we have about 4000 family units. about 69% of our total pipeline are family units. it is not surprising that 69% of all the units currently in the pipeline will be family units. those are in development at some stage of construction. chairperson farrell: when you say ppipeline, is this total units in san francisco? >> this includes the hope sf units, but not market rate. i do not like living on a somewhat depressing note, but we did want to talk about the city- allocated federal housing resources. in the past three years, i think we have shared the decline in our community block grant dollars, in the federal home dollars that supported new construction. if you add in redevelopment, taking it back to 2007, you can see it is an 85% anticipated decline. a huge percentage reported affordable housing. this does talk about the resources we had to create affordable housing units. even now we have 4000 units in the pipeline, it may be some time before we get them out. overall, i guess i would say that although i have tried to adhere to the policy recommendations that came o

a dwelling unit. i am available for any questions. >> i do not know that you can straighten this out for me, but in exhibit b, i assume this would be the permit holders brief, it appears as though there are six units in this building? and the tenant has the right of first refusal? i do not think it has any bearing on whether or not we agree to jurisdiction, but i am just curious. >> exhibit e is the agreement for premises. i do not recognize this as a city document, an official city document. whoever prepared this, maybe this was a tic agreement. but it is not something that we would use as reference for establishing the number of legal units in a building. president garcia: i was just curious as to whether or not it was three units, this being the third, that the request for lives in. or whether there were actually six minutes -- six units? >> if it was being rented out as office space, that would be illegal. this is not a city documentary we did not generate this, so i cannot comment on it. >> i bel

and a full unit on the upper. it accommodates good-sized units. yes, 2841 square feet means each unit is about 1400 square feet. there are nice-sized units but they are not huge. the hike is only 2610 in a 40- foot area. i think this is a really good project. >> the motion on the floor is to not a discretionary review. commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner borden: aye. commissioner miguel: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. vice president wu: aye. president fong: aye. >> that motion passes unanimously. you are now on item #8. 62 collingwood street. >> good evening. the proposal is to legalize the implication of a triple-pain, and double on aluminum windows. they are all located on the second level. the existing structure will not be enlarged by the request. the property is locating -- the department has concluded it is these of from review and the residents reviewed the projects following the fall it -- following the filing of the d.r. they found the project to be consistent with the residential design guidelines.

with those reforms so it seems to me that the united states has been quite the opposite of. maintaining peace because in the main the east that we laser would they take the bay waging war and then they plea right will come here and again it's early early let me just let me jump in here but i want to tell the base support for israel in the middle east which is going to mean ok we'll know our fact we're getting our fanatically was getting a little half done if your legs were getting a little off herbert what is the west's interest in syria and we keep reading this all the time what is the interest what is it another word for iran i don't think that the west has any specific interest in syria except that a defeat of assad would also be a defeat of iran it's interesting that in the conversations that take place with the united states seeing the villain in this interpretation of this rather naive interpretation of history iran hasn't been mentioned nor has of course nine eleven been mentioned the united states was attacked on nine eleven we responded to that attack but let me let

what law does united states military look to? >> if i could, i would like address both because they are related. cause resources risk incurred elsewhere by the use of force one other place. this is a zero sum game. take them someplace and use them. that's the issue of cost. and, of course, in blood and treasure. the cost of legal basis is important though. we, again, we act with the authorized use of military force either at the consent of a government, so we're invited in, or out of national self-defense, and it's a very -- there's a very clear tie yearia for that. and the last one international basis. >> wait a minute. let's talk about an international legal basis. you answer under the constitution to the united states government, do you not? and you don't need any international support before you carry out a military operation authorized by the commander in chief of the united states -- >> no. >> i just want to know that because there's a lot of references in here to international matters before we make a decision. i want to m

fitzgerald united states courthouse. the subcommittee on economic buildings, marked up the house exanchion bill and i want to thank representative young. james m. fitzgerald had 47 years experience as a judge both in the state of alaska and on the federal bench. he was one of the first judges appointed to the superior court in alaska when alaska became a state in 1959 and appointed to the alaska supreme court in 1972. in 1974, president ford appointed judge fitzgerald to the u.s. district court for the district of alaska until he remained until 2006. it is more than fitting that a federal court house in anchorage bear his name. i support passage of this legislation and urge my colleagues to do the same. i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from the district of columbiaize? ms. norton: mr. speaker, i rise in support of s. 1710 and pleased to speak in support of the bill of renaming the united states courthouse at 222 west 7th avenu

states supporting al-qaeda the united states. working with the lesson is that i don't know in syria i am side of i didn't say working with on the same side i said that the opposition forces in syria represent a number of different interests and it is not simply al-qaeda that's the only point that i'm making when you're talking about libya the result of the remains uncertain we're not entirely clear about what the result will be so for the judgment to be made that we know exactly what has happened is not at all accurate ok john there was no wait there's another thing the answer in the tree from getting we all got in that that's the only thing on this and the only one going to be doing that john go ahead in brussels. you see it's too easy also to speak of the west because the west is divided has always been divided there are the new conservative forces and the police forces and a certain number of human rights people who want to wage war and create international law and destroy international but there are people who are quite a dif

the united states to israel's security.bout 20 minutes. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. [applause] thank you very much. thank you. dear friends, as the president of the state of israel, first and foremost, i say on behalf of my people thank you. [applause] thank you, president obama, for being such a good friend. [applause] thank you, aipac, for your dedication and excellence as an organization like yours. friends, it's great to be here. it's great to be here together, strong, united. i see old friends and new ones. i see many young faces, young boys and girls, the future, it belongs to you. israel loves you. [applause] i am moved by your generous gift. i stand here before you. i am a hopeful man, proud to be jewish, proud to be israeli, proud to be here to have served my country for 65 years. [applause] i am proud of our alliance with the united states of america. israel, like america, was conceived as an idea to create a new world by breeding together the past in the innovations of the future. friends, the restoration

delegation to the united nations and then as the first war crimes ambassador for the united states working for then-secretary of state albright. in his new book, "all the missing souls" david gives a real insider account of the creation of the first international tribunal since nuremberg, set up to try the perpetrators of the wave of killings that took place in the 1990s. and i should also say that david is a very good friend of the museum and we have worked with him over the years on many projects and most recently on a project that we're going to do on the cambodia war crime trials. i should say david has been appointed -- he has a new job that many of you might not know about. he's a special expert for the united nations on the trials. so he's in the middle now of the controversies over how to handle that important set of cases. william shawcross has addressed these issues from a different perspective. as really one of the leading journalists of his generation and who first made his mark actually chronicling the terrible events in cambodia but in justice and the enemy william tackles a

a number of countries have indicated that theyl united stas in certain counterterrorism efforts, for instance, in providing evidence or extraditing suspects if we intend to use the cooperation in pursuit of a military commission prosecution. although the use of military commissions in the united states can be traced back to the early days of our nation, in their present form they are less familiar to the international community than our system and article three courts. however, it is my hope that with time and with experience the commissions will obtain similar respect in the eyes of the world. when cases are selected for prosecutions in military commissions, prosecutors and ve investigators work together to support the prostitutions. the bomber of the "uss cole" is being tried before a military commission. and we'll continue to reject the false idea that we must choose between military commissions and federal courts instead of using them both. if we were to fail to use all necessary and available tools at our disposal, we would undoubtedly fail in our fundamental duty to protect the

states mexico and the caribbean to conduct terrorist operations inside the united states and they i think they built their capacity to be able to respond to it that's hack by us they would not use it against america as a first strike but they certainly would respond to it and really cause havoc in our country so what are you saying could be the blowback if the u.s. does strike iran militarily certainly terrorism within the united states would be one thing do you think something on the scale of you know i know a lot of it i don't know what the we can do in this country they can certainly do low level stuff the stuff they did to the israelis. or the palestinians do to the israelis bombing schools and in hospitals in blowing up a edis in the road neck kind of thing all of there can be done in the united states we have twelve million undocumented aliens we don't know who's in our country and certainly the iranians can't will exact the pound of flesh they're not they're not going to be pushovers they're not palestinians so do you think because you're saying that you don't believe that ir

and you do see britain and united states in iraq. the united states was a little bit more suspicious at that time. >> but we also see britain pulling out now. they had 40,000 troops in there, it won't be too long before they have 5,000 troops in there and we'll end up being there by ourselves. the french have never really supported our efforts there. you say in 1919, they got syria and lebanon. >> the french got syria and lebanon. the british got iraq and palestine which then they divided into palestine and jordan, or trans-jordan and part of pal leestine and part of tha became israel and the west bank and so on and trans-jordan became jordan. so, the -- i mean, i think the political circumstances are very different today. the british i think are pulling out of iraq. i think the americans are saying they're very pleased about it. dick cheney was on television the other night saying we see this as a very necessary move and a victory. i don't know. i suspect that british public opinion and opinion within the labor party is now i think

is pushing for the rebels to unite but it's clear the factions are too divided on them willing to lay down arms. bringing peace to syria without foreign military intervention is also on the agenda as the leaders of russia and china and india they're among five of the world's fastest growing economies are also i bring out an alternative to the dominance of the i left for the world bank. in cold war one boss is sweeping america's republican senators into body no concessions for russia got a t.v. with missiles will be able to play soft obama was overheard assuring to be cheaper better more flexibility on arms control and. more the u.s. and russia don't see eye to eye on washington's missile defense plans in europe but as we heard next both countries must combine efforts to prevent a greater danger the spread of nuclear weapons. ambassador richard burton goes he did the first start treaty the strategic arms reduction treaty with the soviet union that was years ago is now a new start but according to some including yourself progress has stalled thank you for sitting down with us i want to

support for and defense of israel in the united nations. and when it comes to unesco, look only at what israel is doing in its own interests. it is still voluntarily funding programs that it thinks are important. while we are not. >> ambassador, i have one question. we'll make another round, but you'll need to be concise in this to get to everyone. we're hearing reports that iraq may be facilitating arms shipments to syria to support the opposition, and so it's very disheartening. i would say what is the u.n. doing to investigate those allegations? and if they're found to be true and iraq really is in violation of its international obligations, what steps can we expect the u.n. to take? >> thank you, madam chairwoman. we have also heard such reports. they are of concern. we are certainly working assiduously to -- in communication with the iraqis and others to ensure that any shipments are not -- that they undertake their obligations to ensure that any shipments that may be transiting their territory are not in violation of u.n. sanctions. t

what law does united states military look to? >> if i could, i would like address both because they are related. cause resources risk incurred elsewhere by the use of force one other place. this is a zero sum game. take them someplace and use them. that's the issue of cost. and, of course, in blood and treasure. the cost of legalasis is important though. we, again, we act with the authorized use of military force either at the consent of a government, so we're invited in, or out of national self-defense, and it's a very -- there's a very clear tie yearia for that. and the last one is with some kind of international legal basis. >> wait a minute. let's talk about an international legal basis. you answer under the constitution to the united states government, do you not? and you don't need any international support before you carry out a military operation authorized by the commander in chief of the united states -- >> no. >> i just want to know that because the's a lot of references in here international matters before we make a d

and that's why marx supported north america or of the united states remaining united he also supported the unification of germany and in germany there was the growth of the democratic nationalism in the mid nineteenth century and they had quite a big influence here in the united states people like lincoln really can be seen as giving expression to it and german thinkers. had quite an influence obviously they had an influence on karl marx it was insult german but german idealist a lawsuit was also influenced abraham lincoln is not not widely known but very world's has an excellent book showing how the the new england transcendental is philosophers people like theodore parker they supplied a lot of the ideas that animated lincoln and for example inspired his sketches were good dress which acas and a number of significant ways. i stress in that book the german americans were hugely important fact of life at this time there was a massive immigration of hundreds of thousands of germans partly anomic migrants but also refugees from. the revolution of eight hundred forty eight blocks of cours

iran cannot conquer the united states. the united states, if they decided to, could conquer iran. it would be a big mess. i don't support doing so, but in terms of mentoring power there's simply no comparing the two countries. so given that, if you look at things from iran's perspective, any diplomatic deal would involve making lots of substantial security assurances to iran. if you do this, not only will we not, not only will we do something, but we also agree not to do something in the future. so the question becomes how could iran trust assurances provided by a country that has overwhelming power and, indeed, i believe is still a unipolar power in the international system? how do you make credible assurances to relatively weak state, as a unipolar power that if he decided to, could renege on those assurances at any point. this is a point that i think is not terribly well grasped, or at least i don't think any evidence that isn't very well grasped by the administration, certainly by congress. it is just very difficult, no matter how genuine the intention, to credibly convey it t

the most vital national security interests of the united states would be most effectively realized not through hostility to russia but through cooperation with it. i see and russia and the united states can reach a settlement on the establishment of a global missile defense system on. this planet research is in jeopardy even the new strategic arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington has been unable to help. at a time of warmer bilateral relations news whose top brass decided to deploy a missile defense system a protecting europe but they were setting up too close to russia's borders and mosco didn't view it as a friendly gesture. we wanted to fill in the room europe not just some european countries we want to european allies and friends to join on this interest in strategy. flew genius in the affairs of the situation with a european missile defense system becoming unfavorable to russia we reserve the right to take no further steps in the new trade his old woman teria. the kremlin has repeatedly demanded that nato guarantees that the european missile defense shield would pose

that the united states is still there. setting aside the right in the wrongs, they have a problem. they look to the united states for support. that is an obstacle that they may try to break out of. if you look at the germany at the end of the 19th century, germany tended to break out of that problem by going to war. the chinese know that history very well. they're trying to avoid it. china is a little box and carried it does not have the kind of sway that the chinese believe it ought to have in terms of their history and in terms of their growing economy. we do not want them to have that kind of sway. how this gets manage will be one of the great and potentially dangerous circumstances that lie ahead of us. >> i am going to go back to the review. you mentioned this earlier in our discussion. at want you to address this. she said the expectation of global support for military intervention "is so great that in the iraq war, americans were shocked and disturbed when only 38 nations participated in the innovation or the post i

the united states -- the united states domestic courts and domestic law is very quickly applied. i can't foresee -- imagine any circumstances in which the united states -- the united states would have to be hold for the international criminal court. it's the rule of law here. >> i don't think anyone here should forget the last three years in the time that this administration has been in place, the administration has shifted its position from -- the united states position toward the international criminal court from one of hostility to engage participation. the united states has attended every meeting the assembly and the states party to america. the u.s. government has made pledges in support. the united states has supported first at the end of the bush administration the referral of the sudan case and then the referral of the libya cases. at the moment the united states is supporting and cooperating with the court on every case that's ongoing, kenya, congo, central africa and the republic. and sudan and that on these issues -- and david can attest to this, the view is that the u

if you're doing work in separate units, you should list only that unit. you should have to separate permits, one for the super lot and one for the lot within the unit. the trick that i am pushing for is to go back to the legal lot that existed. in this particular case, lot two. i do not know what number is here. you have to separate permits, the law permits for the common area and for the aerospace of the condo. by commingling this, you are creating a nice 5-10 years that you are never going to figure it out. >> is there any other public comment? seeing none, we will start rebuttals. you have three minutes. let's thank you gary president garcia, i will address your questions but i wanted to clarify to items. one is that in the permit issue, it says a skylight. it is on our -- it is our understanding that that was suspended. i will show that now and show the violation. i want to be clear on those issues moving forward, as well as for my client, to ensure that that permit, we do not lose a due process on that. here is the current complaint history with a ci

nations -- sanctions in the united nations. so in my opinion all i see there is no diplomacy, and all pressure -- [inaudible] so i don't see at this point in my opinion anti-war, anti-sanction. but if you lack at the iranian -- if you look at the iranian people, the sanctions pressuring the people, not the government. we have to realize that. sanctions is against the people of iran, it's not against the -- [inaudible] >> thank you. couple of points that you raised that i think are important to address. one quick correction. the iranians actually were enriching at 20% when the brazilians and turks were negotiating with iran. they had started it in february 2010. um, they had said, the iranians had said that they would rather buy the fuel than have to create it themselves, and they make the argument, the mere fact that they were sending out a request to buying the fuel was an indication that they originally had no intent to go all the way up to 20%. but they were doing 20% at a time when the brazilians and the turks were talking

and the fourth was the united kingdom, over 50. some of the guys came to me and said, i supervise them, not in london, but moscow. i'm familiar, but that part of the work of treating former employees or officials of the foreign secret, keep them happy. some of them were not quite happy. some would drink a lot and commit suicide. so in moscow, i became chief of counter foreign intelligence. and we managed to increase our agents -- i mean, sources, network to more than 500. two thirds of them were members of foreign intelligence and counter intelligence organizations. and radio-free europe. radio liberty. creations of the cia, we tried to penetrate and to redirect them and get some information from the inside. one of the chief of the russian section of radio liberty which also broadcast into eastern europe which would become a soviet agent. chief of the russian section of radio liberty. when i became a public figure at some point in my life, that guy was already in -- back in russia, because he was to be arrested. and he denounced me

states. >> not in the united states.y kplooep completed a certification to have cast that is certified for russia. >> it is certified for russia but not for us. >> how did you certify it? >> it is a long process. it takes a year and a half, two years to do a certification. you are taking part the cast and putting it on a plane. they need to do a scenario whereby they would figure out the impact if the plane crashed with the cast on the plane. we didn't want to rent a plane and put the cast on it and crash it. that didn't make sense. >> have a dummy flying it. >> wouldn't be smart. so the russians came up with a deseen where they built a rocket pad. they put a rocket on the back of the cast and sent it off by rocket until it crashed and then they were able to look at the impact of the crash of the cast and determine there was no breach and therefore the cast could possibly. >> they literally strapped a rocket. >> that's my understanding. i was not witness to it. >> so -- >> sounds right. >> it is an art and a science. >>

the united states? israel? iran? frankly all three.n if they're all talking tough, tough, and tougher every day, in order to ever prevent actually having to have a conflict, does ratcheting up the rhetoric help or hurt? rudy giuliani believes it helps. >> instead what he should be doing is convincing the iranians that he's serious, that if he had to, he'd bomb the hell out of them. they should believe this. in fact, the best way he's going to avoid bombing them is convincing them in their heads that he's capable of doing it. >> physically capable of doing it is not in question. but after 11 years and over $1 trillion spent on two wars, one based on heated rhetoric on weapons of mass destruction that didn't end up being there, the u.s. appetite for conflict is unsurprisingly low, and iran knows it. what will the u.s. really do? we'll get to that in a moment. first to tehran where today was the first election since the 2009 disputed presidential election. cnn's ivan watson is there. i spoke to him right before the program and asked him w

s advice and directive not to pursue independence through the united nations. and then avoiding direct negotiations with the state of israel. the most important strategic ally and friend the united states has in that region. but what are the consequences, or what would the consequences be to -- under a waiver to unesco, the body that actually voted in favor of the palestinians' request? i've got a couple of these, dr. rice. >> okay. >> madam ambassador, if you could. so i'm going to list them quickly. so consequences to unesco -- i know we have 22% of their regular budget. so that's a significant stick if we wanted to use it. also, do you know anything about the presence of russian troops in damascus? i read a piece the other day that the russians had landed in damascus. is there any truth to that? and if so, what were they doing there and what were their intentions? also, what are the -- if you can speak in public session about what the status is of negotiations between iran and the five plus one with regards to nuclr program. where is that status? also, it's

hole in one of the walls the explosion and unit two was internal to the containment structure unit three was the biggest explosion of all you showed it in the intro that reactor building is a pile of rubble at this point and you know one also suffered the first another dramatic explosion so the situation is anybody's guess tokyo electric you know the japanese public's attitude is are their lips moving while they're lying read the words tokyo electric and the federal government of japan some good news is the prime minister of japan who was serving on the catastrophe began and was quickly ousted some months later. he's now devoting himself to nuclear activism he wants to abolish nuclear power in japan and in fact out of the fifty four atomic reactors in japan there's a single one operating right now and it's going to shut down in may for maintenance and the thing is the local governments are saying no you cannot restart these plants and the federal government is trying to restart them so it's a dramatic struggle to keep these things shut down and it raises the question if they're all shut

>> yus the united states.st finished the certi certification for a cast to fly spent fuel to russia. we're getting ready to do our first shipment of that. >> it's certified for russia but not us? >> right. >> how did you certify it? >> it takes probably year and a half or two years. you're talking about taking this and putting it on an airplane. they needed to do a scenario to figure out the impacts if the plane crashed. we didn't want to rent plane and put the casts on it and crash it. that didn't make a lot of sense. they came up with a design where they built a rocket sled. they put a rocket on the back of the cast and sent it off by rocket until it crashed. they were able to look at the impacts of the crash and determine there was no breech and the cast -- >> they literally strapped a rocket. >> that's my understanding. i was not there and was not witness to it. >> it's fine. nice. >> sounds like so. >> it's an art and a science. >> it is. >> what's in there? >> that's the contained -- >> you can remotely

we go down to just building 50 or 75 units a year while we are converting 200 or 400 units a year from rent-controlled housing to student housing but not just student housing, vacation rentals and executive suites, we're digging a deeper and deeper hole. that is why i support the original legislation to ban the conversion of any rent- controlled housing to student housing. i want to say one thing about why it's not even in the institution's interest. the academy of art university used to say it is not rent control and they would admit they are covered by rent control. there are certain just causes for eviction and one of them is not that you graduate. another is not that you drop out of the school and a third is not the to go from being a freshman to a sophomore. as the students learn they are under rent control, when the schools as you have to move out because this is freshman housing and we're going to raise rent 10%, or are going to say i choose to stay here and student housing becomes general population housing. a number of institutions i talked to wanted to go to a conditional use

money markets, alleviated pressures on foreign banks to reduce their lending in the united states and has boosted confidence at a time of considerable strain in international financial markets. as market conditions have improved notably usage of the swap lines has fallen back, currently about $65 billion. i would add that the swaps are very safe from the perspective of the federal reserve and the u.s. taxpayer. they present no exchange rate or interest rate risk. each drawing has a short maturity and must be approved individually by the federal reserve. they are collateralized by the foreign currencies for which the dollars are swapped and our counter parties are the foreign central banks, not the commercial banks receiving the dollar loans. fed has also worked with the fsoc and other agencies who ploernt our financial institutions. notably u.s. financial institutions have very limited direct credit exposures to the most vulnerable euro area countries and u.s. money market funds have almost no exposure to those countries. there are some exposures arisings from the sale of credit defau