want to thank richard rothman, linda lighthizer, tom duquesne, also resident that was involved in putting this on our radar and pushing this forward. ms. janet riley from clinic by the bay and david wallace. sandy levine, john gavin, charles sullivan. with the department of real estate and city attorney's office, thank you for your hard work, it was a 14-month negotiation and lease that had not been -- was not boilerplate. was not cut and paste, but was essentially a back and forth between the nonprofits and the city and the city did a phenomenal job on that. past director of real estate and new director, appreciate the hard work on this. want to recognize former supervisor avilos and his staff for pushing hard to get the bid out and putting it out in the community and so that facilitated a wonderful opportunity. not many city-owned properties in the area. these are two of, i think, three or four. so we're excited about this opportunity. we think it will be transfo transformative and allow two wonderful nonprofits to have a home and continue to expand and flourish and bring much pride to

in the san francisco main library yesterday, and saw the exhibit by them on the photography by richard rothman. my question pertains to the mother's building and as you project. so you say, has there been money allocated out of the fund but you haven't found a consultant to do the work? >> let me say something about the mother's building first and then about the rest of the zoo. we did allocate some significant funds to develop the plans for what needed to be done at the mother's building, and it is now up to the parks department to find the money to actually carry those out. apparently some work has been done, mostly to try to continue to keep the moisture from further damaging murals, and we continue to be hopeful that the park department will come up with the rest of the money that is needed to stabilize the building, and restore the murals -- restore the parts of the faÇade that needs serious work as well. regarding -- that building is already a landmark. there are two parts of the zoo that we hope can be landmarked in addition. the rest of the fly shock zoo, the part of the buildings are

joe is off today, but with willie and me, we have mike barnacle, noah rothman, susan dellpercio, richardre. are all these crises, if you could speak to them, are they one offs or are are they worldwide populism still burning? >> i wish they were one offs, but at the risk of starting

joe is off today, but with willie and me, we have mike barnacle, noah rothman, susan dellpercio, richard haass, eugene robinson, as well. richard, let's go right there. are all these crises, if you could speak to them, are they one offs or are are they worldwide populism still burning? >> i wish they were one offs, but at the risk of starting people's day on a downer, this is now part of the new normal. you've got populism of the left, real concerns about inequality, making ends meet. you've got politics to the right against immigration over cultural anxiety and then against a back drop, as i said, what we used to call the west, no consensus and not a lot of will on how to organize the world. so you add this all up, a lack of international cooperation, i never thought when i wrote a book with the word disarray in the title i would be an optimist. guess what, things have turned out worse than i thought. >> is there a way out for macron and may looking forward? >> in the long run, there's a way out. there's nothing about this that is inevitable. it's not inevitable that things are bad, but