President yee good afternoon. And welcome to the october 6th, 2020, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer. Commissioner fewer present. Clerk supervisor haney . Supervisor haney present. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman present. Clerk supervisor mar. Supervisor mar present. Clerk supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin present. Clerk supervisor preston. Supervisor preston present. Clerk supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen present. Clerk supervisor safai. Supervisor safai present. Clerk supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani present. Clerk supervisor walton. Supervisor walton present. Clerk and supervisor yee. President yee present. Clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United St
Senator Bernie Sanders and senator Elizabeth Warren at the debate last night tackling topics like Climate Change, tariffs and trade. You outcompete them and put chief manufacturing officer in place to make sure we rebuild the manufacturing base, we have to fill the factories, we have to fill them with workers that are making batteries, charging stations, making sure making solar panels. Senator warrens plan basically that she would put out we would not be able to trade with the United Kingdom. We would not be able to trade with the eu, its so extreme. Thank you, congressman. What the congressman is describing as extreme is having deals negotiated by the American Workers for American Workers. American workers want those jobs and we can build the trade deals that do it, people want access to our markets all around the world, then the answer is lets make them raise their standards, let their workers unionize, Environmental Standards before they come to us and say they want to be able to s
history today by saying dante be on the presidential ballot there. it seems like a really fast 24 hours ago that you and i were having our first discussion of what nikki haley said when asked about the cause of the civil war. it really exploded since then. it is truly incredible that she, the governor of south carolina, cannot even talk about this issue without tying herself up in knots. it s truly astounding. we have your pressure david whyte with us tonight. oh he s perfect. originally booked of course as history professor as an expert on what caused the civil war, as are many high school students jean robinson s with us too, he s also an expert on what caused the civil war. but we will also get a chance to talk to professor blight about the 14th amendment, which is what is being used to knock non-trump off the ballots. he s very much an expert on that. and so much to come. lawrence, if you do me a favor, could you ask professor blight what he thinks frederick dou
what nikki haley said when asked about the cause of the civil war. it really exploded since then. it is truly incredible that she, the governor of south carolina, cannot even talk about this issue without tying herself up in knots. it s truly astounding. we have your pressure david whyte with us tonight. oh he s perfect. originally booked of course as history professor as an expert on what caused the civil war, as are many high school students jean robinson s with us too, he s also an expert on what caused the civil war. but we will also get a chance to talk to professor blight about the 14th amendment, which is what is being used to knock non-trump off the ballots. he s very much an expert on that. and so much to come. lawrence, if you do me a favor, could you ask professor blight what he thinks frederick douglass would make of what nikki haley said. have you ever read your monster biography, it s epic. all right, there you go, there s question one for professor
For stocks. A little bit of upside on the nikkei at the start of trade. We are still seeing dollar yen hovering at 155. 6. Of course its about whether we get any indication about curtailing of bond purchases from the Japanese Central bank. Seems like the bond markets are betting we do coming on the japanese 10 year government bonds. Lets take a look at what we are seeing in south korea. Yesterday we saw those declines on stocks as the metaearnings and outlook put a dent in what was otherwise a recovery for asian stock markets. Taking stock, weve seen four of the seven banks report and so far it looks quite good, especially after microsoft and alphabet knocked things out of the park, proving their worth and that they are able to make money from aia investments. Weve seen the upside in south korea as well, the korean won moving toward 1370. Lets look at whats going on down under. Australia was on break yesterday. The big news was how bhp is having a takeover approach for the rival Anglo