i think we can hold the police department to be accountable, but ittic at thats people with integrity to be able to -- >> supervisor safai: thank you. thank you, commissioner. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for giving me this opportunity to endorse denali tailor. i am denali's brother-in-law and a resident of the bay area. i'm going to talk about her dedication to family and the community. recently she has been busy helping her niece with her college life and transition to adult hood. she is fiercely protective of her sister vanessa, when vanessa and i first began to date. her high energy commitment to family value shines with core values of caring and compassion. in law school, she helped devise a program where she mentored to inmates. she worked with the log cabin ranch school for troubled juvenile youth. finally, i want to speak to her work with a traumatized family whose son was murdered near oakland airport in 2013. as assistant u.s. attorney, she took on the case, even though it was clear it would be very difficult to prosecute. she was deeply moved by the

i think we can hold the police department to be accountable, but ittic at thats people with integrity to be able to -- >> supervisor safai: thank you. thank you, commissioner. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for giving me this opportunity to endorse

depending on whether that's kentucken ittic, i think you'll see exfiltration whether it's al qaeda-affiliated groups or isis affiliated. when you go into idlib proper it's a melting pot of 20 different factions in that region. so to the degree that the kinetic operations go off, it may add to the human suffering. we want to see the dialogue and the factions and different parties come together to be able to look at a way we can start having peace and working toward a sense of normalcy. >> general, good to see you, sir. thank you for allowing me to be up here. thank you for inviting me to join this panel. good afternoon to everybody, good seeing you. general, let me feed off of seth's question on syria and maybe back the lens up. you said something very important in your remarks about the way that you and the department of defense are looking at problems that for purposes of thinking about partners and allies but also understanding problems on the ground. i think syria is the witch's brew of problems from a variety of perspectives. let me ask you two questions. one is when you look at the syria

more coming up after this >>> hard to believe it has been ten years since the lehman collapse, but itticoff t -- kicked off the financial crisis could the bank have been saved >> some arguments never die. top financial officials who handled the financial crisis pushing back this morning against the idea that they could have saved lehman brothers from its bankruptcy a dick and i hdeo >> this was not a narrow judgment, oh, we can do it, but on the other side of legality. we were thinking about it, is it feasible our belief was making a loan on defense the collateral that was available would at best sustain the company for a few days that it was not a viable business, that all we would do is end up bringing a lot of bad assets under the fed's balance sheet and maybe protect a few creditors. >> bernanke's comments come in a cnbc documentary tonight will show top wall street executives arguing lehman should have and could have been saved. >> this argument that they didn't have the legal authority was never brought up that weekend. this argument that they didn't have the legal authority was cr

it's a natural phenomenon because the executive branch wants to implement what ittic thinks is good policy. now, when those cases come to court, it's our job to figure out whether the executive branch has acted within the authority given to it by congress. have you given them the authority? my administration law injujuris prudence. i've heard it said i'm a skeptic of regulation. i'm not a skeptic of regulation at all. i'm a skeptic of illegal regulation, of regulation outside the bounds of what the laws passed by congress have said. that is what is at the root of our administrative law juris prudence. >> one of the most important qualities i look for in a judicial nominee is the ability to partially interpret the law and apply it to the case before the court. now, this can often be the most difficult part of a judge's job because it may require the judge to rule against a litigant that may be sympathetic or against a policy that the judge may permanently agree with. as justice sotomayor's confirmation hearing, senator schumer congratulated her. do you believe it's important for a judge to

it's a natural phenomenon because the executive branch wants to implement what ittic thinks is good policy. now, when those cases come to court, it's our job to figure out whether the executive branch has acted within the authority given to it by congress. have you given them the authority? my administration law injujuris prudence. i've heard it said i'm a skeptic of regulation. i'm not a skeptic of regulation at all. i'm a skeptic of illegal regulation, of regulation outside the bounds of what the laws passed by congress have said. that is what is at the root of our administrative law juris prudence. >> one of the most important qualities i look for in a judicial nominee is the ability to partially interpret the law and apply it to the case before the court. now, this can often be the most difficult part of a judge's job because it may require the judge to rule against a litigant that may be sympathetic or against a policy that the judge may permanently agree with. as justice sotomayor's confirmation hearing, senator schumer congratulated her. do you believe it's important for a judge to