mr. lee: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. lee: i ask unanimous consent to suspend the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. lee: mr. president, last week the trump administration proposed new rules to finally bring federal policy back in line with federal law. this should not be controversial in a republic committed to the rule of law. but this new policy, such as the question of abortion, which tempts all three branches of our federal government to turn truth, justice, and the law inside out in the service of violence. president trump, to his credit, is resisting those temptations in affirming what the law should do. affirming the fact that the law should in fact do what the law says. the particular law in question is the public health service act. every year it allocates hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to public health centers across the country. under the 1970 statute, no public health service dollars, quote, shall be use

mr. wylie: alexander makes told me. sen. lee: who was involved in these black ops? mr. wylie: my understanding was that in some of the projects the fcl group had in different parts of the world, misappropriated information was used as compromise in elections against opposition candidates. sen. lee: ok. in paragraph 30, you say, the russian project undertaken by dr. corgan had a particular focus on the dark triad traits of narcissism, murky belly is, josh machiavellianism and sociopathy. they also conducted behavioral research on online trolling. how did you learn all of this and can you describe those projects in more detail? mr. wylie: at the time, the -- dr. cogan told me about some of the research he was doing. he also told the company about some of the research that was being done. by that team in russia. his email correspondence from the firm that referenced the work he was doing for the russians. it was initially through conversations i had with the -- with dr. cogan and later through the investigative reporting that has been done for the past year, more details ha

mr. leeerves on the board of directors of second harvest food bank and been involved with the arks and family recreation board, city's academy and board ember for local m.p.r. affiliate. mr. lee leads campaigns for the ocal asian committee and awarded. e worked with local pbs on the documentary series, vietnamese orlando highlighting the history of the community in orlando. the graduate of the university of central florida, he is the co-founder of the asian pacific at u.c.f. and senator representing the college of engineering and computer science and the author of the book the food lovers' guide to orlando and highlighting our local restaurants, markets and growing food scene. n 2017, he was inducted into the cull anyary hall of fame and an e central florida 100, opinion column. he is most thankful for his parents, and life partner and heir first-born daughter who brings much hope new dreams. and for that, rickey lee, we honor you. in horp of asian-american month, i would like to recognize va

jackson lee: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for such time as i might consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. jackson lee: thank you. as we all know, this is the week that we take a special moment to honor those who put on the uniform to provide for safety and security for the civilian population here in the united states, called police persons, law enforcement, sheriffs, constableses -- constableses, ederal officers and -- constables, federal officers, and it is troys the importance in a society of laws, to have individuals willing to sacrifice and to put the uniform on without question of their safety or security. but as well the re-- be reminded of the responsibilities of adhering to the constitution of the united states. and that is by and large the mantra, the standards utilized by law enforcement officers across the nation. so i rise to support h.res. 285, a resolution expressing the sense of the house that congress and the president should e

five stock chink mr lee believes in equality for. the movement sees itself as a post i do not equal rights democratic force. that can and and to system policy that despite all its euphoria and passion lacks political know how really govern a country. as parents and even december limits experience as an individual matter but when you suddenly find yourself in the chamber of deputies you're going to have difficulties at the beginning but then you get used to it you learn as you realize that the others are no better than you are on the contrary i was elected at the age of thirty three and at thirty five i passed my first law against environmental offenders all you need to realise your ideas is passion heart and soul. the. first exit polls show that the five star movement has won big with almost thirty three percent of the votes its really strongest party. but even though it's a kid around eleven million votes it didn't get enough to form a government. to actually take power the party needs a coalition partner. but ten weeks after the el

me just tell you that we've had major demonstrations out here this morning which we together with mr lee i know everybody has gone into the district court house down there and they're experiencing a long and dramatic trial it's the biggest of its kind in german history concerning small arms offenses against the law also a barrier to the expert all small arms it's has been ten years in the making and i think the prosecutors now have gathered enough evidence to for observateur to believe that there's a real likelihood of custodial sentences of prison sentences being passed against at least two of the defendants have maybe not all of the defendants that remains to be seen of course what they're charged with is. facilitating the export of. assault weapons to guerrero province in mexico. in between two thousand and six and two thousand and nine and two of the trouble provinces in mexico as you've already mentioned those weapons were then used. in hideous crimes and massacres by carried out by local vigilantes and local mafia groups. peter there is one important question that is of course bein

mr lee has been speaking to our arts editor will gompertz.orous place on the french riviera during the film festival, except this year. there's a feeling that it's lost its mojo, that it's become a little bit dull. well, that all changed today when the american film director spike lee came to town to promote his new film, black klansman. this is ron calling. who am i speaking with? this is david duke. grand wizard of the ku klux klan. that david duke? the movie tells the unlikely but true story of a black police officer who infiltrates the ku klux klan. since you ask, i hate blacks. i hatejews, mexicans and irish. it's set in the 1970s but spike lee considers it a wa ke—up call for today. i'm screaming at the top of my voice. if you think this film was just about the united states of america, you're missing the point. brexit. notjust the united kingdom but this upsurge, all this right wing phenomena, this is happening all over this god's earth. it's a global issue. it's notjust america. we're the best in the business. number one. america firs

ashers baking company say they had served mr lee before the controversy and they would happily do soy be and values and it will certainly be a case closely followed once again by faith groups, lgbt organisations and plenty of others. the judgment is not expected for a few months. chris page in belfast, thank you. france's foreign ministry says new claims about iran's nuclear capability have reinforced the importance of the 2015 deal imposing controls on the country. yesterday, the israeli prime minister, binyamin netanyahu, unveiled what he said was evidence of a secret iranian nuclear weapons programme. tom bateman is injerusalem. give us a sense of the reaction to what binyamin netanyahu said. this was a powerpoint presentation by the israeli prime minister that was meant to maximise public impact and to be heard not least at the white house where he wants to achieve his stated goal of getting president trump to withdraw the us from the 2015 nuclear agreement with iran. within the next ten days. was there anything new in what the israeli prime minister said? there has been a growin

bank or asian development bank and would distinguish itself by resisting bureaucracy and corruption mr lee quinn also repeatedly emphasized his view that while the b. and the one belt one road initiative are both chinese proposals belton road is a chinese led initiative will be is can see it as a multilateral development institution. russian president vladimir putin freshly sworn in for a fourth term on monday says he plans to make russia one of the top five global economies by twenty twenty four russia's economy currently ranks twelfth incised analysts say the russian that russia's economy would have to increase by fifty percent to achieve the goal mr putin will also face some added difficulty with such an economic expansion given the troubles of recent years including economic sanctions and a recession. in two thousand and seventeen russian gross domestic product g.d.p. grew weakly at one point five percent still it is a nor girl address at the kremlin on monday president putin called for a modern and dynamic economy and later signed a decree prioritizing technological development manufa

we received in our packet this memo from mr. leebout some questions that he had specifically regarding the benefits. were you able to touch base with him. >> we met yesterday. >> great. then another question about the information contained in the case report. the second bullet on page 2 talks about the examination of 134 parcels and of the 72 were not documented. then it says because they were vacant or not eligible. so what happens in the case of vacancy? >> in the case of a vacant property or vacant site? >> yeah. >> if they're located within a district, they would be under the per view of this commission for new development along with code requirements. however, if they're outside of any of the districts, the central soma plan controls who apply to that location. >> okay. that's what i wanted to know. thank you. >> commissioner johnck. >> on the subject of notification of the owner, if it's possible, i would really like to see what it was that you sent them that explained what was going on and the benefits and so forth. that does

does that sound right, mr. lee? >> if i can make a suggestion. we have, i think, the relevant information about the proposal to incorporate into the budget development process and that's going to be taken place over the next several weeks. in terms of looking at the various priorities that are identified and to incorporate this, the committee's good work in that process. so i would actually recommend against having a separate discussion at the budget committee, if that discussion would be for the sole purpose of determining whether there should be a budget ask. i think we're clear on the proposal, i think. >> okay. so, again, thank you very much for your collective work. it has been really great to see the cooperation of our community to provide us with such a great and strong recommendation. so we will figure out what we're going to do next on this. thank you so much for all of that. go ahead, georgia. >> i'm going to speak because this actually came up in the parent circle. one of the challenges was -- one of the reasons i'm sitting in the comm

mr. lee does not tell us what his grand plan is. carol: when that headline crossed about them buying daimler, i thought this is an iconic german brand. he is taking a substantial position. i was shocked at it. and it is still opaque what is going to happen, and where it comes from. if you think about daimler's history they have had outside shareholders before. oil money from the middle east. carol: but another carmaker? jason: not necessarily. toyota were early investors in tesla. tesla.ught equity in they supplied components, and did work with them. and they got back out of that. stable and mature company, they will do what they want to do. it is interesting. jason: that was writer jamie butters taking us into the story of volvo. now we turn to the man who put pictures on this. our design director, how do you do this? enough to fortunate shoot at the south carolina factory. we got shots of them making the cars and a cool shot of the new model which they have not shown anyone. it has a mystery. that theytty amazing let you take that

>> listen, he is an american and mr. lee is allowed to speak his mind. he has freedom and speech.little more accurate in saying the president did not denounce the kkk on white supremacy. he might not have liked the timing or the way he said it, but the facts are the president did denounce it back in march of 2016 and at least four times back in august of 2017 during and after the charlottesville mess happened. so let's just be honest, the mr. president did denounce it and he said it explicitly multiple times. but he might not have agreed with the way he did it and the timing, which is fair. >> mark? >> yeah, i think the challenge with spike lee like many of us when the charlottesville events first happened the president didn't denounce anything. his statement there are good people on both sides raises moral, ethical and just question marks. the president and with some urging of other people did ultimately make an announcement. but you really shouldn't be cajoled or pushed to denounce the klan. and spike lee said this is global issue, and he's right. we're seeing a rise of alt-righ

>> i'll have mr. lee introduce the team. i want to make sure that we have to open or call, or any official language in terms of opening and closing the hearing? >> i believe president mcdonnell used the appropriate language to open the hearing. ok. >> let me, superintendent and commissioners, let me just ask our interim chief facilities officer to introduce our brief presentation team, ruth and our consultant from the consulting firm that prepared the justification study for the developer fees. >> good evening, commissioners, superintendent, colleagues, i would like to present who prepared our justification study. >> thank you, commissioners. i'll just read the recommendation into the record that, the recommendation is that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district conduct a public hearing. making adjustments to the school facilities impact fees, rates to be collected from residential and commercial developments. dated may 1, 2018, so these raise the fees to the new state maximum fees that be charge

on behalf of supervisor trent four, on behalf of supervisor peskin, and mr lee radner. >> supervisor breed: colleagues cactus brings us to the end of our agenda. madame clerk, is there any other business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> supervisor breed: we are adjourned. thank you, everyone. [♪] good morning, welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority for today's meeting of may 8, 2018. our clerk, could you please call the roll. >> roll call, breed present. cohen absent. fewer present. kim present. peskin present. ronen present. safai present. sheehy absent. stefani present. tang absent. yee absent. we have quorum. >> next item please. this is information item. >> good morning. >> good morning, i'm john larson, chair of the citizens advisory committee and i'll be presenting the report of the april 25, citizens advisory committee meeting. begin with item 5, the cac recommended adopting a motion of support for lifeline transportation programs as recommended. there was interesting in knowing if the bus routes could or should be shor

on behalf of supervisor trent four, on behalf of supervisor peskin, and mr lee radner. >> supervisor breed: colleagues cactus brings us to the end of our agenda. madame clerk, is there any other business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> supervisor breed: we are adjourned. thank you, everyone. [♪] - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. after all, we're at the meeting of land and sea. - our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and world-class style. it's the birthplace of blue jeans, and where "the rock" holds court over the largest natural harbor on the west coast. - our 28,000 city and county employees play an important role in making san francisco what it is today. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - o

on behalf of supervisor trent four, on behalf of supervisor peskin, and mr lee radner. >> supervisor breed: colleagues cactus brings us to the end of our agenda. madame clerk, is there any other business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> supervisor breed: we are adjourned. thank you, everyone. [♪] . >> i'd like to call this meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission to order. it's tuesday, may 8, and i just wanted to start with a couple of announcements. first, for those of you that did not hear, our former colleague and counselor noreen ambrose was nominated to the ethics commission. on behalf of all of us, obviously, congratulations to her. our general manager now in the house. pretty good stalling, right? and then to our colleagues at sfgtv for being recognized for the sixth year in a row, for being nominated for a california emmy, working behind the scenes for making us look really, really good, right, harlan. i think they'll find out june 2nd to see if they won any of those awards. and finally, thank you, donna for sending me this

. >> president hillis: thank you, mr. lee. any public comment on this item? good afternoon, senior disability action, this is -- i was surprised when i learned of this in doing this, i couldn't believe, especially at a time like today when aging in place has been out there in doing everything we can to help people age in place. and if they can't age in their homes, then there is an assisted-living place and this was in having the low-income housing there also, for these people to have done that is really shameful. and yeah, i just needed to say that and i hope that in working this out, that it will be returning those units as well as not rewarding and they could add a few more, would be just fine. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is lee. i'm here to say, the city says it's aging and elderly friendly, but at the same time, it's promoting gentrification, at the same time, you know, happening like this, in this case. to me it's like one excludes the other one. so you cannot be aging and disability friend

. >> i have a question for mr lee. so going through the brief and your oral statement, you guys are putting down monitors,, correct? >> yes. >> and the sound monitors, who has access to it and how is that information given out? >> as you see an exhibit to be, i want to make a note as well that we are in compliance with the concurrent coat. it requires 800 feet from the original sound at south. on page 3 and 4 you would see that we are in compliance. we are doing, there are two machines both at 160 away from the site. and we are collecting the data every daily and it will be made available at our offices. >> since there was no disclosure earlier, is there a way that that can be accessed by the tenants at any given time? >> sure we collected every week. we had -- we would be happy to keep the data at our office. >> is there an office that could be shared on rather than having them have to go to the office to retrieve it? >> we can send it out weekly to the tenants, if that is helpful. i know some of the tenants are also

does that sound right, mr. lee? >> if i can make a suggestion. we have, i think, the relevant information about the proposal to incorporate into theud

mr. lee: reserving the right to object, this is an issue on which congress needs to act. congress does in fact have authority to pass laws governing immigration and naturalization within our system. this particular unanimous consent request represents an attempt to pass a major piece of legislation without any opportunity for debate, any opportunity for input from the american people, any opportunity for amendments by individual members. if we pass it this way, we'll be cutting the american people out of the debate. we do need also to address the draws for illegal immigration. if we're going to address the needs for those who have been brought here unlawfully by no fault of their own while they were infants or minors, we need to make sure we're not going to continue to draw people in unlawfully, we're not going to continue to have people in various parts of the world sending their children here unlawfully, unaccompanied on many occasions, and being subjected to sexual assault and other abuse in the process. we need to fix the underlying problem, and for that reason i obje

caller: yes, i think mr. lee is rewriting history.ieve the founders created the largest and best government the world had ever seen. public education is a prime example. they were very anticorporate. corporations only existed for 35 years and they had to be done away with. i think mr. lee is rewriting history to suit his vision of america, which i disagree with. host: senator lee? guest: i respectfully but strongly disagree with your assessment i have done anything to rewrite history. generation and individuals i focus on were themselves, through their words and life experiences, larry of over powerful national government. the is one reason why federal government came up with a document that balanced the need for a government that was sufficient to supply the things only a national government could provide, but limited to allow for more autonomy. you point out the benefits of having a public education system . our public education system in the k-12 school systems consist of actions taken by state and local governments. by and large t

mr. lee: i object. the presiding officer: the objection is heard. the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mr. tillis: thank you, mr. president. i have three requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. tillis: thank you, mr. president. a couple of weeks i started the first of what would be a weekly spao*ebg to what i think is a travesty of justice in turkey. i want to talk about a pastor, a presbyterians minister from tphaorbl who lived -- from north carolina who lived in turkey for 20 years, has done his best to bring the word po people who want to hear it. unfortunately he's been swept up in a coup. he's been swept up in the emergency powers of turkey. he's been in prison for 580 days. i went to turkey about six weeks ago to visit pastor pwrupb son in prison -- brunson in prison because i heard about being in prison for a year and a half and for much of that time in a cell designed for eight people and had 21

mr. justin lee whose explosive remarks last week ripping i nuclear to nuclear showdown in: based president penned a political time he almost blew the summit out of the water. a possible venue of the senate, white house deputy chief of staff joe hagan and others with north korean counterpart to plan logistics for the meeting. with more north-south inter-korean talks planned from the south korean president moon called monday for even more dialogue. possibly a three-way summit with the u.s. in the north after singapore. >> one thing president moon was trying to do was restore the communication channels to >> talks between negotiators continue through tuesday with talk of one nice meeting between secretary of state pompeo and north korean officials to get the final go-ahead to the summit if all goes well. in seoul, south korea, greg talcott, fox news. >> the white house is now halting plan sanctions against north korea for the time being. japanese prime minister shinto aid will be with president trump before the north korean summit. >> critical trade talks tomorrow in paris. cecilia mom strom

senator lee: couldn't that data have proven useful in some of your work? mr. wylie: it could have. i didn't go on and sell it senator lee: you could have. had you been successful and gone on and been successful, could you be at the receiving end? mr. wylie: yes, but it didn't happen. senator lee: understood. i want to go over some statements that you have made in ragraph 15 of your testimony you say, i quote, when i was at ncl-sca i was made aware of the firm's black ops capacity. i -- the firm referred to these operations as special intelligence services or special i.t. services. how did you learn about these black ops capacities? mr. wylie: alexander told me. senator lee: who as a practical matter was involved in these black ops? mr. wylie: my understanding was that in some of the projects that scl group had in different parts of the world, misappropriated information was -- in elections in particular against opposition candidates. senator lee: ok. in paragraph 30, you say, quote, the russian project undertaken by dr. coringian had a -- corga 234. , had a particularly focus of the

mr. speaker. ms. jackson lee: i ask the manager of the legislation, does he have additional speakers? mr. goodlatte: i'm prepared to close. ms. jackson lee: i will close, mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i might consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. jackson lee: i am clear and i think my colleague, mr. johnson, is clear on pretrial release. versus the money bail. but in many instances, pretrial release may have a negative alleged actor of criminal activity. as the money bail system. but this will add additional pain and lack of promise. as i said, my amendment was to have the aggregate number of those that did not appear. viable and important information. you could have it by counties. small towns. villages. and cities. to indicate what the impact of pretrial release. what strikes me as a concern is to have names and prior convictions because it becomes part of the d.o.j. database and these persons may never commit another crime, they might have been in the hospital. maybe they get back and say why, i don't know if it means you didn't make the first o

the court ruled that they had discriminated against mr lee.daniel macarthurfrom arrived in court this morning, daniel macarthur from ashers bakery said a critical principle was at sta ke. said a critical principle was at stake. we would rather it had not come to this but the equality commission has pushed for an interpretation of the law which extinguishes our conscience. they think that some people are more equal than others. this is and what the law is designed to do. and it is notjust does that the law is designed to do. and it is not just does that feel that way. that isn't what the law is designed to do. many people across society about were married —— are worried about were married —— are worried about what this could mean. the equality commission is not trying to do other than say this is settled law. there is no mission creep, no one is trying to say that christians or anyone who has a strongly held political or religious view should not hold those views. but when you begin to trade, you need to subject to adequately struck laws of the

jackson lee: do you have 30 seconds? or a minute? mr. nadler: i yield the gentlelady an additional 30 seconds. ms. jackson lee: the second part, is without provisions in the bill to reduce excess -- excessive sentencing for drug offenses, overcrowding will still persist, mom and dad, and thereby reduce resources from programs. the corrections officers indicate they don't have the staff. halfway houses have been closed. in addition, it is documented that if your son or daughter has an offense that was considered excluded and they have repaired their life, they have through the prison they have made changes they will not be eligible, not for the programs, but they will not be eligible for releefment so it is a first step. but i would simply say, if it is the first step, why not protection of immigrants and also why not have a sentencing reform hearing which the republicans have canceled because of my position on this bill? let us work together for what is good, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. jac

jackson lee: mr. chairman, thank you so very much. as secretary pompeo testified this week, there is no deep state. there is no deep state. but yet the president of the united states chooses to perpetrate reckless havoc on the rule of law. he does it for the nation and for the international community. it is important for the president to set a standard of morality and respect for the rule of law and the constitution. his complete rejection of the special counsel's status and legality has permeated and undermined the constitution and the rule of law. it is a sad set of circumstances when the calls the imself establishment of the counsel, firing mr. comey to stop the russian investigation. so, my point to the president is, stop stalling, stop blaming the investigation for your political troubles, and submit to the interview. as indicated by the letter that we as democratic members of the judiciary committee, with the responsibility of oversight, have asked him to do. in addition, what a sad state of affairs again for seeking to undermin

mr. goodlatte: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from texas is recognized. ms. jackson lee: i yield to the entleman from new jersey 3 1/2 minutes, mr. pascrell of new jersey. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. pascrell: thank you. thank you, mr. speaker. i also want to rise today in strong support of this bipartisan piece of legislation. h.r. 4854. as the lead democratic sponsor of the piece of legislation and co-chair of the congressional law enforcement caucus, i want to thank judge carter in authoring this bill. currently funding is available through the debbie smith act to reduce the d.n.a. rape kit backlog. however, these funds do not address the growing backlog in the prosecution pipeline. unfortunately this backlog is occurring because resources are limited and there are not enough funds to reopen every case. even when d.n.a. analysis has identified a suspect. that's not acceptable. my home state of new jersey, we are well familiar with this issue. due to lack of resources and regulations, the extent of the untested rape kit bac

mr. president. everybody here, senator hatch, mike lee, bob corker, the state department -- we all work together toake this happen. we don't know you, but we know you very well, joshua. pres. trump: thank you very much, mia. every time i would see her i would say don't mention the name joshua holds, we are working on it. great team.d a that is a strong nucleus right there. we had a great team. a great job. i just want to mention we are doing well in terms of the summit with north korea. it is going along very well. there are meetings going on as we speak in a certain location that i won't name. but i like the location. it is not so far away from here. there's a lot of good will. we want to see if we can get the meeting and get some done. if we can be successful in the denuclearization of the korean and insular, it would be a great thing for north korea and south korea. great for japan and great for the world. great for the united states. great for china. a lot of people are working on it here at it is moving along very nicely. we are looking at june 12 in singapore, that hasn't changed. and, it is