[applause] [cheers and applause] c oh come on. Good morning. Thank you for that warm welcome and thank you for being in person all the people watching on line or listening remotely we say thank you for joining us for the 2024 state of the state. Youve all been thoroughly welcomed this morning but i want to give a special shout out to a few people in the course ive got to start with first Lady Catherine and her Family Members she spirit their sister julie and her cousin lisa and watching on line to the rest of our rest of our extended families and their sons joe and tom and her daughter jesse and their extended families. When you serve your family serves with you so i want to be sure to at this time thank them for all their support in the seven years in todays a special day because its jesses birthday and so we need on a one, two, three everybody to yell happy birthday jesse. It will be the Largest Group to ever yell her birthday at the same time. One, 23, happy birthday jesse [applause
S sf gov tv. San francisco government television. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the june 21st 2023 meeting of the budget and appropriation committee. Im supervisor connie chan, chair of the committee. Im joined by vice chair Rafael Mendoza and supervisors hilary ronen and charmaine walton, our clerk is brant talpa. I would like to thank Matthew Angel and sues enos from tv for broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcement . Yes, madam chair. Just a friendly reminder for those in attendance to please make sure to silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices as to not interrupt our proceedings here in the chamber. How the board of supervisors and its committees are convening hybrid meetings that allow inperson attendance and Public Comment while still providing Remote Access and Public Comment via telephone. Public comment on the proposed budget as items one and two will be taken on monday, june 26th, starting at 10 a. M. And Public Commen
found brittney griner guilty as she was led away in handcuffs. britntney, how do you feel? i love my family. we start with fred pleitgen. what happens now? where do we go? hi, erica. essentially the court sentenced her to nine years in the penal colony. if she would send her, the fields are very far away from the russian capital. they re usually tough places as well. our understanding is that because her legal team say they re going to appeal this verdict, for now she s going to remain in the same detention facility outside of moscow that she has been insofar as long as an appeals process would take place. brittney griner, of course, was essentially appealing to the judge for leniency in a very long speech to the judge asking for leniency. let s listen to some of what she had to say. i know everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but i hope that that is far from this courtroom. again, i had no intent on breaking any russian laws. i had no intent. i
Hunter biden. Now weiss says the agreement well apart in july along with hunters plea deal on tax charges. Team hunter disagrees indicating both sides signed the Diversion Agreement. Meanwhile congress now is looking into whistleblower claims that the Secret Service tipped off hunter biden to a potential i. R. S. Interview which foiled those plans for the interview one month after the election of 2020. Jonathan turley telling us last Hour Congress has no choice but to pursue the evidence. This is going to end up with a confrontation between congress and the administration. The question is why the administration is doing this . Its like a game of chicken and they want to see if Congress Jumps out first. Well, congress can change the game. They could start an Impeachment Inquiry and they could say look, we want these answers. Dana were live in washington. Last week we said this Court Hearing will be a week from today. Here we are, david. High stakes for hunter biden . It really is becaus