His these undermine public trust in our institutions and election process. That is why i am pleased to support this important bipartisan resolution. Qanon alleged prominent americans are engaged in a seat to control the world while using their power to exploit children. It now extends to a range of dangerous conspiracy theories, the fbi has assessed with high political that french theories including qanon, a quote, likely to motivate domestic extremists, wholly or in part, to engage in violent or criminal activity, and these conspiracy theories likely encourage the targeting of specific people, places and organizations, thereby increasing the likelihood of violence against these targets. As the members may know, the lead sponsor of the resolution has faced threats from qanon supporters after he was falsely accused of lobbying to protect sexual predators. According to the combating Terrorism Center, a quote, qanon is arguably no longer a fringe Conspiracy Theory but an ideology that is
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Good afternoon everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the july 9, 2020 meeting of the rules committee im supervisor hillary ronen. With me is supervisor catherine stefani. And gordon mar. I like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcement . Yes, due to covid19 emergency, City Employees and the public, board of trustees legislative chamber are closed. Members will be participating in the meeting remotely. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda both channel 26 and sfgov tv. Org. Our streaming numbers across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak unless comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone. Number is 408 4189388. You will hear the meeting discussion. Youll be muted and in listen mode on
Weekly caucus meetings. Republicans are meeting with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin this afternoon about the coronavirus response. We expect to hear Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell address reporters at 2 p. M. Eastern. The senate will gavel back in at 2 15 eastern and, of course, well have live coverage here on cspan2. Up next, a conversation on the coronavirus pan dem sick and public trust in pandemic and public trust in government. We hear from this forum hosted by the Atlantic Council. Good morning. This is fred kemp from the Atlantic Council, and thank you for tuning into this timely, unfortunately timely conversation on Public Trust Institutions and the coronavirus epidemic. First of all, i want to thank ours. Speakers who are here tody and everyone whos joined us online whos being responsive to the call for social distancing. We actually dont think that social distancing contradicts common cause, and thats the way were going to run the Atlantic Council during this period
Trust in government. Live coverage here on cspan2. Okay. Good morning. This is fred kempe from the Atlantic Council, and thank you for tuning in to this timely, unfortunate timely conversation on Public Trust Institutions and the corona virus epidemic. First of all i want to thank our speakers who are here today and itll just joined us online for being responsive to the call for social distancing. We actually dont think that social distancing contradicts common cause and thats the way were going to run the Atlantic Council during this period of time. We see this moment as a challenge. Went to keep ourselves safe. We as Atlantic Council have to keep our staff safe, arcing or be safe at the same time we have to rally our community globally, transit medically at the town to take on the challenge of the sort that none of us have seen in our lifetimes. The we do not have you in the room, we encourage you to engage in our discussion. Please use the hashtag ac coronavirus, ac coronavirus. Thr