and seat six, michael sullivan. are you related? >> we are not. >> chair ronen: okay. i just realized. i am inclined to support your reappointment for those reasons. and then, we are lucky to have very qualified, wonderful candidates who are applying to seats one and three, which are uncontested. so i just really want to thank both morgan and pamela for being willing to serve in these highly expert seats. very much looking forward to it. so that leaves seats five and seven, you know, where we have an abundance of overqualified, amazing candidates. i would like to propose -- well, first of all, i want to say as a supervisor that represents the east side of the city and the portola neighborhood, particularly, it's a neighborhood that we've worked very closely with dan flanagan to try to get more urban canopy in that neighborhood, especially given the air quality on the east side and the need to mitigate the impacts of the freeways and the historical pollution on that side of the city. and so i think that idilko's work in the bayview is extremely important. and to have th

read you this first bit, and she's talking here about john sullivan, who is a deputy, one of the top deputies to the secretary of state, michael pompeo and is rumored to become the next ambassador to russia. he being sullivan said that the president had lost confidence in me and no longer wished me to serve as his ambassador. he added there had been a concerted campaign against me and that the department had been under pressure from the president to remove me since the summer of 2018. so julie, i think we knew this. this was an accusation against the trump white house, but to see it actually spelled out here in such specificity is startling. >> and this is why her testimony was so important for democrats. there have been a lot, there's been a lot of speculation about what happened here. it was known publicly that there was this effort by rudy giuliani, backed up by other trump allies to try to remove her, and the question was basically what did that look like from the inside. what did it look like from her perspective. what were people who were not on the outside, people le rudy giuliani, people in an official capacity, what w

the night in a navy suit and a red tie, and michael flynn makeup, almost as good as my rudy giuliani makeup. and i launched into the actual gilbert & sullivanthat this one? >> yeah, although the audience had no idea what-- who i was impersonating until i got to the end of the second verse. i tweaked last couplet. i sang ♪ then i can hum a fiewj of which i heard the music ♪ there's never been a general the likes of michael flynn-a-fore♪ and it spread this realization in the audience. "oh, that's what he's doing." and then i slowed the tempo down to a ponderous pace, and i sang my own rewritten lyrics to the third verse. i sang ♪ when president obama made me head of all things clandestine ♪ he realized he'd brought to life a governmental frankenstein ♪ but then i made a killing in a case of public pillory ♪ by shouting her lock her up ♪ in my harangue opposing hillary ♪ ♪ so i was chosen national security advisory ♪ until i left the crafty russian secret service hire me ♪ now i've become the target of a superb council crime report ♪ a fate i share with cohen, donald jr., and with manafort ♪ ( laughter ) ( applause ) ♪ i plead the fifth amendm