Battle against the virus with the numbers continuing to rise essential workers are putting their lives at risk well tell you all about it all right its time to boost your news i q. U. S. Navy warships are heading to the caribbean and off the coast of venezuela in what could become dangerous new escalation between both countries the u. S. Claims its navy present in the region is to counter narcotics operations meantime the venezuelan government says theyre preparing for any battle r. T. Correspondent john hardy has more from miami. Americas war on drugs is taking aim at venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his socalled cartel of the sons the Trump Administration indicted majeure and several others on Drug Trafficking and narco terrorism charges march 26th an extraordinary announcement that diverted attention at least briefly anyway from another ongoing war the coronavirus war then last week President Trump announced u. S. Navy ships were heading to the caribbean and the coast of vene
It at a successful 100 day. Between 13 Congressional Review Acts, pieces of statutes new york laws north regular layings, between then syria reaction, the afghanistan moab, the response to north korea, the budget, andd especially because of justice gorsuch, he want the first 100 days. Like to win more but he won the first 100 day jazz. Host what is important or significant thats too low but he has broken out of the starvation years of theme department of defense so Mick Mulvaney is not nope for being a defense spending. He is a budget hawk and says the deficit is a bigger National Security problem than the prc or russia. Was a little afraid he would undercut defense. Still not what needed to be. No enough money for a 350 ship navy but going the right direction. By the time it gets through the house and senate and after thehe shutdown, which is coming,. Host you think we center. Guest Chuck Schumer wants a shut down, going to cause a shutdown, because his base demands a shutdown, and hi
Like to see some action taken to appoint mr. Wolf to the task force. I believe that hes done the best job that he can and ive known them for many, many years and its time that we put his knowledge his dedication to open government to work. So i urge you to put him back on the task force. Thank you. Speaker hello, again, supervisors. Tom, different hat than my cac hat. Im the copresident of the Democratic Club and i know all of about a month ago received our letter of support for the appointment of hef ner who has served on the executive board of Harvey Milk Club it receive. The club was founded speckly that lgbt voices were heard from the board of supervisors and task forces and lee is the exact voice that we should be amplifying. Hes an eager and passionate lgbt advocate member and is dedicated to Public Service which is the kind of person we would like to see on our city committee. And the milk club started some 40 years ago of being a Queer Community leader who brings voices of othe
Passionate lgbt advocate member and is dedicated to Public Service which is the kind of person we would like to see on our city committee. And the milk club started some 40 years ago of being a Queer Community leader who brings voices of other communities to the table to help those with labor groups and those of color and on the board he serves as a contact for organizations working on the housing and displacement crisis, working in communities of color like husta and on the task force, hell be someone who will really adequately represent the Lgbt Community but many underserved communities who will benefit from her commitment to Public Service and to increase transparency and government. I urge you to support mr. Hef ner and i would like to lend my support to mr. Wolf who is seeking your appointment today. Thank you supervisors. Bruce, i helped sheppard the original sunshine ordinance and task force through city hall. Im really delighted to see as many talented and diverse candidates f
On this item last time and there were a couple of issues that occurred. One was not having a full committee and there wasnt any further agreement with other candidates. Then there was nothing i was able to do except i could have done two things. One is to start all over or two, what i did was duplicate the file so people dont have to reapply and go through everything again, so i choose a latter so we can move this item. The other issue that came up was the issue of diversity from the last meeting. And so in actually doing what we did, it gave an opportunity for people to try to seek out further diversity. I was actually kind of happy to see that there was one new applicant who happened to be ethnically diverse. I could have said, oh, well. Lets continue the item until we have some diversity. I personally made a commitment to bring it back on this date. The other thing i want to mention is im going to ask that we continue one of the seats. One of the incumbrance for that seat has reappl