ms. kennedy. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. bruce bowen from dolores heights. i apologize for taking up the time and speaking out without having been at this presentation and having heard everything so i'll make it very brief. this may have been brought up before but i was otherwise engaged within city hall. my concern about the process leading to the development of pdas and how this will be implemented is two-fold. one is will the development of pdas we place the need for community-based planning process, which is something that was being addressed and i hope this came up earlier. and also the interaction with the development and implementation the use of pdas, interaction with sb50. will pdas be used to help manage the effect of sb50 were it to pass? or will pdas be used as an accelerator and targeting function for sb50? so the ways in which pdas are being defined could seem to me to be a way to target san francisco in the way sb50 has been targeting san francisco and i would like to avoid that being the consequence of this implementation. thank you. >> thank

ms. sawyer: we don't have control over that. sen. kennedy: i know that. i am asking you who should based on your considerable experience. ms. sawyer: the individuals that have been elected or appointed to the top ranks of our criminal justice and law in this country have the responsibility to make those kinds of decisions. sen. kennedy: we don't. congress did not with the first step act, we turned it over to you folks and the justice department. ms. sawyer: you gave us authority, you gave us abilities -- sen. kennedy: but you exercise the judgment. ms. sawyer: that's right, but that judgment is very much driven by specific parameters in which we have to work. sen. kennedy: they're very vague. ms. sawyer: i am not sure i'll an able to answer this in acceptable manner to you because you know what you -- sen. kennedy: let me get one stein.ick on jerry ep how can i put this? christmas ornaments, dry wall, and jerry epstein. name three things that don't hang themselves. that's what the american people think. that's what the american people think and they deserv

almost 2 decades as a republican staffer he was a professional staff member for representing mark kennedy ms soda and senator john kyl of arizona later mr morris and served as the longtime policy director for the republican staff of the house armed services committee july 28th mr morrison joined the national security council as senior director for countering weapons of mass destruction fall in the parts of dr fiona hill in july $21000.00 mr morrison assume the position of senior director for russia and europe to final points before the witnesses are sworn 1st witnesses witness depositions as part of this inquiry were unclassified in nature and all open hearings will also be held at the unclassified level. and the information they touch on classified information will be addressed separately in a 2nd congress will not tolerate any reprisal threat of reprisal or attempt to retaliate against any u.s. government official or testifying before congress including you or of any of your colleagues if you both please rise and raise your right hand i will begin by swearing you and you swear or affirm th

kennedy: you are not a policy maker. ms. morgan: no sir. have been very impressed with your testimony and your candor given the circumstances. if you were a policy maker, and perhaps you should be, would you renew the program? ms. morgan: sir, what i will say that i support the administration's position because i honestly believe it is the best position to have with respect to this program. sen. kennedy: why is that? ms. morgan: as i mentioned before, the way terrorists communicate and the way technology evolves is not -- it is not out of the realm of possibility to say we might find a new technology out there we have not considered or thought of that terrorists might be using that technology. the way we can get insight into their content, the metadata with one another, would be to leverage this particular authority. i want to be able to have the ability to move as dynamically as possible in trying to get at this communication. we think the potential value of this authority and how we would apply and leverage it would outweigh the resource

chief weekly headed to the station to talk to kennedy about the accident in person. >> they talked about what happened. [inaudible] i said i was sorry for mst wasn't ms. steele he told me it was mary jo and i had asked if anyone had been in contact with their family. they said can you tell me what happened and he said he would be happy to give me some sort of a statement. >> than the senator invites the police chief while he and his friend put the statements together. i went back to the scene. [inaudible] he did not question him about all of the things but instead they wrote out the statement of kennedy mackey carefully composed a statement. >> it suggests he still had not understood exactly what he was going to say. >> he came upon a narrow bridge. the car went off the side of the bridge. the car turned over and sank to the bottom. it came to the surface in attempt to see if a passenger was still in the car. i was unsuccessful. >> when i came back, i came back to see my car full of reporters so i typed up the statement and i read it to them. there was a car parked in from the cottage. i've been asked for someone to bring me back. i rememb

kennedy? he said, i can tell you one thing for certain, aristotle anastas would not have married ms. khrushchev. [laughter] david: so, mr. secretary, you have a career in public service that is unmatched by anybody over the last 50 years or so. as an american, i want to thank you for what you have done for our country, and thank you very much for what you have done for this museum. mr. baker: thank you, david. [applause] for thatyou very much wonderful and stimulating dialogue. i would like to call the germany ambassador to the united states. madam ambassador emily haber. [applause] ms. haber: secretary pompeo, secretary baker, ambassador harris, and ladies and gentlemen, it is a privilege to join you this evening on the special occasion and in honor of the man who played such a crucial role in the events we commemorate today. i would also like to thank secretary pompeo for having spoken to us on this occasion, thus underlining the enduring legacy of that day and time for us today. it was in gentlemen, 1983 when i started working on eastern europe. i was a young foreign service offic

ms. hill is entitled to her opinion but no rebuttal evidence was allowed to be offered. >> senator kennedythat wildly unfounded remark just days after the new york times reported that american intelligence officials informed senators and aids in recent weeks that russia had engaged in a year's long campaign to essentially frame ukraine as responsible for moscow's own hacking of the 2016 election. it seems someone wasn't paying attention during class or didn't want to. after the break, we'll discuss the growing embrace of a russian conspiracy theory and what it means for the 2020 election with ron and david jolly. election wh ron and david jolly. along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting. chantix reduces the urge so when the day arrives, you'll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. stop chantix and get help right away if you have changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, depressed mood, suicidal th

ms. hill is entitled to her opinion but no rebuttal evidence was allowed to be offered. >> senator kennedyade that wildly unfounded remark just days after t"the new york times" reported that american intelligence officials informed senators and aids in recent weeks that russia had engaged in a years-long campaign to essentially frame ukraine as responsible for moscow's own hacking of the 2016 election. it seems someone wasn't paying attention during class or didn't want to. after the break, we'll discuss the growing embrace of a russian conspiracy theory and what it means for the 2020 election with ron klain and david jolly. y. there are 6.5 million of them; they all need a forever home. it would mean the world to them, and they will love you forever. ♪ ♪ applebee's new sizzlin' entrées. now starting at $9.99. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. hour 36 in the stakeout. as soon as the homeowners arrive, we'll inform them that liberty mutual customizes home insurance, so they'll only pay for what they need. your turn to keep watch, limu. wake me up if you see anything. [ snoring ] [

ms. hoffman. next speaker, please. >> going high-tech this time. good afternoon, president melgar and commissioners. my name is carolyn kennedy from the dolores heights improvement club. i'm here with a request for your consideration today to please ask staff to conduct impact analysis on the newly-enacted senate bill 330 the housing accountability act. i made this request on september 19 in public comment and your response was let's wait until the bill is enacted into law. it's now been signed. and i think it's critical to conduct an impact analysis for our city. senate bill 330 mandates many elements of the planning process including timelines, processes and penalties. it forces administrative approval for many projects. it's a top-down, one size fits all approach to processes in over 300 jurisdictions in california. in my experience top down change doesn't go well. my question for you is what impact will this law have on san francisco's planning and entitlement process. i'm specifically concerned about demolition control appeal processes protection of existing and therefore more affordable housing along with rent controlle

kennedy: right, but it could also be ukraine. i'm not saying that i know one way or the other. i'm saying that ms. hill is entitled to her opinion but no rebuttal evidence was allowed to be offered. we know, at least the republicans in the house wanted to call a witness, a dnc political operative who lobbied the ukrainian embassy to be involved and get involved in the 2016 election. we don't know if ukraine did that we don't know what extent because they won't let the president offer his evidence and that's why i'll say, once again, the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence if you're not allowed to call your >> chris: senator kennedy, talk to you and even more interesting to listen to you. thank you, thanks for joining us today, and have a good thanksgiving holiday, sir. up next, democrats push their investigation despite the white house blocking key witnesses. could that backfire, leaving big gaps in their case against president trump? democrat congressman eric sw next. >> brought to you by charles schwab. own your tomorrow. i wanted to have a firm that wanted to get everybody in. be

senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and clinton campaign computers, their e-mails? was it russia or ukraine? >> i don't know, nor do you. nor do any of us. mshill -- >> well, let me just interrupt to say the entire intelligence community said it was russia. >> right, but it could also be ukraine. i'm not saying i know one way or the other, i'm saying that ms. hill is entitled to her opinion but no rebuttal evidence was allowed to be offered. >> can you confirm that you guys have been given an intelligence briefing on this issue that russia is trying to frame ukraine? >> some members have, i have not, but i'm not at all surprised that russia is gearing up -- not at all surprised that -- she's correct that russia tried to interfere in 2016. also, ukrainians themselves tried to interfere also, but chuck -- >> isn't there a big difference between the two? i understand there's individual ukrainians who were upset that candidate donald trump wanted crimea to stay with russia. is that the same as the russian government and putin ordering a full-fledged interference in the united states election? >> i'm concerned about both. >> following the testim

senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and clinton campaign computers, their e-mails? was it russia or ukraine? >> i don't know, nor do you, nor do any of us. msill -- >> let me interrupt to say the entire intelligence community says it was russia. >> right. but it could also be ukraine. >> ambassador, a sitting u.s. congressman is pedaling what diplomats have said is a russian conspiracy theory. what's your reaction to that? >> well, it's very unfortunate. not only has the u.s. intelligence community but the senate intelligence committee and the mueller report all made very clear that it was russia that interfered in the u.s. election and hacked into the dnc mail server. what we've seen is a russian effort now going back a couple of years to deflect that story and say, no, it was ukraine. it's unfortunate that we now have senior members on capitol hill saying that perhaps they believe that. it's wrong. it's unfortunate, and it's taking our attention off the russia problem which was big in 2016 and may come back in 2020. >> another republican congressman made this argument on ukraine aid this morning. take a listen. >> the july 25th call, pres

senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and clinton campaign computers? their emails? was it russia or ukraine? >> yi don't know, nor do you, nr do any of us. msll -- >> let me just interrupt to say the entire intelligence community says it was russia. >> right. but it could also be ukraine. >> see what he did there? i don't know. you don't either. clever, huh? so it bears repeating, there is no as in zero evidence ukraine interfered in the election. not only that, members of congress were briefed that it was russia pushing that nonsense. joining us now, "washington post" op-ed columnist michael gerson, a former speechwriter for president george w bush, and rick wilson, author of "everything trump touches dies." michael, you wrote an op-ed in the "washington post" today in which you say, quote, loyalty to trump among republicans is proved by the loosening of all other loyalties to truth, to honesty, and to the national good. by this measure, you write, kennedy is profoundly loyal to the president. i just think back to when i first met you in 2000 when you were a speechwriter for george w. bush. can you even recognize someone like this in your

senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and clinton campaign computers, their e-mails? was it russia or ukraine? >> i don't know. nor do you, nor do any of us. msrrupt to say the entire intelligence community says it was russia. >> right. but it could also be ukraine. i was wrong so let me be clear, russia hacked the dnc computer. i have no evidence whatsoever that ukraine did it. >> does that make you hopeful that he felt enough shame or i don't know double-checked his sources, he went back and read the ic report and then came back and said i was wrong about it? >> no, it doesn't make me particularly hopeful, katey, because what the republican strategy is and has been throughout the trump years is to muddy the waters. trump has been caught doing something just like russia was caught meddling in our election, but what they do instead is create an alternative theory, maybe it was ukraine. and that's nothing to give their people something to hang onto, that maybe everybody does this. pompeo, you heard him say lots of countries interfere in our election. there's lots of countries that had a multifaceted effort to interfere in our election and that

: senate kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and clinton campaign computers, their e-mails, was it russia or ukraine? >> i don't know nor do you, nor do any of us. msll -- chris: let me interrupt to say, the entire intelligence community says it was russia. >> right, but it could also be ukraine, i'm not saying that i know one way or the other, i'm saying that ms. hill is entitled to her opinion but no rebuttal evidence was allowed to be offered. we know at least the republicans in the house wanted to call a witness, dnc political operative who lobbied the ukrainian embassy to be involved and get involved in 2016 election, we don't know if ukraine did that and we don't know to what extent because they won't let the president offer his evidence and that's why i will say once again the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence if you're not allowed to call your own witnesses. senator kennedy, always interesting to talk to you and even more interesting to listen to you, thank you and thanks for joining us today and have a good thanksgiving holiday, sir. >> you too, chris. chris: up next democrats push investigation despite the white house blo

senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and clinton campaign computers, their e-mails? was it russia? or ukraine? >> i don't know. nor do you. nor do any others. ms. hill -- >> let me just interrupt to say the entire intelligence community says it was russia. >> right. but it could also be ukraine. i'm not saying that i know one way or the other. i'm saying that ms. hill is entitled to her opinion. but no rebuttal evidence was allowed to be offered. >> that is a cup in front of me but it could also be a ladybug. >> right. it's like that painting, you know -- >> this is not a pipe. >> right. you know, that paul newman movie where that is the line what we have here is a failure of communication? what we have here is a failure of epistemology. like literally the very theory of knowledge on which we understand things -- >> we don't share facts any longer. >> we don't share facts. we don't even share a common sense of how one approximates the truth. and by the way, this is not a surprise because who is the most important conspiracy theorist in the world today? it's the president of the united states. so why is it -- why is anyone surprised that -- tha

> senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and clinton campaign computer, their emails? was it russia or ukraine? >> i don't know nor do you, nor do any of us. ms. hill -- >> well, let me interrupt to say the entire intelligence community says it was russia. >> right. but it could also be ukraine. i'm not saying that i know one way or the other. i'm saying that ms. hill is entitled to her opinion, but no rebuttal evidence was allowed to be offered. >> rev, i can't stress enough how deep a conspiracy theory that was until it reached the white house. it was a crowdstrike thing, crowdstrike's an american company, by the way, it's not a ukraine company. there's no physical server. we can go through this all again as we've done a million times. that was the president pushing on fox and friends. but, again, the second layer of these last three years has been the republican support. the president says something wild, conspiratorial, false, and he has an entire group of snores who come in behind him and support. senator kennedy knows better. he knows that's a conspiracy theory and he's ignoring all the intel agencies when he says that on tv. >> it's fr

> senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hack the dnc and clinton campaign computers, their emails? was it russia or ukraine? >> i don't know. nor do you, nor do any of us. msrrupt to say the entire intelligence community says it was russia. >> right. but it could also be ukraine. i'm not saying that i know one way or the other. i'm saying that ms. hill is entitled to her opinion but no rebuttal evidence was allowed to be offered. i was answering one of his questions and he interjected a statement and asked me to react to it. what i heard chris say was, he made the statement that only russia what tried to interfere in the election. and i answered the question. that's not what he said. i went back and looked at the transcript. he said only russia tried to hack the dnc computer. now, chris is right, i was wrong. the only evidence i have, and i think it's overwhelming, is that it was russia who tried to hack the dnc computer. >> that's what the consensus is. >> i've seen -- yep. i've seen no indication that ukraine tried to do it. if you'll look at the articles i talked about, you will see that there's a lot of evidence that ukraine did try to meddle in the el