at the same time, i was doing my own reporting in kiev, talking toenior sources with direc knowledge of the matter. they said the foreign government in question was ukraine's. there were cutouts -- it was not done directly by the government of ukraine. but my sources tell me that the payment was effected by the ukrainian president to michael cohen to make su that poroshenko got more than a humiliatingly short photo op in the white house, he got something he could call talks. jane: what ithe state of lations between ukraine and the u.s. since all this is said to have happened? paul: it was an interesting arc -- during the election campaign rainian government along with a lot of people thought that hillary clinton would win and tnald trump wouldn't victor. the ukrainians were particularly worried by what they saw as the pro-russian tone of trump's remarks. according to my sources, they intervened, they leaked material harmful to paul manafort paul manafort had to resign. if that is what happened, it was a disastrous miscalculation, and that l to the scramble to ge a proper sitdown with

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. >> madam chair, before we leave this subject, i have a statement to the executiv executive direc. i have been on this commission a little short of 16 months now, and i would have thought that there would have been a session to education commissioners who are new to the commission about the public finance responsibility. including the details which are discussed. in both the applicant's documents and your documents, and i don't know if the other commissioners who have been appointed have received such a lesson or indoctrine nation but it should be done. i would like to schedule a time for the staff that are dealing with this subject to educate me on the details of it. >>speaker: thank you commissioner kopp. as you know we provide as many sessions as possible and certainly we can make a detailed session available to any and all commissioners individually or as a group if that is useful to you. >> the other question i have is how long have we had a commissioner covington with this, whatever it is, net -. >>speaker: we have had a commissioner covington with them about seven or eight y

these antennas being installed are direc directional. in order to be a contribution, you would need to have a an antenna has aligned with the direction, if you will, that the antenna is pointed out. these are low powered antennas being installed. we took the time to do background measurements in this neighborhood to determine what the ambient level is right now. it's extremely low. there's not -- it's at the lowest level that our instrument will measure. >> i guess the question that is in my mind is purely a procedural question. that is, i'm not disputing the fact that, perhaps, they don't contribute any other sources given the distance factor. however, there are -- in our city, there are many procedural forms and processes, whether it's planning, whether it's at building or other places. if the answer is 0, you have to put a 0. is that done here in this case? >> i didn't actually do the review of the report. i can -- i have the inspector who did the review of the report who can comment on that field that was filled out. but yeah, proced

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