the planning department >> thank you supervisor chiu and good evening to members of the board i'm sarah jones i'm the environmental review officer from the planning department joining me that jenny and others. staff from sfmta including director reiskin is here to give a presentation and to respond to questions about the project itself. the planning department found the pilot plan exempts on 2014. the sfmta board of directors approved the 18 month pilot plan an january 21st an appeal was filed on february 14th accounting. the planning department has prepared a written response. p on that day the appellants filed a written brief that passes the code submittal so a second request was insinuated. my presentation is going to summarize our responses primarily the second request. the issue for a categorical not to deny the appeal or to over turn the departments decision and return the project to the planning department. p the issue is not about the merits of pilot program itself. a little bit about existing conditions and the proposed project today, there 3 hundred shuttle buses and mta estimates 2

. >> i'm sorry sarah jones environmental review officer i want to add one point but tha

. >> i'm sorry sarah jones environmental review officer i want to add one point but that the 14 or recommendation 14 as a it relates to the sequa which is that if you have a project that's consistent with the standards the presumption under sequa there's no impact but you can have a project that's national consistent with the impact that still has none so the connection of having the standards is over stated in the context of this report and so i think that's an important point to understood this may not be an unnecessary means to address those issues. >> sorry. >> yeah. >> commissioner pearlman. >> could you explain that again so basically you're saying if the staff says this doesn't meet the secretary of interior standards what happens then how does the department sign off on something that doesn't moot the standards. >> the preservation staff responsibility one pack of their work is to determine whether a project is or isn't with the secretary of standards but a project that's not in sync with the threshold the impact under sequa does it teller impair the rows so it doesn't convey it's signifi

for instance, the candidate to say, i'm joe, and i approve this message paid for by john smith, sarah jonestim michaels, et cetera. what would happen? the most likely result, most folks would want their names mentioned, and suddenly they'd be writing checks, and you could start down the road of a free-market limitation to the system. but that's just one thought out there. joining me, bob bauer, former white house counsel for obama, and ben ginsberg. ben, let me start with you. what the court did yesterday, and i understand in many ways the arguments in favor of it, but did the court arguably make it harder for an individual candidate and campaign to have control of their campaign? >> i think what the court did yesterday will not have a basic impact on our current structure, which is that outside voices are the greatest -- the greatest voices in a campaign. and candidates are still not going to have sufficient funds and resources to be able to control the messages in their campaign. so i think in that sense, the opinion yesterday is not going to have a great impact. >> so you don't see it as

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bell here and wrap up the week with a loss of about 139 points or thereabouts for the dow jones industrials. sarah mathisen. bill griffeth will be around on monday too. let's look how we're finishing this down day on wall street with the dow industrials off about 138 points. 16,362. nasdaq off 72 points. that in percentage terms the biggest loss against those major indexes off about 1.75%. the s&p 500 down about four-fifths of a percent at 1,863 and change. >> yep. and the dow, s&p, and nasdaq heading for a down week right now. it looks like they've just closed lower. let's bring in today's panel. cnbc contributors howard dean and ron moody join us. morgan bren nonand robert frank back with you in headquarters. and back for more on today's market coverage is bob pisani. first of all, i want to go to howard dean, who has just informed me that he's just returned from ukraine and that is certainly top of mind when it comes to the action today, spooking some of the traders. saw a flight to quality. >> it's going to be a spooky time and anybody with money in russia will have a rough ride. i think putin

tall. >> and you're abnormally short. >> and the dow jones industrial average down 9 points, warren buffett on "closing bell" coming up next. >> sarahou, by the way. >> "closing bell" starts right now. >> and funny enough, yes, we do welcome you to "closing bell" at this time of day. i'm bill griffith today at cnbc headquarters. >> i'm michelle caruso-cabrera here at the new york stock exchange where the winning streak in stocks is on the line. right now negative territory. dow jones industrial average is lower by about ten points and the s&p 500 is down roughly four points. >> not a lot of volatility. a lackluster day after yesterday's late selloff, when we pulled back from what could have been an all-time high so we'll see what we can do in the last hour. art cashin feels like if we

. >> and the dow jones industrial average down 9 points, warren buffett on "closing bell" coming up next. >> sarah thank you, by the way. >> "closing bell" starts right now. >> and funny enough, yes, we do welcome you to "closing bell" at this time of day. i'm bill griffith today at cnbc headquarters. >> i'm michelle caruso-cabrera here at the new york stock exchange where the winning streak in stocks is on the line. right now negative territory. dow jones industrial average is lower by about ten points and the s&p 500 is down roughly four points. >> not a lot of volatility. a lackluster day after yesterday's late selloff, when we pulled back from what could have been an all-time high so we'll see what we can do in the last hour. art cashin feels like if we don't get past those highs soon we could see a meaningful selloff. >> wonder if we're not waiting for facebook and apple to kind of give some juice to some areas where people have concerns. >> exactly. >> they will definitely have an impact on the market. plus, we're almost waiting, awaiting billionaire investor warren buffett to sit down live