the honorable chad wolf is the acting secretary of the department of homeland security, been serving is position since november 2019. mr. wolf previously held numerous senior leadership roles in the department including leading the officer strategy policy and plans and serving as the chief of staff for the department. acting secretary wolf? >> chairman johnson, ranking member peters, members of the committee, thank you again for the opportunity to testify today. while many americans are aware of the traditional missions of the department of homeland security, such as aviation security, border security, immigration enforcement and counterterrorism, just to name a few, many are not as familiar with the important mission of the federal protective service or fps. it has protected federal property for almost 50 years and does so at almost 9,000 properties around this country. this responsibility was specifically provided to fps through the secretary of homeland security by the united states congress. for over 60 days federal properties in portland, particularly the hatfield federal courtho

city of portland that's according to acting homeland security secretary chad wolf one person was shot during saturday night's violence between rival groups they have been demonstrations in portland every night now for more than 3 months since police killed george floyd in minneapolis president donald trump is now expected to visit the city of commotion and wisconsin on tuesday that's where jacob blake was shot in the back 7 times by police nearly a week ago leaving him paralyzed thousands of people took part in another night of peaceful protests there but more than a 1000 national guard members are also on standby after unrest in the city and in the capital washington d.c. police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse anti-racism protesters who gathered near the white house on saturday police say the crowds were ordered to leave after throwing bottles at officers and setting fire to newspaper boxes for more on all of this let's bring in our castor she's in maryland. let's start with portland another shooting death in

>> when i heard chad wolf say thank you mr. president for restoring integrity to our immigration system, my response was are you kidding me? have you seen what you've done? done everything you can to end legal immigration. i've been at southern border, seen the kids in ages. i've seen american citizen children with passports in detention center. what he was really saying is ending legal immigration. you're right, photos of the kids in cages, separation, still happening today, it's unjust, and four more years means we'll have no immigration system. >> andy, listen to something from florida attorney general pam bondy, well known for serving on trump's defense team in the impeachment trial. try to get back into that tonight, including claims of joe biden's son hunter getting a job because of connections and debunked ukrainian thoughts. >> corrupt ukrainian oligarch put him on head of company with no experience. yet paid millions to do nothing. he only had one qualification that matters, son of the man in charge of distributing u.s

this comes after chad wolf has come under increasing scrutiny for dhs actions in portland. be right back with constitutional questions that this may raise. bottom line, has the government been illegally enforcing some laws? we'll be right back. ok everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health. a lot goes through your mind. with fidelity wealth management, your dedicated adviser can give you straightforward advice and tailored recommendations. that's the clarity you get with fidelity wealth management. >>> welcome back. president trump's top two homeland security officials were appointed illegally. what does that mean for the actions they've taken since they took office? joining me now is robert tsai, law professor at american university. robert, this was my big question. so if they are appointed, if they're illegally holding those positions, then does this mean every action they've taken is an illegal action? >>

. >> harris: meanwhile, on capitol hill, acting dhs secretary chad wolf is testifying today, right now, on the response of the protests in portland. here is chad wolf on the continued violence. >> for over 60 days, federal property in portland, the federal courthouse has been attacked by violent criminals, violent opportunists, and violent anarchists. our federal officers have found baseball bats, sledgehammers, molotov cocktails, fireworks, accelerant, ieds, and others. >> harris: this is "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner. here today, fox news correspondent gillian turner. fox's headlines 24/7 reporter, carley shimkus. fox news contributor, jessica tarlov. joining us today, former white house press secretary for president george w. bush, also a fox news member of our family as a contributor, ari fleischer is here. great to see you, everybody, on this fine friday eve. [laughter] ari, as we look at this, no matter what your politics are now, we are starting to see a merge. i've been calling it out for weeks, because we saw it here in new york with the brooklyn borough president, eric a

>> well, ari, when i heard chad wolf say, thank you, mr. president, for i think he said restoring integrity to our immigration system. my response was, are you kidding me? have you seen what you have done? you all have done everything you can to end legal immigration. i have been at the southern border. i have seen american citizen children with a passport in a detention center. what he was really saying is ending legal immigration. you're right. the photos of kids in cages and the photos of separation is still happening today. it's unjust. four more years will mean we will have no immigration system. >> andy, i want you to listen to something here. from florida attorney general pam bondy. of all the topics to try to get right back into that tonight including claims about joe biden's son hunter getting a job because of connections as well as a debunked ukrainian plot. >> we all know about joe's son, hunter biden, a corrupt ukrainian ollie gashing put hunter on the board of his gas company even though he had no experience in ukraine or in th

visit ncicap.org] >> acting homeland security secretary chad wolf testifies thursday on capitol hill. he will discuss his agency's response to unrest in portland and the deployment of dhs personnel to protests across the nation on racial injustice breed live coverage begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen live on the free c-span radio app. ♪ >> c-span's washington journal. every day, we are taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day, and we discussed policy issues that impact you. morning, we will discuss the 75th anniversary of the bombings on hiroshima and authori, japan, with the of "twilight of the gods: war in the western pacific, 1944-1945." clifton daniel, truman, grandson of president harry truman. live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning, and join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. ♪ >> this week marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic comings of hiroshima and sake. nagasaki.ma and negative what c-span for a discussion on the bombings with clifton daniel truman, grandson of president

appreciate it. >> also for chad wolf, i met your daddy yesterday. did you grow up in orange at all? >> i grew up north of dallas. >> that's right, he told me that. >> [indiscernible] [laughter] pres. trump: you are checking him out, right? very good. [laughter] [indiscernible] he is doing a great job, thank you very much. randy? >> thank you, mr. president for being here. i am probably the oldest guy in the room and that i grew up on the gulf coast and never left and i probably been through more hurricanes than anybody here, starting in 1961 with hurricane carla. i was going into the texas house when ike hit and i've never seen this kind of responsiveness from the government. your a tenement to leadership. so thank you, thank you. our state leaders, our governor, lieutenant governor, i can go down the list, and you have done everything you said you would do . my district love you and we appreciate you. pres. trump: thank you, you're doing a great job. chief, please. >> thank you. i want to thank the local officials. to mandate an evacuation is a courageous decision to make, and the

thursday, chad wolf, acting secretary for the u.s. department of homeland security will testify on the apartments deployment of personnel to protests and unrest across the country. watch live on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen live on the free c-span radio app. members of the spacex crew took questions after nearly two months aboard the u.s. space station. they returned to earth, splashing down in the waters of the gulf of mexico on sunday. >> good afternoon and thank you for joining us at the johnson space center for the splashdown news conference. just two days ago doug hurley , and operations commander splashed down in the gulf of mexico after 64 days in space. after 64 days in space. in space. completing the first crewed

what is chad wolf's defense and what do you think the senators are going to be grilling him about inther they buy it or not? >> reporter: well, chad wolf's defense so far has been it's up to dhs and the federal protective service to protect federal property. in the case of portland, that being the courthouse that has been under siege he says for months what he's getting grilled on is the overall issue of what is the federal government's response to localized protests and should dhs be used as this kind of military force of the federal government to go and retaliate against what they see, many of the democrats see as largely peaceful protests. of course wolf did think about many times where things weren't peaceful. he's had over 270 of his personnel injured protecting portland. it goes beyond portland. we've seen dhs outside the white house, now we have dhs involved with cities fighting crime. how far this agency goes is what democrats will be watching for and they're calling for more oversight. >> julia ainsley, live in d.c. as we keep an eye on speaker pelosi saying they're making p

acting homeland security secretary chad wolf is on capitol hill to testify on the use of federal law enforcement in response to recent protests in portland and elsewhere. that is followed at 2:00 p.m. eastern by a house subcommittee hearing on the coronavirus crisis examining the potential impact of reopening schools during the pandemic. on c-span two the senate is back -- 9:30 a.m. eastern. c-span3, the senate armed --vices committee holds the, -- this hearing. a.m.gets underway at 9:00 eastern. >> american history tv on c-span3. exploring the people and events that tell america's story. anniversaryhe 75th of the bombing of nagasaki, japan. we will look back at how the bombing ended world war ii and the aftermath of the decade ahead with richard frank. the end of the imperial japanese empire and a professor at american universities nuclear study institute. it would take your calls, texts and facebook tweets. and also, the 1946 film, effects , document in the origins of hiroshima peace park. then, the 75th anniversary of the potsdam conference where harry truman informed whiston chur

city of portland that's according to acting homeland security secretary chad wolf comment comes after one person was shot dead during saturday night's violence between rival groups in the city hall and has been the site of nightly demonstrations for more than 3 months since police killed george floyd in minneapolis. in the capitol washington d.c. police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse anti racism protesters who gathered near the white house police say the crowds were ordered to leave after throwing bottles of officers and setting fire to newspaper boxes. castro joins us live now from maryland heidi let's 1st of course talk about portland's tension appears to be escalating not only there but across the country what do we know about specifically the incidents important. well what we know is that this victim who police have still not identified was a white man who was apparently wearing insignia that linked him to far right groups in portland that had clashed in the past with black lives matter protesters we've seen a video shot by the bystander showing this man walking acros

so chad wolf seems to understand that.t we need to be watching for, some clues that i'm asking people to watch for are not the ordinary local police who come and direct traffic at the parking lot of your polling place or make sure there is orderly voting, that we should expect and not get panicked about that. what i want you to focus on is off-duty officers, people being paid by the campaign or its surrogate groups who might be armed and then intimidation, if you start seeing people approaching people in the parking lot, who are minorities and democratic-leaning precincts and being arrested in the parking lot or pulled out of line while voting and questioned by off duty or surrogate representatives of law enforcement, that is what we need to watch for. >> that is chilling, frank figliuzzi. thank you. i'm glad to talk with you. >>> coming up next, a preview of the republican convention and then a bit later college classmates of kamala harris will tell me what she was like way back when. e way back when. copd makes it hard t

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joining me now, acting homeland security secretary chad wolf. mr. acting secretary, thank you for joining us. can you give us an update on what exactly happened as you understand it in portland overnight? what happened with the shooting? who was killed? >> well, we're still waiting obviously for that investigation to unfold. i do understand that there were a number of counterprotests and countergroups in portland overnight, and i think this points to a larger issue that we have seen in portland for the last three months, and that is local and state officials not allowing law enforcement to do their job and really to bring this violent activity night after night after night to a close. so as you see that continue to unfold over the course of three months, you'll continue to see violent activity, and we've asked the governor. we've asked the mayor to step in. they don't have the resources. the president has been very clear on this as you know. we will be happy to provide resources to bring this violence to an end, violence that, again, across the ideo

commissioner, to minnesota elected officials, even to the home of acting head of homeland security, chad wolftrump advisory board members, cincinnati mayor ken blackwell is fired up. he is ready to go. football legend herschel walker with us tonight fox business exclusive on potential cultural shift. backlash picking up against national anthem protests by athletes. athletes don't like it. guy reschenthaler from house judiciary, pressure ratcheting up on joe and hunter biden. senate homeland security chair ron johnson reportedly hinting he may release interim on his committee's probe of biden pay-to-play conflicts of interest own september 15. democrats try to battle that. try to get the media to pick up their new narrative to counter this. that narrative is falling flat. thanks for joining us. i'm elisabeth mcdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. to the battle for 2020. vice president pence now says the trump administration will take democrats to court to stop nationwide automatic mail-in balloting, democrats

eastern, chad wolf, acting secretary for the u.s. department of homeland security, will testify on the department's deployment of personnel to protests and unrest across the country. watch live on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen live on the free c-span radio app. >> c-span has unfiltered coverage of congress. the white house. the supreme court. and public policy events. you can watch all of c-span's public affairs programming on television, online, or listen on our free radio app. and be part of the national conversation through c-span's daily "washington journal" program. or through our social media feeds. c-span, created by america's cable television companies as a public service and from brought to you today by your television rovider. >> next, house majority whip james clyburn talking about the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. other legislative priorities. and the upcoming 2020 election. this is an hour. legislative priorities and the upcoming 2020 election. this is an hour. >> i'm margaret hamburg, a member

trump, along with acting homeland secreted director chad wolf, held a naturalization ceremony inside the white house for five immigrants from bolivia, lebanon, india, sudan and ghana. the evening ended with a speech by firstst lady melania trump in the white house rose garden. >> just like me, i know many of know how mean social media can be. and just like me, i'm sure many of you are looking for answers how to talk to your children about t the downside of technoly and the relationships with their peers. amy: melania trump spoke in front of a live audience in the rose garden where the vast majority of attendees, including presidenent trump and mike penc, did not wear masks. cnn reports many attendees were not tested for coronavirus prior to the event. meanwhile, republicans canceled once couple speaker on tuesday night, marianne mendoza, after she promoted an anti-semitic conspiracy theory on twitter just hours before her scheduled speech. we will have more on this later in the b broadcast. the ununited statates reported 7 coronavirus deaths on n tuesday, with over 3737,000 new confi

"i am pleased to inform the public acting secretary chad wolf will be nominated to be the secretary ofcurity. we greatly appreciate his service." for those who know a little bit in the last couple of days about the news with secretary wolf. acting secretary now nominated to be full secretary, there has been some talk that the government accountability office was saying he was not valid to be appointed to the position in the in the first place. the president whether it played a role or not nominated him in the position. it's been 500 days since someone has been confirmed by the senate to hold the position. now in the hands of the senate. we will follow the story as it takes shape. >> sadly, enemies to the voting system is at 1600 especially avenue with the ally -- at 1600 pennsylvania avenue with the allies of the president of the united states. they are doing everything they can to scare people, intimidate, say the law enforcement will be there. diminish the role of the postal system in this. this is actually shameful. enemies of the state. >> harris: wow! those words from nancy pelosi

a moment last hour, president trump visiting fema headquarters with chad wolf. here's live to give us an update coming up when we continue here live in washington. ♪ for the first time in american history, we're living through four crises at the same time. a public health crisis. the u.s. set a new single-day record for coronavirus infections. an economic crisis. devastating unemployment not seen since the great depression. a climate crisis. the impact of climate change is dangerous and it is already being felt in the united states. and a national reckoning on racial injustice. no justice, no peace. we need a team that's up to the task, leaders who can rally the nation to fight this virus. to not only rebuild our economy, but build it back better. to address the threat of climate change and to root out systemic racism. together they'll lead america, unite america and heal america. joe biden and kamala harris, because a united america will be a better america. i'm joe biden and i approve this message. come on in, we're open. ♪ all we do is hand you the bag. simpl

this is a big deal because of these two men, chad wolf is the acting head of the department.official decisions they sign is done by somebody who is acting in this position illegally, then you have to wonder whether anything that they're signing is actually legal. so that is one of the questions being raised by this ao report. the question of whether or not the fact that these two men, their positions are actually invalid is a big deal for the homeland security department. it should be noted that the acting -- the head of the homeland security department has been an acting position since kristin nielson resigned last april. >> there is much more to come on this. evan, thank you. >>> still ahead for us, if plan a doesn't work out, make sure you have a plan a, b ask, c and apparently d. next the plan d. nefertiti: as a young girl i was always comparing myself to my sisters. they were always thin and i wasn't... i ate a lot of food. and then after i had my son it was really difficult to lose the baby weight, and everything took so much time and energy and i didn't have that. and

. >> dagen: acting dhs secretary chad wolf suggesting this is exactly the type of thing allowing theest to continue. >> what we know about portland is that they fostered an environment that allows this type of violence to go on. this has nothing to do with the peaceful protest that we see in portland. nothing to do with that national dialogue that we talk about regarding george floyd's death and police, law enforcement practices. what we saw in portland, that violence is just criminal activity and we need to call it that. >> dagen: kennedy, you are from oregon, close by, if they were arrested, didn't they commit a crime? >> kennedy: no, not according to beauty make beard sin, i'm always concerned that they are trump operatives, because they want the violence and unrest to continue. they want these images. because between a pandemic in a race war it is very bad news for the president. the economy is still cratering. the only thing that he has right now are pictures from places like portland, so they are doing him a big favor, because they are not just incentivizing some of the riots.

here's chad wolf, acting homeland security secretary. >> we're waiting obviously for that investigation to unfold. i do understand that there were a number of counter-protests and counter groups in portland overnight. i think this points to a larger issue that we've seen in portland for the last three months and that is local and state officials not allowing law enforcement to do their job and to bring this violent activity night after night after night to a close. arthel: we have live team fox news coverage, david spunt has the white house reaction. aishah hasnie reports on police shootings in the line of duty. garrett tenney on the wisconsin protests. but first to christina coleman and the deadly shooting in portland. christina. >> reporter: arthel, a caravan of trump supporters was making its way through downtown portland when protesters you attempted to stop them by standing in the street. this is the third consecutive weekend of tensions escalating in portland. last night trump supporters fired paint ball pellets and bear spray at counter protester as they threw things as the trump

chad wolf joins us live. two, what is she like in congress, what will she be like as a vp and running mate. it will be exciting. ben shapiro will be here live, he talks fast, has great opinions and is very pop of later. it's the day's top story, joe biden picking senator kamala harris as his running mate, the senator from california. the media placing her as a moderate. is that accurate? are the democrats happy? molly hemingway offers anil ana. robert wolf is going to say the economy will be really good because he wants it to happen, steven moore says it will be really bad because he wants donald trump to get four more years. i can't wait to find out how it starts. a trump 2020 senior advisor will be here live and d it will be an exciting show. i urge you but don't require you to get dressed but please wear a mask. this is an athlete, twenty reps deep, sprinting past every leak in our softest, smoothest fabric. she's confident, protected, her strength respected. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you

david: and what surprised me -- there were a lot of things surprising that chad wolf was talking aboutbut one was that the federal agents doesn't get any cooperation from police. let me just play a segment of mr. wolf talking about that. roll tape. >> dhs and doj officers were provided little to no assistance night after night in protecting federal properties and themselves. local and state officials did not allow law enforcement, local law enforcement, to police the area immediately around federal fundamentals, nor in the parks nearby. which violent opportunists used as a staging ground to prepare for their nightly assault on the courthouse and our officers. local and state officials did not allow law enforcement to make any arrests, i i repeat, any arrests if the violence was direct at federal properties. david: now, how quick ally could the violence -- quickly that the violence that the rioters, and now police are openly calling it riots, how quickly could that have been quelled if the police had been allowed to work with the federal agents who were trying to secure the courthouse?

acting dhs secretary chad wolf, you see him there talking with lawmakers. watch. >> for over 60 days, federal property in portland, particularly the courthouse has been attacked by violent criminals, opportunists, and violent anarchy is. our federal officers faced assaults with bricks, baseball bats, hammers, commercial grade fireworks, and other violent weapons. >> harris: chief correspondent jonathan hunt is now live with more on this. jonathan? >> harris, it is hard to fathom that there have been 69 consecutive nights of protests but that is the reality in portland, the withdrawal from the streets of federal agents whose presence had sparked so much anger seem simply to have shifted the focus of the protests away from the federal courthouse and toward the local police precincts. police and protesters clashing last night, for instance, around portland's east precinct where demonstrators started fires, erected barricades, spray-painted security cameras, pointed green lasers are police officers and through fireworks toward police lines. eventually police de

city of portland according to the acting homeland security secretary chad wolf it comes after one person was shot dead during saturday night's violence between rival groups in the city activists in montreal who pulled down a statue of canada's 1st prime minister john a macdonald after protests calling for the defunding of the police historian say mcdonald's policies in the late 19th century forcibly removed indigenous children from their homes. carter has announced labor law reforms after 2 years of consultations with the un's labor body it sets a monthly minimum wage that's no longer based on nationality and removes a law that required employer approval to switch jobs reforms come after previous criticisms from rights groups or flooding is expected in sudan in the coming days with the ribbon are reaching what the government say are unprecedented levels floodwaters in the capital khartoum are now at record heights at least 88 people have been killed and thousands of homes destroyed into renshaw rains which began 4 weeks ago. at least 3 more people have died making the dangerous mediterra

acting secretary chad wolf and prepared to meet with the president. >> these are not images of of joe biden a future. these are images of donald trump today. >> reporter: speaking in pittsburgh this afternoon, nominee joe biden blamed trump for the violence. >> donald trump adds fuel to every fire. because he refuses to even acknowledge that there is a racial justice problem in america. he has no problem with right- wing militia. white supremacists and vigilantes with assault weapons. >> reporter: the president plans to visit kenosha, wisconsin phenomenal -- tomorrow after police officer shot jacob blake seven times in the back. wisconsin government governor, tony e percent this letter to the president asking him not to come writing, "i'm concerned your presence will only hinder our hearing healing and delay our work to overcome division. the white house as they have heard from people in kenosha who want the president to visit to support local law enforcement and businesses that have been vandalized. natalie brand, cbs news, the white house. >>> the white house press secretary says th

we want to go now to the acting homeland security secretary chad wolf. he joins us from fema headquarters here in washington. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> brennan: i want to ask you about what is going on in portland. overnight we saw a man killed during dualing demonstrations between a pro-trump caravan and black lives matter tivists. given the situation, which seems very tense, will the trump administration ask for everyone, including those pro-trump supporters, to pull back? >> we've been asking portland to do their job really for over three months now. what you see in portland, and the eirnt -- they foster an environment of this lawlessness and chaos. we've been asking t governor and others to send in the national guard to address the violence so you don't have dualing demonstrations, you don't have this violence that occurs night after night of portland.on the streets their job. them to do we need them to step up, and if they can't or they don't have the ability or the resources, ask the federal government, and we'll provide the resour

acting dhs secretary, chad wolf, saying this morning that all options are on the table. trump administration deployed federal forces to protect portland's federal buildings, that move, controversial at the time, sparking intense backlash from local officials, led to violent altercations between police and protesters. how can law enforcement restore peace? let's bring in ted williams, former d.c. police detective and defense attorney. ted, many of us remember the riots back in the late '60s and we seem to be having a recurrence of some of that. can you fathom and understand why the mayor, ted wheeler, who we'll hear from a half hour from now, is saying he does not want the national guard in his city? >> hi, eric. if i could. just let me give a shout-out, i'm from lake charles, louisiana and i want to let the people know that god have her backs down there and i thank you for letting me say that. but when you look at what is going on in these various cities, and you look at specifically portland, where you have the mayor there who is not on the same page with the governor,

joining me now to discuss the policy aspects here acting secretary of homeland security chad wolf. etary wolf thanks for joining us. let me ask you the president said on friday, quote, we're going to have sheriffs and we're going to have law enforcement and we're going to have hopefully u.s. attorneys, unquote, go to polling locations on election day in order to prevent fraud. as you must know any conduct that intimidates voters is prohibited by federal law, several states are laws expressly forbidding a law enforcement presence at the polls. has the president discussed with you deploying any of your law enforcement agents to serve as poll watchers? >> no, absolutely he has not. again, that's not what we do at the department of homeland security. we have law enforcement authorities and law enforcement officers at the department, we have express authorities given to us by congress and this is not one of them. we do a lot of protection across the country for a lot of different circumstances including portland and a number of other cities across the country, but this is not a mission f

acting homeland security secretary chad wolf was on capitol hill to respond to his agency's responseprogram -- protesters. he rejected the idea that agents were attacking peaceful protesters. the hearing is two hours. >> this hearing will come to order. i want to thank acting secretary will for his service and for taking the time to come before our committee. i know you have got a lot of things on your plate. i think the committee does appreciate coming in and explaining what has

this is the deal that the governor put into place with dhs and the acting dhs secretary chad wolf hasal agents will remain in portland, but we understand they will not be seen. but they will stay here in the general area until they feel confident that the courthouse is protected. so we'll keep following any developments the rest of this weekend. >> and i appreciate you for doing so. thank you. >>> my next guest, the former head of i.c.e. says president trump's deployment of federal agents to prosecute tests in portland is a, quote, manufactured crisis stemming from a failure of leadership. john joins mess now, a former acting director of i.c.e. welcome to you. what do you mean by manufactured crisis? and why would the president do that? how does a crisis help his presidency? >> i'm not sure about that second question, alex, but this was never about protecting that federal courthouse. you don't deploy fully armed units if your goal, frankly, over the objections of the state and local leadership if your goal is to actually protect that federal courthouse. this was all about generating a

i'll speak to acting homeland security chad wolf and house speaker nancy pelosi next. >>> and american? after democratic nominee joe biden paints a scene of america in crisis. >> too much fear, too much division. >> president trump will now take the stage for his own convention. >> we're going to fight for the

immigrants who participated in this ceremony, many ethical questions are being raised, also about chad wolf's participation, the acting department of homeland security secretary who, of course, the president wants to make permanent, but a lot of ethical considerations in terms of why it was proper for him to participate in this. but, yes, you mentioned that strategy, the white house effectively filmed the video, put it online on youtube so the campaign and the republican national committee could grab it and then include it in the convention, so building out a strategy knowing full well there may be considerations about the hatch act. this is really how they're kind of attempting to sidestep that and last night was really a clear indication, but you asked specifically about the people featured there. you had immigrants from ghana, sudan, bolivia, many of the president's critics are wondering today under technical presidential travel bans he has enacted, would they be able to come into the country legally? we have posed that question to the white house, ayman, but we have not heard back on that

it says it was asked by some members of congress to look into whether chad wolf, the acting secretary and ken cuccinelli, who is described by dhs as the person serving as the -- in the position of acting deputy secretary of dhs, whether they constitutionally, legally have their jobs and the gao says no, they don't. they're not entitled to have those positions. this is the gao's logic. they say when the last senate confirmed person who was dhs secretary, kristen nielsen, resigned, there was an order of designation, an order of succession of who would fill these jobs if they became vacant. then she was succeeded by an acting secretary kevin maclainen who changed the orbit der of succession, but gao says kevin himself shouldn't have been in that position, so he had no authority to change the order of succession. that's why gao says they don't have, under the law, the vacancies reform act and the homeland security act that created homeland security, they provide for who takes these jobs if there is a vacancy and they say these two officials don't meet the needs of those statutes. now, the

>>in a senate hearing thursday acting secretary of dhs chad wolf defended the use of federal agents in portland to are clearly marked uniforms are properly trained. follow established law enforcement procedures and practices wolf said dhs is not cracking down on protesters and his only engaging with violent rioters who have her hundreds of federal officers civil law enforcement officers were abandoned due to the dangerous policies by local officials wolf also said the officers seen beating a navy veteran we're not dhs agents secretary will also said the dhs agents in other cities are there to help fight violent crime and not to engage with protesters of any kind california senator kamala harris pressed wolf about whether those deployments are politically motivated have you discussed the deployment of dhs agents to protests in connection. >>with the president's reelection effort and with the president or any of his staff and i'm not going comment on my discussions with the president or senior staff nevada sen jacky rosen said it would be better for dhs agents to focus on fighting white

[laughter] chad wolf testified thursday on capitol hill. he discussed his agency's response to unrest in portland and the employment of personnel to protest across the nation on racial injustice. coverage of the homeland security committee begins at 10:00 a.m. on c-span, online on c-span.org, or on the free c-span radio app. week marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. watch washington journal live thursday for a discussion about the bombings with the author of twilight of the gods and the grandson of president harry truman. on sunday watch american history as we look9:00 a.m. back at how the bombings ended world war ii and their legacy in decades ahead with author of downfall, the end of the imperial japanese empire. and professor at american university nuclear studies institute. join the discussion with your calls, facebook questions, and tweets. watch the 75th anniversary of the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki this thursday on washington journal on c-span and american history tv on c-span3. >> willi

washingtopopost" first ed the intelligence thering on thursday, and acting homeland security secretary chad wolf has asked teche department's inr general to investigate. spread in the united states, with california now the first state to have more than 500,000 confirmed infections. across the s., there were more than 58,000 new cases reported yesterday. compared to two weeks ago, daily new infections are down about 5%, on average, according to data compiled by the "new york times." there are now more than 4.6 million infections, d nearly 155,000 deaths. the number of deaths is expected to rise sharply, as that count lags behind reported infections. a new projection from the centers for disease control says the death toll in the united states could rise by as much 30,000 in the next few weeks. globally, resurgences of the virus are forcing some places to reimpose restrictions. authorities in the australian state of vtoria declared a ate of disaster today, and imposed a night-time curfew, after a spike of new coronavirus infections. and in india, which has been an epicent of the pandemic, the inte

acting homeland security secretary chad wolf was on capitol hill to testify in his department's responseo recent protests in portland oregon. he says federal law enforcement was deployed to protect property and rejected the idea that agents were attacking peaceful protesters. >> --aring

management and budget has ruled the two men leading the department of homeland security, secretary chad wolf and his deputy ken cuccinelli are not legally allowed to run the department because they were appointed by a person who was not supposed to be legally running that department. the president conducted his daily press conference just finished with that. he is going to go to new york city. he's got a speech there, and then his brother is in the hospital as well. reporters asking him how his brother's doing. the president says not well at all. we certainly have the very best wishes to the trump family. again, we don't know why his brother is in the hospital. but the president was very grim in his description of his brother's condition. >> all right, scott, thank you very much for that. we very much appreciate it. >>> so here at nbc bay area, we are continuing to talk about race with our special series "race in america: the conversation." last night we had a special guest who is the chief impact officer at american leadership forum in silicon valley. she talked about what it means to be an

our next guest was in that meeting acting dhs secretary chad wolf and saw the chaos in portland up closemess. chad, mr. secretary, i should say. first off, sings i left, the violence continues. are you surprised? >> no, not particularly. what we know about portland is that they foster an environment that allows this type of violence to go on. we saw that for almost 60 days at the federal courthouse. as you indicated that violence has now shifted to the left and the right of the courthouse. it's now focused on the portland police department in different facilities that they have around the city. but, as you indicated, brian, there is over 75 nights of sustained violence night after night after night. i think that's very, very co-worker. dhs will remain in portland, will remain there to protect our facility because we don't know where these rioters and where these criminals are going to move from night to night. >> mr. secretary, what do you now know about this antifa castoff or sect that you didn't know before you put your people on the ground? >> yeah. i think what we saw there in portla

eastern on c-span, acting homeland security secretary chad wolf is on capitol hill to testify on the use of federal law enforcement in response to recent protests in portland and elsewhere. that's followed at 2:00 p.m. eastern by a house subcommittee hearing on the coronavirus crisis, examining the potential impact of reopening schools during the pandemic. c-span2 the senate is back at 9:30 a.m. eastern to debate and vote on the nomination of john cronin to be a judge for the southern district of new york. and on c-span3, the senate armed services committee holds a confirmation hearing for several defense department nominees including inspector general. that gets under way at 9:00 a.m. eastern. at the national governors' association virtual summer meeting, maryland governor larry hogan passed the chairmanship of the group to new york governor andrew cuomo. they discussed the coronavirus response and both agreed federal funding for state and local governments is needed. welcome to the first ever >> virtual summer meeting. we look forward to the day when we can all gather in person aga

secretary chad wolf, was widely condemned as a possible violation of the hatch act, proi object hadding federal employees from engaging in political activity. white house chief of staff mark meadows dismissed the criticism. >> nobody outside of the belted way really cares. >> reporter: melania trump also broke with tradition, giving her speech last night in the white house rose garden, where she addressed the deaths from covid-19, a topic largely ignored during the convention. >> my deepest sympathy goes out to everyone who has lost a loved one. >> reporter: following vice president pence's headline turn tonight, tomorrow president trump will give his acceptance speech here at the white house in front of a group of over 1,000 people, and his address will be followed by a fireworks display over the national mall. norah. >> o'donnell: it will be a packed crowd. paula reid, thank you. and this programming note: we'll have live coverage of the republican national convention beginning tonight at 10:00 eastern, 9:00 central. hope you'll joan us again. tonight, there's new concern among expert