Morning, everybody. An experience standing here with my felto Community Leaders and kicking off pride 2023, as the first drag laureate of San Francisco and the world. [laughter]. So. It is such an honor. San francisco, you have made a choice to put a spotlight on the lbgtq community as a crucial at a crucial time making me an ambassador to the world of drag art. Yes, law makers are attacking the rights of lbgtq individuals all overnight country. Here in San Francisco, the pride flag is proudly flown, and a drag laureate appointed to elevate and honor accomplishments of our community now, as a San Francisco nay than i means the world to me. I watched San Francisco change and change again, one thing remained, San Francisco celebrates individualities. It applauds people marching to the beat of their own drum i would be hard pressed to find another city or country or anywhere in the globe where the lbgtq community has big a voice as we do here in San Francisco. [applause] at this the 53rd
indication yet that investigators remain skeptical that trump has been fully cooperative in their efforts to recover documents the former president was supposed to have turned over to the national archives at the end of his term. here s how team trump responded to brat according to the new york times reporting. the outreach from the department prompted a rift among trump s lawyers about how to respond, one camp counseling a cooperative approach that would include bringing in an outside firm to conduct a further search for documents. and another camp advising trump to maintain a more combative posture. the more combative camp, the people briefed on the matter said, won out. to put all this in perspective. after months of pleading by the national archives, a subpoena from the department of justice back in may, a court-approved search of president trump s private golf club and residents which yielded 11,000 government documents, all in all, a process that has now gone on for m
Mr. Gardner mr. President . The presiding officer the acting majority leader. Mr. Gardner i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Gardner i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 163 h. R. 720. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk calendar number 163, h. R. 720 an act to improve intergovernmental planning for and communication during security incidents and so forth. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection the senate will proceed to the measure. Mr. Gardner i ask consent the committee reported substitute be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Gardner i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 167 s. 1576. The presiding officer the clerk will report. Th
But there is a potential and we have participated in this way. And there are many online interest in these issues. So should there come a day when we can engage with them more transparently. And i think that the government has done some important things from their symbolic first few days in terms of reopening this investigation and trying to continue this from that. Including what others are taking in terms of procurement to try to constrain corruption. We talked about it quite openly and transparently. Its part of the speech in terms of what has to be done in afghanistan. Certainly in terms of appointing a rod range of ministers and governors, this is something that there is a common interest in. So we continued to do everything that we can to work with this and others in terms of the importance of their investigation and demonstrating their accountability and we will continue to do so. Im going to make just a quick note on that. And afghanistan is going from a fairly corrupt system t
Stopper sometimes. Tough to have a normal interaction with someone after you tell them they are being recorded. I understand the value of it. Part of when we talk about some of the impacts of ferguson people want Police Officers to be accountable. They want transparency. They want to know cops are doing what they are supposed to do. 99. 9 of the time, my cops are doing exactly what they are supposed to do. The cameras are going to confirm that for the public and anybody else who is interested. Host do they go on automatically . How do they work . Guest you have to turn them on. We are in a Pilot Program now. Weve just gone. Ive got about 80 to 100 officers wearing the cameras right now. The officers are allowed to turn them off under certain circumstances. If they are going in to the locker room, going to the bathroom. If you and i are Police Officers and we are in the back of the station just talking about our kids and baseball and all that, you do not have to have your camera on. But