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Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Pleplease silence your cell phones. Items today will appear on the january 14th agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. I want to welcome everyone to the first Budget Committee meeting of 2020. I did want to note the committee will be recessing today before 11 00 a. M. So you may attend inauguration of mayor breed. We will reconvene after the inauguration to finish the agenda. Can you please call item one. Resolution approving and authori...

Hi, everybody. Im Jacob Heil Brun editor of the National Interest and harry has mag nan nussly asked me to chair this session which looks like it will be a corker. It is can sanctions bring about denuclearization or are they, and i will play editorial prerogative, a bloody waste of time. Our panelists today, first panelist to my immediate left is Lieutenant General wallace chip gregson, retired former head of the u. S. Marines in the pacific and a senior fellow here at the center for the Nationa...

Forces fired tear gas to break up a crowd trying to bring baghdad the scene that bridge its close to talk to a square where thousands of people have been counted out for months to demand political change hundreds of people have been killed since mass protests began in october. Irans Supreme Leader says European Countries cant be trusted in negotiations over the 2015 nuclear deal ayatollah ali how money made the comments during friday prayers its the 1st time hes led the salmon in tehran in 80 ye...

How good is this for the rest of us . Will this make any difference . Mr. Kudlow i think it is better than nafta. I think it is broader than nafta. It updates nafta. In some important new economy ways. You have domestic content and labor issues which have been resolved. I think financial and digital services. We will get a lot of investments. I pulled out some of the estimates. A lot of people were quoting numbers. On theve wide ranges u. S. Economy. This reflects uncertainties about better inve...

Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Happy new year. This is january 8, 2020, regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am supervisor fewer. I am joined by supervisors walton and mandelman. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Pleplease silence your cell phones. Items today will appear on the january 14th agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. I want to welcome everyone to the first...

More than 103. 00 and 4. 00 star generals from over 70 countries with which we entertain regular contacts but also which are engaged in their day to day life into military operations so its the exchange of experience and they have a classical exchange a very Practical Exchange of experts and this is the 1st time that this workshop is being held in russia where Russias Defense Ministry acting as the bounce partner and i assume there are lots of people and cultures who dont like Russias Defense Mi...

About a Controversial Court case. Coming up in sports. African football play for one of the major time away from home soil as the caps super cup kicks off in qatar. Is stepping up its war on the corona virus as the number of deaths rises to nearly 4000 nearly 1400 president xi jinping is vowing to boost virus prevention measures and to fix problems exposed by the crisis in. The National Health commission is very concerned about this with issue technical guidelines for the prevention and control ...

Power but when it comes to important thing i think they agree very much i was just looking at you know the budget that came out today and look to find out last year well it was on december 20th of last year they paused in the impeachment hearings to bipartisan agreement to this you know huge huge expenditure bill so they get together when they have to have to do it and basically you know they didnt complain about trumps aggressive Foreign Policy and republicans dont really complain that much whe...

Its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You will all get cspan so be on your best behavior. We are here to launch a very important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle for power u. S. China relations in the 21st century. I want to say word about that but first i want to recognize some very distinguished guests. I want to recognize the cochair of our Organization Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice who was here with us. [applause] and youll be hearing from...

Exchange. This is where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Frombeijing to beirut, istanbul to washington, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. We have chinese pmi numbers that beat expectations, a positive sign as the sectors improvement is crucial to stabilizing the chinese economy. Joining me on the telephone is beijing. s bureau chief how much encouragement should we take from these numbers . Reporter it was slightly higher than what e...