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Thank you, scott wiener. Im supervisor london breed, the chair of the committee. Im joined by the vicechair supervisor katy tang and president chiu here today, and sweden supervisor wiener is also joining us as well. The Committee Clerk is lisa miller. And i want to thank jim smith and jennifer low from sfgovtv. And, madam clerk, do we have any announcements . Yes, please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be includ...

Order. This is the regular meeting of the government and audit oversight committee, and thank you for joining us to starting an hour earlier today. Thank you, scott wiener. Im supervisor london breed, the chair of the committee. Im joined by the vicechair supervisor katy tang and president chiu here today, and sweden supervisor wiener is also joining us as well. The Committee Clerk is lisa miller. And i want to thank jim smith and jennifer low from sfgovtv. And, madam clerk, do we have any annou...

A political casualty. But after the constitutional onvention, which, of course, washington sanctioned and mason it spelled in , many ways an end to their friendship. Twitter, george and Martha Washington, quite the power couple. We close out bringing us full circle, what are the important things for people to the influence of Martha Washington. I think its important to powerful she and on and how dependent he was her. His achievements were his achievements. Him aving her there with made them muc...

Ever called Martha Washington martha. She was always called patsy as Lady Bird Johnson was never called claudia. So i was just wondering, you mentioned in his letters when he referred to her in his letter that it was just mentioned on the telephone that he did call her patsy. And i also wanted to mention that in the story that im reading about martha and George Washington that the house, mt. Vernon, was originally the home of his half brother, George Washingtons half brother. That he lived in a ...

A lot of suspicion that putin and the russians are trying to interfere in domestic american politics. Elise, thank you very much for that report. Thats it for me. Thanks very much for watching. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. Erin burnett out front starts right now. Out front next, the fbi releasing its report on the clinton email investigation. What did she say behind closed doors . Plus, donald trump making a hard sell to africanAmerican Voters, but did he make a mistake by scripting hi...

Evidence to support their allegations. Including naming over two dozen witnesses each. Unfortunately the limited investigation that was conducted by the fbi failed to interview any one of the witnesses these two women identified who could support her account. Let me say that again, they refused to investigate, to talk with any of the 24 witnesses that could have supported their accounts. Mr. President , i think its important to remember why were here today. Were here to determine whether judge k...

Evidence to support their allegations. Including naming over two dozen witnesses each. Unfortunately, the limited investigation that was conducted by the fbi failed to interview any one of the witnesses these two women identified who could support her account. Let me say that again. They refused to investigate, to talk with any of the 24 witnesses that could have supported their accounts. Mr. President , i think its important to remember why were here today. Were here to determine whether judge ...

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Were gonna get to show. But what really makes it special is the part where one of em takes out a Utility Knife and repeatedly jams it up qaddafis ass. If they can do that to a world leader, i might as well do it to the people who work on my show, in a new segment called qaddafid. Everybody in the writers room. G gaddafi. Gaddafi. I just got gaddafied. Gaddafi. Gaddafi. Gaddafi. Gaddafi. Ah, one of those felt so right. A big thanks to qadaffi for dying so we could do that bit. Send in your own qa...

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