my husband is an author. my stepdaughter is the author. many of my difference our authors so i'm very empathetic c to the plight of authors. >> host: over the years and particularly because of the electronic aspect, have contracts for authors changed? >> guest: that's a good question because part of our fair contract initiative is that they have not changed enough. things are really shaking up in the industry. we would expect to see more types of models of publishing arena. you would expect in digital media, the deals are sort of up for grabs, what the creator might get. there's more diversity, right? part of our fair contract initiative is that we want to take a step back, have publishers do the same and say what still makes sense today in this environment? and do it in a way that it ensures authors are real partners in the publishing agreement. i will amend what i just sit and say there has been some recent changes, and they have largely favored publishers to the detriment of authors. for instance, things like advances need to be paid ou

to empin that it port authority supervisors and order port authority employees to realign port authority lanes or in the private context, for someone to usurp the authority by deception of a taxicab company's dispatcher and order the cabs and the drivers to good wherever the fraudster pleases. they don't get a free pass simply because baroni worked for the port that when the evidence showed he didn't have the power to direct these resources in this way without telling the lie. they don't get a free pass because their hypothesizing that legitimate decisionmakers might in theory have decided to realign the lanes when the precise point of their scheme was to take these resources out of the legitimate decisionmaker's hands and put them some heir own hands. and they don't get a free pass simply because their motive happens to be political. let me start with the legal argument made by kelly's counsel which seems to be drawing a distinction between public uses and private uses and there are two main problems with that -- actually probably three. one is i don't see where license for that is in t

authorization.ight include provisions providing certain procedural protections for the use of lethal force against americans. who joined terrorist groups. authorizing but also provide procedural safeguards for detention of terror suspects captured by the military outside of the united states and certain congressional reporting requirements. congress to make it a priority to update the war powers resolution, a bipartisan commission chaired by former secretaries of state called in practical and ineffective. actplaud the consultation of 2014, drafted by mccain and came to implement the recommendations. members of congress have understandable concerns about approving a broad new authorization and extend the what meaning the new as a forever war. i am convinced that congress can come together to agree on a new authorizatione and congressional support they need to defend united states against al qaeda, isis and other terrorist groups rather than continuing to rely on a 16-year-old authorization. thank you

powers, as congressional authorization, there is no authorization. is that correct? >> said is my understanding, yes. i believe the president has article to authority only. >> thank you. i want to get to what happened in niger. and sort of understand where we are because there is also limitations on the introduction of troops under the war powers 60 days.ting it to as i understand it, our troops in northern africa a been there much longer than 60 days. can you explain briefly what our mission was in niger when the tragedy occurred, and underwent legal authority those troops were there? drugs i can, senator. the troops are there under title 10. in a train and advise role. the letter from president obama and the 13 to the president pro tem of the senate, then speaker of the house, talks to the full number of u.s. military deployed 100. in 2013 was in furtherance of u.s. national security interests was president obama's report to you. that continues to be the case at this time. >> but the specific mission they were participating in as i understand it wh

it takes our authority, our article 1 authorities away. we're repealing our article 1 authority and yielding it to the president of the united states. telling the president to rely solely on article 2, in my judgment, is a big step backwards from the war powers reform and reasserting congress' article 1 powers. it's also inconsistent with the war powers resolution. madam speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman may proceed. mr. mccaul: it's also inconsistent with the war powers resolution. that law says that the president's article 2 powers are limited to responding to an attack on the territory of the armed forces of the united states. it does not cover american civilians in a foreign country, such as our contractors, our diplomats, and our embassy who are under attack as i speak in iraq. we should not encourage any president to go it alone without article 1 congressional authorization. finally, today's vote is not happening in a vacuum. this rushed, stand-alone repeal without any consultation with the de

so i do have authority, as well. i have authority to suspend the privilege of the writ, because any other answer would just be silly or nonsensical. if congress has a monopoly, what happens if the invaders take over congress, or congress can't meet you mark and suspend privilege? we can't. it's a very clever argument, and it's an argument that has one its admirers today, but of course it's an argument that suggests there can be no constraints on the executive, because the very argument that he made equally applies to the army, it applies to appropriation. if congress can't me to increase the size of the army, then any increase by the executive would be illegal if congress had a monopoly on the size of the army or on appropriations. so the logic of this position suggests that he should be able to do whatever he takes is necessary when congress is not around. he didn't quite say that, but that's the logic of the position, and a lot of us have read it that way ever since, that my friend, mike paulson has an article call

not iraq conceivably to use the 2002 authorization to claim he had authority to go after anti- media general. i can't figure that out for the life of me. then we have the fallback of the 2001 then we have the fallback of the 2001 that authorization was passed to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations or persons the plan that we aided a terrorist attack from 9/11 2001. manyis used by administration so it goes back will be for president trump with the misuse of the authorization. iran was not involved in the attack in our country so how do you use this authorization to use force against iran cracks it is a total misreading of the authority of congress that they never intended from 19 years ago to be intended it would be used as it is today. it is a total misuse of the authorization by congress. in regards to iran today, there is no a umf, we do not have the authorization the president has already shown he will act and not comply with the war powers act likely to use force again leading to a military engagemen engagement. that is a possibility. we need to pass joi

authorities. the hearing today is about counter u.s. authorities. your question is more specifically about drones moving back to the subject of the hearing, which is a counter piece of it, how we how we stop this stuff. intercept the signal between the command and control center and that is the only information uh that we that we interrupt and that we in certain cases retain. when we look at drones being used for malicious purposes, we are certainly concerned about a malicious actor of some of some kind trying to engage in some kind of cyber attack to change the course of that drone, weaponize it. and or use it for its online purposes like surveillance like intrusion into an unauthorized facility and things of that nature. from a counter u.s. perspective again we are focused on the signal between the command and control center. and then from the actual drone perspective we are very aware of cyber security risks that could allow the drone to be manipulated for a range of malign purposes. >> i guess we'll have to work on that with cisa. i'm just conce

your author is used to compare your knots. your authorized or get information or you are not.so here bravura to get the license plate and it didn't matter if they were getting them for reason he was not to get them for. it seems to me you are looking at authorization with gates upper gates down kind of way. for the government is looking at scope of authorization as included. for example my babysitter may have a key to my car so she can pick up my kids from school. but then she uses the car to go run some personal errands. she has exceeded the scope of her authority. i guess what i'm trying to get at is why should we understand entitlement or authorization to be just an on/off switch not heavy scope component? i can think for two reasons. one is that thee statute itself does not have a scope component or a purpose component or anything like that. it simply asks, then back to our prong b was a title to obtain the information. the answer is yes it was.>> >> isn't entitlement or authorization itself have a scope component? that is what we think of an agent's authority. that the pr

the transportation authority it and sonoma county authority are collectively committed to provide $5 million. the agreement, and the 2008 memorandum of understanding allowing them to elect, in lieu of making contributions directly to the authority, to make those contributions instead to other bridge district projects. in which case, the bridge district would increase their contribution from $70 million to $80 million. both agencies have made an election. commissioner farrell: just for everyone's edification, could you describe the times that the golden gate board put on that? >> i will try to give you the short version. the major times, as commissioner elsbernd mentioned, is a condition that we not impose tolls n doyle drive. this was a major issue in 2008, and weaver struggling to finance the project, in fact, the urban planning grants that the transportation authority obtained was to look at congestion pricing that could be imposed on doyle drive. the bridge district felt it could provide competition for artists to a set of corporate toll. there is one that if, in the future, the c

intellectually honest observers have complained that the 9/11 authorization of war does not authorize the wars being fought throughout dozens of countries throughout africa, the middle east, and the south pacific. basically, the expansionism has occurred without required constitutional authorization. wish toators which rectify this is bypassing a new authorization. i don't disparage their efforts, the motives are genuine. or are two issues to be debated. doesn't matter who wields the power to initiate war? our founding fathers believed strongly it did. they squarely delegated the power to declare war to congress. medicine put it this way, -- james madison put it this way, the executive is the branch most room to worth therefore the constitution would study care with legislation. so yes, it is the job of congress to declare a mission and congress has been negligent for over a decade. done its job.ot congress has led president after president strip the war power from congress and concentrated in the executive. issue isd inseparable when and where should we be at war? it is not enough to

the event authority has stepped forward. in the time since we met in september, i think the project has come to greater definition, both in terms of the bricks and nor are -- mortar at the port and what the events will look like on the water. that has helped the event authority build more detail about what they're trying to do. we will hear a lot more about that today. i want to extend my office's an appreciation for their efforts in engaging with the community, city staff, and with everyone that wants to see this event be a success. as you describe it, it upholds the spirit of the leila boroughs corporation -- local hire ordinates and despaired of their broad jobs plan. it is exciting, and want to see the america's cup be a way to kick this into high gear. i think this dialogue today will help us do that. i will hand it over to laura luster. supervisor avalos: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is dr. laura luster, a consultant to the america's cup event authority. i have been assisting them with crafting th

back in 2004 the authority board authorize the short-term financing for the authority, not authorized to issue 200 in commercial paper. by the end of the year in 2004 we issued $100 million in commissions -- commercial paper. this helped to reimburse the prop k sponsors for projects that were working on. in this current fiscal year, 2010-2011, we have included a $340 million debt financing on the budget. we have also reached our fifth year of our contract with current financial advisers and added the best practice of authority to rebid the contract at five years. we have issued a request for proposal on october 24 of last year. by november 24 we received five bids from five different firms. by december 10 we shortened this to three different firms and conducted interviews on december 15. staff authority and from the comptroller's office of public finance, the recommendation is to extend a contract with k and m public finance. they were selected because of their excellent combination of transportation and finance related work. staff is well qualified and they offered competitive prices

and you ought clean parents, say danish authorities are quicker to intervene than authorities in germany. that may make it a more consistent policy. but is it more successful case numbers between the 2 countries hardly differ and the authorities actions are stirring controversy in denmark. city authorities in flints book don't see themselves as being in competition with their danish counterparts over child protection. but german policy aims to keep children with their parents says spokesman, claiming stationed off revenue and nicholas aggregates company. aaliyah is not like we advertise and say, hello everyone come here. the conditions are great. thank you. it's lagging. yes and what's it? so one moves to friends with her and we received files showing a case that we need to follow you, nothing. but of course we handle those cases and that's kind of depends what the issue is. it's kind of a parents may be overwhelmed, but may be addiction. 100 and we try to help in such a way that in the end the child can stay with the mother and thus, and for badness kinda by them. what a movie we take a

the new becoming convening authority.you are being advised by very professional people who understand and have more experience. what you are not necessarily trained, you are getting training through that experience. how to balance plea-bargaining, the charges, with what you want to see come out of that -- in the best way for the victims in the accused. that is what i would say. in response to your question about training now, we have recognized that there is a need to ensure that. in the navy, we have moved most of our general quarter marshals to the regional commanders so that they can continue to build this body of experience. they do go through training when there's -- they are assigned regional commanders to make sure they're ready for that position. legal -- is that specific legal training on what the man counter? >> -- they may encounter? >> yes. trained specifically by our jag core. this is not new. they have probably anywhere between 7-10 years of experience in this arena. making sure that new fully understand gen

it's the housing authority's decision. >> have we seen housing authorities around the country part of rad is that selective? >> as that chart shows there is a huge uptake of housing authorities converting to rad. so is there a lot of interest in the program, 170,000 units is indicative of the units. clearly there is a lot left. as the cap gets lifted and as people have the opportunity to see the authority, we will see more. >> now we see san francisco, are there other cities you can mention or name? >> sure. the top 10, and i will hit a couple of highlighted numbers. chicago is number one, they are proposing to convert 11,000 of their units. el paso, nashville and birmingham and greensboro. >> are we seeing that the cities and counties are doing the same model in san francisco, does that model vary greatly. here i see the list, includes nonprofits or are we seeing for profits and does that skew the models? >> what you see is people tailoring to resources in their community. san francisco has a housing trust fund, and not many cities have that, it's a source for potential financing. an

the authority can elect to defer authority infrastructure work. they can be -- they can elect to do that for up to 10 years. that is, i believe, a new addition since the staff report, and we will correct it. they can also differ -- elect to defer additional work. they can opt for up to 10 years to defer major improvement. and then they can opt to do other work. essentially, just to be clear, all these other categories, authority infrastructure work, or the deferred flavors are work that are eligible for rent credits or reimbursement. we will look at the cordele for performing $55 million, and brad will talk about the scopes of work and their cost estimates later. for that cordele, there will be two primary things that happen, long-term rights that will cruise the development authority. they will have up to 10 years to do the analysis and perform seismic upgrades as part of deferred additional worked additionalwork. -- deferred additional work. as part of the process, getting this done, there will be cost recovery from the work they do. if they end

but as far as congressional authorization, there is no authorization, is that correct? >> that's my understanding, yes. >> i believe the president has article two authority only. mr. cardin: thank you. i want to get to what happened in niger and sort of understand where we are. because there is also limitations on the introduction of troops under the war powers act. limiting to 60 days. as i understand it, our troops in northern africa have been there much longer than 60 days. can you just explain very briefly what our mission was in nigeria when are the tragedy occurred? -- niger when the tragedy occurred, and under what legal authority those troops were there? >> i can. the troops are there under title 10 in a train and advise role. the letter from the president, from president obama in 2013, to the pro temp of the senate and the speaker of the house talks to the total number of u.s. military deployed there in 2013 was 100 in furtherance of u.s. national security interests. mr. mattis: as president obama's report to you. that continues to be the case. at this time. mr

author that you can possibly imagine. we find an event or an interview or something. but with president biden's book prior to running for office promises to keep. we could not get an event because it was being sponsored by live nation and they would not let cameras in. is this a new model? you know, i think it's been a model that's been tried. i know president biden with that book, you know, he partnered with, you know, meet a big sort of corporate deal with live nation to do book events around the country. i don't know. how successful it was from a profits perspective. i think they're competing interests with with a book rollout. i'm sure that um, you know, that reality was frustrating to the the publisher of that book not being able to do, you know an event a broadcast event with book tv which in our experience and i think in pretty much everyone's experience one of the tried and true to reach a book buying audience in any in any form of media and i think you know, i i think that was sort of more of a one-off. i i think

much has been around authority of the congress versus authority of the president. this is important for another reason. i think it's about the people to know what's entailed in the use of military force against i till including the scope and duration. we weaken our country rather than strengthen it when we begin a loss like the discussion we are having today. this debate strengthens resolve in this country and our enemies should not assume that this is weakness that we are having, but it's our ability to debate issues of war and peace. if the committee worked and oobd what the administration wants, we could agree to. i agree with that. we have caulked about a process that would have this hearing today and have time this week to discuss among ourselves and we were hoping to work with members in a classified setting to hear more about what is currently under way with respect to that if we are committed to having that discussion, should we assume that there members from the it was and the communities who could be part of working with us on that kind of a back and fort

does congress have the authority to adopt. to cut back or eliminate the authority. as to i am not an immigration policy person. i cannot give you a set of suggestions about what should be done. it is a bit of a red herring of course there will be a vast role that there is. for all other kind of tax laws. the president can't just stop enforcing the portions of those laws that he does not like. it staggers me that just because a people's agreement with the specific policy here that they would be able to countenance the president simply with the changing major policy aspects of the regime. he admitted and as his justice department actually said. i think the immigration situation is obviously not working. i also believe without being able to get into the details of policy that this ought to be the kind of issue that the two sides can get together on. with the casual conversations with people. this is not an unsolvable problem. this is an example of where our political polarization is just a terrible impediment to be able to have fun. from the audience member i think it

authority. usually trying to quash subpoenas. the issue actually reached the d.c. circuit court of appeals last year and i'm going to give you the entire discussion of that court about the attorney general's statutory authority to hire special counsel. because binding precedent establishes that congress has by law vested authority in the attorney general to appoint the special counsel this court has no need to go further to identify the specific sources of this authority. as justice gorsuch said last year in a different different context, yes. that's it. so what is this binding precedent that is so overwhelmingly powerful that the courts don't even need to look at the statute? well, it turns out it's two cases. one of them is united states v. nixon from 1973 -- 1974, the watergate tapes case. and one is a d.c. circuit case from 1987 which involved investigation this the iran contrainvestigation of oliver north. because i have limited time here i can't go through the 15 pages of the forthcoming l

much has been around authority of the congress versus authority of the president. this is important for another reason. i think it's about the people to know what's entailed in the use of military force against i till including the scope and duration. we weaken our count rye rather than strengthen it when we begin a loss like the discussion we are having today. this debate strengthens resolve in this country and our enemies should not assume that this is weakness that we are having, but it's our ability to debate issues of war and peace. if the committee worked and oobd what the administration wants, we could agree to. i agree with that. we have caulked about a process that would have this hearing today and have time this week to discuss among ourselves and we were hoping to work with members in a classified setting to hear more about what is currently under way with respect to that if we are committed to having that discussion, should we assume that there members from the it was and the communities who could be part of working with us on that kind of a back and fo

i'm with the housing authority. in january of 2018, i filed a complaint with the department of fair employment and housing for hiring practices and promotional practices at the san francisco housing authority. there are no african american males in any upper management positions. in february, i filed a complaint with the san francisco housing authority board, the commissioners, along the same lines. but also relating to their financial practices as a result. and as it relates to the rent increases, and then in march, i filed a complaint with hud inspector general's office with the financial aspect as it relates to rent increases and their hiring practices, etc. in august 2018, the housing authority placed me on ad ministrative leave for trumped up charges that have yet to be proven with any truth to it. i'm on paid administrative leave for eight months. the relationship that i'm here today -- i could retire tomorrow -- the reason that i'm here today is because the san francisco housing authority has suffered tremend

command authority and convening authority are not the same thing. ofcan be one person has both those authorities. i request we clarify that. >> thank you. >> mr. bryant? >> first of all, i want to say how much i appreciate those who have been on the subcommittee. you are all very experienced people with a great deal of wisdom and good judgment. you have worked hard and hurt a lot of information. privilegedd and been to hear a lot of information that we have all heard. understand how if we removed the convening authority from military command, that somehow this has a tremendous affect on morale, shows the troops we don't trust these men and women, we talked about surveys -- it would be interesting if we could have a survey of e-5 and above. we will start with e-4. jag officers were making prosecutorial decisions come would that somehow lessen your respect for your commander and your willingness to obey his or her reverse? the answer would be a resounding no. it is not going to affect anything because the ultimate thing we have to remember is our mili

what we disagree about is whether principally -- whether we also have the authority to authorize them to work and to accrue some ancillary benefits based on that work. justice roberts: before you get to that, could i ask you a question about the scope of your argument? general verrilli: sure. justice roberts: under your argument, could the president grant deferred removal to every unlawfully present alien in the united states right now? general verrilli: definitely not. justice roberts: why not? general verrilli: here are the limits. because the deferred action has over time, there have been built up a set of administrative limits, which i'll talk about, some administrative policy limits, and then there's substantive statutory limits. the administrative policy limits are these: deferred action has always been for the lowest priorities for removal. and everybody agrees -- justice roberts: i'm sorry. by "administrative," you mean by the executive branch? general verrilli: correct, yes, but -- justice roberts: so that somehow binds the executive branch now, the fact that i mean, this has

second, the business record authority. this allows the government to apply for the pfizer court in order to collect records, papers and other documents that are relevant to an authorized national security investigation. it allows the government to obtain many of the same types of records that it can obtain a grand jury subpoena and ordinary case. for exhibit, it can be used to obtain driver's license records, hotel records, car rental records, shipping records, and the like. in most cases, these are records the government obtains in ordinary criminal civil investigation without any court order. the pfizer business record because national security interest include the use of criminal authorities were because there's no criminal investigation underway and something that is purely an intelligence matter. this authority has been used several dozen times a year on average over the last few years. the business record provision is also the mechanism for the targeted collection of cdr's from u.s. telecommunications service provide

have the author right. the word audio book is not even that old. still don't even know what to call it at times. so just them saying the word, just them talking about. it just, you know, when we get reviews, we that there's a mention of the narrator mention of they're reviewing audio books. sometimes they don't even talk about the production. they're just talking about plot line. so just getting the author social media, whether it's out in public, it's people are coming to the format. so we need help trumpeting that the format exists because it's expensive to, you know. otherwise get that word out. and i'd like to weigh in just really quickly. i see we have a one minute warning over there, but a record once we a whole program dedicated authors and helping them promote their on every level. it's called acp author social media program. and what we do is we them the cover we give you an extended audio and extend it excerpt from the audio book give you this little, you know, dancing day. so we have all kinds of

we authorize the patriot act, which i do nothing was authorized correctly, and we went into iraq and killed over one million people. in my opinion, that is murder. we never held anyone accountable for that. we should be going against the high court for these war crimes. dr. king said america was the biggest of their of violence in the world. --e is the problem here these guys were from belgium. why are we attacking belgium? in the 9/11 we did attacks. those guys were from saudi arabia, but we went and attacked afghanistan. held accountability for the people we killed and those displaced, isis would not be there. we killed more people than isis would have killed, and we are looked at as a terrorist. if we do not want to be terrorized, stop acting like terrorists. call bush, and hold obama and made -- and his administration accountable. the same thing we're doing in yemen -- we are about divide and conquer. this young men -- young man should be holding america accountable along with the rest of the american people so we can hold ourselves for crimes against humanity and repent against

they would like to have broader authority. secretary kerry talks about unpredictable circumstances and wants to make sure that they have maximum flexibility. are we surprised? president nixon vetoed the war powers act. congress overrode that veto because it's our responsibility to speak with specifics. the president has article 2 powers. the president has the right to come back to congress if he needs additional authorization. i dare say we will respond promptly to any such request. so i believe this is in the best traditions of what the responsibility we have not only toforce but to oversight that authorization. that's our responsibility. and for those who believe the purse strings are adequate to deal with that, it's not. we all know that. it is this committee's responsibility. the senate foreign relation's responsibility to recommend to the full senate what the appropriate authorization should be on the use of military force. i think what the chairman has brought forward carries that out in the best tradition giving preside

housing authority. sorry barbara. >> it's okay. well, i do wish to thank all of you on behalf of the housing authority and express our appreciation to the board of supervisors and the budget audit. it begins with the hud assessment last year and designating the housing authority as troubled for failing the financial and management indicator scores. ? january hud sent a public housing recovery sustainability team to the housing authority for public assessment and identified many of the problems that the analyst has confirmed. if july of this year hud will begin to provide several

authorities are inadequate. since our counter u.s. authority was granted in 2019 the u.s. has adopted 69 operational missions using this authority and provided limited support to 121 other events. we detected a thousand uas in violation of federal law during these missions and one example of the boston marathon this past april our team mitigated a uss threat which resulted in the capture and prosecution of the subject. the fbi can't have the special assessment rating annually held in the u.s. along with other requests for counter ua support at mass gatherings. the use of counter uas to protect against this situation is crucial and can only be fully addressed by expanding the capability to include our state and local partners. in closing i remain committed to protecting americans by the use of this technology, the reauthorization or long-term extension of the legislation is essential to continue our mission in combatting the evolving threat. we look forward to working with you in establishing sustainable strategies to mitigate the threat going forward. thank you. >> thank y

of new business consent calendar item 5 a approval of the minutes special meeting and item 5 b authorizing a fifth amendment with shift and llp a limited partnership to increase the amount by $350,000 not to exceed $160,000 for the public trust for candle stick point and hunters point shipyard and bayview hunters point action resolution number 85, 2014 madam chair. >> yes. we will first take the approval of the minutes of october 12th do we have any public speaker cards. >> no. >> any comments on the minutes. >> i move. >> there's been a motion. >> second. >> seconded please call the roll. >> commissioner mondejar commissioner singh commissioner booster to say madam chair rosales the vote is 4 i's. >> the minutes are approved let's take now item 5 b do we have any speaker cards on 5 b. >> no speaker cards. >> okay i have two speaker cards dr. espanola jackson and ace washington. >> okay dr. jackson on 5 b would you like to provide comments? >> yes. thank you i would like to say on 5 b that you need to commissioners needs to get the minutes for when this proposed project was presented i wou

>> draft of an order in council authorizing the public seals authorizing the respective public sealsely in use elsewhere than in the united kingdom, to be made use of until new seals be prepared and their use duly authorized. >> approved. >> draft of an order in council confirming your majesty's wishes in relation to the sovereign act of 2011 to continue the tradition of surrendering the hereditary revenues, including the crown of state, to your government, for the benefit of all, in return for the sovereign grant which supports your official duties as head of state and head of nation. >> approved. >> draft of two proclamations -- one, appointing the day of her late majesties state funeral as a bank holiday in england, wales, and northern ireland. two, appointing the day of her late majesty's state funeral as a bank holiday in scotland and two orders in council directing the lord chancellor to affix the great seal to the proclamations. >> approved. >> i now invite your majesty to sign both proclamations. >> and that, your majesty, concludes today's business for the council. may i now

it has to be the author talking. people are interested in the author's personality and not in sort of you know an artificial bits of quotes from the book. there are twitter feeds i can think of that work and things like someone had to be dorothy parker closed that sort of thing but for the most part one has to be genuine from the author. >> it makes a lot of sense. i am by far not a social media or on line guru but every expert i listen to say you talk about your kid and i think if you pound the book down peoples throats they know and they turn off. here's this person selling a book again as opposed to you want to read my book because it's part of life them part of the conversation. >> i think that's kind of hard gene though because not every author is a great personality. some authors are vibrant and witty and funny and others are not. they put everything into their book or maybe their book is about something different. as taryn was saying you can't force it. you can't force any author to do the social media stuff b

among those 10 qualified people , one authority or three authority or five authority. so, he first clarified that from among those who have the authority. so this one reference or three references, or the first sentence, the last sentence, clarifies the main issue regarding principle 17 is whether the competence of the authority which is mentioned at the beginning of this principle is sufficient for the condition of leadership or the future leader according to another part of the same the original must be a reference. be among the 10 people who are qualified, they choose a qualified person. among the 10 people who have authority, 3 people have the authority. therefore, the current authority is not in this phrase, so it is the form of the current authority. ayatollah meshkini, the head of the assembly of experts, took the view of article 17 of the constitution that it is enough for the future leader to have jurisdiction. however, from the legal point of view, ayatollah meshkini's personal opinion is not enough. the guardian council is responsible for interpreting the pr

the collection authority that is replicated under authorization or indian authority? or any other authority? is there some other legal authority that allows you to get the same information? >> we don't have another legal authority that would receive the existing program as it existed. following that. salami get the straight. if i understand, to answer the first question you believe you do have the authority to re- start the program you don't you knew authority. >> yes sir. >> to garner the same information? >> there is no other legal authority whereby where we could establish the program that we recently shut down. >> thank you. a fisa order, it was divulged to the washington post, carter page and i think you answered this earlier has anyone been held accountable for this illegal disclosure? you don't know if there has are not? >> i can't comment on that i don't know the answer. >> i want to make sure i understand something. mr. orlando i thought you said, i am not going to quote you because i'm sure i will mess it up i am just asking for clarification. i thought you

finally, turning to detention authority -- for years, the 2002 aumf has been cited as authority for detention for known, captured terrorists. last week i put forward an amendment that would require the secretary of defense to certify the repeal of this authority would not harm detention authority or the u.s. litigation positions against detaining terrorists. if a court were to find that the 2001 aumf did not provide legal authority for detention, which has not been settled at this point, supplemental legal authorities like the 2002 aumf would be absolutely critical. i sincerely would like to support this repeal. i really would. and i hope to be here when we do get to repealing at some point down the line. but now is not the time for it. the realities on the ground convince me i cannot support repealing at this time. we've got to deal with the world as it is. as a result of that, i am compelled to vote no. thank you very much, mr. president. thank you to all of those who have worked on this. the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey. mr. menendez: mr. president, this vote that we are

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they absolutely have to be authorized. >> pay. >> across the board pay raise. >> either authorized or hopefully in an authorization bill where they belong, or in an appropriation bill where they do not belong and i think it would subject that bill to a point of order for legitimates on an appropriation bill. i don't know if anyone would want to use those poirds because we're talking about support of our military but nonetheless they are in jeopardy if we don't pass an authorization bill much more complicated legislatively. and even if we can get some of them done in an appropriation bill, if we can't pass the authorization bill there's a whole lot of them which simply timewise we could not figure out how to get noon an appropriation bill. >> let me ask you about the broader question about the defense bill. you've been here 32 years and as you say we haven't gone without a defense authorization passed in 48. why is this happening? put aside don't ask don't tell for a minute. why is this happening? why can't congress agree? we've seen all kinds of partisan rankor before, that's for sure

do you have authority that's replicated under any authorization or any other authority? >> in other words, is there some other legal authority that you think that allows you to get the same information? >> we don't have another legal authority that would allow us to reinstate the existing -- the program as it existed. >> i'm not following that. >> so if -- >> so let me get this back. if i understand the answer to the first question, you believe you have the authority to re-start the program. youio don't need new authority to restart? >> yes, sir. >> if you don't restart the program is there another legal authority you can use to garner the same information? >> there is no other legal authority whereby we could establish the program that we recently shut down. >> okay. very good. thank you. >> so a fisa order on a u.s. citizen carter page was divulged to "the washington post" and i think you answered this earlier, has anyone held to account for this illegal disclosure? there has been no review? you don't know whether it has or not. >> i can't comment on that in any way. i