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Staffing the meeting. Please ensure you have silence your cell phones and other electronic devices. Copies of any document you have to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the october 22, 2019 board of supervisors agenda. Thank you, mr. Clark. Please call items 12 and three together. Agenda items 13. Three ordinances for item one, 190832. Memorandum of understanding Fire Fighters including Firefighters Union union local 798, unit...

Pam donaldson. [applause] thank you, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to this mornings program. You know there are states that all of us have that are very personal and there are dates that we have as a country that we all share. In my lifetime december 7, 1941, november 22, 1963, 911. These are three terrible dates for the country and then theres november 9, 1989. Good news, the fall of the berlin wall. Its a subject that we are going to discuss today. How did it happen . What are the co...

Now on bbc news its hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Last weekend in hong kong, metro stations were torched, the Chinese State news agency was attacked, police fired water cannon and tear gas and 200 people were arrested. That is hong kongs new normal. How long can it go on without a major intervention from beijing . Is there any way out of the impasse between hong kongs government and pro democracy protesters . Well, my guest is a former senior official in the territorys admini...

From syria. Your view on that. Smart move or damaging . We havent actually done a full pullout and we should go all the way like President Trump promised and pull all our troops out of syria. I think it was the right move to pull our troops off the border. We didnt have an interest in being the middle of a fight between an imperfect nato ally in turkey and our local partners who are connected to a state department designated terrorist organization in the kurdish ypg. It was a good move to start ...

Keeping with our tradition to without at least giving our condolences to his family and those who served with him and who he represented i will recognize the chairman for remarks on Mister Conyers. Thank you madam chairperson. Americans across the country are mourning the loss of john conyers today that l his loss is not felt more deeply here in the Judiciary Committee serving more than 50 years. Including 20 years as chairman or Ranking Member. He was a true champion for civil rights and justic...

Now on bbc news hardtalk. It is a vicious cycle. Let me give you some statistics which probably give you more pause for thought. These are from surveys done welcome to hardtalk. In recent months of the mood in hong kong and they compare im stephen sackur. The figures from 2009 with figures last weekend in hong kong, in 2019 today. The number of people confident in the one country, metro stations were torched, two systems model has fallen from 68 to 33 and those numbers the Chinese State news of ...

Thats common among all of these demonstrators and one of the reasons why the United Nations has announced that a delegation will be sent to chile on monday to investigate these alleged cases of Human Rights Violations. Well staying in the region bolivias president evo morales has vowed to hold a 2nd Runoff Election if an audit of the 1st vote counts find evidence of fraud the organization of american states says it will order the vote but its not yet clear whether those results will be binding j...

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The meeting will come to order. This hearing is entitled the Trump Administrations syria policy perspectives from the field mic. Thank you. Before i begin i would like to take a moment to remember my friend and our chairman, elijah cummings, though we lost almost one week ago. Like others on this committee i had the pleasure and privilege to call him my friend for almost 20 years as we worked work on n issues that have confronted congress and our country. Mr. Cummings has bequeathed a legacy of ...

And tom brokaw former nbc news anchor who reported from berlin at the time. Other speakers include former speechwriter for president reagan peter robinson. We talked about the internal debate in adding the famous mr. Gorbachev tear down that wall line to the speech. This is just over two hours. [silence] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome former abc news anchor Sam Donaldson. [applause] thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this mornings program. There are dates that all of us have a ver...