general hood.i cannot help thinking about that wonderful and beautiful group of children you paraded before me last winter at your home in new orleans. so they did me. meet. and you took my daughters lizzie and ellie to see mrs. hood, who was sick in her bed. i cannot vanish the site from a mind and now write you this simple note to let you know that here in washington, there is one who thinks of you in your per easement and of those motherless children. your letter to my daughter lizzie, to whom you entrusted your work papers. -- ine closes it out assurance of my heartfelt sympathy and great respect, truly your true friend, william shermanan -- william t. . and the sad thing is, hood never got it. on august 27. never got the letter of condolence. i think my time is ok? we can do this next one. all could's 11 children, the youngest was anna gertrude. and when general and mrs. hood died, she was only 4, 5 months old. little baby. by a jewishted family in columbus, georgia, mr. and mrs. moses ezekiel

i would like to motion that we take it at the general fund or addition to the general fund. colleagues, if you are okay with that, the department won't have to come back next week. ms. breed. >>supervisor london breed: i'm definitely okay with that, but it was my understanding we weren't going to take any motion without public comment. we can do this today? >> we have been taking budget analyst recommendations. it will be final after. >> okay i'm okay with that. thank you. >> great. we can accept the budget recommendation and the funds be returned to the general fund and that will be pending after public comment, final votes on the budget. okay. >> i think i'm okay with that. can i say what are the in terms of what are the ram if ification of doing that? >> as i understand ms. murray's concern she's concerned that there is an error in the budget and it may leave her with inadequate fund balance. we can validate that in the week ahead in the extent that it does become an issue. we can report to the committee on that. >> how confident are you that there is an error that led th

inspector general investigators. now, the only reason she finally admitted that she had been making anonymous postings -- which included, by the way, confidential information -- was because the investigators confronted her with the e-mail evidence. they were actually unable to find it, unlike the irs. laugh and you know what her -- laugh and you know what her reaction was? her only regret was that she'd been caught. and this woman was not disciplined for this breach of ethics and professional duties, she wasn't terminated. she still works in the civil rights division today, and she's been treated as a hero. why? well, because her anonymous postings attacked conservatives. and any people working in the division who were perceived to be conservatives. now, we also talk about the pickford scam which was a settlement that the, particularly pickford ii, which was a settlement that was engineered by the holder justice department and the white house which was simply the biggest political payoff in american history using tax

of the generation, i think the generation has the opportunity to define patriotism toward itself. think we have to be careful when we presume to speak for entire generations. they take the opportunity to define patriotism for themselves and i think that patriotism coming out of the 1960's was rooted in a desire to improve the country. and i don't presume to speak for millennials, but i do think the desire to improve the country is still very much present in the activism that we see. >> patriotism is a self-destruct button and will lead us to the end. round take question, in one line define patriotism, michelle start with you. >> well, i think patriotism is really taking pride in where you are literal hi from. it is from your block, your neighborhood, and who you are. >> all right, jabari? >> it is a desire to live in the united states. that's what american patriotism is. that you don't want to live somewhere else. >> eli? it's a sense that you can see and feel the values that your country stands for and take pride in those values. >> michelle, your family has a history in the mili

thank you, general. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome, general. i want to talk a little bit about gender integration. if confirmed, what is your goal with regard to combat integration into the marine corps? >> senator, i'm aware of the direction that secretary panetta put forth in february of 2013 and since that time general amos has outlined a deliberate and responsible and measured approach. there's analysis that would inform any recommendations for an exception to the direction that secretary panetta outlined in 2013 and i'm aware that that recommendation would have to be made by january of 2016. any recommendation that i make would be informed by the research that's being done and by the impact on the combat effectiveness of the marine corps. >> is the research that you are referring to the review of creating general neutral standards that reflect the physical needs of the task? >> that's a piece of the research that's being done, senator. >> if confirmed, do i have your commitment to keep my office apprised of how that review is going and wha

this fighting general needed a plan. he needed to orchestrate a military maneuver so bold it could eradicate the failure at atlanta, not only from the minds of confederate citizens but also alleviate pressure that lee felt as he stood trapped within the city limits of petersburg. hood's force was simply not strong enough to stay in atlanta and attack sherman so he decided to leave atlanta to sherman and turn his eyes northward toward tennessee with hopes of defeating the union force stationed within the city of nashville. then he wanted to continue northward through kentucky, drive across the ohio river, and reunite with lee in order to drive grant out of the trenches at petersburg. he thought that the very threat of his presence in the region would force grant to leave lee alone. although many historians have called this plan pure fantasy, scripted in never neverland, and the delusions of a drug-addicted buffoon, the confederate populace at the time had a very different reaction. one newspaper wrote, in either event hoo

let me turn to general votel. as you are aware congress pressed concern with lack of bument request in recent years in light of the budget increases over the past decade. what are your views with respect to the congressional language requiring more detail and meaningful information in its budget justification. >> we should be able to defend our requests and if confirmed i look forward to working with the committee to ensure that they understand what the soft forces require and why we need it. >> so you would believe that the congress in providing its oversight rule ought to have the same visibility into funding as provided by the services more generally? >> i absolutely believe they should. >> let's turn to sequestration if we could. it looms. many on this committee are very concerned about it and it goes back into effect in 2016. could you give us your perspectives on the effect of sequestration if it were to take effect again? >> in my current capacity, the effect of sequestration was on readiness. that's the me

generous with the time. i want to get to everyone who is here. >> under rule 9 -- >> the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. >> so the gentleman is not recognizing my parliamentary -- >> i give you two and a half minutes. >> you will not recognize my point of order. >> i objected. you don't have a valid point of order. you asked for unanimous consent. >> you have not given the majority equal time. >> you do not have as many members on the committee. you will get equal time for the members you have. >> the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. he has already been recognized. if you yield, you can be recognized, but for right now -- >> will the gentleman yield for 30 seconds? >> yes, i will be glad deal for 30 seconds. >> chairman issa was given a full 10 minutes prior to representative horssford. >> it was not represented i would give him an extra five minutes. i gave him extra time. i am reclaiming my time. i think the chair. let me ask mr. cole a few questions. one, in your verbal testimony

that is what general motors is banking on. they would love to clear up most of the case this is way and avoid the uncertainty and cost of going to court. >> collin, what do you by this that? i'm sure you're running numbers and doing analysis on the potential liability for general motors. and ken fineberg sounds like he really wants to be fair about all. this this could really go to court and end up with a lot of money. is that what you see? what are your numbers telling you? >> yeah, one thing you have to realize is that gm does have bankruptcy protection for many claims. that's something they take they will have to consider if they do go to court. their chances, you know, they have to prove that senior management at gm is in the bankruptcy and that may be a hard claim. i think there's a good chance they'll settle a lot of this out. when i look at i, we're estimating in our numbers about a $300 million cost to gm. that's about a third the size of the civil settlement that toyota incurred. they're about a third of the numberst

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generous with the time. i want to get to everyone who is here. >> under rule 9 -- >> the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. >> so the gentleman is not recognizing my parliamentary -- >> i give you two and a half minutes. >> you will not recognize my point of order. >> i objected. you don't have a valid point of order. you asked for unanimous consent. >> you have not given the majority equal time. >> you do not have as many members on the committee. you will get equal time for the members you have. >> the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. he has already been recognized. if you yield, you can be recognized, but for right now -- >> will the gentleman yield for 30 seconds? >> yes, i will be glad to yield for 30 seconds. >> chairman issa was given a full 10 minutes prior to representative horsford. >> it was not represented i would give him an extra five minutes. i gave him extra time. >> i'm reclaiming my time. i'm reclaiming my time. >> i am reclaiming my time. i thank the chair. let me ask

given the ridiculous parameters under the charter for what we can do if general plans -- or general plan elements that we have to vote up or down, we can't even move a comma, can't do -- make any change to it whatsoever, and we have a limited number of days to act on it. if we don't, then it's deemed approved and it becomes part of our general plan. it's very frustrating, but the charter is what it is. so, i'd like to defer this till later in the meeting. >> colleagues, any objection to moving this till later in the meeting? without any objection, we will do that. [gavel] >> why don't we november to item 7, madam clerk. >> item 7 is a ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by contestimony promotions, llc, against the city and county of san francisco for $375,000; the lawsuit was filed on september 22, 2009, in the united states district court for the northern district of california, case no. cv-09-4434 si (mej); entitled contest promotions, llc, v. city and county of san francisco, et al.; other material term of said settlement include resolution of notices of violation fo

secretary general.we've got about 25 minutes to continue the conversation with the secretary general. first let me echo the warm welcome from fred and general jones for coming to the atlantic council for this. we're lucky if he just came off the plane arriving at dulles. a second to remind everyone is covering this on minor television audience of the hash tag future nato for those covering on twitter. before we begin our conversation, thank you to your shout out for the nato leaders. two of them effect today. our american delicates kachina jones and our turkish delicate or both every year. terrific. thanks for being with us today. really important program and thanks for your leadership on getting off the ground. mr. secretary-general, you just delivered a strong message on how to deliver the bond and captured the spirit of the atlantic council mission that the solution to every strategic challenge has been trans-atlantic. interestingly for his secretary general of nato, he began a strategy by talking ab

as you said, generations and generations and generations, it seems like if you're constantly, as you always said, beat down and pushed to the back of the line and told you're not worth, there is no hope, you know, i wonder how many people who actually walk through your doors and say, you know what, i'm going to go in and apply for a job and i'm going to look and then be told you don't qualify or they get sent out to the job itself and they can't compete because they don't have any work history. so they are sometimes not given the opportunity to ever get their foot out the door. >> or they get their foot in the -- not the right door. >> exactly. but they get to the threshold and they're knocked back down. i think that's an important point. >> and -- four seconds left. what i heard and i got some nods, mr. chairman, with your patience, is that the safety net, the way in which we describe that may not really accurately reflect what is needed to support families and poverty to get out of poverty and feel like they are getting what they need to actually live and have the american dream. >

this fighting general needed a plan. he needed to orchestrate a military maneuver so bold it could eradicate the failure at atlanta, not only from the minds of confederate citizens but also alleviate pressure that lee felt as he stood trapped within the city limits of petersburg. hood's force was simply not strong enough to stay in atlanta and attack sherman so he decided to leave atlanta to sherman and turn his eyes northward toward tennessee with hopes of defeating the union force stationed within the city of nashville. then he wanted to continue northward through kentucky, drive across the ohio river, and reunite with lee in order to drive grant out of the trenches at petersburg. he thought that the very threat of his presence in the region would force grant to leave lee alone. although many historians have called this plan pure fantasy, scripted in never neverland, and the delusions of a drug-addicted buffoon, the confederate populace at the time had a very different reaction. one newspaper wrote, in either event hoo

there the generic is identical. staples like salt and sugar and flour, professional chefs, they know that if the fda mandates how they're put together, salt is a chemical compound. gerri: salt is salt and pepper is pepper. >> you see the same phenomenon there. gerri: there's a debate between store brands and generics. branded goods versus the store brand which is virtually the generic at the grocery store, the same applies there. >> interesting, as you get outside of the fda's purview, it becomes a little more subjective. people can see what ingredients are going into cereal. that's a place you can save a lot of money or look at paper towels. but that comes down to a little more personal preference. gerri: let's talk about how the public thinks about these generics? are there misconceptions about them? >> if you look at numbers and how many people are out there actually buying the branded when they're paying sometime double, three times as much. they don't realize it is the identical ingredients for things like over

so, of that 23,000, of the 77,23,000 is general fund. ~ 77,000, 23,000 is general fund. >> can i ask you a quick question, mr. rose, to the report? [speaker not understood]. almost all line items are general fund in the line items. but it doesn't tally. is there only a certain percentage of these? >> [speaker not understood], budget analyst's office. several departments get work orders [speaker not understood] other city departments. [speaker not understood]. >> okay, thanks. >> [inaudible]. >> right, okay. supervisor wiener? >> yeah, i would be inclined to move to accept the budget and legislative analyst recommendations with the ~ budget analyst recommendations. i don't know how to rephrase it. it's a little [speaker not understood] at this point. but not to accept the 77,000 for year one, 133 for year two as outlined by [speaker not understood] and her staff. so, accepting the agreed upon cuts with the exception of those year one, year two line items. and, you know, it's always hard in this position where we hear [speaker not understood] between the department and the budget analy

a second-generation army general.his father was a general who died in vietnam. he goes out to iraq, yet he's never led troops in combat. >> here's a guy in charge of the biggest american war since vietnam, and nobody knows who he is. >> narrator: casey was ordered to minimize american casualties, to train and shift responsibility to the iraqi army asap. >> the objective is to get iraq under control at a basic level, train up iraqi security forces, turn over responsibility to the government and leave. >> narrator: the plan was to prepare iraq for elections. >> the political strategy was to stand up a representative democracy, a representative government as quickly as possible. >> narrator: that summer, general casey put rumsfeld's plan into action. they called it the "light footprint." the american force would retreat to large bases and only engage the insurgents when absolutely necessary. >> you had war tourism: units based on big forward operating bases, fobs, going out and doing patrols from humvees, and then coming

the inspector general's report, mr. george, stated, and i wrote, "the criteria were not influenced by any individual or organization outside the irs." in other words, russell george, the inspector general, whose report brought here before this committee started the firestorm that has been raging for more than a year and a half, his report said flat-out that these irs people were not influenced by any organization or individual outside the irs -- >> will the gentleman yield? >> i yield. >> one of the reasons is because we didn't have the e-mails from the justice department and lois lerner. we got those because of foia request. other than that we would never have had mr. pilger and mr. smith in for deposition. mr. george didn't have that information in his hand. >> and that -- let let the witness answer a question here. mr. cole, are you aware of any information to the effect that the inspector general's statement there is incorrect? >> no. the understanding i have of the interactions between the justice department and th

deputy attorney general cole. do you have any reason to believe that the october 2010 meeting between irs and doj representatives was improper in some fashion? >> no, i do not. >> and i also wanted to say, during the transcribed interviews of the doj witnesses, committee staff asked about that october 2010 meeting, the chief of doj's public integrity section had the following exchange with committee staff. at the october 8, 2010 meeting, did you or anyone else from the department of justice suggest to irs employees that they should fix the problem posed by citizens united decision? . and the question was, in your opinion, does the citizens united decision pose a problem? the answer was, it is not my role to comment on the law of the land. it is the law of the land. my job is to enforce the law, citizens united is the law of the land. that was the answer that was given. deputy attorney general cole, do you agree that citizens united is the law of the land and that it is doj's role and responsibility to enforce that

, he was a political general. he was a german immigrant. he was the one that had not very good experiences at newmarket on may 15 where he outnumbered the confederate troops and he lost. he was unofficially known as the flying dutchman. he fled martinsburg and harpers ferry when early forces came in and they had a nice fourth of july eating all the yankees food and drinking whatever beverages they found. the next day on july 5, they crossed over the potomac river. gettysburg in 1863 into what would become the file -- battle. he fled with his troops of the maryland heights which was on the other side of the river from harpers ferry. they were pretty well embedded up there. he made a right turn and was 50 miles from washington. they did rest for a couple of days in maryland near antietam. he headed towards washington. early was quite a character to say the least. he came from a prominent family in virginia. he went to west point but not to be a military man -- it was a good education of the time. he didn't take part

the inspector general has done

general verrilli, so you mentioned coratsu and what the solicitor-general knew then, yet it seems that the united states has not taken a contrary position to the holding of coramatsu and even though it has been distinguished many times since than it has never been overruled and it doesn't seem that the united states government has asked for its overruling. justice kagan also said that you had tried to fix within the government what had gone wrong clapper v.aclu. what should we expect a fix on coramatsu. well, if a case were ever to present the question, i don't think you would be surprised at what the answer to the united states would be to that. he can't imagine it would be different than the answer that you desire. you know, that's a question that comes up when it comes up in litigation. if it comes up in litigation, it will answer it when it comes up. >> anybody else out there? i can't see a thing so it's like -- >> you don't have to let deter . i'm happy to answer questions. >> thank you so much. how do you represent the united states of america when the united states is surprised

secretary general. you have, of course, seen our operation in afghanistan, and as jim jones mentioned, in his introduction tonight, we decided on a search in late 2009. the american decision was followed by a european commitment and also the europeans searched in libya, 2011. you saw the europeans take the lead, actually, for the first time, in the history of our alliance, and i have experienced during my tenure as secretary general, that we have had more political consultations in the nato council than we had in the past. also following the new concept in which we declared that any ally can request consultations on any issue of interest. so we have had a lot of consultations, also on issues where we didn't have any intention to intervene, as a nato alliance, but we have seen the north atlantic council as a forum for a very intensive transatlantic dialogue. so both when we're speaking about operations, and when we're speaking about the transatlantic dialogue, i think we have seen a close-up corporation

i am general counsel for general motors company, before that i was assistant u.s. attorney and worked for the honorable vincent j. brennan at the michigan court of appeals. the investigation conducted by anton velucas revealed failures on the ignition recall and failures on the legal staff. when testifying before this committee april 2, a number of you raised serious and important questions about the importance of the legal staff and our responsibility in this tragedy. as general counsel, i am ultimately responsible for the legal affairs of the company. i'm here today to answer your questions. i first leshed about the cobalt ignition switch defect the first week of february this year. i immediately took action. i wish i had known about it earlier because i know i would have taken action earlier if i did. we had lawyers at general motors who did not do their jobs, didn't do what was expected of them, and those lawyers are no longer with the company. i have taken and will continue to take steps to make sure something like this never happens again. the report contains

secretary general. thank you to your team, who's been terrific to work with as well as the atlantic council team. it's a delight to have you here at the atlantic council on the eve of the summit. please join me in congratulating the secretary general. >> thank you. [ applause ] >>> nato's holding its next summit this upcoming september in wales. nato secretary general rasmussen today at the white house meeting with president obama. coming up this afternoon here on c-span3, we'll have live coverage of a senate hearing on european energy and russia's exportation of its natural gas reserves. that's scheduled to get started at 2:30 eastern. again, that's live here on c-span3. and tonight, the house veterans affairs committee holds another in a series of hearings looking into the treatment of veterans at va health care facilities. this one specifically examining the whistleblowers who report on inadequate services to veterans. live coverage starts at 7:30 eastern over on c-span2. you'll also be able to weigh

secretary general.we've got about 25 minutes to continue the conversation with the secretary general. first let me echo the warm welcome from fred and general jones for coming to the atlantic council for this. we're lucky if he just came off the plane arriving at dulles. a second to remind everyone is covering this on minor television audience of the hash tag future nato for those covering on twitter. before we begin our conversation, thank you to your shout out for the nato leaders. two of them effect today. our american delicates kachina jones and our turkish delicate or both every year. terrific. thanks for being with us today. really important program and thanks for your leadership on getting off the ground. mr. secretary-general, you just delivered a strong message on how to deliver the bond and captured the spirit of the atlantic council mission that the solution to every strategic challenge has been trans-atlantic. interestingly for his secretary general of nato, he began a strategy by talking ab

is that different because of the generation he comes from? >> he is a leader of his generation.a technology driven generation. there is no debate about that. it's a credit to the work that inner circle have done alongside lebron to get him involved in deals like these. you can only make so much as an nba player. it's about the other things that you do, the other investments you make. lebron might be the savviest entertainment sports athlete does this man may be ever. -- businessman ever. they showed him rolling around with warren buffett but he knows what he is doing and you look at his nba contract. he is signing a two-year deal for a specific reason because he knows that collected are getting agreement coming up will have more tv dollars at stake and he will cash in again. these are very savvy guys who understand technology are at the forefront of their generation. >> i saw one article refer to him as a master puppeteer in terms of how he has managed his own career. would you agree with that? how is he different from other athletes in terms of what he does off the court? justw

however, contrary to appearances and one of the reagan spoke of the generation, his own generation, he was speaking not to cultivate, but too limited. every deterrent to undo the democratic achievement of his own generation, reagan didn't just echo the right to have a fifth freedom, he sought to expunge the ideals of freedom from want and freedom from fear altogether. even to the last in his farewell address, after recalling a celebrated two norm in the memory and the teaching of american history, reagan told the nation. he audaciously said, quote, americans need to your that america is freedom. freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. an amazing feat, right? an essay explaining interests you, reagan could have never spoken as he did. he could not even become president opposing he opposed it not already forgotten or forsaken what made the greatest generation greatest leader truly great game not a radix possess from what we need to do. we americans cannot afford. we cannot afford to forget our democratic history. sla political scientist put it, a people's to measur

he's promoted to major general. so he'll remain division commander until the surrender. >> what about the -- his showing of humaneness? >> oh, yes. so, yes -- you know, several people comment on this. he, you know, stops his soldiers from killing blacks as best as he can, and obviously he can't stop them all emven when they'r right in front of him. mahone is a slaveowner. he doesn't believe in equality at the beginning of the war or even perhaps when it ends, yet he has this miraculous sort of desire to become politician. he creates and sustained virginia's first biracial political party. the readjusters in the post-war years. and really sort of attempts to cater to blacks. even at one point admits that slavery was wrong and he shouldn't have owned slaves, but, of course, you know, i'm sure they're all sort of political points he's trying to reach at that point. i don't know what it allmahone it. insurgents saying is this christian civilization? our own culture, is this christian civilization to use drones, drop bom

general funds? >> correct. >> i guess the other question that i had about this would be that do we have any similar indexing for other set-asides? >> supervisor, we do -- there are a couple other places where the voters created maintenance of effort requirements or a certain number of fire stations, certain number of fire engineers, a certain number of police officers that speak to expenditure-side requirements. on the revenue-side, though, no. generally speaking, our baselines work as a function of overall discretionary general fund revenues as those revenues rise, the baseline amounts rise by the same proportion. as revenues decline, the baselines decline. so this would be a new feature to a voter-adopted baseline. >> thank you. any other comments? seeing none, any public comments on this matter? >> good afternoon, supervisors. john rizzo, speaking for the sierra club and we strongly support this measure, and urge you to place it on the ballot. muni in a sense is an unfunded mandate. we must have

general smith. rob had his own list that adds humphrey gail and the officer h.e.p. wigglesworth. captain stag attended the meeting but left before the decision was made. bradley states in his 1951 war memoir that he was aboard the u.s.s. augusta at the time of the ike's decision. eye witnesses rapidly losing its force further disagree on ike's movements during the decision meeting. he paced the room, that i shared early but general smith asserts that ike sat. was it on a sofa as smith writes or at a concerns conference table or on an easy chair? how long did it take for eisenhower to make up his mind? was the 30-45 seconds that he recalled in an interview or was it a full five minutes as general smith recorded in his 1956 memoir. ike pondered these discreep century cities and while he did not direct his quote but in his essay writing a memoir, he agreed with the implications. ike wrote, accuracy is all important, memory is an untrustworthy crutch. witnesses under oath given different details hours l

we're a generational lows on interest rates. stock investors can be optimistic but have to recognize the market is not cheap. >> right. >> again, you don't get to go to heaven twice for the same good deed. >> i like that. you always have some great way of putting things. paul, thank you. >> my pleasure. >> up next, we are on the money. gm hits a new milestone. 54 recalls in six months. a look at the car company and what it means for sales this summer. >>> later, sneakers are making their debut at the office. why lacing up for work isn't the taboo as it once was. take a look at the stock market ending the week. . >>> gm basically has said whatever it costs to pay all eligible claims under the protocol, they will pay it. >> that was composition expert k ken fineberg. the fund has no limit to how much it will pay victims and begin accepting claims august 1st. will this fund help gm repair its image. joining us senior analyst, jessica and paul. thank you both for being here today. >> thank you. >> paul, i just wonder the compensatio

eisenhower paced the room in the account i shared early which i got from general strong but general waller smith asserts ike sat but was it on a sofa as smith writes or at a conference table or in an easy chair? and how long did it take eisenhower to make up his mind once his commanders had expressed their opinions? was it the 30 to 45 seconds or was it, quote, a full five minutes as general smith recorded in his 1956 memoir? well, ike pondered these discrepancies in later years and while did he not directly invoke david howard's fog of war explanation, in his essay, he agreed with the simplifications. ike wrote, when accuracy is all important, memory is an untrustworthy crutch on which to lean. witnesses of an accident often give under oath contradictory testimony concerning its details only hours later. how then can we expect two or more individuals, participants in the same dramatic occurrences of years past, to give identical accounts of the event? ike, of course, is saying you can't. but there is more, i believe, to the mystery of ike's d-day words than the inability of memory to pres

national security advisor general jim jones who introduced the secretary general and we're delighted that general jones has returned today in his capacity as chairman of the center on international security at the atlantic council to introduce the secretary general. general jones, who has prior to his position as national security advisor led nato's military operations in his capacity as commander of u.s.-european command, leads today much of the strategic thinking at the atlantic council. among his other roles at the council, he's been a dedicated supporter of our young atlantic summits which have over the years become the primary public diplomacy event at nato summits and have been a means to securing a next-general -- next generation of support and leadership for the alliance. we're very grateful nato will partner with the atlantic council this year, as well to link transatlantic policymakers with future leaders from nato member and partner countries of the 2014 future leader summit in wales and the secretary general has not only been supportive of this initiative but has been ver

i think generally that's true. if we told you to prosecute every money laundering case, you may get cases that are not merit or the you and this is a little bit different because we in congress have found reason for contempt. it was voted on behalf of the american people. so us imposing a duty to bring it to a grand jury and allow them to make a decision i think is a little bit different. let me ask you this. the fact that we impose the duty to bring it to a grand jury, let's say you accept that. do you think that imposes a duty on the prosecutor to ask that a true bill be returned or could you as a prosecutor consistent with that statute go into a grand jury proceeding? i don't necessarily think this is what should happen but could you go in in your judgment and ask the jury not to return a true bill? >> well, obviously, there's an assumption in the question that it has to be brought before a grand jury and this ed toll son -- does -- >> aggress that for a second. >> doesn't necessarily say that's the case. bringi

i am the general counsel or general motors company. i've worked for gm for 37 years. prior to that it was an assistant u.s. attorney and before that it clerked for the honorable vincent brennan of the court of appeals. the investigation revealed the failures behind the ignition switch re-call, including failures -- when miss bar r today before the committee on april 2, up number of you raised serious and important questions about the performance of the legal staff. and our responsibility in this tragedy. as general counsel, i'm ultimately responsible for the legal affairs of the company. and i'm here today to answer your questions. i first learned about the ignition switch defect in february of this year. i immediately took action. i wish i'd known about it earlier because i know i would have taken action earlier if i did. we had lawyers at gm who did not do their jobs. didn't do what was expected of them. and those lawyers are no longer with the company. i have taken and will continue to take steps to make sure something like this never happens again. the report cont

i did not cross examine the inspector general. i agreed they would do the investigation, we would not interfere with that. none of our people would talk about it. so i cannot tell you how they found them, what they are, and whether mr. kane said there was something on them or not. at this point, we are supporting the inspector general. >> do have any idea what was he referred to? there is an issue as to whether all of the backup tapes have actually been recycled. >> the issue i just said is that he is obviously aware of what the inspector general advised me. the inspector general has taken some tapes. i do not know which ones. he is reviewing them to see if they've been recycled, if there is information on them that can be found her use. that is all i know. i assume that is all he knows. i have not spoken to anyone, because again, our position with the inspector general -- >> why are these not available from a third party vendor who in the event of a fiber attack, would protect us against destruction of all records that would put

general fund remains at 3 $31 million due to our very low general fund reduction and violence and it intervention service area as well as our nutrition at work. so the department's budget is allocated into four categories. operations, work orders, grants to cbo's and school district. the department operations include dcyf staff, administrative work orders, materials and supplies and rents. it includes our capacity for contracts and provides healthy meals and snacks to programs. this makes up 6 percent of our total budget. do dcyf collaborates with departments and we fund variety of children and youth family programming including early education and wellness centers. dcyf provides $24 million in work orders to fund these programs and services. the proposed 14-15 and 15-16 budget includes over $54 million in funding to our community based partners. funding to our partners is the department's second largest expenditure in the 34th expenditure in the budget. the school transfer due to peace and rainy day, the school district transfer is over $70 million and comprises 45 percent of our bu

also the revenue generated is significantly higher than what we initially estimated as well. the last point i will make this impact of reducing sugary consumption, benefits the city which is our goal for our true health sf coalition. i want to thank supervisor wiener and his staff for the work they have done and from cohen's office as well and for the countless hours they spent in helping build a community coalition. i want to say supervisor wiener at the last hearing read off the pretty broad and amazing coalition that's been built. i want to make a point about that it's about parent power. not only san francisco secondary pta, but there is a dozens pta's that individually passed resolutions in support and are hitting the ground with their children as well. parents for public schools, the parent pack, the whole san francisco board of education and the san francisco unified school district. i see them here and thank them for being here and cham championing for healthy foods. the other point is that labor and health related organizations are in strong support. not only the tea

general motors has been extremely helpful. i found it important not to limit or input from general motors. i went to various plaintiff lawyers around the country and asked them what they thought about some of the features of this protocol. and of course the center for the auto safety here in washington. i must say general motors at no time to -- they don't agree with everything in the protocol. they signed onto it and you will have to ask them what they like and don't like about it but they signed up and approved them paying the freight on this. healthy debate, very open, transparent discussion and i gave general motors a lot of credit for participating in the program. no cap on the aggregate amount of money. that is so important. i found when there is a cap and inevitably the claimants would say you're giving me less because you have to pay more to save somebody else. it's human nature. with no aggregate cap i could tell every claimant you don't have to worry about what someone else is getting. there is no cap on the program

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general votel? >> senator, i would only add i think it's an inherent responsibility for military commanders to challenge ourselves about our operating concepts and the way we think about the missions that we are giving. and i do think we have to look at our lessons learned and that has to inform our way barred. at my current level of leadership here at joint special operations command, i do know that socomm is looking very closely at all these concepts. ip surge insurgency, unconventional warfare, things that we think will be valuable for us in the future. i look forward to working with my community and this committee to make sure these things are well understood. >> i really hope it's a check point moment about world coin and what has worked and what hasn't and why the failures have occurred. the one thing you guys are bad at is saying, we can't do this. you're given something to do and you just figure out some way to do it, and i'm proud of that. but it works against you in terms of acknowledging

general are political appointees. right now that person isn't a good person and is a career employee. but they serve at the pleasure of view. >> that's correct although there are certain civil service -- >> but you could move into some of the positions because that would probably be true. >> they keep their pay but to lose her job. and the criminal division? >> fame thing. that person as a political appointee approved by the senate. >> when we talk about ms. bosserman, the team she is on, everybody practically from her team, all the way up to your boss, your all political appointees who control their lives and so when. so when the questions asked and the gentleman from nevada has left, but i think fairly he was saying, well, he was asking you and you add of course, we don't need a special prosecutor. don't you understand, the american people see you as a political appointee? they see your boss who's been held in contempt by the house for failure to comply. they see the supreme court finding that those legal opinions y