that is belair. that is why we are proud to be at the commission tonight. you are truly san francisco's finest. thank you, on behalf of the commission. [applause] >> both the chief and commission president mention this long review process to become a medal of valor recipient. i want to give you a brief idea of how these acts were reviewed to get us here tonight. when an officer's actions are such that any supervisor take notice of any break, that supervisor officer prepares a report detailing the event. the commanding officer then conducts a personal investigation of the event, and if they approve the nomination, it prepares the report to the chief of police. the chief than four or -- forwards these nominations to the office of the police commission. then those are sent off to a screening committee. if the awards screening committee approved the nomination, they send it back to the commission office so the awards committee secretary can set up a meeting. this is a meeting of all of the department's captains and command staff where the nominating commanding

belair sent to george w. bush. what exactly had he committed britain to? >> what i was saying to president bush was simple. you can count on was -- count on us but here are the difficulties. i was persuading him to take a few radically different from any people in his administration. i was saying i will be with you in handling it this way. i will not push you down this path and back out with a gets too hot. because it will get hot politically. i did this because i believe in this. i thought it was the right thing to do, but all the time he was making promises to george bush the legality of an invasion was being questioned by his own attorney general. >> on -- no, but i was in the situation where he was giving this advice and there was a debate going on. >> he said he was uncomfortable with the language mr. blair used about the lawfulness of an invasion. >> i was making a political point, but i accept entirely there was an inconsistency between he what -- what he was saying and what i was saying. >> there was one section of his testimony from -- from one ye

before successful blacks could move to brentwood and belaire, this is where the artists, entertainers, businessmen, lawyers, accountants, so forth, everybody lived if you have any money. so you to this church, baptist church, one of the largest baptist churches. a minimum of 1500, can't remember for sure, minimum of at least 1500. and dr. king is introduced as the preacher and then he gets up and says ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, the text of my sermon today is the role and responsibility of the negro professional in aiding our less fortunate brothers and sisters struggling for their freedom in the south. so i thought to myself this is one smart dude because he came to the right church, the bite you, the right place. i had never heard him speak before. i had seen him, but i never heard him speak before. seen him on television and so forth. and so he began to speak in greater detail, in greater eloquence and greater passion in an oratory, and i never heard anybody speak like that before. a passionate description of the struggle in the south, and then he pauses, and i am s