if you messed up down the street in front of ms. jones she would go upside.s it you were hers and then called home so you got it two times. i think with this adult were trying to teach as is that membership in a community is understanding you have a stake in your neighbors dreams and struggles as well as your own. i think the other lesson that they tried to get across to us is one that every single one of us has learned from our grandparents, and that is that we in our time are supposed to do what we can delete things better for those who come behind us. [applause] those two lessons of community and of generational responsibility, those two lessons i brought with me through the ivy league, through my work as a civil rights lawyer, through my work as a business executive and head of the civil rights division, and the justice department in the clinton administration. those two lessons of community and generational responsibility i brought with me through my work as governor of massachusetts for eight years. by the way, the first democratic governor in 16 years

ms. lewinsky showed up on the witness list in the jones matter. the record shows the president made no extraordinary effort to get her a job. the record shows ms. curry was never a witness. ms. curry testified no fewer than nine times and stated repeatedly she did not feel pressure by the president's remarks. and finally, article four, the president, they say, abused his power by failing to answer the 81 questions. the record shows the president answered the questions completely, but the alleged abuse of lies in the fact that the majority disagrees with the answers. i yield myself 30 seconds more. the majority has simply tried to dress up its perjury allegations in the clothes of the watergate's abuse of power language. and i know something about that. in an effort to make its case against the president seem more serious. they say the president has to be impeached to uphold the rule of, -- of law, but we say the president can't be impeached without denigrating the rule of law and devaluing the standards of impeachable offenses. [applause] >> the ge

when the president appeared at the deposition of ms. jonesnd secondly before the federal grand jury, he was sworn to a second. to tell the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god. this according to witnesses to the judiciary committee before the special counsel. it did not do. for this, i will vote to impeach the president of the u.s. be consideredses by the u.s. senate and the other body of this great congress uphold their responsibility to render justice on these most serious charges. president, you have done great damage to this nation over this past year. while your defenders are contending that further impeachment proceedings would only protract and exacerbate the damage to this country, i'd say you have the power to terminate that damage and heal the wounds you have created. you may resign your post. >> house will be in order. >> and i can only challenge you in such fashion if i am willing to heed my own words. friends,leagues, my and my wife and family, i have hurt you all deeply. i beg your forgiveness. i was pre

flores and ms. jones come up, and to get your comments on what we went through and how we are proceeding with this work. commissioner richards. >> do we get a chance to speak after public comment? >> yes. also. >> okay. i'll wait. >> oh, okay. >> i'll wait until public comment is over. >> okay. sounds good. all right. ms. flores, come on up. >> investor know what you might see. i'm not left-handed. good afternoon commission president, department staff. thank you for the introduction. i'm very thrilled to be bringing the combination of three years of our work before you for consideration for adoption. it's been a significant lift for us to do this. because it's not just a plan with tasks but it's about culture change process change and a serious health assessment as an organization to see where we are doing well and where there's work to do. before i jump into the presentation, i want to thank each of you for your support and direction direction. i want to thank secretary jonas for the joint section we had

i believe what ms. jones is talking about, the understanding teen training, which is part of training that we started doing about a year, a little bit over a year and a half ago. so not all the -- and lieutenant williams was a big part of rolling that training out. so officers, not all officers, but many officers have been trained on that. it was a big issue with the youth commission that really believed that training would be beneficial to the department. so we have rolled that out. and i think that's the training that you are referring to. >> that could be the one, yes. i'm sure you're more aware of what the trainings consist of than me which maybe we should look into that. maybe we should have a conversation of what the trainings look like. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you >> thank you so much. >> chief, did you have something else? >> policing the teen brain is the actual description of the course. >> the teen brain. >> the teen brain, yes. >> i saw a presentation on that. right. i thought you were saying

street in up down the front of ms. jones. the side of your head and call home. what adults were trying to get us, when you're a amber of a community you have stake in your neighbors' as well as your own. >> you are responsible for doing to leave things better for those who come behind. what i have ues is p tried to live tried to livet o law.ege, i did business i was head of civil rights division in the justice clinton nt in the administration. i've been an executive of two i've helped to grow businesses since then where we can deliver measurable or good.l environmental which is to say, i have lived the american dream. being ch by which i mean, not limited by the circumstances of and while grit and determination and personal absolutely ty are a y, so was access to transportation system so you could get back and forth to a an that was ready for you in economy that was expanding when you were ready for it. leaving the south side there were come top to cometo, other kids just as creative, just as ambitious, just as as me who didn't get that chance. years, now that o

ms. is jones.bit overstated because of the health care component, but nonetheless, have of the economy, and it is pretty good. i always joke around and say as a canadian, i didn't understand the u.s. consumer until i married one. [laughter] amazed by theways resilience of the u.s. consumer. romaine: give us your thoughts on the american consumer here. you were talking about all of the uncertainty with regards to businesses, but we really didn't see any real skittishness this year with regards to people like you and me going out there and spending. thomas: no, we didn't, and we shouldn't have expected to. the economy is pretty strong. the strength of the u.s. -2010mer through the 2008 period really showed how resilient the u.s. consumer was. i wish i talked to tobias earlier. braces fore included the christmas gifts for my kids. [laughter] tobias: that would have gone over really well. romaine: what about the credit side of this? we go out and swipe those cards and don't look at those bills for anot

ms. collins: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the following senators be permitted to conclude their remarks before the vote begins. senator jones, senator collins, senator thune, and senator inhofe. is there objection? without objection. ms. collins: thank you, mr. president. mr. jones: that you want. i've got to say -- thank you, mr. president. i want to first say i want to thank senator inhofe and senator reed and their staffs for their amazing work on this national authorize act. i am rising today as grateful and as humbled as i could ever imagine being in this senate chamber. but i'm also just the opposite, i'm excited, like a kid at christmas waiting to have the final passage of this because it means so much. we are at the finish line, at the finish line about to run through the tape, a tape in a race, a martha so many folks thought that we could never finish. i'm talking about this momentous and historic national defense authorization act which we're about to vote and pass in just a few moments. the ndaa includes so many of our collective priorities to bolster the defense of our nation, to modernize our military and take

ms. lewinsky would indeed be a witness and provide testimony in the apollo jones -- the paula jones case. these are appropriate, reasonable, common sense conclusions, which even in a criminal proceeding would be instructed by a united states district court judge. they could properly conclude based on the evidence, which is voluminous set forward and , summarized yesterday and uncontroverted. i believe mr. chairman there was more than substantial basis and more than adequate basis for paragraph four of article three involving tampering with a federal witness by the president. chairman hyde: time has again expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> mr. chairman, the recklessness of the republican majority and its proceeding is really illustrated by articles three and four. i believe, as i have stated many times, that articles one and two are not sufficient, they don't rise to the level of impeachable offenses, even if provable. they are not sufficient evidence. numbers three and four frankly do not pass the giggle test.

now, we know that in the paula jones case, when the president had a conversation with ms. currie, that conversation -- the discovery period was almost over. it was within a few days of being over. and ms. currie's name had never appeared on a witness list. so, this notion that she is somehow a potential witness, i don't know where it comes from. and then you go back later and you do the same thing. now, let me show you where this leads, finally, in mr. schiffer's presentation yesterday and show you how sinister it becomes. mr. schippers then says, when he called ms. currie, he made sure that this was a face-to-face meeting, not an impersonal telephone call. he made sure that no one else was present when he spoke to her. he made sure that he had the meeting in his office, an area where he was comfortable and could utilize his power and prestige to influence future testimony. once these controls were established, the president made short, clear, understandable declarative statements telling ms. currie what his testimony was. now, that's fine if that's what happened, but look

ms. them. and then the replay. clearly show the fall did not break the goal line. julio jones just made. you see the jubilation there is they finish with a 13-3 record. top seed in the nfc, here some reaction. the this came from the 49ers raptors. >> not giving up and just pushing each other and fighting to that on yard, last yard on the field, so, especially the clock was zero, that's what we did and we are have the to be a part of it. >> get a spot when we really need to. show that to great gregory. >> we lost but you know what amy? this is for the guys to keep fighting. >>, there are some reactions. you see the feeling sunday afternoon. the level of adrenaline and excitement, it took me a couple of hours to calm down. >> it was so nerve-racking washing those final dress because you keep thinking about the see how scores if 49ers would have a chance to be on the board again. >> it is just something with that lace up there, 49ers su mission, haven't won there since 2011. is just a nightmare. russell wilson was never out of the game. a lot of people over the national media and all that,