joining me now is david zhang, a marketing manager and a san francisco shen yun presenter.come to the show. david zhang: thank you for having me on your program. robert: now, what's your title in terms of--show? david: i handle marketing and i also media relationship. robert: got it. okay, now, let's talk about this 'cause we were talking a little bit before and i've talked about shen yun before. it's not just like the history of china, right? it's certain kinds of stories, the kind of colorful thing. david: in a way, it takes you on a journey through 5,000 years of civilization from different--to different dynasties. china has 26 dynasties and different ethnic regions through music and dance, universal languages. so you don't need an interpretation to be able to appreciate the culture and learn about history. a lot of the stories, you know, basically from the pages of history, they're inspiring. and i think some of the people probably familiar with growing up, story of mulan, the "journey to the west." a lot of childhood stories, we present on the grand stage with music, l

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

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martin's church, this very large church and houston, shen asked her aid if they should plan it for the main sanctuary. with that many people really want to come? maybe they should plan for the chapel. by the way, every seat was taken in the big sanctuary at her service. >> the image from barbara bush's funeral, or those few days of mourning that sticks with me the most was when she was lying in herbert walkere bush, who was very, very frail at that point shows up to sit there in his wheelchair and greeted the mourners who were coming through. courtesy, the politeness that seemed to have been wired into the bush family dna, he was not going to have all of these people show up and he not be there to acknowledge them. it was so touching. it was such an act of love for your grandmother. similar to my grandmother, they did not think the people would camp out the night before. the casket was there and it was was openut the church for visitors and greeters to come from houston writ large. p.m. and they said, dad, let's go." i think he was therefore an hour just shaking hands. said,ying to thi

maybe it's shen sured. what i do have a problem with is when you don't acknowledge the facts. the facts are that he did something ip appropriate with ukraine. the facts are he asked a foreign power to come in and investigate a political owe poend or hold a press conference or make a statement, whatever it was. that's not what we do in america. for the republicans not to acknowledge that, that's a dark day for democracy. >> julie, "the new york times" makes point, with the senate split 53 to 47 between republicans and democrats including the two independents, mr. mcconnell has a thin margin. if democrats stick together and four republicans defect, mr. mcconnell could lose control of the proceedings, he can lose only two votes if you wants to push through a resolution with only republican support. we have heard, you know, senator mitt romney talk about being open-minded in this process. is this a real concern? >> well, i mean that is true, and what that isn't is saying there is anywhere near the 67 senators needed to actually convict president trump. but what it does do is hem s

what happened, sean -- and shen, rose from the ashes, and i giver her credit for that.ut i don't like talking about it. as far as i'm concerned, the green new deal, it's fine. all of it is fine. paying 96% in taxes is all fine. 'cause i want them to keep talking about it. and when it is time to run, i'll run, but i don't want to talk them out of it, sean. it's too early to talk about it. can you believe we're getting down to 12 months. can you believe it? when i first went right in that corner of that beautiful building, i was in the first night with the first lady, i'm standing in an area where abe lincoln was, where all of them were, and that's the way it was. and i'm standing there, and i say, wow, four years, that's a long time. here we are, we are almost coming up, we have tremendous cut regulations, we have great stock markets. we have over 100 days, and that's in a fairly short periodh of time, where the stock market, when it hit an all-time high, it is about to hit it again.ck we are doing great. and we're beating everybody. all over the world. countries aren't

chairman and thank you each your pay thence and shens and being as candid that you feel you can be in this setting. i would say i think most people look eed at what we know now transpired with the 2016 elections and the abuses with the fisa court process. and communications and actions between strzok and lisa page and they go something needs to be done about this because we value our privacy. and we probably should have years ago put in place some privacy online privacy guidelines and rules of the road but congress has not done that. people are just now becoming aware of much of this. it is imperative that as we do these reviews, that we do them right. and miss morgan, you just spoke to evolving technologies. and we know that terrorists don't pick up the phone and call somebody and say this is what i'm going to do. they're using signal. they're using what'sapp. they're using snap. snap map. things of that nature to move and i think it's important that you all be able to work and to evolve. as these new technologies come into the marketplace and come boo m into play, but i'd like for y