mr. alexander here. mr. fisher here mr. gupta. vice president huling here mr. ray here. commissioner wiseman we're here present here. thank you. i would like to announce that i am moving item i number one the fiscal and operational update to follow item e public hearing and adoption. um and and um at this time before the board goes into closed session i call for any speakers to the closed session items listed in the agenda. there will be a total of five minutes for speakers. are there any speakers for public comment? there are none in person. i do see some virtual participants. please raise your hand if you care to speak to any of a closed session items seeing no hands raised. great. thank you at this time before the well i'm repeating that over again. um i know this meeting at 5:03 p.m. sorry found here h t t p s colon forward slash forward slash w w w dot stream text dot net port search player question mark event equal sign s of usd dashboard. attendees who would like to provide public comment to the board and would like an acl interpreter can use the q&a box in the zo

mr. alexander here. mr. fisher here mr. gupta. vice president huling here mr. ray here. commissioner wiseman we're here present here. thank you. i would like to announce that i am moving item i number one the fiscal and operational update to follow item e public hearing and adoption. um and and um

mr. president. a thought that you owe the president an apology. >> no. >> i respect president, and i respect american people. i'm not sure that we did something bad. >> here in the studio. alexander vindman, have you ever seen anything like this? and what does this mean for ukraine going forward? >> it's absurd. i've never seen or never read anything like this. >> there's nothing in our history that suggests that a president treat an ally like this, let alone an adversary. we wouldn't treat an adversary like this in public. another world leader? yeah. and i think what really what what's interesting to me is that there is a moment of clarity around this week, a couple of things. the first one is the un vote, in which the u.s. sided with north korea, with russia against our allies, against ukraine, and then. i today, earlier today, proceeded to try to berate the leader of a country that's been fighting for for its own independence, its own sovereignty for three years, but also really defending the west, a bulwark against russian aggression. beating up russia in a way that makes us safer and makes the europeans safer. making sure that russia doesn't pose the same kind of threats. an