commissioner covington? i'm looking at a very small screen tonight. >> commissioner covington: i know. i know. we're just little, little people here. >> president feinstein: forgive me. i apologize. >> commissioner covington: no problem. not at all. thank you, madam president, for calling on me. i agree that the statement of purpose is a good update. the only thing i would suggest is the mission of the san francisco fire department is to, and then, the four bulleted items, the beginning of each sentence be capitalized. that's the only change that i would make, for any addition. >> president feinstein: i don't think there would be anybody else to that, although we have two wordsmiths, who i won't identify here, and if they wish to identify themselves, they can do so, and if there's any comments by those who participated in the process, now is the time to speak. >> commissioner covington: oh, and i would like to know who else was involved in the process? >> president feinstein: there was the chief of the depar

commissioner covington. >> thank you, madam president. thank you, chief rubenstein, for your report and thank you for the videos and other things that you shared with us today. i have a basic question about reimbursement. a helicopter sent to the scene to help rescue a surfer, was it a surfer, sir? >> that was paraglider. they turned into a cliff. >> who pays for the helicopter and who pays for the service? >> i believe it is like you would pay for an ambulance. if the person had insurance that might help them. >> are we completely reimbursed for these kinds of incidents, particularly the cliff incidents that continue to happen? are people given some sort of bill. >> i am not aware of people getting bills that have been stuck. we are working with the rangers to give tickets to people who allow their dogs to go the em and get stuck. we are still putting firefighters in harm's way to rescue those. i am not aware of having individuals when they are rescued and there is no billing mechanism i am aware of. >> there are signs telling people not

we have robert covington from tennessee state university from the portland trail blazers who will beone of the all-star competitions sunday night and obviously the vice president of the united states right now is a graduate of howard. so there's a long legacy, and i think it's an opportunity to bring attention to those schools and their great graduates. >> yeah, i think it's really, wreely important you're doing this kind of work. we'll be watching on our sister network the nba on tnt. let's hope everything goes smoothly. adam silver, thanks so much for joining us. >>> coming up, the new york attorney general makes a new move in the investigation of governor andrew cuomo. we have new information. we'll share it with you when we come back. this is one of the most powerful men in the world. yeah, i'm just an i.t. manager. okay, this is "just" an i.t. manager destroying cyber threats with a vengeance. we've edited out the violence. no, it's not violent. i'm just using sophos to defeat cyber threats. we'll never fully understand how "just" an i.t. manager does it. i use soph...(beep) "ju

that's covington, just north of lake pontchartrain there. today it's dallas-ft.ngs, arkansas. that's the region to watch for, damaging wind and even a tornado or two. but tomorrow, again, this is tomorrow afternoon and evening, potential for memphis, tupelo, tuscaloosa, birmingham and jackson, the second level we have, second highest level of warning. so this is the morning where you say, okay, i have a day to prepare. by tomorrow, you got to have your plan in place. i'm headed down, amy. >> we know you will be keeping us up to date on that, ginger. thank you. >>> coming up next, we have new details about prince harry's new job, the big change for the royal this morning. >>> also, the college students filing a class action lawsuit. they want their money back, demanding a tuition refund and say their online learning experience during the pandemic is not what they paid for. >>> plus, we are putting a spin on kitchen sink dinners to help you save big on your grocery bill. it's all coming up right here on "gma." ♪ run away, running in circles ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ why do you build

colleagues what happened january 2019 when cnn along with other media outlets basically calling covington catholic high sit on high school student races talk about content cnn's coverage resulted directly receiving death threats and harassment of course the subsequent investigation found many of the facts initially reported were inaccurate and misleading as a result he sued cnn for defamation in the network settle the case but even those they recklessly defamed a teenager republicans did not call broadcasters to remove from programming because the system works the nation's vigorous slander lawss incentivize networks to tell the truth monday don't they pay the consequences. do you believe those and with the fairness doctrine be a better approach? >> not like government regulation of the media but there is a strong to be made against the doctrine but i do appreciate you raising this because it was disturbing that the story was treated as true because people wanted it to be true that just happened to involve a teenage kid who was ground up by the story and treated as a vicious and violent ra

smith worked as an associate and then partner at the law firm covington and burling and earned his columbiachool and studied international law and economics in geneva, switzerland. mr. smith, i thank you for joining us and also for the tremendous work you do in our state and in our country. i look forward to your testimony today. >> i thank you the lady and i also want to thank mr. smith for his assistance during the course of our investigation. he provided a very valuable briefing to members of the subcommittee during the course of our 16-month investigation and, again, thank you for that. our third witness is jonathan a union that represents more than 20,000 journalists and media workers across the united states and canada. before being elected president, he was a graphics and data journalist at the "los angeles times" where he led their unionization efforts in 2018. this marked the first time in the paper's 135-year history that the newsroom had been organized. also served as the online editor at the gazette and weekend host for quaf and an affiliate based in arkansas. received his bache

january 2019 when cnn along with several other liberal media outlets red contact basically calling covingtontholic high school students a racist. they were talking about harmful content. cnn's coverage of that incident resulted directly and that boy, his parents and his classmates receiving death threats and harassment. of course, the subsequent investigation found many of the facts initially reported were inaccurate and misleading. as a result, mr. santa vince sud cnn and for defamation and the network settling case. even though cnn recklessly defamed a teenager, republicans did not call for the broadcasters to remove cnn from their programming, why? because the system work. our nations vigorous slander laws incentivize networks to tell the truth and why they don't, they pay the consequences. professor turley, do you agree that our defamation laws are a strong determined -- deterrent against lying on television on what a return to the fairness doctrine be a better approach? >> i do not favor a return to the first doctrine because i do not like government regulation of the media. i also thin