do you solemnly swear you will suppor t the constitution of the united states, do you swear faith and allegiance to the same. do you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or personal hesitation and to discharge those duties upon what you are about to serve? congratulations. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] how was i going? thank you so much. it's an honor to be with you. . >> what a great family. . >> it is so nice to see you. [inaudible conversations] . >> nice to meet you. [inaudible conversations] . >> i was already looking up. [laughter] please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear you will sup port the constitution of the united states, against enemies foreign and domenstic, do you swear faith and allegiance to the same. do you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or personal hesitation and that you will well and faithfully discharge the office upon which you are about to enter so help you god? congratulations. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] . >> please raise your r

he came to the united nations and he -- united nations and he told the secretary general that it was necessary to have the united nations send observers. that did not take place, why? and he was in contact with fred ricoh and i myself sent an invia station to him to be an ober in the election. they objected it outright, why? because already the plan was under way. the plan to -- for a coup d'etat was under way. three months before the election under secretary sullivan was the first to say these election will be fraudulent election. and then the president of colombia, chili and from europe stated immediately that they will not recognize the results of the election several months before the election. when have you ever seen anything like that? show me, demonstrate that there was fraud. one fraudulent vote. we heard that the ballot boxing were rigged in venezuela we have an electronic voting system. it's not matt:. there's sit-- manual. there's simply a certificate to prove you voted. then a certificate to check against the actual vote. the united states wants to build a wall between me

well you know saudi arabia needs the united states alliance and i think the united states is playing. when it's you know it's blowing kisses in saudi arabia it's protected saudi arabia from the shop she affair to a certain degree by the president saying that it's not clear that the king is involved in ness of course pompei of his message was the people who carried out the murder have to be punished which which. plex a certain amount of pain on the crown prince because it's going to see inside the kingdom it's going to be seen as disloyalty and but on the other hand it is trying to get beyond this relationship there is talk about trying to clean up yemen situation all of these are monsters undertakings unlikely to be resolved anytime soon so the united states has a lot of heavy lifting to do to try to bring unity back to arab ranks because the arab unity is completely fallen apart over the last you know the last seven eight years. majeed tell us about iran's relationship with qatar and how that plays into the into the strategic game play if you like i mean a sense. since maybe the nine

an existing unit. we need to really look at being much more creative, and putting more money into buying buildings that are coming up, especially when we have rent control, if there's seniors in these buildings, and low income people , it is so much harder to find someone housing, than to keep them housed. so i would love to see us really put a lot more money into our small sights program, i just think it is so important, and also build affordable, but we have to start manoeuvring in a different way because we are seeing people lose their housing , and then there is no other place for them to go because these people are usually on fixed incomes, they are in rent control, and they are pushed out of the city. so i really hope that we start really looking at affordable housing and purchasing affordable housing and that pushing the dollars towards small site programs, and any nonprofits that are managing this program, we need to actually funds them more so they have higher capacity to go out and compete wi

unit. affordable units will serve formerly homeless adults referred to the project by the department of homelessness and supportive housing through the coordinated entry system. building amenities include a large ground level courtyard, a community room with kitchen, resident lounge and game room, a services suite and bicycle parking. the project also includes a community garden that will be open to the public and managed in collaboration with a local non-profit. and with that, i had go ahead and turn the presentation over to the architects to talk through the proposed design. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my colleague and i will give you a brief presentation of the architectural design. and we want to start with the concept diagram of the design. i think it speaks to the two main goals of this development. two of the main goals, creating community and reflecting mission bay character. shows the site is between two streets and the public safety building and the new bridge view way. it e

the united states at a number of other countries and medially recognize that. thus confirming they have the advantage over were directly involved in this artificial of a parallel government, which now threaten serious destabilization. adviser johnrity bolton a bolshevik style the creation of all that is a nonprofit he on at your. on the other hand the allies of the opposition have promised national support. we strongly condemn those pushing the venezuelans to fighting, to the edge of a bloody bloodbath. united states are getting the picture of confrontation between the regime and the people of venezuela. this picture is far from reality. venezuela of obviously has brought support by the people. geological surveys by one of the structures of the organizations to the opposition, the leader, which is creating positioned in , is not supported by almost 70% of the people of venezuela. the distinguished representative of the united kingdom talked boxes inff in the venezuela, saw the elections were rigged. there are no ballot boxes in venezuela used in a system of vot

given that the united states has said it's going to leave and i think given no no matter what the united states says because there is a sense that one way or another the united states is going to be taking off they're going to try to reach an agreement with the assad government with moscow's backing to make sure that while this is not their first choice it's still something they prefer to a turkish invasion and there. could well be what we see going forward my one couple on your thoughts if the united states leaves who fills the void well it depends on how the united states will leave actually because if there is an agreement with turkey which is something that i believe now is not is not actually. something that we should expect to have soon given the failure of the bolt on visit to to ankara today so will we still need to see actually who is going to. take advantage of this disagreement between turkey and the united states now it seems to me that we are back to square one between two of the united states concerning the area but let's assume that the americans are withdrawing without an

you know i think the united nations has. a problem in that if it isn't properly represented i mean look most of the countries of the world are in don't you know we only have five permanent members of the security council so there's been a lot of calls for that structure to be revamped to increase the representation if you don't if you have a body that purports to speak for the whole world but but there are many countries that are not represented that creates this kind of imbalances that we see and i see you know yeah i think the u.n. i would say is trying to solve problems but often unintentionally and use an exacerbation of magnifies the problems that are not existed at the united nations how does the magnify the problems whether it's of offending of the funding for operations is very heavily weighted to the united states when the united states pulls out its funding of programs like the u.n. d.p. or the. organization what happens is that those imbalances become much more evident so he's sort of you know used to basically th

so, what, would you say -- 5 units, 10 units, 15? pat: what's the price point on this unit today? the price on this one is $79,000. it does have a couple upgrades. pat: you're ordering multiple units, then what does that do to the discount? steve: when you're buying half a million dollars, you've got your discount. when we get over $750,000, if we get an order past that, we will increase the discount. and then, if we get past $1.5 million, we'll increase the discount even a little bit more. lemonis: retroactive. steve: retroactive, right. lemonis: and so, does that seem like an arrangement that we can move forward on? pat: absolutely. lemonis: awesome. pat: yeah. the relationship has evolved. lemonis: thank you very much. jeff: thank you very much. lemonis: impressing an industry leader like els is no small task, and the fact that there's a real potential for big orders is a big accomplishment. what's changed with steve, guys? tracy: i feel like he's actually reaching out to a lot of our employees, and they're recognizing it and they're seeing it. austin: i've heard from the floor

it's not a separate unit, whereas a unit is a unit. so his ultimate goal to sell this off and divide the property? >> so we want to say there. we've been best friends since '99, and it took a lot of cajoling to get him to go into this with me. >> got to love b.f.f.s. >> it's an adventure. >> yeah. >> okay. mr. sanchez. >> thank you. scott sanchez, planning department. one of the benefits of the a.d.u. process is the unit that is created out of that is rent controlled if the building itself is subject to rent control, and i believe this building would are subject to rent control, and the a.d.u. unit would be a rent controlled unit. there's no guarantee that a unit that is not built under the a.d.u. unit would be rent controlled. it's my understanding that in 2015, the appellant sought approval for condo conversion of the property as a three-unit condo conversion. i don't know that that has been completed or not, and how this would impact that. certainly, we look at this process, we created this process to create new housing. this is an

the united states have painted a picture between a confrontation of the united states and the people of venezuela. in spite of everything, the leader of venezuela obviously has broad support among the people and in surveys conducted in 2018 by an organization close to the opposition. the national assembly, the leader of which is currently being positioned in washington as almost a president is not supported by almost 07% of the people of venezuela. once again, about the elections informed. eing the distinguished executive of the united kingdom spoke about stuffed ballot boxes in venezuela, suggesting that the ballot boxes were rigged. there are no ballot boxing in venezuela. it uses a -- system of voting. provisions of the u.n. clearly condemn any interference by independent states. further for, american leaders are talking about the possibility of even using force, aying evening is on the table. does that mean the united states is ready to use force? we need to hear a clear answer on whether the united states declares to once again violate the unl charter. secretary of state pompeo

is going to do once it understands where the united states or what the united states wants to do then it can act in everyone is not a man known for his patience go ahead joshua. well you're absolutely right that the kurdish problem it turns out to be a problem for everybody nobody really knows what to do with it not america not turkey not syria not iraq and and this is you know with the collapse of the syrian central state during the civil war us side in many ways handed off eastern northeastern syria to the kurds into the y.p. g.m. and then america which had been helping the arab militias against us side hoping to overthrow the regime put in a pro-american regime that would make peace with israel this completely collapsed and so the united states was left siding with the kurds to fight isis these this very reliant sunni kayla full group that was trying to build this big caillat and that that caused in a sense the united states to side with the allies of us if you would but now that they're withdrawing everybody is no none of the regional powers want there to be an independent or auto

they export narcotics in the united states. we export drugs, pardon me, we export guns and laundered money back into these cartels. we wonder why they're so powerful. according to the latest dea drug threat assessment, the amount of bulk cash seized has been steadily decreasing over the last eight years. dea reports that, quote, large amounts of cash continue to be interdicted along moonk highway corridors with the cash typically concealed and hidden vehicle compartments or among legitimate cargo. again, there would be strong bipartisan support in congress for more resources for outbound inspections if only the administration put as much priority on this effort as they do on a wall. there is more that congress can do. in 2013 when democrats controlled the senate we passed bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform. do you know how much was included in that bill for border security funding? $40 billion and over 60 senators voted for it. no lack of will when it comes to border security. sadly, the republican leaders in the house

under crean disrupting chemicals in the united states. produce. these calls that wise as much as in europe where the regulation is much tighter i wonder if you faced any pushback on that understudy not only from the industry but also from the political class because ultimately these results are a comment on the role of the government. we know that policy predicts exposure exposure predicts disease and disease costs us all as a society what's striking about the difference in our cost estimates between the european union and the united states is the differences in policy that drive those differences in costs so in the united states we proactively required brominated flame retardants to be put into furniture and carpeting among other things and that's resulted in extremely higher levels of those flame retardants in the human bodies of americans as opposed to europeans and that ultimately has affected the cognitive outcomes of literally a generation of american children whereas your a pro actively acted to ban those flame retardants from use improv ac

with her husband to the united states from iraq in 2013. she is the proud mother of two children and is expecting a third. since coming to america, she has become a teacher's assistant in our public schools doing a fantastic job, i might add, preparing the next generation of young americans to make the most of this magnificent country that she too now enjoys. and i want to just congratulate you. thank you. [applause] matthew hemsley is from the united kingdom. thank you, matthew. he is an anglican pastor who came to the united states in 2006 and earned a masters degree from gordon conwell seminary in north carolina. fine place. his grandmother was an american citizen whose ancestors first came to north america in 1637. that means you beat us. you beat all of us. [laughter] as part of plymouth colony. now the hemsley family history of the united states is renewed, and the next chapter of their american story begins. matthew, it's an honor. great luck. [applause] [inaudible] is from south korea and came to the united states in 1992 to pursue

the point at which the united kingdom left the e.u. because of course your hope premise that you are advancing is somehow u.k.'s prosperity is utterly dependent upon one relationship that relationship we have with the european union in fact we've been increasing our trade with the rest of the world despite the fact we're not in a single market relationship and you have a big promise from the usa if i may just finish finish the point and the trade we've done with the european union has been declining as a proportion so since the single market came into existence in one thousand nine hundred three we've grown exports the european union by eighteen percent we've grown exports the rest the world by seventy percent how do we do is we're trading on w t o terms with the rest of the world we're trading across customs frontiers the fact is the future of the united kingdom does not depend on our future prosperity is not depend on membership of the european union the european union is the slow lane of the developed world it's the high unemploymen

states is compromising the national security of united states i would also point out however that in some ways this is been overtaken by events while everyone has been obsessed with a fact that the f.b.i. launched the investigation clearly that part of the investigation was handed over to robert muller when mulder was named special counsel so the very fact that muller now clearly has this part of it his bailiwick suggests that all the accusations of f.b.i. bias either in either direction i don't think really apply anymore because clearly they were only engaging in this investigation for two to three weeks before muller was named special counsel the most persuasive argument are heard for on this side supporting trump is that. in order to launch that investigation you still have to meet a certain legal standard don't you think that it's easier for security agencies and other groups to bypass that standard when it comes to trump no no i don't because the problem the basic problem i would argue these agents agencies have had to deal with with trump and again as you pointed out in the ope

units. from the four current units to 19. this project provides for existing tenants during the development and it includes relocation assistance, it includes temporary housing for them. this project will be responsible for zero evictions. this project will be responsible -- responsible for zero displacements. this project is a dream for the safety. the current tenants supports this project. if i can speak for a moment about the shadow earlier this morning, i attended that commission and they determined correctly. it was a 4-2 split, and this project does not significantly contribute to adverse enjoyment or use of the park. the study that was done, the shadow study that was done shows that this project will increase the shadow by 0.38% of additional shadow. this park is currently 2.5 acres , and falls with less than 20% current shadow coverage , meeting the guidelines that the city provides is 1% additional shadow for a development. this contributes 0.38. we have seen some photographs today that people have brought showing th

states and china and united states in canada in china in terms of arrests there in this case is that again it's not their random interaction that here they are talking specifically about americans being approached by russians who seem to be friendly reach into the borders of mr brennan is most unusual get it's not surprising to me that someone coming from an intelligence background has that kind of perspective on russians just randomly interacting with them that said i agree with you that if you're an ordinary american who doesn't have any affiliations with the united states government who doesn't have any affiliations with what would be considered aspects of the national security sector no that's a guy that's concluded that is somewhat exaggerated i'm perfectly happy to agree i heard you say that that while you yourself dislike conspiracy theories there is just too much smoke around trump for there to be no fire how much of that smoke is genuine and how much of that is created by segments like this the last time we talked was two was twenty sixteen i believe in its worst case or the

cuban leader to the united nations no surprise going against the position of the united states whichis recognizing the opposition leader who's a cleric himself president. so defying the united states you're looking at live pictures continuing live pictures from the u.n. security council meeting right now discussing the power struggle that is gripping venezuela and once again the u.s. which called for that meeting taking place right now is pushing the security council to back that opposition leader. who is the clear himself as interim president but we heard earlier on from china and russia they've both reiterated their support for president nicolas maduro so divisions clearly on display at that meeting right now let's bring in the sea a newsman she's joining us from. that is on the colombia venezuela border and we did hear from the colombian foreign minister in fact lucy at the u.n. security council but let's just move away from that for a second from the action going on there and tell us what you're seeing and what you're hearing from venezuelans who've had to flee their country.

united states. trump. choose into the you who are the people who are these terrorist groups or if you're ultimately agree with mr trump in the in these coalition he wanted to in a chain to win the chamber you follow the same policy that. created do you think you may have other things in common with mr trump and at least in the way how he conceptualizes there is no newcomer in purposes a common policy between us and the sitra and there could be no more overlap of of us on how the region develops we're not. because we know that. he has his you know any policy you know or the war you're against any kind o. expansionism and any kind of his unit where you notice it or any other country now as the americans keep on insisting on the. removal of the iranian presence as they put it in syria they and their allies seem to be in trenching and the system you're freydis and i'm sure you know the mr trump's current national security advisor mr bolton wants advocated for the creation of the so-called sunni stand a quasi s

correspondent on your part and bill looks at a recent united nations report on poverty in the united states and some reactions at home and abroad plus the c.e.o. of strong market were words looked at the wealthiest and poorest nations around the world and r.t. correspondent trinny charges goes to fisher island florida of the wealthiest zip code in the u.s. for a special report part of it from which i got bus r.t. correspondent dan cohen looks at the war on torture at the poor areas in the nation including right here in the nation's capital the belly the beast washington d.c. all that straight ahead but first let's get to a few has what we seek to bring a global perspective to the issues we cover here boom bust so to get a real grasp on the problem of inequality we begin with a report from the library of the british house of commons which is analogous to the library of congress here in the u.s. on what our world will look like in twenty thirty if trends continue the report finds that the richest one percent of humanity is on track to control sixty four percent of the planet's capital

the interior of the united states.what we found is the homicide rate in those counties is about 25% below that of the rest of the united states. if the rest of the trait was as peaceful as as border counties are in terms of the homicide rate, the would be about 5700 fewer homicides in the united states in 2017 relative to what they really were. there's crime on the border, homicide on the border, lots of different crimes that occur there but compared to the rest of the country it's more peaceful than people giveeo cret for. >> host: thankre you institute, we might people at the cato institute does. >> guest: it's a libertarian think tank based in washington, d.c. we research basically every single public policy issue from the perspective of support for free markets, limited government, individual liberty and a peaceful non-interventionist foreign policy. >> host: if you had $5.7 billion invest in solving thee immigration issue at the border, , howrd would you inves? >> guest: the number think we need to do is to make i

perception of russian interference is in the now but i think the the russian perception of the united states interfering in affairs of this country and pretty much every other country around the world doesn't stop the russians from pursuing a policy of foreign policy that would allow for constructive engagement with the united states that's the difference i would argue that the problem there has been the trump of ministrations incompetent handling of foreign policy in combination with the sort of polling that you're talking about because it's worth pointing out it's not just the american people that have suspicions here it's the united states congress and last i checked in terms of the constitution there are co-equal branch of government and so if you try to run a foreign policy that is expressly against the will of congress you will eventually run into political problems you said on many occasions that trump is unique in terms of how he breaks conventions isn't that also true about the congress and the opposition to him that they are willing to break any norms that existed up until n

states can pull out from the united nations altogether accessible i mean let's let's be clear the united states plays a very important role in the where i sit is a founding member like the russian deflation. and of course used to be out of one or two areas that are more i would say the other thing is to be of course involved in the sensitivity of it is of the when and i believe these will go on more true believer that when one looks at united states and the russian federation those two countries in many aspects common interests sometimes they are fighting but they have common interests and they for a look at the middle east. that we have been that was mentioned. about the decision of the global middle east in this area where i'm strongly believe that the jews the of the humanity. as you say it's in the russian federation and also in tony on the contrary well seems the jews are similar and i strongly hope the divisions that have existed will be overcome and that the two countries will be able to have very strong cooperation a lowing the international system to work there is no way in whic

it provides public benefit for housing units and 50 units are at below market rate. who is this project benefiting? when the people who live in the district, seniors on fixed income, are income ineligible even for the b.m.r. units. so who are you building for? with the proposed project increasing the square footage hours of shadow by 0.38%, we are setting a precedent of other developments to push us little by little. the park is a cultural asset. not only for off -- for the district stakes of the filipino cultural heritage district, the park is an asset to the city of san francisco. we asked to do not take my sunshine away. thank you. that was from mary. for me, when you are hearing a lot of folks from -- look at the hours of the shadows, the youth in this neighborhood, after they finish middle school, they all go to different high schools because this neighborhood doesn't have a high school. by 3:15 pm when school is out, they have to travel back to soma to get to the park around 4:00 pm. if we take away that shadow, we can complain a lot. don't hang out in the stre

states the united states to lead. and now we withdraw but also this constant from a very sized ministration or very extreme one one i have to point out that lost the election by three million votes and based on the midterm results is not likely to be around it after twenty twenty and so very likely these decisions will then be reversed so my advice to the rest of the world is take a deep breath and america will be back. in france president mccrone used his new year's speech to head out into extremist elements in the country. winners of all see it we have perience great division and anger broke out anger against injustices against the course of a sometimes in comprehensible globalization against an administrative system that's become too complex and lacking in empathy there was also anger against profound changes that call into question our society's identity and direction this anger has shown me one thing no matter how excessive or overflowing it is we will not quit cold across message didn't go down well with opposit

of united nations the united states i mean fortunately into a lot of united states of english and to the key financial commitments of the maintain their position that as i said as you said some. years with us has left but in addition to the central aspect the us has meant independently of that it's important to have a multi please and it is that equilibrium that's a loss for us to be more impartial in body sectors given how important the united states still is both to their funding and their running off and i'm sure as secretary general your had to run through several contingency plans i wonder in your planning whether you see this change post of the united states as something temporary that may change to your let's say six years down the line or is it a permanent change i think it's important to recognise first of all debts we have been able to maintain with the us. as a working relationship the best of that nikki haley has been extremely constructive in addressing the difficulties that we face are real and if the latest statement. sounds talking about three nations make that talkin

the united states pulls out its funding. of of programs like the u. anti appear at the end of the year one route organization what happens is that those imbalances become much more evident. so he sort of you know you see the basically the unilateral actions at the united nations is taking and the rejection of the un structures. are in fact kind of would you know review well one of those who say that the united nations is a good idea in principle but the reality is something completely different. tell us about that troubling reality. was united nations comp be more democratic and more rules space than its member states are and the majority of member states are dictatorships or at least authoritarian regimes see. democracies in the states of law are in the minority and that of course limits the possibilities of the united nations to be what they are supposed to be which is. somehow. the car until her of a rules based -- well to order. and this is a special challenge to germany. germany is a used to put the main point on diplom

what designate units are the replacing units, the numbers? >> recathe variance has to be oe bottom floor. the square footage is under requirement. we have three residential units on the ground floor. to continue the residential character, we needed a variance on the location. >> excuse me. are the replacement units subject to the variance? >> yes. >> which ones? >> all the rent control are in the d district. they are not subject to the variance. the >> i want to make sure, we are not replacing on the 192, 194. the flats with the exposure with the small units with exposure to variance because they do not have the open space in the back. >> subject the variance because the [indiscernible] is on the third floor. >> the reason the variance is required there is because it was the culmination of multiple properties. it was zoned as neighbourhood commercial. the neighbourhood commercial district. the interior lot in red, there is a district. instead of providing variances for modifications, there are exceptions taken to the planning commission, they

the united states also is working to keep the bilateral relationship strong. over the next few days uae oman and kuwait will talk about our shared goals just as we did at jordan and iraq this week as we seek an even stronger partnership and then to that creative energy of free and open exchange of ideas the progress made can continue also applaud the efforts to promote religious freedom which is an example for all leaders and all people of the middle east and i was happy to see her citizens were wrongly convicted finally be acquitted. we strongly support egyptian tilot to be amended so it does not happen again more work needs to be done to maximize the potential of the egyptian nation and itsan people i'm glad america will be a partner in those efforts. i will close with a couple final thoughts, it's never easy to recognize truth but when we see it, america has been criticized to do too much in the middle east and too little but one thing we have never been is an empire builder or a oppressor. just look at our history together which i have recounted today look

and we mention the united nations report with the professor the report looks at poverty in the united states r t correspondent on your part and bill looks not only at the report but at some of the reactions surrounding its recent release. for fifteen days in december two thousand and seventeen professor philip alston the un special rapid toran extreme poverty and human rights traveled to the united states in order to quote evaluate and report to the human rights council on the extent to which the government's policies and programs aimed at addressing extreme poverty are consistent with its human rights obligations his findings paint a dire picture of life in the us the report states that a staggering forty million americans live in poverty eighteen point five million in extreme poverty and a whopping five point three million americans toil under third world conditions characterized as absolute poverty of the thirty five member states in the organization for economic cooperation and development the report finds the united states has the highest youth unemployment rate and highest infan

and when you have seen the united states step away from the world stage, when you have seen the unitedtates the isolationist in its approach, it has been able to sustain that for a short period of time, but in the variably, what it has had to do is to deal with the realities of what is happening around the world. and we have seen over the last 20, 25 years, a truly extraordinary set of events which has meant that the united states has been the sole superpower on the world stage. but that world. and that chapter has come and is rapidly coming to a close. so how does the united states amplify and magnify its strength, and it has to be through those alliances? you would probably say that is not surprising, coming from a uk defense secretary. but actually, it puts a responsibility on allies themselves, because actually the point about other nations paying their way, contributing, actually stepping to the mark in terms of what it spends on defense is absolutely right. it shouldn't just be the united states, britain and a few other countries that are spending a minimum of 2%, and we shouldn'