Approval. Not quite clear yet whether a Constitutional Assembly will be approved that means. To rewrite. But thats still to come meanwhile the waiting for the final official vote to come out theyre coming here in waves by the thousands. And because of those massive protests. Here and continuing is the reason why. Referendum took place in the 1st place it was one of the key demands of millions of. Security forces in iraq and far tear gas of protesters trying to get into baghdads fortified green zone demonstrators have been marking one year since the beginning of a mass protest movement over government corruption and a lack of jobs at least 600 people have been killed since it began. As a Senior Research fellow at Chatham House he says itll be hard for the government to meet protestors to mountains. These are not the 1st lines weve seen protests in iraq in fact many times since 2003 there have been protests but in the past the elite leaders i mean have been able to kind of either through
[roll call] clerk madam president , all members of the commission are present. Item number 2 is the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] clerk clrk item number 3 is the approval of minutes for the august 25, 2020 special meeting. So moved. Second. President brandon all in favor, roll call vote. [roll call] president brandon motion passes unanimously. The motion of august 25, 2020 [inaudible]. Clerk item number 4 is announcements. Please be vised that a member of the public has up to three advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Court Commission adopts a shorter period on any tight. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will instruct dialin participants to such a tonetone phone to register their desire for Public Comment. Audio prompts will signal to dinein participants when their audio input has been enabled for commenting. Please dial in when the item you wish to com
Heidel stre zb. Okay. This is the meeting of the San Francisco Port Commission on september 8, 2020. The meeting was called to order at 3 15. [roll call] clerk madam president , all members of the commission are present. Item number 2 is the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] clerk clrk item number 3 is the approval of minutes for the august 25, 2020 special meeting. So moved. Second. President brandon all in favor, roll call vote. [roll call] president brandon motion passes unanimously. The motion of august 25, 2020 [inaudible]. Clerk item number 4 is announcements. Please be vised that a member of the public has up to three advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Court Commission adopts a shorter period on any tight. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will instruct dialin participants to such a tonetone phone to register their desire for Public Comment. Audio p
It represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that San Francisco is famous for. The wood you see in the board of supervisors chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. Interesting thing about the oak is there isnt anymore in the entire world. The floors in china was cleard and never replanted. If you look up at the seceiling you would believe thats hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. There are no records about how many people worked on this building. The workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. And what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. [roll call] item number two, pledge of allegiance. Item number three, approval of minutes for the june 9, 2020 Port Commission meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Sorry, roll call vote. [roll call] thank y
Im really pleased to be here this afternoon with brian hook and elliott abrams, both from the state department, to talk about two of the most pressing issues that the United States is facing today, iran and venezuela, and the next is the relationship with the evolving relationship between the two countries. Elliott abrams is a special representative for venezuela at the department of state and brian hook is a special representative for iran and a Senior Policy Adviser to secretary of state mike pompeo. He previously served as the director of policy planning in this administration at the state department. So, ive known both Brian Elliott for quite some time, and its always a pleasure to see both of you. I would like to start. I think author start with elliott to tell us a little bit about the evolution of the administrations policy, visavis venezuela, as i recall, elliott, i think it has been about a year and a half since you have been special representative. Why dont you tell us a litt