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most of the commission went on record saying we want ethics reform. there are op-ed's from larry tribe, all of these people on the commission. that they were not allowed to give recommendation. to the other points, this ethics code is something that almost existed for the supreme court. after watergate there were a lot of good government rules being put into effect. also laws that would establish the ethics commission that could have investigated any unethical behavior of the justices. unfortunately, they lobbied against their inclusion. we voted for five people, jesse helms, barry goldwater, joe biden, pat lahey. we are talking about a bipartisan bill 45-50 years ago. there should be a way to file a complaint, it is not a radical idea. it was put into place before mitch mcconnell's favor court, the ninth circuit, they said we will just take what the ninth circuit is doing. that was the way it developed. it is no more dangerous than having the senate ethics committee or house ethics committee. host: we will go to nikki, rockaway park, new york, indepen

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ethics. commission for watching and for doing your part to serve with effe integrity. >> in case there is is>> we are the risk takers the dreamers the we are the creative the artists makers and the the gold rush and shaped by earthquake and cool by the fog. rocked by itself people. we we grow here and take a a chap her roots here. we foundrselves here. and we are the opened in san francisco where supportive people to help every step andeaking. >> to welcoming the first from idea to opening san fran to our dreams and made them start your legacies >> good morning and th before i start i want e our mayor london breed, lieutenant tom mcguire. [indiscernible] assistant chief , lazar and president of our police officer association mccray. thank you all for being here the press conference this morning. first of all, we are here to talk exciting to us and that's the introduction of ourz drone program in the san francisco police department. before i go further, i our mayor, london breed and our da for being here, because it is her leadership that got us here and proposition e voters passed in march.a

indeed, what's actually happened to starmer's ethics and integrity commission , ethics and integrity ch he promised to set up because it was going to be able to start independent inquiries independently without prime ministerial authorisation. but the prime minister, if he were so anti—sleaze and so holy as he pretends to be, could actually give this authority to sir laurie today to decide whether or to not investigate the chancellor. it seems to me that he definitely should. but the sleaze, alas, does not end there. the sunday times revealed lord alli, another labour party donon lord alli, another labour party donor, has been given a no ten pass, which is unusual for anyone other than civil servants, politicians, political advisers . but he did donate advisers. but he did donate £10,000 to sue grey's son's campaign. but the hero gave £16,000 to pay for the now prime minister's clothing for his makeover. here's what sir keir starmer was wearing before the donation. and here's what he's wearing after the donation. isn't it an amazing transformation? don't you see the personification of

the civil me the starting point for major reboot of the ethic commission including disclosure, transparencyarry work made the public officials more tranfor research, creating categories of disclosure.r san francisco candidates, reports and conflict of interest reporting. model of engaged citizen in local government, model we need more then ever, rest in peace, larry h. finally colleagues, i like to adjourn in honor a 9 year sfpd officer lost sunday far a native, officer ortega sea police officer since he was a child. he viewed police day super hereees. oes ood and great empathy from all walks of life. my heart, our heart goes , coirk withers and the police department, particularly at he served. lover of country music, he was planningter this week. 30th birthday would have been friday. con dolances. f >> thank you. >> president peskin, if you can add me to both of those in memoriams. in peace officer ortega and larry bush. >> supervisor dorsey.be added as cospoularry bush and officer ortega. >> why don't we make from entire board without objection. >> thank you mr. president. >> submit. >> t

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and then most of the commission then went on record and said actually went ethics reform for lent term limits. tons of op ed from roosevelt, professor johnson, professor fredrickson, always have on the commission. all support term limits at ethics they were not allowed to give recommendations per se. to senator mcconnell's other point, binding ethics code is something that almost existed for the supreme court. after a watergate there's a lot of good government rules been put into effect like the final disclosure law we are all familiar with. also a law that would have established an ethics -- of the judicial conduct commission that could have investigated on unethical behavior of the justices. the justices lobbied against their inclusionel in that bill that taken out of the bill the bill with the justices and it was about it for me by barry goldwater, strom thurmond, orrin hatch, joe biden, pat leahy, we are talking about a bipartisan bill again 45 or 50 years ago the justices -- make a shabby way to file a complaint against the dress is there a way to adjudicate that complaint. it is

indeed, what's actually happened to starmer's ethics and integrity commission , ethics and integrity ch he promised to set up because it was going to be able to start independent inquiries independently without prime ministerial authorisation. but the prime minister, if he were so anti—sleaze and so holy as he pretends to be, could actually give this authority to sir laurie today to decide whether or to not investigate the chancellor. it seems to me that he definitely should. but the sleaze, alas, does not end there. the sunday times revealed starmer was wearing before the donation. and here's what he's wearing after the donation. isn't it an amazing transformation? don't you see the personification of beauty now standing before you ? doesn't now standing before you? doesn't that impress you? and don't you think that for £16,000, perhaps the prime minister could have done a little bit better? he could have gone for the liberace ? could have gone for the liberace? look, i think that would have been appealing with some of those fine dame edna glasses or even, yes, with that much money,

misconduct with connection to improperly seeking financial gain and will appear before the state ethics commission in december. now, hill denies any wrongdoing. murdaugh, meanwhile, is serving life without parole after a jury found him guilty of killing his wife and son. we, of course, will continue to follow this case. >> george: thank you, eva. we're going to turn to the economy. inflation numbers due out this morning. rebecca jarvis here with a preview and the economic warning from one of the nation's largest retailers. >> rebecca: good morning, george. inflation reached a milestone, now below 3 opin% for the first since 2021. it will determine what the federal reserve does when it meets in september and whether it lowers interest rates for the first time in over four years. while consumers and businesses are still stretched by prices considerably higher than they were three years ago, the rate of price increases has slowed dramatically and economists believe inflation in july was unchanged from june. 3% higher than it was a year ago. not quite the fed's target 2% rate, but a signal that there

most of the commission went on record saying we want ethics reform. e are op-ed's from larry tribe, all of these people on the commission. that they were not allowed to give recommendation. to the other points, this ethics code is something that almost existed for the supreme court. after watergate there were a lot of good government rules being put into effect. also laws that would establish the ethics commission that could have investigated any unethical behavior of the justices. unfortunately, they lobbied against their inclusion. we voted for five people, jesse helms, barry goldwater, joe biden, pat lahey. we are talking about a bipartisan bill 45-50 years ago. there should be a way to file a complaint, it is not a radical idea. it was put into place before mitch mcconnell's favor court, the ninth circuit, they said we will just take what the ninth circuit is doing. that was the way it developed. it is no more dangerous than having the senate ethics committee or house ethics committee. host: we will go to nikki, rockaway park, new york, independent

of powers indefinitely in 2016, the higher quorum commission recognized novikova as unfit for the position based on the criteria of professional ethicsmembers of the commission made a similar decision two years ago the highest quality of the commission went beyond their authority and interfered in my personal life, that's why i appealed it, i have the right to it as an individual and not only as a judge, so i believe that it was a violation, to this day it remains open. tamara novikova, like the majority of ukrainian judges , has very loving parents who spent their whole lives saving money for expensive gifts for their daughter. i was constantly, as they say, in such poor, modest premises, to put it mildly, that's why my mother couldn't stand it, she says, we will do everything so that you, i i understand that this is an endless struggle for you and that you should not be bothered by the owner. according to the candidate for the constitutional court, the lion's share of the money for the real estate was given by her mother, who worked as a teacher, and although the apartment was intended for living... it was the judges who issued it

in 2016, the higher quorum commission recognized novikova as unfit for the position based on the criteria of professional ethicsers of the commission made a similar decision two years ago. members of the highest quality commission went beyond their authority and interfered in my personal life. that's why i contested it, i have to law, as an individual and not only as a judge. therefore, i believe that it was a violation, to date, it remains open. tamara novikova, like the majority of ukrainian judges, has very loving parents who spent their whole lives saving money for expensive gifts for their daughter. i was constantly, as they say, in very poor, modest quarters, to put it mildly, so my mother did not insist, she says, we will do everything so that you, i understand what you have... it is an endless struggle and so that you were not bothered by the owner, according to the words candidate for the constitutional court, the lion's share of the money for real estate was given by her mother, who worked as a teacher, and although the apartment was intended for the residence of the judge, it was also issued for her

in 2016 , the higher qualification commission recognized novikova as unfit for the position according to the criteria of professional ethicsnd integrity. the members of the commission made a similar decision two years ago. members of the highest quality commission went beyond their powers and my personal life interfered. that's why i contested it, i have the right to it as a physical person. person and not only as a judge, so i think it was a violation, to this day, it remains open, tamara novikova, like most ukrainian judges, has very loving parents who saved money for expensive gifts for their daughter all their lives, i constantly, as they say, stayed in very poor, modest premises, this m "to put it bluntly, that's why my mother didn't extort, we say everything... we'll do it so that you, i understand that this is an endless struggle for you and that you are not harassed by the owner, according to the candidate for the constitutional court, she gave the lion's share of the money for real estate mother, who worked as a teacher, and although the apartment was intended for the residence of the judge, it was arranged for th

unchallenged. in 2016, the higher qualification commission recognized novikova as having failed to respond. gives positions according to the criteria of professional ethicsmbers of the commission made a similar decision two years ago, members of the higher the qualification commissions went beyond their authority and interfered in my personal life, so i contested it, i have the right to do so as an individual and not only as a judge, so i believe it was a violation, to date it remains open. tamara novikova, like most ukrainian judges, has very loving parents. who had been saving money for expensive gifts for their daughter all their lives, i was constantly, as they say, in such poor, modest quarters, to put it mildly, that's why my mother could not stand it, she says: we will do everything so that you, i i understand that this is an endless struggle for you and that you are not harassed by the owner, according to the candidate for the constitutional court, the lion's share of the money for the real estate was given by her mother, who... worked as a teacher, and although the apartment was intended for the residence of the judge, it was also arranged for m

i agree, that's why we , as a union of journalists, support the mandate of the commission of journalistic ethicsit is accordingly a public initiative, where respectable and authoritative media experts are represented, who condemn accordingly. make a public condemnation and distinguish professional responsible journalists from unethical ones and help just the audience with media consumption. there is a very resonant story from us after the audit data of the accounting chamber were made public, because we have a state the enterprise is actually a state enterprise, it is a rada channel, and it is registered separately under a certain specific introduction, self-covering of all activities of the parliament. the committee of every deputy of every faction of the party of groups, it was constantly transformed into such semi-censored things, today we are for power, we wet the opposition, but it has never happened before that the tv channel rada became in fact an appendix to a private office, i am talking about kinokit, how is it so, we have a parliamentary tv channel, a state-owned enterprise has been t

in 2016, the higher quorum commission recognized novikova as unfit for the position based on the criteria of professional ethics and integrity. a similar decision members of the commission adopted it two years ago. the members of the highest-ranking commission went beyond their powers. my private life, that's why i challenged it, i have the right to it as an individual and not only as a judge, so i think it was a violation, to date it remains open. tamara novikova, like the majority of ukrainian judges, has very loving parents who saved money for expensive gifts for their daughter all her life. i was constantly, as they say, staying with very poor, humble people... that's why, to put it mildly my mother did not insist, she says, we will do everything so that you, i understand that this is an endless struggle for you, and that you are not harassed, also the owner, according to the candidate for the constitutional court , the lion's share of the money for real estate was given by her mother, who worked as a teacher, and although the apartment was intended for the judge to live in, it was also issued for my mother

ethics and integrity. the members of the commission made a similar decision two years ago.highest quality commission went beyond their powers and interfered in my personal life. that's why i appealed it, i have to this right, as an individual and not only as a judge. so i think it was a violation. today it leaves. open tamara novikova, like the majority of ukrainian judges, has very loving parents who saved money for expensive gifts for their daughter all her life. i was constantly, as they say, in very poor, modest premises, to put it mildly, so my mother could not stand it, she says, we will do everything so that you, i understand that this is an endless struggle for you and that you will not be harassed any more the owner according to the candidate of of the constitutional court, the lion's share of the money for the real estate was given by the mother, who worked as a teacher, and although the apartment was intended for the residence of the judge, it was also issued for the mother. the fact is that i did not have enough money to buy it, but to take it from my mother and

facts that may testify to the dishonesty of judge pavel gorbasenko the commission will make a fair decision about him. the ethics council completed interviews with candidates for the position of member of the supreme council of justice under the quota of president volodymyr zelenskyi. currently, the vrp has 17 members out of 21. the president has to appoint two , and for more than a year and a half, the seats are empty, and the applicants are doubtful. this is nataliya panchenko, judge of the kyiv district administrative court. and she has a wonderful friendly family and. good social security, he lives in his mother's apartments, which his sister bought, he drives in his daughter's car, and feeds on rations from the state. i am a person who knows how to save, and i had no need to spend. since 2022, panchenko and her husband have been living in an apartment designed for the judge's mother. 64 m almost in the center of kyiv, she bought it back in december 2012. the whole family allegedly threw themselves into real estate. financing this. apartment took place, i am once again talking about the fact that at the expe

the proposed ministers appear in their specialized commissions, talk to the representatives , the representatives actually check their records, work ethic management, in fact , they ask their own questions in the matter of upper-level documents, and they they also have to answer and convince their representatives . of course, the proposed ministers can be present in other commissions, so maybe two commissions are related to each other. these and some other commissions, of course, some of them are there to get the votes of the parliament on the day of the vote of confidence, this will take a week, then i apologize for what happened between your words and what is happening today and the proposed list of proposed ministers. mr. president, present to the islamic council , these speculations in cyberspace about the proposed lists of ministers are over. it is possible to find out which are the proposed ministers, because in the last one or two days , the number of lists that were published by different groups of different people on virtual networks has increased. well, this is a natural thing , it is the whole world and our country. yes, befo

and in your manifesto, you pledged to establish a new independent ethics and integrity commission withdowning street for more than 50 days now. can you commit to telling us when you're going to launch this commission? and can you confirm today that the chair will have the power to launch their own probes autonomously, and that they will be able to publish independent verdicts from those probes? thank you. >> well , lucy, look, that is a >> well, lucy, look, that is a commitment that we made. we will stick to it. i don't have a precise date. i do think it's important that it can initiate its own, inquiries, if you like , its own, inquiries, if you like, because that has been an inhibitor in the past, so that commitment stands as soon as we got a date, i'll give you a date. but i am very keen that it has the ability to start investigations under its own steam, because i think that's one of the bits that's been missing. thank you all very much indeed.thank missing. thank you all very much indeed. thank you . all right. indeed. thank you. all right. >> so just in case you wondered, that's

submitted an opinion on this, this opinion got to commission despite the conclusion that mustayo did not meet the criteria of integrity and professional ethicsthe panel of three members of the previous composition of the supreme court decided that the judge was fit for the position. this decision was preliminary and... should have entered into force after consideration by the plenary composition of the vkk, i.e. by its 11 members, and this is exactly what usat didn't like very much. he objected to the next review, believing that the decision of the troika about his suitability for the position was quite sufficient. judge mustachio, he indicated that in his opinion, actually, he has already been recognized virtuous of course, it would always be desirable for judges that when... three of my colleagues recognized them as suitable, then it should continue to work like that, but the actual practice, the reading of the law, its interpretation was such that everyone always expected this plenary composition, so that 11 people gave its conclusion. vitaly usatiy went to court and the country's highest judicial body supported his position. in the anti-

commission. despite the conclusion that mustayo did not meet the criteria of integrity and professional ethics, the panel of three members of the previous composition of the supreme court decided that the judge was fit for the position. this is the solution. was preliminary and should have entered into force, was preliminary and should have entered into force after consideration by the plenary composition of the central committee, i.e. by its 11 members, and this very thing is not liked in march he objected to further consideration, believing that the troika's decision on his suitability for the position was quite sufficient. judge mustachio, he indicated that in his opinion, actually, he has already been recognized as virtuous. of course, for judges, it would always be desirable that, when my three colleagues found them suitable, then it should continue to work like that. and, actually, the practice, the reading of the law, its... interpretation was such that everyone always expected this plenary composition, that 11 people would give their opinion. vitaliy usatiy went to court and the country's h

ethics form, riding on an airplane with somebody. that has changed now since the controversy, the judicial commission has changed that where it is now reported that the idea that justice thomas did something unethical because he didn't report something that wasn't supposed to be reported is an example of the types of attacks that were occurring. we were collecting these daily from these groups that were funded by the left that running these articles. they were sometimes averaging 25 articles a day across the country. so when you see on the court over and over again, and by the way, these things that they attack alito and thomas for, justice ginsburg and sotomayor and others on the left have done all these things and more and no articles written on those. it is clearly a partisan attempt to lower the respect for the court, to delegitimize the court in order to then have more control over the court. i think it is damaging to our country and it is really unfair to the justices. in none of these articles did you ever have the thing that we would all worry about, which is it any justice was given anything and then had somebody appear bef

commission. despite the conclusion that mustayo did not meet the criteria of integrity and professional ethics, theof three members of the previous composition of the supreme court decided that the judge was fit for the position. this decision was preliminary and was supposed to enter into force after consideration by the plenary composition of the vcks, i.e. on its 11th members and that's exactly what sato didn't like very much, he denied the next review, believing that the decision of the troika about his suitability for the position was quite enough. judge mustachio, he indicated that in his opinion, actually, he has already been recognized as virtuous. of course, for judges, it would always be desirable that, when the collegium of three people recognized them as suitable, then it should continue to work that way. and, actually, the practice... of reading the law, its interpretation was such that everyone always expected this plenary composition, that 11 people would give their opinion. vitaliy usatiy went to court and the highest judicial the country's authority supported his position. the anti

commission. despite the conclusion that mustayo did not meet the criteria of integrity and professional ethics, theel of three members of the previous composition of the supreme court decided that the judge was fit for the position. this decision was preliminary and was supposed to enter into force after consideration by the plenary vkks, i.e. 11 of its members. and that was exactly what usato didn't like. he objected to further consideration, believing that the decision of the troika on... his suitability for the position is quite sufficient, judge mustachio, he indicated that in his opinion, in fact, he has already been recognized as virtuous, of course, for judges , it would always be desirable that when the panel of three person recognized them as appropriate, then it should continue to work, but the actual practice, the reading of the law, its interpretation was such that everyone always expected this plenary... composition, for 11 people to give their opinion. vitaly usatiy went to court and the country's highest judicial body supported his position. the anti-corruption center emphasizes that

conclusion about this, this conclusion got to the commission, despite the conclusion that the mustache did not meet the criteria of integrity and professional ethicsa panel of... three members of the previous composition the supreme court of appeals decided that the judge is fit for the position. this decision was preliminary and was supposed to enter into force after consideration by the plenary composition of the vcks, that is, by its 11 members. and that was exactly what usato didn't like. he denied the next review, believing that the decision of the troika about his suitability for the position is quite enough. judge usatiy, he indicated that in his opinion, in fact, he... has already been recognized as virtuous, of course, for judges , it would always be desirable that when three of my colleagues recognized them as suitable, then they should continue to work that way, and actually the practice , reading of the law, its interpretation was such that everyone always expected this plenary composition, that 11 people would give their opinion. vitaly usati went to court and the country's highest judicial body supported his position. in the center o

ethical difficulties? >> well, firstly, i'm always up for the next challenge. so whoever wants to commissione new world, i'm happy to go to have the challenge presented to me, i don't see it as picking out a an ethnic or religious group. >> is there a problem with that? >> is there a problem with that? >> in a way, i think these artworks are about being hyper, hyper local. so the idea is to show that within each of these communities, there is an entire world, as it were, under every stone there's an entire world. so i actually want to go more and more and more specific. if someone said, could you do just the story of specifically jewish refugee refugees in stepney green? great. i will depict that entire world, so to me , it's all entire world, so to me, it's all about appreciating the kind of wonderful complexity and diversity of stories that exist in even this small own little world that we for take granted has either you or your art attracted any hostility, it hasn't yet. no, which has been a very pleasant. yes, yes. >> long may it continue. >> long may it continue. >> thank you. >> thank

commission. santos made history last year when he became only the sixth member of congress in u.s. history to be expelled from the house after the ethicshe misused campaign cash to buy luxury items like botox and ferragamo shoes. nbc's antonia hylton is outside that courthouse in central eye slip, new york. what should we expect at today's hearing and tell us more about the charges santos is facing. >> good morning, ana. the hearing should get under way any minute now and he is facing some incredibly serious charges. it is more than just the shopping and expensive personal gifts and trips to casinos. he is facing charges for conspiracy to commit offenses against the u.s., money laundering, identity theft, wire fraud, and for making false statements to the fec, the federal election commission. and to give people a sense of some of these anecdotes, for example, he allegedly took a donor's credit card number and then used that to transfer thousands of dollars into his own personal bank accounts. he went on trips, bought flights, got botox as you mentioned, and really prosecutors are building this case of someone who was using this office

denali commission, an independent federal agency, to work on economic development and infrastructure issues in rural alaska. so we certainly have not seen the last of her incredible work or work ethic on behalf of alaska and all of our fellow alaskans. julie, to you, congratulations. it has been an honor working with you on some of these critically important issues. i know that everybody at afn, all alaskans, native, nonnative send their congratulations. you have built an incredible legacy. you have built -- you have worked so hard for our state and our communities and now you have received one of the most prestigious awards in alaska, being our alaskan of the week. congratulations on a job well down. i yield the floor. a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey. mr. booker: before i start, it's an unfortunate position speaking after the senator from alaska. i want to thank him for his alaskan of the week. i'm very far away in new jersey, but i do enjoy that i often get to preside when he speaks about the extraordinary americans. i know they're alaskans, but they're extraordinary americans. i've appreciated that on a regular basis. i do not under

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