aaron peskin joining by supervisor ralph al-mandelman. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? clerk: the board of supervisors slittive chamber room are closed. my apologies. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. committee members will attend the meeting through video conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. comments will be available on this agenda both on sfgov.org and tv 26. comments are available through the public comment period by calling 415-655-0001. meeting i.d. is 18755577823. then press pound and pound again. you will be muted in listening mode only. when your item of interests up dial star 3. best practices are to call from a quiet location. speak clearly and slowly and turn down your tv or radio. you may submit public comment at victor.young@sfgov.org. that concludes my public comment my initial comment. supervisor peskin: don t worry. i m the clerk and you just red the publ
supervisor ralph al-mandelman. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? clerk: the board of supervisors slittive chamber room are closed. my apologies. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. committee members will attend the meeting through video conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. comments will be available on this agenda both on sfgov.org and tv 26. comments are available through the public comment period by calling 415-655-0001. meeting i.d. is 18755577823. then press pound and pound again. you will be muted in listening mode only. when your item of interests up dial star 3. best practices are to call from a quiet location. speak clearly and slowly and turn down your tv or radio. you may submit public comment at victor.young@sfgov.org. that concludes my public comment my initial comment. supervisor peskin: don t worry. i m the clerk and you just red the public. can you please read
you see donald trump was there too. ronica, this is really about donald trump. he was not the evangelical choice but he won the evangelicals in the primary and that s one of the reasons he s a gop nominee. when i was here today, i was brought back to before the iowa race. donald trump released this to video on the web where he held up a bible he said his mother gave him. he read something that she had written to him. trying to appeal to that evangelical base and lost iowa to ted cruz. he needs to appeal to those evangelical voters and it was interesting in his remarks. he flatly said to the people in the audience that i need you to show up and vote. i need you to be there for me. and you know, at first he sort of called out everyone in the audience and said i know unvote in 2012 and people got a little defensive but he said no know that, as a group, you didn t vote and if you want to win this thing, you need to be there for me. in this continuing appeal, you know, starting
american journalist, an author whose most recent book is the brothers: the road to an american tragedy which tells the story of the tsarnaev brothers. last month dzhokar tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him in the boston marathon bombing trial. she is also the author of the man without a face: the unlikely rise of vladimir putin and words will break cement. the passion of pusy riots she has written on lgbt rights and helped found pink triangle campaign against the russian legislation on gay propaganda. chev is the leading russian lgbt activist and has said for many years she was probably the only publicly out gay person in the whole of russia. here tonight in conversation with masha gessen is peter finn, washington post national security correspondent, join me in welcoming masha gessen and peter finn to the jcss. [applause] [applause] good evening. it s wonderful to be in san francisco, and i m especially happy to be here with masha and a gifted and
we are a nation of laws and i believe in the rule of law and i think in a post-9/11 world is very important that we know who is in this country and why they are here. my perspective is that the right immigration policies not only will be good for airport good for airport security but it will also be right for our economy. it s going to promote our economy. we talked about the possibility of deporting 11 million undocumented when i was working in the white house and we believed it was not possible. we couldn t do it but even if we could do it we believed it would have been devastating to certain industries. we believe the better approach and the approach that i talked about in this book with my co-author david strange is to find those people that are qualified and put them into some kind of legal status so that they can stay here work in america, produced in america and i think by working here and being productive is going to enhance our economy and actually it will create o