lily ho is an elected member of san francisco's democratic central committee, the governing body that decides which local candidates get endorsed by the democratic party. in left leaning san francisco, where 63% of registered voters are democrats. the group carries an immense amount of political power and is now setting its sights on sexual misconduct in politics and what it sees as a lack of accountability. political campaigns are, by design, temporary and are equipped with hr departments to investigate inappropriate behavior. the system that we have around who rises to power is based on influence and influence, actually is what protects and enables these predators to exist. there's no real structure inside political campaigns to report this kind of abuse. there literally isn't. it's not just underreporting. there is just literally no reporting. which is why she and other democratic officials have been working for months on a first of its kind accountability system for political leaders and up and coming candidates. it's e that includes a code of conduct and a system for reporting se

lily ho is an elected member of san francisco's democratic central committee, the governing body thathich local candidates get endorsed by the democratic party. in left leaning san francisco, where 63% of registered voters are democrats. the group carries an immense amount of political power and is now setting its sights on sexual misconduct in politics and what it sees as a lack of accountability. political campaigns are, by design, temporary and aren't equipped with hr departments to investigate inappropriate behavior. the system that we have around who rises to power is based o influence and influence actually is what protects and enables these predators to exist. there's no real structure inside political campaigns to report this kind of abuse. there literally isn't. it'sot just underreporting. there is just literally no reporting. which is why she and other democratic officials have been working for months on a first of its kind accountability system for political leaders and up and coming candidates. it's one that includes a code of conduct and a system for reporting sexual misc

essentially in this case the general purpose committee paid for fliers which on one side had essentially the candidates for that assembly districts democratic county central committee that they supported. and on the other side it just said, you know, vote no on bilal mahmood for democratic party. >> now this brought a benefit to supervisor preston for two reasons one, the side of the fire that just said vote no on bilal mahmood for the democratic party was vague and could have been talking about his candidacy against supervisor preston. >> but two half of those fliers were focused on assembly district 17 and half of them were focused on assembly district 19. so for the ones on 19 on the opposite side it had a list of the candidates supported by the committee running in assembly district 19 democratic county central committee. and so for those fires the only race that bilal mahmood is running in in assembly district 19 is supervisor. he was only running for the triple c race in assembly district 17 so for someone district 19 it only could have been interpreted as talking about vote no for him in the supervisor race. >> so this caused a benefit to accrue to

essentially in this case the general purpose committee paid for fliers which on one side had essentially the candidates for that assembly districts democratic county centralee that they supported. and on the other side it just said, you know, vote no on bilal mahmood for democratic party. >> now this brought a benefit to supervisor preston for two reasons one, the side of the fire that just said vote no on bilal mahmood for the democratic party was vague and could have been talking about his candidacy against supervisor preston. >> but two half of those fliers were focused on assembly district 17 and half of them were focused on assembly district 19. so for the ones on 19 on the opposite side it had a list of the candidates supported by the committee running in assembly district 19 democratic county central committee. and so for those fires the only race that bilal mahmood is running in in assembly district 19 is supervisor. he was only running for the triple c race in assembly district 17 so for someone district 19 it only could have been interpreted as talking about vote no for him in the supervisor race. >> so this caused a benefit to accrue to supervi

he was a seven time elected member of the democratic central committee and served two terms as a on the board of directors of the air. >> he was one of those characters that made san francisco space ideal. he was assigned to a community policing position in north beach and how he made it his own was to order an expensive wooden dummy out of a vintage tril equis catalog. he taught himself how to use it in front of the mirror and he chose the name smarty as a pun of the word dummy and the full name. brendan was smarty to add dignity to the doll geary took the dummy to entertain children while he was out on patrol dressing it in police uniform with a badge one half and a water pistol. despite carrying the dummy, geary was able to function as an officer chasing and tackling at least one suspect with the dummy at hand. >> in 19 93 he placed a ballot measure to the voters after being told by his captain and then chief ribera that he could no longer be a ventriloquist with a psychic proposition. bebe was supported by 68,000 san franciscans. this was the second ballot victory. he had already wo

we then i then got elected to the democratic county central committee and became chair and we had a vacancy. and i appointed david chu to fill that vacancy and that was during george w bush. we as terrible as things are now, we forgot that this wasn't the first really bad presidency . there are other ones as well. and we fought the good fight for democratic party values. we then both got ourselves elected to the board of supervisors and worked together there and i saw david's leadership as board president and how he was in his very david chiu kind of way in a low key very quiet way able to bring people together. and it's not a coincidence that david chu always has unbelievably diverse political relationships. there are people in this room right now who may not always love, may not always be in love with each other but they all we all love david and that is because he truly knows how to find common ground, knows how to bring people together and understands that it can never be personal, that it's about serving our constituents. and he did that on the board of supervisors over and over and ov

democratic senator, chris van hollen of maryland. he's a member of the appropriations, the foreign relations and the budget committee. senator, good to see you. thank you for being with us. this is so central, russell. vote is not a name. everybody knows the omb is not an office everybody thinks about. but this is really, really serious. and at his confirmation hearings, you asked russell vote if he would comply with the impoundment control act, about which i just spoke. he did not give you a straight answer on that. >> that's right. ali, he refused to confirm or commit to applying the law, including the impoundment control act. look, what we're witnessing here in real time is the great betrayal. as you laid out on the campaign trail, candidate trump said, project 25, 2025. what's that? i have nothing to do with it. and as you said, it's because he knew it was unpopular. now he's putting the architect of project 2025, russ, vote in the command and control center of the entire us budget. that's what the office of management and budget at the white house is doing. and they're proceeding, as you say, to strip away very important rights and protections for americans. the cfpb returned billions