was there some degree of organization and motivation to the need for organization as organization? elizabeth: this is an important question that came up in the panel. sustainedothing organization to the rebellion. there is thist radicals like black panthers are behind the uprising. those have not really been proven by historians. i think the grievances and the social economic reality is that we are a breeding ground for the civil rights movement and but our movement and uprisings were rooted in the same and demand for an end to the exclusionary institutions that were operating in african-american communities and an outside police force and community power and control. these were grievances behind the uprisings and the more formal arts of this were rooted in the same concern. >> is there one part of this report that stands out 50 years later for you personally? elizabeth: the nation is moving toward one white one black and unequal. these are the catchphrases that got picked up. is on american racism as being one of the core problems that the u.s. has confronted and is really importan

was there some degree of organization and motivation to the need for organization as organization? elizabeth: this is an important question that came up in the panel. sustainedothing organization to the rebellion. there is thist radicals like black panthers are behind the uprising. those have not really been proven by historians. i think the grievances and the social economic reality is that we are a breeding ground for the civil rights movement and but our movement and uprisings were rooted in the same and demand for an end to the exclusionary institutions that were operating in african-american communities and an outside police force and community power and control. these were grievances behind the uprisings and the more formal arts of this were rooted in the same concern. >> is there one part of this report that stands out 50 years later for you personally? elizabeth: the nation is moving toward one white one black and unequal. these are the catchphrases that got picked up. is on american racism as being one of the core problems that the u.s. has confronted and is really importan

organic program which is housed by the usda. they have boards that determine the rules and applications that can be used in organic production and they oversee what can be labeled as organic and identified in the market. if you go to a grocery store and you are consumer, and you are interested in buying organic food, you want to look for a round symbol that says usda organic and you know then that it has been approved by federal standards. the federal standards are very specific. it means something very narrow and not all organic producers and consumers agree upon that definition. they can be highly controversial depending on who you ask. some are confused about what it means to be organic as opposed to other terms like local or natural or sustainably produced. as defined byic the federal government. >> yes. organic if it is labeled as that and in the u.s. it has to be organic according to the usda national standard. >> you have these early states, these early adopters, organic regulation, and how did that lead to the development of the 1990 act? >> half of u.s. states ended up adopting legislation. there was a few that set goals before or in lieu of any type of legislati

opposed to other terms like local or natural or same we produce. >> organic as defined by the federal government? >> yes, organic if it is labeled as such in the united states it has to be organic according to the usda national organic program standard. >> you have the early states, early adopters of organic regulation and how does that lead to the development of the 1990 act? >> and so u.s. states ending up adopting legislation, there were a few that did administrative roles, either before or in lieu of any type of legislative adoption and states were to pursue the legislation and how they came about is mainly grass-roots phenomena. groups like california certify organic officers, oregon, washington, and you have a net worth across the united states in the 60's and 70's, 80's and 90's that were work to go essentially create standards. now a lot of these organizations ended up engaging in third-party certification or certification of organic farms. so if you are a consumer and went to farmers market and grocery store some products available, food products would actually say that they were certified as organic by

the national organic program board determines the rules and applications that can be used in organic reduction and they also oversee what can be labeled as organic and identified in the market. if you go to the grocery store and/or consumer buying organic food, you want to look for a round symbol that says it's organic. you know then it actually has been approved by federal standards. the federal standards are very specific. it means something narrow and not organic consumers agree. it can be highly controversial depending who you ask. some consumers are very confused what it actually means to be organic is supposed to other terms like local or natural or sustainably produced. >> organic as defined by federal government. >> organic unstable dissection in the united case it has to be organic to the program standards. >> so you have these early stages, early adopters of organic regulation. how does that lead to the development of the 1990 act? >> half of the u.s. state ended up adopting legislation. there were a few that did administrative hold, either before or in lieu of any type of legislative adopting. the states for the first ones to pursue t

because it infuses everything that we do as an organization, as an organization now. we developed in response and totally leaned into this in the conversation with proposition b, developing some equity metrics to evaluate how we're delivering services all around the city. and we created what we referred to as equity zones and our equity zones are those census tracks in the city that have the highest 20% incident rates of a variety of vulnerable population charactecharacteristics. and then we locate the parks, and all of the parks within a five minute walk of those sens us is tracks and -- census tracks and as a result we have been able to make stronger data comparisons on how we're delivering services in distinct sectors of the city and they all have equity zones and are outside of equity zones so it's actually a bit more precise and targeted in understanding how we're delivering services than simply a much broader district, supervisor district by supervisor district comparison. and i think that what this chart shows is that some of our initiatives here -- before i ta

she's also worked as an independent organic inspector for pennsylvania certified organic and served several terms onboard of drebtors. i congratulate her on this well deserved recognition. i thank her for her contributions to the industry. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentlewoman is recognized or one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to introduce my guest for the state of the union, marko chavez. marko is a veteran who served his country honorably, came home, and was deported to mexico. now, mr. chavez was born in mexico. he was brought to c as an infant. he served in the marine corps as a lawful permanent resident before being deported. california governor brown granted him a full and unconditional pardon for a minor crime had he done, but he was separated from his family for 16 years. it is an injustice that we can -- we

hamas as an organization has been already recognized as a terrorist organization by the united statesand so therefore simply saying that the leader now is being singled out for individual doesn't nation as a terrorist is not a huge difference although it will place individual think sions on him as a person and so it's more about the message the than the actual practical implementation is that so what is the message exactly so it's another example of president donald trump appealing to his base and working more on the domestic policy platform. in order to reinforce his strong anti terrorists right or ak and so this is that is an easy kind of stone that he can throw his supporters and it seems very much is i mean given the totality of the of the trump policy towards israel palestine it seems very much as though it's designed to exacerbate a huge amount of pressure particularly on the palestinians in order to force them to the negotiating table i'm just wondering do you think it will work. know won't work because first of all hamas has never been a party to the negotiating talks with the

as a way to organize and resist policies that demonstrate as detriment al to women. this year's event a bit more organizedn last year's which was pretty organic. it's also a bit more politically charged. marchers say their theme is to resist, persist, and rise up. >> i feel that equality is being stripped away for many of at risk people, minorities, immigrants, transgender, lgbt community, women's rights. even those things scary things have been happening the past year. i don't know what will happen in the future. we have to stay together. >> reporter: and you can expect a big voter registration drive out here. speeches by politicians. streets in this area around the parkway are going to be closed for a while until later this afternoon. we should also make one note about security. there was some concern about a large police presence. philly police say they will not be conducting random searches. they're doing visual screenings of the crowd making sure everything stays safe. >>> a lot of street closures in center city and around the parkway where you saw randy a moment ago because of the women's march. for

never telegraphs when it's going to be designating one person or one organization as a potential terrorist or a terrorist organization. designations have come under some political scrutiny with political actors either in this country or in other countries asking for this kind of designation but typically this is something that is very closely held and only done after considerable consultation not just within the u.s. government but perhaps with other governments as well. joining with the latest there from washington rawls thank you. and the european union is giving an extra fifty three million dollars in aid to palestine following the u.s. decision to withhold funding the e.u.'s foreign policy chief said that he chemical he made the announcement at a donors meeting in brussels the u.n. has warned that gaza's economy is on the verge of collapse we know the more we can achieve progress on the ground the more this can help prevent violence and the more this can help. a political process so in this context we believe it is important that the palestinian authority is committed to unite the west bank and gaza on the one si

organization. i grew up in the east bay. i was in cyo in the 1950s. very good organization. you are considered a model because you hit the right notes as a charitable organization, low overhead, good disbursement? >> very good overhead. we operate in a very thin margin. we do receive some government contracts. they are not normally sufficient to cover all of the expenses. and we have private donations. what i am seeking in the next five years for sure and in the short run, is more partnerships from corporations and businesses. given a big divide between the wealthy and the poor -- the fact that one might drive the other, we think that we are all accountable and hope that businesses and corporations take some of that accountability. >> do you have a five-year strategic plan? >> we are currently reproducing our most current strategic plan, absolutely. that is a very big part of it. the opportunity to partner with businesses and help them become more accountable. >> i am not an economist or sociologist. but it seems that there is a huge bundle of wealth and success in the bay area where the archdiocese is. a lot of corporations are doing very well. a lot of people

organization by organization. as you pointed out, this is as much changing people's views how to do things so they understand the importance. the third factor the audit is annual. if you did this once and came back in 10 years i don't know you haven't the same cultural changes. the realization they're coming back in 6 to 9 months, make the changes or watch them find the same things again. that third factor, it repeats. they're not going to change the questions, they're just expecting you to change your ability to provide an answer. >> do you anticipate a need for a feedback system so everyone engaged in this can be giving their input all along the way and some of that may be anonymous. >> yes. we need feedback. one of the things i tried to draw attention to, because the audit will repeat, what's important is that we be able to sustain this. if you're given a task where this is way too labor-intensive, stop. let's figure out why answering that audit request as labor-intensive and fix the way we store the data or do the check to answer them efficiently every year. i would rather take the finding the first year than do a herculean expensive effort i have to repeat the next year. if we can't find the records efficiently, lets put the data where it's easily searched so next year it's a quick process. we want to make this efficient over time and that's another way reducing some resistance so it's not -- people have a way of saying, i don't understand why it's happening this way and the answer is maybe we can do it differently and still have to meet the standards of the audit. >> speaking of auditors and obviously, you're using a lot of different ways of responding to some of the concerns that have been existing for some time, is there anything in the training or preparation, as you move forward, that needs to be changed, and that you're addressing, as it relates to the way people are approaching it? >> there's been a lot of effort on that. my predecessor, bob hale, set up a relative robust training program for the financial community introducing audits and audit readiness as a result from input of committees and others. extending that through the other organizations is probably one of our challenges. there's been some training but those areas equally as effective. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. norquist. this is very encouraging day. a day we've been waiting on a long time. i want to commend the chairman and the leadership for this. we are facing so many threats around the world and we need more dollars to modernize and increase our readiness. at the same time, i hear back home concerns about waste. any time there is waste we need to make sure it is rooted out and we're investing our precious defense dollars where they need to go. this process you're leading is critical in this effort. you know one of the audit processes improved accountability of assets and resources. i'm wondering are classified assets part of the audit process? >> yes. classified programs are included. i'll also tell you all of the defense intelligence agencies have stand alone full scope audit and most of them have been under audit for three years. being a classif

we're seeing as a result, a organic uprising organized by brave iranian citizens on the largest scaleince 2009 but the international community can not sit silent as it did then. the united states supports the iranian people and we call on the regime to support their basic right in their desire for change. america longs for the day that iranians will take their rightful place along free people of the world. as the president said in october, we stand in total solidarity with the iranian regime's longest suffering victims, its own people. the citizens much iran have paid a heavy price for the violence and extremism of their leaders and the iranian people long to reclaim its proud history, its culture and it cooperations with its neighbors. on even more somber note we're sad to announce that a brave american service member died in afghanistan. we're going through the notification process and dod will provide updates on that situation as available. and our thoughts and prayers are with that individual's family and friends. with that i will take your questions. major. >> iranian protests, d

considered a terrorist organization in turkey in europe as well in the european union and they also want germany to take a tough a stands on so-called goodness the organization is the organization the turkish government blames for the attempted coup in twenty sixteen so this is important for the turkish side meanwhile turkey's president wretch of type to one just yesterday paid a visit to french president mccaughan in paris and maicon came out with a very clear statement saying that at least at the moment there is no chance of turkey ever joining the european union was this an issue that was discussed by the foreign ministers today turkey's accession to the e.u. i didn't hear about it specifically but i i can assume that this doesn't go down well with the czechs president or the government members because they're often saying we will not wait at that use door forever on the other hand they are really trying now to mend fences with european nations because they're all the partners russia the u.s. middle eastern nations the relations them not exactly great either so they really need. to approach europe so to say but of course the european union also has lost a lot of leverage whe

organizations from illegal drug organizations and activity like human trafficking as well. they say that at this point you have to be careful it's not just the clothing but plenty of fake tickets in circulation and if your plan is to get on a plane and come to minneapolis with the hopes of getting a super bowl ticket the agents say think again. >> that is a terrible idea. that will not happen. the last thing that will happen. the city, the nfl and federal law enforcement we have taken steps way ahead of time to make sure counterfeit tickets will not be sole on game day. if you are in and around the stadium and you see someone kets purchase it, do not buy it. >> if someone is selling tickets it's a virtual guarantee it would be counterfeit. the latest ticket on stubhub in $5600, if you want to spend it you want to make sure you get in the game. that is the story here from the mall of america in bloomington, minnesota. jim back to you. >> thank you. i want to show you brian and sharrie a picture of what cold looks and feels like. we are looking at sara bloomquist. who is out with a windchill of 8 degrees. hey sara, tell us about the venue for super bowl lii.>> rep temperatures are no joke, i can tell you that. this stadium as it looms behind me is an impressive place, it's huge and intimate. state of the art. we moved way beyond the football domes of the past. that is all on purpose of course. u.s. bank stadium is in the spotlight sunday night and this place is ready to shine. >> the stage is nearly set, the super bowl is just days away. and minneapolis will get a chance to showcase u.s. bank stadium a unique venue that opened in july of 2016 and built with the super bowl in mind. >> an incredible stadium we think the best the league, a tremendous game day environment and game day atmosphere inter nate and loud. >> it cost billion to build and the place has an outdoor field even here in freezing cold s clear. some say it looks like a vikings ship and others a shard of ice. today they put the finishing touches in anticipation of the eagles patriots match-up come sunday. >> it's amazing. all of it comes together and it's so new. and unique this building in general. hall says it's prepared and leaving no stone unturned. in the meantime. the police department brass says it is ready for super bowl sunday and beyond. >> we will not let you tear up the city. commissioner rown the law for those that would dare go over the line for celebration. for thuggery and theft. move on in handle the situations and we will not tolerate that throughout the city. >> the win will trigger clouds than the nfc win two sundays ago. they suggest motorists say clear of center city because of the crowds that will swarm north broad and frankford and cotman. and massive deployments of uniform officers and plain clothes personnel will be at the various traditional hot spots. >> we'll be ready and out there with a contingent of officers seen by most and make every effort to know we are about business but we are still about the business of allowing people to celebrate as long as it's done peacefully. >> the barricades are located up and down south broad street. and merchants along the way say they would enjoy celebrations but worry about crowds getting out of hand. >> i don't want rocks thrown over or cars flipped over and everybody has a good time with it but not too much damage. >> you know, because there is more cops out here now. so they will be out also, if they don't i'm going to maneuver through them and go right back home. >> jim, all of this enthusiasm and anticipation and excitement continues to build. i'm vernon odom, on south broad street. >> our super bowl coverage continues on the 6 abc news app. there you can see how stars of sports and entertainment are cheering on the birds and read stories about how eagles fans are coming together across the area. word out of washington tonight. that president trump will try to push bipartisan and tout an expanding economy during his first state of the union speech. rawlins.action news" reporter the president loves to tout wall street's great record over the past year but the dow lost 360 days since trump took office. inconvenient timing for the president? >> you think? yes, of course it's inconvenient meaning a bit embarrassing but the president will tout the fact that he had a 75 point runyon. and the bipartisan one area that is expected in is in infrastructure plan and some democrats including the senior about what will be offering by the white house. >> we don't need i corporate give away infrastructure bill like the tax bill. you need a real american infrastructure bill a goal to create $15 million jobs that is what our side proposes. >> they say that a bold infrastructure plan could benefit the philadelphia region citing to expansion items on septa's to do list. >> we can look at the norristown extension to king of prussia and down to the navy yard and all of those things would expand the regional economy. and republican congressman ryan costello expecting an up beat economic message from the president tonight and hopes that mr. trump will stay on that mess an and avoid any incendiary tweets. >> i say okay we are headed in the right direction and that was a good speech and a day or two later you get a tweet or something that gets us off the rails away from what was a good starting point. >> well, you can watch the president's speech tonight the state of the union on 6 abc he'll give that speech at 9:00 p.m. we'll be back at 11:00 on "action news" with a live report and a recap on how that speech played out on capitol hill. live in washington, john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> philadelphia police believe that the man they are questioning in connection with a double homicide is in fact the gunman. shots rang out at a home on the 1200 block of greenly street last night. 66-year-old addyline hill and daughter were shot death and the daughter's 39 answered the door when officers arrived. >> they all lived there together a mother and daughter and the boyfriend of the daughter a 39-year-old we are holding for questioning at this point. >> police are not looking for any other suspects at this time. and a weapon was recovered inside of the home. >>> coming up on "action news" tonight. the debate over philadelphia beverage tax is headed back to court. and ducis rogers and brian westbrook are covering the eagles live in minnesota. >> reporter: jim, coming up brian westbrook has an exclusive one-on-one interview with head , doug peterson. >> you guys should stay in the mall it's getting colder in minnesota. as far as us we are drying out after a little bit of that snow. a coating to inch. and i'm tracking two more chances of snow including super bowl sunday. >> those stories and much more when "action news" continues tonight. >>> the fire in woodbury gloucester county claimed the life of an elderly man. they were called at 7:30 this morning and when crews arrived they found a man in a second floor bedroom and he was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. >>> firefighters went door-to-door in north philadelphia today. they were on the 2200 block of north colorado street making sure that residents had smoke detecters and anyone that needed one received one on the spot. earlier this month a fire on this block claimed the lives of a read and fire captain matthew letourneau. and the philadelphia beverage tax is the subject in court. they will hear an appeal by the beverage association. they arguing that the tax cut sales and forces layoffs and mayor kenney says that the tax is crucialing for funding pre-k education and that took effect last january and commonwealth court upheld it in june. >>> after months of hard work hub of hope is finally ready to open. a ribbon cutting ceremony held today at the 11,000 square foot facility at the concourse. sister mary worked with that and other organizations including jon bon jovi soul foundation to make it a reality. starting tomorrow the city's homeless can take advantage of a number of services and the ultimate goal it to get them off the streets. >>> nick foles getting personal and emotional today. the whole world is counting on nick foles and his biggest concern is a 7-month-old not necessarily a super bowl. nick foles says he is not only playi playing 52 for the eagles and the fans but his baby daughter lily. he wants her to grow up and be proud of her daddy. the eagles are determined to win any way humanly possible. live is ducis rogers and former great brian westbrook who played in the eagles last super bowl. >> that was 13 years ago and a lot riding on this game come sunday. how impressed were you with doug peterson getting to this point. >> you deal with the injuries and darren sproles and hicks and all the guys he lost throughout the season and everyone doubted him but they found a way to win. they are 13-3 and find a way to bl

organization that this. realm. which is an organization sitter as you. might yourself. just a few years ago from secular and could never have imagined that their company would be at the center of an international scandal and that they'd be sitting in solitary confinement in a panama prison blazing for a court decision. in late february twenty fifth in the german newspapers editors engage the international consortium of investigative journalists the i.c.i. j consortium had generated ryle proudly states that it took a whole year of a three hundred seventy journalists from seventy six countries to decipher five percent of the information stolen from us like fun seka. it really is. journalism that's an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. when it's publication plain for. spring. as if we were all still be alive by a dam. many experts are expressing doubts it's possible that hundreds of reporters who were mere pawns in this chess game somebodies pones you are taking money for not germa

organization. we recognize pkk as a terrorist organization. pkk is involved inside turkey. beyond that what is happening today is for the first time the turks are directly attacking american allies with air force, with field artillery. i saw 155-millimeter field artillery in the footage you just showed. this is bad news. we need to talk to the turks. turkey remember is our nato ally. they talk and they behave hike we're not. for example, they're buying massive russian anti-aircraft conflicts called s400. top of the line missiles but they buying it from the russians and not the nato member and not the united states. >> jon: nato country shopping for arms with the russians. we have to leave it there. thank you very much for your insights. >> julie: morning commute taking a tragic turn for people heading to work. live update on the search for survivors after a deadly train derailment. plus people say it was far from child's play when a young boy walked into a store with a gun and tried to rob it. >> it's ridiculous. >> it's sad that someone this young want to do this. packing

lost on both sides actions like this continue but for canada right now as the world trade organization and the world trade organization the problem it has with the u.s. is they're saying that the u.s. is popping up tariffs and that's against world trade organization rules so alex do you think that other is a around the planet are saying the other countries are saying. to the canadians for for this endeavor given sort of the stance of president trump his administration will seems like canada actually had that in mind it's a thirty seven page document that they're taken to the world trade or have taken ready to the world trade organization and it's an open document that allows other countries to just. on board against the us now some of the the big players here are going to be china south korea japan and germany all countries that have complained about the u.s. the way it's done trade it's not a definite attack against the whole america first idea people don't really have an issue other countries have an issue for a country trying to protect itself but once they're not playing fair and a country does not play fair in th

organizations within the department that are working through this issue. i support them by making sure they have the business data they need to make those reform decisions. as you look across organizations and you're comparing what do we pay in electrical rates across all of our different facilities, why. so instead of someone saying everyone cut your number by 10%, we focus on those places where the costs seem out of line with the rest of the enterprise. that type of data is what the a audit gives you and it's an enabler to reform. i'm more excited in the long runaboru run about what it allows the department to do to function like a business. >> thank you. i know that chairman and my league on my left here and many others have really been pushing for greater effectiveness and efficiency in how the dollars are spent. we have that trust to the american taxpayer. so will the outcome be not just that we find hopefully these efficiencies, but it's done in a way that the american people know that we're finding these and the entire congress knows that we're finding these efficiencie efficiencies. >> the financial statement is public. so what the auditors find and announce is closed, meaning what they've fixed will be known. but i will also make a point of letting the committee know, here's how the reforms change things and here's the way that our business is run differently. for some they bill for their services, so we can look at the rates they charge. >> thank you for that. i really appreciate it. the military of our country is held in the highest esteem by the american people. the only criticism that i'll sometimes hear is are we spending the dollars the most effective way and people are concerned about that. so thank you so much for what you're doing. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> i wanted to specifically ask you about some of the issues that the outside auditors had that were brought in. someone had asked a question a little bit earlier, but one of the reports that i read said they were having some challenges being able to make final conclusions. can you talk about some of the questions that the outside auditors that were brought in had? >> is there a particular one you're thinking about? or just in general? >> just in general. >> the first challenge an auditor faces in general, government and commercial, they're required to be independent, which means the people showing up didn't used to work for you. so they've got to understand your business processes. we've put together guides that welcome them and say here's how we're structured, here's what we do so they can start to recognize that they know what they're testing for the adequacy of. we've been doing security clearances to be able to do their work and get them through. a number of them are out doing site visits. the air force auditor is at tinker air force base this week. the naval auditors visit jacksonville in the fall. there's an orientation that they go through before they plan the audit to make sure their audit is consistent. then there's security cleerarans we've been getting them through so they can start in a timely manner. this is a large audit for them, but they've all scaled up for that challenge. >> what about training and sustaining a work force to be able to work specifically on financial management and what have you within d.o.d.? what are some challenges around that? i would think that just being able to have a full-time staff work solely on this, because this is obviously a big issue, must be a challenge in and of itself. >> it is. we've had to realign folks internally to be able to provide the time and attention on this to support them. these are some of the functions that over time when people took cuts, they said i can reduce this. some of those functions are being restored. we're basically operating underneath the reduction accounts that the legislation put in place. but those are realigning forces within it. i will tell you that over time what i will likely come back to you with is shifting some of the work where we hired an outside firm as a consultant to something run by a federal employee, because we're going to need those capabilities in house. still, there's always a use for skilled experts on the outside on particular topics, but you want to change that dependency over time. >> i yield back. >> mr. conaway. >> two things real quick. the department is constantly facing funding challenges, et cetera. do you think you've got the right position or strength of position to be able to maintain and protect the funding to get all of this done? do you think you have the right support from the secretary and others to be able to make a cogent argument? >> i have the support of the secretary and the deputy secretary at secretary. at the committee level, i'm very comfortable. if you start talking about a cr that runs through the year, that changes. we have readiness issues in others that i'd have to be paying attention to as well. >> on the database of findings, there will be some findings that are more important than others. >> mm-hm. >> so when it first comes out, just the scope of the number of findings will probably be startling. will the cpa firms grade those findings as to ones that are, for lack of a better phrase, really critical or systemic versus easily fixed? is there some sort of a gray there that will help bifurcate it to better understand the sheer number? >> they will score it and weight it in terms that relate to its size compared to the financial statement. that's not necessarily its importance to the department in terms of fixing. they may decide there's a vulnerability that has really very little dollar value that we think is a security issue that makes it one of the first things we fix. we will have their scores in terms of how they categorize it. but we'll need to prioritize within the department which of these reforms are most important to get done. some of the later ones, even if they're large dollars, if we don't think that's data people are going to use right away, we may wait on some of those reforms to prioritize the others. >> it will come with a time frame that's rational and expected? >> generally i'd expect the time frame to come from the corrective action plan. but some of these will take some period of time, but you can see the reduction in the conditions within it that will show you they're making progress. >> thank you. >> thank you for your testimony and for the work that you are doing. i think it's vitally important for the department and the taxpay taxpayer. this auditing function is something i've had a longstanding interest in. years ago, we had somebody from d.o.d. and i asked the question, you know, what about auditing functions to make sure that we're spending dollars wisely. it was then i became aware that we don't do tautdihe auditing function. so long overdue. while conducting an audit of this magnitude, i guess i want to know how you plan to deal with the significant complexities that it may present dealing with for example old contracts or contracts of systems not designed with an audit in mind or auditing in particular the classified portion of the budget. this is a particular area of interest that i would have. by design, there's not much transparency into black projects and programs for security reasons. how do you deal with those issues? and does guidance for new contracts provide for the eventual eventuality of an audit? >> the first one is contracts. there are some issues that we need the contractor to give us their invoices set up a certain way. older contracts don't have that. so you look at which ones do you modify, which ones do you build on and are there some places where you do an alternate way of valuing that equipment. there's different methodologies you can do. you try to decide what's the best use of taxpayer money. some equipment f y, if you thin it's going to go out of inventory, you don't spend a lot of energy on it. with regard to systems, i think you look at each and ask the question, can i fix it to do what we need it to do, can i replace it by moving its work to something else, or do i have to work around it? each of those services, each of the organizations is going through that. defense, dai is a name of an accounting system that has been implemented across 20 defense wide organizations. in the services, there's a lot more of consolidating. they're going from several accounting systems down to fewer that are compliant and support an opinion. with regard to the classified, i may need to talk to you offline about how we handle it. classified programs are included in the audit. we have cleared auditors and others who can do this. from the intelligence community, they all receive stand alone opinions, so they actually have been under audit for three years now. i've been getting an update on how they've been progressing. those are published in a classified form and members of congress are entitled to look at those. >> will those all be in-house auditors for the classified programs and not outside contractors? >> can i address all of those in a different format. at a certain point i'm going to run into classification concerns. let me assure y

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organizations with ain the department that are working on this issue. i support them with the audit to make sure they had the business data they need to make those reform decisions. so, as you look across organizations and you are comparing, what we pay in electrical rates across our different facilities. why? why are they paying higher rates? what's the difference. we focus on those places where the costs seem out of line with the rest of the enterprise. that type of financial data, the accuracy of that, pulling it from multiple systems and having confidence in it, that is what the a udit gives you. i am sure we will find within the financial processes, we are moving places where we have to rework data because the accuracy allows it to move faster. i'm more excited in the long run about what it all of the department to do to function like a business. >> i know my colleagues on my left ear and many others have been pushing for greater effectiveness and efficiency in how the dollars are spent. we have that trust to the american taxpayer. will the outcome be not only that we find these inefficiencies, but that it's done in a way where the american people know that we are finding these things and the entire congress knows we are finding these inefficiencies? mr. norquist: yes, the financial statement is public. what they fix will be known. what i will make a point of letting the committee know, here is how the reforms change things and here is the way our business is now run differently. for some of them, like the working capital funds, they bill for their services, so we can look at the rates they charge. are they able to reduce their cost of operating? an d we can use that as well. >> thank you for that. the military of our country is held in the highest esteem by the american people. the only criticism i sometimes hear is, are we spending the dollars in the most effective way? and people are concerned about that. thank you for what you are doing and mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. norquist, i wanted to ask you about some of the issues that the outside auditors had that were brought in. somebody had asked the question a little bit earlier, one of the reports i read said that they were having some challenges being able to make final conclusions. can you talk about some of the issues the outside auditors brought in had? mr. norquist: is there a particular one you are thinking about, or did you want me to walk through the challenges they faced in general? >> in general. mr. norquist: the first challenge and auditor faces in general is they are required to be independent. which means the people showing up did not use to work for you. they have to understand your business processes. we have put together guides that say, here is our structure and here is what we do. when we spend money, the this, solooks like they can recognize them. we have been doing the security clearances because a lot of them require security clearances to be able to do their work. in number of them are out doing understand what is going on is a different place of. the navy auditor is visiting able air station -- is visiting naval air station jackson in the fall. there is an orientation to make sure the audit is consistent and there are security clearances we have been getting them through so they can start in a timely manner. those are the key pieces. this is not just a large audit for us. it is a large audit for them. but they have all scaled up for that challenge. what about training and sustaining a workforce to be able to work consistently on financial management and what have you within d.o.d.? what are some challenges around that? i would think just being able to have a full-time staff work solely on this is a big issue, it must be a challenge. mr. norquist: it is and we have had to realign folks internally to be able to provide the time and attention on this to support them. these are some of the functions where over time, people took cuts. they said, we can reduce this because there is not an au dit for the current ability. we are doing internal trade-off s for that. we are operating under reduction accounts put in place. those are realigning forces within it. i will tell you that over time, what i will come back to you with is shifting some of the work hired by an outside firm as a consultant to a federal employee because we need those capabilities in-house. in some cases, we hired the expertise and we could change the balance of that over time as we realize this function will stay. there's always a use for skilled experts on the outside on particular topics, but you want to change that dependency over time. >> mr. chairman, i yield back. >> mr. conway. >> thank you. two other things very quick. the department is facing funding challenges. thed, do you think you have right strength of position to maintain and protect the funding to get all of this done? it will be setting priorities and trading these dollars to get this done overtime, versus spending somewhere else of importance within the department. do you have the support from the secretary and others to be able to make the argument that you need these funds to continue the audits? mr. norquist: i do, i have the full support of the secretary and deputy secretary. at the president's budgetary level, i am very comfortable. there are very tucked trade-offs across the department. i will fight to protect this, but there are readiness issues i would have to pay attention to as well. >> and on the database of findings, they will be some that are more important than others. when it first comes out, the scope of the number of findings will probably be startling. world cpa firms grade those findings that are really critical, versus systemic, versus ones that are easily fixed. there,ere be a grade so we can better understand? mr. norquist: they will score it in ways that relate to the size related to the financial statement. that's not necessarily it's importance to the department in terms of fixing. where the a change savings are there and we want to do that fix first. we have their scores, in terms of how they categorize it. but we will need to categorize which of these reforms need to get done to support the chief management officer, to save the taxpayer money. and even some of the later ones, even if they are dollar values, if we do not think that is data people will use right away, we could wait on some of those performances to prioritize the other things first. >> it will calm with a timeframe that is rational and expected? mr. norquist: i expect the timeframe to come from the corrective action plan. we'll check. is this a reasonable timeframe. some of these will take a good amount of time. >> thank you, mr. chairman and mr. norquist, thank you for your testimony and the work you are doing. i think your work is vitally important for the department and for the taxpayer, spending dollars the way they should be spent. this auditing function is something i have had a long-standing interest in. i remember years ago serving on the intelligence committee and we had somebody from d.o.d. there, and i asked the question, what about the audit function to make sure we are spending dollars wisely? i was told, we don't do the auditing function. so, i'm glad we are finally getting to this point. many of the questions i have had have been addressed. i wanted to delve a little deeper. dit ofconducting an au this magnitude, i want to know how you deal with a significant complexity, as they present old contracts, contracts for systems not designed with an auditin m i ind, or auditing the classified portion of the budget. this is a particular area of interest that i would have. we're -- you know ,by design, there's not much transparency and black projects programs for security reasons. how do you deal with those issues? does guidance for new contracts provide for the eventuality of an audit? mr. norquist: there are a couple of pieces and the first to bring up are contract. there is some issues, to examine property value we need the contractor to give us invoices set up a certain way, to see the pieces included. older contracts do not have that. you look at which ones you modify, which once you build on and are there some where you use an alternate way of valuation . you decide from accuracy and the taxpayer point of view, what is the best use of taxpayer money? some equipment, if you think it will go out of inventory, you will decide, i am not going to spend a lot of money on it over the next couple of years. it will not be here anymore. so it is not essential. i look at each system and ask a question, can i fix it to do what we need it to do with a software patch of gray, can i replace it by moving it to wor somewhere else, or do i have to work around it in some manual form because that system will retire? each of the organizations is going through them. d.a.i. is the name of the accounting system that has been implemented across 20 defense wide entities. we are just turning off and replacing those. consolidatingre most of are going to from several accounting systems down to fewer. we need to talk to you off-line about how we handle the classified, but classified programs are included within the audit. we have cleared auditors who can do this. as you mentioned from the intelligence committee, they always see scandal on opinions, so they have been under audit for three years now. the members of congress are entitled to look at that. >> and for the classified programs going forward, will those all be in-hose auditors and not outside contractors? mr. norquist: can i address all of those in a different format? i will run in to classification concerns. i will show you they are included and then we can talk about the mechanics in a different way. >> i would like to do that. very good. thank you for the work you are do

organizations with ain the department that are working on this issue. i support them with the audit to make sure they had the business data they need to make those reform decisions. so, as you look across organizations and you are comparing, what we pay in electrical rates across our different facilities. why? why are they paying higher rates? what's the difference. we focus on those places where the costs seem out of line with the rest of the enterprise. that type of financial data, the accuracy of that, pulling it from multiple systems and having confidence in it, that is what the a udit gives you. i am sure we will find within the financial processes, we are moving places where we have to rework data because the accuracy allows it to move faster. i'm more excited in the long run about what it all of the department to do to function like a business. >> i know my colleagues on my left ear and many others have been pushing for greater effectiveness and efficiency in how the dollars are spent. we have that trust to the american taxpayer. will the outcome be not only that we find these inefficiencies, but that it's done in a way where the american people know that we are finding these things and the entire congress knows we are finding these inefficiencies? mr. norquist: yes, the financial statement is public. what they fix will be known. what i will make a point of letting the committee know, here is how the reforms change things and here is the way our business is now run differently. for some of them, like the working capital funds, they bill for their services, so we can look at the rates they charge. are they able to reduce their cost of operating? an d we can use that as well. >> thank you for that. the military of our country is held in the highest esteem by the american people. the only criticism i sometimes hear is, are we spending the dollars in the most effective way? and people are concerned about that. thank you for what you are doing and mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. norquist, i wanted to ask you about some of the issues that the outside auditors had that were brought in. somebody had asked the question a little bit earlier, one of the reports i read said that they were having some challenges being able to make final conclusions. can you talk about some of the issues the outside auditors brought in had? mr. norquist: is there a particular one you are thinking about, or did you want me to walk through the challenges they faced in general? >> in general. mr. norquist: the first challenge and auditor faces in general is they are required to be independent. which means the people showing up did not use to work for you. they have to understand your business processes. we have put together guides that say, here is our structure and here is what we do. when we spend money, the this, solooks like they can recognize them. we have been doing the security clearances because a lot of them require security clearances to be able to do their work. in number of them are out doing understand what is going on is a different place of. the navy auditor is visiting able air station -- is visiting naval air station jackson in the fall. there is an orientation to make sure the audit is consistent and there are security clearances we have been getting them through so they can start in a timely manner. those are the key pieces. this is not just a large audit for us. it is a large audit for them. but they have all scaled up for that challenge. what about training and sustaining a workforce to be able to work consistently on financial management and what have you within d.o.d.? what are some challenges around that? i would think just being able to have a full-time staff work solely on this is a big issue, it must be a challenge. mr. norquist: it is and we have had to realign folks internally to be able to provide the time and attention on this to support them. these are some of the functions where over time, people took cuts. they said, we can reduce this because there is not an au dit for the current ability. we are doing internal trade-off s for that. we are operating under reduction accounts put in place. those are realigning forces within it. i will tell you that over time, what i will come back to you with is shifting some of the work hired by an outside firm as a consultant to a federal employee because we need those capabilities in-house. in some cases, we hired the expertise and we could change the balance of that over time as we realize this function will stay. there's always a use for skilled experts on the outside on particular topics, but you want to change that dependency over time. >> mr. chairman, i yield back. >> mr. conway. >> thank you. two other things very quick. the department is facing funding challenges. thed, do you think you have right strength of position to maintain and protect the funding to get all of this done? it will be setting priorities and trading these dollars to get this done overtime, versus spending somewhere else of importance within the department. do you have the support from the secretary and others to be able to make the argument that you need these funds to continue the audits? mr. norquist: i do, i have the full support of the secretary and deputy secretary. at the president's budgetary level, i am very comfortable. there are very tucked trade-offs across the department. i will fight to protect this, but there are readiness issues i would have to pay attention to as well. >> and on the database of findings, they will be some that are more important than others. when it first comes out, the scope of the number of findings will probably be startling. world cpa firms grade those findings that are really critical, versus systemic, versus ones that are easily fixed. there,ere be a grade so we can better understand? mr. norquist: they will score it in ways that relate to the size related to the financial statement. that's not necessarily it's importance to the department in terms of fixing. where the a change savings are there and we want to do that fix first. we have their scores, in terms of how they categorize it. but we will need to categorize which of these reforms need to get done to support the chief management officer, to save the taxpayer money. and even some of the later ones, even if they are dollar values, if we do not think that is data people will use right away, we could wait on some of those performances to prioritize the other things first. >> it will calm with a timeframe that is rational and expected? mr. norquist: i expect the timeframe to come from the corrective action plan. we'll check. is this a reasonable timeframe. some of these will take a good amount of time. >> thank you, mr. chairman and mr. norquist, thank you for your testimony and the work you are doing. i think your work is vitally important for the department and for the taxpayer, spending dollars the way they should be spent. this auditing function is something i have had a long-standing interest in. i remember years ago serving on the intelligence committee and we had somebody from d.o.d. there, and i asked the question, what about the audit function to make sure we are spending dollars wisely? i was told, we don't do the auditing function. so, i'm glad we are finally getting to this point. many of the questions i have had have been addressed. i wanted to delve a little deeper. dit ofconducting an au this magnitude, i want to know how you deal with a significant complexity, as they present old contracts, contracts for systems not designed with an auditin m i ind, or auditing the classified portion of the budget. this is a particular area of interest that i would have. we're -- you know ,by design, there's not much transparency and black projects programs for security reasons. how do you deal with those issues? does guidance for new contracts provide for the eventuality of an audit? mr. norquist: there are a couple of pieces and the first to bring up are contract. there is some issues, to examine property value we need the contractor to give us invoices set up a certain way, to see the pieces included. older contracts do not have that. you look at which ones you modify, which once you build on and are there some where you use an alternate way of valuation . you decide from accuracy and the taxpayer point of view, what is the best use of taxpayer money? some equipment, if you think it will go out of inventory, you will decide, i am not going to spend a lot of money on it over the next couple of years. it will not be here anymore. so it is not essential. i look at each system and ask a question, can i fix it to do what we need it to do with a software patch of gray, can i replace it by moving it to wor somewhere else, or do i have to work around it in some manual form because that system will retire? each of the organizations is going through them. d.a.i. is the name of the accounting system that has been implemented across 20 defense wide entities. we are just turning off and replacing those. consolidatingre most of are going to from several accounting systems down to fewer. we need to talk to you off-line about how we handle the classified, but classified programs are included within the audit. we have cleared auditors who can do this. as you mentioned from the intelligence committee, they always see scandal on opinions, so they have been under audit for three years now. the members of congress are entitled to look at that. >> and for the classified programs going forward, will those all be in-hose auditors and not outside contractors? mr. norquist: can i address all of those in a different format? i will run in to classification concerns. i will show you they are included and then we can talk about the mechanics in a different way. >> i would like to do that. very good. thank you for the work you are do

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organization by organization. but as you pointed out, this is as much changing people's views about how to do things so they understand the importance. the third factor is the audit is annual. if you did this once and came back in ten years, i don't know you'd have the same incentive as the realization is they are coming back in six to nine months, so you can make the change and you can watch them find the same things again. so that third factor that -- what makes the financial statement is it repeats. they are just expecting you to change the availability to provide an answer. >> do you anticipate any need for feedback system so everyone who is engaged in this can be getting their input all along the way. some of that may be anonymous. >> we need the feedback. one of the things i have tried to draw attention to is because the audit is going to repeat, what's important is we be able to sustain this. so if you're given a task where the resistance is this is way too labor intensive, stop. let's figure out why answering that auditor request is labor intensive and fix the way we store the data or do the check so we can answer them efficiently every year. i would rather take the finding the first year than do some expensive effort that i'm going to have to repeat the next year. so if we're not able to find the records efficiently, get a data warehouse, put if record where they can be easily search sod next year it's very quick process. we want to make this efficient over time, and that's another way of reducing some of the resistance. the people have a way of saying i don't understand why this is happening this way. the answer is maybe we can do it differently. but we're still going to have to meet the standards of the audit. >> speaking of the auditors, obviously you're going to be using a lot of different ways of responding to some of the concerns that have been existing for some time, is there anything in the training or preparation as you move forward that needs to be changed and that you're addressing as it relates to the way that people are approaching it? >> there's been a lot of effort on that. my predecessor, bob hale, set up a relatively robust training program for the financial management community that has been focused on introducing audits and audit readiness as a result of input from committees and others. extending that thoroughly has been one of our challenges. there's been some training, but those areas are equally affected. >> ms. hartsler. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. norquist. this is a very encouraging day, a day we've been waiting on a long time. i certainly want to commend the char chairman and ranking member and my colleague, mr. conway, for his leadership on this. certainly, we are facing so many threats around the world and we need more dollars to modernize and increase our readiness. but at the same time, i hear back home concerns about waste. and anytime there is waste, we need to make sure that it is rooted out and that we're investing our precious defense dollars where they need to go. so this process you're leading is critical in this effort. so you noted that one of the chief benefits of the audit process is improved accountability of the assets and resources. i was wondering, are classified as assets p s part of the audit process? >> yes. classified programs are included. i'll also tell you that all of the defense intelligence agencies have standalone full-scope audits. and most of them have been under audit for three years. but being a classified program does not exempt you from the scope of the audit. >> will there be a separate addendum then that we in congress will be able to access to look that the portion? or how will there be accountability for the classified side? >> so for the standalone audits, those are classified. the ones for an intelligence organization. as for the others, i'd rather talk to you in a closed forum. >> okay. >> but we address all the classified programs. they're in the scope of the audit. >> how about oco? >> oco would be in the scope of the audit. >> very good. in your testimony you said something here that caught my attention. of course, the cost is $367 million, which we've already talked about the long-term benefit of that investment in getting a handle on everything. but you go on to say you anticipate spending about $551 million this year, in fiscal year 2018, fixing problems identified. so could you expound on what problems you anticipate and what the presumptions were to come up with that figure? where do you get $551 million for fixing problems? >> sure. the number comes from talking to the services about what funding they have planned for this year and what did they have in the budget to address these requirements. and the types of requirements we're talking about are systems that have been already fielded th

as a result we are now seeing an organic popular uprising organized by brave citizens on the largest scale since 2009. the international community cannot sit silent as it did then. the united states supports iranian people and we call on the regime to respect its citizens' basic right to peacefully express their desire for change. america longs for the day when iranians will take their rightful place. as the president said in october we stand in total solidarity with the iranian regimes longest suffering victims. the citizens have paid a heavy price and the iranian people long to reclaim their country's proud history, its culture, its civilization and its cooperation with its neighbors. on an even more somber note we are sad to announce that a brave american service member died in afghanistan. we are going through the notification process and d.o.d. will provide updates on that situation as available. our thoughts and prayers are with that individual's family and friends. with that, i will take your questions. >> does that create an opening or renew the president's desire to reimpose

louisiana purchase jefferson didn't seem to care if the new territories are organized within the united states or they were organized as separate states so long as they were republic he envisioned an empire not only with the united people. now of course they talk about the union and that was the idea. sacred image was time and when dean talked about that. the united states was forged into a nationstate that took place between each and 60 to 1945. those were communal events and everybody participated and sacrificed. they created a nationstate on kind of a united people. if one were to look at the development taking place since world war ii one could see a continuation of the american nationstate that was assembled. it was great stress and greater difficulty that through the course of the events, the united states as a nationstat is a nata image of itself. we intervened in the european war and save them from themselves until they are the great superpower in the world we have this version of the american nation. some would give more and more to look less like a nationstate and more like an empire with a powerful administr

and we don't have international organizations that are independent organizations that could investigate the issue and state the facts as it is could this rush essentially to blame moscow for chemical attacks do you think it could potentially set a precedent that whatever happens ok let's put the blame on this without an investigation actually having taken place. well i believe that this could be a first step. also towards. stepping up the sanctions against russia especially at the time when the new national security doctrine. listed the priority for the u.s. army is not to fight terrorist groups but to be a ready for war with other great powers and this was the first time that this was stated since the cold war so i believe that we are witnessing. american militarism. and. to use force directly against another superpower which puts us in front of a potential war with war if the americans lip into such an act so that's why it's very dangerous this declaration by their looks and it's very dangerous and it needs to be confronted by the your days imposed by russia by iran by china and by other non-western countries for you

themselves to be a an organization called the national black feminist organization, which i think they would characterize as certainly to the left of mainstream white feminism, feminist organizations still not far enough to the left in terms of the combahee's focus on linking women's oppression to capitalism and linking them black women oppression to capitalism, but more importantly, i think of equal importance, is seeing the liberation of black women was connected to a radical reconstruction of american society. in 1974he group formed and really was active around issues of abortion rights, rupert of the freedom -- including campaigning against sterilization, taking up the struggle against domestic violence. and against violence against women. they were based in boston. during this time, there was really a spate of violent attacks against black women. black women were being killed in cases that were going unresolved. this really shaped the political world they were active in. in 1977, they produced a document that is really foundatitional in the politics f radical black feminism called "the combahee collective river statement" that both theorized aspects of black women's oppressio

as a result we are seeing an organic popular uprising organized by brave iranian citizens on the largestut the international community cannot sit silent as it did then. the united states supports the iranian people and we call in the regime to respect its citizens basic right to peacefully express their desire for change. america longs for the day when iranians will take their rightful place along the free people of the world. as the president said in october, we stand in total solidarity with the iranian regimes longest suffering victims. its own people. the citizens of iran have paid a heavy price for the violence of their leaders and iranian people long to reclaim their country's proud history, culture, it's civ civilization and cooperation with neighbors. on more somber note, brave soldier died in daeft and dod will provide updates on that as available. and our thoughts and prayers are with that individual and their family and friends. aen with that i'll take question. >> the iranian protest, does that renew the president's desire to do sanctions as part of the iran deal? >> look, we

the country has been organized, as i've written in my other work, has been organized on the presumptionf a value gap that white people matter more than others. and so, as we've progressed throughout history, as we've dealt with all of these substantive and significant challenges, we have yet to uproot this belief that because of the color of your skin, that somehow, you ought to be valued more than others and that because of the color of your skin, you can be charged with giving somebody else freedom. and until we address that moral shortcoming, we will be on this racial hamster wheel well after donald trump is gone, gone on to glory. >> zurlina, i read an interesting op ed in this morning's "the new york times" op ed section, and it basically talks about sort of the idea of denial and the phrases in which we use that exist, like black on black crime, like reverse racism. those are phrases that even when using them, you don't think you're being racist. it's about infrastructure in this country. it's about the schools in baltimore. it's about the schools in detroit. i found it fascinatin

businesses as well as foreign companies that essentially enable the occupation so this organization says it's aim is to end widespread violations of international law well the organization now includes a u.s. based organization jewish voice for peace which has been very vocal recently against president trumps moved to declare jerusalem as israel's capital as well as the wide scale deportation of african jews and the organization has long supported b.d.'s. we exist we are everywhere we speak and love and dream and everything we will not be won over by free vacation and scholarship money we will not accept a legacy that we will not quietly witness the violation of human rights in palestine we are better than we have ancestors to honor we have allies to honor we have ourselves to honor we commit ourselves to peace we will stand up with honest bodies to offer honest bread we commit to re invasion in the homeland to make room for justice we will stand up now israel's strategic affairs ministry which is responsible for implementing this list had for months refused to divulge which organizations were going to be blacklisted well earlier on sunday interior minister already a ke

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in my estimation is just as important or more important in in in being able to advance the goals of their terrorist organization. now you have also lectured for an organization called the jewish federation. correct that is right and that is a fund raising organization for apac. correct that would be news to me the jewish federation is the organization the coordinates fund raising of the jewish community for everything from local services jewish and non jewish they do fund raising for israel also but i also lets you for arab think tanks and others as well my question was have you spoken at apac. is the answer yes or no i think it's pretty clear the answer is yes. and you have spoken at several of their conferences happened i have and often said things they did like the united states put on evidence over and over again of buses being blown up in israel which had. violent acts by hamas which the holy land had nothing to do with but they would try to do and tried to develop an atmosphere for the jury a fear about how mouse there was a time where the jury left the room and the judge left the room and my father though this is an extension of the israeli occupation

as a result, we are now seeing an organic, popular uprising organized by brave iranian citizens on the largest scales of 2009. but the international committee cannot sit silent as they did then. the united states supports the iranian people and we call the resume to respect its citizens basic rights peacefully expressed their desire for change. the iranians will take their rightful place alongside the free people of the world. as the president said in october, we stand in total solidarity with the iranian regime longest suffering victims, its own people. the citizens of a rant have paid a heavy price for the violence and extremism of their leaders. in the iranian people long to reclaim their country's proud history, its culture, civilization, and its cooperation with its neighbors. on even more somber note, you have to announce that a brave american service member died in afghanistan and we are going to the notification process and doj will provide updates on that situation as available. our thoughts and prayers are with that individual and their family and friends. with that, i will t

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organization at the expense of a smaller organization that was doing the work. and that organization now has to ask other enter at this times to recognize them as leaders in that work. it's almost like we took their credibility and their validation way by taking their funding. so we don't have the money right now to invest in building their capacity, to either get a grant writer or to hire someone who's focused on the optics, because they're so focused in dealing with the day-to-day work of struggling -- i think we feel san francisco is a mecca, and the people that do that work are not being supported to support those folks, and that concerns me. and so as we continue to get more and more funding, it doesn't mean that the funding is getting to the people who need it. >> supervisor sheehy: yeah. let's continue. i want to continue this discussion, because i -- especially where intersectionality is concerned, i always feel that that's been a weakness in the community and really recognizing and supporting work that actually stresses that. >> right. i think if we look at the numbers of who's experiencing the hate crimes, i think that we'll see that it's a group of folks

organized in the wake of the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel groups behind the rallies include. the organization led by the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks suspect and feed. the jerusalem decision by the united states president the kashmir issue and of recent tweet by trauma compelled us to launch a movement across pakistan to reunite an activate people against the cruel decisions against muslims and pakistan. to nigeria which is in the process of flying thousands of its citizens home from libya large numbers of nigerians are trapped in libya where they were trying to cross to italy by sea but they were stopped by local armed factions and by libya's coast guard and now facing dire conditions and abuse the nigerian government says the flights will continue for as long as they need to it is estimated about five thousand five hundred migrants will be flown. chancellor angela merkel says she's optimistic of forming a coalition government almost four months after the country's general election talks of resumed in berlin between her christian democrat party and the social democrats to form a coa

organization as business. and that is why the mueller organization is actually subpoenaing them. that's why people are holding with baited breath. >> go ahead, marie. you have the hot hand. connect that to refusing to acknowledge the russian meddling. connect that to all the meetings about, well, they're dumping all the bad stuff about hillary clinton, which is obviously helping trump. he is talking relief on the sanctions, helping them. that the big quid pro quo? or is it something that michael said, a deeper personal relationship in terms of transactions with this whole presidential campaign has been tainted by something of a business enterprise going on all through it for later years? >> i think it's two. one, it's definitely his business enterprise, that basically he recognizes that nothing happens in russia without putin's approval. but also, the fact that donald jr. met with the russians in that hotel room about repealing the sanction. that sanction act specifically is what gives putin power. because it's what basically allows his cronies to come into the united states and

counting on that of the european nations that guided agenda of the organization i think now with a leader who is that a party as well organized myself resident press and i believe we can now begin the serious talk that the african union needs in order to go forward to action ok other is the time right now i mean program is that he says that the time to change is now there is that urgency felt across the continent that there is a sense of urgency across africa because if you see the level of migration from africa i do risk us which africans are taken to be able to cross the far i desire to be able to make it to europe you know there isn't just to with which the african you know must reform african nations must begin to think of how to ensure that there is sustainable development in. in africa to ensure that up to the number of africans have been lost on the trail of the method really healthy through the sahara desert in the last twenty to thirty years perhaps put together could be more than the number of africans who died in the transfer her and transatlantic slave trade there is this all just there with which african nations