we haven't yet heard a response from mr lee i does this now and here?s legal team, or indeed anybody on the other side, the owners of ashers bakery or the christian institute, the charity and lobby group who have been supporting them. but it is hard to see if there's any other route open to mr lee after this. the campaign around gay marriage, the issue was resolved here, as i say. the law was changed in 2020, so it is less of a political debate. however, this case, over the years, became a touchstone for issues around lgbt rights and freedom of conscience. so i think this whole period, in the history of northern ireland and social issues and also the wider implications around those very personal and sensitive points of debate, that debate will continue in the years ahead and the impact of this case on that will be analysed for some time to come.— this case on that will be analysed for some time to come. the winner of the bbc�*s sound of 22 competition has been revealed as pinkpa ntheress. for the last 20 years — the competition has been predicting music

there was a big campaign going on, so mr lee wanted the slogan endorsing that campaign. that they were not going to bake the cake because they thought the message on it was at odds with their christian beliefs. mr lee took legal action. he was supported by the northern ireland equality watchdog in doing so. he alleged he had been discriminated against on the grounds of his sexuality. he won his case at the high court here in belfast and then at the northern ireland court of appeal. but then it went to the uk supreme court and it overturned the previous verdicts. judges in london ruled in favour of the bakers, saying their objection to making the cake was on the basis of the political message that they disagreed with, and not mr lee's sexuality. mr lee then took the case further to strasbourg, to the european court of human rights, and that court enforces and interprets the european convention on human rights, which is an international treaty signed by the uk and 46 other european states. this morning, in a writtenjudgment, thejudges in strasbourg have said the case broug

now, mr lee, you were recently elected to hong kong's legislative council.word would you choose to describe hong kong's political system? it's a revamped system, and i think it's an enhancement to the previous system, which was characterised by filibustering, excessive ones, and violence was incited in the legislative council chamber. and right now, with the new legco, we are three weeks into swearing in and the environment is a lot better now. the chief executive came to the legislative council for an increased session two weeks ago, and there are a lot of enquiries from different legco members asking them about different social issues. so the legco right now is more focused on solving socioeconomic issues in hong kong, as opposed to just quarrelling and political debates like previously in legco. right, i was wondering to myself whether you would use the word democracy, and i notice you didn't. so any pretence that hong kong was moving to a more democratic, pluralistic system, that's been abandoned, has it? i don't agree with what you said at all, because

>> -- mr. lee. >> mr. billy lee. >> why did you choose to focus on mr. lee?now the defense was using sanchez to raise doubt about who the real killer was. >> there's a lot of smoke here but no fire. >> mudles it up. >> and that, i believe, was the defense strategy, that if you have enough of that, then the jury won't see through it. >> the jury retired to consider. >> oh, i was so nervous, i just paced up and down the halls, in and out. >> four hours later, they were called back into court. >> has the jury reached a verdict? >> we have, your honor. >> the defendant shall please rise. we find the defendant, bradley farrington, guilty of first-degree murder. >> when they announced their verdict? >> there was a lot of tears, a lot of sighs of relief. one of the deputy attorneys says, thank you for not giving up, thank you for pushing. and i said, how could i? it was my little girl. >> brad farrington was sentenced to life. no parole for at least 30 years. he's filed an appeal. cassy is but a memory now, and so, her parents remember their way through their pain t

and how do you explain to mr. lee, that things here are not as polarized and extreme as what we see in the u. s. y of germany. still getting more, i guess of, of the, of the middle ground when it comes to politics. well, thank god we have an electoral integrity which has been respected by all sides of the political spectrum. but increasingly, so we really understand that we need to defend this. it's very important that the general public has trust in what's happening in electro administration. and we do that basically in a way which is not so much different from the u. s. we have a local electric ministration, which is very powerful, which is very strong. and we have mutual control. but once that system breaks away, when one site in the case of the u. s. president, trump, for president trump disputes the electoral integrity than the whole system was threatened. and that is what we need to defend in germany. we still have it and we are very concerned to follow the developments in the united states, which is our closest

mr lee won the first stages of his case.uments. they ruled in favour of the bakers, saying the company made the decision on the basis of the political message which was on the cake, not mr lee's sexual orientation. mr lee then went to the european court of human rights in strasbourg. today, it's dismissed the case because mr lee had previously relied on uk law only. the charity and lobby group which has supported the company says the verdict is the right one. whether you're a christian running a bakery or a gay man running a bakery or whoever you are, you can't be forced to help promote causes that you profoundly disagree with, and i think that's good news for everyone. in a statement gareth lee expressed his disappointment. he said, "none of us should be expected to have to figure out "the beliefs of a company's owners before going into their shop "or paying for their services." his lawyers say they'll consider whether to bring a new case in the northern ireland courts. whether that happens or not, this story will still pro

mr. lee, it's good to have you with us before we get to the us election. answered today's anniversary. i want to ask you as a german lawmaker about those scenes that we just saw from august 2020, when far right demonstrators stormed the steps of the rice talked. do you think there are parallels between the events in washington on january 6 in those that we've seen here in berlin? well, 1st of all, thank you for having me. unfortunately, they are up harold's, and we can see it with some state elections in germany. and even in the powers of our bonus tag elections, people from extreme right wing political parties tried to exploit what happens in the united states and really working on conspiracy theories. and there is a very, very close connection of both intellectual and political between what's happening, what was an alarm bell was ringing the alarm bell and what we saw in bic, over syndrome. and how do you explain to mr. lee, that things here are not as polarized and extreme as what we see i

and it was mrs. lee that opened the first big door for me and i'll i'll be grateful to her forever. so i think the perfect thing to end on is, can you tell us about your most memorable pinky promise? you know there were so so many pinky promises. like i said little girls and big girls. i remember in my senate race. a pinky promise with an elderly woman who look quite frail who was brought in by her granddaughter. who was pushing her wheelchair and the woman very thin voice said she wanted to do a pinky promise and as held my hand. she said i'm dying. but not before you get elected and so i this is the power. and then when i ran for senate i still remember. little girl who was there with her mother? and it's probably about nine jumped up on stage hair sparkly things in her hair ready to go had her finger up for pinky promise. we made our pinky promises. she told me about the things girls do and she bounded off the stage. and her mother stood there for a minute. she'd gotten her pictures. and her mother put her arm around me gave me a hug. and said that her daughter. had a very seriou

there was a big campaign going on, so mr lee wanted the slogan endorsing that campaign.took legal action. he was supported by the northern ireland equality watchdog in doing so. he alleged he had been discriminated against on the grounds of his sexuality. he won his case at the high court here in belfast and then at the northern ireland court of appeal. but then it went to the uk supreme court and it overturned the previous verdicts. judges in london ruled in favour of the bakers, saying their objection to making the cake was on the basis of the political message that they disagreed with, and not mr lee's sexuality. mr lee then took the case further to strasbourg, to the european court of human rights, and that court enforces and interprets the european convention on human rights, which is an international treaty signed by the uk and 46 other european states. this morning, in a written judgment, thejudges in strasbourg have said the case brought by mr lee was inadmissible and therefore have dismissed it. they said that at no point in the proceedings in the uk courts did

mr. chair, i'm seeing member chasel lee awaiting recognition. >> chairman: mr. lee, chasel lee. >> commissioner: thank you, mr. chair. happy new year. i move to make the amendments adjusted by the member of the public, david pillpell. >> chairman: thank you. can we take that amendment by consensus or do we need to vote? >> clerk: mr. chair, i can make that clerical change. >> commissioner: this member chasel lee, i move to adopt the minutes. >> chairman: thank you. >> commissioner: member pierce. i second. >> chairman: thank you. >> clerk: before i call the roll, i want to see that member ho is still here and able to provide a vote. hang on one moment because i see that member ho has been moved to the attendees list. so if we can get member ho to move back into the participants list, she should be able to unmute her microphone and i want to make sure we're not repeating that issue from before. >> chairman: thank you. >> clerk: mr. atkins, can we bring member ho out of the attendees list and into the presenters. that looks promising. member ho, are you there? can

mr. chair, i'm seeing member jeremy lee in the roster. >> chair townsend: mr. jeremy lee, please. >> member: i just wanted to report that this week i along with member ho took a meeting with api council. they plan to put forward -- they're kind of putting together their own version of the district wide maps and a point to submit that to the task force in the near future. >> chair townsend: thank you, sir. is there anyone else? >> clerk: mr. chair, i don't see any members of the task force awaiting recognition. >> chair townsend: thank you. then we can file this item and move to -- oh, public comment. >> clerk: that's right, mr. chair. >> chair townsend: yes. public comment on this item. >> clerk: reaching out now to the department of technology who is working with our queue of callers who wish to provide public comment on the reports. member os the public who are interested in providing public comment should call (415) 655-0001. today's meeting id is 24806267041. after you've entered the meeting i.d., press the pound symbol twice. for those interested members of

mr. chair, first, i see jeremy lee wishing recognition. >> jeremy lee. >> so mr. chair, thank you so much. i'm not familiar with air table. at a very high level, can you, like, describe how air table would be, like, used and how, like, the information would be provided to us? >> i'll answer the question from member lee. i'm seth neal, from q2 research. the air table will probably be used both to have a submission form where people can write in text and also upload files. the files that we'll be uploading are the mapping, the shape files, and the pdfs from the statewide and community of interest tool so they can provide actual lines, geographic files that can be used to represent their communities. so the public would interact with that both to submit their comment through a web form, and then also to view comments that have been made in a data table. so it would look -- it looks like a spreadsheet, more or less. would just be text responses and links to file where we can download them and offering some filtering and sorting, for instance, by submission date or nam

mr. lee, all kinds of german firms, a face supply issues scarcity of semiconductors, has prompted germany and the rest of europe to consider how it sources crucial components for making cars and machinery. the u has pledged billions of euro's to produce the pieces in europe. but since the effects won't be immediate, it's changing how manufacturers like monk, a conducting business matter online 1st in the long term. and i suspect that companies will have to find a new balance between speed and cost efficiency and their supply chains on the one hand. and crisis resilience on the other one and, and i to about a mile season festus. credit for monk re thinking logistics is just the 1st run on the ladder towards getting back to some sense of normality. let's go now to some of the other business stories making headlines around the world. the controversial nord stream to pipeline won't get approved any time soon. that's according to germany's federal network agency, russian owner, gods prom, has set

was a happens all my numbers don't die, so there is no longer however, are you with a letter from i mr. lee last year and various asked bill c $230.00. that in that letter, there is a late and the end of the crucial aspects of the bill. i received a letter prioritizing the cleanup. i a look at environmental. wow. bill die. i yeah. you spearheaded your film as a huge amount of success. i think people can see it on, on netflix, does this bill have more power than say, lee, new york city bill that was just going through in the u. s. which has talked about the importance of environmental cleanup and so forth. i mean, trans national companies, will they be fined for polluting areas of, of canada 1st nations areas. and so now i really ready to go that. i mean, it is taking so long just to get this bill passed. i don't think i'm yes, i think right now i'm canadian nice and i think it's a canada. so i start with that we have a many times. i step by step. but for me that was great. right. given how long i a study to me, i'm quite the in fan is to, to do and racism. i mean, they've agreed what to bil

mr. chair i see member lee requesting recognition. >> thank you, mr. neal, for being so responsive. go right ahead, member lee. >> thank you, mr. chair. if i hear correctly you said they are in simplified chinese, is that correct? >> that is my understanding as opposed to traditional script. >> that increasing number of people in san francisco using simplified chinese. communications are in traditional. people from hong kong and from taiwan use traditional chinese. >> i had it backwards. i read my note wrong it is traditional script. i apologize. >> that is better. thank you for the clarification. could we have both? for people who are from mainland china? and then the simplified? >> the question from member lee. we cooperate with the city to get translations for the different documents. this is according to the city policy the languages. i can extend the question to the department of elections to see what the policy is to expand to other scripts. >> that would be great. thank you so much. >> thank you. one other question because we have heard a couple times about the public having t

mr. lee: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah is recognized. mr. lee: mr. president, one of the aims of american foreign aid is to assist countries in times of need. this spirit exemplifies a trait of americans and utahans rightfully value that of giving of those in need. yet for many years our foreign aid dollars in support of abortion have been used to impose violent cultural imperialism. instead of helping to preserve, strengthen, and sustain the lives of women and children abroad, our taxpayer dollars have been used to harm women's lives and to end the lives of their unborn children, especially baby girls. in some of these countries girls are disproportionately aborted precisely because they are female. u.s. aid is used not to affirm the equal dignity of women but to violently deny it. and in some of these countries abortion is forced on women who don't even want abortions. women in countries like vietnam and peru, for instance, who are forced to endure the coercive abortion and sterilization campaigns of the 1990's, just to name a couple of examples. m

i spoke with mrs. lee this car 1st honda? yes, on the water, dustin linz talk. man, the long it all day after my yeah murder had to do was to didn't so that up. they have awesome. so much of school we're gonna love that. excellent. and i thought it the but i think it's a process that i know my leg and dog is very slow. you somebody, i don't know this to you or not, but i'm not an idiot. put that in. take your show and then i'll hold off that the saudi padget on time to come back to me. okay. yeah. okay, great. well, mom told me before i stopped by getting myself on some longer say something. some, some red thing in for fail from who seemed to hit the new stuff then it still there may be, it will be home out of that fish. don't the bill to be to be a tommy the all screwed up with me. glad. yeah. they got a lot pass polish lamp, a bunch of back to the table with the bed and be here there from yet. very did make good yet. huh. thing with a big white guy. big a, a with some of these. they don't put them in half a day again, they don't put it on the proceeds talk to

yeah for now that i used spoke with mrs. lee this confessed chromebook. you go home is watered up in stone. mountain long on all day after my mood had to do was to to ensure that they of us them so much of school, you know, lawns an excellent said i thought the but if they had a process that i don't know how they can door get a very slow, you somebody, i don't know this to you or not, i'm not an idiot for it. let it take your show and then i'll hold off that the saudi go padget on time to come. a practice be okay. yeah. pick great realm. so before i stop by giving myself some some longer, say something, some, some reading in fairfield who seemed to hit the new stuff then it still there may be, it will be home out of that fish during the ability to be atomic. you all screwed up. it's miguel nega, let me pass ball slant the a bunch of back to the table with the bed and been there from viet vale did make a yet. huh. thing with not. right. yeah. oh sure for sure. oh, i'm not a guy. they get a date with a movie. they don't put them in half a day. again. they k

mr. chair i see member lee requesting recognition. >> thank you, mr. neal, for being so responsive. go right ahead, member lee. >> thank you, mr. chair. if i hear correctly you said they are in simplified chinese, is that correct? >> that is my understanding as opposed to traditional script. >> that increasing number of people in san francisco using simplified chinese. communications are in traditional. people from hong kong and from taiwan use traditional chinese. >> i had it backwards. i read my note wrong it is traditional script. i apologize. >> that is better. thank you for the clarification. could we have both? for people who are from mainland china? and then the simplified? >> the question from member lee. we cooperate with the city to get translations for the different documents. this is according to the city policy the languages. i can extend the question to the department of elections to see what the policy is to expand to other scripts. >> that would be great. thank you so much. >> thank you. one other question because we have heard a couple times about the public having t

even though this individual, mr. leeen with a bat in his life was threatened the prosecutor still gave him a slap on the rest of the individual who basically attacked him. >> that's right. so is a victim of one crime, he turns to the district attorneys office for help, then they are too busy fighting for the criminals as opposed to him. his attacker didn't get any jail time, when your probation, how is that fair? >> furthermore there was two more attacks on asian americans on that same day yet the writing was on the wall. this was clear that this person was committing hate crimes on asian americans. there were racial pandering by refusing to prosecute criminals and they don't see any political advantage to it. >> san francisco is such a liberal city. but there is an effort to recall the district attorney there. you think it will be successful? do you think people are waking up to say this is enough? >> i believe that people are waking up to this clear across america and major cities that are run by democrat leadership fr

mr. chasel lee? >> member: thank you, mr. chair.d and posted an agenda for the january 12th meeting that is next wednesday's meeting. it is posted online and there is updates to the regular and special meetings. we have also and translated an agenda for the friday, 2022 special meeting in conform answer of the action will now need to be changed. i can take care of the clerkal clerical bits. we need to post that agenda before the five days out from that meeting. so sunday it requires translation staff. it was written to have a district focus of district six which we can update and change, but if on the january 12th meeting, you attended to make changes to the meeting that was going to happen later, the train will have already left the station. i will make sure everyone understands that. mr. chair, i see while i've been yamering that member hernandez gil has added his name to the roster. >> chair townsend: member hernandez gil. >> member: yeah. i wanted to make a comment on the personnel issue that was brought up earlier. given the fa

mr. lee i'd like to clarify, has anyone been charged with the charge of insurrection following january 6th? >> i am not aware that anyone has been charged with that particular offense, even if it is -- i guess i'm not aware of that and i don't -- it would be inappropriate for me to speak about any particular investigation at this point, but i'm not aware of anybody being charged with that. >> i haven't either and i've heard that word several times and they've not been charged with that one. on june 7th i signed onto a letter with bunch of my colleagues led by senator johnson and the purpose of the letter was to ask a number of questions regarding the prosecution of individuals alleged to have committed crimes in connection with the 2020 riot. and those alleged to have committed crimes on january 6th. despite the best efforts of my staff to work with the department of justice to narrow the scope and prioritize certain questions, we didn't receive any answer until october 22nd. over four and a

mrs. jackson-lee for five minutes. i'm trying to unmute you. >> thank you very much. me quickly move. mrs. jackson-lee, you are on two different screens perhaps if we could eliminate one of them, there's some feedback and i'm going to give you a couple of seconds to do that . let's see, we've eliminated it i think. we were trying to get on everywhere but here we are . >> go right ahead. >> i still see some jeopardy here so i've got to talk very fast. madame chair, thank you so much. >> i want to thank both of you. >> we're still having some indications issues. we aregoing to come back to you . we're going to come back to you. the chair will now recognize the gentlewoman from new jersey. miss bonnie watson coleman for five minutes.. >> thank you. thank you madame chairwoman. thank you to the witnesses. i've had a chance to be here for the entire thing because i wasn't oudouble but i'm very much concerned about this issue. you all represent very different communities and one thing you all have in common is a bolder ability of being by cyber criminals. energy medications

mr. spike lee. spike, thank you. >> how you doing, sir? >> i'm doing okay. this one hit me hard. too, me too. a lot of people. >> mr. poitier -- mr. tibbs, he was a trailblazer. he had so much presence, he had so much dig thinnity on the scr and in life. talk about the impact he had on -- on film and this country and you. >> my dear mother was a -- so she took me to see lilies a field in 1963. and later on, in '67, "heat of the night." and my mother loved her some sidney, like a lot of women did, she loved sidney. and here is the thing that i really want to say. sidney paid a price. the roles accepted where he had to be the perfect negro -- >> yes. >> he cannot be threatening. he cannot alienate the white audience. and there's a -- there's a -- there's a extresemblance to wha rookie told jackie robinson and also what joe lewis had, too, they cannot be offensive. they had to, like, toe the line. after a couple years, oh, jackie went crazy because he -- he couldn't hold -- they let him loose. but when sidney slapped that cracker -- >> you mean the guy in the movie. >> yeah. in the -

mr. spike lee. spike, thank you. >> how are you doing, sir? >> i'm doing okay. this one hit me hard.ou know -- >> me, too, me, too. a lot of people -- this hurt. >> he was a trailblazer. he had so much presence. he had so much dignity on the screen and life. talk about the impact he had on the film in this country and you. >> my dear mother took me to see "lilies of the field" in 1963 when i was 6 years old. >> wow. >> and later on in '67 "heat of the knight" and my mother loved her some sidney like a lot of women did. here is the thing i wanted to say. sidney paid a price. the roles he accepted where he had to be the perfect negro. >> yes. >> he could not be threatening. he cannot alienate the white audience and there's a resemblance to what branch ricky told jackie robinson, the brooklyn dodgers and also what joe lewis had, too. they cannot be offensive. like, total line. ricky said after a couple years, oh jackie went crazy because he couldn't hold -- they let him loose. but when? sidney slapped that cracker. [ laughter ] >> the guy in the movie. this is what -- >> yeah. >> in the

i would ask mr. lee are meant to be the last comment on title two. >> thank you. think the thing to point out in reference to presumption on codifying and waiting for v.a. and saying v.a. takes too long, there are many examples. look at the agent orange in vietnam veterans. it took an act of congress because v.a. did not get it done. so any process forward -- going forward must be transparent and should be codified so we are protected from administrations who will not take action in the future. chairman takano: thank you. we will move on to title iii. thank you for the discussion. mr. leirmann, you are going to lead our discussion on title iii. >> thank you. title iii establishes a presumption of exposure, also known as a concession of exposure. this means v.a. will concede exposures as identified and determined by v.a. secretary to include roughly 50 different toxins and 17 countries as related to burn pit exposure. these were already identified by the u.s. army and v.a. currently recognizes the toxins. so by establishing the concession of exposure, we are removi

so this is mrs. maggie lee about walker born to and enslaved mother maggie walker was the 1st black woman to charter a bank in the united states, the saint luke penny savings, bank statues, say to the community and say to the world this the saw one whose fault it it put on a, on a literal pedestal, that is a woman to be honored and that is a woman to be memorialized. so that's what is so disheartening and despicable about the confederate statutes because they fought for slavery, sedition, secession, and racial segregation. and so those are not honorable virtues for which to fight, nor are they american. there is no other country on the planet that honors in statuary, the losers of a civil war, and so forth. my ancestors who were burned, beaten, rude allies, raped by confederates and confederate thinkers. that is a constant symbol to me, the confederate statute that we are now honoring a dishonourable man and a dishonourable cause in a dishonorable confederacy. to statues mean some there are others in richmond who are adamant. the statues should remain. the organisation, sons, of confedera