Supervisor mar the meeting will come to order. With the comto the november 8, 2019 meet welcome to the november 8, 2019 meeting of the committee. I am supervisor matt haney. Miss clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Supervisor haney thank you. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, you have a quorum. Cha. Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk, can you call the first item. [agenda item read]. Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk. This is obviously a hugely Important Initiative for our city. Its one where i think it reflects the best of the partnership between city college and sfusd and one that is obviously of importance to the city and county of san francisco, as well. Its one that i know that supervisor walton and i had the opportunity to see and grow and strengthen at the time we were on the board of education and i want to thank the leadership of the board for supporting it and funding it, and i want to thank the extraordinary staf
Chance of rain coming up. Thanks. Im getting first report of a new accident on the upper deck of the bay bridge. Three cars involved around trish sure island. Traffic starting to stack up at the bay bridge toll plaza. No word yet if it is blocking any lanes. May cause delays into the city. Right now youre backed up beyond that 880 overpass. They may have just put the metering lights on this morning. This is 101 and 17th street. Just south we have a crash southbound 101. They are running a traffic break. Two cars involved in this accident. It is blocking at least those two left lanes there. Just updated that so a slow raid through there. Try 280 in the meantime if youre headed southbound. Southbound 280 john daly boulevard ramp is blocked for a serious accident involving a vehicle and pedestrian. Main lane rest lines are open in both directions. A man stabbed a Good Samaritan to death. Jackie ward is live at the south hayward bart station with more. Jackie. Reporter kenny, in just a few
Good morning. Thank you very m good morning thank you for theon introduction we are excited to be here today to have a conversation around authority at the state department to communicate American Values and form policy to engage the public all across the world. Theres never been in more important time for public to policy today its more important than ever engaging people and the public individuals and citizens in American Values and form policy and the Critical Issues of our time isn probably a requirement for success and theres a number of factors to this the world is increasingly interconnected andrl transparent so you have a number of factors making Public Diplomacy so the first is technology with a proliferation of channels and platforms in ways that we can communicate with citizens across the world so when we have theseer conversations but then you also have Technology Driving these risks look at Public Diplomacy we are can it survive the internet . Take a look at the trends. Ch
Sure that we have all the information necessary to move forward. I yield the floor. Objection. Mr. Menendez mr. President , i ask to speak for up to 15 minutes. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Menendez we have heard some deeply disturbing revelations in recent days regarding President Trumps efforts to tie congressionally appropriated security funding for ukraine hostage to its governments willingness to investigate his political opponents here at home. The alleged threat by President Trump to withhold vital security funding from ukraine came out last week in press reports about a whistleblower complaint from a u. S. Intelligence official. These revelations suggest a gross abuse of power unlike anything ive ever seen during my 27 years working on u. S. Foreign policy. They also show donald trump once again welcoming a foreign power to influence our elections, this time using the power of the white house. As of today, the acting director of National Intelligence has refused
Gnr the security funding for ukraine hostage to its governments willingness to investigate his political opponents here at home, the alleged threat by President Trump to withhold vital security funding came out last week on press reports about a whistleblower complaint from a u. S. Intelligence official. The revelations suggest a gross abuse of power unlike anything ive ever seen during my 27 years working on u. S. Foreign policy. They also showed donald trump once again welcoming a power to influence our elections this time using the power of the white house. They have refused to comply with the law that requires them to share the whistleblower complaint with congress. Yet that hasnt stopped multiple members of the president s inner circle from all but confirming the president pushed the ukrainian president to open an investigation into the former Vice President. The sort of behavior is somehow normal. First we watched him admit that he raised the issue with investigating biden on his