mr. collins was president and chairman of w.d.g. vincers. w.d.g.ngaged in real estate development. significant development projects included the four seasons hotel and condos. mr. collins practiced law and was a former deputy secretary of the business, transportation, and housing agency for the state of california. he serves on a number of boards and commissions, including the san francisco art commission. in his spare time, he's authored the african americans: a celebration, and was the author of a day in the life of africa. with that, i give you charles s. collins, esquire. >> good day. i'm charles collins, and i'm a citizen of san francisco. good day and thanks to all, but a special thanks to mayor london breed for her gifted leadership of this great city and for her courage in fulfilling the oath of office to support, protect, and defend our community through these challenges and uncharted times. may god bless our mayor and harbor her in the arms of our lord and keep her safe as she keeps us all safe from the enemies, foreign and domestic. and

mr. collins. >> well, huge credit to jim jordan and james, their committees work for forcing them.on at every step along the way. what we now know is on january 27, dr. fauci was affirmatively told that his organization nine ad was funneling money to the wuhan institute of virology to the eco- health alliance. this started a critical five day period were a group of scientists went to fauci and to doctor collins and said the virus look like it was genetically modified. some of them were 60, 40 -- 70/30 opposed to the natural origin hypothesis fauci convenes a call with collins and all the scientists and then 48 hours later, all of these scientists which had justified concerns about the virus not being of natural origin then went and completely change their tune. they spent the next few months throwing cold water on the lab leak hypothesis. so maria, the multi trillion dollar question is, what changed in 48 hours? the genetic sequence of the virus did not change. whatat did fauci and call and tell them? we know based on notes with these call collins in particular warned them not to w

collins and mr. melina up for recall this afternoon. those parents and donors in favor of the recall say that there was not enough focus on getting students back to the classroom last year and that the board wasted time renaming schools and changing the admissions policy for lowell high school. those opposed to the recall say that outside money from billionaires interested in charter schools is trying to hijack the democratic process. >> it was hard and would have been harder if they were younger. i don't want to discount. all of us are experiencing this, for sure. we are also experiencing it differently and i think we are lucky in the bay area, that we are not fighting mask mandates like they are in other parts of the country. so, we do see things differently, here. it is different. but, the narratives are similar. one thing we are seeing nationally is this push to reopen schools without safety measures in place. and also, additionally, we are hearing culture war rhetoric about renaming schools and pushback for desegregating lowell hig

mr. chairman. ms. collins, thank you for your work. i'm not surprised my colleagues want to ask about the american rescue plan, child tax credit. you've heard these numbers. 92% of the kids in my state with families with children under 19. $3,000 in almost every case, $3,000 tax cut. parents i hear over and over are less stressed about affording the rent or groceries or school clothes. my question, ms. collins, and i will return it to my colleagues because i feel like i broke the queue a little bit here, what steps should the irs take to get the full tax credit to which you are entitled? >> i think the challenge for the irs is reaching those underserved communities and educating the taxpayers as to what benefits are out there. for more financially comfortable individual and larger corporations they have access to accountants, cpas, other professionals. it's usually the lower income folks that do not. programs are very important and the outreach the irs does with all of its partners that it works with is hugely important to getting that

collins, thanks so much. let's discuss with senior advisor to president biden, mr. richmond. good to see you again. we've heard politicians say over and over again over the years that they're serious about combatting gun violence only for the american people to see little change actually happen in washington. tell any viewers who might be skeptical why they should believe this time is going to be different. >> because most of the time when you hear politicians talk about it, they're only talking about the end of a system where the police are involved or a prosecutor is involved. the unique thing about this proposal and why the biden plan, i think, is the right solution is that it looks at the root cause and it offers different solutions in terms of community violence intervention, substance abuse, mental health, after school programs, summer job programs, using actual community violence interrupters that will actually help diffuse problems before they ever happen. and president biden has never been shy about saying that he thinks we need more police in our communities, but they should be out of the

collins is more important. i would note that the secretary of state of the united states, mr.condemns duma resolution on eastern ukraine. jonathan: i thought you said that could wait? [laughter] tom: that is one headline. that is not on cyber. jonathan: let's read the cyber ones. they say the attack continues. the cyberattack is still ongoing. it has shut down some government websites to prevent the attack. that is the latest out of the ukraine. this was the worry of u.s. officials, if you remember. it was not just about a confrontation militarily. it was also through cyber. that seems to be taking place in ukraine, from what we are hearing from officials there. tom: it is the tried-and-true method we have seen before, without question. we have never seen a bond market like this. michael collins runs real money at pgim fixed income and joins us this morning. what is original about this yield up and price down? michael:michael: it is a very different cycle. i had a client ask me, what does this remind you of? they all have their nuances. we have just kind of gotten through this

mr. epstein suicide allegedly? >> i was not you were there so michael collins was arrested and brought back into solitary confinementn he tried to exercise his rights, were you not? >> i believe that did happen under my authority. >> were you asked, did you have anything to do with that or were you made aware of that to have him brought back into custody and put in solitary confinement? >> i was not made aware that. i was briefed on it "afterwards" because he is a high publicity case but i was not directly involved in that decision. >> thank you. next question, since mr. epstein committed suicide in the security offered, have you seen to it miss maxwell has better security? or supervision to make sure she doesn't do anything to end her life? >> time has expired, you may answer the question. >> i don't want to discuss specific security issues on any individual but we are properly and sure people in our care have the appropriate supervision. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. this has been an important hearing, insightful on both sides of the aisle. as we come to a conclusion, you have additional points you want to

collins or you. >> seriously. there are many, many exceptionally well quarterback qualified african american women who move forward into this position. mrent, i'm asking you to look through those critically and not pick the one that would be to the furthest left, but to pick that one, that individual who will enjoy some level of bipartisan support. >> do you have someone in mind? >> i think that sends a signal to the public that maybe, maybe the courts are not as political as the legislative and the executive branch. right now the country is starting to believe -- they're losing faith in their courts. they're looking at them as nothing more than an adjunct of -- >> very partisan. >> elected bodies because of the partisan nature. demonstrate bipartisan support. >> everybody that's been mentioned so far is extremely qualified, either one -- >> of the three major candidates. >> they can all do a very good job. they have the background and experience to do it. i was the governor, so i named judges in my tenure as governor. they're very independent. they may not philosophically come where you are on certain issues, but that doesn't make them

mr. steele. first, i just want to thank you, president lopez, for your service to the board. i give my personal thanks to commissioner collins and commissioner moliga. i'm very sorry that we're at this state on the board of education. [indiscernible] i have some good news and thank you. on behalf of the san francisco alliance of black led educators, we want to thank you for the [indiscernible] last week, more than 1300 students grades three to 12 were honored for the african american honor rollover three days. thank you, commissioner lam, prep lopez, superintendent matthews, and every principal, every lamentary principal, every middle school principal, every high school principal, every teacher, and thank you for your support last week. our service continues. please join us this saturday at 8:30 a.m. at mission high school for our annual [indiscernible] thank you so much. [indiscernible]. >> clerk: thank you. hello, miss bender? >> hello. my name is breanna bender, and i'm a student parent at cobb elementary. we are starting off the year in a deficit, upwards of $100,000, and it is unacceptable. this cut in school funding go

>> senator collins i want to acknowledge as well senator braun was with us and will be joined by others very soon but i want to turn to ranking members called for his question. >> thank you mrrman. with the major efforts targeted towards improving care for duly eligible individuals. can you talk about the lessons learned and how do you envision its future moving forward? it really was a first attempt both in the short-term and long-term care services together. having said that, we are at a point in the program it's a demonstration so we've been working with our partners at the centers to figure out next steps. i think there are opportunities toe figure out what works best n the state and what we can take from the experience into whatever we decide to design for the future. >> with one-time grant resources to improve care for duly eligible beneficiaries when possible uses for state medicaid offices to expand their understanding of the medicare program. is this something you think they would benefit from and what other witnesses like to weigh in if they think it is necessary? >> for sure. i definitely think when it comes to medicaid agencies, the focus is the medicaid populat

mr. chair. i want to thank you and senator crapo for holding this hearing and for the witnesses for testifying today. i will start with a question to you, ms. collins as you've heard from so many of my colleagues, granite staters have >> as a senator like for has mentioned and senator thune mentioned taxpayers who tried to call the irs were only able to a customer service representative 11percent of time often after sitting on hold . you recommended the irs es lament an automatic callback system on other technologies. how can the irs upgraded technology to improve phone service for taxpayers? >> i think the callback feature would be key across all their lives. they have multiple phone lines and right now it's only on a portion of the phone lines. speaking of phones, right on cue. it would be helpful of the on challenges callback onlyworks for individuals who are answering the phone . they have 50,000 and say customer service representatives you can only have callback for the equivalent of 15,000 individuals so if you have 200 and i believe it's an 82 million phone calls, they do not have the resources to have callback on every one of those phones.