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Speaker hatfield, majority leaders, thank you. Members of my cabinet, members of the bench, and all of those who serve our state, thank you. I must say everyone is looking fantastic tonight. [ applause ] but this year i want to get one thing straight. This is not the red carpet, so please, i urge you, focus on the substance of my speech. Its about issues, not appearances. [ applause ] i mean, i dont care how distracting the senators outfit is. Cut him a break. Thank you. For your sense of humor....

Debut four months ago. Who is this . Why are they so . Why so many questionmarks on the graphics we find out the answer to all of those. Riddler. Exactly lets start the program with the big stock story and market story really of the day. And that is apple. A stark warning on revenue gue are due to the impact of what else, the coronavirus. The iphone manufacturer tumbling today but finishing well off lows go to josh liptak. With more on what apple said and the reaction josh. Thats right, brian ap...

Chair mar good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, february 20 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee, and im joined by Committee Member supervisor matt haney and supervisor raphael mandelman, who is substituting for supervisor peskin, who are unable to be here. Id like to thank john carroll, our clerk, and sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes, thank you, mr. ...

We need to go big. And if we waste some money now, we waste some money. Absolutely we have too many people hurting and the economy is going to sputter and weve got to get ourselves out of this mess. And this is the way we need to go right now. Let me tell you something, that man has a future in Northwest Florida politics. I like him. Or West Virginia. Mika, thats interesting. Thats from the republican governor of a state that donald trump got 69 in. Jim justice, governor of West Virginia, urging...

Or do whatever you do we have the tv here tonight you dont want your phone to be the one that rings on national television. I will be running around with a wireless microphone if you have a question please raise your hand and wait for me to get to you. That way it is picked up for the recording as well if you decide you like to have a copy of the book after the talk head back into the store to pick up a copy or two or three. Then come right back to sign them. Listing to a better planet. To take ...

Thanking them for their service to our country. Both have served our country in various capacities for a long time. Not an easy thing to do. I respect and appreciate that work. I look forward to continuing to work with you. The good news i want to start with is unlike last year we have a budget agreement. And last year we spent a lot of time talking about how difficult it is to run anything in the government but certainly the department of defense without Appropriations Bills in a timely manner....

Good afternoon. I dont want to interrupt your lunch so feel free to keep eating, but as promised we are going to have a really good, important discussion that will help to draw on what we heard this morning and build by thinking a little bit about how do we set a strategic frame to support Good Governance. Think about all the things we heard this morning about some of the problems, some of the challenges that need to be addressed in fragile states. Governing institutions need to become more acco...

Convention, and Democratic Candidates in iowa. That will get underway at four 00 eastern time on cspan. We wanted to spend the first talkingfirst hour about issues that are important to women. Thousands lined the streets on a cold and rainy saturday to strike back against President Trump. The first womens march took lace one day after his inauguration in 2017. We want to hear from you. Our phone lines are open at 202 7488000 for those in the eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacif...

Which is the event or the organizer of this event today. We are a nonprofit nonpartisan Technology Policy think tank and we tend to work on charting the path forward for policymakers towards our Bright Future or Technology Enhances freedom and freedom enhances technology. We are delighted to have you here today for our event. As a just a couple of housekeeping matters. Were going to go right through the various panels and presentations or if you have to get up please just do so. The will not be ...

Madeleine albright and the former u. S. Ambassador to myanmar talked about helping governments in fragile states. The good afternoon. I dont want to interrupt your lunch, so feel free to keep eating but as promised, we are going to have a really goo good important discussion that will help to draw on what we heard this morning. And bill, by thinking a little bit about how we set a strategic frame this of Good Governance, think about all the things we heard this morning about some of the problems...