we see what we do when we lead with their values and we see will we do when they organize and we see what we do when we listen. when we take the word off here are the lexicon of the democratic party. we have gone to school on many of the lessons of the state in the past on the lessons we have learned from the past is the mission of the democratic national committee must always be to elect democrats up and down the ticket from the school board to the oval office and we have done just that. with the help of this commission we are going to be able to do that on an even bigger scale because the recommendations you have put forth today are remarkably important and moving forward as we turn the corner. i believe again democrats can win everywhere in partnership with their state parties. we call it every zip code counts because again we understand we can win everywhere and we have demonstrated that an election set of taken place this year. we also understand we have got to spend money on infrastructure. we haven't spent a dime on television and the dnc. our summer program led by deputy chai

we believe by the leadership position we have, we can do that.actively taking action around that. emily: online harassment is a problem in general, especially for women on social networks and games themselves. how do we make the environment better for women inside these multiplayer communities? andrew: it's unacceptable; we believe in a diverse, inclusive environment for men and women. and other minority groups for that matter. games should bring us joy and happiness and extend the wonderful things in our lives, and we are taking action. our global community group spends every minute of every day looking at every conversation happening in and around our games and looking for opportunities, not just to police the badness, but encourage the goodness. and as the father of a five-year-old girl, that's important to me. and as a father of a two-year-old son, i want him to grow up and understand this is not a women's issue, it's an everybody issue. as a boy, i want him to grow up in support of things in service of his sister where she can be anything sh

so if we have no capability in that area and we have to deliver, whatever, we can. it's a whole set of factors. i think experience and judgment as in any tradeoff comes in, but what we have learned is we have to not wait for perfection. and continue do incremental work whether it's radiation portal monitors of magnetometers for the tsa, but we got to continue to incrementally deliver it. >> one thing to follow up -- a better understanding of the operators requirements and the fact that most of the technology we deploy is to inform the operators to make better judgment realtime. rather than going down the rabbit hole of saying, i need this super high speed wiz bang thing, say how does that guy operate on a daily base sbis what can i make their life better with? if i can get something out there to help somebody scan something a little quicker -- an an officer on he can't carry a bunch of gear. they need gear that's tailored to their operational environment. that gear is on the shelf but they don't know that. it's encouplent ontous know how they're operating and make s

what we will do once we have that is bring to you or send to you here is what we think we would be able to do immediately after clearance, presuming that depending on the decisions made at the board and the planning commission and board of supervisors pe. >> the environmental quality is an issue tha that that is a transportation issue we should think about becoming more active in. >> we are clearing this federally and locally. it will be paid for with federal funds. >> thank you. my concern, you know, i want everything faster. this feels to me like it was a slip of a couple years based on the last time this was presented. i assume it has to do with the change of the design. >> i would say that we didn't have a design that we were this excited about in the other three alternatives. there were significant weaknesses to all three. i think through the process what that meant did cause us -- it did cost time. now that we have a design the agencies are excited about we are pressured by our directors, my boss and director riskin are delivering the project on the more rapid timeframe than the f

we are 20 today. we should take it as a lesson that we do not have to do what we were told to do. we do not have to look at the rearview mirror and figure out that is what we are doing going forward, what we did in the past. we can, with that resolution, it is boundaries, start with a blank sheet of paper, what is good for the people, what is good for working families, what is good for this party if the party not only wants to win but stand for something that we can all be proud of. i would say to you, not rehearsed, not perfect, but i am proud to have been your vice chair and to have worked with you. i hope today we can finish in that spirit. [applause] >> thank you, larry. we are ready to get to business. we still have work before us. important work. we are going to start this morning reviewing caucuses. we will then move to amendments that were tabled yesterday. we will then move to the process and next steps and we will then hear from the commission members. let's begin going through the caucuses and the recommendations that are before us. i will give a summary of what we have

we are all here because we love our country. and we are all driven to protect it both for external national security threats and from internal weakening of our constitutional protections. this bill fails to balance those concerns. and so i must oppose it. i would like to yield the rest of my time to mr. himes. >> thank you, miss speier. i want to honor congressman gowdy's observations. i agree wholeheartedly. he is right. there have been republicans who have taken risks to acknowledge what you said about the tweet, and this is not fundamentally, i think, a partisan thing and shouldn't fundamentally be a partisan thing. i want to reassure mr. rooney, though i am unhappy with the process that has led us here today and though we have had heated words i think the personal relationships on this committee are really important. i want to distill the issue down to two points, though, number one, and i think these are sort of unarguable. we all know what we do and we know there are certain issues that are political dynamite. unmasking is

we are now in the phase of where we have shipped the traffic on to where the median used to be so we are working in blue areas in the slide, the utility work. this is the big phase of the project. in the end we will see surface improvements. the biggest chunk of time is utility work happening underground. once that work is done, we will be able to shift traffic back to the sides, build the brt lanes in the center, then finally add the power that will power the electric buses. that gives us a big picture overview of the schedule. this is where we are currently versus what the baseline schedule is, and you will note, as i think saw last time projected for mid 2020 revenue start day, which is about nine months later than our current baseline schedule, apthat is based on the issues you heard previously and something that i think you heard previously we are working with the contractor and city agencies to recover. we now have received a recovery plan from the contract tour -- contractor walsh construction with different elements in terms of recovering the schedule. what it provides for is

it's a bit fanatic and we might want to work on that next year but we did the same as we did last year with 4,131 flu shots between october and november. speaking of off sites, we are geting and i know shavon will mention this a bigger percentage of participation so we go to department of human resources and the p.u.c. building, we come to city hall, and those types of things and we saw about a 22% increase in participation this year and some of those i enjoy going that is ruccsf and we have a health fair with a flu shot and it's great talking to the retirees and they have great questions and i learn a lot as far as customer services and things that they rely on us on and then got an opportunity to say a few words at the beginning of that. kind of going over what is going to be new for 2018. one of my other favorite off site events is going up to mock sin and talk to the hedge employees up there and it's my third year going up there and it's great because i lose cellphone coverage before i a arrive so they have cellphone coverage but not my carrier and it's nice and it's a nice little

we want to make sure we are doing everything we can to strengthen the democratic party. i think there will be plenty of accountability measures along the way to hold our feet to the fire. making sure everyone knows these meetings are occurring. not just those in thismaking sut those that cannot be with us members current, members curret ure, and beyond. yvette,ogby: number one not a question of your integrity. and the same, emmy. i do agree with what jeff and what have lucy has said, in that we passed the document for the most part unanimously. i would hope that same sense of unanimity goes to that body representing all of us, not just representing yourself. basically what you just said is win,if there were a time then i hope you will decide to recuse. you are not just representing a point of view, the work we have done -- but the work we have done collectively together. i just wanted to put that on the record, not to question integrity, but to question the optics if the document is modified in ways that become record, not to question recognizable from what we agreed to.

we have been through tough times before and if we remember who we are and what holds us together, weoing to be okay. >> you were there for all of that, except the 1800s. >> no. >> even you were not there. you were not there for the civil war. the rest of it you covered. we may come back to that. let me chat with you. what seems to be lacking in this current moment, this current american crisis, which you talk about and write about beautifully in the text is empathy. so, that's why i started by asking whether or not we have the ability to repair our faults, if we lack the empathy required to do that. >> i think we have the empathy. you and i may disagree. i agree it's in very short supply, particularly among too many leaders. this is ducking around it. particularly with our present president. there's no sign of any empathy, but the country at large has great empathy and a sense of fairness. look what happened in the wake of hurricane harvey. those people on the texas coast, neighbor helping neighbor, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity. it didn't wait for outside help to come. the

when we look at the geographic data and where we had the largest loss of units and production, do we have an acquisition plan that looks like at the geography in district 4 where we have a high level of wasp and low production. can we look to prioritize sites in those discretions to ensure affordable housing production. >> we would love to build more houses. in d4 we have a teachers site -- a combination of low and middle income housing. we are looking forward to form sf. i don't have the large sites to bring tax corrode its to bear officially. have be in thes that don't have sites. that contrains us. we would love to do more sites and we talked with the supervisor in district s and we have constraints of developers looking in the neighborhoods. >> i with was not careful enough in my question. i specifically meant site acquisition not necessarily development. and i'm not picking on supervisor tang. >> acquisition strategy is to take advantage of opportunities that arise. we need to build a minimum of 75 units. if we go much over 150 units we have a gap funding need that becomes diffi

i would urge that we come to an agreement that we offer to compromise on the language that we don't think belongs here at all, but we did offer a couple of -- a compromise. with that, i yield back. >> other members wish to be heard. mr. conaway? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i find my good friend's arguments to be less persuasive. personal identity should be protected, and what we were trying to do with this unmasking provision is to make sure that happens. we have seen instances in the record we have been collecting so far where it appears to be reckless or certainly an inordinate number of unmaskings of american identity. without that proof and establishing why, the analyst or whoever is asking for the unmasking to happen. and to hear the argument that we should be less concerned about andprivacy of americans what this attempts to do is quite shocking. this does not hamper the ability of the intelligence community to use this 12. it simply protects americans identities. those americans whose identities should be protected, and there should be a high bar to cross and unmask someone's ident

we have a military we have to build. i want to thank general mattis for doing such a great job with respect to isis. he has knocked the hell out of them. of course i made a possible with what i live you do, i think. he and the military have done a fantastic job with isis. they are essentially knocked out of syria, iraq. that is the good news. the bad news, they go all over the place. we don't want them in our country. we don't want them coming to our country. we don't want them going into our country so we are watching that closely. i would like to wish everyone a really great season, a merry christmas, happy new year. i will tell you that we have a big enough that coming up at 1:00. perhaps a couple of you will be there but it is a big announcement. it is concerning israel and the palestinians and the middle east and i think it is long overdue. many presidents have said they want to do something that they did not do. whether they change their mind, i cannot tell you. a lot of people said we have to do something and they

we made it clear we elect result it. the last major thing standing between us and being a much more normal bank and being able to get back into position of speaking into a regulator which would signify that this bank has gone three pager test through a major recovery. -- through a major recovery. manus: the numbers out there very between single digits and double-digit from mortgage backed securities. even today double-digit hit from the doj, 50.5% capital, have you got enough just 15.5% capital, have you got enough capital? ross: we need to build a capital position at the specs on the one ever worries about us ever get. just about us ever again. -- about us ever again. today, we are in a very strong capital position, but i don't know how big this final be. -- this fine will be. we have built capital hoping that some of the capital will be retained so we can give it back to our shareholders and use it to grow our business. we have to hold onto it. manus: has the music changed at the department of justice? there were lawsu

we have a communications plan that we are following. i do believe that like the soft story program, it will take multiple notifications to make people aware of this. right now i don't think it's on anybody's radar. and at least having received 11 voicemails on the mayor's hotline of dbi's and 20 email response responses and clear that the 12,400 initial mailers are being read by some people, albeit a tiny fraction. as most of us who have dealt with any direct mail know, if you get even a 1% response from such a mailing, you are doing very well. and it will take multiple outreach efforts in order to try and bring everybody into the program. but we are certainly prepared to do that. >> and so many different cultures and confident with the outreach program there? do you feel strongly that we are at good capacity? >> we do. we have the information that i have been talking about in chinese and spanish already. and we are certainly willing to deal with other languages on an as-needed basis in order to try to explain the parameters. >> i think

and we care about kids and we care about families and we care about seniors and we want them to be in our programs. and so a lot of that still remains. yes, we've evolved and some of our business practices have evolved, by the way, for gotted. and you gave us a lot more money -- general fund support in the days when your park system was operating. so we have captured for people who can pay and should pay and we're able to capture a bit more revenue or at least track or account for it with those accounts practices were probably not as good back then. but the core essence of what we do, of being able to show up at a park or at a rec center and enjoy it, i think that it very much remains. >> supervisor breed: thank you. i know that we're talking about capital related issues as well and piggybacking on supervisor fewer's request for a review of the strategic plan for golden gate park. i'm hoping, again, that that would include just the entryways. i think that we should come up with a vision to redesign those entryways and you know my dream of making it a very active, specifically with alf

we have more we want to do? to do. are more we went my only objective is to help these people who are choosing this as a career. i will come and go. others will come and go. what you and i do to help them because they have decided they want to spend their life doing this and they should be able to do it as effectively and efficiently and without a lot of grief and obstacles. if i could remove some of that for them, that is what i want to do. chrysler because you, that message will resonate around the world. a lot of people wanted to hear me tell you, a lot of people wanted to hear that. it will resonate around the world. gerry connolly, one of our stars in our foreign policy programs ask, do you think human rights ofoad are an important part the state's mission? where do you think progress with russia is possible . finally, in light of the increased activity in the arctic, is the arctic in alaska of strategic importance to the united states and to its european arctic allies? secretary tillerson: as to human rights and

are proud and very proud of who we are, how we got here and what we are fighting for to preserve weill not fail. if we do all of this and we rediscover our resolve and commit our cells to compete in win again then together we will leave our children and our grandchildren a nation that is stronger, better, freer, powder and yes, in america that is greater then ever before. god bless you. thank you very much. [applause] journaln has washington every day with the policy issues that impact you. coming up, a discussion of the republican tax bill with our correspondent. sure to watch and join the discussion. senatehouse and conferences reconcile the differences between tax plans last week. votes are expected on the measure. later in the day, the senate begins debate. live coverage on c-span two. -- he house rules committee next, the relationship between muslims and the west. the policy differences between the obama and trump administration's and the impact of the national security strategy. this is one hour. public affairs director for the muslim public affairs council. thank you for atte

we have come to suspect we have to expect we have to identify who we are in all aspects of society. i believe it is the same to vote. i am not one of those who believes that everyone who is a noncitizen who should be able to vote. some people believe that just by being here ought to be able to vote in our elections. i do not believe that. i do not subscribe to that. i believe united states citizenship in our elections should choose our government. those voter id identification laws are in place to ensure who we are and if we have the right to vote. in no way are we trying to limit, certainly any particular group, but anyone from voting. we encourage people to vote. we made extended times and hours for people to vote. we open up the absentee voter, where you could vote absentee with no excuse. i think we enhanced the ability of people to vote if they wanted two, yet the other side in says to persuade people that it is a suppression technique. steve: do you agree with the idea of a fake media? secretary perdue: i think there are individuals who are very much anti-trump and use the fir

it ifonvinced we can make we negotiate on principles. it must be about citizens, the movement of citizens. there are 4 million people from the eu who work in the u.k.. london is among the 10 biggest french cities. we will be capable of discussing the future and the future of our relationship needs to be very close. this idea that britain is andg to crash out of europe ,ecome some low tax deregulated it is not going to happen. the risk we face is if we do this hard brexit, the economy will suffer. you actually might end up in the labourthout -- with a government further left than any government has been. >> i never thought the credit risk would be a labour government. been very frank about this. you combine a hard right populist punch in the form of you are going to do the country some damage. see any situation where we would have a second referendum on brexit? >> we don't see a second referendum. we don't know when the general election will be. what we want is parliament to be able to hold the government to account and what it is doing,

put together the intelligence, we did all of the backup work, we looked at the compound, and we knew in order to conduct that information we seals to doilitary that. they didn't based on our intelligence and they did a great job. that is great example of the partnership that is essential for these flashpoints. >> i know you can't get specific but can you explain how the cia is ramping up operations against terrorists? inherited aneo: i operation that has been at this for a long time. 15 plus years after 9/11. in the machine. the counterterrorism machine was well in place, no doubt about that thanks to the good works of my predecessors. but that fight has changed in material waste. syria and iraq held a lot of real estate. different than what we've seen before. worked to continue to build that team to deliver so that partners around the world, department of defense and international, could continue to take down terrorists wherever we find them. it is also the case the president made the decision to have a commitment in south asia, not permanent but to recommit to being there until wee

we do have some problems here but nevertheless we managed to reverse that trend so we have we had twoownward slopes but we will take additional measures, i will talk about it today, i'm sure we'll be able to go back to normal, life expectancy was 65.3. right now it's almost 734. -- 73. we were living in a state of civil war for a long period of of a ix years, 10 years civil war. when 18-year-old boy, untrained, unqualified, were sent to the front lines and now fast forward to today when we have a strong army and debt is down by three times. and our country's reserves have grown by 30 times, that's an outcome, that's an achievement. as for the opposition, they shouldn't just arrange protests in the streets and talk about putin regime. they need to talk about efforts to improve our lives. certainly we could have better and i admit that people have the right to say that we could have better but what about the platforms of opposition leaders? take a look at them. i feel that there's a lot of doubt about their platforms. that's the root of the problem. real they need to present enda, not a

option 3 suggests we will not diverge at all. >> what option 3 is saying is if we get to that point we will ensure it is possible for trade to continue across the border from northern ireland to the republic of ireland with having a hard border or physical infrastructure at the border. that is the commitment that has been given, a commitment, can be achieved as part of the wider relationship in the uk and european union, we are able to discuss that and negotiate that, and phase 1 of the negotiations. we have sufficient progress >> on the full stage. part of it is the trading relationship around the world. and playing a role, continuing to play the role in the united nations or nato, and the security that we give. and upholding values, in the united kingdom. >> and the rule-based systems, the report, it does seem to be a concern. >> the armed forces around the world, in the mediterranean continuing to do that and committed to the eu council whether it is necessary. and what we have been doing, in the last week, present an award to representatives of operation which is led by navy, and t

we did not. we had such ways we were looking at from the moment i joined the campaign. we look at our states. colorado was going to be balanced. i had a few pulls with 35 or 36 and we were still down three points. move along. nd so, we had our demographics known. the key was not to be swayed by the public polls. you can look at the public polls if you are a campaign but you cannot rely on them. mr. roe: do you think there is a philosophy that whoever people think will win is more important than who they vote for? is there any psychological motivation behind media or liberal groups that poll to just make this a feature to make this a fait accompli? r. baselice: the other position would be everyone is voting for her so i don't need to vote. it can work both ways. the biggest mistake i saw was in 2006 when called the rhÔne -- calderon in mexico won. he said -- i am a head in the polls, -- i am ahead in the olls, vote for me. that is not a reason to go vote for someone. or go vote for me, i am behind in the polls and i needed next her bump. we have not seen enough data to c

>> how many staff do we have? >> where are we locked? >> so we're currently located at 50 ivy street facility on mission street at 101 grove street at 1360 mission street and 1650 mission street. >> and you will vacating these places? >> yes. >> all except for 50 i.v. so when we're able to make the move we will be in 50 i.v. and then at 440 turks so we'll be in two locations. >> that's good to know. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any public comments on this item come on up you have two minutes. >> hi. >> my name is and i work for the housing clinic we oversee three programs i oversee three programs which is a thorough residents in the tender loin and latino families and code enforcement and we came to know about this going back on history threw a that's what the department was proposing and there was a lot of community as to there was no community in the process it would not fly in any other neighborhood this way so there was processes but i have to disagree with the department that the final plans the concrete final plans were not put o

social services so that as we move forward, we can think about our strengths and how we can being accessible for people with disabilities and older adults and also that we can ensure that our planning processes include the disability and age friendly lens. it is exciting. i hope that san francisco will see the results of this in the ensuing years. >> people always talk about legacy of leadership and compare different things about personality of somebody and work they do in an office but wherever the reflections go, what a marvelous legacy that ed lee did that for the aging population in the city and county of san francisco. >> yes. >> is there anything else that's new that's happening in the department that would be important for people to know about? >> i think what i really want people to know is they can access the services of the department. ramona mentioned that often people don't know where to go for services. we have one phone number where people can access all the services of the department. it's really just to ask questions if they have an older adult or a person with a disability i

and we have a meeting to make sure that we identify the needs so we can identify how we need to fill them. we know we need to put resources on them, because when there are exam-based positions, it requires a significant amount of work to accomplish that. our goal is to not let it slip up in any way in terms of priority emphasis. one other note on the budget for the january meeting and now on to february, we would be preparing to submit at the end of february, the mayor's office in early december gave us two targets, asking all departments to cut 2.5% in fy, '19 and fy, '20. because we're 90% salaries, we have very little overhead it. would require us to lose positions, in my view, we're ramping up. we need to make sure that the people are in their seats, doing the work, paid to do the work and have the tools to do the work. that will be our budget request that we bring forward to you in january. i'm hopeful with the continued support with the leadership from the board that has embraced this, we'll show that we're a good investment for the work and resources that the city has been giv

who are we at that time, right? we need that partnership. we know the locality. to do business in indonesia, but we need that product and technology. we believe the partnership is very synergetic. i think each party is a win-win, so each party bring something to make the cooperation successful. haslinda: what is interesting is you see great future in green energy, renewable energy, and that has been quite a focus for the company. shinta: green energy has been part of our big picture as a sustainable excellence company look at the resources we have. we have the biggest terminal in indonesia. there are so many opportunities for renewables, and yet we have not even achieved a small part of it, so the target of the government to reach 23% in 2025 is a very ambitious target, but it is something that we definitely have to start moving forward on. the private sector has to support that. and lest the private sector implements it come there is no way they can achieve anything, right? haslinda: even providing energy to indonesians is already a challenge, an archipelago, 17

>> we are working hard to fix whatever issues we find.have a hot line that gets 40,000 contacts a year. we hear from veterans and whistle blowers. >> what is not working well at the va today? bills have been passed. president trump made it a priority. today as the inspector general what is your biggest concern at the va? >> just making sure the promise work and the money is spent as appropriated. we made a number of recommendations. we are always finding other things. we look hard and we have a proud staff that works every day to help make the programs and operations better for veterans. >> we talk about wanting to root out the waste, fraud and abuse. how big of that? >> it's extremely large. >> hundreds of dollars, tennessee of billion dollars? >> in the billion dollars of dollars. our economic impact was over $6 billion. >> what do you want people to know about the inspectors general. do you need a special prosecutor if you have an inspector general doing their job? >> one of the different features about the inspector general is our ind

are we telling the people that policing the homeless is what we are here for, we can get you into these services? that is not us. that is another department. as much as i agree with what you are saying, i am glad to do our part. what you are talking about is beyond our control. all we can do -- effect the orders given to us. you can change the order system. we are glad to do that. >> that needs to be said. >> president turman: you need to go to the mayor's office or dpa. we are at the bottom of the chain. we can't change that. >> i think that, you know, to address that point briefly before getting back to my last light and turning it over to the director of the coalition. many of us have seen a lot of neighbor meetings where people are trying to placate the neighbors who want to call 911. the reason we want to show what is happening with this type of polices is that it is pervasi pervasive. whether or not people, officers want to do it, it is happening and it is having a harmful effect on homeless people. regardless of what people are calling 911 want people to think. so i think there a

that we brought in. so, we are quite active. thank you. >> thank you for your testimony and for your work. next eke spaoer, please. >> hello, my name is pam hag an. we have been in attendance at the odd fellow's building since 2002. 15 years now. our ability to move our studios from the old building we used to be out at 50 oak was -- we thought it was impossible to do until we met peter sellers and were introduced to his building and it became possible to have the full group of people that were part of our organization, move to this new location. odd fellows are not only doing things in the past, but they are so actively doing things moving forward and the support of arts in the very civic center, the center of the city, a difficult area now and it is beginning to prosper. a lot of arts groups may be finding themselves priced out of the place all together. that is not the case as tenants of odd fellows. they're very supportive. we have not only the performance company that's actually on tour right now in france, but we also have

we talk about the streets, we talk about affordablity, we talk about design, we talk about a broad range of things, and commissioner richards, he went into a lot of things in state law, and if you ought all those topics that we touch on in a pie chart, our actual authority is, like, that small supplies, and i think that's something that i want to start off by saying today, and we'll see where we end up on this project. we just had a project where there was sud, so we were able to argue for more percentage, but yet, we are constrained with this one. that's a box we've been put in, which is really unfortunate. in a world where state law wasn't what it was, and our constraints weren't where they were, i would be sitting here saying send it back unless there's more, but it's challenging for us to be able to do that. i also -- people have mentioned -- commissioners have mentioned the state density bonus law which has some contradictory affordable requirements, but there's also an affordable housing act, that commissioner melgar didn't mention, we are in risk of a lawsuit if we disapprove proj

we could -- we can do better, and we must do better. so i also had a question about the budget committee. who -- actually, this is a question for the president of the commission. which commissioners currently serve on the budget committee? >> i do, and -- i don't know. vice president nakajo? >> okay. so it's currently the president and the vice president, because i thought commissioner hardeman was on it at one point, at well. >> no. i chose not to be on it over the years. i'm very fortunate. >> okay. >> okay. >> this is something we both feel is important, as well, commissioner covington, so we share your concerns. >> thank you. >> that we don't have a grant writer in the department. i know the police department has probably two or three. >> they have a staff of grant writers. they have three grant writers in the police department. >> so it is a priority, mr. corso. >> and i daresay they're not smarter than we are. let's get with it. >> i think mr. corso's got the message. >> and also, mr. president, to you, you have mentioned a number

we >> we are back on the record in open session. you still have a quorum. >> please call the next item. >> item 10 discussion on item 9 held in closed section. >> i move not to disclose. >> president turman: second. >> on the question aren't we prohibited from disclosing this no matter if we want to or not. >> we have to make this motion. >> president turman: moved and seconded all in favor. any opposed? all right. next item. >> item 11 adjournment. >> president turman: members of this commission tonight we close the book on the commission in 2017. we are concluding our calendar for the year and we will be back on january 10th. it has been a challenging year, it has been a hard year. but we accomplished much and there is still a lot to do. let's work as productively together as we have been able to do in the past. i look forward to working with all of you in 2018. 2018 in one capacity or another. and i thank you for all of your time and attention to the commission and to the goal also of serving the people of the city and county of

however, we shaw empower, we -- we should empower society. we have put culture into the curriculum to teach people about the different cultures that they think about. everyone should be encountered that accounted for when it comes to discrimination and not one singled out. thank you. --accounted for when it comes to discrimination and not one singled out. thank you. [applause] thank you for that heartfelt and powerful speech which is warmly appreciated by members of the u.k. youth parliament. i am now looking, i think, for a contributor from the east midlands. i will take the woman in the burgundy dress. >> thank you. the florence and i am representative for nottingham ship. a myp who could not be here today. i have had my whole perception changed about what gender is. we need to try to get people to meet new people of different genders and sexualities. when you meet them, you can have this conversations about what is gender and how can sexuality be different. your whole mind changes. and opens up. organizations of and if we work with them, w

so, we think -- we think we can still safely say we've been here since 1966. but, you know, in a world of amazon and wal-mart and all this, people still want an experience. people still want to come in and be able to touch the toys, be able to touch the productses, to be able to have an experience. the same kind of experience you get when you see a film. right? people still want that. and in the city that is the most, in my opinion, the most creative, unique city in the world, we gotta have a toy store. we gotta have shopping and dining experiences that are one of a kind. so we're so happy to be part of this shop and dine in the 49 and, once again, since 1966, creating a fun place, a creative place for people to come and buy their toys. so, thank you. [applause] >> in closing, i think matthew hit on a good point which isn't just about shopping or dining, this is about experiencing in the 49. i obviously believe there is no better place to spend the holidays, but also year round than here in san francisco. and on that note, on the note of experience, i think wi

we have lots of things we want to see, but what can we move forward to actually implement. this takes ideas from the mission action plan 2020. so a timeline of activities that we're undergoing this year, it's really starting with relationship building, meeting one-on-one with community leaders, attending community meetings, so using those as a spring board to start the process. not starting from scratch, but there are a number of plans, ideas, processes that organizations have led and we've built from their work. in may, we had a kickoff meeting with 150 folks there and city agencies, talking about all the great things that are happening in the neighborhood. we took that workshop on the road and in total we were able to talk to about 250 people through our workshop, and then also led a survey where we had about 970 responses to the survey from the community. in august and through the summer, we had an intern who worked on existing conditions report, some of the data you heard today. she gathered that and that will be part of our published strategy. finally, in the early 201

that is, we have populations of people that we can't reach. we can't reach them. we overlook them. when it comes to the goals, i saw those people not represented, because you have no reference to connectivity, to broadband. we absolutely must say access to information, to commerce, to the lifeblood of our nation, is on the internet. until everybody has that, they are not equal. i don't know if you want to put that goal in infrastructure or equality. but by god, it's got to be in there. [applause] >> bravo. phenomenal. thank you. by the way, phenomenal. it was on the list. when we tried to make three for each of these, it fell off the list. and it's a wonderful point you're making and exactly the kind of feedback. thank you. >> there is -- i have a question here. i really do have a question. >> but your comment is fantastic. >> well, thank you. is there a way that we can take what your goals are into how we reach out to those people that we have overlooked? i call them the ones we overlooked, because there is such a vast population of people that we truly just look over. we think th

the worlds population if we don't find new markets or if we don't recognize the economy we can interview part of that and harness that or be left behind. >> i do want to get to free-trade but more broadly we have a republican in the white house republican control of congress with the majority of statehouses so explain how conservativism is lost. >> i remember very well. with that conservative think tank. we knew each other than and during the 1990s. and they still talk about this in the book archer chairman of the ways and means committee. and when debating the flat tax. and as the party stood for principal and argued principal i remember sitting at one point and as we are presented with the presidents bill which for think tank conservatives or intrusion into local education and he said sometimes i feel like we are minutemen. so then with the prescription drug benefit which added $7 trillion of unfunded liabilities and then republicans engaged in just horrible types of spending with earmarks. and we really lost our way and because we could not claim we were fiscally conservative and then

, who do we want to be in this world, what can we be, and how do we go about bringing that to pass. i think it should be of concern because we are not living in a bipolar world. we may be living in a nonpolar world which could be the most dangerous of all. i think for me the concern is that we seem to be seizing international leadership at many different levels. while the president has promoted make america great again, he is doing it on the basis of transactional activities without a comprehensive plan of how the individual components or transactions actually fit into the pattern that is cohesive. if you go to japan, the japanese prime minister would say he is very fond of president trump. same thing would be said if you go to saudi arabia or the european friends, less so, if you talk to the prime minister of australia whose word that the united states is no longer able to be counted on to carry the leadership role for freedom and democracy and we need to continue to fill that role. it depends on where you go. my own fear is that we are seeing a wrecking ball being taken to the ins

we paid into them. we are owed that when we get to that age.elieve we shouldable allowed to reject our social security benefits and put that back into the pot if we're wealthy enough to take care of ourselves. >> katie: voluntarily? >> jessica: if i have enough money i should be able to donate that. >> katie: donate that to private companies or charity companies retirement work. >> jessica: we see that differently. you shouldn't have to take the money. it should be your choice to put it back. >> there is a lot of ways to reform it. >> katie: can you write a check to the treasury at any time. you don't have to wait every two weeks. can you write a check back to the treasury at any point. >> i just want -- i don't think a lot of folks realize 70% of our federal budget is untouchable. nondiscretionary portion that's what is ballooning our debt, medicare, medicaid and social security. any lawmaker who steps up to try to fix it, reform it, make it better just gets pillarried from both sides. we need some political courage in our leadership. and step

as long as we are proud and very proud of who we are, how we got here, and what we are fighting for to preserve, we will not fail. if we do all of this, if we rediscover our resolve and commit ourselves to compete and win again, then together we will leave our children and our grandchildren a nation that is stronger, better, freer, prouder, and, yes, an america that is greater than ever before. god bless you. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> the president of the united states, donald j. trump, giving his very first national security strategy speech. it's the first one that we have seen from an american president since 2015 when president obama gave his second national security speech. it didn't depart too much from the past two presidents, but it was trumpian in its own way. it was a little bit over a 20-minute speech and he spent about six or seven minutes of that speech bashing past administrations before going onto self-congratulate himself and then getting into the meat of this speech. remember this comes as the u.n. votes 14-1 to try and demand the u.s. change its jerusalem. t

we were very lucky. we had six board members. we never met each other. we had the same six board members from 1994 to 2007. we had a great initial chair, roz ridgway who had been assistant secretary of state under president reagan. as an aside the two most famous people in the baltics when we got there were pope john paul ii and ronald reagan. we came into a pretty receptive environment. roz was a great leader to have in that. the board is everything. the board has to exercise real oversight. we had active committees. we didn't micromanage management, but we absolutely knew what they were doing all the time. and i think that allowed us to change course when we had to, redirect resources when we had to, and innovate when we had to. >> okay. so what about when you started making money, and what happened? did the government say what do i do with this money? what was that conversation like? >> so we sold all of our businesses in 2007. so in 2007, we liquidated. we sold our mezzanine capital business to a hedge fund. and we sold our mortgage bank, which by th

we will review and process this like we will any other. we recognize the actual cost of you willtility work is $29 million not the $18 million we thought. on our side we have the guaranteed maximum price we all agreed to. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> commissioner breed. >> i noticed on van ness avenue there is a lot of change and confusion about which way people are to go when driving up and down the street. i was wondering if you had any plans to add parking control officers to those most challenged intersections during commute hours? >> through the chair, we are monitoring the traffic flow carefully that we didden game significantly with our open traffic engineers as well as caltrans in identifying and approving the road configurations and communication plan, signs for them. as needs if we need resources such a pco or police officer at any particular location that is something we will moptor and put -- monitor and put in place. i am not aware of plans to do so. if there are areas that you see are concerning we would welcome that feedback.

as long as we are proud and very , how we got we are here, and what we are fighting for to preserve,e will not fail. if we do all of this, if we rediscover our resolve and commit ourselves to compete and then together we will leave our children and our grandchildren the nation that is stronger, better, freer, proper, and yes, an american that -- an america that is greater than ever before. god bless you. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] ♪ announcer: c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up tuesday morning, a discussion of the republicans tax reform bill. be sure to watch c-span's atshington journal" live 7:00 a.m. eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. >> house and senate reconciled the differences between the two republican tax plans last week. the house begins floor debate tuesday. boat is expected on the measure. later, the senate begins 10 hours of debate on the bill. watch it on live senate coverage on c-span2. the house rules committee meets to consider legislation to fund the federal government passed a