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john zogby is a pollster and us political strategist.sked him how prospective voters for the former president will view these developments. prospective trump voters are just fine, they are with their man 100%, and that is exactly who he is talking to, and especially during this primary season where we see he is racking up victories and he has solid support among republicans when he goes head—to—head againstjoe biden. that piece of it is working just fine for mr trump. john, the trial is expected to last about six weeks, donald trump says he will campaign each evening after attending court during the day, how feasible is that and how do you see that campaign working? he is a 77—year—old man and that is a sort of thing that can be exhausting to anyone of us. i can't imagine doing it myself and i am almost there. that part aside, we know that he is very vigorous and he is energised when he is on the road campaigning, so it could very well be that it helps them. and he is seen then as being active in his defence. but we do also know that if

live to new york to speak to pollster and politicasl strategist john zogby.nk you for your time here on newsday. i would like to start by asking you, donald trump made the statements right after the decision, called and it's a disgrace, how do you think perspective trump voters are likely to see these developments? are likely to see these develoments? , . , developments? prospective trump voters are just _ developments? prospective trump voters are just fine, _ developments? prospective trump voters are just fine, they - developments? prospective trump voters are just fine, they are - developments? prospective trump voters are just fine, they are with l voters are just fine, they are with their man 100%, and that is exactly who he is talking to a stop especially during this primary season where we see he is racking up victories and has solid support among republicans when he goes head—to—head againstjoe biden. that piece of it is working just fine for mr trump. piece of it is working 'ust fine for mr trump-— piece of it is working 'ust fine for mrtrum-. . , ,

the pollsterjohn zogby says, " every vote west gets is a threat tojoe biden."s not. there's a number of conservatives who come up to me, you saw the piece in newsweek, the conservative case for west, there's a number of conservatives coming to me and saying, "we like your vision and integrity, we disagree with your policy. we can't vote for either one, so we're thinking seriously of voting for you." but keep in mind, biden has to make his case. if he doesn't make the case, he doesn't own votes, he's got to earn those votes. trump has to make his case. but most importantly for me, the point is, i'm not even sure if biden is going to end up being the candidate. i think he's going to have an lbj moment and pull out. he's running out of gas. and for all we know, trump might be on his way to jail, and both parties will have to move to their b teams. we're in real time, things are fluctuating. right, but the impact on the race, as a republican—democrat race, of a cornel west candidacy remains the same. i just wonder whether you ever listen to your friends. 0h, ido. l

commissioner zogby , thank you for your presentation, mr. chen. and you actually answered half my question because i wanted to ask. so it's a set amount. what? so in the past six years, what, um, percentage of that that budget has been utilized? um, thank you, commissioner, for the question. i don't have the exact number. uh memorized, but i believe we are about maybe be less than 50% expended. so about 1.5 million, uh, to date, um, for past, uh, six years. and uh, for, for your, uh, you know, with your experience and, uh, what do you think do you think that those 762 days are going to be covered by the same budget or should we expect you to visit us again about, um, thank you for the question. um, i think at this rate, we believe that the remaining, uh, balance of this contract will be sufficient to support all the services through the next 7 to 62 calendar days. uh, that's one reason why we did our assessment and kind of did a cost forecast based on the remaining scope and that's why we didn't come to the commission asking for increase to the co

yep uh, commissioner zogby had a question on this slide. oh yes. yeah. um my question is so public works has a commitment of turning around when our, uh, what is it, 72 hours? and are the cbds also, do they sign up to this and they commit to that. and what happens if, uh, request is not completed in time? yes. that's a very good question. um, so in the shared response plan, we have an agreed upon agreement with the cbds that their service level agreements for these service requests are roughly around 24 hours. um, so within 24 hours, if they're unable to achieve that goal, the cases are automatically routed to public works directly. and of course, we also give the cbds the ability to reallocate these cases ahead of time. so let's say they were unable to actually handle a case because it is out of their scope. they can actually allocate these cases directly to the public works team for response. um, so here is just a infographic of pretty much the summary of three and one qs. now, because most of these service requests do go to public works, as you saw ea