mr. michael carr joining us to say a few words >> (clapping). >> actually pat is still the director of the city of city build system changes in the last few weeks the mayor is sick and sends his regrets san francisco is a city of innovation i'm sure you're aware of and it is a place where inspired people turn great ideas into realty as you look to the leaflet they say an infrastructure is not sexy but it beautiful and it is vital to our city this project is special to the oewd it a great collaboration between caltrain and the plazas sector in the city of san francisco we participated introduce the city build group and put a hundred percent of our folks to work this project created jobs for the local san francisco bay area residents a partnership between oewd and ta one last things i'd like to congratulate the many community members and planners and engineers and construction workers that worked hard and long to cooperate this project all the partners here especially g lc for hiring the workers thank you very much on behalf of the mayor and the city of san francisco job well done thank you

mr. michael gulino. welcome all. witnesses are to be sworn before they testify, so if you will please rise and raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear and affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. please be seated. let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. we appreciate if you would limit your testimony to five minutes. your entire written record will be made part of the record. with that, we would like to begin with mr. courts. you're recognized for five minutes. >> good morning, mr. chairman. this testimony is based on a gao report dealing with a subject that we issued in may of this year. this work is part of a series of gao engagements to review the state's efforts to manage construction and the efficiency and other aspects of its operations overseas. gao was asked to testify this morning. the primary message of my testimony this morning is that costs have risen and schedules have been extended signif

mr. michael hershman, mr. hershman is the president and ceo of the fairfax group, member of fifa indiana's conference committee. mr. sunjeev bery advocacy director for the middle east and north africa, amnesty international your cable testified about findings of may 2015 amnesty international report regarding working conditions and finally mr. andrew jennings who it was traveled perhaps the furthest to join us. he is an investigative writer and filmmaker, credited with blowing the cover on the fifa scandal. mr. flynn, please testify. >> thank you senator. our behalf of united states soccer federation i would like to thank senator moran, senator blumenthal, senator blunt, senator mccaskill and other members of this subcommittee for giving your soccer the opportunity to appear today and into question you may have. our behalf of our women's national team would like to also thank president and mrs. obama, vice president and dr. biden, distinguished members of this subcommittee, justin and house colleagues at the m

mr. michael galino president and chief executive officer of aegis llc. again, welcome all, pursuant to committee rules witnesses are to be sworn before they testify, so if you will please rise and raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony that you will give will be the truth the whole truth and nothing, but the truth? >> thank you. >> please be seated and let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. in order to allow time for discussion, we would appreciate if you limit your testimony to five minutes and your entire written record will be made part of the record. with that we would like to begin with mr. quartz. you are now recognized for five minutes. ranking member cummings and members of the committee and i am pleased to be here to discuss the challenges related to the construction efforts at the u.s. embassy in kabul, afghanistan. this testimony is based on a gao report dealing with the subject that we issued in may of this year. this work is part of a series of gao engagements to manage cons

mr. michael hershman. the president and ceo of the fairfax group, member of fifa's independent governance committee. mr. barry, advocacy director for the middle east north africa amnesty international. he will testify about findings of the may 15, 2015 amnesty report regarding working conditions. and finally mr. andrew jennings who's traveled perhaps the furthest to join us. he's an investigative writer and filmmaker credited with blowing cover on fifa scandal. we will start with mr. flynn. mr. flynn, please testify. >> thank you, senator. on behalf of the united states soccer federation i would like to thank senator moran, senator blumenthal, senator from my home state of missouri and other members of this committee for giving soccer to appear today and answer questions you may have. on behalf of our womens national team, i would like to also thank president and mrs. obama, vice president and dr. biden, distinguished members of this subcommittee, your senate and house colleagues and the tens of millions of

mr. michael blecker of san francisco, california. thank you for your consideration of this appointment. signed sincerely, nancy pelosi, democratic leader. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: eve of absence requested for mr. graves of georgia for today ms. jackson lee of texas for monday, july 27 and tuesday july 28, mr. levin of michigan for 4:30 today until the balance of the week. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the requests are granted. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2015 the gentleman from west virginia, mr. mckinley is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. mckinley: mr. chairman, before i begin, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the topics of this special order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mckinley: thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. or mr. speaker. tonight, we want to talk about these three judgets -- subjects as it re

mr. michael hershman. mr. barry advocacy director for the middle east north africa amnesty international. he will testify about findings of the may 15 2015 amnesty report regarding working conditions. and finally mr. andrew jennings who's traveled perhaps the furthest to join us. he's an investigative writer and filmmaker credited with blowing cover on fifa scandal. we will start with mr. flynn. mr. flynn please testify. >> thank you, senator. on behalf of the united states soccer federation i would like to thank senator moran senator blumenthal, senator from my home state of missouri and other members of this committee for giving soccer to appear today and answer questions you may have. on behalf of our womens national team, i would like to also thank president and mrs. obama vice president and dr. biden, distinguished members of this subcommittee, your senate and house colleagues and the tens of millions of fans in the united states including the largest television audience ever to watch a soccer match in th

mr. michael carr joining us to say a few words >> (clapping). >> actually pat is still the director of the city of city build system changes in the last few weeks the mayor is sick and sends his regrets san francisco is a city of innovation i'm sure you're aware of and it is a place where inspired people turn great ideas into realty as you look to the leaflet they say an infrastructure is not sexy but it beautiful and it is vital to our city this project is special to the oewd it a great collaboration between caltrain and the plazas sector in the city of san francisco we participated introduce the city build group and put a hundred percent of our folks to work this project created jobs for the local san francisco bay area residents a partnership between oewd and ta one last things i'd like to congratulate the many community members and planners and engineers and construction workers that worked hard and long to cooperate this project all the partners here especially g lc for hiring the workers thank you very much on behalf of the mayor and the city of san francisco job well done thank you

mr. michael galena, president and chief executive officer of aegis llc. welcome to all. witnesses are to be sworn before they testify. if you will please rise and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give it is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. in order to allow time for discussion, we would appreciate if you limit your testimony to about five minutes your entire written record will be admitted as the record. >> good morning mr. chairman. i am pleased to be here this morning to discuss the number of challenges related to the state department's construction efforts at the u.s. embassy in kabul, afghanistan. this testimony is based on the gao report. this work is part of a series of gao engagements to review efforts to manage construction and the efficiency and effectiveness of other aspects of this operation. gao was asked to testify this morning on the extent to which the construction cost and schedule have changed, states use

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mr. michael: i yield back -- mr. mica: i yield back. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from florida. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. burgess of texas. at the end of the bill before the short title, insert the following new section. section, none of the funds made available by this act may be used by the administrator of the environmental protection agency to hire or pay the salary of any officer or employee of the environmental protection agency under subsection f or g of section 207 of the public health service act, 42 united states code 209, who is not already receiving pay under either such subsection on the date of enactment of this act. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 333 the gentleman from texas and a member opposed will e

mr. trump, michael conan. he was at the border earlier this week. had issue of illegal immigration is front and center. let's go to the original comments that created the first bit of controversy. >> when mexico sends its people they're not sending their best. they're not sending you. they're not sending you. they're sending people that have lots of problems. and they're bringing those problems with us. they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists and some i assume are good people. but i speak to border guards. and they tell us what we're getting. >> steven we know now in texas alone -- i learned this when i was down there with rick perry and on the border with security. 642,000 texans have been victims of crime, thousands of sexual assault and murders by illegal immigrants against just texans. isn't trump right in that sense? he's right? >> i think if donald trump said what you said by marshling facts and building an argument he would be more right. he's right in the general sense to raise the issue of crime committed by illegal

mr. michael rohnbeck, the uncle of grant rohnbeck, a 21-year-old convenience store clerk who was gunned down earlier this year by an undocumented immigrant. u.s. immigration and custom enforcement released grant's alleged murderer who was awaiting deportation. grant was born in iowa but resided in arizona and had two brothers and a sister. our fourth witness the reverend gabriel sargaro. he and his wife are the co-lead pastors of lambs church of the nazarene new york city. he is also founder of the national latino evangelical coalition. our fifth witness mr. jim steinle of pleasanton california, the father of kate steinle who was gunned down 20 days ago while walking on a pier in san francisco alongside this father. her alleged killer had seven prior felony convictions and had been deported five times. sanchez was shielded by san francisco's sanctuary policy which aloud for his release in march despite an i.c.e. detainer placed on him. chief j. thomas manger. chief manger has been a chief of police montgomery county, since february 2004. chief manger also serves as president of the mange cit

mr. michael hershman. e president and ceo of the fairfax group, member of fifa's independent governance committee. mr. barry, advocacy director for the middle east north africa amnesty international. he will testify about findings of the may 15, 2015 amnesty report regarding working conditions. and finally mr. andrew jennings who's traveled perhaps the furthest to join us. he's an investigative writer and filmmaker credited with blowing cover on fifa scandal. we will start with mr. flynn. mr. flynn, please testify. >> thank you, senator. on behalf of the united states soccer federation i would like to thank senator moran, senator blumenthal, senator from my home state of missouri and other members of this committee for giving soccer to appear today and answer questions you may have. on behalf of our womens national team, i would like to also thank president and mrs. obama, vice president and dr. biden, distinguished members of this subcommittee, your senate and house colleagues and the tens of millions of f

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mr. president and commissioners michael [inaudible] i loved this building every since i became aware of it a lot of years ago and pass by it every day wride thg 5 bus. i was so motivated by this building and actually opened a checking account at hi burnia bank in 1982 and the checks had a pick clr of the building on them and sorry the bank was closed in 1985. it is truly tragic this billings and the old menth have been inaccessible by the public for so many years and the old mint, don't get me started on that. this building i'm glad the project is going on and looking forward to the aability of the public to see the interior of this amazing building again in the not too distance future. as far as the issues today, i leave it to you to make the right decision in your experience and wisdom. i wanted to raise one fairly small issue which had not [inaudible] discussion back at a hearing i attended at 2011 or 12. that is at the corner othf building just under the dome where it says the hi burnia bank, there was discussion as to whether that modern signage could be removed to expose the name on

mr. michael ronnebeck, he was shot down by an undocumented immigrant. u.s.ms enforcement released grant's alleged murderer who was awaiting deportation. grant was born in iowa but resided in arizona and had two brothers and a sister. our fourth witness, the reverend gabriel salguero. reverend salguero and his wife are the lead co-pastors of the lamb church of the nazarene, new york, and also founder of the national latino evangelical could hings. and mr. jim steinle of pleasanton, california, the father of kate steinle, who was gunned down 20 days ago while walking on a pier in san francisco alongside this father. her alleged killer had seven prior felony convictions and had been deported five times. sanchez was shielded by san francisco's sanctuary policy which allowed for his release in march despite an i.c.e. detainer placed on him. six person chief j. thomas manger. chief manger has been chief of police, montgomery county since february, 2004. chief manger also serves as president of the major city of chiefs police association. our seventh witness is dr.

mr. michael carr joining us to say a few words >> (clapping). >> actually pat is still the director of theity of city build system changes in the last few weeks the mayor is sick and sends his regrets san francisco is a city of innovation i'm sure you're aware of and it is a place where inspired people turn great ideas into realty as you look to the leaflet they say an infrastructure is not sexy but it beautiful and it is vital to our city this project is special to the oewd it a great collaboration between caltrain and the plazas sector in the city of san francisco we participated introduce the city build group and put a hundred percent of our folks to work this project created jobs for the local san francisco bay area residents a partnership between oewd and ta one last things i'd like to congratulate the many community members and planners and engineers and construction workers that worked hard and long to cooperate this project all the partners here especially g lc for hiring the workers thank you very much on behalf of the mayor and the city of san francisco job well done thank you ve

mr. michael carr joining us to say a few words >> (clapping). >> actually pat is still the director of the city of city build system changes in the last few weeks the mayor is sick and sends his regrets san francisco is a city of innovation i'm sure you're aware of and it is a place where inspired people turn great ideas into realty as you look to the leaflet they say an infrastructure is not sexy but it beautiful and it is vital to our city this project is special to the oewd it a great collaboration between caltrain and the plazas sector in the city of san francisco we participated introduce the city build group and put a hundred percent of our folks to work this project created jobs for the local san francisco bay area residents a partnership between oewd and ta one last things i'd like to congratulate the many community members and planners and engineers and construction workers that worked hard and long to cooperate this project all the partners here especially g lc for hiring the workers thank you very much on behalf of the mayor and the city of san francisco job well done thank you

mr. himes. >> good afternoon supervisors. michael himes, san francisco public utilities commission. i'm just going to supplement actually the remarks that executive officer freed made. i thought his comments were spot on. earlier today in response to request by the department of elections, our department submitted a letter addressing the potential impacts of the proposed ballot initiative regarding renewable energy. to highlight a couple points from that letter that sort is a addition to the points that mr. freed made. first a observation about the potential impact of the measure is that it creates a new definition of renewable green house gas electricity that is inconsistent with state law. the proposed energy clean right act addresses the issue by tying the terms clean green to definitions in state law. mr. freed also referred to the issue around roof top solar and thought he captured that well. additionally, the proposed initiative has the potential to increase cost to a cca program without necessarily providing additional environmental benefits. the issue here really is how narr

mrs. smith and michael knew. i felt words would reach michael and i'm glad they did.mes and i will always love him. he was my world. even though we have only one year of marriage, we had other years of just loving and sharing. i feel privileged to be the wife of such a wonderful, warm man such as he was. i'm very proud of all that he stood for and all that he was and all of the courage it took for him to make this supreme sacrifice. life without him is almost inconceivable, but he is in a better place now where nothing can hurt him. i know that. everything he did was based on his love and faith in god and how i must live my life for ourselves and our child based on that same strength. my relationship is no longer physical. it is almost divine. my words sound hollow to me as i read over them because it is impossible to express my feelings. i want you to know i appreciate your thoughts and concerns. i want you to know that i feel as i do about his death. i have to accept it was god's will and james' way of wanting to die. the way he would want me to feel and love him as

mr. collin mentioned on harrison where michael intend to weaken out of his affordability obligations by some sort of group housing scheme with empty nesters and high you tech populations so if you're entertaining friendly amendments that our recommending to the board of supervisors add in other friendly amendment that addresses cleaning up that 5 foot extra height will that while you clean up this inclusionary requirement thank you. >> kim national union of health care workers the national union of health care is happy to stand with the how's advocates and urge you to pass it and pass it today thank you. >> 0 is there any additional public comment. >> good afternoon commissioners commissioner burns legislative aide to supervisor christensen supervisor christensen's was offering those amendments you received in the packet we've viewed the ordinance as a inclusionary group housing and are supportive and hope to include an additional definition to the zoning district the existing language section hundred 24 is broad we wanted to see that brought into the inclusionary project program for the per

michael: we have known each other for a long time. we were in law school together. mike: so you have been calling him mr. president. and what quality would you say he had that you can still see? michael: well, actually, you can see a number of the same qualities, but if you can remember back in the mid-1980's, there was a lot of division between conservatives and liberals, and president obama was elected in part because he was determined to try to bring people together from different parts of the law school community and have a cohesive group put out the journal, and he did a very good job of building consensus and building everybody, and ice some of those same -- i see some of those same traits today. mike: and he does not smoke in public. michael: he has much more gray hair. there has been a lot of continuity between how we was back then and how we has evolved as a political leaders since. mike: and starting with the news, today, there was a great story on politico. a copy of the tpp intellectual property chapter headlines what is in the obama trade deal? backing big pharma, and there was a recent draft of the tra

mr. goolsbee. thank you very much. michael feroli, thanks very much. >>> stocks notched their fourth day of gains as investors looked away from global developments back to earnings. more on that in a moment. the dow jones industrial average rose 75 points to 18503. and the as in nasdaq gaped 33. >>> after months of talks iran and six global powers reached a nuclear deal. the agreement designed to rein in iran's nuclear ambitions while allowing that country to continue its program for peaceful purposes. all in in exchange for relief from western sanctions. congress now has 60 days to review the agreement. approval there is anything but assured, but the president has vowed to veto any resolution that disapproves the pact. as for oil prices they dropped early in the session only to reverse course once its became apparent that iranian oil exports will not lit the market by any time soon. and it rose to about $53 a barrel. jackie deangelis looks at the implications for crude. >> reporter: some are calling it the deal of the decade.

mr. michael ronnebeck, he was shot down by an undocumented immigrant. u.s.igration and customs enforcement released grant's alleged murderer who was awaiting deportation. grant was born in iowa but resided in arizona and had two brothers and a sister. our fourth witness the reverend gabriel salguero. reverend salguero and his wife are the lead co-pastors of the lamb nazzzeen, new york, and also founder of the national latino evangelical could hings. and mr. jim steinle of pleasanton, california, the father of kate steinle, who was gunned down 20 days ago while walking on a pier in san francisco alongside this father. her alleged killer had seven prior felony convictions and had been deported five times. sanchez was shielded by san francisco's sanctuary policy which allowed for his release in march despite an i.c.e. detainer placed on him. six person chief j. thomas manger. chief manger has been chief of police, montgomery county since february 2004. chief manger also serves as president of the major city of chiefs police association. our seventh witness is d

mr. chairman. >> michael mccaul chairman of homeland security committee. >> thank you chairman. we thank the witnesses. i in some respects feel the train has already left the station. even if we disapprove of this, this is vetoed and reover ride this goes before the security council. unless the administration exercises leadership of those sanctions will be lifted regardless of what we do in the united states. then i think that's maybe something we haven't discussed here today. then from homeland security standpoint, that means we have billions of dollars being restored to the iranians that can then go into terrorist operations. we know they control five capitals now. really arguably teheran, baghdad, damascus beirut, sanaa, yemen. that's what greatly concerns me. i don't know if we can turn the block back on this now. now that the p5+1 agreed to this. when i was in europe you're absolutely correct ambassador, they're very supportive of this deal. primarily, i think because they have a lot of money to be made on this. so i don't know what we do to stop it. i can tell you what i'm

michael: right. tom: what does mr. moynihan have to do? if he needs "growthiness," where does he get it? michael: they have and try to get it through cost cuts. michael mayo put out a note that their core earnings power has stayed flat over the last year but i think, you know, they will need revenue growth, they will need help, but the cost cutting has to show some fruit here. tom: michael moore, thank you so much for your we will keep it quick would be news flow. michael moore with us from bloomberg news and michael mayo will join us at the top of the hour. right now in journalism and newspapers there is a series of headlines. vonnie: the "new york times" reported that pearson may be in talks to discuss a transaction, and we are getting confirmation that there is no certainty that talks will lead to a transaction, but they are in advanced talks of a cell of the financial. tom: ken doctor ripped this apart, and i want to drag in don stressassheim with china. everybody reads the rft. are they a different newspaper than all the other major ne

mr. michael carr joining us to say a few words >> (clapping). >> actually pat is still the director of the city of city build system changes in the last few weeks the mayor is sick and sends his regrets san francisco is a city of innovation i'm sure you're aware of and it is a place where inspired people turn great ideas into realty as you look to the leaflet they say an infrastructure is not sexy but it beautiful and it is vital to our city this project is special to the oewd it a great collaboration between caltrain and the plazas sector in the city of san francisco we participated introduce the city build group and put a hundred percent of our folks to work this project created jobs for the local san francisco bay area residents a partnership between oewd and ta one last things i'd like to congratulate the many community members and planners and engineers and construction workers that worked hard and long to cooperate this project all the partners here especially g lc for hiring the workers thank you very much on behalf of the mayor and the city of san francisco job well done thank you

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mrs. reinboldt, my name is michael metnick. and i am the attorney for randy steidl.u understand that? >> yes, i do. >> why is it that you're here today? >> because there were some things that didn't, weren't truthful in the testimonies and -- >> were you there? at the rhoads' house the night they were killed? >> no. >> that's when i was done with the state's case. she was either there or she wasn't. who's she lying to in either way, she's not credible. >> why did you mention randy steidl? >> why did i? >> yes. >> at that point? >> yes. >> because that's who everybody was saying did it. >> around the time of reinboldt's recantation, bill clutter obtained a previously unknown box of records from the paris police department. >> we able to go through and view all of the police reports, that included polygraph reports that had never been disclosed to us. a polygraph report where darrel herrington had failed the polygraph. >> but if rhine bolt and herrington were lying, why had both of them fingered steidl and whitlock for the crime? randy thought he knew. >> two weeks bef

michael: hassan has always been e regime's mr. fiitut while he is giving does moderate air outside the countrytheir indicators inside th he is not more moderate whether it is with capital punishment, all sorts of politicis the under house arrestst, any other aspect of the situation, he has replaced some of the revolutionary guards ministers in the cabinet. that is like repci bad with bad. the question is is he sincere about change and even if he is does he ve the ality to bring the e revolutionary guard into the points in the few does not caps off is a problem. barbara: i agree with a lot of that. the impoant thing is the supreme leader has blessed this process and that i is why it will be at --mplement it.t. the iraniapublic is not in charge o everything but e system has to be responsive to the wish othe irananian people and i have gone there e nine tes over the last 20 years and to watch ththe society evolve the way it has has bn so gratifying. young of f a well-educated people who are very attuned to stern shions and movies anm

mr. smith and michael knew. i felt words would reach michael and i'm glad they did. i loved james so and will always love him. he was my world, and even though we have only one year of marriage, we had other years of just loving and sharing. i feel privileged to have been the wife of such a wonderful, warm man such as he was. i'm very proud of all that he stood for and all that he was. and all of the it took for him to make this supreme sacrifices he did. life without him is almost inconceivable. but he is in a better place now where nothing can hurt him. i know that. everything he did was based on his love and faith in god and how i must build my life for myself and our child based on that same strength. my relationship with james is no longer physical. it is almost divine i think. my words sound hollow to me as i read over them because feelings as mine are impossible to express but i want you to know i appreciate your thoughts and your concerns. i want you to note that i feel as i do about his death, i have to accept it was god's will and as james way of wanting to

michael's 10-year-old twins interviewing the first lady. how they teamed up with mrs. do with your life ♪ >>> and a bulldog right there in times square this morning. checking out the new woop washer. they say this is the brand-new way to clean your dog and the best possible way. that dog seems pretty happy about it. we'll test it out live in just a little bit. the woof washer. >> the woof washer. >> woof washer 360. >> oh, sorry, buddy. >> you can do it buddy. >> not too much. >> shake it off. ♪ shake it off ♪ >> also how adorable was that? >> making me cry. >> your twins are just so precious and landed a big -- they're our youngest "gma" correspondents yet. we deputized them to head to the white house and talk to the first lady. >> they went right to the white house. they weren't nervous. they didn't hesitate and interviewed president -- i mean first lady michelle obama about the white house kids state dinner which they're excited about and bo and sunny crashed the interview which they were more excited about. they are so excited about dogs and animal dmrs they would