So already i want to please have your attention again. Welcome back. It is now time for session five and this session is entitled a historic tax cut campaign. This panel will be moderated by steve forbes. Mr. Forbes, chairman and editor in chief of forbes media, mr. Forbes campaigned vigorously the presidency in 1996 and 2000. Hes the author of several books, including most recently inflation what it is, why its bad and how to fix it. Forbes is a trustee of the coolidge foundation. Please join me in welcoming mr. Forbes and our. Thank you. Sir. Zara. Yes. Good. Thats on. Yes. Well, thank you for mentioning the book yesterday. Several of the Panel Participants made commercials for their books. You can find eight of mine on amazon. And so thatll help cover my train fare the next i come down here. If you buy it from me today, give you 2 off for cash. But it is. Theres a good fun to be here. Good morning. Thank all of you for participating. Thank cspan audiences as well for listening in on
Alex patrol berg and jr eppler. Rick swig is absent. Also john gib in for legal advice. Im Julie Rosenberg executive director we will be joined from city departments presenting. We expect later mr. Rich hillous from planning and tina tammy Zoning Administrator and later kelly wong Code Enforcement manager with planning. Present in the front is Matthew Green Inspection Service for dbi and we expect 2 represents from the department of Public Health. Upon item 6 well be joins by representative from thes California Department of toxic substances control. Whitney smith the project manager and shaw project manager. And doctor rothwane to beingicologist. Kim walsh. Unit chief and branch chief. Board meeting guide lines requests you turn off all phones and other electronics so they will not disturb. No eating or drink. Rules of presentation, appellates and permit hold and spantds 7 minutes to present and 3 for rebuttal. People affiliated include went 7 to 3 minute periods. Members not affiliat
Democracy. A former Drug Enforcement special arrangement joins other immigration and National Security experts to testify on immigration and Transnational Criminal Organizations at a recent Homeland Security hearing this runs just under three hours Homeland Security will come to order. Without objection. Open border policies and how they advanced cartel crime in america. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Southwest border is wide open. The evidence is clear more than 5. 5 million encounters god away since 2021. Nearly 380,000 encounters of unaccompanied minors. A Record Number of retinal poisonings in the United States largely driven by drugs flooding across our southwest border. The crisis is a direct result of the secretaries dereliction of duties. It is being published later today and makes all this clear. Todays hearing and subsequent hearings and the consequences of these policies. Before i get to the subject of todays hearing i want to briefly talk about some of tho
Can remain on french soil, putin, but if putin manages to go attack another nato country, then it will be up to the nato countries to decide how many you will have to send your armies, entire Army Battalions to war on the territory of a nato member country. The situation at the front has become much better than in the last 3 months. We have some problems with shortages of ammunition, air defenses, long range weapons, and also the problem of the huge number of drones the russians have. We have stabilized the situation in the east, the offensive of Russian Troops has stopped. Last year, of course, they destroyed avdiivka and captured the territory. But today we cant even talk about it being a city, because everything in avdeevka is destroyed. They wanted to attack, but today they cannot do this. When the enemy is within range of his weapons, while your ability to shoot is two, at least half, less, all russia constantly does is not just move forward, it is not just a brave army, first the
To say words of incredible gratitude, firstly, a deep bow to you, i think that you know that the whole country, the whole country, stands shoulder to shoulder with you, thats what we can and cant do, we help. Here is the audience that is sitting, i am sure they are ready to rise, if andrei allowed, they would you were smothered in hugs, because through these letters, through these hugs, i want to hug all our men, say thank you, because no one even fully understood how fantastic we are. Who to hug , lets see how his life changed after returning, well , such a life was kind of crazy, just back and forth, running and jumping, one might say, nothing, nothing, there were no plans for the future life, that is, just i worked for money, ill get everything, its like a walk, well, thats enough, the special operation changed me. By when i returned, it seems to me that i grew up, that is , i no longer became a boy, but a man, and indeed, what i wanted was to start a family, that is, to move there