If youre interested in being recognized, raise your hand function. And if you have any technical issues, put them in the notes in the chat box. Im honored to be the chair this committee. And i recognize all those who are with us. And vice chair is here. In the vice chair from border policies. Also the vice chair, and vice chair for community policing. And vice chair for emergency management. Thank you all for being here. In the business of this committee is a core function of this role. The safety release communities. As although, as mayor, as the center of probably one of the Biggest Challenges we have faced not only is mayors, and communities but also as global communities. This year has been incredible roller coaster, the challenges and also opportunities. This many will take on the responses of the covid19. And since the date, our communities have changed. The aftermath of the murder of george floyd on may 25th. And the countries undergoing important conversations about the role of
Were live this afternoon for the u. S. Conference ever meyers meeting where house speak nancy pelosi will be the keynote speak. This is the u. S. Conference of mayors 87th annual meeting. Live coverage on cspan 3. Ladies and gentlemen please welcome conference of mayors president , steve benjamin. [ applause ] good afternoon, everyone. You having fun so far . All right. Welcome to the 87th annual winter meeting of the u. S. Conference of mayors. Its my honor to acknowledge my fellow leaders and conference leadership, Vice President Brian Barnett, our second Vice President greg fisher, past president and our ceo and executive director tom cochran. Please give them and our staff a round of applause for their great work. [ applause ] so thankful to our staff. We all are for the incredible work in pulling all of this together. I want to welcome all of our mayors who traveled to be a part of this meeting. We know its not easy to be away from your cities and certainly we want to make sure th
all right, mayors. mayors of america, welcome, and thank you so much for joining us for our winter meeting. i want to welcome and think, pocket me and want to thank tom. mayor stephen benjamin who is our first vice president. second vice president and fellow mayors from across america representing 85% of the americans that live in the spectacular country. we are really thrilled to be here carried this week, we are here to learn from each other, talk to each other, share best practices, and also help the folks in washington understand cities and to present ourselves as a willing, constructive, and able partner in governing the united states of america. we are really here to engage and to lead. this week, we are going to and have met with members of congress from both parties. business leaders, community and civil rights leaders. we just finished a great meeting , ourthe business community community civil rights organizations, as well as mayors from across america. we are hav
the ringleader of last week s attacks. really it was explosion. we could feel the building really shake. a man reportedly shot by a police sniper and a woman was blown up. officials say their weapons show they were ready. i would like to give my sincere congratulations to the police involved in the raid who intervenes an extremely courageous way in the framework ois hollande says the raid shows his country is in fact at war. at war against terrorism, which itself has decided to bring war to us. reporter: he s asking for a state of emergency to extend for three months. meanwhile in the skies above, syria, french and russian airstrikes continue. one monitoring group says at least 33 terrorists have been killed in the last three days. meanwhile a french newspaper discovers a chilling find near the concert hall. a cell phone was found near the trash can with a text message that read let s go. evidence of the cold-blooded planning that apparently preceded the atackle.
for an international event of this magnitude, which russians clip quote russians had to deal with. of course, that is after having invaded afghanistan, which, of course, led to the essentially the creation of the muhajir dean of the mujahedin and much of the problems we have today. so the answer is no. one can juan can speak to this more effectively. we never know the number of successes in preventing terrorist attacks. we only know about the failures by simply the fact that we saw significant failures in volgograd three times at the end of last year, one in october and two december. two in december. the daily bombings and problems that there are in the north caucuses, it s not the frequency that we are seeing in iraq right now. we listening we re listening to the radio and there are 25 car bombings a day, approximately. so magnitude, for sure, is a no. the capacity of the fsb is very, very hard to say. to get back to juan s point earlier, you know, the fact that t