mr. weber you're going to get our question swrz >> from the sfoofs i'll bring up the amendments but the nose provision adams the tenants e attendance within 3 hundred feet of the plaza will receive notification and all the neighborhood organizations that want to get the notification to be on the alloys low receive notice for the city plaza that is under the real estate jurisdiction there's a new requirement they need to throwing an additional notification process to announce the public forum for the proposal so i think that's a way to respond with the request to include the provisions amongst others. >> thank you very much. thank you. next speaker. and i have 3 more cards (calling names) sorry you have a public comment, sir. okay. were you - >> oh, okay. great. >> good afternoon 3 agenda items for me to speak on. in regards to the plaza program i think the mayor's office woechltd or entertaining the many questions i had with the coalition of san francisco neighborhoods. i have very much a

mr. chair. maybe what i'll suggest is we take public comment on this item. >> okay. so we'll now proceed to public comment public comment will be two minutes. any public comment cards mr. clerk? and this is from before. okay. i'll call the public comment cards. (calling names) >> good afternoon and thank you for giving me a chance to speak i'm paul i'm here on behalf of the telephone graft folks. we've been working recently to get comments recommending to notices primarily to residents and neighborhood groups and number 2 to create some quorum where interested persons could come prior to submission to the board of supervisors of a lease or license to give comments on the proposed use of the property, and, secondly, on the proposed sewer. my understanding is i haven't seen the legislation but it was briefly subscribed that probability accommodates what we were getting at but the earliest will be tomorrow morning and get back to robin assuming those changes were made 10 telephone graft hill

>> i'll jump ahead of you, mr. weber. i'm pleased to report two months ago i had the pleasure and honor to be in austin and did spent four hours in the company of the director of the department of public safety. mr. mccraw. we did signed an m.o.u. as of two and a half mock -- months ago whereby texas dps will be a partner, they will be on the lost as we work into programs and projected -- projects that are specifically related to their area of expertise. >> let me break in. when i was border committee vice chair, my only two terms -- we put in joaquin was there with us -- we put $200 million in equipment and boots on the ground, five helicopters, surveillance airplanes, high-speed boat, a lot of high-tech stuff along the border, the texas-mexican border, and my question was going to be, we've spent a lot of money to secure the border in guatemala, but are we spending the same amount on the northern border? the fer government has not been kicking kicking kicking in a commence rat amount on the texas-mexican border. ambassa

. >> thank you, mr. vargas. we will now go to mr. randy weber of texas. >> thank you. ambassador, you said in your questioning from chairman royce, uk the oldest of different law enforcement agencies, and i must have stepped out right before. what was that list in response to? >> the chairman had noted that the attorney general of california was providing some support for prosecutorial training in california. and, mr. weber, what i did, i took advantage of the opportunity to note that there was a large list of state and local law enforcement officials that have done that. >> thank you. i appreciate that. ms. jacobsen, you said in your comments that ar our border with mexico is more secure than ever. what matrix, what data are using to come to that conclusion? >> i think that basically the data i would use to point to that is that there are fewer people coming in through -- we have net migration from mexico of zero. we have a period, we have more resources, more people, more high-tech equipment that's been used to obvious the resources provided by congress to keep the b

weber. >> thank you, mr. chairman. appreciate you only distribute i'm anxious to our witnesses. >> okay. i like to introduce artists in which witnesses. thank them for being here. beginning with first ambassador robert jackson, principal deputy assistant secretary of bureau of african affairs, served as ambassador, deputy chief of mayors at the u.s. embassies in morocco and senegal. is work in baroody, sam bob litt, portugal and canada. is worked in commercial, and as an officer training, oversight, after 9/11. without objection is full testimony but also his full resume will be made a part of the record. a very distinguished one of that as well as this anne richard who is the assistant secretary and state departments bureau of population, refugees and migration. no, a position she held since 2012. ms. richard previous government service lets time in the state department, peace corps and the office of management and budget. she is worked as council on foreign relations, international rescue committee and was part of th

weber. >>.gov or calling the searing -- thank you for calling this hearing. there is probably no greater torture than believing you have to maintain control on other human beings by weaponry and by those kinds of cowardly acts that we witnessed in tiananmen square. the chinese totalitarian government must not be allowed to last. democracy must prevail and be the order of the day. on us, especially with chairman smith at the helm, to be steadfast and to be your friends in the fight for keeping liberty and freedom on the forefront. for being that example, having that courage, the guts, the fortitude. you are an inspiration to us. .emocracy will flourish of freedom will survive because of you and others like you. i thank you for being here and thank you for your courage, your willingness to participate, and don't ever. thank you very much. i yield back. >> thank you. i can't believe it has been 25 years. it has gone by rather quick in a way. i think our chairman for fighting for individuals who want freedom. 25 years ago, in tiananmen square, they built a statue

weber. >>.gov or calling the searing -- thank you for calling this hearing.

mr. chairman, why don't we have therapeutic tobacco? nicotine, one of the substances in tobacco, purified is actually useful as a drug to treat knock term frontal lobe epilepsy. no one writes a prescription, smoke a couple of cigarettes and cure your epilepsy, but that's what we're being asked to do. worse than that, this blurs the line in those states that have gone beyond medical marijuana. for instance, in colorado under amendment 64 a person can grow as many plants -- i'm sorry, six plants under the new law for general use but if it's medical marijuana, you can grow as many plants as you want as long as you can prove you have a medicinal use. how is the d.e.a. going tone force anything when under this amendment they are prohibited from going into that person's house growing as many plants as they want because that's legal under the medical marijuana part of the law, not under the ew law? mr. chairman, this is not the right place for this the memorandum from this administration clearly

i guess this question is for you mr. jackson or for you, ms. richard, either one. the chad soldiers that came in and killed and injured so many, any idea who they are? any accountability there? >> congressman weber, wedon't really know who they are but we will be looking at the units in terms of vetting for future training. and we need to look very carefully at the participation of chadeans based on their conduct. >> i think long-term and think we need to send the signal of that will be not tolerated and somehow there has to be accountability and the perpetrators brought to justice so there is no reoccurring incidents of that nature. any way to put pressure on the government to do that to aid in that? >> i understand that the chadean government is doing an investigation. we will look to ensure that they are held to account for their actions. >> i guess unlike the other mall shootings, there are no videos, absolutely no evidence to this. >> i am not aware of any video. the only thing i am aware of our testimonies by some of the victims. >> was one of our agencies co

jackson or for you mr. richard either one. the chad soldiers they came in and killed and injured so many. any identification or any idea of who they are any accountability? >> congressman weber we don't really know who they are but we will be looking at the units in terms of setting for future training and we need to look very carefully at the participation of chadians and future peacekeeping operations based on their conduct and the central african republic. >> i think long-term we need to be sending the signal that won't need tolerated. somehow the perpetrators need to be brought to justice so there are no recurring incidents of that nature. any way to put pressure on their government to help aid in not? >> i understand that the chadian government is doing an investigation and we will look to ensure that they are held to account for their actions. >> i guess unlike ghetto mall shootings there is no video. there's absolutely no evidence to this. >> i'm not aware of any video. the only thing that i'm aware of our testimonies b

i guess this question is for you mr. jackson or for you, ms. richard, either one. the chad soldiers that came in and killed and injured so many, any idea who they are? any accountability there? wedon'tessman weber, really know who they are but we will be looking at the units in terms of vetting for future training. to look very very carefully at the participation deans based on their conduct. >> i think long-term and think we need to send the signal of that will be not tolerated and somehow there has to be accountability and the perpetrators brought to justice so there is no reoccurring incidents of that nature. any way to put pressure on the government to do that to aid in that? >> i understand that the chadean government is doing an investigation. we will look to ensure that they are held to account for their actions. >> i guess unlike the other mall shootings, there are no videos, absolutely no evidence to this. >> i am not aware of any video. the only thing i am aware of our testimonies by some of the victims. >> was one of our agencies coordinates with the cha