2020, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Now defense secretary mark esper and joint chiefs of chair general mark milley days after the u. S. And taliban signed a withdrawal from afghanistan. Impact o addressed the of the coronavirus on the military. This is just over 20 minutes. Secretary esper ok. Good morning, everyone. As you know we have a busy week here at the pentagon. D. O. D. Leadership will be testifying in 20 hearings before congress in the coming days as continue to brief the hill on the departments f. Y. 2021 budget request. As you know, i was in afghanistan on saturday with president ghani and nato secretary stoltenberg where we announced a joint declaration on bringing peace to afghanistan which reaffirms United Statess partnership with the government of afghanistan. This was an important first step toward a political solution to end the war in afghanistan. As i reiterated to our afghan partners, this is a conditionsbased agreement. A conditio
[roll call] you have a quorum. Item 3 announcement of prohibition of soundproducing devises. The ringing of use of cellphones and pagers and sound producing electric devices are prohibited and the chair may over the removal from the room of any person responsibility for one going off in the middle of the meeting. The minutes of february 18th, 2020 regular meeting. No members have turned in a public speaker card. Public comment is closed. We have the minutes ill entertain a motion. Move. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. Consider those approved. Clerk communications. Mr. Chair i have none for you today. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Any new or Unfinished Business youd like to address . Very good. Clerk directors report. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. It is my pleasure to turn the mic over to director of transit, Julie Kirshbaum foray wards for her amazing crews who do the actual hard work of serving our public. I think th
Leadership will be testifying before congress in the coming days as we continue to brief thehill on the departments fy2021 budget request. I was in afghanistan with president ghani and nato secretary stoltenberg where we announced a joint declaration on bringing peace to afghanistan which reaffirms United Statess partnership with the government of afghanistan. This was an important first step toward a political solution to end the war in afghanistan. As i reiterated to our afghan partners, this is a conditionsbased agreement. A conditionsbased agreement. Were watching the talibans actions closely to assess whether they are upholding their commitments. I also had the opportunity to address our troops and Coalition Forces while i was in kabul and speak with m. S. O. , v. S. O. Groups while back to the United States. We must not forget this agreement was enabled by the tremendous sacrifices our service men and women have made over the past 18plus years. They continue to do great work, sup
D. O. D. Will be testifying before 20 hearings before congress in the coming days as we continue to brief the hill on the departments f. Y. 2021 budget request. As you know, i was in afghanistan on saturday with president ghani and nato secretary stoltenberg where we announced a joint declaration on bringing peace to afghanistan which reaffirms United Statess partnership with the government of afghanistan. This was an important first step toward a political solution to end the war in afghanistan. As i reiterated to our afghan partners, this is a conditionsbased agreement. A conditionsbased agreement. Were watching the talibans actions closely to assess whether they are upholding their commitments. I also had the opportunity to address our troops and Coalition Forces while i was in kabul and speak with m. S. O. , v. S. O. Groups while back to the United States. We must not forget this agreement was part of the tremendous sacrifices our service men and women have made over the past 18plu
Airport says 10 but not far away there is fog in the same for stockton and also tracy with thick fog so be careful. 30s for a lot of the temperatures in the system is falling apart and a lot of high clouds streaming in, partly sunny and partly cloudy, 50s on the temps. Still on northbound 17 there are lanes closed because of a deadly collision that happened at 3 am this morning is not causing a huge chance but it is early in the south bay and the commute doesnt get going until later if you want to use an alternate 85 and 280 are the ultimate alternate. I think fridays more people take the day off or do not go to work as early as right now have pretty good traffic on 880 and a decent commute on the bay bridge. Now back to the desk. We are two days away from the big nfc championship game between the 49ers and the packers the 49ers will be back rocketing today getting ready for the packers and quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo met with reporters yesterday and asked if he knew the moment when th