As housing secretary there are new calls for attorney general Jeff Sessions to resign afterat least recuse himself from the or at least recuse himself from the Trump Campaign and russia. Do you swear it was during his confirmation hearings in january that then senator Jeff Sessions failed to disclose he had two meetings with russias ambassador to the u. S. In the last year. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two. And that campaign and i didnt have communication with the russians. Reporter a Justice Department spokesperson says that as a member of the Armed Services Committee Last year the senator had over 25 conversations with foreign ambassadors. This morning, attorney general sessions responded to the allegations. Well i have not met with any russians at any time to discuss any political campaign. Reporter democrats say he didnt tell the truth while under oath. Because the department of justice should be above reproach, for the good of the country, attorney general reporter
What they call a limited mission. They say. Will stay the same. Were seeing more today from the arrest of a Pleasant Hill man accused of going on a shooting spree. The defense says he was intoxicated at the time. Police, say otherwise. 24 01show me your hands, show me your hands. 24 04 police say 33year old pete polson went on a shooting spree last november. Officers caught up to polson a short time later. And found gunshot residue on his clothing. Along with a gun and shell casings in his car. The defense claims he was too intoxicated to know what he was doing. But officers have their doubts. 34 39how would you describe him . The best i can describe was indifferent, just normal was just another day. Was there anything about his demeanor that indicated to you he was under the influence of any substance . No. Two people were wounded. And a third just narrowly avoided i instantly knew it was a gunshot, i turned, i hit the ground, i knew i needed to get in front of the truck, because he h
I also think in terms of when you look at the mayors power visavis the board, if the mayor appoints someone who is then prohibited from running for reelection, the mayor will have less incentive to appoint someone who actually reflects that district and who will therefore be viable to seek reelection in that district. The mayor, in fact, will have incentive to appoint someone who is not necessarily responsive to the district, but is more responsive to the mayor. And that person can be in office for six months. And, so, the last thing we should be doing is putting supervisors in office who have no prospect of ever having to face the voters again and who, therefore, are going to have less incentive to actually care about what the voters need and what the voters want. So, i know that supervisor avalos intention is to reduce the power of the mayor visavis board appointments, but in one sense it actually can increase that power. So, in the end i think we have a good and workable system. Are
Thank you, president chiu. Colleagues, this item was heard at the budget and finance Committee Last week. We have since understood from the purchaser additional amendments are needed to the legislation. These amendments [speaker not understood] defining the time frame for each newspaper during the fiscal year and providing clarification to the corporate name which is the San Francisco print media co. A purchaser here is present to answer any questions. And if no discussion, id like to make a motion to amend the legislation as detailed in the copy i believe the clerk has already distributed. Supervisor farrell has amended offered a motion to amend as he described. Is there a second to that . Second by supervisor tang. Without objection, his motion to amend passes. [gavel] and on the underlying resolution, as amend if we could take this same house same call . Without objection this resolution is adopted as amended [gavel] item 53. Item 53 is an ordinance to amended administrative code ch
It should happen . I want to go deeper into this question about working with our allies. It is the first thing that comes up in the times editorial. We have got to work with our allies and so forth. Of course, it is essential. But we have a really big problem because our allies are divided. Especially when it comes to the political strategy. Many of them are leading us in a direction that is likely to be disastrous. As you know, we have these two camps. This is apart from the longrunning saudiiranian leadership rivalry. Now, within the arab and sunni muslim camp, we have saudi arabia, the uae, egypt, and a few others, one group that has proposed a certain strategy. Lumping many islamists into the same category, into the category of terrorists, barring them from politics, media, civil society. There are a lot of things happening. Shadi referred to things happening in egypt. A Massive Campaign of repression. On a smaller scale, also in a number of other countries that i mentioned. This i