former cia operator tony schaffer in d.c.ed by ukrainian born attorney and by former u.s. ambassador to the united states for special political affairs. if i can start with you, is it too late for diplomacy here? >> no, it is not. obviously putin is trying to change the facts on the ground. what the president has the opportunity to do is to push for a political solution. and obviously mr. putin is only to going to agree to that if he sees an autonomous crimea. for us what we have to stand up against is this aggression. at the end of the day there is the possibility of a political solution. >> you are in the business of negotiating and politics rather than war making, but how do you negotiate? if putin says screw you, this used to be part of russia, i want it, i theed it. my fleet is based there. most of the people want me. they speak russian. what are we supposed to do? >> unfortunately, it is not an easy answer. what putin probably wants at the end of the day is a state within a state. simply to annex through force will re-i

. >> hi, chris schaffer. i have a concern about the amount of time if you have going to go out to the neighborhood groups this hits all the neighborhood this meeting needs to be noticed and that meeting needs to meet at a certain amount a of time it will take you longer to get it open the agenda so i suggest the minimum is 6 weeks and not months >> thank you. >> hi, katherine howard i'm going to up the ante. first of all, general comment i'm concerned i hear it's only words and policy and what happens as negligence get established the board of supervisors is going to look back at the legislation and say what was planned here what was the idea so, please don't dependent upon the board of supervisors >> excuse me. your public comment is limited only to the matter of continuous. >> okay. i'm sorry. . i want to repeat what ms. schaffer says most groups meet once a month and they need to see if you're doing a rewrite and possible come back for reviewing so i think you need 2 months for the public to be informed th

afternoon patient commissioners and thank you for the opportunity to make public comment i'm linda schaffer i serve on the committee of prozac i've heard all the issues since 2008 and contrary to a previous speaker i found the current draft to be very badly i want to commend all the people who collaborated and spent hours and hours of time trying to find language that comes as close as possibly to make everyone happy i'm sorry people are having difficulties but i want to strongly state that i find the current version before you to be a very, very good product. i realize realize this is a discussion on business the real action will happen before the other committee. i wanted to provide my very, very strong support >> thank you. >> peter. >> good afternoon commissions i'm peter. many of you may have remembered me when i wore a slightly different hat i work to the department of the assignment and want to offer our support for the open space and rose. we've been working closely with recreation and parks department and in this current form we've been working closely with the recreation and parks

today's study matters a lot to the schaffer family. >> i love this one. >> reporter: married 50 yearscharlie and his wife, harriet have three kids and nine grandkids and now a new challenge. >> well, i have been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment. >> reporter: they're worried alzheimer's runs in the family. charlie's mother charlotte died at age 91 and the family suspects the real cause was alzheimer's disease. >> she would ask a lot of questions over and over, and they never actually did an autopsy or anything, but we all knew it was alzheimer's. >> reporter: so while this lifelong athlete still has game -- >> way to go, danny. >> reporter: -- he is focusing on raising funds and awareness for alzheimer's research to hopefully spare his family from this awful disease. >> i don't want my children to have this, and i don't want my grandchildren to have this. >> way to go, houston! >> reporter: these numbers are a game-changer with regard to the significance of alzheimer's disease and reinforce how important it is to collect data in the right way and a reminder that death certifica

last year, a united methodist pastor from pennsylvania, frank schaffer, was defrocked for officiatingdding. he called the different outcomes unfair but said he's hopeful the decision is a sign that things are changing in the church. >>> all right, this morning we are getting a new, yet a new, different look at justin bieber. this time, it's in a deposition he gave in a case of a bodyguard allegedly beating up a photographer. you can see bieber. he was hostile to a lawyer trying to ask him questions. you have to look at this. >> remember earlier today when i asked you -- >> no. >> why don't you listen to what i have to say first, and then maybe you can tell me yes or no. >> i don't have to listen to anything you have to say. >> i didn't hear your response. again, sir, i'm pleading with you -- >> i didn't finish. >> oh, i'm sorry. i didn't want to interrupt. >> oh, really? you don't want to interrupt. >> i don't have to listen to anything you want to say. a lot of people think sometimes the media focuses too much on justin bieber, but this is a legal proceeding, a deposition here. i wou

strategic and international studies hosted a conversation about rush on wednesday. .peakers include bob schaffer live coverage at 5:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. the health care problem in the united states is owing to continue and it will not go anywhere. if we do not deal with the issue of innovation, if we do not translate all of those findings that occur at the pharmaceutical industry, at the university level, into health care products which are affordable and treat disease enters them, -- and nots them, as long as we do do that there is no point in talking about the solution of the health care problem. islth insurance coverage going to provide health insurance, but when it comes to drugs, when it comes to the premiums, when it comes to subsidies, where are the subsidies going to come from? taxpayers' money. it is not the people get dollars out of the trees. people have to pay for that and there is a limit. the economy is basically the sign -- science of limitations. if we don't deal with a better system about working on prevention, working on understanding how we could take care of our ow

congressman sander levin of michigan and former congressman bob schaffer, now congressman jim gerlach, we all worked to create a presence inside our congress to relate to the newly elected parliament of ukraine after 1991. i have a very long history with ukraine. i am of polish-american heritage, but our grandmother and grandfather came from there, fled from there before world war i -- host: fled from ukraine? guest: it was a czarist territory then, but the bolsheviks were taking over. our grandmother came here at 17. because their one cow was taken away. when that was done by the bolsheviks, they couldn't feed themselves, so they came here with nothing. and now i, two generations later, am a member of the congress of the united states. this is such a great country, and only because of the liberty that we have a mileage of stress my opinion on behalf of the people ever present, and also u.s. a member of the free press. this is so precious. this cannot happen in russia. cannot happen still. we hope for a. historians who have written about what president putin has done have been fired f

ships is controlled by rex tillerson at exxonmobil, and he has a fiduciary responsibility to his schaffer holders to get -- to his shareholders to get the highest price. and the ukraine can't compete and europe can't compete. it's the bottom line. and so that's just the reality where it's going to go, but the reality is the american consumer who's going to have this energy tax put on their shoulders, and it'll hurt all aspects of our economic growth. i thank you, mr. chairman. .. again that's what i certainly appreciate about this senator barrasso's amendment. thank you. >> senator shaheen. >> mr. chairman, i certainly applaud senator barrasso for raising this issue. i think it is a conversation we really need to have in congress as we think about how we can use this issue to address our strategic interests around the world but given that you're intending to rule this amendment, and i assume the other out of order, i would hope that we would discontinue our debate before we lose our quorum. >> i appreciate the senator's observation. mr. barrasso. >> mr. chairman, i recognize you have the

congressman sander levin of michigan and former congressman bob schaffer, now congressman jim girl lacke all worked to create a presence inside our congress to relate to the newly elected parliament of ukraine after 1991. i have a very long history with ukraine. i'm a polish america -- i am of polish american heritage, but our grandmother and grandfather came from there, fled from thei re before world war i -- host: fled from ukraine? guest: it was a czarist territory than come but the bolsheviks were taking over. our grandmother came here at 17. because their one cow was taken away. when that was done by the bolsheviks, they couldn't feed themselves, so they came here with nothing. and now i 2 generations later i'm a member of the commerce of the united states. his is such a great country, and only because of the liberty that we have a mileage of stress my opinion on behalf of the people ever present, and also u.s. a member of the free press. this is so precious. this cannot happen in russia. cannot happen still. we hope for a. historian severin about what president -- historians who h