. >> public comment on item number three >> compliment the ethics commission, that that was a very good presentation and i am glad to see the democracy dashboard, i compliment you. and i have unfortunately used open data sf on a number of occasions and it is buggy. and so, if this is running on your servers and not theirs that would be encouraging. one of the problems that i had with the open data sf going into the city controller's vendor file, i would search for rtz associates to find out how much they have been paid to develop a data base for the laguna hospital, and i only got from 2007 to 2014. and so, i emailed miss zumela. who was kind enough to track down the data from 2003 to 2007 and the reason that it had not shown up on the first time, was because the company had initially submitted data with spaces, between each of the letters in their acronym and later they stopped doing that and at other times they had, inc, following the name, and remarked to me in the private e-mail that that sort of filtering was inexcusable, and the system should have been able to catchall of it. >> a

and number four refers to the number of investigations the ethics commission conducted. and the answer is 0. why is that? >> this section refers specifically to the complaints that are filed under chapter four with just the privatization and protection and we may have received the complaints that alleged certain violations of sections within that chapter. but, none needed the full investigation. >> so, what does that mean if they were not within the jurisdiction of the ethics commission. >> well it could be that there was no evidence or reason to believe that a violation of that particular section alleged occurred? >> when this refers to the number of investigations, the ethics commission conducted that does not include the investigations that were conducted but did not lead to a what a formal complaint being prepared? >> and it, and it did not, and it did not lead it a formal investigation. so, it may have been in the preliminary review phase. >> and what example, a lot of the whistle blower retaliation complaints that come from the people who have never been city employ

things first of all, i'm understanding on your response to finding representation number 12 you say the ethics commission director will have staff notifies all the departments to remind officials and employees to follow the posting requirement to insure that the postings are easy to locate on the departmental website. you're going to have your staff notify the staff to look at the posting what if they don't what's the ors there. on recommendation on our responses to recommendation 20 b of the appointment of a hearing officer you point out there no mechanism in the sunshine ordinance to do that i will encourage t you to consultant with the city attorney. that being the case it certainly worth examining. finally going back to our response to finding one f you say the budget process is the primary told them of the ethics commission to the city. maybe it is but there is also the appointment time process your appointed by someone in the city an elected city official who's activities your duty bound to oversee there's an attachment. >> any other public comment? hearing none i will commissioner keane

big a task for us to do with every department and that for us to do it and the city attorney and the ethics commission to insure that, however, it is a good idea that those all of the departments do collect their official calendar and convert them to electronic form and put them online. with regards to the recommendation 17 a i would change that elite leave advertise the fact we have the resources we don't have the resources other priorities are president all right. but i would say we recommend to all departments that they did noiths recommendations to all departments they should collect their official calendar preparing under the sunshine ordinance and convert them to electronic and post them themselves. i think it's a good idea this material be out there to the public and be there out in electronic form and the departments should do it, it's only our recommendation but it's a good suggestion by the grand jury. and i think we should recommend that to all the departments >> any other comments from the commissioners. >> is there a motion. >> yeah. i move federal and state that the ethics com

members of the ethics commission. i want to make 3 points about the report. first my name is clinton cob. i am, of course, a resident of the city and county of san francisco and a participant of local government for 56 years. and counting. i serve for 2 and a half years as the grand jury presiding judge of the san mateo county civil grand juries 11, 12, 2013 years ago i brought a lot of grand jury reports the first point this is probably as well written the court: well, analyzed as my grand jury committee report and grand jury report as i've ever seen if you haven't read it, it's understandable reading don't be deferred by the length. secondly, i oppose the creation of this commission has history records because there was a day when the city attorney and the district attorney's offices between them policed the ethnical of local pub officials in san francisco. it's not necessary it's an unnecessary commission with a budget over $2 million which could be conserved or transferred to the zake or district attorney's office. the district attorney has speeding calle

jury that says the ethics commission should recommendation dismissal who fails to file 90 days after the deadline we proposed it not be implement if so outside of the ethics commission jurisdiction under the state law only the f p pc can conduct enforcement matters regarding form seven hundred this is not an enforcement matter to recommend something we don't have the power to enforce anything unless a person fails to file in 90 days we recommend they be dismissed our recommendation maybe go forward in many instances so the reason we can't do this we will be conducting enforcement that's not enforcement recommendation is not enforcement so the reason didn't make sense. i think it's a good idea and i would move that we adapt the recommendation of the grand jury that we recommend dismissals for any employee that fails to file after the deadline someone has been informed by us with thirty days with a couple of follows up if they have not done that by 90 days they've shown contempt and they should be dismissed so my motion would be that we adapt the recommendation 14 b as property by the g

indeed, the ethics commission's own regulations from the investigation enforcements, viii and in section 8.a, it says that once a complaint is filed, no ethics commission staff member shall engage in oral or written communications outside of a meeting and the same rule should apply to the task force members, in addition, the sunshine and ethics training video on the city attorney's website, that the pilpel effectively has reviewed numerous times, clearly, indicates that the task force has been adjudicated body, and he should not be violating the procedural rules such as bans on exparta communications. and for these reasons, i am asking the ethics commission to calendar or a discussion to resubmit the dismissal of my second sia complaint and hear both of them. and i have been waiting, for months, for you to calendar a hearing, on mr. pilpel. and it is way overdue, commissioner, you need to prove this along. >> good afternoon, my name is karin hugens and i am president of the holly courts president council, it is 120 units of public housing in vernal heights and i am also the ceo of the ne

and the fact that ethics has never reported a sustained retaliation complaint, since 1993, >> i would like to talk about the complaints to the ethics commission and i would assume that it is within your authority that if you received a complaint that was made directly to the ethics commission and you farm it out to another to the department and when you submit it to them, it should be within your jurisdiction, to ask them to report to you, the out come of it. >> and the doctor suggested. and it could be a minimal, out come, and sustained and dismissed, and disciplinary action, and taken, or not taken, and but, unless you asked those departments for that information, and you know, i can walk over to your front door, and so i would recommend that you would implement a policy if you don't already have one, and to start asking them. >> to report back to you, and i don't think that it will be a violation of any one's personnel law rights and it is certainly within your jurisdiction and your responsibility to the board of supervisors. to educate you on the data that they are asking you to p

i would change our recommendation that the ethics commission shall make the materials available in other languages as in other city departments. >> other commissions from the commissioners. i did have questions as well. recommendation 7 in particular what the form is that the demand is zero? there's 3 different approaches that each agency can use that the city requires looking at whether there have been requests for bilingual languages is one of them i'm sorry i can't recall the 80 other two but in the case of the 2 years we've done the analysis and not had a request for translations and we have staff currently i think we have 7 languages represented on the staff if people need live bilingual or interpretative services. but in terms of the demand it has not yet existed >> and what is the cost for making those guides available in the major languages represented. >> i don't know it will be expensive. >> yes. >> i'm not sorry commissioner it will be expensive. >> there is 4 languages we will address if we were to set out to do this. >> commissioner andrews. >> yeah. i mean that one is i'm t

to the ethics commission. thank you. >> any further comments from the commissioner commissioner commissioners? i take it that the challenge with asking the departments to self-report those that are exempt it is that it would require us to analyze them separately anyway and that you wouldn't have any sense that all of the - that the ones that are discloseable are being shared by departments is that the general concern? >> i'm not sure there's a problem with asking for self-reporting. if they report and we disagree unless you're getting inxanlt violations what is the burden that we're worried about >> we can ask in the report the question how often do we have to repeat ask them and how do we know i mean some might decide to do it and some might not we don't know what we're getty think it's going to be a lot of work to keep on top of it. >> mr. chair. it more goes back to some public comment made if there's not a consequence built in you're spending a lot of times on monitoring and remonitoring and basically north

one is regarding the integrity of the data, what are we doing as a city or as an ethics commission to insure that the data that is being stored is being protected? and i know that you can download and it manipulate it, and what are we doing to make sure that it does not get compromised. >> nobody on the commission staff actually has the rights to modify the data. and we can assist, and buyers with completing the forms, but, once they submit it, it goes over to the net file system and it is locked. and every city, in california, at this point that is doing electronic filing with the exception of los angeles is going through the same process. and so, they will not actually do anything to their systems unless they received the written requests from us. >> and so, is net file, responsible for maintaining the entegty of the data? >> yes. >> do you know what they do to insure that it is not hacked or compromised? >> well, first of all they keep an enormous number of back ups. and so, i am not particularly concerned about the integrity of the data in that we have so many snapshots of it, on

the heart of it is great ethics. doing meaningful work that makes a difference, but you do it in a fair way and a balanced way, a non-opinionated way. the whole line of commentary and reporting and blame it on msnbc, fox, whoever you want. we have to be incredibly thoughtful about doing the right thing for our readers. ethics, my north star. you can't be a credible journalist and know there are flaws in your newsroom. it starts with having a good strong foundation in ethics. >> i am not hitting extra credit for this -- getting extra credit for this. [laughter] i want you to speak on the idea of you've seen the contraction in the newsrooms. you are very optimistic on the newspapers themselves. i would like to hear you speak about optimistic on the role of the journalist. especially the idea of the lost instructional knowledge, entire beats being sacrificed. >> the toughest part of the gig. it is a time where if we could look at every fte in a newsroom, you want to hold onto them as much as you can. unfortunately, i hav

what do you do to get everybody on the same page ethically? >> get everybody on the same page ethically? constant coaching. transparency. here is what is expected if you want to work for me. ethics is a nonnegotiable thing. michael, you know that in your classes. nonnegotiable conversations related to the ethics. if you want to be credible and relevant, you cannot play by the ethics game. you won't work for us. >> my name is nicole. i am in a research class. we have been talking about cutting the paper to three days a week instead of five and beefing up more of the online and mobile. >> it is twofold. you will know more about how your audience is intersecting with your content. if you are not owning the digital space, you are leaving yourself wide open. it comes back to what i said earlier, content is king. a lot of media companies are giving not consideration -- giving not consideration right now. marketingsame kind of device for certain advertisers? those of the kinds of conversations that are unfolding. reducedpanies using where the strategy

talking about >> they're not talking about it. >> it was handed by the district attorney notice the ethics commission the law allows us to reduce certain forfeitures. when candidates and captions accept illegal contributions and bring it to our attendance we allow them to return the money >> you're not making sense in regards to my skew does he know of particular cases and he said no, he doesn't know of any you've got something nickel and dimed obviously but not what the grand jury had in mind we're going to respond to something you know about that you have in mind - >> so. >> didn't makes sense we've got to respond to the grand jury. >> well, i request the commissioners eliminate the response entirely. >> i agree but add the language that commissioner andrews is suggesting that there be an audit if there are any of those improper actions that have occurred with the money went back it be found out about. >> if i think so they weren't improper ways the commission had not acted so there was discretion rather than being for photo to the city the forfeiture was waved so nothing ways done illeg

understand that this is nepotism and undue influence is ongoing, and we therefore, request that the ethicsmission, promptly launch immediately investigation into both of these allegations regarding the improper use of mozola status as the airport commission, and one to seek personal gain by holding the well-being of thousands of black and asian and pacific islands and public housing residents, hostage until he gets his new appoint and to violate the law of ethics to violate the opportunities for family members, as a sitting airport commission. thank you, jackson, i just want to, and i got through it even though hope that you understand that it is a great concern and because we have in this city, positions but they are not federal or state certificated and so we are having problem that this has not occurred in the last few years, thank you so very much. you all have a blessed day before i begin, i would like to hand it out to you. >> i received a letter from director st. croix dismissing my second complaint against the memoranda have i had pilpel his letter dismissing the second august, 4th

pushback and those who would oppose the change in the ethics law in virginia that they would just say that the system works. and the mcdonnell's, they are going to go to jail and they will be held accountable for what they did. you might have marginally moves with some of the disclosure in the likes, but the federal system is pretty much going to stay the same. >> i'll let you have the final word. >> there will be some affect. but you have to remember that mcdonnell is not the first governor to be convicted for bribery. fundamentally i don't think that there will be a seismic shift, baa change in the forthcoming. >> thank you so much for your insight and for your time over these five weeks, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> and we are going to be talking to lots of legal and political analysts both here in washington and in richmond. and about the verdict and then we're going to hear from them coming up at 6:00. dan? >> thank you, lesli. >>> breaking in the world of entertainment. comedian joan river has died. rivers was hospitalized last week after going into cardiac arrest followi

and the republicans to the recommendation so say prelims is not up to the ethics commission is just i don't really quite get that >> to be fair the recommendation does refer to the mayor and the board making the requests. >> yes, but ultimately you/have to prepare. >> right. >> we should prepare it anyway but i'm not it's fair to criticize us on that particular point i understand your point. >> okay. >> commissioners ray open san francisco government. i believe that the prior speakers were all correct there's nothing requiring you to do something or prevent you a as we've talked about this wouldn't it be endangering if mr. syncountries list indicated one or two of you had not filed your forms that would not wanting to be embarrassing and this is if anyone in the city is going to republic a meeting in accordance with the sunshine ordinance it augmenting ought to be you, you set the example for everybody and your whole basis for credibility is where you follow the things i tell others to do. you can't have a city department coming in and following a violation of the law and having krebl

that is one of the foremost ethical questions. there are several that are worth thinking about and we may be able to cover some of them today. that would be number one on the list. the other one i think would also be that when we are considering the the allocation of scarce resources, the most pressing question then would become who should be treated? because we have a whole lot more people who might be candidates for treatment than we have treatment available. and also i think that one of the questions i would like to hear discussed before we are done in his dot e. bola virus has been known as the cause of disease since 1976, why is there no preventative vaccine court effective therapy clicks i have my own opinions on that but i would like to hear everyone talk about that. now, first off without experimental treatments being offered they are giving drugs to people and these drugs have never been tested in humans before they were given to the sick patients and before the dangerous adverse effects can neither be no more safely predi

that is one of the foremost ethical questions. i think there are several that are worth thinking about, and we may be able to cover some of them today. that is number one on the list. the other would be when we are considering the application of those scarce resources, the most pressing question would then become, who should be treated, because we have a whole lot more people who might be candidates for treatment than we have treatments available. and also i think that one of the questions i would like to hear discussed before we are done is if the ebola virus has been known as the cause of disease since 1976, why is there no preventative vaccine or effective therapy? i have my own opinions on that, but i would like to hear everyone talk about that. now, first off, what about experiment treatments being offered? i think we have to consider the pros and cons of giving experimental drugs. they are for the dangers and adverse effects that can neither be known or safety predicted. it is entirely possible they may be ineffective or harm

but when we started to look at it, it didn't have the big book that we wanted, the ethics feel. and use the topography has the feel of that historical feel. but then we started to think maybe it just needs to be classic. so we tried some different bonds. we tried adding a little color. so that's how we ended up. >> did doris kearns goodwin have any say in the convert? does not forget to say gayer name? >> absolutely. they're supposed to. obviously i'm not there who has worked on their baby. i go on the road selling a book, so you want them to be happy. when they are, it is wonderful. they are very appreciative. there's give-and-take with doris. she didn't want her name on it. she wanted it on the bottom. she wanted to see a little bit more of the faces. so we played without a little bit. >> two color schemes come in and out of fashion as well? >> yeah, sure, sure. sometimes even fashion itself, the color on the runways can effect what is on a book cover. yeah, definitely. obviously that is always a sure shot. it has always been on the green, not necessarily unless you are a book

secretary previously was the chief ethics officer at p&g, the chief compliance officer at p&g. uspect that we are going to see ethics placed at a level where it should be. we did not find that in our review in phoenix when there was a request for an ethical review and not all of the recommendations were found and put forward by the person who submitted them. there was a reorganization of cha which removed the chief medical ethics officer from the inner circle of the highest tier of management in vha and was relegated to a lower level which removed that person from a seat at the table with the most senior people. i suspect we will see a change in that. and that think what had been ethics just from the medical ethics perspective is something that will be expanded beyond vha to other areas in the apartment. and i had not read every single page in the report. i am currently reading it. i need to, but what i have not seen, and i have read through the ethics section, what i have not seen as specific recommendations on accountability, people losing their jobs. we heard the most egregio

you see, it's the ethic of the hierarchy,y with order, planning, control, the few.ts of a the ethic of 21st century is cooperation. part,ody playing their sharing the rewards, the talent together. friends, it is time we ran the bentry like we know it can run. [applause] now here's a question for you. challenge is to run the country on this principle of thether, can the tories be answer? answer?tories be the [crowd says "no"] >> that's better. bestse if you want the example of you're on your own, rig the system for the powerful throwback dog inma, dogma.st look at this if you're a low paid worker struggling to make ends meet, for longering harder for less and you're on your own. if you're a family in the middle, you feel like you're just treading water, and you're on your own. if you're on a zero hour getting up at 5:00 a.m. every morning to find out whether you've got work, they'll how an economys succeeds, and you're on your own. the peoplene of who's worried about the railway company, the payday lender, they're not going to do anything own.lp you, you're on your if you're one of the

the heart of it is great ethics. doing meaningful work that makes a difference, but you do it in a fair way and a balanced way, a non-opinionated way. the whole line of commentary and reporting and blame it on msnbc, fox, whoever you want. we have to be incredibly thoughtful about doing the right thing for our readers. ethics, my north star. you can't be a credible journalist and know there are flaws in your newsroom. it starts with having a good strong foundation in ethics. >> i am not hitting extra credit for this -- getting extra credit for this. i want you to speak on the idea of you've seen the contraction in the newsrooms. you are very optimistic on the newspapers themselves. i would like to hear you speak about optimistic on the role of the journalist. especially the idea of the lost instructional knowledge, entire beats being sacrificed. >> the toughest part of the gig. it is a time where if we could look at every fte in a newsroom, you want to hold onto them as much as you can. unfortunately, i have had to ov

the air as a question. which gets to my second point about ethics, which it is it seems to me the biggest ethical challenge front of everyone with respect to the response today is how to go about providing low tech treatment to the large affected populations in west africa on a safe basis and that is ethical because the more high end treatment options are getting washed out. hospitals are closing. personnel are leaving. the personnel are not on the ground. so that ultimately leads you into inquiring about what are the options going to be for low tech care that can be provided to people that are suffering from ebola and under threat of ebola in this context that is going to be wildly different from under normal circumstance. it's going to raise ethical issues, issues of race and that's the predicament we face on the ethical grounds right now. >> i think you're absolutely right. i think that what we really have to be focusing on are not the questions that made the headlines initially, they were great because they made us pay attention. but if we're going to make a difference in the immediate future, it's with

, which it seems to me, the biggest ethical challenge in front of everyone with respect to the response today is how to go about providing low-tech treatment to the large affected population in west africa on a safe basis that is ethical, because the more high-and treatment options are getting washed out. hospitals are closing. personnel are leaving. personnel are not on the ground. tothat ultimately leads you inquire about what are the options going to be for low-tech palliative care can that be provided to people who are suffering from a bowl and the other threat from a bullet in text, which would be different from what we would do in a normal circumstances. it will raise ethical issues, issues of race, and that is the predicament. that is the biggest predicament we face on the ethical grounds right now. >> i think you're absolutely right. i think what we really have to be focusing on are not the questions that made the headlines initially, which were great, because they made us all pay attention to what was going on over there, but in fact if we a

. >> reporter: the football talk these days is about ethics. what the nfl will do next after the ray rice controversy and new accusations yesterday that the league had evidence of the crime for months before acting on it. >> absolutely, 100%, i'm watching for that move. >> reporter: former nfl player ron niece talking about how the league and the 49ers need to better address domestic violence if they want to change the focus. >> i would love that everybody would be talking about the excitement around the game and the opening of the new stadium. but there are issues that are more spornt than sports themselves. >> it's been a long time coming. >> reporter: local at lets say they understand why the spotlight has moved from the games themselves -- >> sports is going to be a pivotal part of the ethics in our culture because sports is so much ingrained in our population. >> reporter: being watched more closely than ever for what happens off the field. >> santa clara is putting on that ethics summit for the fifth consecutive year. the organizer told me

he is at the forefront of ethical answers of life and death questions. as well as the first world responsibility of epidemics like ebola. then we will turn to a conversation with two-time tony winner, savion glover. he made his name on broadway. we're glad you could join us. those conversations coming up right now. >> the california endowment. help happens in neighborhoods. learn more. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> who gets the established protocol for dealing with epidemics and what should be done about the explosive use of prescription opiates. those are questions with no simple answers. glenn cohen is the author of an upcoming book. he is also the director of the center for health law policy o biotechnology at harvard. thanks for coming on to this program. let me start with your assessment of how this ebola crisis has been handled to date. >> so i think the general sense of people who work in public health is that it has not been a very strong handling of it. there were about 20 ebola outbreaks since 1

. >> now, there seems to be two ways to get rich in the world, one is the ethic of conquest, and the other is wealth creation -- >> you have approximately one minute left with this witness. >> very well. do you think that the chinese and russians and other large powers in the world, even though they've benefited from the ethic of wealth creation, have given up the ethic of conquest? >> sadly, in the case of russia, it does not appear to be the case. their economy, which started to show promise in the early 2000 withs, is now, as john mccain pointed out, a gas station dependent solely, almost solely on oil revenues. and their do think that grabbing territory is the way to make themselves a great power. this was, by the way, the great mistake germany made in 1914 which was then as it is today the dominant power in europe, but it was fearful about france having a military, fearful about russia having a military. and they thought, or at least their militarists thought from prussia, that a war would solve their problems whereas we know that if germany just had let things flow, it would ha

the back door. and there is nothing wrong with it in terms of this is not an ethical process or anything like that, in terms of lobbying the budget analyst. and so when i see it, when i see the department or when i see a line item, that is not filled, because the money is not there, my immediate instincts based upon the 20 years that i was in that situation of doing budgets is what did you do with the budget analyst office and for you to tell me no one gets anything from the budget analyst, and you are wrong. and i would suggest, and i would really advise you to and work on the aspect of that. >> and i would have to say that i spend my year, defending the budget to the budget analyst so that they don't recommend the cuts in it and that is the process in my experience. and i don't want to use the term back door to scribe anything that the ethic commission does and i will see what and it shows, because if you look at our budget today as opposed to when i started here, it is significantly different. >> okay. >> but, there is nothing wrong with back dooring the budget analyst, because that is the name o

if the world didn't have america, the conquest ethic would return with a vengeance, the chinese, theans, they are using wealth creation, but they believe in conquest. if it wasn't safe for the u.s. navy, countries would be unsafe. the world needs america now, as it has in the past. >> i wish we could continue the discussion. hopefully we can another time. i love both of you. you have great perspectives, and it's a delight to have you. thank you for joining us. >>> the stars of the upcoming christian movie "the song" are here to perform of title track. we'll have that right after this. it's time to bring it out in the open. it's time to drop your pants for underwareness, a cause to support the over 65 million people who may need depend underwear. show them they're not alone and show off a pair of depend. because wearing a different kind of underwear, is no big deal. join us. support the cause and get a free sample of depend at underwareness.com do you have something for pain? i have bayer aspirin. i'm not having a heart attack, it's my back. i mean bayer back & body. it works great fo

a few, the ethic of the 21st century co-operation, everybody playing their part, sharing the rewardsthe talents of all. together. friends, it is time we ran the country like we know it can be run. [applause] now here's a question for you. if the challenge is to run the country on this principle of together, can the tories be the answer? can the tories be the answer? i'll tell you why they can't be the answer, because if you want the best example of the you're on your own, rig the system for the powerful few, insecure, throwback dogma then just look at this government. [applause] if you're a low paid worker struggling to make ends meet, you're working harder for longer for less and you're on your own. if you're a family in the squeezed middle you feel like you're just treading water and you're on your own. if you're on a zero-hours contract, getting up at 5:00 a.m. every morning to find out whether you've got work, they'll tell you that is how an economy succeeds and you're on your own. if you are one of the people worried about the railway company, the payday lender, they're not goin

secretary previously was the chief ethics officer at png. he was the chief compliance officer at png. i suspect that we are going to see ethics placed at a level where it should be. we did not find that in our review in phoenix when there was a request for an ethical review and not all of the recommendations were followed that were put forward by the person who submitted them. there was a reorganization in vha which removed the chief medical ethics officer from the inner circle of the highest tier of management in vha and was relegated to a lower level which removed that person from a seat at the table with the most senior people. i suspect;kñ that we'll see a change in that. and i think what had been ethics just from the medical ethics perspective is something that will be expanded beyond vha to other areas in the department. >> and i haven't read every single page of this report, and i'm currently reading it and i need to do that, but what i haven't seen -- and i've read through the ethics section of it -- what i haven't seen are some speci

we look at the ethics of tipping. take a look at how the stock markets ended the week. >> the algorithm is the product of the company. >> i know that. what i'm asking about is the company itself. who is it? >> that's peter gregory and hbo's show silicon valley. peter thiel is an icon after investing in facebook, linked in and tesla. he is sharing his insight on innovation and entrepreneurism in a ground breaking book called 0-1. >> thanks for having me on the show. >> you argue that right now we are in a time of technology stagnati stagnation. >> that is continuing to accelerate over the last 40 years. outside of that there has been a lot less progress in the world of atoms. energy, transportation, biomedical, biotech. these areas have seen much in the last 40 years. much broader progress across the board. >> is that a role for the government or something that comes from the ground up. >> i'm biased to thinking it's more from the ground up. we need to, it often gets driven by charismatic founders who are able to motiva

as an excuse to join the ethical coalition because they want to enjoy the region. >> many syrians of the rebel-held territories have agreed with. not targeting government forces instead. anti-western sentiment is growing because of civilian casualties. activists support more than 20 people have been killed in the

that is the ethic of the 21st century in business. we need great entrepreneurs. britain needs great entrepreneu entrepreneurs. but the greatest recognize they're only as strong as their team. and it's not just true in business. there will be people who are here who work in our brilliant national health service, our brilliant national health service, friends. [ applause ]. earlier this year i spent a couple of days at an nhs hospital. i wanted to go there to see how things looked from the front line. mainly i sort of got in the way really but that's what politicians tend to do. and i remember one evening i was in a&e at 9:00 p.m. and i was watching nurses from different backgrounds, different walks of life all coming together. i was incredibly moved. i was incredibly inspired by the team work. i was so proud of our national health service. [ applause ]. go to any great hospital, go to any great school, it's the team that makes it strong and then think about our brilliant armed forces and let us pay tribute to them today, friends. [ applause ]. our brilliant heroic

i have read through the essex session --ethics section. i have not seen specific recommendations on accountability,. people losing their jobs we have heard the most egregious instances of dereliction of duty and fraud and learned those people are still on the job. i cannot argue with anything you said about the new secretary. i had a chance to meet with him yesterday. i am looking forward to his leadership. i think we need to institutionalize these cultural changes. you were asked earlier about anything in the july compromise bill that you think would help change the situation. i think the ability to fire senior executives, get the deadwood and fraudulent actors out of the way quickly so we can bring up those who are the best and brightest and have the outcome of the veteran first and foremost in mind is what we need to do. i am not seeing that still throughout the system, including where i have the honor of serving veterans. i realize i am out of time. i appreciate the chairman's indulgence. >> thank you. i will approach this a little diff

i also think of the ethics of the question. if i were a ceo, take of a company like apple, use the ingenuity of america, based on the internet. internet was created, in large measure, by government -- >> right. >> -- by government spending. they're willing to take but not to give back. so, there's really a whole set of problems that concern it, ethics, equity, fairness, resource allocations. what they don't seem to understand is our society can't function if these large corporations don't make their fair share of contributions. >> aren't they likely to say, though, in response, well we do this because the law permits it. this is what the system incentivizes. >> well, the law does permit it. they use their lobbyists to make sure that the law gives them the scope to avoid taxes. so, this argument, oh, we're only doing what the law allows, is disingenuous. the fact is they created, their lobbyists, their lobbying helped create this law that allows them to escape taxes, pushing the burden of taxation on ordinary americans. >> so, t