. >> brennan: ramesh, how do you respond to that? our major political parties in 2016 ran presidential candidates under fbi investigation, and that is going to create strain on the system and we are seeing that strain continue to play out. i think that attorney general bar is barr is quite right as you said in january's jan's interview i it is a big deal whn a presidential sceament put under surveillance and it is perfectly reasonable to ask questions about a whether as he puts it it was adequately predicated. you will notice democratic senator mark warner earlier on the show, although he was quite critical of barr said have it with respect to that investigation. go find those facts. and i think that is a reasonable position to take .. >> but, you know, you still get the impression that barr was speaking as the president's lawyer not as the country's lawyer. he adopted even a some of the most controversial things the president said including suggesting ther there were nefas reasons for the investigation to be launched at the beginnin

my name is ramesh, and i'm speaking on behalf of the taxi medallion holders. we didn't get justice. taxi drivers is a business of poverty. s.f. has left us in a deficit trench. there's no way to get out of it. s.f. exalted public to ride with uber and lyft. they altered taxi business. ride share dropped their fares so low, taxi had become infamous. s.f. is still claiming 136% taxi business. we have lost 90% taxi business already. uber and lyft business data now actually rating taxi business data and now telling you how many hours we work every shift. they use clever tricks, and never appear off guard. we do not want to die with deficit. it's a bad karma. we work longer hours. we live for work, not for our lives. it is imperative that you buy back the medallions immediately. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker. >> i know that uber, it's like a cat let out of the box. we're not asking and complaining anymore for uber, why is uber here, because it went out of that way, and everybody is supporting them, and it's very cheaper. we cannot afford to take that much money because we have mortga

. >> ramesh, i want to jump on one jobs report, a did., private payroll people are reporting a disastrous may jobs number, something in the five digits rather than the six digits. if that does hit at the end of the week and these tariffs, does that rattle the republican party or no? >> i think that it would, particularly, of course, the question would be whether it's sustained into another month and a month after that. >> right. >> i think the political risks for this president are also it's not just that he feels so exercised about the southern border. it's a big deal to a significant portion. >> he has made it a big deal to them. >> right. >> he said this is what i'm going to do. and i do take him at his word in that he knows he has nothing to lose. >> and he has run out of ways to achieve anything on this when he first of all didn't use the two years republicans held to congress to cut the kind of deal where he could have maybe made a difference there and that he lost control of the house and he's run out of options. this is what he ha

elizabeth homes and president ramesh are accused of a multimillion-dollar scam that defraud investors, doctors and patients. both pleaded not guilty to the charges and are out on bail. they're due in court today for a status hearing. the former palo alto based company went bankrupt when the truth emerged about the edison device. holmes claimed the machine could run tests on a single drop of blood, but the device never worked. >>> oakland schools are being called out in a grand jury report. according to the "east bay times" the findings say its budget problems is largely due to millions of dollars spent on non-classroom costs like administrative staff. the spending was about $95 million last year than 37 bay area school districts. the alameda county grand jury recommends cutting the amount and criticizes the district for having a lack of urgency moving forward. in a statement to the paper, school officials say in part that they plan to use that report to improve how it operates. >>> team usa hits the quarterfinals in the women's world cup today taking on host nation france. this is vid