states where's the evidence of the united states involvement in syria i mean obviously the united states would love to see assad fall but we're not entirely happy about what the consequences of that might be and that is a continuing conversation that is taking place in our state department at the moment the idea that the united states knows what it wants to achieve in syria is ridiculous well herb if you want to see in all fairness sure because we want to hear in all fairness the secretary of state that says assad must go so the united states does have an interest in the fate of syria one way or another ok and what is the united that is another city in the middle that it wasn't really something everybody wanted to ease please every time the united states says somebody has to go you know what they do eventually john in boston you want to jump in. yes yes i want to go back through a couple things first of all i want to go back to something herb said he said that the idea of isolationism is nothing new in american politics well it's true i said recently it's new it hasn't made its appearanc

with five units or more to those with 10 units or more. in my presentation, i will first get a background on the inclusion reprogram in the city and then discuss the impact of this ordinance. first, the background. in 1992, the planning commission adopted the city's first inclusion very affordable housing policy. since then, the program has been modified and incrementally expanded. most recently, in 2006, the requirements were changed in several aspects. some of these aspects include increasing the inclusion requirements, additions to the area of median income calculations, and expanding the requirement by lowering the threshold from projects with 10 or more units to projects with five or more units. the current proposal that is before you today would move the threshold back to the higher threshold of 10 or more units. this change would affect any pipeline projects that have not secured the first construction permits. as of january 1, 2013. this proposal fits in the larger context of the housing trust fund, which would provide secure fundi

in 2004, we didn't 8 unit building -- did an a unit building. in 2006, we did a nine unit building on laguna streets. it was successful, barely. our margin was small. since then, that is it. the new inclusionary housing has killed us in the industry. we have lost something like 40% of our capacity. all of our employees are here in the city. there are three of us together. we pay city taxes. we are not new york developers. we are small guys. this is something i urge. it really is a great idea. i urge you guys to pass this legislation, because obviously, it is not working. we do other projects, like james said. it does not cancel out. the banks will not finance these projects with inclusionary housing. thank you. have a nice day. >> good afternoon, commissioners. stephen mcelroy. i cannot believe it was six years since we were here to talk about this issue before. i guess ti fun, here in the cit. it has really been a fun time for small builders, as you can see. i think this year is the perfect example of the straw that broke the camel's back. we w

a forward united states position for united states military position on this and other conflicts in the region is the best way to move from the period we're now in mutual shouting of nationalism of surge of territorial conflicts whether a more fruitful approach is one in which the nations involved in these territorial disputes and that extend from china japan and korea to as he and find ways to sit down out of the out of the glare of of the demonstrators and out of the glare of the media and work out i solutions out of right. i mean i think of course the peoples of the people's republic of china and i think the other nations in the region do want a negotiated settlement they don't want a rise of military tensions that's not what they really want and that's certainly not what the people's republic of china's foreign policy has been signaling i think though that we have to step back and look again to the obama administration and see the u.s. role here and see it clearly when the u.s. said it was pivoting towards asia what they really meant is that they were reaping towards asia because th

so the united states then began allowing large numbers of dominican former rebels to come to the unitedes as a way, again, of using migration as a safety valve. thousands of dominicans started coming to new york city. >> an excerpt of, "harvest of empire: the untold story of latinos in america." callista prize winning dominican american writer junot diaz talks about coming to this country shortly after the united states then began allowing large numbers of dominican former rebels to migrate here. >> they said we're coming to the on the states, whatever that meant. i thought where does going up the road to some mystical place. i finally saw a map in kindergarten of how far we have traveled, i remember being not only astonished, but literally terrified. my father was the standard, crazy, latino military that would check his children's hands and shoes and clothing and hair before we left the house we had to tie our she's a certain way. i lived in what i called the little dictatorship. it was a little dictatorship of our house. when i migrated to new jersey, it was a crazy time. i emigrated

england, the united states, get out of the united nations. i'm tired of hearing hate speeches from people from other countries condemning us. this is a united nations of hate. host: if you go to the united nations web site, it says -- what you think? caller: i think at the time it was probably a good thing, but i don't think they counted on the rise of communism from china and russia and on the muslims and i think the muslims are a big problem with the united nations right now and we should stop trying to pacify them. we have a wenow who seems to sit there and watched-- we have a president now who seems to sit there and watch it. all he has been doing is apologizing. they killed two of our soldiers in afghanistan and the apologized to them. when the embassy was attacked, it was the man who had the movie's iffault. these people hate us. host: here is this on twitter -- here's the washington post front page -- many remember last year when the palestinian leader's request for membership was denied, not something supported by the united states ei

we total about 2300 units.ave nearly 100 formerly homeless households in the tenderloin and the mission the benefits from the availability of losp funding. we expect another 172 tenants at our latest development that will come online this fiscal year. losp is critical as a tool for the homeless in san francisco. it is able to leverage millions of state, federal, and private dollars to help people but homeless as behind the. we believe that losp makes san francisco and national leader in its approach to ending homelessness, and that is of the oil should be very proud of. we encourage you to preserve losp funds for the arlington. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. i am from fiscal community services. we provide shelter, behavioral health services, education, employment, and senior services for homeless people in san francisco. since 1994, we have provided supportive housing, helping people end homelessness in their own lives. today, warehousing and providing social services to 1000 formerly homeless men, wo

we have also had good development here in the united states. >> let's talk about the united states where you have been doing business for 40 years. but you sort of stood it up as an entity last year. what are some of the most specific products and growth strategy for the united states and does that include mergers and acquisitions? >> yes. to talks of -- to answer the last question yes. u.s. is a priority country for us. we can see that we have good experience the last years doing joint ventures and corporations with the big american companies. we have joint to go together in different programs and look at halifax and we have also other activities. so, we will not stop competing in u.s. with things that are already here. we are trying to figure out what we can contribute to when it comes to partnership with different big industrial leaders. on the other hand we can see for example training and our signature management and other things as well. and that we try to go ourself. so, i think we have a better defined strategy. and a growth for us that maybe is for a big one. it's huge for us. >

what the united states has historically been very aggressive the united states has long been the dominant oil power in the middle east and parts of africa and in parts of latin america so china as it overtakes the united states as the leading oil importer has no choice but to be assertive to be aggressive in places i don't think this is because of a desire to to confront the united states but the sheer necessity of providing energy for china's booming economy michael i have a quote here that i think proves proves your your your statement my guidance is clear about america declared in canberra australia last year. as we plan and budget for the future we will allocate the resources necessary to maintain our strong military presence in this region and quote can. this can this strategy voiced by mr obama will lead to a new two new arms race or don't you think or do you think chinese the chinese will not respond to such words. i don't see how the chinese cannot respond to those words after all we're not talking about the area of the pacific off the american coast we're talking about areas of t

it will will add 48 housing units with a good mix of one, two, three-bedroom units where over 70% are multi-family units suitable for families. it will add seven bmr on-site to better integrate affordable housing into the community and limit parking to.5 spaces to promote public transit over private vehicles. it will have 26 bike stalls to support most transportation other than cars. will it add two dramatic retail spaces to activate pedestrian realm on octavia and market street. it will be environmentally sensitive by storm water collection capability into the features and maximize energy efficiency by using sun shades for solar heat gain. it will create high density housing in a transit-rich area that has more than a dozen city and mass regional transits. the project enjoys broad support from the community. we have strong endorsements and letters of support from the valley neighborhood association, san francisco action coalition, spur, merchants of upper market in castro, lgbt and neighbors at parcel p. we have shared plans with the san francisco bicycle coalition. as well we have m

united island versus united kingdom. that's still unresolved. we still don't know what the answer is to that. and yet we managed to bring peace. with this situation, you know, we do say that we know the solution. which is two states, the secure state of israel, state of palestine. yet we can't seem to get there. now i think personally, we can get there. but i think we are over this next period it is maybe more difficult once you have everything happening, including here. but i think-- . >> rose: you mean the elections. >> yeah. it's-- you know, it would be odd if we were able to take a major new initiative right at this moment. however, i do think that it is possible to put together a credible negotiation, provided alongside that negotiation, and this is my sort of fixation having dealt with this now for a few years, you've got also to make the changes on the ground that support the political process. so if you carry on in a situation where the facts on the ground are working against a political solution t will never work. so i believe it is pos

the united states had given a promise that the united states congress that if it waited and let the u.s. government debt multilateral sanctions, it could go forward with its own sanctions. it was critical the congress would wait and do it after the sanctions had been passed. if they had been imposed before then, there would be no multilateral section -- sanctions. what happened is that two days before he arrived, russia and china came in with an agreement to the proposal that had been negotiated. the white house had to break a promise. turkey and brazil or congress? six months before a crucial election, mindful of the fact the administration felt it had already lost political capital the health care debate, the sense was it would not be wise to break the promise to congress. we missed that opportunity. now we are in a situation where i do not share the optimism in turkey being able to play the same type of critical and constructive role it did in 2010 as a result of the region and of the support of assad. it is a different dynamic now between the governments. the question is, who could

in 2002 and ten units or more. 2006 dropped to less than five and then 1/20 of the five unit buildinghat was the analysis done at the time so i don't think there was any justification back in 2006 for reducing the inclusionary to five units. as a result one project has moved forward since 2006. there was two really good years of economic housing boom here from 2006 to when leavein brothers collapsed and no projects submitted at that time so the downturn didn't effect. it was the legislation of the five to nine units. personally i build three buildings in this range of five to nine units between 2005 and 2009 and since then i didn't look for anything because i couldn't get finance to build the projects again and as far as that goes all of the contractors live locally in san francisco bar a couple. we go to local restaurants and coffee shops and delis and all of that. for the smaller project you have 15 people on the job site for one year. probably over 6200 work hours in one project and that is gone right now. that whole segment has been eliminated with this legislation so i do support

it is always is the gateway of the united states to china. as the economic and trade cooperation between china and the united states and california deepens, now we believe that trade and investment keeps growing. china is the third largest export destination for california. many multinationals like hp, intel, cisco, and chevron are doing well in china. they're making money in china. at the same time, as the close relationship is going on, many chinese companies are working in san francisco in california. i would like to name a few. the tsl, ciuts, just to name a few. these are successful chinese companies working here. as the american companies in china, the chinese companies working in california in san francisco are also making contributions to job creation and the development of the economy in local areas. we're thinking these are very good signs. as the previous speakers mentioned, we paid a visit to the united states last february. governor brown proposed that we set up a working group for the u.s., a state, and china provinces to cooper

states and the united states society. i lived when i was a young student between 1978 and '85 in the united states. these were student days and these were good days and my family was with me. i want the relationship between the two peoples of the united states and egypt to reach the highest levels of communication and love and respect. respect, mutual respect. this is a message that i want to be clear, very clear, for the egyptian people and they know that and they love this and for the american people. i hope that this visit is the beginning of a relationship of mutual respect and the relationship of not intervening in the affairs of the other party as well. >> rose: when you were a student at southern cal-- (laughs) -- did you ever imagine in a moment that you might become president of egypt? >> i was busy, very busy at the time studying and i was very much interested in political affairs and the situation in egypt and i always thought about the egyptian people and how i could benefit my nation and my country and i want

it is only natural that the united states relationship with burma should have some impact on united states relations with china. and also that our relations with the united states would impacts to a certain degree on our relations with china. but i think that this could be taken forward in a positive fashion. it does not mean that because burma is in beijing now with the united states -- is in beijing now with the united states that the relationship with china should in any way deteriorate. also it does not mean the united states is engaging in burma. it should not be seen as a hostile step towards china. we can use our renewed situation to strengthen relations between all three countries. i will put it very simply. it would be to our advantage, the united states and china, to establish friendly relations. this would help a great deal. this is what i look forward to being -- this is what i look forward to. burma has had a history of preserving friendship with many different countries following different ideologies. as it was one of the first countries to recognize communist china back in t

it is.5 spaces per unit or less. but we do have one concern with the parking access from the octavia boulevard street. there is a lot of bicycle traffic that crosses market. that is a significant bicycle path. we foresee some conflicts with the bicycle traffic there. we think maybe there is a way to improve that, maybe create a raised table at the entry to that side street from octavia to slow the traffic entry mat. i'm sure those can be worked out with the project sponsor. as noted, this is a very sitting site. it is a gateway not only to our neighborhood but to the west side of the city. to the north side via octavia boulevard and to upper market and castro. so this is a very significant site. the gateway is very important here. i just want to -- i'm very pleased to see the building is consistent with the spirit of the san francisco prized design competition, which i worked very hard on. but the one thing i do want to mention is that perhaps there can be some exploration of a vertical element to mark this. right no

nations, that's divide the united nations. so i think that's where there probably could have been some more. >> quick comments? >> i think if you were listening -- an american audience will find plenty to criticize. it was weak for an american audience. at an internationalist, i take more heart from it. there was a reassurance that america remains engaged in the world. he was careful not to point fingers although obviously condemning the killing of ambassador stevens, there was no pointing of fingers at the leaders of muslim states in which there were protests at the american embassy which was smart diplomacy. >> we have to let that be the last word. thank you so much for coming in. and we are going to take a quick break. p mitt romney is coming up with a speech. thomas roberts will pick up our coverage. you're not using too much are you, hon? ♪ nope. [ female announcer ] charmin ultra soft is so soft you'll have to remind your family they can use less. charmin ultra soft is made with extra cushions that are soft and more abso

the family moves as a unit. there are heavy emphasis on relations and community. and all of it continues. it gives a unique aspect. >> the country, is so vast, as you said. some of my reading said it is four times as big as texas and as big as western europe or something like that. it is kind of a tough neighborhood. there is a lot going on in this area. >> central asia has been a tough neighborhood for a long time -- since the breakup of the soviet union, it has been a tough neighborhood. even before that. there was a period where they're referred to the great game. it was not in kazakhstan, but the neighbors, and it was a tough neighborhood then. you can go back to 300 b.c. with the adventures of alexander the great, that this was a tough neighborhood even then. >> the sow for folks who are just watching our conversation, they may not have a map in front of them. just in your mind's eye describes some of the countries in the area. the bordering countries, and so on and so forth. >> kazakhstan is a sort of this large country. it would look enormous were not for t

for see the overlap is the united states and israel both status quo powers. challenging both left and islamist of movements in that part of the world. military industrial complexes of the two countries are closely intertwined israel has and united states supported certain governments in insurgencies and others and. cooperate in intelligence gathering and covert operations if you go down the list but. you know i think that while certainly the pros will lobby and plays an important role i think the main factor is they perceive fluence of interest and i think the long term it actually hurts this is where i want to. go because it encourages a backlash by extremists ok i think the perception is that israel is an ally ruthie what do you think about and also it's ok i think it's appalling that we should call the alliance between the united states and israel a perceived none of you has mentioned the share democracy shared values of freedom what about the palestinians those are the american society. what about their democratic right i'll tell you about the palestinian

mubarak the united states should have basically supported any dictatorship that lost the support of its people if it were better for israel and unfortunately you know you see the same sort of anti-democratic for and desire to support israel even in the united states i mean you should play that clip of where the democratic party delegates at their national convention are saying we don't recognize israel's illegal annexation of east jerusalem we don't want that in our democratic party plank and yet they were steamrolled by people within the democratic party who simply passed that resolution anyway and so this is neoconservatives smart yeah it's the same type of mentality that this guy this guy has are merely those that might read the rage is there no man you tasia fair time ruthie please jump in. they were not steamrolled by other members of the democratic party that fiasco at the democrat it were the bench and what. you would want i reckon that i had a nation it was over saddam was that way the israel lobby works on gentlemen. please let her speak roofie obama orchestrated that fiasc

jobs in the united states. it's because of this reality, i was, you know, co-sponsor of the vital legislation to lift -- to grant pntr to russia. the place -- to place additional reporting requirements on russia and the u.s. administration. these conditions ensure that russia implements its w.t.o. obligations and those obligations are enforced. some will raise the question, we had a problem when they came on the w.t.o. and we're still struggling with that. we have learned from that process. we have additional safeguards in this agreement that will help make sure that russia fully maintains its obligations under permanent -- mr. dreier: reclaiming my time to underscore this point. the notion of the w.t.o., an entity that stems from an agreement that the post-war leaders put together in 1947 called the general agreement on tariffs an trade, the idea behind it was to diminish tariff and nontariff barriers. when we saw in the early 1990's the w.t.o. put into place, the idea is to see ideas like intellectual propert

who can say that the president of the united states is not or dayshift was not or that city for the united states government to take credit for the last two years of progress was it not or davis for him to say on tuesday the united states supported the forces of change in the arab spring to new zealand history did not begin in december two thousand and ten and mohammed birdsey did not set himself on fire barack obama quickly re-elected his death was an element of the despair he had to endure under the benelli regime the world knew after reading wiki leaks publications that banality and its government had for long is enjoyed the indifference if not the support of the.

this was unacceptable to the united states. on those four points, i know some of you will disagree with this strongly -- on those four points, this was not a good deal for the and it states. -- for the united states. they went ahead with much tougher sanctions. then you have an effort in december, 2010, to revise the diplomatic process. iran came to the meeting saying their condition was that sanctions should be lifted and its right to gingrich should be -- write to enrich should be unequivocally recognized. -- it right to enrich should be unequivocally recognized. the iranians stopped negotiating because the and it states wanted to have a modified deals what agreement. they said we will not talk to you until you lift all feel sanctions and recognize our right to enrich. war talk starts building. he had his real seeking more and more wanting to know what is going on. it had a meeting in march between president obama and netanyahu. they agree there is still a window for diplomacy. then you have three meetings, in april in istanb

a lot of negative peers on the unit i'm on now.f i come here i have an opportunity to go home. >> we get up at 4:50 in the morning, will that be a problem. >> no, sir. >> it's a very structured environment. go to bed at the same time. there's no horseplay, absolutely no horseplay. is that going to be a problem? >> no, sir. >> 2100 is lights out, taps. there is no talking. if you were to be caught talking, the whole room gets up and does pt. >> would you have any problems with that? >> no, sir. >> how are you going to be able to handle taking direction and orders from other guys in your position? >> well, sir, i would think to myself if i listen to them then maybe one day i'll be able to get up there and be able to be the one. >> yeah, is great answer. >> even though this offender has all of the right answers, the decision to accept him into the unit is complicated. >> these juveniles come from horrible backgrounds. i tend not judge them but we want to ask yourselves do we think that they'll learn in this unit. >> the military team

to give you a background, the written directive unit which falls under my command to the unit that assists with the changes or adoptions of policies and orders and department bulletins. there are a number of general orders that the department has looked at and continue to look at to make policy changes to. and we are working our way through that process. there has been a push to have a number of officers back on the street as our numbers are down and i would like to say that our written directives unit is at the staffing levels that it should be at. but currently we are unable to have it at that because of the need for the officers on the street for public safety. that having been said, deputy chief tomy oka and i conducted interviews today for the written directives unit with the intention of bringing two or three officers into the unit to assist us with not only the following revisions to the general orders and updates to the department bulletins but to get us into that process in a quicker manner. and i'm hoping that we will be able to identify those officers and get them into the unit

we study a 100 unit project. the scale is not close. we should have studied the five to nine units. we didn't. we studied the 100 units, the smallest project and to continue my speech supervisors. with this flawed analysis and lead to one success in the city since the policy's conception in 2006 and i repeat this failed policy has one successful project. thank you supervisors. >> supervisors, mayor lee and the members of the supervisor recognized to replace lost gqnresources for this and continuous and reliable revenue stream and stimulus for depressed local housing industry. the mayor had a big working group of the stakeholders. the group of industry specialists were called upon based on experience and industry sector expertise and builders represented by members of the council of community housing and of the residential builders association. they represented the local medium and small builders. in short it was a representative group of stakeholders. despite conflicting priorities they came together with a common cause and all impacted with prolongd and severe economic depression i

today we have a special bigger picture discussion on islamophobia in the united states in two thousand and ten there were one hundred sixty anti muslim hate crimes in america and between twenty one in two thousand and eleven twenty seven two thousand and eleven the rate of growth of anti muslim hate groups tripled and since july nineteenth of this year the beginning of the muslim holy month of ramadan there have been ten reported anti muslim hate crimes ranging from graffiti on muslim graves to a mosque in joplin missouri being burned to the ground these sober in statistics make one thing very clear islamophobia has unfortunately become an epidemic in the united states from staten island new york to panama city florida ontario california islamophobia has reared its ugly head but who and what are the roots of islamophobia in our country and what can we do as a nation and as americans to root out the ignorance and intolerance and to embrace muslims as americans and embrace islam as another mainstream religion for bring in tonight's panel i want to start with the story of a muslim america