Meetings for the chief search we have a long ogeneral da i welcome all of you and watching at home. We have rules available here and the on the website i need everyones cooperation because given the length of the agenda Public Comment will be two minutes today. We will do agenda clean up to start off with. The agendas are over there if you dont have one. We will start off with chief chaplain item 1a on your report we will have to put over because of the deputy cheap you are going to present is that correct . That is correct. And mr. Police patrol samuel raise we need further investigation so were putting that over. That is correct. On the closed session calendar item c a disciplinary matter that is put over. Is that correct. That is correct. Those retire changes to the agenda with that sergeant call the first line item. Discussion 1a chiefs report this item is to allow the chief of police to report on Police Activities and make announcements. Good evening chief. Good evening. I will st
Getting things up and rung. I appreciate it. From my i hear constituents is not good. I hear so many stories of rebuild,nts who cant who havent gotten money. Theres so much red tape that theirannot possibly find way through. So i want to ask each of you tape thats of red concern me that hopefully you can give me the road forward so let my constituents know that relief is possible. Secretary donovan, this one seems very difficult. A number of my constituents were that becauseearn they accepted Small Business administration loans that they now ineligible for cdbg funding. I understand the need to make duplication in getting federal benefits and we want to protect against fraud, but and that is absolutely critical to the integrity of this program. But is there any distinction grantsn be made between and loans under the duplication of benefits regulations . And under the current federal regulations what are the options for sandy affected homeowners whoaccepted sba loans but believe they ar
Era in which yet again we are presented with an for negotiation which is further is made urgent by the development of the Iranian Nuclear program which upsets as well it should. As well it should. Idea of a weaponized iran iran having Nuclear Weapons, appeals to nobody, appeals to nobody. It really is not something that and benefit the world frankly i dont believe it would benefit iran. The problem with iran not the roblem, the challenge with iran, iran is not the country which you can bully. Way. Imply doesnt work that if you look at what iran excels olympics, its wrestling and weight lifting. Really, im serious. A country thats very, very nationalistic but has a self. G sense of i told people if you go to teheran, im sure you all will point, your host will ake you to something called a zuhrhana. Its a house of strength where people do sort of synchronized lifting. Its very, very interesting. The point im making is not a countrys is that gives in well to they of a strong sense themsel
A military base this past week. Here is the u. S. Secretary of defense, mark esper, and his response. Yesterday i directed that we look at our security precautions across the services and all of our installations and bases and facilities to make sure that we get the appropriate degree of security. I also directed that we look ot our vetting procedures within dod for all the many foreign nationals that come for good reason to our country to train. Joining us on set is msnbc analyst colonel jack jacobs. Colonel, thank you for being here. So you have the secretary of defense there, esper, who also said that at this time the shooting is not an act of terrorism. Could that change . Well, yeah, it should change because it is an act of terrorism. Our problem is that we dont want to call it an act of terrorism but all the elements of terrorism are there. Its a subjective evaluation, of course, but im reminded of the observation of Justice Potter stewart, in an opinion he was trying to describe
administrative matter. a quick breakdown of the federal courts, there are 11 federal circuit courts and the 12th is the district of columbia, the d.c. federal circuit court and the justices each have supervisor authority for administrative purposes over federal circuits with some justices picking up two, justice alito, sotomayor and roberts each supervise a couple of the federal circuits. it happens to be that justice ginsberg oversees really for administrative purposes the second circuit court of appeals and that s where this case is coming up from. it s important to go back to the second circuit court of appeals opinion in this case because what they said about this litigation and i will quote, they said, quote, there is a clear and substantial public interest, closed quote, in the people seeing the financial documents and information sought by these congressional subpoenas from deutsche bank and capitol hill one.