and speaking of transportation, i want to introduce tilly chang from the t.a. [applause]. >> thank you, everyone. thank you. walk sf. happy walk to workday. every day's a great way to walk to work and school. thank you walk sf for making this day so fun and so meaningful. the transportation authority is real really pleased to be focused -- we've been asked to be focused on vision vee row, things like the soma and making sure that the ramp wills and crossings are safe. we're on 19th avenue, lombard, geary. we're going to be keeping it together to make sure that the streets of san francisco are safe, especially the high injury network. we're also going to make sure that the funding is there, so i encourage everyone to learn about regional effort 3, sb-1, and thanks everyone, and have a great day. the united players are next -- sorry. they were great. we heard from them this morning. >> thank you. thank you, tilly. it is my pleasure to wrap up our annual walk to workday morning walk, and i want to thank everybody that's been here. it's been an amazing city family

change. shannon: sen. tilliss one of the key movers, brunson was a constituent of his, he thought it was important to see in person us senators working on this case, to see him face-to-face, no one is forgetting about you. you mentioned turkey is a nato ally. how do we mend this relationship? >> there have to be clear steps turkey will take and that is to release an american to use leverage. and turkey has a unique position, and with kurdish terrorists there. and to attack them as well, the dynamics turkey has, turkey can't just start imprisoning people, they have tens of thousands with no charges locked up, journalists, educators, judges and individuals they locked up and continue to extend their emergency powers, shifting away from rule of law. and working out differences on issues, we went to see turkey acting like turkey. >> how hopeful are both of you that it will make it through the legislative process to be signed into law? >> we are just at the start of that process. we have 66 senators sign on, strong bi

changing our. >> shannon: senator tillis was one of the key movers on here.nt of his and he's gone there. he said it was important to see in person, u.s. senators working on this case, to see him face-to-face, no one is forgetting about you. you both have mentioned, turkey is an ally. they are nato ally. how do we amend this relationship? >> there has to be clear steps that turkey has to take. one of those steps needs to be to release the american, we need to work out the relationships with how we deal with terrorism. turkey has a unique position in the world, they have syria, iraq, bordered by iran, a lot of threats around them, kurdish terrorists, some of those same kurds were working to clear isis. some of those same kurds are attacking them as well. i understand the dynamics that turkey has. turkey can't just imprison people. they have tens of thousands of people with no charges they have locked up. journalists, educators, judges, all these individuals they locked up and they will hold. they continue to extend their emergency powers. they are shifting awa

changing. let's put on the screen the merging of two proposals that exist right now. in fact, they're bipartisan. one of them between cory booker and thom tillis. and kunz and lindsey graham. the special counsel per this effort would only be calcify some of the information, some of the investigation work happening in a place that it doesn't just disappear. >> peter, thank you for joining us on this. good to see you in real life. and ken, thank you for your reporting. >>> we have a live report from beirut as the region prepares for possible u.s. strikes on syria. this as russia promises to shoot down any u.s. missiles that are fired there. first, just a reminder about syria. american troops are on the ground there right now. there are approximately 2,000 americans serving there providing support to local militias that are battling the remnants of isis. since the war began, there are now 5.4 million syrian refugees. 6.1 million syrians are internality displaced. in the country but not in their homes. 13.1 million syrians are in need of humanitarian aid. nearly half a million syrians are dead. you're watching velshi and ruhle live on msnbc. >>> w

tillis coming out of the break. >> thank you, mr. chairman. you have talked about your humble beginnings in starting facebook in your dorm room which i appreciated that story. certainly facebook has changed an awful lot over a relatively short period of time. when facebook launched its timeline feature, consumer saw their friends 'of posts chronologically. facebook has since been changed to a timeline driven by some sophisticated algorithms. i think it's left many people as a result asking, why am i seeing this feed and why am i seeing this right now? in light of the cambridge analytica issue, facebook users are asking new questions right now. can i believe what i'm seeing? who has access to this information about me? i think it is safe to say simply that facebook is losing the trust of an awful lot of americans as a result of this incident. i think an example of this, something i've been hearing a lot from folks who are bent coming up to me and talking about the experience they've had where they are having a conversation with friends, not on the phone, just talking. then they see ads popping up fairly quickly on their facebook. i have heard constituents fear that facebook is mining audi

tillis. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. secretary carson, welcome to the committee. >> thank you. >> when we met in my office before your confirmation, i talked a little bit about how i thought you could be a change agent in the department, and what was going to be critical was fairly quickly get in there and identify programs that are working and double down on them, and identify programs that are not. returning the value and take the tough political position that we can put this money to a better and higher purpose. i, for one, think the discussion about reducing your resources right now is premature. i think you need probably what you have and maybe some more, and what progress have you made in terms of really looking at the department and trying to really effect change so we know we're getting the best value and having the best impact on the people who need it? >> well, thank you for asking that question. we've made enormous amounts of progress. first of all, in terms of stabilizing the mutual mortgage insurance fund. in terms of stopping the hemorrhaging coming from reverse mortgage program, stopping the endorsement of pace loans which were putting the taxpayers at risk. stopping the turning