Welcome to the theater located at the National Archives building washington dc and i like to give a special shout out to our friends on cspan who are joining us today. Before we hear from philip about his book black site i will tell you about two upcoming programs taking place in the theater we will hear about the forgotten founding father george mason the founding father who gave us the bill of rights. On tuesday september 10th Sidney Blumenthal will tell about his recently released volume number three of his biography of Abraham Lincoln 1856 through 1863 to find more out about these programs please visit our website you will also find printed materials with Upcoming Events as well ass signup sheets to have the electronic version of the monthly calendar. Joining the cia in 1985 as a special agent after september 11 he was a cia member of a small diplomatic11 team for afghanistan then he became Deputy Director for orterrace center and stayed there through 2005 the first Deputy Director
The committee im proceeding under the rule. I wonder how this panel can opine as to whether the president committed an impeachment offense and the answer quite frankly is because you came in with a preconceived notion. You already made that determination and decision. Ill give you a for instance. Until the recent collocolloquy, several of you said the president said i would like you to do me a favor. But that was inaccurate. And im going to read it to you. I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot. One of you said well thats because the president was using royal we. Here the president is talking about the country. Thats what hes talking about. Its audacious to say its using the royal we. Thats royal, all right but it aint the royal we. And ill just tell you, when you come in with a preconceived notion it becomes obvious. One of you just said, mr. Feldman it was you who said, and im going to quote here, roughly, i think this is exactly what you
Renewed china trade optimism set to fuel further gains of the open retails big week and the tariff impact into the holidays. Best buy, dicks, dollar tree, abercrombie among the retailers reporting today. And ford challenging tesla to a apples to apples tug of war between pickups and elon musk says bring it on three major indices saw record closes, top trade negotiators from the u. S. And China Holding a phone call earlier this morning the two sides continue to work toward a phase one trade agreement. Trade rep lighthizer, mnuchin, both participated in that call and both sides agree to remain in contact over remaining issues on twitter, you said the phone call last night was very important in terms of furthering a deal yeah. It is real ive been skeptical. This was a real call phase one probably happens Financial Services get opened up president may believe that intellectual property is for real that instead of just a soybean buy, a promise to they would respect intellectual property. Do
Hi, everybody. You are rather welcome to call me shelley. I have have the privilege of welcoming will working with commissioner lloyd over a number of years. I have worked at meta fund which is a health and aging foundation located here in San Francisco. My background is actually in the Health Department work. I came from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health before moving to San Francisco. I have really had the opportunity to work deeply and closely with communitybased organizations, but i am happy to be working in the mirrors office as of yesterday. I am catching up. It is very nice to meet you all and i look forward to working with you. Welcome, shelley. Thank you. Next item. Item two is the approval of the minutes. Each will require a vote. The minutes of october third, 2019, which was the joint hearing of the Planning Commission and october 15th, 2019. Commissioners, do we take them separately or together. That is your call. But review them. Any comments you wish to make wi
About the process. As you were doing the validation , the baselines that have been established, are they going to change, or are they going to be modified . And how soon will you be establishing those . Are they in the same priority that was mentioned in terms of which ones are going to be focused on first . I would say it is in the same priority. So backing into it, our goal is, by the start of the next fiscal year, july 1st, to have established what those metrics are so we can begin to collect that data right away and report on it. In order for us to do that, getting back to january, we need to have some sense of which ones are looking like they are going to be doable and validated so that we can come back to the table as a network and say, okay , here is the potential universe of data that has been validated. Of this, how much of this support are true north pillars and particularly some of the metrics we have already identified . We feel the metrics we have now are appropriate and h