Effect on the midterm elections and an effect on the gop overall. This as the Republican Party is eager to move forward without trumps influence. 15 senators as well as republicans voted to acquit trump of Insei Insurrection of on january 6, and the vote fell short of Keeping Trump from ever running again. One of his closest friends and allies in the u. S. Senate, Lindsey Graham, says trump is not ready to retire from politics just yet. He appreciated his lawyers, he appreciated all the help that we provided. Hes ready to move on and rebuild the Republican Party. Hes excited about 2022. Lets go first to bore boris sanchez. How are they feeling . They are surprised that seven Republican Voters voted to convict trump, but you heard from Lindsey Graham that trump is thinking about their futures. We got an indication that trump is not going away anytime soon. He likely intends to fundraise and campaign against those factions. List ton the senator from south carolina. 990 of the Republican
Doubling down and giving credence to a group that is a megaphone for dangerous and deadly Conspiracy Theories. Most of the 211 of House Republicans are silent tonight over congresswoman Marjory Taylor greenes past comments supporting the execution of prominent democratic politicians. Instead, greene, a qanon supporter has been given a seat on the education and labor committee. And that should alarm everyone, all of us. For one she tried to make a name for herself by suggesting the 2018 massacre of a high school in parkland, florida, was a false flag, in other words a planned event. A planned event to kill kids. And then posted this video in march 2019 where shes seen confronting a survivor of that shooting, student david hawk. David, why are you supporting the Red Flag Laws . If Scott Peterson the resource officer had done his job, then why are you supporting red flag gun laws that protect our Second Amendment rights . And why are you using kids as a barrier . Do you not know how to de
Can you hear me . Ladies and gentlemen present. Vice president elias. Here. President cohen you have a quorum. Thank you i appreciate that. Ladies and gentlemen, will you join me in pledge ago allegiance to the flag. Place your right hand over your heart and repeat after me. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Folks, also its a new day. Today is Inauguration Day. We have a new administration in place and President Joe Biden has been busy ushering into a flurry of new agreements. I want to just acknowledge sfgovtv is saying theres a Network Error so we may have some technical difficulties on the sfgov as well. Sergeant, could you please call the first item. Also we have chief William Scott from the San Francisco Police Department and paul helpedder son from Police Henderson from Police Accountability. We have general Public Comment. The public is now
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Let me say from a standpoint of rec and park work that i want to do a shoutout to lorraine banford for sharing the Martin Luther king lunch last week. It was really delightful, it was two hours of celebrating in a wonderful way, which was almost as uplifting as yesterdays inauguration, and with that, that concludes my president s report. Clerk we are now in Public Comment for item 2, president s report. Please dial star, three to be added to the queue to speak. Is there anyone on the line that would like to make a comment on the president s report . Operator ashley, i see nine people dialed in, but none have raised their hands. Clerk okay. Thank you. Next item is item 3, general managers report. Thank you, ashley. Happy new years and president , you particulared ticked off a couple of the items on my report, so ill just mention yesterday and some of the things that i want going to mention. When we look around our parks, we see these statues of mckinley and various people that have come