mr. atkinson, can you confirm that? >>clerk: mr. chair, there are no no other callers in the queue. i apologize, we have one last person. public speaker: hi, i'm carrie from san francisco and i'm in opposition to this policy. this will increase the police surveillance powers and sfpd private cameras. the policy is a threat to our fundamental rights to lead to abuse and discrimination. we care about justice and activist, we must do everything we can to protect privacy protection and not more surveillance. thank you. >> thank you. next caller, please. >> public speaker: hi my name is # arianna. a resident and strongly opposed to this. i do not agree with this -- [inaudible] >> the footage -- i think this is a severe over reach, and i strongly urge you to oppose this and vote no. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, next caller, please. >> public speaker: hi, my name is raymond and i support the legislation. security cameras are important for our safety. >> thank you. next caller, please. public speaker: hi, my name is lloyd silverstein of the merchants association. i have

mr. atkinson.because inspectors general do have an important role, and it's one where the doj could pick up on an investigation if the inspector general is saying, hey, i found some rotten fish. >> mm. it all makes sense. you know, maya, it's no secret we come to you often for your expertise. i would say you're 1 in a million, but you're at least one in 82 million. >> i don't know if i want to be 1 in 82 million. >> ask these two fellas. you may not want to be, but that's the rarity we're talking about. again, in court, you look at fingerprints or certain evidence in court, sometimes you get down to a big enough number or small enough odds, and you say, yeah, that's proof. so i don't know. again, as you were careful to say, they got to look into it. go ahead. >> just one point we really should reflect here -- both james comey and andrew mccabe were career public servants. they did not come up because they were necessarily in one party or the other. in fact, they both are probably in different parti

mr. atkinson one of our most acclaimed contemporary chronicles of war is a past winner of pulitzer prizes. in both history and journalism his book the first of a planned trilogy vividly brings to life the experience of commanders and common soldiers alike. he couldn't be with us this evening, unfortunately, but he has recorded some brief video remarks which will play for you now. good evening. i'm rick atkinson, and i really regret not being with you tonight at mount vernon. i'm actually a q outside london working all week in the british national archives on the next volume one. i hope knock wood will be a trilogy on the american revolution. next week. i'll be in france for research at versailles bordeaux and the chateau lafayette is well as other places relevant for the french entry into the war on the american side. i am deeply grateful to have received the 2020 george washington prize. the honor comes not only from its invocation of our first commander in chief and first president. but from the extraordinary scholar authors who have received the award previously and the exceptional sla

mr. atkinson, can you confirm that? >>clerk: mr. chair, there are no no other callers in the queue. i apologize, we have one last person. public speaker: hi, i'm carrie from san francisco and i'm in opposition to this policy. this will increase the police surveillance powers and sfpd private cameras. the policy is a threat to our fundamental rights to lead to abuse and discrimination. we care about justice and activist, we must do everything we can to protect privacy protection and not more surveillance. thank you. >> thank you. next caller, please. >> public speaker: hi my name is # arianna. a resident and strongly opposed to this. i do not agree with this -- [inaudible] >> the footage -- i think this is a severe over reach, and i strongly urge you to oppose this and vote no. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, next caller, please. >> public speaker: hi, my name is raymond and i support the legislation. security cameras are important for our safety. >> thank you. next caller, please. public speaker: hi, my name is lloyd silverstein of the merchants association. i have

mr. atkinson, can you confirm that? >>clerk: mr. chair, there are no no other callers in the queue. i apologize, we have one last person. public speaker: hi, i'm carrie from san francisco and i'm in opposition to this policy. this will increase the police surveillance powers and sfpd private cameras. the policy is a threat to our fundamental rights to lead to abuse and discrimination. we care about justice and activist, we must do everything we can to protect privacy protection and not more surveillance. thank you. >> thank you. next caller, please. >> public speaker: hi my name is # arianna. a resident and strongly opposed to this. i do not agree with this -- [inaudible] >> the footage -- i think this is a severe over reach, and i strongly urge you to oppose this and vote no. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, next caller, please. >> public speaker: hi, my name is raymond and i support the legislation. security cameras are important for our safety. >> thank you. next caller, please. public speaker: hi, my name is lloyd silverstein of the merchants association. i have

mr. meadows did not share those concerns, at least did not have those concerns? >> they did not act on those concerns would be accurate. >> according to her and atkinson, trump demanded that security checkpoints at his rally be removed, fearing it would take away from his crowd size. we know how important crowd size is to donald trump. here is what she heard back states at that rally on the ellipse. >> i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president say something to the effect of, i don't effing care that they have weapons. they are not here to hurt me, take the effing mags away. let my people in, they can watch the capital from here, let the people in, take the bags away. >> president trump was aware that a number of individuals in the crowd had weapons and were wearing body armor. here is what president trump extracted the crowd to do. >> we will walk down, and i will be there with you. [applause] we are going to walk down. anyone you want, but right here. we will walk down to the capitol. >> let me stop on that for a moment. according to hutchinson, the president of the united states knowingly directed a group of armed supporters to march o