Thank you, jen, and thank you all for coming tonight. Thank you for being at the first times live event of 2018. After what happened in 2017, we thank you for coming back for more. [laughter] is a greatof all, it honor to be on this panel tonight with two friends and colleagues that i have it through a lot of battles with together, as well as a new friend, joanna mendez, who i authority theent piece of critical information that, after being a Washington Post reporter for decades, recently decided she could not do without the New York Times and became a paid subscriber. [applause] thats all you need to know tonight. Trump and thec is Russian Investigation and this consuming, competitive, maddening story we have been a part of over the past year, some as reporters, some as readers. No doubt if you came tonight, you have been following this closely. I dont know if tonight it will all be clear, and if it is, please tell us because we would love clarity on anything. Hopefully it will be a l
Tonight. Thank you for being at the first times live event of 2018. After what happened in 2017, we thank you for coming back for more. [laughter] is a greatof all, it honor to be on this panel tonight with two friends and colleagues that i have it through a lot of battles with together, as well as a new friend, joanna mendez, who i authority theent piece of critical information that, after being a Washington Post reporter for decades, recently decided she could not do without the New York Times and became a paid subscriber. [applause] thats all you need to know tonight. Trump and thec is Russian Investigation and this consuming, competitive, maddening story we have been a part of over the past year, some as reporters, some as readers. No doubt if you came tonight, you have been following this closely. I dont know if tonight it will all be clear, and if it is, please tell us because we would love clarity on anything. Hopefully it will be a lively discussion. To start, i thought i would
Colleagues that i have been through a lot of battles with together, as well as a new friend, jonna mendez, who i have on excellent authority the piece of critical information that, after being a Washington Post reporter for decades, recently decided she could not do without the New York Times and became a paid subscriber. [applause] thats all you need to know tonight. We already love her. Tonights topic is trump and the Russian Investigation and this consuming, competitive, maddening story we have been a part of over the past year, some as reporters, some as readers. No doubt if you came tonight, you have been following this quite closely. And i dont know if tonight it will all be clear, and if it is, please tell us because we would love clarity on anything. [laughter] hopefully it will be a lively discussion. So to start, i thought i would first of all say it has been almost a year since the Intelligence Communitys assessment about what happened in the 2016 election came out, about ru
First of all, it is a great honor to be on this panel tonight with two friends and colleagues that i have it through a lot of battles with together, as well as a new friend, jonna mendez, who i have on excellent authority the piece of critical information that, after being a Washington Post reporter for decades, recently decided she could not do without the New York Times and became a paid subscriber. [applause] thats all you need to know tonight. Tonights topic is trump and the Russian Investigation and this consuming, competitive, maddening story we have been a part of over the past year, some as reporters, some as readers. No doubt if you came tonight, you have been following this closely. I dont know if tonight it will all be clear, and if it is, please tell us because we would love clarity on anything. Hopefully it will be a lively discussion. To start, i thought i would first of all say it has been almost a year since the Intelligence Communitys assessment about what happened in
Madam clerk do we have any announcements. Please silence all cell phones and complete speaker cards and any documents to be submitted to to the clerk. Okay thank you madam clerk. Okay we have a number of items to get through today around the departmental budgets but we have housing bond items that well continue until wednesdays meeting and a few other items throughout the agenda. Were going to, for the departments that are in agreement, were going to call them up first and ask them to come up very quickly together and mr. Rose and his team will be putting the recommendations forward and you can leave right away and for the ones that are departments that are still discussing with mr. Rose were going to recess until 1 00 p. M. And were going to give you that time to continue to discuss and come back and see if theres further agreement if not we can take action on various line items. Item number 1 hearing on the budget updates from the mayor and budget legislative analyst and item number