i spent almost six years with the department really event reading the department in it's heartbreaking to see what he did to it. and how difficult it is to rely now on the impartiality of the departments given this sordid four-year history. >> you really -- released a statement tonight and spoke with the times as well calling on the inspector general, the independent inspector general and said the justice department to look into this. to investigate this essentially as potentially the weaponization of law enforcement for political purposes. can you explain to our audience, to people who hear this as an extension of what they have heard about going after reporters records who may not necessarily grasp why this is a big deal. why this is something that has not happened before. why is it such a big deal? why would it be, and perhaps unprecedented at least very unusual thing for a member of congress to have a records like this seized by the justice department? >> well, it is really norm within norm within norm being broken here. the first most important norm and watergate is -- they don't

before coming to the department she served as general counsel at the department of defense . she's also served as a member of the bipartisan 9/11 commission. a graduate of harvard law school she chairs as a partner inthe law firm wilmer and hale . stephen engle stir as the assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel at the department of justice from 20 17th to 2021. he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in that same office from 2006 to 2009 and a previously declared supreme court justice anthonykennedy . by a graduate of yale law school he served as a partner at the deckard law firm. bob bauer served as white house counsel from 2009 2011. before serving in the white house it was general counsel of the 2008 obama presidential campaign. he recently published a book after trump, reconstructing the presidency which was co-authored by jack goldsmith. a graduate of the university of virginia law school she was a professor at the us university school of law . so i've prepared a number of questions for our panelists but as the program was along i hope we wil

, said the justice department because of, you know, this is what the justice department does and he was -- and i thought he was going to pop out of his chair, but anyway, this one is -- it just always comes up, and it does -- it does have a danger of opinion shopping. that is, the white house could go to one or the other and say that it has gotten the opinion that it -- that it needs. indeed this, has happened so that's not hypothetical. two other comments i would make. one is doj is the arbiter of the position of the united states in the courts as steve said. it's doj that has to stand there and -- and defend an administrative action, for example, but there are often disagreements among agencies when one agency taken. and in our administration, seth waxman was spending a ton of time with those agencies trying to get to a common view and sometimes that didn't happen and in the end his opinion prevailed that didn't mean that people didn't go to the white house to say this is wrong. so that does happen. and there are occasions, which is why bob needs to speak last on this, where the white

before coming to the department, jamie served as general counsel at the department of defense. she's also severed as a member of the bipartisan 9/11 commission. a graduate of harvard law school, jamie serves as a partner at the law firm wilmer hale. steven engel served as assistant attorney general in the department of justice from 2017 to 21. served as a deputy as tap the attorney general in the same office from 2006 to 2009 and previously clerked for supreme court justice anthony kennedy. a graduate of yale law school, steve serves as a partner at the decker law firm. bob bauer served as white house counsel from 2009 to 2011. before serving in the white house he was the adviser to the obama presidential campaign. he reasons entally published a book "after trump" with his co-author brad goldsmith. bob is a professor at the new york university school of law, and so i've prepared a number of questions for our panelists, but as the program moves along i hope you'll also include those of -- those of you in the audience will include some questions in the chat that we can share with

the justice department will let the department of justice be the department of justice.rosecuted. they're not my lawyers. they're not my personal lawyers. you're turning this into a vehicle for your own law firm. you don't own that justice department, you pick the best people you can and you hope that what they're going to do is enforce the law as they see it. but can you remember any republican president going out there for former democratic president go find that guy for us. remember that? by the way, i'm being sued because a woman accused me of rape. represent me. represent me. personally represent me and the state of new york on my not allowing my tax returns. what's that all about? what is that about? >> yeah what was that all about? that was candidate joe biden last fall criticizing president trump for you turning the department into his own personal law firm, including the justice department telling the court, telling the federal court that trump was engaged in his official duties as president of the united states when he said about a woman who accused him of rape

justice department. now, that kind of communication from the white house to the justice department, that is a very stark, very obvious violation of longstanding justice department policy. for justice department officials to be even having that kind of a conversation with the white house chief of staff at all, let alone entertaining multiple requests for him to open these investigations? that is a serious violation of seriously important justice department policies. now, it is being investigated in the senate. the judiciary committee under senator dick durbin is reportedly investigating what went wrong inside the trump justice department that they were involved in this kind of stuff and fielding these requests, which they never should have been fielding. but under merrick garland and the justice department itself, apparently they're not investigating this. apparently they're just letting that slide, not looking into it. just, i guess, planning to do better and not make those same mistakes again, hope that

we look to work with other departments like the department of public health and other departments tohis issue and to bring a just attention to it but resources to it. in so there are so many other issues like those that this department should and will be dealing with, understanding there are many issues that intersect the lives of women and girls and many opportunities for us to create and help them create pathways for successful opportunities. >> thank you and thank you chair. >> [matt haney] thank you and isu many of the comments that have been made and can you for your vision and really underscoring the transformational approach that your department and your leadership can bring to the lives of women and girls and transgender women, binary folks and all of that acquires having a comprehensive vision laid out. one of the things that i wanted to ask is if one of that vision a part of the division turns turning them near on ourselves and looking at the experience of women and girls in our city government and in our policymaking? one of the things that we have seen with the officer ra

the state department. and the white house, this was true under counterterrorism policy in the development of counterterrorism legal policy, worked very hard to make sure that you brought all of the component agencies in to be heard on issues in which they had come as you said, judge, and that well-worn term equities. one case, and the white house counsel has a significant role in that and certainly did in the obama administration. i don't know to what extent the same organizational structure was adopted in the trump administration. i suspect something like that very much so is taking place in the biden administration. but in one take your case we had a lawyer, although in the department who thought all of the other agencies and departments with equities in the matter were catastrophically wrong, and demanded essentially at the white house organized and beating so that he could make his case more successfully to people who just simply didn't understand issues as well as he did and were headed in the wrong d

department. as you can see here, largest expenditures are with zuckerberg general hospital and laguna honda hospital, largest skilled nursing facility in the country. in all, this supports 7300 staff member full time equivalents. next slide, please. one of our key investments as a focus in the department is to capitalize on our racial equity action plan. this work is led by dr. ayanna bennett. the racial equity action plan was developed across the department and in close collaboration with the human rights division. you can see this will catalyze the reimplementation across the department with many -- much work being done from policy and program development to providing extensive antiracism, racial equity, and implicit bias for all staff. this slide shows the request for investment of nonlaw enforcement security. this is led by our director of nonlaw enforcement security who has held meetings over many months with the sheriff's staff and d.p.h. department. this will better align the department wi

the department of health and human services will work with the departments of education, homeland securityjustice to develop a website that aggregates and publicizes information on federal resources -- including grants, training, and technical assistance -- that can assist state and local authorities and the general public in identifying the resources they need to implement their own counter domestic terrorism programs. and those are just a few examples. we have a track record of successful collaborative approaches to the challenges posed by terrorism -- not just at the federal level, but also with our state, local, tribal, and territorial partners. the justice department's first joint terrorism task force, for example, was established in new york in 1980. at the time, it was staffed with just 11 fbi investigators and 11 members of the new york city police department. today, our approximately 200 joint terrorism task forces have over 4,300 officers from more than 550 local, state and federal agencies, who work together every day as our first line of defense against terrorist attacks. the w

the state department later this month. we will fly the flag from june 26 to the 28th. that's a time that i know so many no marks a couple of important turning points in our history for rights. june 26, the anniversary of the historic supreme court decision in 2015 and over felt versus hodges. which ruled that the fundamental right to marry is gain guaranteed to same-sex couples and is for all the land. in 28 . i think everyone knows marks the anniversary of the start of the stonewall riots which in many ways back in 1969 was the genesis of a global lgbtqi rights movement. so i think this will be a significant couple of days. we will see the progress flag flying the statedepartment . >> how did the agriculture department beat you to this ? >> in the category of maybe sometimes a little better late than never. i'm glad this is great that we have our administration, our government across the administration firing on all cylinders and i think it's a reflection of the fact that president bidenset the tone from day one. if we have to play catch-up, we are . >> in february th

from the justice department to the department of homeland security, the feds, state, health and human services, and others. it's part of this effort, our law enforcement and intelligence agencies examined the evolving threat that faces us today. from that base of understanding, we developed this national strategy to guide the work of a broad set of federal actors. at the justice department, the deputy attorney general and i have already begun implementing a range of measures. among other things, we have begun to reinvigorate the domestic terrorism executive committee, and we will convene that inter agency body in the coming days and months. attorney general janet reno, originally created the executive committee in the aftermath of the 1995 oklahoma city bombing. investigation of that bombing, which required an enormous commitment of resources from agencies across the federal and state governments, had demonstrated the importance of such a coordination mechanism. our current effort comes on the heels of another large and heinous attack, this time the january 6th assault on our nation's

. >> it does not include this departments because this department is on operating department, it hast of the requirements for the first plan were related to hiring and through internal service questions. this department also does not interface with the public so it is not have a plan. it is not required. >> [shaman walton (bos)]. so for my clarity, there is no staff. >> no staff. this is just a holding place in our financial system will be budget the baseline transferred to the mta. we budget for the city's receipt of property tax revenues and hotel tax revenues, for instance. we need to have that deliver systems to record with the budget is and and actual activities. this is the department in which we do that. >> [shaman walton (bos)] got it. thank you. >> [matt haney (bos)]. colleagues any other questions or comments? i am seeing none. thank you so much, we appreciated and thank you for leaving this very unusual department with no staff or operation. but it is so good to have way to have and facilitate these important city functions and purposes. we appreciate your work on this. >>

these commitments reflect the justice department's mission and the department's mission is reflected in our fy 2022 budget request. our two top fding priorities are as follows. the first is keeping our country and our community safe. this priority has three main elements. the first element is countering foreign and domestic terrorism. the justice department remains acutely aware of the threat posed by foreign terrorist organizations. this requires that we never take our eyes off the risk of another devastating attack on our country. at the same time, united states has seen a troubling rise in domestic violent extremism. as the country's lead law enforcement agency, the department of justice is devoted to a broad scale approach to countering the threat of both foreign and domestic terrorism. the fy 2022 budget request includes 9.4 billion -- i'm sorry, i skipped a page. our budget request includes more than 1.5 billion for our foreign and domestic counterterrorism efforts, an increase of more than 12% above the fy 2021 enacted level. keeping our country and communities safe also requi

donald trump said we want the justice department to investigate and the justice department went out and investigated chair adam schiff. it looks like an abuse of power and it's hard to see it as anything but that. >> house speaker nancy pelosi issued a statement tonight in response to this breaking news. she said, recently it has become public that the trump administration sought account metadata of the staff and their families. the news about the politicization of the trump administration justice department is harrowing. these actions appear ton yet another egregious assault on our democracy waged by the former president. i support intelligence committee chairman adam schiff's call for an investigation into this situation and other acts of the weaponization of law enforcement by the former president. >> they will probably conduct their own investigation if they haven't already, but i wouldn't be surprised if we have hearings about this particular issue, whether it's in a classified setting or otherwise, but this is something that, you know, is unprecedented and it deserves an incredibl

benban it oh are still at the justice department and ensuring mr. biden's appointees including attorney general merrick garland would have a full understanding of the investigations. leading off our discussion tonight, democratic congressman of illinois, he's a member of the house intelligence committee, also matt miller, former spokesperson for attorney general eric holder and an msnbc contributor. congressman, let's begin with you. i want to give you an open mic here for your reaction to this breaking news tonight. >> it's an outrageous trampling of democratic norms. we knew donald trump had politicized doj, now we know he weaponized the doj as well. now we absolutely must have a full investigation of what occurred at doj. secondly we must hold those accountable who may have even broken the law in this affair and third, we have to put in guardrails to prevent this from happening again. there are a number of questions that need to be answered with regard to that last issue, and i can go into that if you wish. >> how do you feel about those justice

provided to oversight committees and the department on june 2nd. this new flash report focuses on two issues, the department's contain thement emergency response team and its first responders unit. inspector general bolton's latest flash report, like his three previous flash reports, found a number of deficiencies in thegr programs he reviewed including significant failings that impacted the ability of the capitol police to respond to the january 6th attack and put officers at greater risk as well as the members and staff they sought to protect. his report also makes more than 20 recommendations for addressing these shortcomings. have played a key role in the attack and defending the capitol ig found, among other things that they lack proficient operational planning and defined mission while they also suffered from inadequate training and in adequate and effective tactical command. will go over this in more detail later. the inspector general found information so troubling he determined it was appropriate to alert the department immediately rather

department of the treasury. there he worked on cases of procurement fraud and complex criminal administrative and civil investigations. before his time at treasury mr. bolton served for 21 years with the u.s.io secret service where he helped numerous roles, including as a member of the presidential protection division. mr. bolton holds a degree in criminal justice from the university ofnt maryland. thank you for being here today, mr. bolton. and if you would please stand and raise youre right and so i can administer the oath. do you swear that the testimony you will give before the committee shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> yes, i do. >> thank you. you may be seated. you are now recognized for your testimony for five minutes. you testimony for five minutes. >> thank you. good afternoon, chair klobuchar, ranking member blunt and distinguished members of the committee. thank you for this opportunity to appear before you, the committee of senate rules and administr

item four, chief of department's report. report from chief of department, jeanine nicholson.report on the current issues, activities, and events within the department since the fire commissioner meeting on june 9, 2021, including budget, academics, special events, communications, and outreach to other government agencies and the public. report from administration, deputy chief jose velo. >> this is jeanine nicholson. thank you for your comments about commissioner rodriguez president feinstein. yeah, it is really heartbreaking and what a good man. i really enjoyed the conversations and the contact i had with him and hoped for more. you know, condolences from the entire department to his family and friends and to all commissioners as well. we will be attending his funeral this friday. unfortunately we can't put the truck display up in front because there is just not enough room on portland street, but we will have an engine there and presence there. i think it's very important to do so. i know he was very proud of being the fire commissioner and at the same time, a super humble

this department's role effectively began in the 1870s. the reconstruction amendments adopted after the civil war were a dramatic step forward. the framers of the 14th and 15th amendments recognized that access to the ballot was a fundamental aspect of citizenship and self-government. representative john bingham, the principal author of the 14th amendment, called the right to vote the source of all institutions of democratic government. bingham and other framers of the reconstruction amendments also knew that a meaningful right to vote requires meaningful enforcement. months after ratification of the 15th amendment, congress enacted the first ku klux klan act. it reenacted the right to vote and instructed martials to bring criminal rights against anyone who acted against the provisions. a few weeks after that, congress created the department of justice, and president grant charged it with enforcing the act and protecting the rights promised by the 14th and 15th amendment. amos ackerman, the first attorney general president grant appointed

department. he appeared in front of a senate appropriations subcommittee where he answered questions about the decision to pursue trump era cases, security threats against federal agents, and law enforcement. this is over two hours. >> good? okay. good afternoon chairwoman shaheen, ranking member moran, and distinguished members of this subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you on behalf of the department of justice to discuss the president's budget for fy22. exactly 90 days ago i took the oath of office as attorney general. on that day i spoke to all the justice department employees and i told them that all of us, quote, are united by our commitment to protecting our country as our oath says from all enemies foreign and domestic. and by our commitment to enforcing our country's laws and to ensuring the civil rights and the civil liberties of our people. these commitments reflect the justice department's mission and the department's mission is reflected in our fy 2022 budge

sorry but the -- >> -- justice department. >> well speaking of justice department, the office of inspectoras you and i were talking. initiated a review of the use of subpoenas and other legal authorities to obtain communications records from members of congress. so that is -- the department of justice inspector general michael horowitz announcing this. so it looks like you're going to get your investigation. do you think that congress should investigate this as well? >> i do. i don't think -- i think we've learned that congress has to protect itself at some point in time. and i've heard that the senate is going to be looking into this and that is i think appropriate. i think it is probably best that others do it and not the intel committee, just because it's us. so i think it's a bit of a problem if we try to be involved with an investigation in which this committee was targeted. but i do think there are others in congress that could do this and that is part of it. but to my earlier point, i can't stress enough, this was a presidency that was willing to use the justice department as its la

department. he'll be taking questions from members of the senate appropriations subcommittee. live coverage on c-span3. >> the subcommittee -- come to order. good afternoon, mr. attorney general, we're delighted to have you back. and i want to begin by congratulating you come the department on the recovery of much of the ransomware from the attack on the colonial pipeline that was excellent work, and i know everybody in the country really appreciates it. and hopefully it sends a message to those groups out there that would continue to hack our industries and our government. the complex and often difficult work of the department is vast. it ranges from national security investigations to operating a national prison system, management of billions in grants to state and local entities. and this year the president's fiscal year 2022 budget request for the department of justice is $36 billion, which is nearly 7% increase compared to fiscal year 2021. as enacted. this budget provides a renewed focus in

department. it's been reported that i'll be meeting with people outside the department so i'll leave that aside for right now in order to figure out. but that's the basic policy and that will be issued in some kind of memorandum, obviously, from me. you have a good point, which is in developing this policy we have to distinguish between reporters doing their jobs and reporters committing crimes unrelating to the leaking. unrelated to the leaking. so there are some definitional questions but i think they're quite resolvable and that's going to be our tasks over the next few weeks. >> thank you very much. i want to follow-up on senator graham's questions that the backlog and our immigration courts, and i have a question first about -- which is more of a clarification because i was surprised there wasn't a budget request for the legal orientation program. as you know, this is program that provides basic legal explanation of court proceedings to those going through immigration courts can you tell me

each department will be free to go. as they're aware, we may call them back at some point later in this process. as comments can be made during public comment day this friday june 25th what we are going to do is first bring up departments that have generally agree we will share anything more in their response and then we'll hear from their response. welcome. >> thank you, chair haney and supervisors. thank you to the budget analyst for working with us. we accept the budget analysis's. >> good morning, chair haney. our recommendations for the department of building inspection start on page 12 of our report. we recommend reductions $425,zero a one-time savings. our recommended reductions to the proposed budget total $425 these reductions would still allow an increase and we. >> chairman: comments about this agreement? not seeing any of those to the controller please note it's this committee's attention with the b.l.a.'s recommendation and i want to thank director for the work in leadership and your team. and your excuse f

. >> everyone's asking the justice department.hat more do we know about exactly what happened here? >> we know that the justice department has not talked directly at this point, that we know of, to the people potentially involved here, congressman schiff indicated that, what we've got from our reporting is that it's been legislative affairs staffers at doj and communication. we still haven't heard word from the justice department, it's interesting, john, because in just about two hours the attorney general merrick garland is scheduled to give remarks concerning voting rights, but we know there will be a room full of reporters, no doubt he will get questions about this, and to manu's point, why didn't they alert chairman schiff, he got notice in may, we understand, why weren't they alerted here? >> let's walk through this, carrie, this is your wheel house. the government has every right to try to protect sensitive information. the government, though, as rules it must follow. we know #00 plus accounts targeting schiff, including a m

my career with the boston police department was changed. things he did to deal with corruption and the detective sergeants at that time they took care of the gambling et cetera and this was no secret. nobody would do anything. on a saturday morning he transferred every one of them and the saturday morning massacre was something that sent the message loud and clear there was a new game in town. second, he brought in five whiz kids, outside men that were extraordinary. gary hayes, bob wasserman who's been a mentor to me and still think he's one of the smartest in the business and totally transformed the system to allow young people to get promoted and totally changed the academy. one of the people they brought in from the outside just passed away here in new york who created the hostage negotiation initiative and i was trained for a period of time myself. we actually shared a desk in the commissioner's office for a period of time. when you look at these young minds that changed everything they created a planning research committee 26 people c

the next department is the department on the status of women. welcome director ellis. >> good afternoon chair haney and committee members. thank you for the opportunity to address the recommendations. the department of the status on women appreciate our analysts, especially as it relates to their willingness to listen to our feedback, which did result in a smaller proposed reduction. that said, the proposed $60,000 in cuts while insignificant when considering the overall budget of san francisco, represents funds that are very much needed and the department therefore opposes the recommendations. at a time when the covid-19 pandemic has decimated our cities, communities and countries in unprecedented ways, women have unfortunately bore the brunt of the devastate across health, safety and economic areas. as such, in order to rebuild our communities and economy, we need to support women and girls with the tools, skills and resources they need to adequately recover. to us, that means doubling down on our investment to support the communities that wer

typically the deputy attorney general often runs the department. par barr tran department.former deputy, former attorney general. he knew which strings to pull to make different reactions throughout the entire department. >> now, of course i wish i had more time, because the question is what kind of a department is it now under a.g. garland. stay here on cnn, everyone. anderson cooper "360" special, barack obama on fatherhood, leadership, and legacy airs after this show. >>> next, the gop didn't quit trump ten bombshells ago. any chance they ever will? it's an important time to save. with priceline, you can get up to 60% off amazing hotels. and when you get a big deal... you feel like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip is a big deal. dry eye symptoms again? inflammation might be to blame. time for ache and burn! over-the-counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. those probably won't touch me. xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. xiidra,... ...noooo! it can provide lasting relief.

to do so openly calling on his department. it's hard to express just how shocking an abuse of power this really is. >> mr. chairman, do you know who the other democratic member is on the committee whose records were targeted? you know, i know some of the information about other people who received subpoenas. out of respect for their privacy, i will let them speak or not speak. but the truth is, i don't know how broad these subpoenas were, except that i know that they were extraordinarily broad. went out to staff who weren't even related to the committee, who had no responsibilities on the committee. and in terms of how many members were affected, part of the difficulty in knowing for sure is, a lot of people who got this notice from apple thought it was spam. and we may learn more now that this story has come out, as they go back and check their old email to see if they got a notice like this as well. so we may learn more. i would certainly like to know and we've asked the justice department and they have not been forthcoming,

the justice department. say the legal judgments of the department of justice must be impartial and insulated from political influence. you then lay out in detail what that means. and as other attorneys general before you had done, lay out very specific rules about the very restricted number of people that can communicate from the white house to the justice department in the matter of any pending or potential criminal investigation. as far as we understand that memo is still policy at the justice department, it has not been rescinded, but yet this weekend there's "the new york times" headline trump white house chief of staff mark meadows pressed justice department to investigate election fraud claims. "the times" first to report this weekend that the trump white house had their chief of staff calling the justice department, calling the attorney general, telling him to go chase rabbits, to go chase down some of the craziest conspiracy theories about how trump was supposedly robbed of his rightful election resu

the justice department used -- what were you aiming to get at in this editorial?uest: judicial watch had sued for secret subpoenas that schiff had issued that targeted the phone records of the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani. he got those phone records, then he used those records to uncover more phone records. you call people when you are talking on the phone, obviously. he published those phone records. he secretly subpoenaed phone records and then publish them. they included the phone records of rudy giuliani, devon nunez, the president's lawyers, a journalist, john solomon, so then i hear this noise about schiff being the target of a grand jury subpoena, and him complaining about it. when in fact, he is telling us in court that we can't get access to the records and he is telling the court that this is essentially unreviewable. that the congress can issue subpoenas without going through a grand jury, without going through a federal court, without having to tell anyone. it was rudy giuliani and president trump, but it can be anyone. anyone watching now can hav

meaning that the white house can control the department of justice.s only the norm that this current president has re-established which is that the white house is not going to be dictating who to prosecute and who not to prosecute. we really need to have better guardrails that congress enforces in order to see this not repeat itself. because there will be another trump if it's not trump himself it will be somebody else who tries to emulate what he did. >> roselyn, when you go through the emails -- we noticed this. it feels as if many of the doj officials -- it's almost that they knew we would be looking at these emails within six months to a year or certainly they would be more public than they were. did you get that sense going through all this? >> yeah. i think that there was some conversation, particularly by rosen, at the end that had a bit of an eye to history there. i mean, these are people who are certainly familiar with how situations like this unfold, with the power of congress to obtain documents, with the power. i think they were speaking n

we also work closely with the fire department and department of public health because they have outreach teams as well. i think in the new system with the different teams, the idea is to get the right team out for what is needed. if it's drug overknows, if it's wellness. we have to be strong partners with each other across the department. covid taught us that, we can do this as a city. >> supervisor haney: i do think if we're going to create a system that works, it is comprehensive and fluid and such, we have to rethink the street response and what it looks like and you know, i know we're doing that in other departments but i think ultimately i would like to see the street response be more directly under the department of homelessness. last thing i'm going to say, it's not necessarily that you would agree with it. when we think of vacancies, you all have so many permanent supportive housing providers you contract with and it is very important that we continue to provide cost of living increases, the cost of doing business, making sure that the jobs that are a part of our larger homelessn

planning department. welcome. >> good afternoon. thank you very much. we've got a slide presentation as well and so good afternoon chair haney, president walton and supervisors safai and mar. i'm here to present the planning department's budget. first i want to thank the mayor's office and controller's office and your offices for their support during the process. also thank our planning team here today. it goes without saying it's been a challenging past 15 months operationally and financially for the department so thank you all. the next slide shows our planning volume and our budget is driven in major part by the volume of applications since that's where the bulk of our revenue is derived from. in the past several years we've seen a levelling off in building permits and planning applications. fy19-20 was on track to be at the same level until march when the pandemic hit. in this year we've experienced a volatile year of revenues. you sue see the reduced activity and as a result we'll continue to be cons

department. on everything from our refugee programs to our global response in multilateral engagement. for example, this week, we're sponsoring our first in the united states of the rights of transgender people worldwide. we believe that the united states belongs at the forefront of the fight, speaking out, standing up for our values and we couldn't do that without our people. i want to give a special thank you to all the teams of glifa, past and present who blazed a trail, one step at a time, often in the feast of great resistance, to change our country and the state department for the better. we have a great deal of work to do before the human rights of all people are expected. that's a mission we're proud to undertake and i'm very grateful to all of you for being a part of it. with that, we will have a conversation and also to hear from some of you, jonathan, over to you. >> mr. secretary, again, thank you very much for being here, and before we get to the topic at hand, i have to ask the ques

and sheriff's department and police department and it was a great hearing. i any there are ways we can adjust. i would like to do that and the mayor wants more classes and i would like to figure out how to do that appropriately. >> definitely, definitely. and some of the reform were really puzzled to focus on this around recruiting and who we recruit and how we recruit and who is watching out and we're better suited because of that to make these adjustments that you speak of and i'll follow-up. i did legal questions and i have to follow-up on that and i think from a management perspective and the better course of sax to add balance and make adjustments and on outreach but not through exclude any swath of the population because it's going to create a problem down the road. >> thank you, chief. >> thank you. >> thank you so much supervisor peskin. supervisor ronen. >> thank you. i just have to say supervisor peskin, i love that idea. i hear what you are saying chief but i never thought about it in that way but i know in the san bruno it took us a long time to

our review highlights areas in which the department to address as a whole.y any to clearly define a mission expectation, skill set needed for both cert and argue. not a swat team nor should they ever be considered one. talk is a police function whereas cert needs to be a task team supporting the overall capitol police and same for role and responsible use of sru. during our review, it was revealed one of the entities used by cert for the red questionable content on its website. during 2018, 2019 the department spent $90000 for cert to train with northern red. the homepage of the company's website uses the slogan for those who have hundred armed men, training is ever the same. some of the content could have multiple meanings, their use on the training could lead employees to feel unsafe or uncomfortable for the mark capitol police participation at a training northern red robotic could lead individuals to believe capitol police sanctions to use this. as a result, we issued management advisory report dated may 26, 2021 to communicate this affirmation to the dep

other departments . so respectfully i know you have a lot of hard decisions ahead of you on the budget committee. and i really appreciate all your work chair haney and the committee but i would respectfully suggest that we should be looking for a cut, a 10 percent cut in year one and year two. as at least a minimal second step towards responding to the call and maybe to justify the call from advocates around getting serious about re-envisioning policing in san francisco. thank you again somuch for your time and i appreciate . >> thank you supervisor presto . thank you all for your great questions i had a few questions that were not addressed thank you again chief scott. one is on this year 2 and i agree that with others we hope to see some of these investments and alternatives and helping to free up some resources as well as allowing officers to focus on more serious crimes or crimes at all and making sure that we have public health personnel responding to behavioral health issues . but i did want to und

the legal departments of the justice department should be different from political influence.h that means. as other attorney general before you have done, you lay out very specific rules about the very restrictive number of people that can communicate from the white house to the justice department in the matter of any pending or potential criminal investigation. as far as we understand, that memo is still policy at the justice department has not been recent id. yet, this weekend here's the white house chief of staff jeff meadows pressed to investigate election fraud frame -- trump white has had the chief of staff calling the justice department calling the attorney general telling him to go chase rabbit six to go chase down some of the craziest conspiracy theories about how trump was supposedly robbed of his rightful election result in 2020. just have to ask your reaction to that given your role and directly shaping the policy that supposed to block that from happening. >> let me just say, that story is appalling. remember you're talking about it is called a context policy but.

is his justice department ready to clean house? and what we know about the conspiracy charges from militia members scene with roger stone one day before the insurrection. all in starts right now. >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. what do you do when the person who abuses their position of authority? elemental question in the history of human government. a question our country has been confronting persistently since long before donald trump. but even more insistently since his presidency and its aftermath. today, as we did just new revelations about the scope of the abuse of power that occurred under the former president, we're also seeing an answer to that very question. and it comes from republicans. not the ones in the nation's capital. not the ones associated with the exiled chieftain at mar-a-lago. rather comes from a republican party in the state of oregon. the state lawmakers they're confronted the same question that we are confronting in society. the same one that democrats and republicans alike, confronted at

that's what happened at the trump justice department. trump leaned on senior officials to act on this crazy stuff and they didn't just sit on it. they fielded it out to actual federal prosecutors and attorneys. a bunch of times. this is a shocking part of the story. certainly the more urgent matter for the current justice department under garland to act on and investigate to get to the bottom of it. clean up and make sure it never happens again. we have it all in black and white. december 14, 2020. the time stamp. 4:57 p.m. subject from potus. it's got an attachment. this non-sense conspiracy theory stuff about michigan. a cover up on voting crime. laws have been broken. a capitol c cover up is happening. regarding the voting machines in michigan. a seditious conspiracy. this is flier you find in a bathroom somewhere. and decide to leave the place not come back. the president of the united states sent this to a top justice department official on december 14. at 4:57 p.m. what happened to it? two minutes later, the principle deputy to the

after thinking about it i took the risk going from a 2010 or department to a 60 person department thately disrespect it and totally ineffective. probably one of the best decisions i made my life a cassette gave me so much to see with getting into a small organization testing myality to turn that organization around and emulate my rule model and i learned so much. bob wasserman was at that time consulting and i think was chief of operations for lee brown of houston texas. lee was taken on the good old boys of houston pd and i went down to houston to meet with bob and work with bob on a plan of action including redesigning the police car the image of the urbanization. my first major plan of action was developed the mta. the metro transfer -- metro transit authority is a city municipality. i was in five different counties and literally 78 cities in town. those challenges were meant and we had subways and commuter rail and we had trolleys. i had a lot of fun. i brought a couple of people on board like al sweeney the lifelong friend. and blending the police department as you know is like so

we convened many city department working groups including staff from key departments who poured timeand creativity and knowledge into the process. along the way we conducted various forms of targeted stakeholder engagement, including zero emissions building task force and as part of that, the anchor partner network where we specifically had a process to work with community stakeholders the identify equity priorities for residential building decarbonzation. other examples include multiple transportation and land use focus groups during the development phase and key staff from our teams providing regular updates to policy bodies, for example the urban forest council. the team worked internally for greenhouse gas reductions efforts in building and transportation and updates and strategies through ongoing engagement. we applied racial and social equity tool analysis and had rigorous working sessions with staff for equity language and we're collecting information such as high level of cost, feasibility and capacity to implement the strategies. update based on feedback that is currently un