obesity awareness organisation, all about 0besity, sarah lebrocq, and head of campaigns from the taxpayers alliancek this is a good idea? i think this is a good idea? i think it's a good idea to invest money into the treatments for living with obesity, yes, in that respect, i do. but i don't like is the framing of how this is done about focusing about unemployment levels, perpetuating some of the stigma that we already have about people living with obesity. making up the people living with obesity kind of are unemployed, not working, what people living with obesity have is a chronic condition, so people living with chronic conditions do have elements of time where they are maybe not able to work because of their condition, and what we are not doing is managing that condition very well at the moment. untilthese condition very well at the moment. until these new medications are coming through. what do i like is the fact that the government is saying that they want to invest in this and they want to invest in this and they want to ensure more people to get access to these treatments, which i think wil

taxpayer money. >>> san francisco candidate mark farrell opened up his alliance with supervisor and is also asking daniel lurie supporters to rank farrell second. >> that is exactly why i'm asking all of daniel lurie's supporters that put him number one to specifically put me number two on their ballots. i do not agree with his tactics or lack of experience, but i recognize many of his supporters want the exact same thing i do, real change in san francisco. >> lurie's campaign responded saying this is nothing but a way for insiders to protect insiders. mayor breed's office did not respond to comment. >>> county elections offices are starting to send out election packages. >>> the b.a.r.t. station in orinda is back open after being briefly closed because of a gun scare this afternoon. two people got into an argument on a train and one of them was carrying a replica firearm. one person was arrested. nobody was hurt. >>> hazmat spill has closed canyon road near in-n-out burger near the on ramp to 680. no word when that road will reopen. >>> fleet week is officially here and the navy ships are arrivin

and then, you know, in this era where it is alliances and working together and sharing burdens so it's not just disproportionally falling on the american taxpayer, how do we not work together with our tools of aid and diplomacy and development with our like-valued allies, to go into africa, to go into the countries to build up their economies? as someone who courted gtp and i wish i could get that across the finish line. that's not where we are, what the tools of economic engagement, trade, supply chain redundancy. that's the playing field. we have an election in two and a half weeks or so and we'll see what the playing field looks like on the other side of the election. i don't think that frame work changes regardless who is in the white house or in either bodies in congress. that's the 30,000 -- i want to thank meridian for being such a strong collaborator and facilitator of that dialog, not just in congress, but also at the international level, bringing those international players in to have those conversations and collaboration and thank you to meridian. we will see you tonight. [applause] >> we're told ami has a special jacket for this eve

two experts with hawklike ears , two experts with hawklike ears, the head of research at the taxpayers alliancedarwin friend and the founder of britain, remade sam richards gentlemen , you're still here. gentlemen, you're still here. you were listening with bated breath. no doubt. let's start by picking over a couple of the key phrases. let's get rid of the flannel. get rid of the word salads. get rid of the david brent type speak. and let's just pick out a couple of key points. darwin opening gambit. big statement to make. we are the most pro—business economy that this country has ever seen. true or false? >> well, it's false and i wish it were true. but as the chancellor just it were true. but as the chancellorjust said, it were true. but as the chancellor just said, they it were true. but as the chancellorjust said, they may chancellor just said, they may have put a freeze on corporation tax, but they are freezing it at 25%, which is six percentage points more than it was just over a year ago when it was 19%. and that had been held at that level for about 6 or 7 years now. we've shown in the