we are muslim, we are jewish, we are women, we are black, white, asian and native american, immigrantswith disabilities. [applause] and when donald trump attacks one of us he's going to hear from every single one of us. [applause] because we are all stronger when we stand together i'm going to share a quick story with you last month i was in arizona to discuss the intersection of these issues one of the leaders i got to meet that day is an organizer some of you may know where she lived much of her life as an undocumented immigrants but in 2016 she got to vote for the first time and not only did she get to vote for the first woman presidential nominee she also got to cast a vote for herself. my friends, there is nothing more uniquely american band that story and that's why i've never been more optimistic about our future. one of the silver linings of this moment that we are all living through today is that never before have we as a people been more eager to participate and fight back against the social justice movements we have stood shoulder to shoulder for the dignity of all people an

so we need to manage this project. what we will do is we will have a new pmp c. project through an r.f.p. process and the scope will include manage the design of the dt x. and munimobile gesturing connector and the transit trai drain box. it will document require -- the third party agreements will be very -- if they are very involved in very difficult but we need to do that and work with our partners to get that all done. that is part of the new start package that we need to do. we need to do the safety and security management plans and implement -- and also we want to use that same pmp c. team to implement the results of the study that we talked about and that was highlighted in the presentation earlier. >> i think the board has heard enough. >> ok. >> i think you major points. >> as you know, i think i am very critical of the connector at this point. i have yet to find one b.r.t. director, just one that would call me and indicate something of any interest. they still don't know what they're going to do with the embarcadero station or how such a connector would

we want to make sure we can address those. we also want to make sure we can meet the future development, wastewater and recycled water. we are looking at what the project would be and what it is billed out to you to make sure we can meet all of our needs for wastewater. the existing plant is located in the north corner of the island in the powerpoint. it is the yellow box. it is not exactly and that box. it is an approximate location. the plant is operated by the s.f. puc right now. we are contract operators for all the utilities on the island. however, we are not the owners of the utilities. our staff is out there maintaining and operating and doing a great job with the plant and keeping it running for the correct residents of the islands. the area adjacent to the south is approximately 10 acres. that is allow lands that we are looking at as part of the planning effort. we are very early in the planning process so we don't know exactly where we will be in that 10-acre blocks. however,, we do have 10 acres to look at and consi

195. 11-12, we had 167. 12-13, we had 133. following year, 94. then 90, then 49. and last year, we had an increase to 79. so last year, we saw a bump up from 49 arrests the year before in 15-16 to 79; and this year, we're down to 38. that being said -- >> sorry. 195 was what year? >> 195 was 10-11. and 195, 167, 133. that being said, african american students makeup 45% of the arrests while latino students makeup 32%. both groups far exceeding all other students combined who represent 22% of the arrests. chronic absenteeism. as chronic referrals and suspensions increase this will be a huge predictor of attendance and unfortunately as expected, we see an increase of students who are missing 18 days or more or 10% of the school year. so this graph you're going to read a little bit differently, okay? in the other graphs, when i showed you a percent, it was a percent of that total number. so when you say, for instance, african americans, 37.2%, it meant that african americans makeup 37.2% of the total district suspensions. okay. t

have to ask how we got into a place where we made the decision we made. people made that because they were hurting and they didn't have a way out. whether they would make the same choice again or not is up in the air. i can only tell you that his view of america it's dark, it is not correct. it is not the one i experience every day as mayor of the city of new orleans. the people of louisiana are wonderful, they show up at ceremonies, they go to church together, we sometimes have 500,000 strong, the entire community is there and everybody is enjoying themselves. you know americans are brought around a common ground. given an opportunity the better angels among us. that is what will happen. you have to invite them in and recognize there there. then you have to remind them that on the ground where they know each other great things are getting done, they'll improve educational opportunities, though fix run-of-the-mill problems, and they will make them feel safe and secure. at the end of the day, if they feel like they have an investment to make it and you ask

to we know that in order sustain all the work we have done, we have to concentrate and focus on root causes of disparity. so as we think about our future and the reason that we have produced such a document as the ,usiness case for racial equity we have done that because we believe it is reflecting the root causes we have to address in this country and in our state. but we know that children thrive when they are nestled in families, stable families and working families. and families thrive, when they are in equitable, nates. so our way forward -- equitable communities. so our way forward is working with communities, because we believe change happens at the local level. when we work with communities, we hope that as they build transformative practices that we can then inspire our nation to equity agenda as well. that is our theory of change, that is why we work income annuity and amenity. we believe in partnership, partnering with the governors like some of you in the room. we partner with organizations who have a mission. andssion to remove barriers inequality. together with those or

we improved our systems to make sure we do. what we are doing going forward to combat the issue that you mentioned of people getting into bubbles, first i would note that our research does suggest -- we are looking at studies from other places as well, that suggests people come into a broader range of views when they are online versus when they are offline. on facebook, there are people -- 23% of friends come from different political ideologies than themselves, so we know that diversity is already out there. what we are trying to make sure we are doing is giving people information to make educated positions about the news they want to interact with. rep. lofgren: thank you. >> the time has expired. the chair recognizes mr. king for five minutes. rep. king: thank you, mr. chairman. cannot necessarily see the entire gallery behind you, but there is not one they ead in the -- gray h entire patch gallery today. there must be a message. a lot have stepped up and are paying attention. remember these days and look back 20 years ago wh

we can't even do if we tried. we are having this ridiculous second installment hearing on the first first hearing about sigh monday and silk not getting enough likes on facebook. let me just ask some very basic questions so the american public understands what a dumb hearing this entire hearing s ms. bickert, are you a private company? >> congressman, we are. >> all right. and you report to a board of directors and you're publicly traded, correct? >> yes, we do. >> as a public traded private sector company one of your goals and duties to shareholders is to maximize profit, correct? >> yes. >> so if it turns out that elevating stories about cats generates more profit for your company, you have the absolute right to do that, don't you? >> within certain guardrails, we work to maximize the profitability of our company, yes. >> thank you. all right. so ms. downs, are you a private company? >> yes. >> and you report to your shareholders. you have a duty to your shareholders, right? >> correct. >> so if it turns out tha

are we ensuring we have work at the citywide level, are we being responsive to the kind of constituent requests that we're hearing? for instance, resiliency is something that's now really important, as we see the effects of climate change, so how are we thinking about safety and making our street ready for sea level rise at the same time. and lastly, incredibly important is affordability. so we're partnering with housing grant to have commensurate street projects go in. our education and enforcement programs, i hope you've all seen these bright yellow signs up everywhere. the district attorney did speak at our last meeting a week ago, so we now have a program on senior safety from the district attorney's office? we've been working hard with the motorcyclist's community because they're overrepresented in our deaths. recently won an award is our campaign on motorcycle safety? additionally we have a distracted driving campaign which is supported by our traffic company? we have a street team which i hope you've seen at sunday streets or any other community fair or event that are in your ne

we need to do what we need to do. we have some terrific capabilities. we have some innovative people, we have some young people who -- i am a liberal arts major, i should not be in the operational success of cyber or technology. fortunately, we've hired a lot of really capable smart people, a lot of young people coming in that have technological and stem capabilities that i never even dreamed of. so, every visit and make, and i make a lot of them to our various agencies and their components, i so impressed with the technical capabilities would have. we are an innovative country, democracy and freedom produces some great stuff if it is done a right way. >> thank you director. and of a chicago senator, and director, investor, thank you for the work we did been doing. the work you're doing is important. i think everybody here and on watching us on television, appreciates the importance of what you do and wishes you every possible success. >> i would like to say something -- i came across this article couple of days ago a

we are truly blessed, we grow more than we need. the current tariffs continuing back and forth retaliatory actions and trade uncertainties hitting american agriculture from all sides. it is causing us to lose our market. once you lose the market, it is really hard to get it back. agricultural is facing the perfect storm. trade uncertainties, lowers in farm income, agricultural labeler -- labor shortages and the uncompleted farm bill. it is becoming more than we can handle. in trade wars agricultural has been and continues to be the tip of the spear. all commodities are being impacted. in minnesota we are hearing the most from our members that are growing soybeans. page 3 of my written testimony clearly shows what trade uncertainty has done to our prices. low prices are causing negative impacts on our farm income. bottom line, lost sales lead to lower prices. many decisions and farming are not made week to week. we have to make decisions a long time before our crops are planted, much less harvested. we understand there are things out

we can do. , we are adding two factor authentication as we speak. we are just about to roll it out. it will be in place before our statewide primary on august 14. susan: has the system detected any attempt at hacking? we have not had any attempts. let's be honest, every website in the country is getting scanned every day. the question is are you putting up enough defenses to defend against them. received up toe 2 million scans a day. 40%, 800,000, are what we consider unauthorized. we blacklist those so they can't get back through. there is a constant upgrade we have to do. cyber security is a race without a finish line. we have to continuously evolve and try to stay ahead of the bad actors. what they tried yesterday, they will try a different way today and a different way tomorrow, so it is incumbent on us to focus and stay vigilant on our systems. i think most estates are doing that now. reid: there is the secure elections act from james lankford and another senator that would institute information sharing, get security clearances for state offici

we should cooperate wherever we share this. we will continue defending together with the nuclear deal. is always clear we are largely converging on three issues with the uk. prime policy, sanctions policy and military operations. and obviously in any case the more the uk engages alongside the e.u. , the deeper our partnership is likely to be. our close cooperation with the uk will not ensure the next relationship with other partners. that is to be determined and investing in security as a matter of priority. >> it is our responsibility, but we do not do for ourselves. no one will do for us. it is even more true now than ever. the we are running 16 missions, six military operations >> we are reviewing to be more responsive and efficient. we are setting up defense funds for the weapons systems. it is the very first time the e.u. budget will invest in military. ultimately, my colleague for a long time says it means a stronger nato. just an example, first states have good reason to invest more , better and together. the debates on

it did come in 150% over what we estimated and that is kind of what we are seeing unless we were to put this project on hold and wait, we don't know how long, until construction costs come down. one of the things we saw that was really high in this contract in this bid was for the concrete base for our street paving, so it just happens that there is so much demand for these types of materials and things like that they are very expensive right now, so it's not something that we have any control over today except to wait and we don't know how long. nobody can predict when this boom will subside. >> chair mondejar: if i may the contract before you today the first and second amendments were regarding soft cost so it was really designed in getting construction document through and this is the first time you are approving the construction piece of it, so in terms of the agreement in front of you approving the contract it is a first. it was sequenced that way so we could have more certainty in what the cost is. >> commissioner bustos: appreci. we hold the trust of our community with the resour

skbl i believe we could. some people think we can't do that. >> can we? >> absolutely. >> but we didn't, did we? >> well, there was an r.f.p. structure, there was a wide net. we asked for three respondents, for three strategies. once we initiated the r.f.p., we had to maintain the rules, which were there were time frames, there were questions and answers, there were deadlines, and then, those were the only people that we could consider in the r.f.p. short of cancelling the r.f.p. >> right. >> the question is whether or not we change the process to get them to bid. they will get a fair shot. does this show that the managers recommended were very thoroughly and fairly analyzed or not? >> my recollection, bob shaw, i believe, was here at the time, we determined we wanted -- we wanted to do because it had been so long since we issued an r.f.p. in this area, we wanted to do a very broad, wide sweep. so we weren't focused on a region or a niche, which is normally when we employ the r.f.i. we determined at that point in time since it was going to be broad, and w

we see the states being worn now reaching out for help and we have to ensure we do everything we can to ensure public that they are being held accountable. >> i know there've been some reports of different independent groups modern readiness and there seems to be a wide gap. some states were looking pretty good in other states including the state of the hanging chads is a bit behind. we have to get them up to date before the election sure the american people that we are ready. are they doing better at this point? >> i think they are. nobody wants to be the one that takes it down because they didn't have their act together. as i said we have worked and at the eye has worked with dhs and our intelligence community. we have worked with all 50 states and its ongoing up to the day of the election. >> what you are hearing back from congress and others is your sense of bipartisan basis people in washington think the work you guys are doing is sufficient? >> i think we are seeing that. republicans ought and democrats in the senate and the house are ensuring that everything -- everyone is up

so, we are thrilled about where we are with the program, we have 86,000 participants, we know as we try to engage as a community of diverse participants up to 1 million or maybe even more, privacy is one of our most important priorities. all of the data comes into the data resource is encrypted and to be identified going into a secure place of research. they will have to provide a code of conduct and no data will be allowed to download it. i would like to think the committee for giving strong privacy protection within the act. including the certificate of confidentiality to allow us to provide robust protection to our participants of confidentiality. >> thank you, we recognize mister upton. five minutes requested, please.>> thank you mister chairman. i would like to remind everyone that this was a great committee in process, 51-0. i want to everyone who is done the committee with congress has had a piece of this. the staff was terrific for sure. so were the agents these, you helped lead to where we wanted to go, the administration, the senate, we had all of these groups with a lot of pl

we share. we learn. we pick up ideas from one another. and i think that's the thing that -- that's the purpose for these conferences so we can take the best practices, those that fit best in our state so we can continue to grow and be successful. not for ourselves but for the people that we serve. so i wish you well. tonight will be fun and exciting, and we'll see you there tonight. bring a light sweater. may get cold. thank you, god bless. [applause] >> thank you, governor martinez, and congratulations on all of your success. one question i think everyone has to answer, though, when they're finished, whether they are red chili or grown chile or christmas. we have a meeting did kate to the theme of my chair's initiative, ahead of the curve, innovation governors. i look forward to engaging all of you in a discussion of how we governors can prepare our states for the incredible technology that is transform are our transportation and energy sectors in so many aspects of our daily lives. it's been my honor and one of most humbling experiences

we will share some of the proposed amendments we will be making based on feedback we have received. supervisor tang reduced this on may 15, 2018. we made the announcement along with our co-sponsors. we have the co-sponsorships. we decided to make the announcement with the san francisco company. if there is one thing you cannot drink without a straw it is boba. this is a brief summary of the ordinance. it will require many drink accessories be plastic free, straws, stirrers and cocktaal sticks. it is to be certified by the plastic institute. after january 1, 2020. food wear will not have florinnated chemicals. clean streets are important in san francisco. that single use food makes up the majority of litter on the sidewalks and streets. our office worked to reduce litter up treatment. san francisco public works did not have the resources to pick up trash. our small business and property owners are responsible for sidewalks in front of their properties. we concluded a pilot program for cigarette butt trash cans. the pilot was successful and reduced the letter full of plastic and chemi

when we fail at something, will we keep going, or will we quit? it's too painful, too hard, to complicated, or it will take too long. if we are serious, if the world is serious, we will do what , wege kennan recommended will stay at this for as long as it takes. a have demonstrated willingness to kill and capture terrorists for 17 consecutive years. it will take even longer to untie the grievances, causes, the ideologies. are we willing to do it? i don't know yet, i hope so, are we are never going to be rid of this problem. >> we have about 15 minutes left, which means this is a lightning rod. i promise to get you -- and lightning round. i promise to get you to everyone's questions. >> it's his way of saying i'm blathering on too long. look at thised to point as an inflection point on your last response. as we see the demise of islamic state's success on the battlefield, do you see trajectory moving forward consolidation of these extremist groups, or do you see a continuing competition between al qaeda and the islamic state? or is it more decentra

we have to be clear about her principles and what we stand for. we will never stop. we have to balance that with increased diplomatic engagement. chinese and russians are in these countries at regular times. spending money on infrastructure. if we show up occasionally into nothing but criticize we can lose ground. we have to strike the balance carefully and we have to get back into the game and compete for hearts and minds. >> thank you. >> thank you mr. chairman. i think our strategy with respect to europe is a total debacle. it's not your fault. i understand you do not's share the views of this president with the respective the the taxis launched on europe are some of the policies he's make implementing with russia. you're the only one we can ask. when we try to get clarification on what the policy is. let's start with russia. the president recently announced a new u.s. policy to bring russia back into the g-7. that would reverse the previous policy of requiring russia to implement the mintz agreement before being invited back into join the g-7. why did our policy

we need and resources we don't need that we don't get. >> it was rhetorical because i understand we are restoring th them. you've been asked to do a briefing by about north korea andd it's been of the schedulea couple times because we understand the travel but the president has said north korea no longer poses a nuclear threat and we are concerned about that and i want to ask you if anything north korea has done to dismantle the nuclear arsenal and i realize these are questions you cannot answer in an open session but will you commit to a senate briefing in a classified setting for senators to discuss exactly where we are north korea? >> i am happy to provide everythingea. >> thank you. before the other hand nuclear agreement was signed prime minister benjamin netanyahu and others said that iran was only weeks or months away from the atomic bomb and that is why many supported the agreement to stop them from being a few weeks away from everyone. are you recently gave a speech on a real policy and you listed conditions they must meet in order for the trouble ministration agree to ast

we are truly blessed. we grow more than we need. the current tariffs, continuing back and forth retaliatory actions, and trade uncertainties or hitting american agriculture from all sides. -- are hitting american agriculture from all sides. once you lose the market it is hard to get it back. uncertainties, labor shortages and the farm bill -- it's quickly becoming more than we can handle. in trade wars, agriculture -- all commodities are being impacted. in minnesota, we are hearing the most from members that are growing soybeans. page three of my written testimony clearly shows what trade uncertainty has done to our prices. low prices are causing negative impacts on our farm income. sales lead to lower prices. decisions in farming are not made week to week. we have to make decisions a long time before our crops are planted. we understand there are things out of our control. we manage some of that risk through crop insurance. the leveld know was of trade tensions we would be experiencing. the serious price impacts they have on our cr

in the world we live in today, it is hyper political. we politicize everything we do. pluralistic society under a secular government, many of whom has a rich tradition of religious leaders involved in politics and much of our government was founded on consoles out in the bible. as we become more and more diverse, the question for us as a society is how are we going to navigate these waters can sort the divide that exist tween us? i want to come to you today to suggest that those will not be sorted out through politics. while politics is important and his power, ultimately, it's like fire. you need higher to live. it rings heat and light. especially in ancient societies. two don't want a whole village to be made up of fire. you don't want everything in higher. you don't come to an out of control iron with or fire. well politics is urgent, there is a greater hope that we have in the bible that is ultimately the answer for the problems that we see today. jesus himself rose above politics. he was not a republican, pharisees, or a democrat, said he sees. so, i would say tha

we said -- you know, we have more money that we can bring to the table. it was end of the year money that we can bring to the table. but we want you to match it. it took three meetings with the president and the president said finally that we will. he didn't know that we were going to spend the money anyway, but it gave us the leverage and it really helped. but there were other areas that mattered. a big thing that we cared about democraticly was elections. the elections there had had a stormy and difficult history. sometimes good, sometimes not so good. it turned out that the most important allies of the united states, in pressing for clean elections in the electoral commission, actually counting the ballots, were the three mother churches. we had great lines to them because they were all partners in pepfar, which meant we knew all the leadership and they trusted us. instead of us having to say that the electoral commission had to be independent, we had these churches each sunday saying that we want an independent electoral commission and we want the bal

would be having a hearing on this if we continue before we made the amendments that we would have it before this time so this would not slow down the process at all. >> supervisor fewer: i understand it wouldn't slow down the process but failing to understand why we would need it again. right now i am not comp templating any amendments. >> supervisor safai: okay i will go to supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: i just want to be clear about we actually could have a budget committee meeting on july 12. we would have finished our deliberations for presenting to the board at the end of june and then the 4th of july week is out, so actually next budget meeting should be on the 12th. just for information purposes. >> that is fantastic. >> supervisor fewer: there is a meet an confer obligation. i have want this moved as quickly as possible. i don't believe have another meeting will delay it, but my need is to try to understand the need for another meeting because i am not working on this legislation alone, in fact jane doe, rachel and tiffany helped create this legislation with my office and

so what are we doing? we have to retrain them. so we use tech smart. tech smart is a training program for people who have some understanding of what a computer looks like, and they want to get back on the job market. we trained them, put them through our shark tank connection where they intern at a company, and they make a unified decision as to whether or not they stay. so those are my thoughts a t this poin this point. sorry i took a while. >> excellent. [ applause ] congressman? >> thank you, senator landrieu. thank you for your opening remarks about the extraordinary nature of our democracy and leaf in the individual. ultimately, i believe that's why we will outdo china. when you look at the company that competes with google, what makes me confident in the american city is you'll have reports of people paying bidu to rank their search, because of the state-owned control. i think our belief in ordinary americans is you put it so eloquently is what gives us the comparative advantage. i want to thank will marshal, who has welcomed new ideas, new visio

we buy the things we cannot make ourselves.rading is the only way in which we can get many of the supplies we need, for almost nothing grows in our cold land. although we can buy many things today, our life still depends on hunting. unless we are successful when we hunt, we would have nothing to trade at the store. as winter nears, everyone waits for the ocean to freeze. when the salt water begins to turn to ice, it is carried by ocean currents. later, it will become solid and remain frozen for months. the best time for hunting seals is when they come up through the ice for air. before the sea ice is frozen hard, father uses the sled and the dogs to hunt for caribou. on the way, we passed the graveyard of an abandoned village. the fence is made of whale ribs. nothing but the cemetery is left of this old village. for all of the people moved to point hope years ago. our sled dogs are the only domestic animals we have. we could not travel far over the winter snow without our dogs. father does not know exactly where the caribou may

rick: the transaction is complete, we see -- we received a breakup back on qualcomm and we are focusedn the future and we can focus on shareholder growth. david: you were inside of this, what killed the deal and what extent do you blame qualcomm because they got involved in the broadcom deal? rick: that had nothing to do with approval in china, it could have created confusion but nothing about regulations or issues that china could identify that could not be resolved. it has to be political or some other reason. it is not about the transaction itself. david: if it is not about that and it is political, trade issues, what does that say about any deal involving semi conductors going forward. is there another deal that would get approval? rick: i cannot answer that question. when you think about it, it raises question. there has been a few transactions that have been approved recently. a purchase of toshiba. for some reason they do not approve this transaction and for us it is about how we move forward. shery: qualcomm had legal dispute with apple and samsung. how is your relationship wit

we hope we get there but we should be automatic. we may be on a little longer than folks think. >> that scenario assumes that it will expand rapidly to 300 million people by 2040. the displacement of oil is limited to 3 million barrels per day. >> that would only result in going to 300 billion electric vehicles would result in a diminishing of 3 million barrels a day of oil. >> exactly. the legal consumption may decline, but there are heavy-duty trucks and ships, airplanes and all in all we expect to see the demand peak and that is a conclusion. >> i'm out of time but just one more answer what is the proportion of transportation versus petrochemical feedstock and the use of oil today? >> at this moment it is one of the largest demands in oil. i need to go back to something like 60% in the transportation sector and 30% also in the petrochemical. going back to the preset number. >> thank you madam chair. >> chair michalski and ranking member cantwell, thank you for having this hearing. in montana, the average price of fuel is around 7

we have to change our laws. we do that through congress. i would be willing to close it down to get it done, as you already know we are approving things. various bills, including we are going to take care of the military. we always put the military and law enforcement very high. but i would certainly be willing to consider a shutdown if we don't get proper border security. thank you. reporter: just a follow-up quickly, is the $25 billion a redline for you? pres. trump: i have no redline, unlike president obama. i just want great border security. mr. prime minister, here in the u.s., there was a consensus that the president's appearance at the g7 and nato damaged our relationship with those institutions. as a member of both of those institutions, what was your assessment of the president's appearance at both? pm conte: both the g7 and nato, we had a very fruitful exchange of views and opinions and oppositions. i think that all the positions and stances that are expressed to review thealso positions, is more than welcome. there is a fruitful

who are we, what do we stand for.t is ultimately the that is most important regardless of what we do as an alliance is the shared understanding of what kind of world we want and our responsibility to create that. david: given the importance to a lot of the voters you just described in your district don't they react to what has happened here with the president getting a greater commitment from our allies in nato to support the effort -- don't they take that as a plus for the president and therefore your opponent? >> i think there's a difference between saying something and actually getting it. there was already an agreement for countries to get to 2%. by a certain time. franklylly unrealistic that that's going to happen overnight just because the president wants that to happen. i think there's fundamentally misunderstanding about how nato works and why we are stronger when we side with our allies. shery: at least the conversation has started. we know that only five of the member countries actually contribute that 2%. h

we have to be stronger, we have to be unified. the headline he sees isn't what's happening during the morning. the headline he sees is what happened in the afternoon, where we came together as one, where they're putting up billions of dollars more, i'll give you an example. you know this as a confirmed number. $34 billion more was raised since i became president in nato. that means the other 28 countries have put in 34 -- $34 billion more into nato. do you think putin's happy about that? i don't think so. but we have a lot of false reporting in this country. i don't think you have that in your country, do you, prime minister? ok, go ahead. ask the prime minister. reporter: president trump told the surnings i think the deal she's striking on brexit is not what the people voted for. is he wrong, are you offering up a brexit-lite? and i wonder if we could get a reaction to him saying boris johnson would be a good prime minister? prime minister may: the deal we have put on the table, the agreement we've put on the table, as i said ear

we suffer -- every way we turn, we have a drought, we suffer.eople have a drought, don't bother them. if it floods, it don't bother them. their income does not depend on that one bit. but we suffer. yes, i willmp says help you out with $12 billion, that is nothing compared to what farming puts back in the pocket of the people of the united states. host: thank you for the call and good luck to you and your crop in south carolina. ronnie and irving, texas, democrat. go ahead. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. i can certainly appreciate the plight of the farmers. i know how much they mean to america and everything, but so many of these problems are problems that trump created himself and has to bail himself out of. such a newted reality for americans that things that used outrage americans are now everyday norms on tv and in the news. when the president stands on stage with vladimir putin and basically throws his own institutions under the bus for a dictator that we all know, except trump, apparently, who interfered in our electio

we said we did have the hiv, aids crisis and how do we resolve that. there were similar problems with regards to hiv and aids. first of all you had a disease were a stigma was attached. we had many people who are suffering and dying. we had many people who cannot get certain treatments. back then at a certain point the treatments were far from the effective treatment that we ha have. back then, we had people lacking wraparound services that are so important to help people. basically what we did was said that we are able to resolve this with the actin change the course of things with regard to hiv and aids then perhaps we can do something similar with regard to the opiate and drug crisis because again, a lot of people are suffering. a lot of people are dying. so basically we paralleled our bill with ryan white legislation. we think that it is an effective and efficient way to adjust the money mental problems. >> we saw bipartisan efforts and participation with the ryan white bill. what are republicans reaching out to in your efforts in supporting it? >>

what we do when we find this, we first and foremost work closely with drug users and we have an organizationof a drug and we want to make sure -- we are trying to make sure if we see a theme coming so we are good i think about getting to the drug using community but we also wanted to give to our practi practitioners. some of the actions is to refer patients with opioid use disorder to treatment. san francisco has treatment available on demand which can be accessed at methadone programs or triage center. we just funded $6 million, 3 million per year to expand our access and we have a street medicine chain that we will be work, out of the syringe access centers and also on the streets of san francisco. those will also be available for practitioners and ensure any patients who purchase any street purchased streets have noloxon, either or direct them to the pharmacies. the pharmacies also carry it or to send to syringe access sites. patients who are using drugs should be encouraged to keep the medication with them at all times. those are the three important messages and then of course we have ot

last year, we tried as much as we can to modify contracts when we could, we tried hard to get modifies to contracts done, but it's a very long process, so it took a while to get that out the door. but the new 3 million is for different programs and services than the existing 6 million in our current budget. >> supervisor yee: chair cohen? >> supervisor cohen: yes, supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: can i get clarification? >> supervisor cohen: yes, go ahead. >> supervisor yee: so the 2 million that was talked about are for potential contracts that are pretty much ready to go. >> right. >> supervisor yee: yeah, so it's going to be spent. and now -- now, you're ready to, i guess, do an r.f.p. for another 3 million? >> right, and we'll modify contracts where we can if we're already in contract with somebody for that service, and if it's a new -- some of them are for new services, we'll have to go out and put a request for proposal out for those. >> supervisor yee: and how soon can you start it? >> how soon can we start? >> supervisor yee: mm-hmm. >> well, with the process of starting -- >

out of destitution, we know we can do better than that and i look forward to see how we can make that reality happen for our lowest-paid workers. congratulations, everyone. >> supervisor a. peskin: thank you. supervisor ronen? >> supervisor h. ronen: thank you. i want to start with thank you to president cohen, the budget committee and entire committee, fewer, yee, stefani and sheehy. i agree, as well, that the process was so much better this year and i particularly appreciated how we had open hearings about the add-back process and we had those discussions together in public. i thought that not only is that a much more transparent way but it's probably how we should have been doing it all along. i just wanted to appreciate your leadership, supervisor cohen for making that happen. i also want to give a really special thanks to your staff and particularly sophia kittler. it was one of the most organized budget processes that i've ever seen and sophia was accessible at all times to my staff and they couldn't stop talking about how impressive she was and i felt the same way. so i just wa

we made this decision up because we thought 2% was important but we saw that nato was being very -- a very different situation after the annexation of crimea. and at the time we said, that it is not just a case that we need to act as nato in afghanistan, we have to look at the importance of the sending -- defending any state that is attacked. defense spending relevant to nato that we report to nato. it was up to 2019, 40 6.3 billion euros. in just a few years, in five years, there has been a significant increase in the percent which is absolutely necessary because it is not butt increasing too much making sure our teams are well equipped. we have european weapon systems and u.s. weapon systems. we are acting on the international market depending on the need for certain equipment. in the last year and a half, there has been a massive increase in european defense funds comecreating also being used to create common european weapon systems in europe at the moment, hundred 78 weapon systems, -- 178 weapon systems, where as the u.s. has 50. training,e requires which is what we are looking t

through that competition and that we are asking departments but we are saying we got -- we understand that there are going to be these situations, the 24 hour emergency meeting or something that we can't think of where we want to give you some wiggle room where we can follow the law. we just want to keep an eye on that so we make sure it's not being abused. it sounds complicated because i'm not articulating it well but i think the policy is pretty simple. we want to continue to use the examiner but have the chronicle there for flexibility and emergency when needed. >> emergency and for other specific reasons that need to be documented. >> well, for reasons of necessity. so if there's some reason that the department cannot plan in advance, which we expect them to do, but if they can't for some reason that they have this other way of advertising their meetings. we just want to keep an eye on it. >> okay. supervuzer -- supervisor ronen made a motion to amend and it was seconded by supervisor kim. colleagues, can we take the amendment without objection? without objection the amendment pas

we said we would close it down when we had 11, 40 billion of leverage, now we are at 10 and 39 billionf leverage. but the portfolio is the most pleasing thing. we are done with our restructuring. year, we are the early. and now -- is so small, but it will stop weighing on our results. >> what about global markets, where do you see this? part of oureally strategy that we need to do better. people compare us to -- but we do not think that is right. our global strategy is not to maximize the standalone global market, it is to use the global market to power the -- so what you see this quarter is, revenue is down a percent. and -- 8%. and in terms of leverage, we keep them under a strict cap. we could pour more capital into that and he would see results more similar to those of our peers, but we have taken a true path, which is to use the bull market to serve our clients. and actually it is working very well. caroline: that is the credit squeeze -- credit suisse ceo. vonnie: first word news from kailey leinz good kailey: the u.s. and china trying again to avoid a trade war. bloomberg has le

[inaudible] that's what we should be focusing on trying to make sure we follow the rules and we don't get taken away by the moment it was for living. >> i agree with the panel that the thing we should be concerned about is the erosion of institutions that speak to everyone across the populace. it's an underlying problem and is just different now. for better or worse and the internet, media communications has changed our world in important ways that i don't think we fully understand yet. i guess i would reiterate that it's a weird transitional outcome that things look so different on one side than the other. i don't think that's permanent, but i'm not really sure what to make of it. we can't go back to walter concrete that wasn't perfect either. there were catastrophic media failures at that time too. we have new and different catastrophic media failures ahead of us as well. >> can i add something? rob's work showed nicely the behavior of media systems is structural is not finality. if you were to think of the simulation were all we do is put in senses forgiven news outlet than all we

we put together the limited funds that we do collect locally here through the sales tax, and we that much that money four to seven times with regional measure three and sb 1 funds. what you're seeing on this map is a collection of projects that span through street resurfacing and repaving projects, transit projects for muni, and also some regional projects that will be receiving formula funds as well as competitive funds from several pots. this will include everything from transit inner city rail program that funds b.a.r.t., muni, and caltrain to active transportation projects that fund bike paths and walking -- and pedestrian safety projects. there are a whole host of transit and pavement projects in the neighborhoods, as well. i would refer you to our website at sfcta.org/revenue/sb1, and we're hoping we can certainly protect these funds. unfortunately there are folks that don't agree with that senate bill 1 revenue source with the gas tax, and there is an effort to repeal the gas tax, unfortunately, on the state built, -- ballot, it qualified and it will be on the november ballot.

we can share. we can share. >> supervisor yee: we love him, too, in district 11. ingleside police station actually covers a small piece of district seven, and every meeting in which they have had, where they ask the police station to come, captain hart is always there. and i have to say, you really do the best. you do really lead by example. you're in the community. i mean, i'm glad that you're actually living in san francisco, you know, raised here, and understand the people in our neighborhoods. so i'm really proud -- thank you very much, supervisor safai, for acknowledging captain hart and his -- his team over at ingleside station. now i'm jealous that i didn't do that first. thank you. >> president cohen: supervisor yee, i will join you in that jealous moment because captain hart also patrols parts of district ten, a tenuous part, a very difficult, challenging part, in the sunnydale neighborhoods, and so i also want to say congratulation doedoes. so we've got a few more people who want to thank, thank you. supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: yes. i

and we also believe that we can't do this alone. we have to do this with other city partners and other community leaders. as a result we believe that we are that collaborative partner. we want to be that connective tissue for our city government to come together. with that we believe that in order for us to truly realize that every young person, every family, every resident in san francisco, in quoting our late mayor to be successful and thrive in our great city, we need to have a commitment to equity. and so with that we have established our equity framework in which we want to prioritize all of our funding and supports to serve our low-income neighborhoods, our african americans, latinos, pacific islanders, children, youth and families. and our disconnected transitional a.g.u.s. and we always believe that there are specific characteristic needs that also need to be highlighted. and one of which are children with disabilities. and so our vision in establishing the request for proposal is to achieve these four big goals. number one,

we are doing what we promised in our electoral campaign and we are working to give answers to our citizens so that we won't disappoint them, and that we don't betray our mandate. in italy, in the united states, we are proving that change is possible. consummated --ve have conserved aided -- have talked about a number of topics. we will start working in italy in a directorship in the mediterranean between and the united states. italy is becoming a reference privilegeurope and a in the united states for the main threat and challenges we have before us. terrorism is a crises we see in , especially inan regards to libya. secondly the american administration also recognizes that italy has a leadership role country --er company promoter country. with united states we will be working in order to reach these results. and we will decide what needs to be done. you,truly thankful to donald, for your support. thirdly, in terms of -- presidenti also trump the innovative approach italy has put forth. the european union has a responsibility not to leave the weight of the management of shoulders ofn the c