Will be an opportunityortunityor general publicl publ comment cos meeting afterg af closed sessiod therell be anll be anll be anlo comment on each discussion or action item policy agenda. Each comment is limited to two minutes. Please note that city policies along with federal, state and local law, prohibit discriminatory or harassing conduct against City Employees and others during Public Meetings and will not be tolerated. Moreover, Public Comment is permitted only on matters within the jurisdiction of this meeting body joining us president s of fine yes. Please call the first item. Thank you. I dont number three is closed session. Three a conference with Legal Counsel pending litigation. Right . And we will. We will need a roll call vote to invoke the Attorney Client privilege and enter into closed session for a conference with counsel. Okay, so, um. At this time, well be moving into closed session with Legal Counsel pending litigation before moving into closed session. We will take
Recognition that we still remain in the eye of the storm and we must be diligent. I would offer to say that we will not fall victim to the terrorists intent, and that is that we will not terrorist ourselves. We will be vigilant which i believe is extremely important, but we will be fair and adjust and we will recognize the Civil Liberties of all. But we are in some very challenging and difficult times, and so i want to thank the chair woman for allowing us and this committee in working with me and the full committee to be the very First Committee that is addressing the question of isis here in the United States congress upon our return. That is an important statement for Homeland Security Armed Services, the Intelligence Committee are the corner stone of defending this nation, and our collaboration and working together is key. And that, we are doing. This factfinding hearing will lay the ground work for many other hearings that will be necessary to expeditionly address this question. T
Or in a number of different other circumstances guaranteed debts and the like. Those trigger a current inclusion of these deferred income thats been allowed to accrue tax free just like your i. R. A. Has been allowed to accrue tax free. And in code section 956, congress authorized treasury to write regulations to prevent the avoidance of the provisions of the section through reorganizations or otherwise. So, again, treasury has been given authority under this code section to tackle the kinds of problems, economic challenges that the inversion phenomena exists. As i mentioned, there are over 500 specific grants of authority. Im only highlighting two here. I could speak to many more, but ill let the discussion continue. Thanks. So im going to return back to steve again. Steve, i want to ask if theres any other tools you want to add to that list, and then well spend a few minutes talking about first the impact of using those tools and then secondly how we think that would the wisdom of do
Counterterrorism capabilities to prevent isil attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble our efforts to cut off its funding, improve our intelligence, strengthen our defenses, counter its warped ideology, and stem the flow of foreign fighters into and out of the middle east. And, in two weeks, i will chair a meeting of the u. N. Security council to further mobilize the International Community around this effort. Fourth, we will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians who have been displaced by this terrorist organization. This includes sunni and shia muslims who are at grave risk, as well as tens of thousands of christians and other religious minorities. We cannot allow these communities to be driven from their ancient homelands. This is our strategy. And in each of these four parts of our strategy, america will be joined by a Broad Coalition of partners. Already, allies are flying planes with us over iraq, sending arms and assistance to Iraqi Securi
Good morning welcome to breakfast, with rogerjohnson and Rachel Burden. Our headlines today a clean break harry and meghan will drop their hrh and end all royal duties under a new agreement with buckingham palace. The queen says they remain much loved members of herfamily. The couple are expected to spend most of their time in canada and will pay back taxpayers money used to refubish their windsor home. New powers to help protect potential stalking victims while Police Investigate allegations are due to come into force. After the calls for big ben to bong for brexit well look at the debate over whether britains church bells should chime too. Saracens are relegated the premiership champions will play next season the second tier of english rugby, after paying too much in wages its pretty cold out there this morning. Some widespread frost. Otherwise its going to be a dry day and we will have some sunshine as well. Its sunday, january the 19th. Our top story. A deal has been agreed on the