Good morning, the committee will come to order. And without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. With that ill now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement. Two days ago, the entire world came together to Mark International holocaust Remembrance Day. In addition, 75 years ago this week, in january 1945 , the auschwitz broken out concentration camp was liberated from the nazis. It was one of the most infamous sites of the nazi genocide. More than 1 Million People were murdered there. The purpose of todays hearing is to commemorate these brave anniversaries remember the nose we lost and to honor those who are still with us. But it is not enough to simply recognize these things, we must also contemplate what led to these atrocities. We must remember the lholocaust in order to help combat bigotry, hate and violence of all kinds today i am so pleased to have our distinguished panel here today. I have asked them to help us come together on
The next two years and over 50 billion upon agriculture alone. On manufacturing, they will be spending 75 billion. They will be putting into our country 75 billion on manufacturing. 50 billion worth of energy. Thats great for tour energy people. 40 billion to 50 billion on financial services. The banks will be doing great. All of the things you do so well. You will be able to go into china. One of the things i have to say is protection of intellectual property, we have strong protection of intellectual property. The other thing i think we have is current i devaluation standards. China was one of the greats in history at doing that. And we are going to work on it together. Current i devaluation will have currency devaluation will have strong restrictions. We have total and full enforce built. Lou the u. S. China trade agreement signing ceremony in the east room of the white house. Complex and of and often frustrating negotiations. They stayed on course because of the leadership and visi
Good afternoon, and welcome to the january 14th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call roll call. Thank you, mr. President. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of the San Francisco government tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . I have known to report, mr. President. Great. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from the november 21st, 2019 special Board Meeting and a november 21 st, 2019 regular Meeting Minutes to the budget and finance Committee Meeting which constitutes a quorum of the board of supervisors. Are there any changes for these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Motion made by supervisor mandelman and seconded
Thank you all for coming today and staying for the full day and for this final panel. Im brian catoulus for the center for American Progress. Every day it seems like president Trumps National security approach seems like a daily train wreck across the board and on iran, in particular, it feels like a train wreck. But lets be clear. We are where we are today on iran by no accident. What President Trump is implementing right now is an approach which is erratic, its confused but its the product of a very concerted effort to undermine what i thought was important work under the Obama Administration. Many people in the room were part of that inside the government or outside. And we have a great panel which john has introduced and im not going to go through the bios and things like that. What were going to do today is have a bit of a conversation for a few minutes, talking about where are we and where do we go from here. Thats the main thrust, but then were going to draw you in. Theres so mu
Growing frustration with lebanons economic crisis protesters are angry that 3 months of antigovernment demonstrations seem to have gone nowhere whats needed to break the stalemate in the 11th leaders willing to change the political system this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Richelle Carey for 3 months now people in lebanon have been demanding change worsening economic crisis means many cant find jobs pay for basic goods or even withdraw money from the bank theyre blaming political leaders for corruption and mismanagement and after months of peaceful rallies the protestors are calling for a week of rage Police Fire Tear gas and Water Cannons to disperse crowds near the parliament and they ruled on saturday only 400 people were injured or testers are repeating their demand for lebanon sectarian political system to end they want to new government and dependent experts who have no links with traditional parties. I think that the message of everybodys thing here is tha