commissioner shen? >> thanks for coming and educating us about this, bringing it to our attention and also doing a lot of the legwork and providing the analysis, which is really helpful. i think many of us here feel the same way about history and art as being important values and components of a vibrant community, and this does seem like a very rare occurrence of art and history kind of all mixed in one. this is an informational item so i'm just mostly going to be asking some questions to better understand the situation. i'm not sure which one of you has worked on the analysis more, but i have a few questions related, so if someone can maybe standup to the penal codum? so i think the report basically assumes or is leaning towards an outdoor installation? and i'm just wondering what the advantages are with an outdoor to an indoor installation, and i'm just wondering if that's a concern to the group? >> well, historically speaking, we can't bring that up. we just thought that should be considered for budg

commissioner shen, please? >> thank you, both peters. you know, this has been an area that i'm very interested in is the increasing the biodiversity and the sustainable vision for treasure island. i think that is really one of the hallmarks at treasure island which actually was recognized and given awards at different levels. i think we even received the reed platinum for new areas. remind me, peter, what that was. there was a reed designation that we got as a -- in our land for sustaining -- sustainability on the island. reed n.d. >> in addition to the platinum, yeah. >> so reed n.d. and also, the fact that we got from the clinton climate change award, as well, for our original master plan. so i think these are part of the vision. the question is when we implement, how are we going to do it? and i would say that yes, that implementation and management is important for building the staff. the invasive plants, once they get a foothold, which is why it's so important at the beginning -- once they get a foothold, then the effort and the man

being a human rights activist in china takes grit take the case of you when shen who was arrested on trumped up charges of subverting state power we don't even know where she's been detained so of course the focus is on you to the point so that it's easy sometimes to forget the family members and the mental and emotional trauma they endure. sure jaan is on a mission crisscrossing china on trains. well it's a little bit confronting a system shrouded in secrecy as if i still don't know where my husband is or his situation. in pursuit of justice and answers for 680 days her husband you when sharing a human rights lawyer has been behind bars where exactly and for how long only those in power know that. i feel helpless very disappointed and feeling like there's nothing i can do i also feel disappointed as they don't do things according to the law. but as i see these things in my heart i will never give up i will continue. here. for months she's been making the long trip to shoot you city detention center where she believes her husband is being held. inside she clings to hope and a bag of

she understood the culture of shenative tribe and also andable to bridge the gap talk with white leaders. as a result she was able to find this society of the american in the end. society an activists that really promoted equal rights for native americans. it was a long and lonely road. this is four years after the 19th amendment up sensibly granted citizens the right to vote. that does not apply to native americans. ever since, native americans continue to fight for their cota, including in north when voter enfranchisement laws actually made it so you cannot vote unless you have a physical address. lots of native americans living on reservation. they are not allowed to vote under these current laws. i wanted to point out also citizens of the united states who include citizens of puerto rico, we are looking at a made in 1992. quite elderly at this time. been elected as the first female governor of san juan. suffragist and a actually advocating for the in residing in puerto rico. trying to advocate for untilge and it wasn't 1935 that women across puerto women weren't -- were given the rig

it separated freedom in the west from communism in the east tom brokaw was in the middle of it all shen is there once again tom? >> reporter: good >> reporter: good evening it was 30 years ago tonight, a night i will always remember, when the berlin wall came down and thousands of east germans poured across the border to be united with their fellow citizens it was a process that led to the end of the soviet empire [ cheers ] looking back, it's sometimes hard to believe it happened at all. good evening live from the berlin wall on the most historic night in this wall's history -- suddenly, the most forbidding symbol of the cold war ling down. [ cheers ] no match for people who just wanted a chance to experience true freedom we were here that week reporting on the growing protests against communist rule and the hardliners were trying to come up with some kind of a plan that would ease the tension. late that afternoon, the east german propaganda minister made a fateful mistake. he said the new rules allowing people to leave east berlin would go into effect immediately. >> it is possible fo

i fell and broke my leg and have been in pain shen. my children carried me to this place. it is now that've been attended to. reporter: a team of medical personnel has come here to help these people, and most of the injuries they are receiving are soft-tissue injuries. there are couple coming with fractured limbs, and the most affected are children. the doctors say they are developing chest complications because of the cold and they don't have a place to stay. another big thing has been the doctors cannot go beyond where we are now because the roads are impassable. as much as there are people on the her side who still need help. >> all the bridges have been swept. the mudslides haveed covhe roads. that is where we think there is a bigger number of patients that need to be attended. the only means is through there. reporter: more people are expeo flow into this camp and others in various par of the affected region. the number of the dead is expected to go up because officials say there are people who are stilmissing. retrieving some bodies, some hands, some legs, and need s

joining us from beijing is standard chartered china economist lan shen.it seems the property sector was holding up as one of the few bright spots. what are we expecting today? expect the housing asce is likely to be further developers are providing more price cuts towards year-end. the pressure for smaller developers is likely to be even bigger due to the demand in their local markets. housing is likely to remain sluggish next year. we do expect housing price gains are likely to be well contained amid a cooling market. although we have strong performance of investment this year supported by the growth of construction expenditures, we think the deceleration of the deal starts and the sluggish replenishment is likely to drive down investment next year. it plays a pivotal role in china's economy. we think the slowdown is likely to take a toll to china's economic growth next year. given the pressure on the chinese economy, are we expecting regulators to loosen restrictions on home purchases? anye do not expect extensive relaxation or state stimulus to china's

he went back to shen kursk. lucky for him because the next theing, like i mentioned, 46 men of company a were attacked and put to flight. ultimately, 25 men from company killed or die of wounds. a handful of men made it back to the log cabin that served as company a's headquarters. that turned out to be no haven either. they soon came under artillery fire from the bolsheviks and had to flee that area, trying to get here.p it should be on here. , they were a larger town. fightings they arrived rearguard actions and temperatures 40 below, that town was infested. all of the inhabitants took to flight trying to find some refuge further upriver. finally after several days, they wound up here with a were able to circle the wagons a little bit. lateny a spent from january into early march living in snow trenches fighting off constant bolshevik attacks until they were relieved in early march by company f. their ordeal was pretty much over. back on the railway line, the intoing continued february. the kept trying to hamm

called zero g kitchen has a special off shen that will be shot into space tomorrow. they could only repeat food. now they can bake. the cookie dough is waiting outside the atmosphere. they feel it will make strays travel a bit more comfortable. >>> the astronauts may have cookies in space. we have donuts because of our producer katlynn. thank you. thank you for the donuts. >>> and it is friday, too. >> even better. >> not at the we need anymore sugar with halloween. >> there is a whole bowl of candy. >> here in the studios, it is not bad on the roadways. we have some nice conditions overall. we're seeing the metering lights on the bay bridge but we're only backed up beyond the 880 overpass. that is good news for 5:46. traffic pretty light westbound. a few pockets of slowing into berkeley but maybe speeds in the 40 as opposed to going 60 miles per hour there. traffic looking good. no delays on 24 or 880 right now. the bridge not bad. in fact if you're traveling between the east bay and marine county, using the rich man san rafael bridge, moving up to the limit in most

biden than he did about his son eric, who the president described as 'the teeth one.'" ( laughter ) shen, schiff followed up on the overheard phone call. >> and as your staff related the event to you, your staff member could overhear mr. sondland on the phone-- could overhear the president on the phone with mr. sondland. is that right? >> that's correct. >> so the president must have been speaking loud enough on the phone. this was a cell phone, i take it? >> it was a cell phone. >> the president must have been speaking loud enough for your staff member to be able to overhear this? >> it was. >> stephen (as trump yelling): "ok, this is very sensitive information. i want ukraine to investigate my political opponent! wait. am i-- am i on speaker phone? why not? i want the waiter to hear this! i would like dirt on joe biden and fully loaded nachos!" ( cheers and applause ) "oh, i forgot the garlic knots." taylor's testimony was damning when it came to trump's insistence on getting a public announcement about investigating the bidens. >> everything was dependent on the public announcement of

ken goermly, an impeachment scholar author of the death of american virtue, and archi bald cox, con shenhengs of a nation. do the rules of due process apply to what's going on in the house? >> well, michael, the framers gave the house wide latitude in terms of how they conduct impeachment trials. so frankly they don't have to have hearings at all. it is up to them as to how to conduct it. it was designed for them to act swiftly. for instance, if a president sub verted the government, shot someone in the streets, they could move to impeach immediately without any proceedings at all. so actually the current proceedings that allow for wittess ins which they have agreed to themselves for each side to ask questions of the witnesses, is more than is required under the constitution. they have free rein and ultimately the framers set it up that if the house, they gave this power to the house because they were closest to the people. if they didn't perform correctly the people could vote them out of office next time. >> if we then get to a snoenate trial, how will it look differently than the hous

. >>> a major reversal, a plaque will stand at stanford for shen ne chenille miller. >> supporters saywould help build a better bay area by making our streets safer. >> stanford should have put that plaque in the ground three years ago. so every day that goes by they're failing to show the kind of integrity that students and faculty have the right to expect them to show. >> a survey found stanford students found sexual offenses happen too frequently in their community and that changed the administration traigs' administration's mind. in a statement the provost said it provides a clear message, we need to confront sexual violence openly and aggressively at stanford. this, too, has influenced my reflections on the garden. >>> happening today, part of sfo will be renamed after mayor ed lee. here's a live look from our sfo camera. today at 11:30, a dedication event will take place to sell great the mayor edwin m. lee international terminal departure stall. it is located inside the international terminal. mayor london breeds will deliver remarks today. >>> a san jose startup is working with

release it immediately and shen the whistleblower saw, it shifty schiff sun breaks it, a total crook,elosi saw it, we've got a problem, we don't want to have knowing do with the whistleblower any more and the whistleblower disappeared. you know who else disappeared, the second whistleblower. you know who else disappeared, the informer to the second whistleblower, if there was such a person, which i doubt. we i doubt. just came out. just came out. it is a disgrace. i'll tell you what, it is so bad, these people are bad people and itt is so bad what they do o our country, they rip the guts out of a country and it is a shame and they shouldn't be' lieud to do it and people should stop. maybe if to the supreme court, maybe but they've got to stop it because we have a country to run, and these people in order to do things, are willing to do illegal acts, it is an illegal act as far as i'm concerned. last week, the democrats voted to nullify the -- >> amazing. that's it for us. i wish we had more team. the president continues into the next hour. and we will be, as a channel, following that.

selling him about the problem right, but he also knows that jove vich had gotten letters from shore shenr and he felt h her. >> but what do we care what they say about the relative lef religion of the and work with them and have a good relation? >> absolutely. but we don't believe that's why trump said bad things about us. >> chris, country -- >> go ahead, sir. >> if president obviously he didn't feel comfortable with her and president trump had other rinning, so he rebut none of this is impeachable. >> pell, it would be ebb but if you abuse your office for your own personal gain, that falls right into the category of malle administration many doing was aid withheld? >> to got paged of a you started is itting a the question is why? >> i know, i'm talking about ukraine. >> because of the amount of corruption and there still is corruption in there and why should we give the americans hard-earned taxpayers to countries. i think if we send a strong signal say, you guys need to tighten up your act over there or we're not going to give you the 8. >> you should think that people who have corrup

charles: this used to get people fired up and all the shen against going on in d.c.f this. i can't believe maxine waters was able to rope in a whole bunch of republicans to get this through this week. >> when we say capitalism get as bad name, things like this make that the case. corporate welfare, big business, big government come together which is exactly what the xm bank is today. this is handouts for wealthy businesses. that is exactly what ex-im is. the biggest bush fist as you well know are the companies like caterpillar, jon deere, boeing boeing not mom-and-pop shops on main treat america. the reality it is big businesses and businesses that don't need the money. charles: they helped rivals to american companies. >> yeah. charles: countries like china, mexico, turkey all benefited. i remember in india, indian airlines getting backing to buy boeing planes to go against delta. in a report by heritage, 7500 domestic airline jobs may have been lost because the ex-im bank. >> because you had these foreign companies in india, for example, making a deal, saying look,

and two, rerelease heher so shen see her oncologist. amy: we want to thank you for being with us.e will continue to follow the progress of the case. cristian padilla romero, phd student in latin american history at yale university, fighting against his mother's deportation order demanding her immediate release from detention so she can be treated. voters are heading to the polls today. that is our next segment. we will look at the ranked choice voting and we are going to look at, welcome innovative approaches to getting more peoplele to vote in these midtem elections. we will be speaking with the colorado secretary of state. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "a song for assata" by common. this month marks the 40th anniversary since supper sugar -- solder sugars escape from prison. this is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: voters are heading to the polls today in many parts of the country for state and local elections that will be seen as a measure of president trump's influence heading into the 2020 presidential elections. several local races and ballot in

and we have combined forces to expose the chinese government's horrifying repressing in shen jing. the challenges of china which are many and widespread will require a sustained commitment. this is and will be the principal struggle of the rest of our lifetimes. the united states and europe has always like most friends had differences. but that cannot distract us from us what is most important, above all, we must ensure gnat free international system we built together, we and europe built together it can withstand external pressures abacknowledgesing the many opportunities for the united states and european cooperation against china will help us to work through differences. china is a communist authoritiarian party state. and unfortunately the parties'values and interests dictate how china operates in the international system. thus china's political economic goals are one in the same. the chinese communist party directs china's economy. chinese leaders ask the assert the primecy of state-owned enterprises and party officials are increasingly involved in the commercial decisions of

went beaker post he says it's about bribery shens promises evidence of the bribery that we can be compelling and overwhelming and instead it is invisible. i yield back. >> mr. chairman i would like to join everyone and thank you both of our witnesses for our service, lieutenant colonel vindman as part of your policy portfolio, you maintain a relationship with ukrainian officials. >> that is correct. >> you explain earlier that your job in the white house was to cordon eight the united states and ukraine policy is that right? >> it is to cremate the united states policy vis-À-vis the ukraine. >> you testified these ukrainian officials began-v asking you, advise on how to respond to mr. giuliani's advances. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> what do you understand they met by mr. giuliani's advances? >> i understood that to mean both his public commentary and publicly calling for an investigation into 2016 marie's mom and hunter biden as well as his direct overtures to the government of ukraine through proxies, that's what i understood. >> as you understand it, under his authority to thin

we have dan writing about china's approach to counterterrorism policy, including what it's doing in shen zan today. mike oe han lan writing about china in the gray zone. he has a paper focused particularly on what escalation could like like in the senkaku islands. caitlyn talmage has written a book about nuclear competition between the united states and china. david dollar has a paper about china china's. and we have written a paper with china's overseas ambitions, and then on the domestic drivers front we have with us today cheng li who has written about xi's transformation as a populist and what that means for china's foreign policy. jamie has written a great paper on the shift in china's legal development and the growing role of the party in that. and then rush has contributed to a prior tranche in this series, which was focused on continuity and change in china's foreign policy and what role president xi has played in it. and so has audrey as well, where her focus has been on economic state craft. let's jump right in. rush, i want to start with you because i think a lot of current de