>> >commission vice-president rodney fong: okay, so mr. calvin, can you show us what proposes getting rid of the floor, can you show it what it look like? >> thanks for the question. let me say i think this is a completely appropriate discussion and it's not the first time we talked about removing the third floor. i think it an appropriate discussion. back when we proposed it to the neighborhoods over the summer, this is what we redesign and we don't tv -- have the layout for the whole building. removing that type of square footage creates an awkward layout for the house. if the commission is going in this is direction with removing the floor i would propose to doing more excavation to make the design work. >> have you thought about asking for variance for getting rid of the garage and leaving as much square footage and not having to put cars in there? >> i don't think that's been considered at this point. >> i think given mr. sanchez' reservation about making decisions today, i think we should propose a continuance. it looks like we shoul

just one point of clarification, i heard mr. calvin there saying that the -- it would take the walls down prior to any -- the addendum being issued. you can't start the work until the addenda has to be issued before you take the walls down so we won't know what the foundation is until the a ddenda is issued. >> well you can have multiple addenda. >> they could do something but the structure is usually on the first addenda. >> i don't know if it's set up like that, but we could make see. we could work on the addenda details. we could do a demolition addenda, that could be an idea. thank you commissioner fung. >> thank you for your help. >> thank you. >> timically it's an evaluation of the foundation. if they want to keep that foundation we want to make sure it's code compliant. that's what we want. >> i want to make sure these plans you submitted reflect the ideas of the department and have been reviewed by building inspection. >> yes, we've circulated before the meeting both with mr. lau, mr. duffy and mr. lee. >> mr. lau you're

the architect of those proposals, mrs. calvin, appeared before mp's at westminster. a member of the scottish affairs committee speculated on what might happen if the scottish government overreached on spending. >> the scottish government was going out and borrowing money with assets that the scottish government has. if you borrowed direct and feel that there is no implicit u.k. government guarantee, it is like a public loan board or something. probably, the scottish government would say we need another billion or something. go to the u.k. government and they would go into the market with the u.k. credit rating. if you go too far in the other direction, california when lust. individual states can actually go lust -- bust. to me, it is inconceivable that a u.k. government would allow a scottish government, devolved scottish government, to go bust. if that is the case, there is an implicit guarantee. if there is an implicit guarantee, you have to talk closely together. because the scottish government is completely free to go out with an implicit guarantee for the u.k. g

we're moving on to grace coolidge, mrs. calvin coolidge, in the white house from 1923 to 1929. this is a gorgeous -- >> beautiful. >> amazing. very beautiful. >> the president wanted her to wear a white dress. artist said that he wanted, wanted the composition to be red and white. apparently the president who liked the odd joke said, "paint the dog red." [laughter] >> you said that dress was originally slit higher, right, with some leg showing? >> apparently. this is part of the white house historical association collection, not ours. >> this is a very interesting photograph. president coolidge prevents grace from wearing pants and bobbing her hair as short as she would have preferred. he often bought her luxurious hats and things to wear to public events. what's interesting about this photograph, we were looking at it earlier, it is in the white house. it's a staircase that no longer exists. it's been removed. i hope not because of what she was wearing. [laughter] and this is quite beautiful. >> this is a flapper depression from '25 or '26. that's the perfect little flapper dr

calvin, welcome home, alan gross. great job, mr. president. maybe now i can get a cuban cigar. but not everyone is applauding today. especially many on the right. we'll talk about that ahead. >>> but first, please keep the conversation going on our facebook page or tweet us at politics nation. e skip the bad stuff. i'm good. that's what i like to call, the meta effect. 4-in-1 multi-health metamucil now clinically proven to help you feel less hungry between meals. experience the meta effect with our new multi-health wellness line. i love my meta health bars. because when nutritious tastes this delicious, i don't miss the other stuff. new meta health bars help promote heart health. experience the meta effect with our new multi-health wellness line. ♪ >>> it's been a hostile relationship for more than five decades. the united states and cuba, led by the castros and also bedevilled our politics at home. from the cia back bay of the pigs invasion in 1961 to the cuban missile crisis that brought us to the brink of nuclear war, to cia plots to assassinate fidel castro, to the 1999 s

caller: hello, mr. miller. i am fairly interested in your views about calvin coolidge. host: calvin coolidge. guest: he provided over one of the longest expansions of economic prosperity in american history, and one of the debates or knocks against the whole presidential rating game is that it has been hijacked by ds, democrats, or rs, republicans, in the serviced of narrow partisan agenda. i mean coolidge was coolidge a great president? no. did calvin coolidge not get sufficient credit for his accomplishments? perhaps, and the republicans would argue that, in fact, one of the reasons that the presidential rating game over the years have been dominated largely by liberal progressive professors at universities, and i think that point, even though i think it's to a somewhat exaggerated, there is a fair amount of truth in the perceptions of who rates the presidents and how, in fact, they are perceived over time, and, yes, it has become very much a partisan zam. calfin coolage, i think, to some degree fell victim to it. >> it's good >> host: politics has a much nastier than

mr. carter, i don't know him. i have a he has a good reputation. it was disquieting in the process to see several prominent candidates publicly take their name out of contention. it is not a good thing when serious people are saying, heck no, i don't want to be secretary of defense. starts to suggest the way the administration is treating the defense department is not a pattern of behavior, behavior that inculcates strong serious leaders focused on defending this nation and now we need exactly that. it is my hope that that mr. carter demonstrates a seriousness of resolve, and willingness to speak the truth even if that truth may be inconvenient to political operatives in the white house. >> you were a critic of senator hagel. other important issues in a second. senator hagel was nominated and curious what was, oversight responsibilities, dealt with quite a lot over last two years. what was your sense how we did and how much ability to really shape policy as opposed to one gathers one sort