way to take the world in a direction for peace without civic and political participation from everyone. what is clear today as well is this is a crucial moment for democracy. more than a billion people around the world have already voted. by years end more than 60 countries and more than half the world's population are ex

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who--who else needs a partner? uh, who else needs a partner?tand. - all right, let's head in. - you can let go now, butters. - no. - butters, come on. - no! - all right, kids, go ahead and visit the charming villagers and learn stuff. keep track of your partner. - why, howdy, partners. i'm the town blacksmith. are you folks settlers, or are you just trappers passin' through? - uh, look, can we just drop the role-playing thing? i would play along, but my girlfriend's here, and i don't want to look like a total dork in front of her. - thanks, stan. - these folks sure are strange, smithy. we ain't never seen them kind of fancy hats in our time, have we? - that guy's wearing a digital watch. - oh, jeez. - damn it, chad.

are further there, russia, the cis countries, china, in africa we are our partners, in asia they arefact all of us, through organizations such as the sco, brix, regional organizations that exist in asia and latin america, in the middle east, we are all adherents of that new. world of multipolarity, and these adherents are becoming more and more numerous. we take only one sco organization. the sco has a population of almost 3.5 billion, which is 40% of the world's population; if we combine the sco with brix, there will already be more than half of the world's population. if we take shons, in fact 30% of the industrial production of the whole world, add brix there and almost up to we don't reach 50. now, this is all the resource base. that's the region. well, read all the most economic, social issues, it is in the well-known analysts of this eurasian integration, the eurasian space, they all say that it is there that a new center of power, gravity will emerge for the implementation of the most interesting political, economic plans, this is the heart of the world in general, here that's

love ends immediately, right away. is directly related to your area of ​​work, our dear american partners this, this is the situation that happened just the other day in the usa, we talked about the fact that the elections in the usa would be very interesting, we watched it, and tucker carlson also literally 2 months ago he predicted that there would be an assassination attempt on trump, it never happened, because. again, so this is what our diplomatic department expects from the elections in america today? well, those who never happened like this, well, probably, some pages from the history of the united states simply forgot, there were and that means, kennedy, there were other earlier ones , only four presidents were killed, but that’s why they were actually behind-the-scenes managers of politics. america's development is somehow not asleep today. in response to your question, i would like to say right away that the belarusian side really hopes and really wants all us presidential candidates to reach the finish line of this presidential campaign healthy and without injuries. i support.

we nominate based on local partners and state partners. individuals put out watch lists based on our work and in terms of proactive intelligence, we are focusing efforts on the border against the threat. >> how did the department on this issue -- these nationals came in in january. so it leads everyone to believe that 362 is a low number. if a people had been in the country for five or six months. how did the department miss that and then how did they catch that ? what are we doing to make sure that never happens again? >> as you know, colleagues from dhs will give you a briefing after recess and most of this is sensitive and classified so i am limited in what i can say on the record, but it is clear that when those individuals came across the border or were encountered, there was no derogatory information that came to the attention of the people at the border. i can say without getting into specifics that i think you have heard there was unprecedented cooperation between dhs and the fbi on the situation. beyond that, i have to defer to my

government partners and our collective partners that are joining us in this initiative of being able to come and reflect together on the different ways our organizations are investing in advancing women's political leadership around the world. on usaid's side, we are very thrilled that two of our flagship programs are contributing to the goals of this initiative. we have one that we launched through the summit for democracy on advancing women's and girls' civic and political leadership. and this takes a holistic, multiyear approach to do as this initiative, what women lead is doing, of building a comprehensive, multi-year approach of building a pipeline of women and girl political and civic leaders in politics, in peace building, in transition processes, improving the enabling environment to support and encourage their leadership and countering violence against women in politics in public life. so we're taking what you're hearing about women lead and we're trying to help take that forward in 10 focused countries to start with. and are partners with a collective of organizations in do

we are going there as partners, real partners. neither the belarusian people nor the soviet people havethem build their economy, social sphere, infrastructure, unlike western countries, which always came there as colonists, sucked out all the wealth, which sucked everything, which means , resources, and neocolonialism. continues today, why do many people think, this happened with libya, how it happened, why this conflict happened in syria, in iraq, that means in its time, why egypt did this too, color revolutions shook us, we know where they came from began, tunisia, because at some point these countries switched from such a simple trade with the west, which was expressed like this , relatively speaking, there is oil, there are diamonds, and bauxite. something else, in exchange for goods, equipment from the west, they switched to starting to develop the corresponding production in their own countries, at some point there became a dilemma for the western countries, and so good, i buy oil from them, i buy from them what - these are the resources, we have to drive something there, and if t

and the russians partnering in certain areas. i know there was the flight in international waters, but in close proximity to the united states recently as an example. and this is worrisome. so what does this mean to your point in terms of how we need to be thinking about our force planning construct and where we put the weight of relative capability development and force structure given that specter? but for now we are still anchored to the n.d.s. and the p.r.c. pacing challenge. michael: nuclear forces are obviously in a different category because these are things we all, heaven for bid, -- forbid, would ever have to think about using them but we also need to think of a way of planning that doesn't give moscow and by a skwreupbgt sense they have the upper hand -- beijing the sense they have the upperhand, individually or collectively. if they're in cahoots on issues, it raises the question of whether it's enough to equal russia. let me ask you about the defense budget and then come back to the indo-pacific, if i could. so you ma

the city has to be a partner little partnerships to make that work for small businesses and retail, to make sure that we are investing in public safety and to make sure we're turning s400 to into a neighborhood i can, live and in effect my budget invests $15 million in 0 o to that exist and that fun and enjoy that we so specially need in our city i'm grateful we have extraordinary partners to help us continue to do do work and build we get the resources, and work as a partner but the people who are on the on the ground in union square do the work every single day to make that best and the last thing i want to mention before i bring up mri rise roger's how many of you look at plaza not the most attractive design in an urban environment that is underutilized i introduced a bond before the divorces voters in november you providing $50 million to make is an attractive designation for people (clapping.) to enjoy make sure you vote 2307b that body in november so many xiecht and activation and fun and so many joy that's what we're going to do to make downtown san francisco the place we know a