secretary pate, you mentioned the extension to 120 days. i'm curious for our panelists, what are you seeing in terms of the broader utilization of e-mail, blank ballot delivery, the effectiveness of it, share some of your observations. >> as i said earlier our primary audience is more the national guard and because of the fact that when they deploy we are aggressive and working with the guard to make sure they have their absentee ballot process in place, we tend to still have a pretty decent turnout on that premise so we don't have as many people doing it electronically, but he's still there and our -- each of our county auditors are set up to be able to process those. of course, it's the falloff sometimes in making sure they have a full ballot, not just the federal candidates, so we continue to partner with that. the -- but again, as i said earlier, we are still wrestling with are we getting the true audience. i can measure my guard because the national guard tell us how many people are deployed, so i know that there's -- if i have a thous

. >> maite: this is sea urchin pate. >> anthony: yes. >> anthony: pate d'oursin, a sea urchin pate.tterly delicious. >> maite: this is a try. >> anthony: wow, it's pretty. look at that. wow. it's sensational. >> maite: you like it? >> anthony: that's fantastic. >> maite: good. >> anthony: wow, that's good. >> fred: you know this is a kind of dish for real we should do. try a lot of versions, transform it all at once when it's at the peak of freshness, make a solid pate and serve it size by size like fois gras, you know? >> dave: my mind is already racing, urchin sausages. >> anthony: steal this recipe, dude. this is good. >> dave: we'll have to call it 'pate maite'. >> maite: oh my goodness, what an honor. i don't have copyrights on that because it's local. very traditional from here. >> dave: is it, yeah? you've had this all your life? >> maite: yes. >> anthony: wow. ♪ >> anthony: stuffed squid over rice. >> maite: this is family style, you know. >> anthony: wow, look at that. ♪ >> anthony: thank you. ♪ >> maite: do you want some rice with it? traditional and family meal. >> fred:

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if you say they are not behind the pate ball, they don't need these assets, build out distribution, can't they build out their own content by putting every penny into content. >> what i think about disney and why they deserve their premium multiple, diversified business, massive theme parks and business that compliments the studio. oh, yeah, and media and cable. that's why they get the premium and all those businesses do not require them. >> the reason why products segment when you look under disney, they are too diversified. the whole idea behind why netflix succeeds and beats them, they do one thing, and they do one thing really well. if disney tried to do that, that's what disney did disney made its own content. disney was the king of content nobody battled disney until now. there are two diversified. the public, the generation now, we don't get and absorb our cob tent the same way we once did. i'll give you parks is a huge number, a big part of the percentage of their business i like the parks but i think it's too diversified. >> again, i know this isn't a conversation about netflix b

paris archives that we found a document that referred to the quest of mr oscar steiner for his stolen pate. the information that we found was that oscar stettner had been despoiled of a number of personal items carpet for example of portrait of him as a young man and also a painting by mostly any. and an important painting and that was looted from mr stener during the war. the canadian detective began his investigation he discovered that the antiques dealer staton or had made his claim for restitution in one thousand nine hundred six but well before the liberation the painting had already been sold by the authorities. for the sum of sixteen thousand francs since then it disappeared. particularly because its description is so vague. the document only indicated that it was a painting signed by do jani portrait of a man. the detective had no idea what the painting looked like. he had to find a photo of it at all costs. by consulting papers kept in the paris archives james palmer came across a clue this telegram. it states that staten or had sent the model jani to the venice biennale of one ni

he didn't ex-cole pate his client. his client is now on the hook for campaign violation. of course he is. i'm trying to figure out why. the only explanation i come up with is to some extent everything he said takes michael cohen off the hook a bit. and he's trying to do all this, even if it includes -- >> he's trying to do all this because he's concerned that michael cohen has flipped on the president -- >> that's exactly -- >> -- rudy giuliani has been out and about new york this week talking about helping the president in the case, saying michael cohen's a good guy, we want to help them. they might not talk to michael day in and day out but they know michael's watching. >> to me the only logical explanation is we'll take a hit on a campaign finance violation, which probably won't be enough to impeach the president. we're unbelievably scared of the other stuff cohen knows about, say, russia dealings or former soviet republics and this does take cohen often the hook. it's not him who made the illegal violation. maybe it's an effort to stop him from flipping. >> this makes

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more now on the european reaction from our correspondent in berlin peter all of the good afternoon pate just tell us then how are america's allies reacting to washington's move here well as we've just heard from angola merkel they're not particularly well this was a a doubling down from the german chancellor two statements in as many days where she's really expressed her disappointment in dollar terms decision to move the united states out of the uranium deal it covers up there on thursday she said that germany perhaps couldn't rely on the united states for its defense anymore that they have to make sure they looked after their own house which is also not just doing this alone she's presenting a united front of a soft along with. the french president so he's also been giving his reaction is disappointed reaction to the news that the united states will be pulling out of the iran deal he issued a statement saying that it here in germany as he was receiving an award for his his work in bringing a united europe he said that. all nations of the world should respect the international order an

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facility which was intended to be a nuclear arms burial ground but what exactly do they plan to produce pates bombs that when armed with nuclear warheads can create a blast to one thousand times stronger than that of hiroshima it's expected to produce fifty each year and the u.s. has been crystal clear as to why they need to pay it so badly back in two thousand and ten the obama administration's. with misplaced hope that quote russia is not an enemy it is increasingly a partner close quote anyone who watches the news today knows that this is not the case if it ever was president putin announced that russia is developing and building for new and horrific nuclear weapons nuclear deterrence is our number one priority defense mission forces or here three people in infrastructure it's all part of the deter it is time to buckle down and get after all of it nuclear weapons . are popping up on both sides of the fence the u.s. and russia both saying they're responding to threats from each other although trump got in their first months before putin unveiled russia's new weapons we must modernize and re

this is a mushroom pate. were going put that on top of the beef. there's no wrong way to do it.y were going drizzle some caramelized onions on top. and then were going put that puff pastry on top pick that comes from the freezer section. the presentation is a beautiful. give it a try ? >> a lot of people only do wellington on big holidays. this could be a weeknight meal ? >> yes. sometimes it's so intimidating. let's talk about another hack that i love. >> this is delicious. >> marinating can feel complicated. >> i can never get my schedule together. if it has to marinate for four hours it's too late when i get home from work. >> i've taken new york strip, it's not quite as tender as a tenderloin, nor is it is expensive. this is a great opportunity to marinated after it has been cooked. because it's been on the grill or in the frypan. it's opened up the cellular structure. and it'll still absorb. >> to put it in warm ? >> let it rest for five minutes, and pop it in while it is sizzling. you can cut your marinating time down to 15 minutes. i like to slice it and add marinade on t

. >> here's the way i see it, what giuliani said actually's cull pates, to some extent -- exculpates and entirely donald trump from any campaign finance violation. it's not a crime to reimburse your attorney for his expenses associated with that. and whether or not the president was telling the truth in response to questions from the media is of no legal consequence. so i don't see the problem here that the media seems to be inflating. charles: well, why is the media all over this? again, i know ndas aren't illegal. i don't understand the fact, the obsession with this. >> here's the problem with the media, none of them are very schooled in the law. and i don't fault them for that, but i fault them for never looking up the law. it's easy to look up statutes in case law, and they're pretty understandable. but they don't bother -- for example, on the subject of collusion, they found the president guilty of it without ever defining it. and they never bothered to look it up. if they had, they would have found it's a non-crime. charles: let me talk about your upcoming book, "the russian ho

joining me right now, page pate. all right.e what is there to that strategy that perhaps this is you know to taint public penalties as much as it can with the bully pulpit that the white house has to avert any legal recourse on impeachment or otherwise. >> i think they've decided they're going to attack, not the substance of the investigation but the investigators, themselves, it's a strategy you use if you are concerned about what you will find, if you think will you have to defend yourself either in the court of public penalties or an actual trial court. i think here trump's lawyers have decided probably correctly the special counsel no matter what he finds is not going to try to indict the president. so this will all ends up in a report that goes to the deputy attorney general and congress. so the president and his team are basically saying we want half of america at least to think this is a corrupt investigation. it's a rigged investigation as guiliani said to undercut its strategy. i think the opposite strategy to build up

made, that goes to the campaign finance law violations, what giuliani was doing was trying to ex-cull pate michael cohen by saying he was repaid for this loan. but also at the same time, exculpate trump by staying he knew about the loan, but he didn't really know about it, there was a $35,000 a month retainer fee, to use to pay off the -- >> you know, he's the fixer. he knew it was reimbursed in one sense, he didn't know the specifics of it. >> did giuliani clean it up a little bit? >> no, he muddied 9 waters further and further. it's never a good look when a client and an attorney aren't on the same page. >> let's play that walk back for us, we have rudy giuliani offering the two explanations as to why the payment was made. >> imagine if that came out on october 15th 2016, in the middle of the last debate with hillary clinton. >> here's a statement. he said, there is no campaign violation, the payment was made to resolve a personal and false accusation. it would have been done if he was a candidate or not. it would have been horrible news had this news or allegation gotten out during the

secondly, the amendment would allow a 30,000 square-foot towel floor -- tower floor pate -- plate and a longer dimension that is currently proposed good by doing that we can provide two additional units per floor on 23 floors. third, the amendment would provide tower separation flexibility when the commission considers approvals for our project capture the five '05 project be entitled first. we believe these amendments will provide significant public benefits and i urge the commission to add them to your recommendations to the board of supervisors. they would assure that it can move forward and give us over 300 new rental units including 54 bmr units to address that housing balance in the central soma plan. that modifications also allow units to meet unit exposure with no need for exceptions. and finally, the amendment addresses the trower -- tower separation issue and a matter that works for urban design and a land use perspective. secondly, i would like to address the housing sustainability district. as we said, the current proposal is to not allow projects over 160 feet to particip

it was giuliani saying, the reason he fired him is that he wouldn't ex-cull pate the man who fired him. >> you believe that the 1968 law about hiring and firing the fbi director can be interrupted by certain issues? i mean, to me -- >> absolutely. >> corruption. >> do you know for a fact that there was corruption happening here? >> that's what this investigation is about? >> you know, it's interesting, because i have done employment law. and bosses can fire people. often -- and that employee, a boss can fire someone for any reason or no reason at all. but not an illegal reason. so you can't fire someone just because they're a woman, you can't fire someone -- there are limits even on that, literally, any boss can fire anybody for any reason. not an illegal reason, and i think that's what we're dealing with here, if you have a corrupt motive, you're firing someone to conceal a crime, you can still get in trouble. >> and anderson, when you can do a relate electrospective, which is what you just did on all of the various reasons as to why this president and this administration have given i

pate of more than $200,000 to the essential consultants from at&t. some $500,000 from columbus nova, a firm with ties to russian oligarch viktor vekselberg, the one you mentioned. and $1.2 million from novartis pharmaceuticals. at the time that at&t was paying michael cohen they were looking for government approval for merger with time warner. according to avenatti there were more than $4 million of payments made to michael cohen. a number of companies issued statements about the relationship with the president's personal attorney. at&t saying, "essential consulting was one of several firms we engagedded in early 2017 to provide insights into understanding the new administration. they did no legal or lobbying work for us and the contract ended in 2018. and they said that columbus nova is a management company owned by americans. after the inauguration the firm hired michael cohen as a business consultant with the potential investment in real estate. reports that viktor vekselberg used them as payment to michael cohen in false. and novartis said -- >>

when it comes to access to information, whether it comes to attendance at events and i don't want to pateush and some agencies are better than others and this is very disturbing and why there is more activity by press freedom groups to ensure the doors are not shut and access is not cut off by the trump administration. >> rene, this is part of a larger pattern when we say embattled epa, they are going through a lot because of the controversy surrounding scott pruitt. >> yeah, i've been covering the epa now for a bit -- over a year and it does fit into the pattern of what we see on a daily basis. the agency does not release scott pruitt's schedule on a daily basis. so it really is anyone's guess where he is. we often times find out through some social media, sightings, things of that sort. but they do not put out a list of his schedule and we actually have to foia the epa administrator schedule to know who he's been meeting with and where he is and where he's been traveling. we've done a lot of stories on travel so transparency is an issue and wrapping up here, senator udahl on capitol hil

. >> here to break it down, cnn political analyst matt visor and legal analyst paige pate. thank you very much for being with us, appreciate it. first and foremost to you, paige, based on what giuliani said, is there a real legal issue here for the president now? >> there could be although it's also possible rudy giuliani misspoke and doesn't have the facts yet as the president has suggested before. but if in fact the president is making the ultimate decision whether or not to try to block the merger, that is clearly not the traditional role of the white house in these proceedings. normally those decisions would be left to the justice department and be based on antitrust law, not political consideration, if giuliani did not misspeak, i think there is legal jeopardy. >> let's put up on the screen exactly what was said according to the "huffington post." giuliani said, whatever lobbying was done didn't reach the president. he did drain the swamp. the president denied the merger. they didn't get the result they wanted. is there a repercussion if the president did deny the merg

did not par sis pate in any meetings. cohen's p participation in any of the meet thags day, we have more questions. clearly than answers at this point. we don't know what briefly popped in means. we don't know if he engaged in qatari conversations with them period. we don't know what they might have discussed either. however, i do think this is just one more piece of information that sheds a little more light on cohen's conduct during the catrump transition when we knowe was very busy trying sell his proximity to the president-elect. >> thank you very much. and "outfront" now, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and jeffrey toobin. home run harry, they were there for meetings. the investment fund sits the largest sovereign wealth fund on this planet. could be $200 billion. we know the kushner family, which had some real estate issues, was looking to do business with qatar. when you put that together, does this raise questions? it's some ground for further vest dwainvestigation to try to ou

most purchase suits through his waning day, the senate imfused actions and words with a haughty yet pate trriotism and honor. president trump's national politics, same time hard to escape conclusion mccain and his republican cohortses helped midwife a conservative politics they now so clearly loathe. it would seem to some that you're saying in a sense that the chickens are coming home to roost and john mccain is partly to blame? >> a phrase i don't like to use for a lot of different reasons but true the republican elite and washington's elite soured the country on a lot of things. the project of war in iraq was not a good project. john mccain only now in his book, which i'm on page 207 of says, yeah, the iraq war was a mistake. he was one of the most influential voices for war there and in kosovo, libya and a bunch of other places that helped turn, i think, a lot of people against establishment conservatism and through the washington consensus. yes, and you also would have, you know, census of insincere populist messaging when he felt threatened in an election. ad from 2010, complete the

christian pate, author of the book how do i tax thee. i like that. >> thank you. >> melissa: you know, he's not the only one that thinks that the mueller probe has gone astray. we know the federal judge right now in for manafort's trial has been making news in the past hour saying you don't care about mr. manafort's bank fraud, that they're interested in manafort because of his potential material that would lead to trump's prosecution or impeachment. are you surprised to hear judge say this? >> that is further afield. i think what we're talking about now should the president speak to the special counsel. there are two answers to. that one is the right answer and the other is the smart answer. absolutely he should, five of his associates have pleaded guilty to crimes and owes the american peep am full accounting. the smart answer is absolutely not. the president is the person who can't seem to keep his story straight from one day to the next. we saw it with stormy daniels yesterday and today. i would imagine that no defense attorney would

titled the book "the opposite of hate" as opposed to if you read it or i don't think the opposite of pate is it's both how we start to understand -- sorry, it's how we understand that in spite of a our disagreements and differences which are t importat to us and they make a scrape understand how we are linked asm people, as humanity that we all share fundamental dignity and should be entitled the fundamental dignity and respect. i didn't call it connection because it's not about the definition but a journey. it's my journey and it's a journey i hope we are on his country and people engage with and are on the journey because we talk about the work one has to do on themselves and it's not just work is a verb. you have work to do and you are working. listen, i wrote the book where i try to talk in very specific terms about white privilege and in person bias and unconscious racism and that does not make me perfect or immune. so there. that is the reality of it. the question is to me then what do you do. there is a way in which you can, i think, whether were talking about whatever our bias the

and then, also, perhaps some liver pate. >> jimmy: this is a very delicious treat that also has peppercornrcorn. >> jimmy: a random peppercorn in it. >> steve: hollow jack cheese. >> jimmy: say it again? >> steve: hollow jack cheese. >> jimmy: no, i ain't no hollow jack, girl. so sorry. [ cheers and applause ] [ light laughter ] ♪ thank you, kanye west, for tweeting that you got rid of your phone to focus on your music, but still managing to tweet that you got rid of your phone to focus on your music. [ laughter and applause ] how -- just get rid of all of it, dude. >> steve: i don't get it. >> jimmy: just focus on the music. ♪ focus on the music the songs we're singing focus on all the joy that you're bringing ♪ ♪ who can live without it i ask in all honesty what would life be without a song ♪ ♪ so kanye focus on the music on top of sending tweets ♪ ♪ >> steve: focus on the music! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, inventor of the men's bathing suit, for at some point thinking, "you know what would feel nice against my man parts? mesh netting and a shoe lace." [ laughter and a

will play -- pate $21 and a fee and other pieces of the total that they would pay is just shy of $60 a square foot. the tear see projects will participate where the half a billion dollars in transit funds will come from. just remind you, we forgot to mention that earlier. we are actually a little bit closer to the nexus than what we have been talking up heart and centrosome a. >> supervisor peskin: i'm not arguing that. hats off. how to meet had value recapture outside of centrosome over the last many decades, we would be having a entirely different conversation, which is why initially the chair offered the five dollars down to two dollars for central soma. we can easily capture outside of central soma five bucks. i thought it was anemic for a first ask. [ laughter ] >> supervisor tang: supervisor tim? >> supervisor kim: i also have to state that supervisor peskin introduced this in the beginning of february and over the course of three and a half months, i have not heard from a single developer complaining about this proposal. and not to say that is indicative of weather this pencil

pated summit with north korea's kim jong un planned for next month trump blamed as a citizen on quote open hostility from pyongyang but the collapse of the talks will likely also raise questions about hawkish pronouncements from within the white house which were seized upon by yang in the meantime conceded an opportunity for peace may have been missed based on the recent statement of north korea have decided to terminate the planned summit in singapore in june twelfth i believe that this is a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed a setback for the world i've spoken to general mattis and the joint chiefs of staff in our military which is by far the most powerful anywhere in the world that has been greatly enhanced recently as you all know is ready if there's a serious likewise have spoken to south korea and japan and they are not only ready should fully sure reckless acts be taken by north korea but they are willing to shoulder much of the cost of any financial burden any of the costs associated by the united states in operations if such an unfortunate situation is forced upon

we we're pate further medical reports.cult journeys to get to the final. and you could feel the disappointment from reds' supporters in kiev. all the way from new zealand. saw that. too bad errors, goalkeeping errors like that. 0h... heartbreaking. disappointed. we lost to a great team, we know that. ask yourself, i guess, if we'd have lost... we lost salah — if they'd have lost their best player after half an hour it may have been a different game. if they kept salah and it would have been a different story. i'm pretty sure it would. that was absolutely terrible. all of our own making. karius let the first one in, gave it away. couldn't do anything about the second but the third one, should have had that. came from too far out. we've been let down unfortunately by two goalkeeping errors. i know it's a team game, but they were devastating errors. they were shocking. we still got klopp, we've got a good team, good manager. so they'll probably be a lot of people laughing — karius laughing at us... but we'll be back. well, th

seemed to suggest they had no ties whatsoever to the russian parent company or the oligarch which is pate ebtly untrue. one statement from novartis last night which they had to back off and walk back today relating to how much money they had paid and what the involvement level was. so the companies are trying to put a spin out because the truth i think is very bad for them and very bad for michael cohen and potentially bad for the president. >> what is this truth that you talk about -- >> i think that ultimately what is going to be disclosed is that michael cohen was selling access to the highest office in the land and donald trump knew about it and knew michael cohen was not a registered lobbyist and knew he wasn't making the requisite disclosure and what is interesting to see, i think, jake, ultimately is when you trace the money about what money came into this llc and what money went out of the llc and the president and michael cohen better hope that none of that money gets traced back to the president or the trump organization or another entity that the president controlled at the tim

pated and now we can regret his decision but it's important that we all remain obsessed by stability and peace in the region. and you can catch more of this exclusive interview in the second half of the show that's coming up later this morning stay tuned for that as we heard there from the french president european countries say they'll continue with hearing to the ground around nuclear deal president trump is defending his decision but added that he's open to negotiating a new deal he also warned tehran not to restart its nuclear weapons program now in iran the u.s. move has sparked anger and concern not only among iran's leaders but among its people as well. outrage in tehran iranians took to the streets to voice their anger at u.s. president donald trump they blame him for pulling out of a deal made just three years ago. and they also condemned him for signing a memorandum which reinstates harsh economic sanctions on iran. but president trump is convinced that this will bring iran back to the negotiating table. so we're going to make either a really good deal for the world or we'r

except congress members are nibbling on pork sliders and french brie and pate, while these poor families are expected to feed each family member three meals a day for 30 days. that breaks down to about $5.60 for each meal, for about $1.87 per person per meal. now, i'm sure none of my colleagues would think they are better than working people who struggle to keep a roof over their heads and food on their tables. and i'm sure all of us are happy to be subject to the same rules that we vote on in this chamber. so here's my modest proposal. the congressional electronic benefits transfer card, or congressional food stamp card. we'll put a little cash in it, say $1.87 per reception, and members can figure out how to make their monthly reception budget stretch to fit their whining and dining needs -- wining and dining needs. maybe we need to have members carrying their single glass of wine from one reception to another, or maybe they'll blow their whole allotment on one plate of shrimp. or maybe, just maybe, we'll see more members of congress showing empathy for the most vulnerable in our socie

thank any, that has started to change, people have started to accept that they can have come pate i can'ts who are blown or black, muslim or hebrew. but there's a strong rebellion against it as well, and in a way that shouldn't surprise us. because people got something out of being part of the majority group. if you weren't the most affluent guy, the most respected guy, it's easy to say, well, at least i'm italian rather than a foreign err. well, that's being challenged. that immigrant might not be representing you in pardon mement, ask is we should celebrate that, but it shouldn't surprise us that there's resistance against it. the story in the united states is both similar and different. it's similar in that it's always been a multiethnic society with a straight racial hierarchy in which one group had bigger advantages over others. .. when the internet allows people to make much stronger. the general democracy, very empowering parts of social media. often allows people who have wrongly been excluded from public discourse to have a real voice but it also makes it easy for people who have