st. croix, so i was looking at the work chart. and that is his, so we have come up one fte. right? and i think that i saw that there was a special project assistant, is that right? >> yeah, that is not, here, but not there. >> and there is, was there a... >> restructuring of the existing staff? >> no, we have 18 statutory positions, the special project assistant is a temporary position. >> i see. >> i had a suggestion. and i think that it will be helpful to include to the extent that we have records of them, the vote for each thing that we passed, whether it was 4-0 or 5-0 or 4-1 or three to two. >> okay. >> unless that is not in an inordinate about of work. >> we will let you know. >> if there are no questions or comments on the annual report at this point, perhaps we can move on to the next agenda item. >> i had one comment. that i want to thank the staff, i think, that you guys it has accomplished a lot this year and i think that we have made a lot progress in several areas and i appre

st. croix? >> i will. >> thank you. >> so any further public comment? >> all right. our next item is performance evaluation for mr. st. croix. and we need to decide whether or not we want to go into executive session. >> executive session for the evaluation of mr. st. croix. >> is there a motion to go into private session? >> i move that we go into private session. >> second. >> all in favor? >> public comment? >> of course. >> commissioners ray hartz director of san francisco open government, and i do believe that these should not be in closed session, they ought to be open to the public so we can see what your directions to the directive are and how well he concludes in your opinion his job. wonlt i like to be a to be a fly on the wall in this closed session. my real feeling is that neither executive director st. croix would want the documents produced in the closed session to be see the light of day or the public to it overhear the discussion. i am certain eb that the (inaudible) inten

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st. croix included on 3 b is that he was concerned about wanting to avoid imposing more or other ethics agencies. and how noble of him. and you know what? it is not his job. and your job is not to worry about imposing work on another agency. your job is to enforce, orders of a determination, that are sent over here for enforcement. so the handling part is... we are not dogs, we are not horses. we are people, we don't need to be handled. what you should do, is introduce a motion to change the title of this regulation to the ethic commission's regulation, for enforcement of sunshine ordinance violations. your job is enforcement. and your job is not adjudication, it is not just to simply dismiss the cases at all, i mean, routinely and all 39 of them, xh is mitigated. and crossed out. your job is enforcement and the title of the document needs to reflect what it is that you are supposed to be doing. >> given my three minute limitation on my earlier remarks i want to annotate them a bit for th

twenty summit or that's getting underway in st petersburg today. so. right it may be political crunch time at the c s g twenty summit but as always all fine as a would be far behind aside from the usual talk of crisis and unemployment leaders are expected to discuss tax evasion a new world bank ad to force a fresh economic alliances live to katie pilgrim from artie's of venture capital who is in st petersburg tell us a little bit more about the economic scenes that leaders who are gathered at the g twenty will delve into. well there is plenty on the agenda as you just alluded to. job creation that's one of the central themes we know that there's still two hundred million people across the globe still searching for work seventy three million of those are use we know in the likes of spain and greece one in two views are looking for jobs really a central theme going on here and the implications of that because as we know there's already a witness social unrest in certain parts of the world to do with the fact that people can't find what's not is a big pro

leaders of the world's biggest economies gather in st petersburg with syria and u.s. trying plans eclipsing global financial concerns r.t. brings extensive coverage of the major summit. russia publishes a damning report showing syrian rebels were behind a chemical attack last march with evidence that the weapons use near aleppo were not from government stock. and u.k. record labels are said to break the pirate code as they look to revive their ailing industry by crushing free downloading user by user. seven pm in moscow you're watching r t with me we're going to joshua welcome to the program and leaders of the world's top twenty economies have gathered in st petersburg for the g. twenty summit to tackle some of today's biggest challenges. large is or is a chaise in our our g. twenty city in st petersburg with all the very latest updates on what's going on at the summit over here ari. and i thank you very much indeed i hope all is well in moscow as we are enjoying a just a gorgeous evening here in the venice of the north russia's noble thing capital that of st petersbu

floor smith of london to the g twenty summit in st petersburg and. thanks very much governor we are continuing our live coverage here of the two thousand and thirteen g. twenty summit just a bit earlier in the program i did speak to katie pilbeam the host of our business program venture capital oh she filed this report wrapping up basically the end of two days of the twenty thirteen g. twenty global economic four. day the first part of it we had the b. twenty and that's when the five hundred international biggest business leaders the the global elite if you like come together with the political leaders and they get to ask the questions that they want all it says is a surprise the likes of tax evasion and job creation were pretty much sent to to the conversations and it was pretty agreed upon that tax evasion is being come down upon and it's the multi nationals so as we know there was some big companies the likes a starbucks appling google the accuse of evading taxes but they certainly won't breaking any rules in the us because they want any deals in

twenty summit in st petersburg giving us a breakdown of what's ahead at the summit. president obama will be on his own or trying to convince other world leaders that the strike against syria should take place secretary of state john kerry won't be visiting the gathering unlike his g. twenty counterparts he is busy working on winning round american lawmakers meanwhile the pentagon has to move swiftly to clarify defense achieved chuck hagel claimed that russia supplied chemical weapons to syria officials say hey girl was in fact a referring to russian syrian military ties in general when he spoke at a congressional hearing alongside john kerry to help promote intervention efforts as art is marina bought by reports. well the u.s. senate foreign relations committee has approved a resolution for the use of force against syria in a ten to seven vote with three republicans voting with the president this bill was passed now the draft sets a sixty day deadline for use of military force in syria with one thirty day extension and it prohibits any troops on the ground now this b

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can you tell us more about san francisco history here at the st. francis? >> sure. st. francis demonstrates well the evolution of elevated technology. and substantially damaged the 1906 earthquake and rebuilt in 1907 or 1908, and extend it again in 1913. then a new tower was added in 1932, so there is all sorts of elevator technology you can see at the st. francis that very much represents the building history of san francisco. >> i understand there is a really old elevator still operating here. >> that is right, the elevator installed in the 1913 expansion. we can go look at that. >> let's go take a look. here we are in a spectacular st. francis lobby. here is the clock. when people say "meet me at the clock in the st. francis." let's look at that elevator. >> ok, let's do it. >> here we are in the elevator installed as part of the expansion, and this is the way it was originally installed about 100 years ago. it has a manual switch just like elevators did back then, and it runs on dc power. this was from a time before elevators ran on ac power. >> when did they switch

all right rory over to you now what's happening in st petersburg. marina thank you very much indeed well we winding down here i think the white nights have tapered off here in the venice of the north russia's northern capital of course in petersburg the host of the g. twenty summit. on r.t. and he said no way katie pilbeam we're all here for this big two day summit here in st petersburg now many people are saying that syria the crisis in syria could be poised to well loom over what should be the economic issues that are discussed at the g. twenty finale that i'm going to interrupt what i'm telling you to cross live to the russian president vladimir putin who is now who is now in introducing the members of the g. twenty summit let's listen in to the russian president right now. you don't actually mean you should know preventive measures at the national and global level . let me repeat that the most important is to assure basic conditions for the global economic recovery through quantitative development that's why the problems of promoting economic gr

they are in st. petersburg at the g-20, they won't have a one-on-one encounter and russian diplomats are claiming that the americans are not returning calls. so we are right now in quite a situation. there is an enormous amount of very important and very burning issues and moscow and washington are not talk very much even to each other. even less agreeing on anything much. >> and it's interesting because our correspondent brought up a point earlier in the show when he was saying it seems countries over the syria issue are taking sides, taking sides with u.s. or taking sides with russia. there is a reminder of the days of the cold war. what do you make of that? >> well, some, yes. though of course in the cold war it was a more organized kind of block system dividing the world. and now it's very dipt. it's -- different. sometimes france sided with russia and sometimes like right now on syria france is siding with washington, while britain is taking a step back. so it is more volatile world. and that's

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at the g-20 in st.urg, developed economy leaders are under pressure from their emerging market counterparts who argue that u.s. policy is causing the rout in their markets and hurting their currencies. bricks nation pledged yesterday to set up a $100 billion currency reserve fund to defend against a balance of payments crisis. steve, how much frustration is there on the ground, on part of the brick economies and emerging market economies at large about just how little they can do about fed tapering and the effect it is having on their markets? >> let me get one fact straight here as well. one of my sores here, one of the delegates i've spoken to, this fund, they're a long way from getting it concrete as well. it is an aspiration rather than a firm statement of intent. let's be careful what colleagues in other places are talking about the $100 billion fund from the bricks. it may not be done in 2013. let's get people back on track on that one as well. the other thing about the g-20 is it is inconceivable

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another day of intensive brainstorming isabel to get going at the g twenty summit in st petersburg it's a fresh chance to try and see some common ground after day one for the syrian crisis spit leaders of the world's top economies into two rival camps. right around half of the g. twenty members are said no to america's intention to strike syria without the u.s. go ahead washington accuses damascus of using chemical weapons in the more than two year long war but it's all humans fail to convince all love to st petersburg for the details with our g.'s. let's say you know a lot of us knew that syria was going to be the talking point really it wasn't on the agenda but it still made it on to the how have you you know how that is gushing has been playing out with the leaders there at the g. twenty summit. it seems the word unprecedented is written all over this g. twenty summit it is unprecedented that the leaders of the united states and russia have no official meetings during this summit is unprecedented that the leader of the host nation says that a political and diplomatic issue must be in

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twenty here in st petersburg the venice of the north russia's northern capital however we understand that there are still some high level delegation meetings going on behind closed doors the rest of the delegates there as you said kevin probably enjoying the champagne and caviar in fact probably feeling a bit warmer than i am right now what started off as a beautiful blue sky and sunshiny day here in st petersburg has now become nighttime clear skies and down right chilly let's get down to the brass tacks for you here the g. twenty and some petersburg of course the g twenty a global economic forum featuring other world leaders and finance ministers from the top twenty economies and including those top twenty at that at the developing and emerging markets as well as kevin was saying earlier and as many networks are saying all around the world the g. twenty ultimately becoming perhaps a bit eclipse in overshadowed by the issue of syria is america going to ultimately go it alone and do a unilateral strike on syria france has said it will join but the vast majority of the european union

twenty summit in st petersburg coming up on r.t. in just a few minutes. in a rallying support for a potential strike on syria the u.s. is trying to ally doubts that the syrian regime was responsible for the august chemical attack near damascus. going off looks at whether there is actually enough evidence to back that claim the intelligence services of the u.s. france and britain have all presented reports suggesting it was the syrian authorities who used chemical weapons on august twenty first so let's look at their arguments open source reports are presented among the key evidence by all three services instead of being tucked safely in their beds at home we saw rows of children lying side by side sprawled on a hospital floor open sources are actually videos on you tube and social networks this brings us to the second arguments presented once again unilaterally its knowledge of previous chemical attacks allegedly conducted by the assad regime un experts however still haven't been able to agree on whether or not chemical weapons were deployed during the co

st. croix. and we will not vote on 3 b. we are going to throw it out. >> thank you. >> >> do we have a gentleman standing in line? >> pris wolf just speaking as a member of the public. i am concerned about this because i think that it creates a slippery slope. first what is the precedent set for non-sunshine violation and what about the ethics violations by a staff member and how do you deal with those? and so you already have some precedent and some process for dealing with that. and at the same token you have a process for dealing with yourselves as commissioners. and when it comes to ethics violations, so why wouldn't you reflect on those things. also, the task, the sunshine ordinance does not provide any ability to specify or cherry pick any one or another public employee or official when it comes to being examined or ruled on such violations. and so i don't think that it is appropriate to have staff say just because it would, we don't have a process above us, to just say that they ar

and syria is likely to move large over the g twenty summit in st petersburg with world leaders split on how to solve the conflict and suspicious of the u. was a following look tourist surveillance scandal. making money by sacrificing your privacy which leads to reveals how tech firms are helping governments get inside your online life no matter what their human rights record shows. it's nine am here in the russian capital you're live with us on r.t. with me to have long would say the pentagon has moved to swiftly to clarify and in serious statement from defense shield chuck hagel that russia supplied chemical weapons to syria officials say hagar was in fact referring to russian syrian military ties in general when he spoke at a congressional hearing along with secretary of state john kerry and general martin dempsey he was trying to convince lawmakers of america's war plan against present his arches were enough. well the u.s. senate foreign relations committee has approved a resolution for the use of force against syria in a ten to seven vote with three republicans voting with the pr

st. croix. the proposal to botch the sunshine complaints against them would make sense, if those complaints were very common. and but they are rare. and as far as i know there has only been three in the last 13 years since the sunshine ordinance was passed. and one was in 2004, and when the oakland ethics commission handled a complaint by oliver nuby and kevin (inaudible) against the directors (inaudible) and maple (inaudible). and last year, the san jose election's commission had a city attorney, handling the patrick shaw claim against mr. st. croix. and now, we have allegrossman filing a complaint against mr. st. croix. you know that the attorney general rejects all of your sunshine referrals because they are local matters. and but the district attorney has not acted and even has not responded in writing as he supposed to, to your referrals. also, it is much, much harder for a citizen to retain a sunshine competent attorney, than it is for your staff to retain an outside ethics agency.

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twenty summit that's getting underway in st petersburg today. now it may be political crunch time at this year's g. twenty summit but as always finance won't be far behind aside from the usual talk of crisis and unemployment leaders are expected to discuss tax evasion a new world bank and forge fresh economic alliances ok pilgrim from marty's venture capital program isn't seen but his work with more on what's to be explored. job creation that's one of the central themes we know this to two hundred million people across the globe still searching for work seventy three million of those are use we know in the likes of spain and greece wanting to use are looking for jobs that's really a central theme going on here and the implications of that because as we know it's already a witness social unrest in certain parts of the world to do with the fact that people can't find what's not is a big problem and that goes along with the theme of growth long term growth but the problem is the emerging economies a day are suffering right now there's been a role r

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twenty summit here in st petersburg. yeah a lot more to come next though from moscow much the stacy rundown on the bankings bad guys wore them in the cars report after the break. iraq afghanistan the balkans somalia haiti libya yemen and so on and so on the list of engagements and airstrikes by post cold war nato just keeps getting longer and now it looks like it's serious turn a lot of people have written me asking me to predict what is going to happen next which for me is a possible i'm not good at predicting the future but i can say is that we are living in a very tense moment in history many argue that the u.s. economy with its unfathomable debt is really propped up by war in the petro dollars so if the u.s. backs down here won't could be the beginning of the end for the world's only hyper power but if they do attack syria there will probably be some sort of reaction from iran russia and china if you haven't noticed nato has been trying to encircled these nations and in russian internet conspiracy land a lot of peopl

st. croix was referred to the same violations. they violated my rights and the rights of other citizens of san francisco for a period of more than two years by advogating and censuring our public comments and preventing them to show up in the minutes, and yet you guys did not have any problem knowing that you had a case against your own executive director finding mr. herrara not in violation without looking at the facts and without reviewing the law, you did neither and i pointed that out in my case, because your investigators only looked at what they wanted to look at to let mr. st. croix off of the hook and give you an out. who will watch the watch man? >> any further public comment? on matters appearing on the agenda or not appearing on the agenda? >> the first order of business will be discussion. and possible action on a request for a waiver from the campaign and governmental conduct code section 3.222. and he is an architect that on occupies two of the architect seats on the commission and has requested the waiver, >> the de

jill dougherty live from st. petersburg. >>> a plan to authorize a military strike on syria faces an uncertain battle here at home. president obama won the first battle of resolution limiting a military response passed in the senate foreign relations committee by a vote of 10-7. but it's fate in the house is quite uncertaintop chris lawrence is live now. good morning, chris. >> good morning, carol. while the president travels overseas, his top officials are still here in washington trying to make the case to congress to authorize that military action in syria. in just about 20, 25 minutes from now, there will be the start of one of the last behind the closed doors classified briefing for members of congress, sort of a last-ditch attempt to try to close the deal among those who may be on the fence. this is coming just one day after the secretaries of defense and state faced a very tough crowd at the house. this is the hard sell from the inner circle to take action. >> this is not the time to be spectators to slaug

there really is the sense that the timing of this st. petersburg g20 could not have been worse, as barack obama is trying to muster enough votes to 0 get a resolution passed in congress. >> yes, of course. there was a russian newspaper saying yesterday the british parliament said at the g20 if there had been strikes on syria, could not have greeted obama and the french and everybody if there had been strikes in syria. but he was saying who are we helping in syria? i will say that i think sear cra is not the main subject here. i think it's why intervene after two years and 100,000 dead? i think now it's about sending a signal, maybe, to russia, to iran, now they want it to stop. but i foresee syria there will not be major change anyway. >> remember the time line for what happened in bosnia and, it was what, four years into that consulate when there were nato strikes. four years is what it took and or all of those four years, d they were having conversations similar to the one we're having now. >> it's true but don't think the strikes in b

in st petersburg. it is unprecedented that the leaders of the united states and russia have no official meetings during this summit is unprecedented that the leader of the host nation says that a political and diplomatic issue must be included into the agenda of economic summit and it's also greece attended that the goal of dinner last night which is usually about enjoying the dinner having a course of business talk among themselves the world leaders or obviously involved in discussions about syria this is something we have received as a confirmation from the spokesperson of the russian president who said indeed that the world leaders talk mostly about syria and the last it for more than five hours that is twice longer that was originally expected so obviously there was some heated debate inside the constancy of the palace we of course know nothing and of what exactly was said at the table because there were no cameras there it was strictly behind closed doors dana but we do know from mr biscoe from th

twenty summit in st petersburg spoke out against the use of force without a u.n. mandate while russia accuse the syrian rebels of unleashing chemical weapons to provoke foreign intervention and he said now reports. i was elected to end wars not start a u.s. military intervention in syria dominated talks that the g. twenty but if obama was looking to gather overwhelming support at the summit he didn't get it in st petersburg you know. there is no military service. we will not participate in military action. aside from france turkey and saudi arabia a few countries expressed outright support for obama's proposal of a military strike in a joint statement they condemned the use of chemical weapons blaming the office of government and called for some kind of response but they stopped short of backing a u.s. attack on syria summit hosted president putin accused the rebels of being behind a chemical weapons attack near damascus in august that he says was carried out to discredit syrian authorities in the eyes of the west just the way. i view everything that happened with

and syria is likely to loom large over the g twenty summit in st petersburg where the world leaders split on how to solve the conflict and suspicious of the u.s. following the notorious surveillance scandal. making money by sacrificing your river see we keeping some reveals how tech firms are helping governments get inside your online life and better what they could and why strike it shows. a very warm welcome to you if you're just joining us here on our t.v. you're with me tom would say let's take a look at the news of the sow the pentagon has had to move swiftly to clarify and in see dearie statement from defense chief chuck hagel that russia supplied chemical weapons to syria officials say hey girl was in fact referring to russian syrian military ties in general when he spoke at a congregational hearing along with the white house of colleagues he was trying to convince lawmakers of america's war plan against present our son who they chemical attack near damascus has already is marina but my. well the u.s. senate foreign relations committee has approved a resolution for the use of force

coming up nextaf,e aa previews of the g 20 summit in st. petersburg, russia. after that a discussion on u.s.- russian relationship. i think you have to unplug. i think it is good to be analog sometimes. i think unintended consequences of texting and instant messaging -- social network gaming networking and e-mail, it is very hard to be off the grid and out of touch. sometimes it's hard to think or , and all those things are important for your health and so iuality of your work, think it's up to people to try to figure out a way to unplug or mostly unplug for periods of time. more about the future of technology on the communicators .n c-span 2 >> a preview of the g 20 summit in st. petersburg, russia. currentcussed the relationship with russia. this is just under an hour. >> good morning and welcome to the center for strategic and international studies. i'm andrew schwartz, senior vice president at csis, and i have the pleasure of presiding over this briefing today with two of my favorite colleagues, soon to be three of my favorite colleagues, one of whom is st

report from st petersburg where the g. twenty summit is about to start now there is a grim forecast from china's deputy finance minister at the g. twenty well prices will rocket and the global economy will suffer if the united states launches an air strike on syria goes russia's position advising washington to at least wait for an investigation is now bring in professor joseph chang from the political science department at city university and hong kong mr chang thank you so much for joining us here in r.t. to discuss the situation while you when it comes to syria as well as other international issues china and russia seem to have an identical position but. it's moscow the guess the diplomatic flack so why is beijing seemingly nord. well. china and russia as you say it shares a lot of common ground to see you in action have a lot of rest so be. a deal west. intervention they certainly would like a court of very important role to the you and which they all have a tool at the security council traditionally china respects the

twenty in st petersburg. the father of the rainbow nation nelson mandela has spent his first we get home after almost three months of intensive care and hospital but while the country united in concern for his health some of the ninety five year old former president's relatives are accused of dragging down his good name policy explains. as far as reality t.v. shows go this one is right up there sibling rivalry and feuds and family gossip but it's not any old family we're talking about here it's for mandela's it's clearly not an arson one project it's a monday and a family project is very uncomfortable about his name or his image being associated with commercial projects so the question becomes where do you draw the line the reality show follows the lives of two of mandela's granddaughters as they spend and lose money on extravagant business ventures and go on while shopping sprees it's a far cry from the humble background mandela grew up in all the grim reality facing millions of south africa's poor black cit

twenty summit in st petersburg is that the u.n. special envoy mr but i hear me talking to merge and see flights to st petersburg to take part in the talks to try to listen to the boat both sides of barack obama and vladimir putin so definitely syria has been pretty much the top story here well of course he had is in the foreground now and as you said there's been a fifty fifty split there in opinions as to who is for and against can tell us a bit more about who is for and who's against at this point. suddenly judging by the separate statements coming from the camps of delegations of the g twenty countries we can say who is on what side for instance we know that russia's and china's position on the syrian conflict and its resolution hasn't changed the slightest russia still believes that first of all there needs to be a viable evidence of the chemical weapons used by any side and also that the u.n. security council must vote unanimously for any kind of military action china at the same time says that the possible strike on syria may

. >>> the 49ers are in st. louis ready to take on the rams here on abc7 tomorrow.nt mike shumann to cover the game, and while there he ran into one of the biggest 9er fans around. >> the biggest fan from topeka kansas and who are you a fan of? >> michael wilhoy. >> why is that? >> he is my son. >> you have to be excited because it is probably rare when you get to see him play. >> it is. i am very excited. >> pretty cool. our coverage of the game begins at 4:00. we will have special content for you at abc7news.com as well as on our facebook page and twitter at abc7 news bay area. larry beil, mike shumann and jerry rice take over at 4:30 with the pre game show, and they will be hereafter the game as soon as the 49ers beat st. louis. >> 49ers stay here on abc7. now let's go back and talk about the forecast. we talked about a red flag warning. >> sandhya patel has more on that. >> the fire danger is up and it will remain high right through friday afternoon. we are watching live doppler 7hd right now. the isolated showers developed around vacaville and now you look at t

in st. petersburg. simon hobbs is my pattern and he's at the new york stock exchange. hi, simon. >> for those of you tuning in, welcome. we have great data today with one small exception. obviously the economy is front and center as we gear up for tomorrow's employment report. we have three separate reads on the labor market, the adp report showing the private sector with 176,000 jobs in august. that figure is very close to the consensus estimate tomorrow of 175,000 job gains, too. separately we did get a report from challenger that says job cuts since august surged to the highest since february. but the number of americans actually filing for new claims for unemployment benefits fell -- get this -- to a five-year low. and the four-week moving average is now at levels we have not seen since before the recession. as if that wasn't enough, the biggest part of the u.s. economy also a bright spot. the pace of growth in the services sector growing at its fastest rate now in almost eight years. oh

louis. >> 49ers flew into st. louis as did shu. giners need this victory over st.e now from niners team hotel. you've got a scoot today by talking to one of the team moms. >> well... there is no question. we're here on the top of the world. you can see that mississippi river behind me. if you look over to the right, bush stadium where the cardinals played today we won't have to worry about that with giants this year but st. louis is known to be the gateway to the west. famous for art. skpf course, the team pulled in about 4:45 today. front office got off the bus. and then, team went straight to edward joins jones tomorrow to practice, cardinals today spilling out of the stadium we asked if s.this a football? or baseball town? >> there is great we care about teams. >> and we're gateway francisco way bay, huh? >> what is st. louis known for? >> consider it -- . >> that is it. >> that is it? >> that is it. what else do you need? >> a baseball town. >> mississippi river? >> we found some fans here and jan, who are you the biggest fan of? >> muscle. >> why is that? >> h