Those clouds kept our temperature up, there has been mist in the east bay hills above 1,500 feet. You can run into that during the morning commute. The clouds on the left side of the screen are the high clouds that will come in today and shave a few degrees off our highs from yesterday. It wont be quite as mild or bright. In san jose, the clouds are thick this morning. You may see more sunshine the further north you go, but temperatures will still be anywhere from 59 in San Francisco and richmond to about 63 in fairfield. Even a little bit cooler along the coast. 56 in Half Moon Bay to 60 in santa cruz. A slight chance of sprinkles tonight. Watching that rain for friday coming up in the accuweather 7day forecast. Lets get to some news. Thank you. We want to share breaking news with you right now. A pedestrian is dead in benicia after being hit by an onduty Police Officer. This crash happened around 2 00 this morning along east 2nd street with the intersection of east s street. The offi
Without objection the chair medically resource recess without objection the chair may declare a recess had any time i want to go through the usual housekeeping matters todays session is an on an unclassified basis all participants should refrain from discussing classified information on Public Disclosure and the committee is conducting the virtual hearing with House Resolution 965 and the resolution of the proceedings is being broadcast live on the Committee Website because it remains ongoing and so we wish we could return to all Events Health and safety protocols means you have alternate means to carry out so let me remind members and consistent with regulations and to limit background noise members are responsible to unmute themselves when they are recognized for their five minutes because there are delays that would ask members andbe witnesses to allow sufficient time to make sure the last speaker is finished. You must have your cameras on at all times if you step away from the proc
Peculiar way we count the two nonconsecutive administrations of Grover Cleveland in the 19th century. All 44 of those president s have been males. All but two of them have been white protestant males. , of the 44, have been elected to second terms, which is a room entry indicator of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives beginning in the 18th century have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassination. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached and two of those in the lifetime of many people here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to of the size most, is the number one. By that, i mean the president is electedne of the 536 officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, and theers of congress, president and Vice President im treating as a single click on entity. So the president is one of 536
Of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives, beginning in the 18th century, have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassination. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached, two of those in the lifetime of many people with us here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to of the size most, is the number one. By that i mean that the president is simply one of the 536 elected officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, 535 members of congress, and the im treating the president and Vice President for this purpose as a single entity. So the president is one of 536 elected officials. When i reflect on that asymmetry between the one president and 536 other federal elected officials, im reminded of a quip by the journalist theodore white, who wrote several books on president ial elections beginning in
Man hadnt democrats. I cant shake the feeling that some people here are pulling for me. [applause] im delighted to see her tonight hillary. I feel right at home here because it is often said i share the politics of alfred e. Smith and the ears of alfred newman. It is an honor to be here with al smith. I never knew your greatgrandfather. Everything senator mccain told me, the two of them had a great time before prohibition. [laughter] of course im delighted to testify on the 18th amendment. I felt all along that this matter was the rank and file about people they would readily see that it had no place in our constitution. It would be very difficult if not impossible to come to this country for the coming generations to make it their business to see that no such matter is this is ever again made the subject to federal constitutional law. And youve been listening to the 2008 president ial nominees talking at that years ill smith dinner. Followed by al smith himself talking about prohibiti