mr. ben bordelon, president of the shipbuilders council of america. mr. mario cordero, board of director of the port of long beach. mr. c. james patti. mr. michael g. roberts, senior vice president of crowley maritime. del wilkins, president of the illinois marine towing inc. thank you for being here today and i look forward to your testimony. i would like to recognize mr. graves to say something about mr. ben bordelon. rep. graves: thank you mr. chairman and i am grad -- i'm glad you enjoyed the king cakes. i would like to recognize mr. ben bordelon -- the shipyards that often repair navy vessels and bills that fleet as well as commercial vessels in every class in accordance with the jones act. that is what represents our industrial base in the shipbuilding industry. ben grew up in south louisiana, we represent a large number of employees in their shipyards. he was a graduate of lsu where he was a football player. he went on to play professional ball for the chargers in california. he is one

for today's conference we have the participants from detroit to ask the team and they are mr ben and barack from w.h.o. said food security expert and also madam marion coop immense the team of the member of the joint ask the team and also the team leader of the molecule or an epidemiological research group and also professor at. university he is the team leader of the chinese team off the joint aspart team from until it turns out europe chitral been through the war so we're live for you and your that you're going to hot the oakley that you that you were probably trying to how you want your time to function call you want to work order you into it the participants from that join expert team are going to introduce to the public and to the press of the relevant situation of does task off to our region show you staying in china and also going to answer your question this press conference will have a constructive interpretation so the press can ask your question either in chinese or in english shows or mattoon drawings or drop it on your children chairs or shang going to pot 1st i would li

please bring up mr. ben. >> good evening commissioners. great to be here again. ben van houten, office of economic workforce development. i will try to bring up some slides. it says i need to quit zoom. >> if you want help, e-mail my g-mail and then i can get it going. >> i updated my mac operating it system, now i'm paying for years of procrastination. >> understood. >> my slides are generally not going to be too much of a surprise in most respects. i don't want to waste any more of the commission's time. i'm happy to present as is without the slides. we have a few updates to provide on a couple of items that i had updated you all on last commission hearing then also have some new program materials as well to announce. the mayor in january announced a new $62 million plan for financial relief for small businesses. that includes relief grants totaling $12.4 million, proposed program to help stabilize small business operations, grants ranging from $5000 to $20,000 in amount. the goal here of this program, which will launch in february, is to reach businesses across

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please bring up mr. ben. >> good evening commissioners. great to be here again. ben van houten, office of economic workforce development. i will try to bring up some slides. it says i need to quit zoom. >> if you want help, e-mail my g-mail and then i can get it going. >> i updated my mac operating it system, now i'm paying for years of procrastination. >> understood. >> my slides are generally not going to be too much of a surprise in most respects. i don't want to waste any more of the commission's time. i'm happy to present as is without the slides. we have a few updates to provide on a couple of items that i had updated you all on last commission hearing then also have some new program materials as well to announce. the mayor in january announced a new $62 million plan for financial relief for small businesses. that includes relief grants totaling $12.4 million, proposed program to help stabilize small business operations, grants ranging from $5000 to $20,000 in amount. the goal here of this program, which will launch in february, is to reach businesses across

particularly chair of the sfcta sitting today as supervisor mandelman as well as our controller, mr. ben colleagues, i have circulated to each and every one of you some proposed changes based on the mta suggestion made friday morning at 8:00 a.m. with myself and supervisor mandelman that the instrument be changed to a value of $129 million of which $118 million would be appropriated. those amendments are before you and i would like to move those amendments to item 7 and 8. >> president walton: thank you so much, supervisor peskin. is there a second? seconded by supervisor mandelman. thank you so much. and with that, i don't see -- supervisor mandelman, sorry. was that is second or -- >> supervisor mandelman: it was a second and -- >> president walton: you have the floor. >> i want to thank the supervisor for slowing us down last week. at the time i was slightly annoyed but gave us the opportunity to have the conversations with the controller and the mta that i thought, that i came to understand were actually useful and some issues that i think needed to be discussed. i think the smaller

particularly chair of the sfcta sitting today as supervisor mandelman as well as our controller, mr. ben rosenfield. colleagues, i have circulated to each and every one of you some proposed changes based on the mta suggestion made friday morning at 8:00 a.m. with myself and supervisor mandelman that the instrument be changed to a value of $129 million of which $118 million would be appropriated. those amendments are before you and i would like to move those amendments to item 7 and 8. >> president walton: thank you so much, supervisor peskin. is there a second? seconded by supervisor mandelman. thank you so much. and with that, i don't see -- supervisor mandelman, sorry. was that is second or -- >> supervisor mandelman: it was a second and -- >> president walton: you have the floor. >> i want to thank the supervisor for slowing us down last week. at the time i was slightly annoyed but gave us the opportunity to have the conversations with the controller and the mta that i thought, that i came to understand were actually useful and some issues that i think needed to be discussed. i think

and congratulations, ben, on the few europe center. and thank you, mr.t, for helping us launch it. you brilliantly framed what you see at the heart of the u.s.-european relationship and you captured both the drama and opportunities of our times. from the violence and xenophobia that is effect affecting our democracies, the vaccine issues affchina, turkey, trade, at the end. you outlined at the beginning a three part agenda for u.s.-european relations that can be executed starting with the rebuilding and strengthening of the multilateralism we together created after world war ii and has served us so well for 75 years. you called for new partnerships for our new and future challenges, climate, biodiversity, digital with the european union and united states guard. third, you focused on new work together with key middle east challenges, africa, the endo pacific again with the u.s. at the heart but also involving china and working with eu and nato and nato you called the political body to harmonize our choices. it's the right time for that message. at the atl

please bring up mr. ben. >> good evening commissioners. great to be here again. ben van houten, office of economic workforce development. i will try to bring up some slides. it says i need to quit zoom. >> if you want help, e-mail my g-mail and then i can get it going. >> i updated my mac operating it system, now i'm paying for years of procrastination. >> understood. >> my slides are generally not going to be too much of a surprise in most respects. i don't want to waste any more of the commission's time. i'm happy to present as is without the slides. we have a few updates to provide on a couple of items that i had updated you all on last commission hearing then also have some new program materials as well to announce. the mayor in january announced a new $62 million plan for financial relief for small businesses. that includes relief grants totaling $12.4 million, proposed program to help stabilize small business operations, grants ranging from $5000 to $20,000 in amount. the goal here of this program, which will launch in february, is to reach businesses across

mr. greenfield? >> i agree with ben. nobody should be above the law. host: let's go to paul in los angeles. caller: hi there. i find it amusing that these two guys, whose main contribution to america has been to put on increased poundage, don't look at these cities and who actually oversees the police forces, which are all liberal democrats. every major city in america is run by liberal democrats who share their ultra leftist views. why aren't they doing their views and overseeing the police properly? >> you know, i think as been mentioned earlier, it is generally the police overseeing the police. it is the police looking at their own activities. if things should be improved, yes, they should be improved. i don't think this is a liberal or conservative issue. this is just an issue of doing what's right and what is just. host: mr. cohen, do you want to follow up? >> you know, if i walk over and punch you in the face, i should be prosecuted. you should be able to sue me. just because a guy happens to be in a uniform and he punches me in the face for no reason, it shouldn't be the case that i

virginia who proudly represents their sixth district, a wonderful new addition to the budget committee, mr. ben cline. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is recognized for two minutes. mr. klein: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the ranking member. mr. speaker, i would agree with the gentleman, our families are hurting, our farmers are suffering, and our small businesses are failing from the shutdown policies of democrat governors like mine in virginia. they need our support as we manage through this pandemic, but what they don't need is a $1.9 trillion package pact full of democrat wish list items that will cripple our economy, including a minimum wage increase that will destroy 1.3 million jobs acourting to the c.b.o. and hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars to bail out poorly run state governments. mr. speaker, one month ago the lasko individual relief bill, nearly $1 trillion, was signed into law. and together with previously enacted stimulus laws, over $1 trillion remains unspent. in fact, the c.b.o. just this week announced that they project our economy to

supposedly angie had been meddling in ben's marriage, and mr. hobbs did not like that one bit. so detectives confronted hobbs, who denied any part in the murder, and asked them a question about angie. >> was she raped and not just killed? >> i don't know. was she raped? >> i don't know. that's what i'm asking you. the dna will prove my innocence right there. >> and lo and behold, he was right. that dna result came back, and the semen found on angie's body didn't belong to ben hobbs or chris tapp, neither one of them. >> what went through your heads when the dna results came back and it showed that the attacker was not ben hobbs? >> if you're going to nail it down to one word, it's frustration. >> but the detectives decided that didn't mean chris was lying or that their theory of the crime was wrong. it could only mean, they decided, that they needed to expand the theory. ben hobbs and chris tapp were guilty, they were sure of it. so that mystery dna must have come from a third man, a third attacker. so they put tapp back in the little interrogation room and asked him, was a thi

mr. greenfield? >> i agree with ben. nobody should be above the law. host: let's go to paul in los angeles.r: hi there. i find it amusing that these two guys, whose main contribution to america has been to put on increased poundage, don't look at these cities and who actually oversees the police forces, which are all liberal democrats. every major city in america is run by liberal democrats who share their ultra leftist views. why aren't they doing their views and overseeing the police properly? >> you know, i think as been mentioned earlier, it is generally the police overseeing the police. it is the police looking at their own activities. if things should be improved, yes, they should be improved. i don't think this is a liberal or conservative issue. this is just an issue of doing what's right and what is just. host: mr. cohen, do you want to follow up? >> you know, if i walk over and punch you in the face, i should be prosecuted. you should be able to sue me. just because a guy happens to be in a uniform and he punches me in the face for no reason, it shouldn't be the case that i am not

bill cassidy, susan collins, and ben sass are set through to 2026. >>> though he was acquitted, mr. trump still faces a mountain of legal challenges. >> reporter: with his second impeachment acquittal behind him, former president donald trump's attention is turning to a growing list of legal problems. the most serious are the criminal investigations. in georgia, the fulton county district attorney is investigating trump's efforts to overturn the election, including the phone call where trump told georgia's secretary of state to find the votes to swing the election in his favor. in new york, the manhattan district attorney's office is conducting a broad investigation in looking into whether any lenders were misled or tax laws broken. the former president has privately voiced concerns he could be charged in connection with the insurrection. the justice department has charged more than 200 people relating to the riot. while those investigations could threaten his freedom, trump faces a number of investigations and lawsuits that could threaten him financially. the new york attorney gene

ben franklin. senior secretary diplomat, mr. antony blinken.s, you are diplomatic skills are respected equally by your friends and our competitors around the world. they know that when you speak, you speak for me. so is the message i want the world to hear today. america is back. america is back. diplomacy is back. it's at the center of our foreign policy. as i said in my inaugural address, we will prepare our alliances and engage with the world once again. not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's. american leadership must meet this new moment of advancing authoritarianism -- including growing admissions in china to rival the united states, the determination of russia today much and disrupt our democracy. we must meet the new moment, accelerating global challenges. from the pandemic to the climate crisis, to nuclear proliferation, challenging the will only to be solved by nations working together and in common. we can't do it alone. we must start with diplomacy rooted in america's most cherished democratic values, defending

to ben rosenfield, unless board members have questions about the overall agenda and scope for the day? >> chair borden: any questions from board members before we jump in? thank you. we'll move on to mr rosenfeld, because we have a lot of stuff on the agenda today. >> good morning, board members. thank you for having us back. i'm ben rosenfeld, city controller. i'm joined by ted eagan, the chief economist in the office for the city. i'm turning the floor over to ted. he's going to catch us up on things we're watching in terms of san francisco's economy and i'll close with a couple of high-level observations regarding the state budget looking ahead. >> good afternoon, directors. i'm going to share my screen now. we're going to summarize the city's current economic condition and what we're looking at over the next year. i want to start because obviously the last year and this year the economic situation is going to be dominated by the course of the covid virus with some updates of what the virus situation looks like for california. these are projections done by the institute for health metrics and evaluation at the university of washington. they've done reputable projections over the p

mr. novack. >> narcy told detectives there was something of value missing, a gold bracelet that spelled out ben'se in diamonds. an expensive rolex watch was still on the bed lying in a pool of blood as well as an unexplained broken stem from a cheap pair of sunglasses. and then there was the matter of her husband's huge batman collection and a rare comic valued at $43,000 he was planning on selling that weekend. >> batman might have been a motivation for murder, his passion in life. >> uh-huh. >> he had a valuable comic and somebody else wanted it. >> correct. >> wanted the value of it. >> correct. >> sunday was over. on monday, the cops would hear about the novacks' tie me up sex games. on monday, when mother and daughter started to go for one another's throats. >>> coming up -- >> as i'm sitting there my suspicions are growing and growing by the minute. >> when "dateline" continues. >> when "dateline" continues when you've got a business, you don't want to worry about slow internet or confusing cybersecurity. so get comcast business internet with fast, reliable speeds, and add the advanced secu

mr. limbaugh this afternoon. that's "the story" for wednesday, february 17, 2021. thanks for being with us. we'll be back tomorrow at 3:00 with benld" with neil cavuto starts right now. >> when we look out over the united states of america, when we see a group of people like this or anywhere, we see americans, we see human beings. we don't see groups, we don't see victims, we don't see people we want to exploit. what we see is potential. we do not look out across the country and see the average american, the person that makes this country work, we do not see that person with contempt. we

mr. biden is doing right now with the focus on immigration instead of the focus on the united states and the small businesses that are the back ben states. we came to the united states for the american dream and right now it seems like the american dream has become more of a nightmare. jillian: small businesses have been one of the most important aspects of our society. do you feel that is the case right now? >> absolutely. you know, being that small businesses are the biggest part of our economy right now or used to be and current yelp poll suggested that 70% of businesses have shut down and won't reopen and the other 30% are hanging by a thread. franchise owners like fit body boot camp are working day-to-day to stay afloat and we want the promise to be done. todd: how frustrating is it to small business owners like you that the biden administration prioritized things like the keystone pipeline, immigration, the paris climate accord, abortions in other countries when right now there are millions of americans like you trying to keep small business as live or even more people trying to survive themselves because they've been laid

ben raffensperger surreptitiously reported, by the way. the vick toral speech needs to stop. you need to stop. there was nothing funny here, mr. raskin. we're not having fun here. one of the house managers -- i forget which one -- tweeted cry me a river. under the standards of the house impeachment article each of these individuals should be retroactively censured, expelled, punished or impeached. >> you mean censured. sensored is a different thing. you -- welcome to washington, sir and your vick torl speech is actually welcome in washington and frankly everywhere. and also who's ben? president trump's phone call to secretary of state ben raffensperger? are you thinking of ben raffensperger who's a quarterback or are you thinking of the georgia secretary of state who appears in the impeachment article because trump may be committing a felony on the phone with him on january 2nd maybe, ben, brad. i don't know what else to call it. i will also mention at the very outset of the remarks today in talking about the attack on the capitol on january 6th the president's defense counsel said it was carried out by extremists of various different

ben sasse argued that in his statement. >> i think senator sasse is absolutely correct. i think that what happens, and when presidents get acquitted, as has happened twice with mr.at makes the presidency stronger, and it makes congress weaker. impeachment was supposed to be the primary mechanism congress had for holding a president accountable for his misconduct in office, but if impeachment doesn't work, if it doesn't hold the president accountable, then presidents know they can do these bad things. they can engage in misconduct or, maybe worse, and not fear removal or any kind of sanction as long as they keep their political party together in the senate. >> well, and even legally, as we were talking about with kara, it hasn't been tested to prosecute a president in office, and doj's i think is not to do that. michael gerhardt, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >>> you get a $ ,400 check? president biden racing to get his covid rescue plan passed with trump's impeachment behind him. to defend against dark forces attacking your organization, you need to see in the dark. to have the wisdom to understand multiple cyber threats. the precision focus to

trump's phone tall to georgia secretary of state ben roethlisberger surreptitiously recorded by the way. this needs to stop. there is nothing fun here mrskin. one. house managers, i forget which one tweeted, cry me a river. under the standards of the house impeachment article, each of these individuals should be retro actively censored, expelled, punished, or impeached. >> you mean censured. you mean censured. censored is a different thing. welcome to washington, sir. and your victoral speech welcome here and everywhere. and also who is ben. and the call to ben roethlisberger. are you thinking ben roethlisberger, who is a quarterback in the national football league who is not brad raffensperger, and who appears in the impeachment article because trump committing a felony on the phone with him on january 2nd. maybe. ben, brad, and the weird is not exactly a term of art but i don't know what else to call. it i will also mention, at the very outset of the remarks today, in talking about the attack on the capitol on january 6th, the president's defense council said it was carried out by extremist, extremists of various different stripes an

to ben rosenfield, unless board members have questions about the overall agenda and scope for the day? >> chair borden: any questions from board members before we jump in? thank you. we'll move on to mr rosenfeld, because we have a lot of stuff on the agenda today. >> good morning, board members. thank you for having us back. i'm ben rosenfeld, city controller. i'm joined by ted eagan, the chief economist in the office for the city. i'm turning the floor over to ted. he's going to catch us up on things we're watching in terms of san francisco's economy and i'll close with a couple of high-level observations regarding the state budget looking ahead. >> good afternoon, directors. i'm going to share my screen now. we're going to summarize the city's current economic condition and what we're looking at over the next year. i want to start because obviously the last year and this year the economic situation is going to be dominated by the course of the covid virus with some updates of what the virus situation looks like for california. these are projections done by the institute for health metrics and evaluation at the university of washington. they've done reputable projections over the p

to ben rosenfield, unless board members have questions about the overall agenda and scope for the day? >> chair borden: any questions from board members before we jump in? thank you. we'll move on to mr rosenfeld, because we have a lot of stuff on the agenda today. >> good morning, board members. thank you for having us back. i'm ben rosenfeld, city controller. i'm joined by ted eagan, the chief economist in the office for the city. i'm turning the floor over to ted. he's going to catch us up on things we're watching in terms of san francisco's economy and i'll close with a couple of high-level observations regarding the state budget looking ahead. >> good afternoon, directors. i'm going to share my screen now. we're going to summarize the city's current economic condition and what we're looking at over the next year. i want to start because obviously the last year and this year the economic situation is going to be dominated by the course of the covid virus with some updates of what the virus situation looks like for california. these are projections done by the institute for health metrics and evaluation at the university of washington. they've done reputable projections over the p

mr. speaker, i can tell you no one knows more -- or works that system harder and better than jackie smith. she does it simply for the been fit of her students. -- ben fifth her students. thanks to her efforts, district four historically has one of the highest selection rates in the country. jackie also runs our congressional arts program and the congressional medal program. both recognizing the many talented students in our community of northeast florida. jackie often serves as my liaison to community groups, many of which she's already a part, including the rotary club, the u.s.o., and local chamber of commerce. it often seems she knows everyone in northeast florida and unsurprisingly they all consider her a friend. she loves them and they love her. every day jackie comes to work with a servant's heart, a sharp wit, and a contagious optimistic attitude. no job is too big or too small. most importantly she embodies the virtues of integrity, hard work, and selflessness that americans expect from their government. jackie leaves big shoes to fill in my office. however as she is known to do she leaves a better than when she found it. on behalf of the f

ben raffensperger surreptitiously reported, by the way. the victoral speech needs to stop. you need to stop. there was nothing funny here, mr. raskin.re not having fun here. one of the house managers -- i forget which one -- tweeted cry me a river. under the standards of the house impeachment article each of these individuals should be retroactively censored, expelled, punished or impeached. >> you mean censured. censored is a different thing. you -- welcome to washington, sir and your victoral speech is actually welcome in washington and frankly everywhere. and also who's ben? president trump's phone call to secretary of state ben raffensperger? are you thinking of ben roethlisberger who's a quarterback or are you thinking of the georgia secretary of state who appears in the impeachment article because trump may be committing a felony on the phone with him on january 2nd maybe, ben, brad? i don't know what else to call it. i will also mention at the very outset of the remarks today in talking about the attack on the capitol on january 6th the president's defense counsel said it was carried out by extremists of various different str

ben domenech good morning to you. no explanation, what do you think is behind this move? is it just mr.u'll recall, of course, unwillingness of mark cuban to criticize the domestic policies of china as it relates their treatment of prisoners and the like he's someone who has been reluctant to get involved in those political situations that would hurt his own bottom line as a member of the nba head communities. i think unfortunately in this instance, you know, we really deserve an explanation from mark cuban about this. because it is a political decision and during a very hot button moment. there were a lot of people i know who hope that some of this woke corporate approach to life would diminish if joe biden were lengted president. obviously, that didn't occur in this case and i think mark cuban should explain to us what it is that we shouldn't be proud of when it comes to the anthem or the flag. why is he making this political decision and why now? ashley: interesting because -- my colleague charles payne put out a tweet about this earlier he said this is not a sports story but much la

secretary, ben wallace, has dropped a heavy hint that more troops could soon be deployed in scotland to speed up the rolling out of vaccine programme against covid—19. at defence questions in the commons, mrne, what the mod could do to increase the number of vaccinations given. mr wallace said one of the strengths of the union was that someone in one part of the united kingdom could call on armed forces help when needed, wherever they were. that is the latest, a hint from the defence secretary that more troops could be used in scotland to speed up could be used in scotland to speed up the vaccination programme there. children could lose up to £40,000 each in lifetime earnings because of the lasting effects of school closures during the pandemic. that's the warning today from the economic think—tank the institute for fiscal studies. 0ur education correspondent elaine dunkley has been to one school on merseyside — where head teachers and staff are working hard to help vulnerable pupils. morning, guys, you 0k? egremont primary in wallasey. morning, gorgeous. a school at the heart of the community. morning. we've got 107 on average in school each day, out of our 309. we're not turning childre

ben brown. the headlines: coming out of lockdown in england — the prime minister sets out his road map with the aim of lifting all restrictions byjune. the end really is in sight, mr