And welcome to august 2, 2016 meeting of the board of supervisors. Mme. Clerk, can you please call the roll . Thank you mme. Pres. Supervisor avalos. Here. Pres. Breed. Present. Supervisor campus. Present. 17 03 56 supervisor cohen. Present. Supervisor farrell. Present. Supervisor kim. Not present. Supervisor mar. Present. Supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor tang. Tang not present. Supervisor wiener. Here. Supervisor yee. Here. Mme. Pres. , you have a quorum. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us for the pledge of allegiance . [pledge of allegiance] members, are there any changes to the Meeting Minutes of june 28, 2016. Seeing none is there a motion to approve . We have a motion to approve by supervisor mar and seconded by supervisor tang. Seeing none is there a motion to approve . Colleagues can we take this without objection, without objection those Meeting Minutes will pass after Public Comment. [gavel] mme. Clerk, can you please read our first item. Read our fi
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee cheduled a hearing to question email investigation. The recommendation passed on a 1915 Party Line Vote. This is just over an hour. Mr. Chaffetz the committee of government oversight and reform will reconvene, this is a continuation of examination the preservation of the state Department Federal records. We are scheduled to have mr. Pagliano attend this hearing. Due to his absence and his violation of a subpoena issued by the committee on government and oversight reform, we intend to adjourn this hearing and immediately convene a business meeting to consider a hearing to report mr. Pagliano in contempt of congress. Mr. Cummings, do you have a statement . Mr. Cummings i have a brief statement. Let me just say this, this is no surprise to anyone. Mr. Paglianos attorney told us he wouldnt be here. They told us it would be an abuse to force him to appear for a second time before Congress Just to assert his fifth amendment rights. They sen
And welcome to august 2, 2016 meeting of the board of supervisors. Mme. Clerk, can you please call the roll . Thank you mme. Pres. Supervisor avalos. Here. Pres. Breed. Present. Supervisor campus. Present. 17 03 56 supervisor cohen. Present. Supervisor farrell. Present. Supervisor kim. Not present. Supervisor mar. Present. Supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor tang. Tang not present. Supervisor wiener. Here. Supervisor yee. Here. Mme. Pres. , you have a quorum. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us for the pledge of allegiance . [pledge of allegiance] members, are there any changes to the Meeting Minutes of june 28, 2016. Seeing none is there a motion to approve . We have a motion to approve by supervisor mar and seconded by supervisor tang. Seeing none is there a motion to approve . Colleagues can we take this without objection, without objection those Meeting Minutes will pass after Public Comment. [gavel] mme. Clerk, can you please read our first item. Read our fi
Salami slicing. Very small increments advancing interests by building up islands, adding another weapons system, making small moves, none of which is egregious enough tow cause the United States to use massive hard power but would we slowly tip the balance in chinas favor. We dont have a strategy to counter that. Deterre our hard power capability, the weapons you have described, this is a deterrent to world war iii, not to intelligent gradualism. We need a better policy. From florida, independent line, cliff for our guest robert daly, good morning. Good morning. Good conversation. Me e you have alreadystng to taken s steam out of a comment that i was going to make, but i will i make it anyway so we can reiterate. Im not probably going to be as friendly and optimistic as the answer has been given. Ussian im referring to the russian situation when they were doing their thing with georgia, uzbekistan and we were passive and we o watched and they watch how we react or no reaction. I, for o
Suspicious person. We will continue to keep our eye on this and bring you more details as they come in. We are following other breaking news, there is a verdict in the Melissa Huggins jones murder trial. She was killed inside of her home, the main suspect facing a possible death sentence. We will listen and when the verdict is red. Anna smith has said that his accomplice, the guy who has pleaded guilty actually killed this mother. We will have to see if the jury believes that or he never actually took the stand in his own defense. We will have to see what the jury will believe. Joel dramatic moments in closing arguments today before you can see Melissa Huggins jones mother there. Her daughters killer, the man who sits there at the back of your screen waiting for the jury to come back into this Justice Center court room. Anna when this first happened this rattled you have indicated you have reached a unanimous verdict. Let me ask you to stand. Is it correct that the jury has reached a u