And joint chiefs of staff chair general mark milley were on capitol hill to testify on the president s 2021 budget request for the pentagon. They were also asked about military modernization efforts and defense funds being diverted from border wall construction being diverted for border wall construction. [indiscernible conversations] [indiscernible conversations] the Committee Meets today to receive testimony for the 2021 budget request. We welcome our witnesses and thank them for their service. After mark esper and general mark milley. Top priority is ensuring the effectiveness and implementation of the National Defense strategy. Unfortunately under the last administration, we asked our military to do more with less, and that got us into trouble and 2017. 12 we lost 150 billion to sequestration. Our forces were devastated. I think we all understand that. As a result, when President Trump came to office, he a country in crisis. Rican military and crisis, thankfully he delivered on his
Cspans q a. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Created by cable in 1979 and brought to you today by your television provider. Defense secretary mark eer and mark milley were on capitol hill to testify for the 2020 request for the pentagon. They were also asked about military moderation efforts and defense funds for border wall construction. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony in the department of defense fiscal year 2021 budget request and our witnesses we thank them for our service and both dr. Marques per and general mark. We have a pair of marks this morning. This committees top priority is ensuring the effectiveness adjacent to a National Defense strategy thats our vote we had heard in hearing for a long period of time now, about three years. Unfortunately, the last administration we asked our military to do more with less. That got us in trouble between 2012 and 2017, we boost 150 billion to sequestration. Our Defense Budget in the redness of our forces were dev
[please stand by] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President hirsch would like to take call . Yes, thank you. Phones off please. Vice president taylor is excused. [roll call] president hirsch, you have a quorum, also with us are chief scott and director henderson from the department of police accountability. Thank you. Good evening. Happy new year to everybody. I want illike to congratulate the mayor on starting her first day of her first full term. We have a full calendar, so there will be two minutes for Public Comment. With that, we are ready to go. All right. Administratively, line item 2c and closed session 9b has been removed from the calendar or for the agenda. Line item 1, to ask of minutes, action for the meetings of december 4 and 11, 2019. 2c, the Youth Commission requested that we put their comments over by a month because they were n
From the department of police accountability. Thank you. Good evening. Happy new year to everybody. I want illike to congratulate the mayor on starting her first day of her first full term. We have a full calendar, so there will be two minutes for Public Comment. With that, we are ready to go. All right. Administratively, line item 2c and closed session 9b has been removed from the calendar or for the agenda. Line item 1, to ask of minutes, action for the meetings of december 4 and 11, 2019. 2c, the Youth Commission requested that we put their comments over by a month because they were not prepared, is that right . Yes, they didnt meet due to the holidays. Okay. All right. One or two . 2c and closed session. And 9b. Thank you. Okay. First item again, please . Adoption of minutes for december 4 and 11 so moved. Second. Any Public Comment on our adoption of the minutes . Seeing none, it is closed. Can we have all in favor . Aye any opposition . All right. It passes unanimously. Line item
Decision. And i dont understand the less Lethal Weapon is not a policy but the Lethal Weapon itself is in policy. So for the commission, we had to be very limited on comments, because this case is also a d. P. A. Case that will probably land in front of this commission. So d. P. A. And director henderson and i have met and conferred on this case, so we have to be limited in our comments. I was going to say the same thing, because d. P. A. Is in those things too but if there are open investigations in some of these cases, which is the case. [off mic] bringing it to us as a decision made by the Police Department. They looked at their own shooting. Which over and over again, shouldnt be investigating their own shootings. But you are investigating your own shootings. Just policy violations for the same shooting [off mic] even disciplined [off mic] training or something with some kind of exception. Its just not do all these other things and thats out of policy, but its in policy. So to the