, grew was looking out for the united states, and he did not want the united states to become involved in a war, if they could avoid it, with maintaining their integrity. in terms of what hall did, hall refused -- and i will give you my perspective. this is grew's perspective. grew felt certainly in retrospect that secretary of state hall was not receptive to suggestions which degree had made that grew thought would avoid the war, and so in terms of the mistakes, one of the mistakes that he made from grew's perspective was -- concerned a meeting that grew -- that the japanese prime minister had requested a meeting with president roosevelt. and this is in the summer and fall of 1941. and this prime minister had a unique stature and he commanded respect among all the competing factions in japan, and he told grew that he was prepared to go to the united states and meet with roosevelt on american soil, anywhere roosevelt wanted, and that he would give the president concessions to reach an agreement to avoid war because this prime minister desperately wanted to avoid war, and in his camp wa

it requires reduction in unit numbers, potentially reduction in unit size and still leaves the overall attitude of how the building reads to the street as an address very unrevolved, because i personally don't believe that it is enough. that it's mostly the width of a tradesman entrance in other parts of the city, and that is not very convincing to me. but as far as building mapping and side organization, i think this project needs to do other things to properly respond to the surrounding development. >> commissioner fung. >> given the chance to create a more sensitive solution, and address some of those -- i'm not as concerned about the fire issue as is my fellow commissioners. i'm acceptive of what the other departments do. but the issues that we normally deal with, you know, how is the noise handled, people coming in and out, deliveries made. what do people see from their rear yards and a lot of this stuff is right up against the property line. so i would support a continuance and give them an opportunity to see if they can come to a more sensitive design and perhaps come to a lesse

the jim crow law that was practiced in the southern united states was implemented in panama by the united states government. >> after the canal was completed in 1913, the united states continue to expand its military presence and tighten its grip on panamanian politics. violent confrontations between panamanians and the u.s. military grew in the decades that followed. tensions peaked in 1964 when students tried to exercise their right to fly the flag in the canal zone. 21 panamanians were killed and hundreds were wounded in the confrontation. in 1968, the panama government was overthrown in a military coup. the colonel in the national guard emerged as the new leader of panama. although he used repressive measures to consolidate his power, he became immensely popular. he introduced social reform that benefited the majority population of black, indian, and mestizos. >> it created a populist reformist process. >> an administrator at the state university of new york served as the panamanian diplomat to the united nations. he was educated in panama. >> for the first time in panama, we had part

it's great to be here. the united states ambassadore to the united nations. you were a mber of esident trump's cabinet and a member of his irtional security council. and you were the person of color and woman to be elected as governor to the state of south carolina. ecu've now written a book, "with all due re defending america with grit and grace." when you first considered taking the job as united states ambassador the united nations,nc you told rpriebus, you wrote in your book, don't even know u what tted nations does. all i know is everybody hates it." yeah. >> tell me, do you have a onre or a less positive view of the united nanow? >> i think it's interesting. i think i understand it more, from the standpoint of here you have 193 countries of peace and secur in the name but whether it succeeds depends on how they take it forward. d i said this to the secretary general and to the ambassadors when i left is, if the united nationss gonnbe successful, it has to change with the times. ey have to start talking about things that are uncomfortable to talk about.

as colonies of the united states. it is a war for freedom -- is it a war for freedom or for an empire? hold on. you may need to put an asterisk next to cuba. at the time, some americans called this war the splendid little war. it is short. americans did win. thousands died. spanish-american war, most had only heard about 400 american deaths were combat deaths. almost 4000 americans died mostly from disease. african-american deaths were at higher rates than their white counterparts. many cubans in spanish, it is -- many cubans and spanish died. i forgot, this is a great picture. in other purpose of the war, remember colonialism yucca one of the goals of having a colonial empire was to unite people at home. one of the official propaganda pieces the government released was a picture of a union and a confederate veteran from the civil war, both were serving in the spanish-american war, they were supposed to be symbolically shown here liberating this blonde girl, who is supposed to represent cuba, and these two veterans of

we started with about 1,000 units. and by now we are up to almost 3800 units. this is almost half of the 8,000 units that the department of homelessness and supportive housing has for supportive housing. the other units are usually nonprofit-owned and operated, many of them are affordable housing that we collaborate on with the mayor's office on housing and community development. you had a variety of sessions. and i'm trying to speak directly to those. the way it usually works is when we master lease a build, we have to provider to develop a lease, and it is for the entire building. there are legacy units in the building, which means there are already tenants in the units, those are, of course, preserved. we will only utilize the units that are vacant. and we will refer to those who are coordinated, so it's for people who are the most vulnerable out on the streets. the master leases are usually -- well, they have been in the past, often for ten years, and at times also had extension opportunities for ten years, usually times two. so we have leases that are just

united states of america. we cannot have made a promise to seniors - to a huge number of people who have been citizens their whole life - and then renege. cannot happen. so we can talk about the different ways and i'd be happy to to make sure that that never happens, but that has to be off the table. that's for starters. secondly, in terms of affordable housing, we have seven million too few affordable housing units in the united states of america. the government basically, of the federal government pretty much got out of the housing business, assuming that with incentives, the market would take care of it. and actually we can see -- i live in the center of homelessness in the united states, known as the golden state of california and so we can see what happens when you have too few housing units and it drives up prices, so for people on fixed incomes or limited incomes, they get driven out of the market and there's no real answer. that's why we have so many homeless people and that's one of the upshots. part

the united states military has tremendous capacities. we didn't necessarily have tremendous capacities in 1980 o. this is 1980. to engineer this kind of clandestine special operator israelis had done something like it in the 1970s. we trained and learned from the israelis, but had never really done anything like this before as a military. it was really hard. operating desert conditions. enemies everywhere. no clear support system. there were a lot of reasons this wasn't going to go well. from the iranian perspective, it didn't go well by the will of al harks ah. the helicopters began flying in through tehran. they have fly low to escape supervision and surveillance and just terrible luck. a dust storm. sand storm blows up. and does a number on the mechanical components of the helicopters and all hell breaks loose. helicopters are grounded. they crash into each other. the operation doesn't even get to tehran. it just fails. and they die and so the one military operation that's tried is just a disaster and boy, does that hurt jimmy carter'

and the more affordable units. they are in the shadows now, and we want to bring them out. one other issue is the residential care facilities. i've been before you with one, and i'm going to be in front of you with another project in a couple months. it's important that we have more of these as our population is aging, and especially allowing for smaller ones in our neighborhoods. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. on behalf of the san francisco housing coalition. similar comments to the previous two speaks, very much in support. and with the residential childcare units, that's continuously coming up and does seem to be a potential sweet spot where we can do a lot of effective things, because there seems to be broad consensus on a desire to increase the total number of these types across the city. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comments on this item? with that, public comment is closed. commissioner fung. >> question for staff. number of questions. in terms of s

and remove the unit. if the goal is to protect tenants, this code section as currently written no longer serves that goal as staff points out. by removing the prohibition and adopting recommendation 3 which is to clarify that price control and that they are allowed the right to return in unauthorized units, we believe these additions will strengthen protections for tenants in unauthorized units by removing the incentive to remove a unit without approval. in closing, i want to thank little city for his help in crafting this legislation, the planning staff for engaging with this effort and making recommendations we believe will significantly improve the ordinance, to judy from the city attorney's office for her guidance and to the commissioners for your time and attention. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, again, commissioners. planning department staff. he summarized a lot of what this ordinance will do so i won't go into it again but i'm happy to answer any questions or go into more specifics ju

either go for two units, but maintain the upper unit as a single story and the lower unit as two units, thereby taking away the au pair opportunity for the flats, or add a third unit. that has always been on the table for project sponsor. if the project sponsor is not required to increase density in any way, the project would have the same entitlements prior to demolition as if nothing happens that would not be fair. the planning commission should treat all projects with these kinds of violations the same. if there is a deviation from this planet commission, they should explain why. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other public comment on this item? okay. public comment is closed. commission a couple? >> i don't know where the other commissioners are sitting but i would be in support of this project with the a.d.u. >> commissioner moore? >> i would agree with the statement because the increase in the unit and adding roof deck to the upper unit is a little bit -- whatever. i would agree with us asking for the addition of an a.d.u. reflects the 2017 comments on the comments -- on t

this report chronicles a scheme by the president of the united states to coerce an ally, ukraine, that is at war with an adversary, russia, into doing the president's political dirty work. it involves a scheme in which donald trump withheld official acts, a white house meeting, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars of needed military assistance in order to compel that power to deliver two investigations that he believed would assist his reelection campaign. and i want to underscore, first of all, just how important that white house meeting was to ukraine. ukraine has a new reformer as its president, president zelensky. a meeting with the most important patron of ukraine, the president of the united states, in the oval office, carries enormous significance both to the people of ukraine, but as equally important to russia. that the united states has ukraine's back in its conflict with a nation which invaded its territory. the military assistance is also absolutely essential. as president zelensky goes into negotiations with vladimir putin, the fact that the united states is providin

that taishan you made is a direct reference to the united states because the united states and saddam's baath party are in alliance now open alliance. representatives of the baath party abroad and so on are boasting of their new alliance with the united states to kick out what they call it or a me an occupation of iraq so his reference to the return of the dictatorship is directly related to that official endorsement of an alliance between the united states and saddam is about as in iraq but they can't surely be blamed for hundreds of people being killed in the past few weeks as much reporting here maybe over $400.00 people and it's the united states they're saying their investigations need to be done into the use of excessive force by the iraqi authorities for being if that the u.s. is helping the killing there is a legitimate. and and and and and amongst the people in iraq against a corrupt state against the brutal killing of demonstrators so there is a side to these demonstrations a very important side that people are angry with corruption with lack of public services some of which t

it lies with us, the united states congress. when a president gets out of bounds and does not do as he e should do constitutionally and i would argue that every president and citizen has a constitutional duty not to cheat another citizen in, especially the president, and they get out of bounce it is up to us to put them back in bounds or declare it illegal. how do we regulate presidential misconduct? when it's done in a presidential fashion. through the laws and powers of impeachment. that is why we're here today. it is going to take teamwork on our part to get this right, because i will argue to you and a moment that the president of the united states, through his conduct, flouted judicial authority and decision-making over him. when he chose to lie, when he chose to manipulate the evidence, the witnesses against him, and get his friends to lie for him, he vetoed that decision. it's worse than if he hadn't shown up at all. is that out of bounds? e're going to be talking about today. we have got some guidance as to what is in or

dean:'s resettled in the united states? refugees tober of resettle in the united states? fmr. vp biden: weakened hound all a significant number of refugees who are fleeing oppression. a long guy who started time ago to deal with that resettlement of russian jews in the united states of america. i was not making any judgment. but searcy, think about it. -- but seriously, think about it. [applause] i was raised by what the jewish community calls a righteous christian, my dad. until five andrk come home for dinner and then go back to work. and my dad at our dinner table there were two things required. one, you had to have perfect manners. my dad was insistent upon you could never, even in the middle of summer you cannot come with a t-shirt and baseball hat on to sit down at dinner and you never put your elbow down on the table, and you had to know which fork to use when. the other thing my dad was fastidious about, our dinner table was a place for you had conversation and incidentally eight -- ate. you think i'm joking and i'm not. [laughter] my dad used to talk about, he was a s

if you take the authority units, the 1866 units, that the authority unit has power to build above the inclusionary, we're talking over $300 million so our housing on treasure island will always be competitive. it's not just because it's fro but it's also fully entitled, flat, they'll have the geo technical improvements and all of the utilities to the curb. i just wanted to just call that out that that's the legacy from all of the negotiations and the approvals that happen in 2011 that we will be in this position where women be com pe where we e competitive for those dollars and it will be a positive impact for affordable housing on treasure island. >> thank you. >> seeing no one else. next item, please. >> clerk: report by treasure island director. >> >> thank you, chair, members of the board. last night, it was the navy's restoration advisory board meeting on the clean up program at treasure island. also, this past m. th months, te office of civic innovation selected a proposal prepared by one treasure island and tida for their civic ridge program to prepare a construction job's fore

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the eve of the christmas sales and in the light of the overall dacor of domestic politics both in the united states and in china a temporary deal would be better for both than no deal at all do you agree with that. i would agree with that a temporary deal politically at least it's in trump's interest certainly given that the electorate the potion of the electorate that suffered under this was farmers many of whom were critical to his success for xi jinping facing all sorts of trouble at home whether it's over hong kong whether it's over whether it's over disagreements on environmental politics some sense of achievement would be important over here so yes a temporary deal is better than none at all and the other thing about a temporary deal is if it holds it allows you a platform for communication that can be used to talk about the other areas we were discussing now the trumpet ministration began its 1st term by essentially repudiating the use china policy over the last couple of decades and at times it sounded as if it wanted to undo the entire system of state capitalism i mean. 9 people lik

to give the united states time and to deter or delay any conflict in the pacific for which the united states was not prepared. that is what he did from the spring and fall to 1941. he spent untold hours talking with japanese representatives about an agreement that he knew would probably never come to fruition. by the fall of 1941, the reported japanese leaders were very frustrated about the lack of progress and the discussions and that theyen were beginning o sense that the united states wasn't really interested in an agreement but time was running out. they made many recommendations to the secretary of state about things they could do that might avoid the war that they saw coming. very few of the recommendations were acknowledged and none were accepted. it goes back to the united states in the specialty in washington, people couldn't believe that japan would directly attack the united states. iter was so much larger in terms of population and resources people in washington and elsewhere thought it would be utterly stupid for japan to directly attack the united states. and so, we woul

does this make the united states. in iraq than it's been to date. i actually think it makes the government of iraq look more important than we have had reason to think for some time or at least if it makes it more obvious than that then and have been for some time because again you have the government of iraq having invited the united states and you have these militias who have a hope in the government but a foot outside the government they act as part of the state sometimes and as non-state actors at others they have a they have attacked an iraq base targeting american troops there at the invitation of the government of iraq and there were iraq will be used as a result of these attacks by a militia acting outside the policy of the government of iraq now the united states of retaliated out there a series of provocations which the government of iraq has been unable to deal with and you basically have the united states taking on a militia the government of iraq looking off its it's precisely what the demonstrators protesting about we've had a clear re

, to bring them to the united states. america say here is the deal, we made a commitment. you are going to have to live up to us. because we make up 50% of the problem -- 15% of the problem. with regards to what he's talking about, what would i do about the people in china? there's one million muslims being put in concentration camps in the west. i would and i have been speaking out on that from the beginning. , if we doot speak out not speak out about human rights, nobody else will. a flashing green light, go, go, go. look how far out of hand what has happened in hong kong has gotten. would think barack and i have waited 10 seconds to talk about that? we reminded the rest of the world that they made an agreement. got the rest of the world to say and stand up for the united nations and say you are wrong, you cannot act that way. and so you got to speak up. it's not about sending hundreds of thousands of troops to fight anywhere, it's about mobilizing the world to say you will pay a price that at least relates to your repu

one would two units and one with three units. i want to clarify if the motion was not take d.r. and approve the two units with acknowledgement that the offer had been made. i want to clarify if the motion was for the two units and not the three. >> that was the addendum to my motion. >> thank you. >> just to address this motion again, if you got a permit and it was a totally viable permit, many years ago to remove an unauthorized unit, everything was legal, there wouldn't be an issue if we just showed up some years later and said get the law has changed and we are out of the blue asking you to put it back. it is different if there is a discretionary decision in front of you and in front of the zoning administrator where there is a request that can be conditioned and that's what we have before us today. the planning commission has discretion on the permit, the zoning administrator has discretion on the variance. it is not uncommon for either body to have conditions of approval. i think that is more of the scenario we are in today in terms of how it will be viewed. in terms of the

united states doesspond the to fear, the united states shows strength. s unittes needs to lead, and the united states needs to remind the rest of the world why iran is dangerous and why we have to make sure weat we isolate them in every way thaan. >> another question for you. the new york times editorialar which has reviewed so many trump officials and cabinet officials, wrote wn you left the administration... first of all, i've rarely heard such a laudatory t new yoes editorial about a trump administration official. but do you view that, in hindsight, as what your role was, to explain president trump to the world? >> i wanted them to know what the united states was for, and i want them to know what we were against. and i didn't want there to bea. any gray a i didn't worry about them liking us. i worrd about them understanding and respecting us. and so whether that was explaining the actions of the president or whether that was explaining why it was so important to the american people, i felt that was my job. >> you were a bit of a translator between the

created you know some other it was we imported that problem from the united states with the british and the problem is the most of the people fled our country in the civil war so they wasn't trying to get it wrong to tell him he's got it wrong well i don't want to i don't want to get another person drunk but the fact was our people they just went to the united states scaping from the civil war a huge civil war there was that was a reflection of the fight between the west. in the east i mean we're fighting an army funded by the united states against the real are funded by the soviet union so . we only knew that and the mr team game existed in the united states we didn't have any members of either but with depredations they started to and they said ok we're going to send the criminals right we're going to send away the criminals but the fact is that anyway the criminals sound very nice but the problem is who's getting the criminals right so they're starting sending back gang gang leaders from the united states to other and they started creating branches of the gang that was created in

which allowed this man to essentially live in the united states so the people in this unit desperately wanted to move him they didn't want to allow him to die in peace on american soil. so in 21 - - 2018 after 14 years pressing foreign governments to take him back they finally convinced germany to take this man back and was flown back to germany and then died a few months later at the age of 95. i asked the people inside the justice department is this revenge? it comes up a lot retribution. what is this? their response is these men were never supposed to be here in the first place. they were not supposed to get a visa they were not supposed to be admitted into the united states so we are taking back what they should not have had to begin with they should not have been allowed to live here. and they are doing it because that's is our law. they do it because on behalf of the holocaust survivors on behalf of the war veterans who help to free them in the defendants of holocaust survivors. why should these men be allowed to die in peace on us soil cracks the justice department doesn't consi

thus, the refusal of the unit. everything after looking at the unit are things i am learning of. never received a firm offer, and lastly, i would like to address the issue of my sunglasses. due to years of diabetes, i am experiencing bleeding in the eye. for the last 11 months i have received an injection in my right eye. as timing will have it, i had it yesterday afternoon. hence, the sun glasses. thank you for your attention to this matter. >> i addressed you last month. i am back. i did take ms. long to look at the unit. i drove her over there. she was sick and i was leaving to go out of the country. i want to to respond. the generous offer of $100,000. i did the math. $100,000 rent supplement would cover them for about 18 months of rent in san francisco at this point. what are they to do after the 18 months? the other thing i wanted to address since i am the next door neighbor is the ridiculousness of the building leaning. i have intimate knowledge of that building. it is identical to my building. i have knowledge of the dutch gutter. the building is not falling over. it need

in tensions between united states and china. do you think that the chinese reaction will be stronger. are they going to reciprocate or do you think they will just be confined to cosmetic or symbolic gestures like visas freshens visa bans speaking as a historian i have to say i think that we're in uncharted territory right now i'm frankly not sure how the chinese government will respond to this escalation by the united states it's possible as they've indicated so far that they may take measures against u.s. diplomats and other u.s. affiliated non non-governmental organizations that are trying to operate within china it's also quite possible that they may take action against american academics and american universities that have programs within china that's one big personal concern myself also you've recently been to the camps invited by the chinese government china says that those camps are purely visual voluntary rida cation give us your impressions about what you saw there well my 8 years before visiting this comes as the sayin

the president of the united states an impostor. the guy 63 million american voted for, won a landslide electoral and called him impostor. that's not healthy for our country. this is not healthy. the facts are the facts they are on the president's side. that's what we need to focus on not some constitutional hearing at the end of the process when you guys have already determined where you're going to go. with that i yield back. >> gentleman yields. mr. deutsche? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, this month we commemorate the 75th anniversary of battle of the bulge. my late father then staff sergeant deutsche received a purple heart fighting in the frigid ardens. he gave blood among tens of thousands of americans who suffered war casualties. served under officers and a commander in chief who were not fighting a war for their own personal benefit. they put country first. they made the same solemn promise that members of congress and the president of the united states make. to always put national interests above their own perso

does the united states support these protesters in iran? >> i don't want to comment on that, but the answer is no, but i don't want to comment on that. >> mr. president, on turkey, president macron wanted the united states to do more to standing up to president erdogan and clarifying that relationship. >> i can only say we have a very good relationship with turkey, and with president erdogan. i do. i can't speak for the president of france. we have a very good relationship. we pulled our soldiers out and said you can patrol your own border. i don't care who you do it with but we'll not have soldiers patrolling the border that's been fought over for 2,000 years. but we took our soldiers out. we put some of the soldiers around the oil where we've captured the oil and taken the oil. and we have the oil. but we've -- and we brought some home and we will be bringing some home and we've sent some to other areas, okay? but we have a very good relationship with turkey. >> mr. president -- >> and just on turkey, to be clear, we have a lot of coopera

we're tough in this unit so powerless so you got. to go. to the moon on the front try to frighten. snow and do something about it didn't. actually as a financial survival stacey let's learn about let's say on the so i get your. response thanks for the flight. thank you for. the story that's right. debt slavery. welcome back to worlds apart bestow money on debt isn't here all french national history and diplomacy at the fleischer school top tier versity professor how i act as i was reading your book i cannot tell you how many times i caught myself thinking that wow this is so true about russia these. deeply entrenched sense of national security even the way it manifests in the leaders because what you sad at one point about president xi that he is both strong and insecure i think that's a very accurate description of president putin but there is one crucial difference they governance in russia is on their institutionalized it's very personalized but they have the role of institutions. very limit that china is a totally different story the communist party has been around for. what fe

hunting unit decided to prosecute time with was read ahead of unit two attorney time and ask permission to take him about a second time. they successfully prosecuted him a second time, germany took him back and he was convicted in the murder of 27,000 or so jews. in the so the board death camp but to answer your question israel did take him back. there was not a lot of interest from israel over the years to take back more. there just wasn't. >> when their citizenship was taken away from them, how can theylive ? are they entitled to social security, to get medicare? how can they support themselves take care of themselves. >> they were stripped of their citizenship and eventually considered stateless men but they were still here. they were still part of the country, still living here, still drawing pensions, all of those things. >> all their privileges continued. yes. >> as if nothing happened. >> yes. that's why it was the single greatest frustrationby the hunting unit four years . if they did all this for the prove their cases to the point where judges and in some cases these cases were

units. this is a discussion item. madam director? >> thank you. the item before you is to give an update on mission bay, especially the success that we have seen. this is one of our oldest of the three projects within our portfolio and it is over 21 years ago the city executed the redevelopment plan and the owner 's participation agreement were two thirds of the way that is complete except for a few infrastructure closeout items that we are working on. mission bay south is almost there. it has both the residential and the commercial, as well as the arena. what we were trying to do is give an update on to where we are in the successes we have seen and what is to come in the coming year before you next spring. you will have a few action items that would require plan amendments and design document amendments. i just wanted to give you an overview so your input can do form -- inform next steps. we are excited to do that today and the mission bay project manager will be presenting on this item. w

orange shares dial down after the french telecom company announces plans to split up the power unit good morning and welcome to the show a lot to get through, not the least with all these nato arrivals we have the final composite pmi numbers coming in at 51.6 higher than the estimate of 50.3. the services numbers coming in higher than the flash estimate at 51.9 versus that 51.5 flash number both of these. the composite and services number for the pmis are coming in slightly stronger than the flash estimate about five minutes before the show started, the german composite came in at 49.4 versus the flash number of 49.2, so all the numbers are coming in slightly stronger. a bit of a ball ns coming in at 110.80 >>> world leaders are arriving in london. due to have a hold shake ceremony soon. we have some live pictures where the arrivals are set to take place. they've been happening over the last 45 minutes or so. divisions have overshadowed the submit with a war of words erupting between the u.s. and france and paris has also head out toward turkey. the uk support of the alliance is strong.

he will hear the enemies of the united states, i would say the competitors of the united states mainly china, they call space the american achilles' heel. i will tell you, president trump will not allow any competitors of the united states to have the advantage in the way that china has already declared. >> jason: administrator, i want you to listen to what some of the democrats are saying about the space bar spirit of isaac we have some sound bites. >> he's fighting the future wars in space against enemies both foreign and federal galactic. >> it sound like than knock off action figures got from your grandma on your birthday. >> pursuing this nonsense like a space for us. >> who we fighting? a bunch of frozen monkeys? >> jason: i'm telling you, they are so naive to what's actually going on. i know you see a lot of classified information, but to the best extent that you can, explain what's happening in space and why the fact that we have to be there and be there now. >> those comments that you just heard, it would actually be fun if it was not so sad and serio serious. and it must be c

in an educate housing project, 30% of units are two bedroom units and 20% are three-bedroom units. the legislation before you today changes the unit mix so that 50% of all units will be two bedrooms or larger, rather than requiring a set percentage of three-bedroom units. this will allow for more design flexibility while still assuring that projects are not just for single educators. i am excited to see new funding sources becoming available to build housing for educators including at the state level and in our local affordable housing bond, and i can't wait to see more affordable homes being built in my neighborhood and every neighborhood across san francisco. i hope i can count on your support today. thank you much to my cosponsors, supervisors mar, peskin, haney, safai, walton, and ronen. >> president yee: okay. so i want to thank -- [applause] >> president yee: so i want to thank supervisor fewer for her leadership in passing proposition e on the ballot in november, and for this legislation to ensure that the first-ever educator housing project is able to benefit from the strea

mexico is the united states winning in these disputes. what i would urge the government to seek is open markets that is we have benefited for 70 years on free and open trade with partners around the world and by increasing our trade we have also increased our possibilities of development because when poor countries trade more they reduce their poverty it has increased our security as we make friends we have gravitated more to a bilateral approach which isn't one that i would recommend but the trade agreement that probably is most on the agenda today is the u.s. m.c.a. us mexico canada trade agreement and we'll see if we can get that through the congress there are still some issues that we're working with the members of congress. i think the problem is timing if you let me ask you the same question and have you set the stage but from a slightly different perspective you've worked a lot with labor workers a different side concerned about environmental and labor standards so is donald trump pushing the right buttons for your crowd well donal

and the unit on 1515 york street. and the only building frontage that can reach and have to match and is about work and the front setback and and another building to the south and unfortunately, it won't be able to use it. isn't the entire lot running from the street side to the far end and 45% would be over that longer distance. with the 10-foot orange line here that shows the required 45% and are setting back 15 feet and the 10-foot additions in the rear and that is what we show in the dashed blue line. >> the rear yard is based on lot depth and maybe pull that plan up a little bit more to see the full width of the lot. you can see on the lower portion of it and the shaded area and the segment which is longer and goes to york street and where we are getting that measurement for the shorter depth of the lot which is tucked behind because this is a flag shaped lot. and the rear yard is shown correctly on the plans there. it varies in the length because the lot itself varies in the depth, and is shown correctly on ther

he has a deep respect for the united states senate. he has a deep respect for the legislative branch of government. and he has demonstrated that over and over again by his leadership. you've heard about his experiences as chairman of the veterans' affairs committee. well, i had the opportunity to travel with senator isakson to normandy to celebrate the 75th anniversary of d-day, and i must tell you the emotion of that moment, as i saw senator isakson interact with our veterans and saw that genuine way that he connected to those who have served our nation, you see, his presence was important, his words were important, but he's also shown his appreciation through the deeds of what he's been able to get accomplished. it's been pointed out that the veterans' affairs committee under senator isakson's leadership has reduced numerous bipartisan -- produced numerous bipartisan bills to help our service people. and we can mention many. the one that i am most proud that we were able to get done is dealing with the health care issues because the

the stench will problem that the united states under talk prosy is currently portraying in other words china seems to be in many ways fitting into the system whether it was by abiding by judgments against it in the w t o whether it was by signing on to the barest agreements the sense was that yes trying to have its own interests but it was something that could be worked with and that will have to be worked with going forward you mentioned that china has its own inches but you also obviously it has its own insecurities as you point out in a very interesting book that you'll publish last year called taunted by china's grand strategy from outside doing to president xi and i think you make a very persuasive case and that book that much of china's development and much of its actions recently i've driven by a very deep sands of insecurity and compared to what china has been through is the current american post viewed there as just another monkey range thrown by history or is it indeed an existential challenge for china of this scale that for example a mr bannon sees china as a challenge for

in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day as nato turns 70 in many ways the world's most powerful military alliance after 7 decades of existence exhibits characteristics that you could expect from a person turning 7 you could call it the natives senior citizen syndrome those natives still matter at 70 how a tune is a cold war alliance to the 21st century us president on drum months so long ago called nato obsolete but he was not the 1st or last to suggest that nato has identity issues or even existential and similar questions were posed immediately after the berlin wall fell and the soviet union fell apart most recently french president mccrone complained of a brain death at nato a result of america's disengagement in the alliance tonight nato at 70 how old or how young is the alliance really. nato performs on an impressive scale exercises like this united and with clear leadership but the political reality often looks different better quotables occur frequently the latest on tyga nest french president emanuel macron he criticized me to his brain dead in

an axis dominated world will be states.t to the united it's a threat to the united states militarily. maybe not in terms of the united invaded and conquered. no, that's not likely going to happen. but it's still a military threat. imperial damaged by japan and nazi germany and perhaps even more significantly, it's an economic threat to our well-being. if the nazis dominate europe and resources ofatural europe. if the japanese conquer and resources of asia. do? will we you can say we'll trade with them but what if they don't trade with us. they isolate us economically? prosper?e grow and remember, 1939 and 1940, the great depression is not fully over yet. better but it's still on. americans are really concerned about their economic well-being. says we might be in a state of permanent depression. have any capacity to economic growth in a world dominated by nazi germany and japan.l this is a threat to our interests. danger.in our whole way of life can be dominated by orld these dictatorships. argue, whattionists will destroy american democracy is this war. if we become involved in this a

the united states is still in. i'm honored that we are joined by senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island. johnson.ie bernice she is from texas. the chair of the natural resources committee. the chair of the select committee on the climate crisis. a very distinguished delegation that also includes the chair of the appropriations subcommittee on natural resources. and also members of the select committee on climate, which kathy hast her chairs, and you will hear more about. we have members of that committee, including not only the senior chairperson, but also members of our freshman class. among those members that are with us, representative from , jared california huffman of california, representative scott peters of california. did i tell you i was from california? [laughter] speaker pelosi: representative debbie dingell from michigan. mike of california. representative sean casten of illinois. and the representative from colorado. members of our very distinguished freshman class. our delegation is here to send

here in the united states, the u.s. and taiwan relationship at times appears to perhaps be getting closer. do you have any concerns that beijing may rethink exactly where it needs to land on this intimidation strategy and to what degree will it try to work more actively to try to shape the domestic conversation in taipei right now? >> if it happens that the president is reelected, and paul suggest she will be, i think it will require and polls suggest she will be, i think it will require reassessment of how well strategy and tactics work. particularly the part about co-optation and trying to create allies within the taiwan "t táu)(p& system. or did that actually work to xang wan's advantage? i do not know where they will come out on that. my guess is they will double down on that and play for time. but some of the things, at least, that they are doing, can be deployed to ot$er places in the region. crating stronger business ties with local business elites, buying up newspapers to project a positive view of china, suppo