officials that we just heard there and now it's that the virus could mutate now as a member of general public hearing mutate that sounds really scary this is mean that it will make it more contagious well metro the fact is that a virus is always mutate they have a tendency to change their shape to evolve so that's not new the important thing is that about the change about that mutation would have any impact on to the disease outcome would disability would be increased so if you look onto the history of these viruses like source on mars which are relative to these coronaviruses they're all higher the probability that these viruses if they mutate they will be more stable they will be more fit or and they've been sustained in the population for longer palling now dr the world health organization is holding an emergency meeting as we speak it is rare for the w.h.o. to declare a global health emergency it has not done that as of yet but when it does do that what does it actually mean. so the placement of the rude blue actually has only place the emergency 5 times in the last 20 years and all those have be

this now obviates this big argument of trying to get more witnesses forward when now the general public is hearing, you know, from the horses' mouths, so to speak, on these very issues? >> no, we clearly have to hear from, for example, mr. mulvaney, his direct testimony. he was carrying out the orders of the president. he knows directly about each part of this process. we need to be able to ask him questions in order to get to the truth. i think ambassador bolton is an important witness to hear from directly. there is a lot of missing blanks here that would be helpful if we could have the direct testimony in order to complete the record. >> senator ben cardin from baltimore, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> all right, president trump has tweeted or retweeted more than 300 times now in the past five days, so what is going through the president's mind as his impeachment trial moves forward? we talked to two people who know him well. >>> plus, new details on the deadly coronavirus outbreak in china. spreading across the globe, including new cases here in the united states. what we

there is a lot happening that's impacting wildlife of public space in public lands what the general public never hears about. so we can try to capture those most important issues. also the best way is to contact a couple conservation organizations that do a good job to falter on - - filter everything and plug into them. and then to be a strong advocate. and then to filter it and that we really need to jump on. and then the sierra club or whatever. try to get involved in some way. and when the opportunities arise it doesn't need to be heroic you don't need to storm the capital if you chat with someone at thanksgiving and tell them why it matters if you send an e-mail or a tweet and do show up every single one of those little things makes a difference. for every theodore roosevelt we need millions and millions that were willing to write the letter. it helps and makes a difference and why we have these places. and i wish i could tell you to buy the book and have it all figured out. >> if we all do it it changes the world. >>. >> i am a big fan and those guests are very impressive but i've always wondered

public? hearing none, call the question. all in favor? any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. item 9, general public comment. is there any general public comment at this time? hearing none, by rising vote, any announcements? hearing none, by rising vote, may i have a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> and happy holidays, everyone. >> same to you. >> all right. good morning, everyone. the meeting will come to order. welcome to december 12th, 2019 meeting. i am the

there is an idea about voter fraud out there, and all of us talk to the media, you hear the general public saying, i heard these people, and there are hypothetical stories you dive down and say what is the evidence? and it is not there. i bring it up because people use this overarching, broad theme of voter fraud to justify these voter purges. bloated voter registration rolls does not mean that it leads to voter fraud. just because someone is still on the voter old doesn't mean they're showing up to vote. but you have states doing these purges. it is not a bad thing to clean up the roles if you are doing it in a careful way that takes off the people who really are not active voters any longer. the problem is when it is over broad and you take people off the voter rolls who are legitimate voters who just have not showed up recently. if you have missed two elections, you were automatically purged, and if you don't reply to the postcard you are sent, you are purged. the plaintiff in that case was someone who had gone off and served overseas, did not vote in the two elections, missed whatever

. >> number one is a hearing to consider that the transfer of general public premises' liquor license to the lion's den ventures doing business as lion's den at 51 wentworth place will serve the public of the county. >> we'll hear from the alu first. >> yep. >> good morning pup have a port for lion's den ventures applying for anti-58 license and if approved this would allow to have cater privileges. no letters of protest. there are 11 letters of support and located in plot 140, which is a high crime area and high saturation and central station has no opposition. unit recommends approval with the following conditions. number one, the petitioner shall be responsible for maintaining free litter adjacent to the area they have control and number two, a petitioner shall actively monitor the area under their control never to present loitering and no noise audible at any nearby residence or consideration point. it should be noted on january 16th, the applicant had agreed to the above listed conditions. >> thank you. now we can hear from the applicants. >> good morning. i'm rick warren, counse

in the audience today, there are members of the general public in addition to journalists. any applause or reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. i would like to begin by introducing our head table, please hold your applause until all the head tables are introduced. vall valerie jackson. a member of the national journalism institute. board of directors. next is debbie. adam eaton. a reporter at e&e news. next is elizabeth mcgowen a reporter at the energy news network. to my immediate right, a former npc president and the cochair that organized these events. we have amanda bennett, the director of voice of america and this year's national press club state honorary. next to amanda is mary williams, james' daughter. next to mary, rebecca baker, she's deputy team leader at bloomberg law and a past president for professional journalist. gil kline, the university of oklahoma, washington bureau chief and pc's past president. valerie hopkins. the correspondent at the financial pass. thank you for being here. actor jane fonda turns 82 this saturday. pretty impressive, huh? [ applause ] >> howe

public? hearing none, may i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any further discussion? all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. is there any general public comment? welcome. >> i'll put it on the record. maey, director of the community living campaign. i stayed to be able to say thanks to d.a.s. and executive director mcspadden about the efforts to save the classes and jobs associated with the cuts to ccfs programs. i think that's a really important and timely first step, but we hope that everybody sort of is part of a larger campaign to save the remaining classes, both for older adults and for young folks in that program. the board of supervisors began the hearing this morning downstairs. and that hearing was continued, but they are -- and will not come up again i guess until february, but they are taking up the issue at the finance committee of the board of supervisors next wednesday at 10:00 to see what the board is able to do to kind of help. so for those who are interested in that issue, both in the room and who are watching on tv, it is the board of supervisors budget committee next wednesday at 10:00. and i also wanted to p

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general public is low. we also are waiting for any word from the world health organization and its meeting of the emergency committee to hearwill declare this a public health emergency of international concern. remember last week, the committee met for two straight days and declined to make that declaration. if they do today, it would be just the sixth time following two outbreaks of ebola, sayah kai and yoer outbraeblgs of similar concern. finally, we'll update you on the italian cruise ship that had been b blocked under suspicious of a case of coronavirus on board. that person has been cleared does not have coronavirus. so that's the latest and we'll bring you more from the w.h.o. when we hear it. >> meg, if you wouldn't mind sticking around, we'd love that. concerns around the world remain heightened as the number of cases are rising and many cities in china remain in lockdown mode let's bring in dr. torres. wonderful to have you with us. we heard yesterday from tony fauchy at a press conference at the nih that the cdc is close to developing a rapid diagnose nti toolkit that could be distributed relatively soon. how help

. >> number one is a hearing to consider that the transfer of general public premises' liquor license to the lion's den ventures doing business as lion's den at 51 wentworth place will serve the public of the county. >> we'll hear from the alu first. >> yep. >> good morning pup have a port for lion's den ventures applying for anti-58 license and if approved this would allow to have cater privileges. no letters of protest. there are 11 letters of support and located in plot 140, which is a high crime area and high saturation and central station has no opposition. unit recommends approval with the following conditions. number one, the petitioner shall be responsible for maintaining free litter adjacent to the area they have control and number two, a petitioner shall actively monitor the area under their control never to present loitering and no noise audible at any nearby residence or consideration point. it should be noted on january 16th, the applicant had agreed to the above listed conditions. >> thank you. now we can hear from the applicants. >> good morning. i'm rick warren, counse

. >> number one is a hearing to consider that the transfer of general public premises' liquor licensethe lion's den ventures doing business as lion's den at 51 wentworth place will serve the public of the county. >> we'll hear from the alu first. >> yep. >> good morning pup have a port for lion's den ventures applying for anti-58 license and if approved this would allow to have cater privileges. no letters of protest. there are 11 letters of support and located in plot 140, which is a high crime area and high saturation and central station has no opposition. unit recommends approval with the following conditions. number one, the petitioner shall be responsible for maintaining free litter adjacent to the area they have control and number two, a petitioner shall actively monitor the area under their control never to present loitering and no noise audible at any nearby residence or consideration point. it should be noted on january 16th, the applicant had agreed to the above listed conditions. >> thank you. now we can hear from the applicants. >> good morning. i'm rick warren, counsel fo

. >> before i take comments and questions from the board, i'd just like to hear from the public if there's any general comment on this. >> good afternoon, sherry williams from one treasure island and we are very supportive of post dda households who are income eligible to have a priority for affordable units and strongly urge you to support that proposal. thank you. >> any other comments? and then may i ask you a question, mr. beck, the not profit sponsors of the housing, the first one which is the chinatown community development center, they serve a certain population and they have got them financing for the housing based on the populations that they serve. i just wanted to make sure what are the rules governing post dda if they're to get precedence. they're not getting precedence over the target population, which these non-profit groups actually serve. is that correct? >> yes. so, we have different buildings or different providers have different programs objectives and targets -- serve different target populations. our first building is sources to plow shares which is an operator that provides housi

. >> before i take comments and questions from the board, i'd just like to hear from the public if there's any general comment on this. >> good afternoon, sherry williams from one treasure island and we are very supportive of post dda households who are income eligible to have a priority for affordable units and strongly urge you to support that proposal. thank you. >> any other comments? and then may i ask you a question, mr. beck, the not profit sponsors of the housing, the first one which is the chinatown community development center, they serve a certain population and they have got them financing for the housing based on the populations that they serve. i just wanted to make sure what are the rules governing post dda if they're to get precedence. they're not getting precedence over the target population, which these non-profit groups actually serve. is that correct? >> yes. so, we have different buildings or different providers have different programs objectives and targets -- serve different target populations. our first building is sources to plow shares which is an operator that provides housi

public face the architect behind iran's influence across the region qassam so many is is really everywhere in the streets of beirut southern suburbs were expected to hear from hezbollah secretary general has done a lot he's going to address the crowd here already released this statement on friday just a few hours after cost and so many was killed he said and he called for a vengeance and he said that quote resistance fighters worldwide need to punish the criminals now when he's uses the word resistance fighters he considers his group hezbollah a part of that axis so-called axis of resistance but he was not clear enough he wasn't clear in saying that hezbollah will be part of this retaliation but many expect really harsh inferior rhetoric from the who was a close and personal friend of custom so many many was the head of the could this force which really has been a law is part of that military apparatus so they consider this definitely a loss a loss for their movement and saying i wonder what the lebanese public's view of this is than any likelihood of his retaliation. well yes lebanon is divided like i mentioned people here they support hezbollah they do not deny their links but with

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. >> do you think though, general, i want to hear what you're comfortable with, do you think the president, state department, whom ever, needs to make a more public case for why this was required or from what you heard are you comfortable with it? >> i think with the great level of suspicion and politization that is going on with all aspects of not only domestic, but foreign policy, i do think it would be good for the president to make the case. >> clarissa, what do you make of what we heard from the secretary of state here? he did not -- he had an opportunity, and as the general says, could be about -- still classified and protecting sources and methods, when he came to the cameras he had an opportunity to explain the reasoning, the justification, behind the need to take -- to take this dramatic action, to take out soleimani. he did not take that opportunity. >> no, he didn't. and i think more broadly speaking, this was an opportunity, kate, to your point, to speak with real clarity and conviction about this is why we did this, this is why it was important, this is what the strategy is, and this is what comes next. the word we kept hearing mike

general manager. >> good. thank you. >> any public comment on this last report? next item, please. >> item 9 is new commission business. >> commissioners? yes? >> i would like to add on our thursday hearing, go back over some things that i need clarifying on, and that was the tunnel issue from $689 million down to $250 million. and the other was the fire hazard, the high-risk fire. and then the $20 million trail. i don't remember what. oh, it was at crystal springs trail. the one that was six miles. and maybe the other one too. we might as well talk about both of them. thank you. >> so that will be first on the agenda at the thursday meeting. we will go through questions. those will be distributed to us? >> at the meeting, yes >> okay. next item, please. >> item 10 is a consent calendar. all matters listed here under constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of the items unless a member of the commission or the public so requests, in which event the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered as a separate item. >>

this was a purpose of the hearing is on the census, and i appreciate the ranking member's persistence on this issue, but for the inspector general's report was released to the public, all members of the oversight committee had the opportunity to read the report, and attend a briefing with the office of the inspector general. the senate judiciary committee held a hearing on the inspector general's report on december 111th. the senate committee on homeland security followed with its own hearing on december 18th. the inspector general testified at both of these hearings and answered numerous questions about the report. so i deeply appreciate the ranking member's request, and i wrote him a letter on december 6th. at this point i don't think another hearing is necessary, and i look forward to -- >> so, madam chair -- >> on areas where we can work together to improve the lives of our constituents. >> madam chairwoman, i wouldn't don't we have a census hearing in the senate, then, if we're always going rely on the senate to have these health if publish. >> the gentleman is not recognized. the gentleman is not recognize he. >> then i have a point of order. >> i'll be glad

. >> before i take comments and questions from the board, i'd just like to hear from the public if there's any generalwilliams from one treasure island and we are very supportive of post dda households who are income eligible to have a priority for affordable units and strongly urge you to support that proposal. thank you. >> any other comments? and then may i ask you a question, mr. beck, the not profit sponsors of the housing, the first one which is the chinatown community development center, they serve a certain population and they have got them financing for the housing based on the populations that they serve. i just wanted to make sure what are the rules governing post dda if they're to get precedence. they're not getting precedence over the target population, which these non-profit groups actually serve. is that correct? >> yes. so, we have different buildings or different providers have different programs objectives and targets -- serve different target populations. our first building is sources to plow shares which is an operator that provides housing to former veterans, particularly coming o

public officials and saying, mr. city attorney, how other would you like to be attorney general and then for then president? hearstute and i can bring it on a contingency fee basis, and i can actually enforce it, whether or not there's a class action or a class-action soul settlement and i'll bring the plate you can keep every dollar, at $2,500 a pop and you get to build this little enforcement unit in your office, and bring all this money into the state. now, that is a little bit beyond the probable hem we're talking about today. but that's the perspective of the business community today, and some of the risks that they're facing, on top of the class-actions and makes is very difficult to achieve global peace which i think is part of the conservative case for why you would want class actions, operate enforce. and get some global peace. the most basic level, i would say again i applaud professor fitzpatrick's their rhythm it's creative. i love the contrarian thinking behind it. personally i don't view the as a liberal verse conservative issue. i mate be a tee bait between capitalism and socialism. i'm not calling

general public, it is considered an accessory office use per the planning code. on february 27th, 2017, the department issued a notice of enforcement for the unauthorized use. on july 18th, 2018, a public hearing held for an application seeking to establish 5200 -- 5800 square feet of nonretail sales and service use of the ground floor. the request was denied by the planning commission under a motion in the planning commission moved to deny the application primarily on the grounds of insufficient street-level activation as required by the downtown area and general plan. off every 2,016th, 2019, we submitted a new project for a 5200 square-foot private cafÉ that includes 610 square-foot public cafÉ accessed off of market street. the cafÉ occupations two of the five visually prominent window bays facing market street and was determined to be a new project. staff finds the addition of a private cafÉ will visually anchor the building and provide a gateway like effect on marking and articulating the existing plaza entrance. it will introduce and activate the street presence for the caÉe with a public entrance permeating the existing market street frontage and give the impression of street activatio

generally. not just for having the great opportunity for internships in the public interest but for setting up these programs where you get to actually hear a variety of interesting presentations and speakers and thanks to n.p.r. for hosting you guys. it's kind of cool to be in this building because a lot of you at home have heard national public radio shows and so here's the mother ship. public citizen as you heard described is a diverse organization. we're founded by ralph nader, who then promptly in 1981 left us, as he does when he found s something and it is on its own feet. he sort of does the fatherhood thing, you're out of the house i'm off to something else. so starting in 1981 we had a new president, different people on the board and global trade watch is the newest division of public citizen. the one thing i want to say before i start talking about the w.t.o. and globalization is just to give the two-second pitch for careers in the public interest. and because you all are in this internship program you already are hip to the notion that a person can actually have a career, a job doing stuff you really care about that makes a dif

gritty details are made public about the money itself, this is going to help him generate a lot of new donors and donations. >> a lot of interest in these nuers. ill waiting to hear elizabeth warren. uichelle ye hee lee, thank very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: there are signs emerging of a deepening rift among one of president trump's strongest voting blocs: white evangelical christians. as the president continues his re-election effortill be in miami tomorrow to kick off the "evangelicals for trump" con. correspondent lisa desjardins picks itom there. >> desjardins: a recent editorial publin "christianity today," an evangelical magazine founded by billy graham, stted a debate during the height ofhe impeachment vote. it called ent trump's actions in ukraine "profoundly immoral," adding, "president trump has abuseduthority for personal gain and betrayed his constitutional oath." to explore how the president's support may be shifting with evangelicals, i'm join richard landpresident of the southern evangelical seminary d executive editor of th "christian post." and collin hansen, the editorial director for the gospel coalition. thank you both for joining us. dr

nitty-gritty details are made public about the money itself, this is going to help him generate a lot of new donors and donations. judy: o a lotf interest in these numbers. still waiting to hearelizabeth warren. michelle ye hee lee,hank you very much. chelle: thank you. ♪ judy: there areofigns emerging deepening rift among one of presiden' trump' biggest voting blocs, white evangelic. christia the effort, he will be in miami to kick off the evangelicals for trump coalition. lisa desjardins pickp. >> a recent editorial published in christianity today founded by billy graham started aate during the height ofhe impeachment calling for trump to be removed from office, saying his actions in ukraine were profoundly immoral and said president trump abused his constitutional oath. to explore how the president support might be shifting or not, i am joined by richard land and executive esttor of the chn post. and collin hansen, thank you for joining us. dr. land, aesponse for that call to impeachment in another publicatiodefending your president and his christian supporters. tell us how you see this. dr. land: first of all, we are this close to an election, we ought to let people decid

public? hearing none, may i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any further discussion? all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. is there any general public comment? welcome. >> i'll put it on the record. maey, director of the community living campaign. i stayed to be able to say thanks to d.a.s. and executive director mcspadden about the efforts to save the classes and jobs associated with the cuts to ccfs programs. i think that's a really important and timely first step, but we hope that everybody sort of is part of a larger campaign to save the remaining classes, both for older adults and for young folks in that program. the board of supervisors began the hearing this morning downstairs. and that hearing was continued, but they are -- and will not come up again i guess until february, but they are taking up the issue at the finance committee of the board of supervisors next wednesday at 10:00 to see what the board is able to do to kind of help. so for those who are interested in that issue, both in the room and who are watching on tv, it is the board of supervisors budget committee next wednesday at 10:00. and i also wanted to p

public's attention wrongdoing except one of really two vehicles. you can go to an intelligence committee or you can go to the inspector general. and in this area where our hearings are in closed session where you don't have outside stakeholders that can point out the flaws in what an agency has represented, if you're on the transportation committee and someone comes in and says this high-speed rail project is on time and underbudget, you have outside stakeholders who can say that's just not true. in the intel world where our hearings are in closed session, there are not outside stakeholders that are listening that can hold those agencies to account. so we are uniquely dependent when there is wrongdoing on two things, self-reporting by the agencies and the willingness of people of good faith to come forward and blow the whistle. and we do injury to that when we expose those whistle-blowers to retaliation. i don't think any of us would have imagined a circumstance in which a president of the united states before now would have called a whistle-blower a traitor or a spy or suggested that people that blow the whistle on his wrongdoing are traitors and spies and we s

generals: the cost of chaos." great pleasure having you on, peter. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, sir. >>> coming up, americans by choice. we hear words of gratitude and sacrifice from career public their mission in life after the united states offered them a place to call home. >>> this confirmation process has become a national disgrace. the constitution gives the senate an important role in the confirmation process, but you have replaced advice and consent with search and destroy. >> "washington post" veteran columnist ruth marcus provides striking new details about the confirmation fight to put that man, brett kavanaugh, on the supreme court. in her column she writes about the parallels between that confirmation fight and the current impeachment inquiry, and i quote, from the conservative vantage point perhaps the greatest similarity is the deep sense of aggrievement about the motives of kavanaugh's critics then and trump's now. those seeking to impeach the president over his conduct with respect to ukraine have long been searching desperately for something, anything, with which to take down the designated victim. we're happy to have ruth marcus with us here today. by day she

public? hearing none, may i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any further discussion? all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. is there any general public comment? welcome. >> i'll put it on the record. maey, director of the community living campaign. i stayed to be able to say thanks to d.a.s. and executive director mcspadden about the efforts to save the classes and jobs associated with the cuts to ccfs programs. i think that's a really important and timely first step, but we hope that everybody sort of is part of a larger campaign to save the remaining classes, both for older adults and for young folks in that program. the board of supervisors began the hearing this morning downstairs. and that hearing was continued, but they are -- and will not come up again i guess until february, but they are taking up the issue at the finance committee of the board of supervisors next wednesday at 10:00 to see what the board is able to do to kind of help. so for those who are interested in that issue, both in the room and who are watching on tv, it is the board of supervisors budget committee next wednesday at 10:00. and i also wanted to p

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public? hearing none, may i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any further discussion? all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. is there any general public comment? welcome. >> i'll put it on the record. maey, director of the community living campaign. i stayed to be able to say thanks to d.a.s. and executive director mcspadden about the efforts to save the classes and jobs associated with the cuts to ccfs programs. i think that's a really important and timely first step, but we hope that everybody sort of is part of a larger campaign to save the remaining classes, both for older adults and for young folks in that program. the board of supervisors began the hearing this morning downstairs. and that hearing was continued, but they are -- and will not come up again i guess until february, but they are taking up the issue at the finance committee of the board of supervisors next wednesday at 10:00 to see what the board is able to do to kind of help. so for those who are interested in that issue, both in the room and who are watching on tv, it is the board of supervisors budget committee next wednesday at 10:00. and i also wanted to p

public? hearing none, may i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any further discussion? all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. is there any general public comment? welcome. >> i'll put it on the record. maey, director of the community living campaign. i stayed to be able to say thanks to d.a.s. and executive director mcspadden about the efforts to save the classes and jobs associated with the cuts to ccfs programs. i think that's a really important and timely first step, but we hope that everybody sort of is part of a larger campaign to save the remaining classes, both for older adults and for young folks in that program. the board of supervisors began the hearing this morning downstairs. and that hearing was continued, but they are -- and will not come up again i guess until february, but they are taking up the issue at the finance committee of the board of supervisors next wednesday at 10:00 to see what the board is able to do to kind of help. so for those who are interested in that issue, both in the room and who are watching on tv, it is the board of supervisors budget committee next wednesday at 10:00. and i also wanted to p

general argument against the president did wrong on this or he did wrong on that. the only other point i'd make is, when i hear that rudy guliani is going to go public with his evidence, i'm thinking hasn't he been doing that the last six months? >> a little bit. here and there. we could go another seven hours today, chris. thank you. martha and bret, stand by. want to bring in virginia democratic senator mark warner. thanks for your time during the recess. we'll get everybody back inside in a moment. how will you vote on these two articles, senator? >> i've not made any decision. i think i owe -- when i took that oath, i owe both sides a chance to make their case. i thought yesterday, particularly schiff for the last few hours laid out pretty clearly, particularly in regards the holding up of the aid to ukraine, holding up the white house meeting, i follow this pretty closely but i thought it was laid out very well last night. i thought representative garcia today i think did a pretty effective job. something that all of us from the intelligence community, democrat and republican alike, have all reached the same conclusion about russia interfering in 2016 and no bas

this was the purpose of this hearing is on the census and i appreciate the ranking member's on this issue before the inspector general report was released to the public that all members of the oversight committee had the opportunity to read the report and attend a briefing with the office of the inspector general. the senate judiciary committee held a hearing on the inspector general's report on december 11 and the senate committee on homeland security followed with its own hearing on december 18 and the inspector general testified at both of these hearings and answered numerous questions about the report so i deeply appreciate the ranking member's request and i wrote him a letter on december 6. ecat this point i don't think another hearing is necessary and i look forward to -- >> madam chairman -- on areas to work together to improve the lives of our constituents. >> madam chairman, why do we have a census hearing in the senate to then if we are always going to rely on the senate to have these hearings. i i mean,. >> the gentleman is not recognized.. >> well, then i have point of order. may i have a point of order? >> recite your point of order. >>

public? hearing none, may i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any further discussion? all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. is there any general public comment? welcome. >> i'll put it on the record. maey, director of the community living campaign. i stayed to be able to say thanks to d.a.s. and executive director mcspadden about the efforts to save the classes and jobs associated with the cuts to ccfs programs. i think that's a really important and timely first step, but we hope that everybody sort of is part of a larger campaign to save the remaining classes, both for older adults and for young folks in that program. the board of supervisors began the hearing this morning downstairs. and that hearing was continued, but they are -- and will not come up again i guess until february, but they are taking up the issue at the finance committee of the board of supervisors next wednesday at 10:00 to see what the board is able to do to kind of help. so for those who are interested in that issue, both in the room and who are watching on tv, it is the board of supervisors budget committee next wednesday at 10:00. and i also wanted to p

. >> number five is the general public comment on matters within the board's jurisdiction. >> happy new year. i'm sure you are tired of hearing from me, but i want to let you know that i genuinely appreciate all of your time. i wanted to say that last month or the month before when you made the recommendations for the memo, i really wanted take to get to hard. i especially thought about what you said, commissioner as the only md on the board, that you felt confident that a memo and not a change in the policy in that implying up a luminary diagnosis would be sufficient. i really thought about that, and that maybe standing operating procedure in the field of medicine in internal medicine or h.i.v. or in many other fields of medicine, but that was not my experience. i was not given april luminary diagnosis, and none of the people who received denials were given preliminary diagnosis, otherwise they would have been approved. and so what we are expecting is for clinics to do something that may not be standard operating procedure for all clinics, that members are able to find this memo that exists. a memo that is pretty wonky in it

review the facts and hear from the administration before passing public judgment on this operation. and its potential consequences. >> president trump airstrike on iranian generaloleimani sparking debate on capitol hill. republican members of congress plays in the move by the president, democrat warning of unintended consequences with opinions, particularly primarily falling along party lines. more on the divide, jackson, white house correspondent usa today. how stark is the reaction? >> pretty stark. hopkins are very much in support of tom's actions but there's an increasing number of democrats that have criticized that right. they wonder if there was enough evidence suggesting the iranians were planning attack on the u.s. regime. even some democrats are saying they wagged the dog, trying to divert attention from the upcoming impeachment trial. >> the president and his supporters would say soleimani has been notorious for just terrorists with american blood on his hands. it's about time you just take him up. >> that's right. it's a two-part defense of this strike. his history, he's basically been the primary organizer of these roadside bombs that have killed h

public document. we had to persuade the inspector general to release this. reporting,of the they have reported on the inspector general's monthly reports. why did you heard you hear from him in terms of why the information had been withheld? guest: we never got a good answer. they had, in some cases, they had promised people confidentiality. they would not put them by name in the public reports because they wanted them to speak forthrightly and honestly about what the mistakes were. not have law, they did the right to keep that information private. this is money, this is information that u.s. taxpayers paid for. it is public information. we had to go to court twice. it was pretty clear under our lawsuits with the judge and federal courts that these are public records. it took a while. people were afraid of putting their name with these comments. there is no question that the public has a right to know what people thought about the war and the mistakes that were made. give us a faux pas of the u.s. casualties in iraq. since 2001, afghanistan, there have been 2300 u.s. troops killed in afghanistan. that is a fraction of the overall number of deaths in the