good morning and welcome to the San Francisco transportation meet ing for today july 28, 202. Madam, clerk. Please call the roll. roll call we have a quorum. thank you. Before i ask the clerk to make a motion. I ask for a motion to excuse the absence. Can i get a second. second. accelerate we do that without objection . i believe so. No vote required. without objection. Commissioner is excused. Do you have any announcements . yes, i do, chair. Public comment maybe available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045987. Follow the system prompts. When you wish to speak on an item dial one zero to be added to the queue to speak. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Calls will be taken in the order which received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. thank you madam, clerk. This month, i want to start by congratulating director of our Capital Projects. His project and partners at th
Said that h he has left the territory. He is not saying where he is, but he said that he will keep up the advocacy work on the international stage. He called on the people of hong kong to speak up and urged other countries to watch out for the countrys growing authoritarianism, he said on facebook, that he braced himself for the possibility that he would have to leave when he decided to testify. The u. S. Congress has passed a bill imposing sanctions on chinese officials involved in efforts to under mine hong kongs autonomy, the Senate Approved the bill on thursday. The legislation had passed the house of representatives the prevevious day. Ththe bill becomes law once it signed by president donald trump. A Chinese Foreign ministry Spokes Person responded to the move saying china will react strongly and the u. S. Shall bear all consequences, unquote. Other countries are also condemning beijing for breeching the one country two systems principal that protected hong kongs autonomy, the br
Worst how korea launched the cold war. Is thethbreaking book capstone of sams distinguished career, of which the Wilson Center was his home for over four decades. Sharing in todays celebration is sams family, his wife of 50 years to whom the book is dedicated, daughter lauren, and wife. Ristopher, and his i would also like to acknowledge jane harman, who has provided special leadership in expanding the centers focus on korea. Todays event is cosponsored by the Wilson Centers history and Public Policy program and Hyundai Motor career and policy center for Public Policy. Sam has played a vital role in the history of the Wilson Center. Initially came in the mid70s as a wilson fellow on leave from his professorship at the university of North Carolina chapel hill and went on to join the staff, founding the International Security studies program and serving as the Centers Deputy director. It was his harvard doctoral sam tosor who introduced the arts of using history to analyze issues of curr
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But for donald trump he could do no right. What sense of what is driving this in the extreme media that you are a part of . First of all there is a bias against republicans in general and to be portrayed as dangerous and like donald trump he is stupid and dangerous according to the media. We just cannot break out of that. They feel if they did they would be ostracized by their colleagues within the white house correspondents cobol feel among themselves they laugh at him, they mocked him , that is the overriding theme. Many people just inherently cant think independently and in fact thats one reason like a few other people i dont want to be told what to read i want to go firsthand with what actually happened i dont have blinders on and to penetrate secrets and thats what i have done. Host excellent it is a fun read so explain what happened with writes previous and paul ryan and Chris Christie during the access holloway it on hollywood for the campaign. What did they do and are there any