commissioner wald? >> thank you again. i would like to nominate commissioner stephenson for this position. i have enjoyed my time as the vice president, but i think that this position is one in particular that should be circulated on a sort of semi recognize basis through the commission so -- semi regular basis through the commission so that we can all get a closer look at what it means to actually be the head of the commission. and so rather than run again and seek one of you to nominate me, i would like to nominate commissioner stephenson. i think she will work incredibly well with president bermejo. i think she has demonstrated her commitment to the department and the commission over the years. she's learned so much in the years since she's been on the commission. it's been, for me, very gran orien orien orien oriente -- gratifying to see you get the pleasure out of the work. so it would give me great pleasure if you would accept. >> i accept. i'll never be able to fill your shoes, but i would be happy to be president b

and so, alex seitz-wald, that's another side of booker, people would say he overplays his hand. >> he was one of the first politicians to really get social media and use twitter. he was famous for, during a snowstorm, you could tweet at him and he would show up. >> he was beto before beto was beto. >> exactly, and before alexandria ocasio-cortez was alexandria ocasio-cortez. i don't know, now that he is competing with younger people who are more digital natives, how much that works to his advantage. there are so many ways to divide up this primary field, and the voters that they're going after. he's clearly going to have a collision course with kamala harris on black voters. he's going to have a potential collision course with beto with millenial voters and bernie sanders. but he has vulnerability on the left too. he's trying to be a little bit of all things to all people. he's on the medicare for all bill that bernie sanders endorsed. but he got in trouble in 2012 for defending bain capital, he's in favor of school choice. with policy he's where the progressives are but he uses the l

commissioner wald? >> i can't find the part where i -- oh, i have a question. >> hmm? >> it doesn't have to do with the budget per se but it has to do with the politics of the budget and the perception -- well, actually, the reality of proposing a budget increase at a time when other departments are going to be, you know, leading. >> sure. and this goes back to the difference between the draft budget and the annual appropriation budget. this reflects all of the department's anticipated operational spending in the next fiscal year. so it includes budgets that will not be reflective in the mayor's annual appropriation ordinance submission. for example, the two main increases here, the two grants, the carb grant and the bay rent grant will be added to our budget via the accept and expense ordinance. the annual appropriation ordinance will be very much more in line with our year over year annual appropriation ordinance request of previous years. >> okay. thank you for that answer because i actually did not, until this minute -- really understand how this was going to work.

secretary of state might compel wald's allies the u.s. will no longer provide top secret intelligence to countries that use well ways equipment in that colon that what's the u.s. fear is that while way will buckets its devices and transmit us intelligence back to the government in beijing this shows the pressure on western countries is increasing america's rhetoric. with us all with a. dangerous it's well way. to one ways employees program back doors into its software for espionage purposes perhaps even so-called kill switches that could disable an entire country's mobile network in one fell swoop washington has been investigating these questions for more than a decade concerned about why always close ties to the chinese government in two thousand and six the white house sanctioned the first intelligence operation against the company and even more extensive operation followed three years later. the n.s.a. succeeded in reading while ways e-mail archives as well as the secret source codes for individual why wait products washington says it

today, do you, going back to this point about photography in your era being, by and large, a man's walduite got the recognition that your male peers got? -- world. no, not really. i was doing my work and ijust did it. i didn't think in terms of recognition at all. you worked a loss in fashion, as you have described it, you weren't so much a catwalk photographer, but she did a loss of glamour and fashion —— lot. i have looked at a loss of your fashion photography. you did it in quite a different way to others working in the field at the time. for example, you often included ordinary people in your fashion shots. you would have this beautiful woman were unbeatable clothes, but then in the corner of the picture or to one side there would be just a passerby or a kid who happen to be watching —— beautiful clothes. and you let them be in the picture. yes. well, partly that was because in the early days, in the 19505, when i was doing fashion, it was the only time of ready to wear. i was also having my love affair with the streets of paris. and it pleased me to take these clothes, which would

iran's foreign minister has warned wald leaders that there's a heightened risk of conflict with israel speaking at a major security conference in name mohammed serif said israel is looking for conflict with iran you also criticized what he called washington's obsession with his country after u.s. five mike pence called leaders to withdraw from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal. certainly some people are looking for war we are in syria who is looking israel we are in syria on the invitation of the syrian government for the sole purpose of fighting terrorism no other no other reason for our being there i think last i checked international law while waiting lebanon's airspace and shooting into syria is a violation of international law and the international community and of all people in europe which believes international law as the foundations of international order is blaming us and not blaming the israelis for violating international law so this wake up to the risk is great is risk is great but risk will be even greater if you continue to turn a blind eye to severe world nations of inter

. >> moved by commissioner wald. a second? >> second. >> second by commissioner sullivan. is there any discussions? okay. we have a motion and seconded by commissioner sullivan. signal by saying aye. any opposed? motion carries. we're going to move back into public comments. public comment on the minutes. >> is there any? seeing none. are we going to take a vote again? we'll do it the next item. >> four, general public comment. the public may address the commission on their jurisdiction and things that are not on the agenda. >> okay. susan carasof. welcome. >> i'm a resident in russian hill. i wanted to commend and thank the department of environment for your resolution and commend and thank chris campbell at the recreations around parks department for the work he's doing on russian hill. the intention to have that goal of increasing habitat and attracting birds, bees, pollinators, butterflies, and beneficial insects. that goal is wonderful and right in keeping with the biodiversity resolution. thank you from those of us in russian hill. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>

coming up next al jazeera wald looks at the powerful women of morocco's atlas mountains will have another headline update for you after that in about twenty five minutes time stay with us. this month's loses some from iraq. people here speak em as ian and i for asiatic language going back several thousand. the arabic language only came to north africa in the seventh and eighth centuries. the only grab your liver is the second largest american and has its. roots in one of the mountain villages here and sings in m a z is about the harshness of her life and bouts of many other women. and there are lots more women here than man. i wish a song is about women suffering in the region feeling imprisoned she says without food or water were no one can see them. and that's what the story is about. the villages near the source of the river are poor and geography plays a major ruling maracas poverty three quarters of the four million people living in poverty in morocco live in rural areas. this is spotty mom who's bringing up her three boys. and ibrahim virtually on her own kid they would have. to loo

people like henry street settlement founder and public health champion lillian wald, pictured here, who would be a great supporter and advisor that -- later on of governor smith and eventually a great champion when he ran for president, and especially involved -- there are a lot of notables, but especially -- frances perkins. she took smith and others on tours to see the horrible conditions of laborers and factories around the empire state. she would later on become a great advisor to smith on industrial issues as governor, and eventually, as you probably know, would be the first female cabinet secretary when she became fdr's labor secretary. this interaction between largely female progressive reformers, it is sort of counterintuitive, and male politicals produced reforms in the blizzard of legislation on industrial and labor reforms, that ventured into a broad range of social and welfare crises facing the empire state. indeed, such issues would come to dominate the agendas of smith and wagner so that by 1918 when smith was running for governor of new york, he was proposing a broad arra

alix: ellen wald of atlantic council and francisco rodriguez, thank you as well. one of the most dramatic moments in recent memory for the president's annual address to congress. the state of the union is what we are both watching next. you can interact with all of the charge and graphics we have used. go to gtb go on your terminal -- go to gtv go on your terminal. ♪ alix: what i am watching is the state of the union at 9:00. tune in to bloomberg at 8:30 p.m. i will be watching anything they say about energy and infrastructure. that will be key in terms of the pipeline. we have a new secretary of interior. timel be watching how much he will devote to that and if he will talk about energy independence and what he says about opec. david: besides the dynamic with nancy pelosi, which will be worth watching. he is a populist. now the democrats are coming up with populist proposals like the schumer proposal. how will he play that? what will he say about being for the worker? alix: he agrees with it. why would he be into that? david: one we seem in wage? does he support