Theres not a normal week for you. You are not done by any stretch of the imagination. I am hoping for a nap, schedule and wheaties. But theres not a nap this week because theres too much to do to talk about important hours of the night. So im going to be watching you guys all week and i thank you for everything youre doing and for some amazing shows this morning. And you guys, have a great few hours of breast. Yeah, write. A couple of hours and we are off. Have a good one. Velshi starts now. Good morning, to saturday august 18th. The election is 79 days away and tomorrow democrats will kickoff the national convention in chicago with the wind at their backs. Hoping to build on kamala Harris Momentum. This morning it was revealed the theme of this Years Convention will be for the people, for our future. Which borrows from the Vice President s pass campaign slogan, Kamala Harris for the people. Is going to be s a slightly different affair from past democratic conventions and a very differ
A pulitzer prizewinning author that changed our understanding of Thomas Jefferson joins us to talk about her new book. This is a different kind of book for you, this is a small volume. Tell me about this project and how it got started . Annette my editor has wanted me to do a book about texas for a long time. We were thinking about doing a big book, and im still thinking of doing a book about the history of texas and slavery. We talked about the idea of doing that using my family as a template. To move forward with this history. We decided after that i did an essay for the New Yorker about the holiday juneteenth. After i had done a five have been Book Review of books about texas for the new Yorker Review of books that we might do something smaller. Try a different path instead of a conventional large history. Something more personal and something that would be accessible to a large number of people of audiences of of all ages. Just to try something different. This is the kind of writin
Item number two is approval of minutes for the april 13, 2021 port Commission Meeting. I so move. Second. We have a motion and a second. President Brandon Roll Call Vote please. [roll Call Vote] can you hear me commissioner Woo Ho . We might have to come back to her for that. President Brandon Motion passes. Minutes of the april 13, 2021 meeting are adopted. Item number 3 is pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] Item Number 4 is announcements. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make comments on each agenda item. Please note that during the public Comment Period the moderator will instruct the Dialin Participant to use the touch tone phone. Audio prompts will signal to Dialin Participants when their audio is enabled for commenting. Please note if youre watching this Meeting Streaming on Sfgov Tv, theres a short broadcasting delay. When the item you want to comment on is announced, dial 4156550001. Enter Access Code 187 466 7366pound. Please m
Chairman good morning. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the may 6th, 2021, regular meeting of the Government Audits and Oversight Committee. I am Supervisor Dean Preston ton, chair of the committee. Im joined is by Vice Chair Supervisor connie chan and Committee Member Supervisor raphael mandelman. The Committee Clerk is John Carroll, and i want to thank Sfgov Tv for staffing this meeting. Clerk in order to protect the public and board members and city employees during the Covid19 Emergency, the board of supervisors legislative Chamber And Committee room are closed. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will available for each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org. And there is the calling number across the screen at this time. Your opportunity to speak and provide your comment will be available to you via phone by dialing 4156550001,
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