mr. pierce to come back and do just an overview of the whistleblower cases that the ethics commission has jurisdiction over and how those could be pursued. as i think about case prioritization factors, i don't know if you want to include this in there or if it's already rolled into one of them that you have already. but i think one of the things to consider and i think that you already do is whether or not another city agency has conducted an investigation. so, for example, some cases have already been investigated by the department of human resources or the city attorney and/or the district attorney. so after one, two, or three or multiple agencies have already investigated a matter, is it -- i would ask that you and your team use your discretion to say do we really need to go through and do it a fourth time or could we reasonably rely on the findings of these multiple investigations from different city agencies. >> yeah, sure, thank you. >> this is an important discussion to have and the start of an important dialog. i would ask you to come back at the next meeting or the october meetin

mr. pierce, i'd like to ask you as you go through this, just bear in mind the level set all of us in terms of where we are and enforcement activities and use this as a background in framing item to tee-up the discussion in agenda item number ten. >> sure. thank you, chair and comirge commissioners. i will also have an opportunity to tee-up the discussion around item 10, given some of the statistics we've reported there. but you'll see that in this month's enforcement report in item 12, we've provided some additional data, given that we made it through the end of the fiscal year and have not had a meeting since we turned over into the new fiscal year, we provided for you at the top of page 2 some of the metrics that we keep track of as a division there. for comparison, we've reported them, both in terms of the fiscal year that just concluded, as well as the prior fiscal year. some of these metrics you've not seen before. on the monthly enforcement report, we typically report on the number of matters in preliminary review and under investigation, as well as the average number of months that

. >> i liked pierce brosnan in "mrs. doubtfire."the economy and president trump announcing he is considering a tax cut. >> he told reporters he's always thinking about that. he denies a recession is on the horizon but says the federal reserve should be doing more to bolster the economy. economists are worried it's the trade war with china that will hurt the u.s. economy. abc's cecilia vega has his response. >> reporter: president trump defending his trade war with china, saying it's worth it even if it hurts the economy. >> whether it's good for our country or bad for our country short-term, long-term it's imperative that somebody does this. i am doing this whether it's good or bad for your statement about, oh, will we fall into a recession for two months, okay? the fact is somebody had to take china on. the smart people say, thank you very much. and the dumb people have no idea. >> reporter: the president standing his ground, despite growing concern his trade war could help bring on a recession. a new study says the president's 10%

on this from pierce cobb in brazil is paolo brando he's a scientist at the amazon environmental research institute and focuses on tropical rain forests welcome thanks for being with us mr brando why are we seeing so much for having 2 so many wildfires in the amazon right now it's not a big surprise the big increase in fires we've seen the amazon simply because of theme a massive increase in deforestation in the region so about 50 percent of the. then nice ballad is accounted for 50 percent of deforestation and most of the fires occur in these regions where we see massive increase in the 1st asian. ok president also now rose accusing n.g.o.s of actually starting these fires has he presented so far any evidence to support that that claim. not that i have seen in evidence what you can see now is that we have persistent fires in parts of the amazon and these fires occur over multiple days and so can easily see that they're related to clearing of forests so speculators are farmers are different stakeholders are cutting down forests this mess of floors and burning them has big big bone fires and these fires release way more energy in order types of fires from pasture fires s

mr. trump: good job. that was perfect coordination. around the world, they are all talking about the job you are doing. >> the rest of these individuals providing the tactical support, medical support, pierce support, and air support. 40ey were 17 of the 10 personnel who responded. mr. trump: who's going to mess with these people? >> nobody. >> nice to meet you. nice to meet you. >> i want to thank everybody again. the job you have done is incredible and we are with you all the way. we've sent you a lot of equipment over the last two and a half years, close to three years. hard to believe, but a lot of equipment your way. a lot of equipment that wasn't being used came your way. military equipment that wasn't going to be distributed for some reason, maybe someone will explain why but that is the way it was and it was a lot different. you deserve it and we are with you 100%. the chief has any problems, he calls me and i am there.