Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, july 30th special meeting of government audit and Oversight Committee. I am gordon mar and joined by peskin and safai. Thank you to joh john john carrd sfgovtv. Do you have any enouncements . To protect the public during the covid19 Health Emergency with board of Supervisors Committee room are closed pursuant to various local and state and federal directives. Committee members will attend through Video Conference and participate to the same extent as if physically present. Public comment is available for each item. Cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are scrolling the call in number on crosonthe screen. Once connected and prompted enter the meeting id1464783455. Then press pound followed by pound a second time to be connected. You will hear the discussions but you will be muted. Your line will be in his senning mode only. When your item comes up dial star and three to be added to the speaker line. The system prompt will in
Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . Seeing none, the ayes are 51, the nays are 41, and the nomination is confirmed. The clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Schumer madam president , i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer the mr. Schumer madam president the presiding officer whitehous e. Mr. Schumer madam president , may we have order, please. The presiding officer the senate will be in order. The democratic leader. Mr. Schumer madam president , its now several weeks since the president asked our troops to leave a critical sector in Northern Iraq in northern syria, and subsequently lots of things happened, including at least 100 and probably more isis prisoners escaping, and uncertainty as to who is guarding the prisons where isis prisoners are kept, and a whole strategy as to how to continue the fight against isis. Isis is not vanquished. They are weakened beca
retaliation. senator tom cotton calling on the white house to take a stronger stand against china in support of taiwan. president biden and the white house is going out of their way to minimize this visit, to say it s merely a private visit, not to defend the rights of senators and congressmen. not only are we going to continue this practice, but we ll stand up to any provocation that china undertakes in the western pacific because of these meetings. senior national correspondent william la jeunesse l live in si valley. with many western countries angry for china right now for a variety of reasons, this is an opportunity and pivotal moment for taiwan, which is about the size of maryland with a population of florida. taiwan is david. china is goliath. that s one reason president tsai needs support not just from the white house, but members of congress, including speaker pelosi, formerly, of course, and speaker mccarthy to counter that threat. china claims the island as i
right now, our country s legal system is being pushed to the limit over the criminal investigation of former president, donald trump. this morning, in my capacity of ahead of national action network, i lit a prayer vigil for district attorney brig, as he faces a death threat for doing his job. that job has been to investigate donald trump s role in hush money payments to an adult film star. there were no indictments in the case this week, even after the former president predicted there would be. but the grand jury continued this proceeding on monday. trump will hold a campaign rally in waco, texas, in a few hours from now. where he will likely hurled more insults and veiled threats at brag and other prosecutors for investigating him right now. attacking them once again for doing their job to uphold the law. the former president appeared to be getting help with that on capitol hill, three house gop chairman sent another letter to brag just hours ago. insisting that he turn ove
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