one is the result of the mayoral contest. the other is the result of the police and crime commissioner collection. the two of them taking place in parallel. when this happened in 2021, while andy street managed to retain his post as mayor of the west midlands, the labour party won the police and crime commissioner election and this is one of the reasons why some analysts have been saying these mayoral contests are not necessarily a reliable indication of the support of the parties that the candidates are representing but also they are affected by the personal support of those candidates in the metro mayoral elections so one of the things i will be looking at later on is notjust the mayoral election contest but also the pcc contest and if we discover that labour have won the pcc contest as in 2021 that will add to the doubts that the conservatives�* focus on the mayoral contests in the belief that this shows things are not so bad for the tories after all is perhaps somewhat misplaced. tories after all is perhaps somewhat misla

laura: mayor, your turn. mayor bhalla: that's a great question. the short answer is we want to have a more surgical approach to determine whether or not to incorporate foreign-made to any country including our most friendly countries. we should do so in a way that is consistent with our values as americans. we should do so in a way that does not undermine critical values such as the protection of human rights, the role of international law. we should not provide foreign-made to governments where we see a human rights record that's not consistent with our values as americans. so we need to look closely at every situation where we provide assistance to a foreign government and make sure that that assistance is being used to advance american values, not set them back. laura: the next question goes to the mayor first. >> in other big bills that congress has passed recently. last month, the house and senate reauthorized a program that allows the government to warrantless lee surveilled noncitizens. it also shot down an amendment that would prohibit any

i'm introducing her now as the mayor, our honorable mayor, london breed. before we do that, before we do this, i wanted to do this from my heart and for people to see this every time wem xhn come in the building. i ask, can you please take that off? mayor we did this in honor of all the women. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, honorable mayor london breed! [applause] >> first of all, let me give honor to god and pastor cedrick to rena and to all the incredible women and folks who are part of her house. thank you for continuing to support and uplift and be a blessing to so many people who are in need of support without judgment. and so many of you, you know i grew up in the city and many of you know my family. you know my family, you know my sister and my struggles and challenges and you know i was raised by grand mother. in fact, i won't get into the specifics of what happened, but the fact is, i had a grand mother. i didn't have-never new my biological father. there was challenges with my mom, and i had a grand mother, but not everybody has a grand mother

the winner was the mayor. over to you. mayor bhalla: i cannot hear a thing. laura: mayor, can you hear us? we will work on the audio issue and let the opening statement now go to congressman menendez. can you hear me? rep. menendez: i can. laura: the floor is yours. you have 90 seconds. rep. menendez: i have the distinct honor of representing new jersey's eighth congressional district. two years ago i raised my hand to represent this place and go to washington and fight for you every day and that is what i have done. i'm standing up to mag extremists, fighting for a woman's right to choose, access to contraception no matter where you live, fighting to end the gun violence that has existed in our schools. i am standing up for our immigrant community. over 40% of the people who live here were born outside the country and i stand for them every day and when republicans came for our trans youth, i stood up against it and stood up for our brothers and sisters. here we've solved over 1500 cases for our residents, most of which are immigration related . we have kept

, he is always calling me as a mayor to say, hey mayor and i'm like hey, mayor secretary and letting us know, we are committed to san francisco and will invest in san francisco and appreciate his leadership and the president leadsership and all he does. i finally want to give a shout out to the hands that will continue to build this project into the future, the community of labor including the building and construction trade. [applause] as well as laborers and others. we appreciate their work and advocacy and now at this time i like to introduce from the building and construction trades, rudey gonzalez. [applause] >> thank you madam mayor. thank you for your leadership and introduction. good morning. i want to second the mayor's energy, because this is a moment of celebration. while many will lean towards the bureaucratic and technical tendency and look at schematics and slide deck jz i see my good friend bruce from community advisory committee and everyone is talking what's tomorrow, what's tomorrow. let's take a moment and celebrate today. let's be in awe of this beautiful struck t

>> yes. >> if the mayor does not testify -- >> the mayor will testify. [indiscernible] [inaudible] >> who will make the arrests? >> it should be the metro police department. >> george washington police department has authority to make arrests and hand them over to the metropolitan police department. >> thank you all. >> [shouting] >> get off of palestinian land! yield myself such time as i may consume.such time as the speaker pro tempore: the gentn

>> yes. >> if the mayor does not testify -- >> the mayor will testify. [indiscernible] [inaudible] >> who will make the arrests? >> it should be the metro police department. >> george washington police department has authority to make arrests and hand them over to the metropolitan police department. >> thank you all. >> [shouting] >> get off of palestinian land! >> since 1979, c-span has provided complete coverage of the halls of congress, from house and senate floors, to congressional hearings, party briefings, and committee meetings. c-span gives you a front row seat of how issues are debated and decided. with no commentary, no interruption and completely unfiltered. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >> thursday on c-span, pete buttigieg testifies on president biden's 2025 budget request for his department at a senate subcommittee hearing. the senate continues wk on a bill to extend federal aviation administration programs for another five years. and we will hear more about the president's 2025 budget request with the interior secretary appea

you are re—elected mayor of teesside. ben houchen winning the tees valley mayor. for granted. they knew that it was ben and the conservatives that delivered for them and they stuck with you in this election. and i know that come the general election, they're going to stick with us too. the conservatives hope to win the west midlands mayoral race when the results are out later today. another possible ray of hope in an otherwise bleak picture. but for now at least, rishi sunak looks to have avoided the major rebellion he feared from his own mps. and three miles from the prime minister's house in yorkshire, look who showed up. sir keir starmer here celebrating a labour mayor in york and north yorkshire, where parts of the county are usually solidly tory. to the villages and the towns of north yorkshire, people have voted for change. they voted for labour. webb, christopher paul, commonly known as chris, labour party, 10,825. there was a red pattern across this patchwork of elections in the parliamentary seat of blackpool south, a massive 26% swing to labour in the by

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,. . , , mayor? it is certainly looking very aood for mayor?very good for labour. be _ mayor? it is certainly looking very good for labour. be interesting i mayor? it is certainly looking veryj good for labour. be interesting to see if susan hall can get within single digits of sadiq khan. the bbc estimates 10%. i think if she can get that to 8% or 9% in the final analysis, that would probably be seen as a success for those within the conservative party who are perhaps expecting a much greater level of defeat. when you combine that with ben houchen's victory in the tees valley and potentially, although we don't know, andy street's victory in west midlands, should that arrive, those are potentially three zero bad stories that you can point to for the conservatives, on what has otherwise been a very, very difficult set of results for them.— results for them. and overall in terms of how _ results for them. and overall in terms of how the _ results for them. and overall in terms of how the political- results for them. and overall in terms of how th

this is a apa heritage month kickoff conferences we know we are all here from mayor london breed in a few short minutes but thank you to her for not only for business and economic recovery but bringing our - thank you, london breed. >> (clapping.) that is about making idea happen we really appreciate this so but today, we are talking about our apa heritage month this is coming up next wednesday force us to this year is the 20th anniversary of celebration in san francisco um, but that is also the 40 are 45 year of celebration in the united states um, in the 1979 the president signed the proposition for the may for the asian american pacific islanders especially heritage and the month of may was chosen because of the could commemorate the transcommon council railroad and the arrive of the first immigrant in japan so we have been celebrating the weekly by the week every year until the year of 1990 was extend because of the work of a lot of organizations and advocating for them in 1992 the celebration of apa month in the country was again signed into law to tap in perpetuity this is the t

we have had really good results across _ mayor. we have had really good results across the _ mayor. we have had really good results across the country - mayor. we have had really good results across the country all- mayor. we have had really good| results across the country all day long. but this is a very special moment, david to become the mayor here, thank you to all the team for all the fantastic work they have done. because through the villages and the towns of north yorkshire people have voted for change. there have been smiles _ people have voted for change. there have been smiles and _ people have voted for change. there have been smiles and red _ people have voted for change. there have been smiles and red rosettes all over the place, taking the council of the military town in aldershot in hampshire. labour did the same in hartlepool in the north—east of england. and on the south coast in west sussex where they have never won before. but, five independent candidate standing on a pro—gastric platform cost labour control in oldham in greater manchester as evidence labour's st

also, thanks to mayor breed, the mayor office staff, city officials, all of your presence here today and continued support is what keeps us all going. now, tonight's celebration could not be made possible without the support and commitment of our generous business and community sponsors. at this time i like to take a moment to recognize our major sponsors starting with our heritage champion sponsors. amazon, us bank, wamo and wells fargo, thank you all so much. [applause] the san francisco giants, go giants. our heritage patron sponsors, sutter health. [applause] our heritage partner sponsors, chinese hospital and cchp health plan. [applause] [indiscernible] llp. japan center garage cooperation. [applause] kaiser permanente. [applause] and golden state warriors, go warriors! [applause] we are also so grateful and so thankful to heritage friends and family communities supporters. we have a significant inkind supporters. look in tonight's program book to see a entire list and can also find it at our website. thank you all once again for supporting this community celebration. give every

, who might already be the mayor, who might already be the mayor, seeking re—election.f the wider political factors don't always come into play. andy street is well known in this region and he has held the post twice before. but of course, if he wins this will be a success for rishi sunak, following a day and a half or so of pretty miserable results nationally across the country in councils for the conservative party. of course, the conservatives did hold on the mayoral seat in tees valley, ben houchen there, again another example of a local man being very popular locally, winning that again. if labour managed to win here, also a huge, notable victory for them if they manage to win because it will show that sir keir starmer�*s labour party does have momentum going into a general election, if they are able to unseat someone who has held that post here twice already. that is why people are watching this so closely. that is why there is so much at stake here. for the labour party there has been some concern that an independent candidate here who has been campaigning on the

and specific mayor in the rebuild is gone you've got the city region metro mayor.fusion is going to dissipate before the next election. i think part of it if you are not understanding where the roles and responsibilities of the local councils begin and end and where the metro mayor stepped in and does that. and there is also a sense that it was a foregone conclusion is a people always have that well why should i bother? i know who is going to win. but i also think the campaign was... a dip of the got of the ground, you know. there were debates tinkering around the edges but i don't think the other candidates necessarily produce a massively different vision to what steve rotherham was offering put up is more that they accept that what he had already done was effectively working in some ways and they wouldn't just change working in some ways and they wouldn'tjust change it slightly working in some ways and they wouldn't just change it slightly and also buts of the promises and pledges were uncosted throughout the election campaign so again, maybe to voters, they didn

of the east midlands. the first mayor of the east midlands-_ the first mayor of the east midlands. .., midlands. he was asked about the london mayoral _ midlands. he was asked about the london mayoral contest. - midlands. he was asked about the london mayoral contest. sadik- midlands. he was asked about the l london mayoral contest. sadik khan was absolutely the right candidate. he has got two terms of delivery behind him and i'm confident he's got another time of delivery in front of him but, that, if you look across the country, i am standing here in mansfield, in the east midlands where we find a significant victory in the team here but that is the pattern across the country. we have been winning in blackpool, north yorkshire, true blue tory territory and tear on the west midlands with a very many constituencies that match acutely in the general election so all that this is done with a purpose. i want a labour government to serve our country and this is effectively the last stop on the journey to the general election and i am really pleased that we have been able to show we are ma

this is a apa heritage month kickoff conferences we know we are all here from mayor london breed in a few short minutes but thank you to her for not only for business and economic recovery but bringing our - thank you, london breed. >> (clapping.) that is about making idea happen we really appreciate this so but today, we are talking about our apa heritage month this is coming up next wednesday force us to this year is the 20th anniversary of celebration in san francisco um, but that is also the 40 are 45 year of celebration in the united states um, in the 1979 the president signed the proposition for the may for the asian american pacific islanders especially heritage and the month of may was chosen because of the could commemorate the transcommon council railroad and the arrive of the first immigrant in japan so we have been celebrating the weekly by the week every year until the year of 1990 was extend because of the work of a lot of organizations and advocating for them in 1992 the celebration of apa month in the country was again signed into law to tap in perpetuity this is the t

mayor breed, slightly ahead of former mayor mark farrell. you see, he is the leading candidate right now in terms of opponents and also slightly ahead of philanthropist daniel lurie. now, the first debate between the five candidates was scheduled to go two nights ago on monday, but the debate was canceled after three of those candidates dropped out. among the big concerns of why they dropped out, the close ties between mark farrell and the group organizing the debate together. sf well, as we march toward election day, we are inviting every major mayoral candidate onto this program. with us tonight is mark farrell. mark, nice to see you. thanks for being here. okay. what happened monday, this canceled debate a lot of finger pointing already. do you get it, though, that your opponents, some of your opponents, the concern they had going into this debate about your connection with together sf and the and the organizations? look, the bottom line is, you know, there are connections everywhere and every mayoral forum, every mayoral debate to me. i'

that result, sadiq khan gets that third term as london mayor.— term as london mayor.ed, _ term as london mayor. that is unprecedented, i— term as london mayor. that is unprecedented, i think, - term as london mayor. that is unprecedented, ithink, is- term as london mayor. that is| unprecedented, ithink, is not? term as london mayor. that is - unprecedented, i think, is not? this unprecedented, ithink, is not? this comes despite this incredible flutter we had last night, saying that the race was going to be much tighter than predicted. how did we get into that position? i tighter than predicted. how did we get into that position?— tighter than predicted. how did we get into that position? i mean, the sto i've get into that position? i mean, the story i've heard — get into that position? i mean, the story i've heard from _ get into that position? i mean, the story i've heard from people - get into that position? i mean, the story i've heard from people in - get into that position? i mean, the story i've heard from people in the j story i've heard from people in the cons

he is going to be the london mayor again. mick to be the london mayor again.nk you very much. let me go to professor sirjohn curtice. your view of what's happening in london now?— your view of what's happening in london now? . , ., , london now? that enfield result was crucial. london now? that enfield result was crucial- the — london now? that enfield result was crucial. the swing _ london now? that enfield result was crucial. the swing slightly _ london now? that enfield result was crucial. the swing slightly below- crucial. the swing slightly below the other london constituencies but not by much. in the wake of that, the bbc is also willing to call this election and to say that sadiq khan will indeed be elected as the next mayor of london. our best estimate of the moment, and of course there is a bit of uncertainty about this but we think that esther khan is going to end up with about 45% of the vote and susan hall with around 32%. -- mr the vote and susan hall with around 32%. —— mr khan. i think labour would regard that as roughly correct, are pretty comf

so there's seven districts, as it were, which made up the mayoral area.ob won something like 42,000 votes, which is pretty staggering for an independent candidate who's relatively unknown. and i think there are some, likejess phillips, who feel that actually labour could have won by a greater margin had they engaged voters on that issue. and that is something i put to richard parker in that interview yesterday. and he said he conceded that the party did need to do work when it comes to that. of course, that now means with andy street no longer the mayor, the end of someone who was a well known and quite popular in his tenure, a mayor who had served this area for two terms. and i asked andy street how he felt about the loss yesterday, particularly when it came to the party, because during the campaign he had somewhat distanced himself from the national party. you didn't see the conservative name on most of his literature. even the colours weren't really conservative blue colours on many of his leaflets. but in the end he was conciliatory and he conceded in

mayor breed. [applause] >> thank you assistant chief lazar for recapping the last 24 hours with all the incredible activity that occurred for the san francisco police department. as was mentioned, i want to give another shout out to our former police chief, greg sur for bringing forth this incredible idea to honor our officers and all the incredible work they do for the city and county of san francisco, and bringing bxp along to be a sponsor as well, so thank you again chief sur. [applause] assistant chief lazar mentioned we were just out in front of city hall taking a commemorative photo to recognize the 175 year history of the san francisco police department. when i looked around at the men and women of the department, there was something very different in the photo of today then the photo of 175 years ago. there were not only people of color in this photo today, there were women and in fact there were so many people leading this department that had a great opportunity to insure that the diversi

.— mayoral results. saying for the last _ mayoral results. as we have been saying for the last few _ mayoral results. as we have been saying for the last few hours, - mayoral results. as we have been saying for the last few hours, it i mayoral results. as we have been saying for the last few hours, it is j saying for the last few hours, it is done, city car and has won the race for london mayor, he is going to get that third term and he has won it pretty comfortably. remember, this is first—past—the—post and he has won as you can see well over 200,000 votes. that is a considerable victory for sadiq khan. it says awaiting final declaration because we haven't had the official result read out by the returning officer, but all the results are in and as i say, sadiq khan has taken london again. what is interesting is, despite all the talk about susan hall potentially closing the gap, she's done the opposite, the gap has actually got bigger. the swing wasn't from labour to the conservatives, it was the other w

i have the privilege introducing the mayor of our city, mayor london breed! [applause] >> thank you simon and thank you to new deal for all the amazing work that they have done and will continue to do to make sure that the downtown community of san francisco is vibrant like all other communities in our city. we are so happy to be here today,x and let me just say to darlene and the wells fargo family, which includes so many of the employees located here today, thank you so much for being a real partner with san francisco and all that you do. and by the way darlene, one of my first jobs in the real world was at wells fargo bank. i was a teller at the branch on california and fillmore. [applause] so, why are we here? downtown isn't going to be what it was before the pandemic, but you know what? it is going to be something better! not only are we going to bring more people to live down here as resident, but we are really lighting up our night life community. in fact, how many of you were at first thursdays? [applause] well, the rest of you, you missed out, becaus

it's for the mayoral election. it's for the mayoral election. it's for the mayoral election.of the results for that have come through. we've still got a couple to declare. but if you have a look down there, all of the supporters of both of the main candidates are gathering . main candidates are gathering. the results are imminent. it looks like labour's incumbent police and crime commissioner for the west midlands will, will be on course to retain his post. that's simon foster, we know we've found out in the last sort of 20 minutes or so that he's won 125,631 votes in the birmingham city council area , birmingham city council area, compared to just 77,798 for the conservative candidate, tom burn. mr foster has won a large majority in coventry . two majority in coventry. two 43,000, that does give him a commanding lead with only. but the boroughs of dudley, sandwell and walsall still to declare . so and walsall still to declare. so it's looking very likely that mr foster will continue in his role as police and crime commissioner. but of course, you know, we never know until th

i want to thank the mayor, thank you for your very kind words mayor. she knows, we only hold hands--the local powers continue to be important, significant, critical in order to continue to build the housing that we need in the city of san francisco and she's been the champion working hard with the planning commission, board of supervisors, but it is you that is making projects like this possible, which is a facilitator and partner in the process. thank senator wiener for just support of hcd programs. protecting our programs and being certainly the champion of such consequential policy across the state. it is just been remarkable. he's tinnier tenure in the senate. i just want to say, as you know, last year there is a lot of talk about the roll role of the state department. not only helping finance affordable housing, we have shortage across the state. more then 2 million homes short to stabilize the housing market, especially at the low income side of income scale, but obviously our work on working with localities for housing creation that is needed. t

for— incumbent labour mayor who has been in powerfor eight years, incumbent labour mayor who has beenson people are thinking — hall, but the reason people are thinking it could be closer is turning _ thinking it could be closer is turning out. we had those figures yesterday— turning out. we had those figures yesterday and the votes being counted — yesterday and the votes being counted in this room are for the outer— counted in this room are for the outer london constituency of bexley and bromley. the constituency that has perhaps most been affected by the expansion of us, the ultra low emission— the expansion of us, the ultra low emission zone, meaning some motorists— emission zone, meaning some motorists have had to pay an extra £12 50 _ motorists have had to pay an extra £12 50 a _ motorists have had to pay an extra £12 50 a day to use their car. the turnout _ £12 50 a day to use their car. the turnout in — £12 50 a day to use their car. the turnout in this constituency, the highest — turnout in this constituency, the highest of— turnout in this constituency, the highest of any lond

mayor, over to you. mayor, can you hear us? okay. we are going to work on that audio issue and we will let the opening statement now go to congressman rob menendez. can you hear me? menendez: i can. can you hear me? >> moderator: the floor is yours, you have 90 seconds for your opening statement. 's menendez: my name is rob menendez and i have a distinct honor out running this district. i raised my hand to represent this incredible place and go down to washington to fight for you and your family every single day and that is exactly what i have done. in washington i am standing up to mag extremists, fighting for a woman's right to choose, fighting for access to contraception no matter where in this country you live. i'm fighting to end the scourge of gun violence that has existed in our communities and schools far too long. i'm standing up for our immigrant community. 40% of the people that live here were born outside this country and i stand tall every single day. when republicans came for our trans youth i stood up against and stood

mayor breed. obviously the mayor of san francisco. she's been working on just like the supervisor for years back as a district supervisor, a redevelopment agency commissioner. she has been working on issues of housing, community development, economic insocial security all her life and career. unbelievable champion of the work we do here and also particularly of the work in public housing, so with that i bring you mayor london breed. [applause] >> okay. it is a little windy, so bear with me, because i don't want my hair whipping all over my face! i am so excited to be here, because it has been a long time coming and i when i say a long time coming, even before i was mayor, a lot of the work that the community here in sunnydale wanted to do to help address the conditions that they were living in it, was a ongoing battle and i remember there was hope 6, and hope 6 promise to rehabilitate public housing all over san francisco and at the time, i remember the director ronnie davis and i was living in pl

[applause] >> thank you mayor breed. the opening of salu hall in the san francisco meeting place is definitely a big milestone for us in inca center and our journey in nort american market. today happy to have cindy anderson ceo with inca center here with the wonderful celebration. welcome cindy. >> thank you. thank you mayor breed. yes, this is a very very special day for us at inca center. thank you so much for welcoming us to this fantastic city of san francisco. we are so thrilled that we can bring salu here. this is our absolutely first development of salu hall and it will take place here in san francisco in our first meeting place in the u.s. [applause] and, the whole goal is we want to be an integral part of the rich food culture that we know and that we can experience here in san francisco. i always had a deep admiration for san francisco and community spirit. i have been here several times with business travels and also brought my husband and my kids. for me personally it feels extra special standing here today.

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popular mayor, who served the area for two terms.ow he felt about the loss yesterday. particularly when it came to the party because during the campaign he had distanced himself from the national party. you can see the conservative name on most of the literature, even the colours were not conservative blue on his leaflets. in the end, he was conciliatory and conceded in this interview it was down to him. he had to take the hit for what went wrong. we did not persuade enough people to be confident- in what i had done and, _ of course, have confidence, as well, in what the plan was for the future. and i can't look for anything more complicated than that. _ ultimately, we didn't persuade enough people to go out - and put their cross in the right box on thursday, and i'm not - going to be slopey—shouldered about it in any way. _ it's my campaign. i did it my way and, ultimately, it didn't quite cut through. - no sloping shoulders from andy street. i think there was a point yesterday when it was neck and neck and we wondered who would be

. >> i'm san francisco mayor london breed and i'm so excited and happy to be here with each and every one of you to celebrate an historic milestone i want to express my appreciation. too, so many people have been there from day one to help us got to this moment it is important we take a setback to talk about the history, the challenges, how star we've come while? definitely a commemorative moment didn't mean we want to won't continue the great work to balance the reforms we need to implement as well as making sure we focus on public health for san francisco. we can do both we have done both the data makes that clear this is to be that's why day is to o so significant i remember 8 years ago and all with ed lee form mayor and form supervisor malia connecticut and police and our form chief and thank you for being here today chief sir. >> we came out (clapping.) during a very difficult time. there were a number of photos who were out ranldz a number of challenges to this department faced. and the fact is at the time and though we miss president obama his department of justice put out 200