Chair ronen the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the december 7 meeting of the rules committee. I am hillary ronen, rules of the committee. With me are supervisors Catherine Stefani and supervisor victor mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [inaudible] Clerk Committee members will attend the meeting Via Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunitied to speak during the Public Comment are available by phone by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1460305414. Again, thats 1460305414. Press pound twice, and when you enter the meeting, you will be in listening mode only. When your item of interest is called, enter star, three to be entered into the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment by email to me, at
Hello, and welcome if youre watching on pbs in the us or Around The World, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. The European Union is introducing Export Controls on Coronavirus Vaccines produced in europe. The move will force Pharmaceutical Companies to get permission before supplying doses outside the bloc. It comes amid a Supply Dispute between the eu and two major vaccine suppliers, astrazeneca and pfizer. The European Commission says Export Controls are necessary to ensure that all eu citizens had access to vaccines. Nick beake reports from brussels. Throughout the week, this post brexit battle between the eu and a british based Vaccine Maker has been intensifying. European countries are demanding that astrazeneca delivers all the jabs they ordered, even if it means taking them from the uk supply. It all hangs on the contract the two sides signed thats now been released, although with parts blanked out. Astrazeneca says it agreed to do i
It is presumed that he may exit. We will see huge election , insures upon the president uproar last night. I cannot convey coasttocoast the uproar of his road trip taken in the evening here of a perfect east coast autumn day. But i would also focus on the rest of the world, and the news out of paris to me is distressing with the debt is locked down the right word . I dont know, but there are some strict things happening in paris. Francine lets call it restrictions, extra restrictions also happening in london. We have part of new york where we see School Closures and restrictions, but this will be something in the next couple of months that we will have to watch out for. It is the first time we have seen aggressive restrictions from certain officials. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika there is confusion over how President Trump is being treated for the coronavirus. In public, his doctors remained upbeat. One says the president could be relea
Through for the United States at 57. 8. The previous number, 56. 9. The survey, 56. 2. We have a easily beaten expectations on this number, but the details are important. Lets dig into the details with bloombergs mike mckee. Michael important to realize this is a diffusion index that basically asks companies, what are things like this month compared to last month. There is a bit of an improvement. The level of improvement has slowed some. But that is a reasonably good number because we see business activity, which is sort of the same of production in the manufacturing index, up to 63 from 62. 4, and new orders up. Again, this compares with the last month. We were at very low levels, so the fact that things are expanding doesnt mean we are back to where we were. It just means that things are gradually Getting Better. The one thing everyone has been watching his employment. This report comes out too late to influence everybodys view on what the payroll report was like for august for sept
We will get to that conversation in a minute. The former National Security advisor has a link the excerpt lengthy excerpt of his book online. Trumphe writes the conversation with xi reflected not only the incoherence in a trade policy but the confluence in trumps mind of his own political interest in u. S. Natural national interest. Trump co. Mingled the personal and the national not just on trade questions but across the whole field of National Security. I am hardpressed to identify any significant trump decision during my white house tenure that wasnt driven by reelection calculations. Martha raddatz has an interview on sunday. The network released clips of her interview. Here is john bolton talking about Vladimir Putins perception of President Trump. Describeuld you Vladimir Putins relationship with trump . I think Vladimir Putin thinks he can play him like a federal. He doesnt think he is faced with a serious adversary. I dont think he is worried about donald trump. Donald trump se