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Million. An amount some consider too small to prevent such disasters from happening again. Joining me now is george avalos, Business Reporter for the San Jose Mercury news. Nice to have you here. Thank you. Pg e faced 12 criminal charges. It was found guilty of six. Aside from obstructing an investigation charge, what were some of the other charges they were found guilty of . They were found guilty of a variety of violations of the Pipeline Safety act. These primarily included things such as their preparation, assessing threats and things like that, prioritizing threats, determining how to dea...

Seems, he made it that way. He did this with all of his writings that ive been able to track. He also liked to he didnt think it was done until he had read it to somebody opinion you would think he could get that by reading it to himself, but he said no, that doesnt work. One time he got senior statesmen, old man blair or somebody like that, tell me what you think of this. But one time he had to send it off. It was a letter, it was summertime. He sat down with the clerk in his office and the clerk said, do you want me to comment on it mr. Lincoln . He said no, just listen to it. I have to have...

We think of ourselves, were the richest nation, the freest nation and never put those statements to a test. So we have a very inflated notion of our capabilities as a democratic society. I think if king or lincoln were around today, lincoln for a different reason, i think he was a skeptic about it was all in gods hands anyway. You can hope, hes big on hope. I was going to say the questioner wanted a practical suggestion. Ill just say this. Take advantage of the fact that certainly for the generations that are here now, the Lincoln Memorial is not just about lin lincoln but also Martin Luther k...

Then it can stay with you. Other people can use it. This is what he said was the reason writing was the greatest invention, said if somebody writes it down then it doesnt matter if its forgotten for a thousand years its written down, and the person who can use it 1,000 years later finds it where its written and goes on. I think thats the kind of think thinker he was. But he knew africanamericans knew, he knew people who came from slave backgrounds capable of high intellectual ability. Frederick douglass he coiled converse and very sof fistcated terms with people. Sounds like he didnt have any ...

And welcome them and also you to other and new programs we have into the future. Just a bit of housekeeping here. Well speak for a little while and then when there are questions, when we get ready for questions over here is a microphone. And if youd please just queue up at that microphone so that we can get the best sound and can respond to your questions accordingly. So this evening, id like to welcome david patricia, hes the author of roosevelt sweeps nation. Fdr is 1936 landslide and the triumph. The liberal idea. Its a very good book. Ive read and i thoroughly enjoyed it. And as i was sayi...