This is a reminder under the code this is a reminder under the administrative code the ringing and use of cell phones and pagers and similar sounding Electronic Devices is prohibited. Set all to vibrate or turn the device completely off. Now San Francisco fiction and the time is 5 00 p. M. Commissioner president Francee Covington commissioner Vice President cleaveland commissioner Stephen Nakajo commissioner Michael Hardeman acting chief of the department ignoring and item 2 please silence all Electronic Devices. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole not to Department Personnel not to enter into the date with a speaker the lack of a irons by the commissioners didnt necessarily constitute an agreement with or support of statements during. Thank you, madam secretary is there any member of the public that would like to address the commission on a matter not on the agenda seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Please call the next item. Item 3 discussion and pos
Time is 5 00 p. M. Commissioner president Francee Covington commissioner Vice President cleaveland commissioner Stephen Nakajo commissioner Michael Hardeman acting chief of the department ignoring and item 2 please silence all electronic devices. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole not to Department Personnel not to enter into the date with a speaker the lack of a irons by the commissioners didnt necessarily constitute an agreement with or support of statements during. Thank you, madam secretary is there any member of the public that would like to address the commission on a matter not on the agenda seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Please call the next item. Item 3 discussion and possible action to approve Meeting Minutes of regular meeting on june 22, 2016. Thank you. Any Public Comment on the minutes as submitted . All right. No Public Comment Public Comment is closed. And ill go to my fellow commissioners beginning with commissioner Vice President
Time is 5 00 p. M. Commissioner president Francee Covington commissioner Vice President cleaveland commissioner Stephen Nakajo commissioner Michael Hardeman acting chief of the department ignoring and item 2 please silence all electronic devices. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole not to Department Personnel not to enter into the date with a speaker the lack of a irons by the commissioners didnt necessarily constitute an agreement with or support of statements during. Thank you, madam secretary is there any member of the public that would like to address the commission on a matter not on the agenda seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Please call the next item. Item 3 discussion and possible action to approve Meeting Minutes of regular meeting on june 22, 2016. Thank you. Any Public Comment on the minutes as submitted . All right. No Public Comment Public Comment is closed. And ill go to my fellow commissioners beginning with commissioner Vice President
Intelligence Community Know about this and what did it tell the Capitol Police . The Capitol Police chief says in his prepared testimony he just wasnt expecting anything like this and they were prepared for something far less violent. So im not sure were going to get the answer to that question today and it may be that the only way to get that answer is to have a 9 11style commission that can get out there and interview everybody that was involved. But that is a key question. And of course a couple of other questions about what happened on that day still havent been answered. Who planted the bombs at the headquarters of the republican and Democratic National committees which the chief says was a distraction. He says he thinks this was part of the planned siege on the capitol to basically have this diversion that would take Law Enforcement assets away from the capitol. And then the question of course who killed officer sicknick, thats turned out to be a very difficult question to answer
Received the Opening Statements from the people who are going to be testifying. And for the first time we are hearing from one of those people, paul irving, he is the house sergeant at arms, the former now, who essentially is part of the team that is in charge of securing the capitol and hes defending his actions that day as well as the others. And what he was saying in this Opening Statement, what he intends to say is that they have no intelligence to indicate that anyone was going to try and overtake the capitol. And in this Opening Statement is what he said. Let me read it to you. For each of the days leading up to january 6th and indeed on january 6th itself, the Capitol Police issued a daily Intelligence Report in which it assessed the potential for this civil disobedience and arrest as remote to improbable. So hes saying there was no intelligence to say that there mob was going to attack the capitol. And were getting the Opening Statement from the former Capitol Police chief stev