media i think that mr lott sankoh was trying to make himself appear to be an important and influential player in the united states. vesel me also ask you about the allegations against joe biden because that has been a continuing refrain from some my colleagues as well why was it you found the allegations against joe biden related to his son or brisbane not to be believed simply because i've known vice president former vice president biden for a long time i know how he respects that his duties of higher office and it's just not credible to me that a vice president of the united states is going to do anything other than act as how he sees best for the national interest and finally ambassador ford turn it over i was struck by something you said on page 8 of your statement which reads in hindsight i now understand that others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption involving the ukrainian company bryza as equivalent to investigating former vice president biden i saw them as different the former being appropriate and unremarkable the latter being unacceptable in retrospect you sai

interacted with the in this of linsky government i am aware of him having claimed that he met with mr lott sankoh those predecessor as prosecutor general now but that's not within that's not it was a lady on that whitman which in which we're all we're talking about a daughter who else he would have met with and as few words as possible what was your understanding of ambassador sohn in ukraine he cared about ukraine he wanted to see us support of ukraine increased he wanted to see european union support for ukraine increased including maintenance of sanctions and he wanted to be helpful wasn't bassus on having conversations with seniors on ski officials without letting other people know i don't believe that he was not letting people know i think he may have had some conversations but i think he was just. acting you know and i think we circled back quite frequently with myself bester taylor and others. can you say that you have a clear understanding of what ambassador sunland and mayor giuliani were doing in all their interactions with ukrainian officials i can't say that i had a clear under

mr. lott is here today to answer questions. i also want to thank sarah crowley from the city attorney's office on my aid for their work on the ordinance. >> thank you, supervisor. any comments or questions from colleagues? >> mr. law i have a question for you. we recently appointed members to the cannabis oversight committ committee. as -- has the committee began to convene yet? >> yes. ray law from the office of cannabis. the seventh member has been confirmed yesterday which means right now we have a quorum. the first meeting should happen within 30 days. right now we are finalizing a contract with our vendor to support our oversight committee. we anticipate that at the first meeting will happen by late november. >> okay. that will not be in time to actually review this piece of legislation, is that correct? >> unfortunately, it will not. >> thank you very much. let's open this up for public -- >> it may be, mr. starr from the planning department might want to say something, he looks like he wants to say something. >> thank yo