Washington, d. C. , the current mayor of San Francisco says feinsteins heart and attention never left the city. Outside the office of the San Francisco mayor, someone placed a bouquet of flowers on the of diane feinstein, a simple gesture to honor a political giants. Senator feinstein was one of the first people to call when former mayor died and was president of the board of supervisors. We had a very long discussion about just what she went through, how she made decisions, how difficult it was. She provided that support and that mentor ship to make sure that i was prepared to step up at a difficult time for our city. The senator understood the magnitude of a mayor dying in office. On november 27th 1978, then president of the board Dianne Feinstein the shocking announcement of two assassinations at city hall. Both mayor must tony and supervisor harvey milk have been shot and killed. That is when feinstein became the first woman to serve as mayor of San Francisco. She went on to leave
When mayor George Moscone and supervisor harvey milk were assassinated by former supervisor dan white. She was widely credited with calming nerves across the city after the shootings. She was elected to the u. S. Senate in 1992 along with Barbara Boxer and over the years she gained power and influence backing many pieces of legislation. Her Fiery Exchange during the assault weapons ban conversation. In recent months she has been in decline in health recently. That made some headlines and we know this. Shes relied increasingly on staff to be able to function as a senator. And we can tell you that Dianne Feinstein after serving her community has died at the age of 90. So many questions still remain who will be appointed in her stead and what will go on as far as the business of the people in washington, d. C. And how the mechanisms will go into place to replace here. Something well discuss today through the next few weeks but heres someone whos been a Public Servant for most of her life
It was a sixmonth manhunt. That is what a lot of people are not aware of. I was able to get really indications on intelligence and other things and we were heavily involved because it was saddams hometown, and ultimately pursuing these hometown connections that saddam had, we were able to get on this trail and over a sixmonth time period , he was captured. Host did you ever meet him . Guest i did not meet him personally. When he was captured, we did not want to make a zoo out of him, so he was secured in a little bird helicopter and phone to flown to to print, then to baghdad under great sick secrecy. I did great i did get to meet nefarious characters around him and we were able to pursue a lot of folks on the deck of cards. You may recall a lot of those. It was an interesting time. I never imagined i would be part of anything historic. Host i am sure you have been following the backandforth with jeff bush this week jeb bush this week with regard to the war and whether or not it was wo
Lets go to the back, please. Kyle with the brain corporation. In regards to the technological sophistication you touched on, social media campaign, have you considered given attention to crip toe currencies as a mean crypto currencies as a meens of financing. Yes. Just kidding. Absolutely. You know, were much like much like matt talked about a moment ago about prepaid card, the cryptocurrency, we as the United States government are starting to really take a look at the crypto currencies. I wont say starting to take a look, but were taking a look. Any source of fund, isil or any other terrorism group, whether its a criminal Organization International or domestic, we want to see how theyre funding, and any avenues whether its a cash courier or traditional financial institutions, as well as the cryptocurrencies. Crypto currencies allow a great avenue to transfer funds internationally with little or no oversight in many cases. So we are aware of that. Were tracking that. Any support that a
Scottish people in that way. And give a clear commitment that no defeated candidate from the election last week will find their way into the house of lords. Applause ] thank you. When the first minister meets with the prime minister, will she make it clear it is not acceptable for the u. K. Government to seek to repatriate powers from the European Union to the house of commons while acting as a roadblock to legitimate transfer of additional significant powers, which this country must promise in the closing days of the referendum, powers which it people of scotland have demanded clearly in the resumption Election Results last week . First minister sturgeon as i think i made clear, i will be seeking to have that conversation very directly with the prime minister. Let us be quite calm and rational about this. We have our differences of opinion. We will not all agree on what power should come to this parliament. One think i do think we can say very clearly is that there is no substantial o