we're going to talk to mayor driscoll. that's later on in the show. the president ending his tirade of a letter with this. quote, i write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a permanent and indelible record. so he's saying he wants to go down -- this to go down on his permanent record. well, his wish is granted. and all of this coming at this momentous time in our history. it raises serious questions about the president's fitness for office. but what do you expect from the president who just this afternoon with impeachment looming, refused to take any responsibility for any of it? >> mr. president, do you take any responsibility for the fact that you're about to be impeached? >> no, i don't take any. zero to put it mildly. they took a perfect phone call that i had with the president of ukrai ukraine, an absolutely perfect call. you know it. they all know it. nothing was said wrong in that call. to impeach the president of the united states for that is a disgrace and it's a mark on our country. >> and with all of thi

her name is kim driscoll. she's the mayor of salem, massachusetts, and she tweets this, and i'm quoting here. "oy vey. again, learn some history. going on to point out that in salem in 1692 innocent people with no evidence against them were put to death. contrasting that with ample evidence and admissions of wrongdoing in the ukraine case." we're going to talk to mayor driscoll. that's later on in the show. the president ending his tirade of a letter with this. quote, i write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a permanent and indelible record. so he's saying he wants to go down -- this to go down on his permanent record. well, his wish is granted. and all of this coming at this momentous time in our history. it raises serious questions about the president's fitness for office. but what do you expect from the president who just this afternoon with impeachment looming, refused to take any responsibility for any of it? >> mr. president, do you take any responsibility for the f

an important female pioneer was agnes driscoll, a texas schoolteacher who joined the navy during worldwar i. there was a brief period when women were recruited into the navy during world war i, she joined, then the women were discharged after world war i. actually able0 which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] -- actually a law was written to bar women from the navy. but she came back to work as a civilian in the u.s. navy and during the 1930's it was agnes driscoll who broke the japanese fleet code, meaning she figured the fivet worked, digits, adding of another five digits using a non-carrying addition so that we would have to subtract those numbers out. that is one way codes are broken, and when somebody diagnoses just how it works, and then there is the daily breaking of messages. that was done by agnes driscoll at a time when most male officers did not want to do this non-prestigious work that was not good for your career. as a civilian, she was in washington looking at a japanese codebook that we had captured from the embassy, i think in new yo

president driscoll, thank you for reminding me, there's a requirement that each of you complete the implicit bias training before december 31st. i've included in my report the instructions on how to access that. my understanding is that it's a 45-minute course that you need to have a certificate of completion and you must file it can darlene before december 31st. i'm not familiar with this training. department heads have to take a full day training. which i'm going to be take on december 20th. so i just a reminder, i believe that there is a list that needs to be presented to the board of supervisors of all department heads and commissioners who have not completed the implicit bias training so we're hoping that none of us will be on that list when it's presented to the board of supervisors. if you need any help accessing that, give darlene a call. finally, our holiday party will be this friday. starting at 2:00 at hotel fusion. certainly, any board members that can stop by you are welcome. on behalf of staff, we want to wish the retirement board as well as the audience a very safe and happy h

and thank you to president driscoll for attending the seminar as well. i would like to move onto operation. we are proud to announce that enrollment was up in day one of the transition, which was september 3. it was a great way for participants to enroll any time anywhere, without requiring the plan to hand over confidential employee information to a third party. to date over 300 participants have enrolled via the web, that's in less than two months. on page four you can see screenshots of the online enrollment experience. if you would like the see clear visuals you can go download a copy of the how to enroll online flier or i can send you one. we also launched the new rate escalator. this allows participants to set and forget increases times alongside raises or increases in july. this is slowly gaining ground and we expect more adoption in early january when most contribution changes occur. i should inform the board that the annual irs contribution limbs are increasing by $500 for 2020 making the limit 19,500 for planned contribution. catch-up wb -- wil

president, driscoll, i would say that in this recommendation, we reserve the right to come back to the board at any time if we have identified a tool or an asset that our current consultant is not providing go through another rp or rfi process to identify it. we have done that on the reporting side, on the private market side, hiring two separate consultants. even though we had two responses here, we believe that if there comes a need for a tool or something we know is out there that is beneficial, we would come back and basically either do an rfi or rfp to identify folks to produce this and i think we look at consultants differently than five years ago when we hired nepc and certainly, you know, the staff's recommendation speaks for itself. however, if, in fact, there's a tool that is identified that we believe nepc does not have, we would come back and also recommend that we would engage them on a project basis to deliver that tool. >> thank you. yes, there is the issue of project work which is different from the issue of -- is there a difference to justify a cost as part two? and si

i wanted to take dante and jimmy to driscoll foods because in any restaurant, the food distributor isnot only do they deliver the food, but they help you craft the menu. they help you work on your food costs, and they give you other ideas of things that are working and not working in the marketplace. dante: okay, so, um, i guess maybe we could start -- i could show you what i'm ordering now. jimmy: give him the menu first. that way, he'll get a taste of what the business is like, and then you'll -- john: the best way to go about this is to be able to match up apples to apples as far as pricing is concerned. dante: invoices? john: yeah, invoices are great. jimmy: what about the situation with the sauce and the special sauce you need and the cheese you need? there was a big problem when we made the last switch. lemonis: maybe just for a second, jimmy, for one second, if you could let your son just answer a question. john: i would be charging you $33.50 for romaine hearts, and they charge you $39.58. lemonis: what's that as a percentage? dante: as a percentage? lemonis: yep. dante: how w

driscoll hunter is the ace of the 94th and he'll go on to be a general in the world war ii era. he says you're not fighting a person. it's a machine. when he's in that cockpit he can't recognize that he's talking about another human being. it's just a machine. this french pilot pierre le pardin of 21, and he is talking about dogfights and how crazy it is and there are bullets flying everywhere and there are these planes squirrelling because these guys talk about one-on-one aerial duels as the thing they want to do, but that's not how most of these fights were and they'll be eight on eight and a lot of them will be much higher and there are specific battles where there are 100 planes in the air at one time. it's more crazy and disorienting and terrifying than anything else. it's impossible to speak of chivalry in that kind of a scenario. arthur writes, davis talks about the same thing and the similar dogfight where you can think of is pumping led and looking out and avoiding collisions and missing each other by a couple of feet and that's not nobility dueling and that's insanity

in response to his comments, the mayor of salem, kim driscoll, tweeted that the president should "learne of evidence and resulted in innocent victims being killed. she then contrasted that with the case against the president, which she said involved "ample evidence", with the perpetrators amongst the most powerful and privileged. i'm joined by drjonathan parker, a senior lecturer of american politics at keele university. good morning. let's begin with that letter to president trump has sent to nancy pelosi anti—potosi has been denied the most fundamental rights afforded by the constitution, including the right to give evidence. but he was invited, wasn't he, to give evidence to this impeachment hearing, so that is classic donald trump, isn't it? yes, one of the charges as he obstructed congress in this investigation. again, this is classic donald trump tactics. he is trying to call this an assault on democracy and he is trying to throw as much smoke and fire as he can at this and make it as partisan as possible. and what difference, ultimately, do you think thatis difference, ultimately

he was a baptist leading people with names like maloney, driscoll, and o'farrell. he wrote his future wife, i do not know what will happen when the first explosions hit and the clouds of gas come. on the day two horses were shot out from under him, one private look at him trying to recover, through the bottle thick glasses, he said, harry truman don't scare with eight da -- wo rth a damn. the infantry from harlem was there, known as the harlem health fighters -- hell fighters. they were not allowed to enter the parade. when they reached europe, they were assigned to the french army because so many american units would not fight with them. in the two years they were in western europe, the harlem hellfighters suffered more casualties, 1500, earned more decorations, and spent more time on the western front than any unit in the american army. and when they returned, the people of new york righted a wrong. fifthead the parade up avenue when the american army came home. back to alvin york, that ordinary man called upon to do extraordinary things. york became a voice not

kim driscoll is her name saying learn some history to the president of the united states.salem, there was an absence of evidence and powerless, innocent civilians were hanged or pressed to death. at the ukraine affair, there is ample evidence, admissions of wrongdoing, perpetrators are among the most powerful and privileged. we mentioned nancy pelosi sending out her own letter, it came in the form of a dear colleague letter to a democratic -- democratic members of the house and this is part of what she wrote, no member came to congress to impeach a president, but everyone of us stood on the house floor, raised our hand and usk a sacred oath that makes custodians of the constitution. the facts have made clear the president abused his power for his own personal, political benefit and obstructed congress as he demanded he is above accountability, above the constitution, and above the american people. in america, no one is above the law. host: jacksonville, florida, republican caller, you are next. lloyd, good morning. caller: it is lloyd in jacksonville and it is a great day