employee morale, and you cannot have one without the other. in the bio defense area since 2012, we have reported on challenges and implement an biowatch, the system designed to detect an airborne attack. we reported on challenges in the effort to upgrade and replace biowatch, the third effort to do so, which is called bd21. we found bd21 faces challenges such as inherent limitations in the available technology and uncertainties with combining technologies for use in the domestic environment, places like train stations, sporting arenas, things like that. avoiding and reducing false alarms is still a difficult technical challenge that has to be overcome, if dhs is to quickly detect bio threats in these environments. i also think it shows how hard it is to deploy technologies in our homeland versus overseas, in the war fighter or military environments. we have also found cwmd has struggled to develop an effective surveillance system to detect and share information on bio threats. we reported the dhs national integration center has struggled to fu

final hour of "washington journal," we are joined by william barber to talk about what he calls the moral movement and moment needed in america today. what is that movement and what is that moment? guest: thank you for having me on. the poor people's campaign for revival has 42 state correlating committees across the country of more than 300 partners and over 2000 clergymen connected. each of our coordinating committees is chaired by an impacted person of poverty and low wealth. even before the pandemic, the small crisis of america was we have 140 million low income people in this country. that means we have people less than $400 -- you have less than $400 for emergencies and we had the reality of systemic racism that you can measure in many ways that affects black people, brown people, indigenous people, asian people and the collateral damage done to fight people, and we have millions of people who get up every morning, we had 87 million people uninsured in the country with the greatest medical sciences. we have a situation even before the pandemic where we spend 54 cents of the dollar o

if we could go back to employee morale. as i said earlier, 420 out of 420, thoughts like a punch in the face. your perspective how we got there, acting secretary talked about the merger of the department and the town hall talking directly to the employees is always a good thing to do getting suggestions from them but also how we maintain and retain and where to go from here , your perspective, please. >> thank you. morale is a complicated issue and is also sometimes a leg whee you get the result to what's actually going on in the organization so i think what we have seen and other organizations is oftentimes when morale is low, employees don't feel like they bring heard by top leadership and being supported. because of those things, he will often get responses like we don't feel like we are accomplishing our mission as good as we could so there are so many collocated things they go into. on the positive front, look at the morale, they have gone up in the last year end one key question is about top leadership so you deserve

dhs moral is another important challenge. let me ask the clerk to put up slide number two for the committee to take a look at. one of the things that we have all noted is that dhs has ranked last in the annual surveys of employee morale since 2010. the data from the september-october 2020 data is that dhs is last among the large cabinet departments and agencies in the federal government, but our analysis has shown that morale at the dhs is not a hopeless task, but far from it. dhs has had numerous success stories and frank taylor between 2014 and 2017, and sarah saldana from customs enforcement, and tech sales and john kelly of the secret service between 2017 and 2019, and if i could ask the clerk to show slide three. thanks. unfortunately, in 2020, morale at one of dhs's two success stories the u.s. citizenship, and immigration services fell off of the cliff, and cis fell from 90 subagencies to 339th out of 411 and the reason of the drop deserve a hearing of their own. and dhs have other success stories and most of the compo

read the moral budget. read the agenda. look at the facts that there are 66 million poor and the wealth white people in this nation who are being bamboozled, as well, who are being fooled by extremists, who are on the one hand saying we are for you, but they are really for the corporate elite. when is the last time the extremists who hijacked the republican raised living wages that would affect poor, with white people? when has the southern strategy that came out of 1968 and that crowd that brought us ronald reagan and others, when has that crowd ever lifted up poor, wealth people? they have not. that is not to say, cats do not have their favor, and we challenge them come -- democrats do not have their favor, and we challenge them, too. so, i brother, all my life, i have been trained, i am from eastern north carolina, come from a family of activism, i went to school and learned degrees, but i do not earn them to be above people. i earned those degrees to be a servant. i am a pastor who would love for you to come to church a

monday protests, a moral march to the capital drew thousands of people.t riley's in the south since the selma rally 1965. the moral monday movement spread to other states, you could see its influence among other places in the social justice protests that swept the country last year. this year though, the state that is currently trying to pass the nation's most restrictive voting law is texas. and as democratic texas state legislators continue to block the passage of that law by staying out of their home state. they've been remaining in d.c. to advocate for a national voting rights law, one of the most prominent faces leading the charge back home against the restrictive voting laws on texas has been better o'rourke, the former texas congressman and presidential candidate, who has become a full-time voting rights advocate, storming across the state of texas holding rallies and some things like 20 different cities, trying to build momentum from texas for a federal voting rights backstop. that will stop republicans from what they are doing in texas, and stop

a person asked about using moral values. well, we had a lot of moral people. david hawkins, sam brown, two of the moratorium co-chairs went to theological seminaries. marge spent a year in a convent with nuns. the moab had reverend dick fernandez, who is here. stewart meacham was a devout quaker. even dave tellinger studied at union though logical seminary. and the reverend coffin was the co-chair with corhetta scott king of the mobilization demonstration. the first mobilization was largely a project of a.j. musty who was a former protestant minister who called for a just and warless society. but if you ask anyone who went to either or both october 15 and november 15, they would just say about both of them, we were calling for an end to the war in vietnam, and ignored the differences. with one exception. the mostly men of the new moab were considerably older than the mostly men of the moratorium. the reason it was called the new moab in 1969 was to distinguish itself from the old moab of 1966 by becoming broader and less radical and a coalition of 60 or more o

wound by acting on your strongest moral convictions. and in that sense, rebellion and activism can be a way of healing conscience. both in a political sense but also in a psychological and theoretical sense. among the first people to recognize this was a psychiatrist named robert j. lyfton, who back in early seventies worked with a lot of anti vietnam veterans and participated in rap groups and ended up writing a book called home from the war. and one of the things he observed is that these anti-war veterans, although they had clearly suffered a deep sense of moral injury and even guilt, deep guilt about being made complicit in wrongdoing, that they were able to get beyond that in large part because of their political activism, to try to reconstitute a morally centered life. and so, george evans was one who did move in that direction but he did at first only a sense that he was acting by himself. he quit shaving and cutting his hair, taking care of his uniform and he started making these anti-war posters that he would put up on the bull

so i think it just is a moral question about whether or not you think that's a moral thing to do, handling people who are coming to your country for help putting them in prison. so, well, you know, what, let's call that moral question on this one job and i got to ask you, what is the moral thing to be doing in this abilities presentation for fighting? a lot of these facilities are actually being criticized for not having proper care, not having the proper people in charge. so what is the moral obligation that americans have right now to those coming into this country from the border without going through the process that others have? well, i think that this is also part of kind of what the conversation was under the previous administration. i mean, again, i don't know how i would blame biden for this. he's been in office for 6 months. this is a problem that has been going on for decades. but one of the criticisms of the charlotte administration was the handling of this at the interest of the kids in cages thing that we all, that we're all really disturbed by. i think the 1st thing you do i

suffers leadership morale.e suffers. can't stop by so we can start by stopping the negative stopping the negative comments about comments about isis in border patrol and [inaudible] about portable, about tpp, cbp and sandra, when etc, when they are just they are just trying trying to do the job to do their job and and follow the follow the law. when law. politicians when purposely degrade them and politicians purposely threatened to defund degrade them them, of course it's going and threatened to to negatively impact defund and, of course it will morale. we should negatively be supporting impact morale. dhs efforts to we should be follow the law supporting dhs by continuing efforts to the construction of the support the border wall, law, which was written into the law by which is continue the congress. but construction of the instead, this border wall which is administration is written into law by countering that congress. but law by instead this in executive ministration is countering order and the result that

he did not have the moral authority. it certainly was not any consideration, a percent of people justice for all people. -- a pursuit of justice for all people. he simply could not deliver. host: do you ever engage in what if lincoln had survived? guest: of course. were not supposed to, but we do. i'm probably a little bit different in terms of, historians believe that if lincoln had survived there would not have been the kind of tragedies and reconstruction that occurred. i beg to differ. i think lincoln was so tired that he might have been willing to compromise with the south in a way that may not have extended rights to african-americans that were extended because johnson was so incompetent and congress was able to have their way. i suspect that the 14th amendment would not have been ratified as early. i don't think the 15th amendment would have been ratified as early. i think lincoln would have tried to find a way to compromise with the south because he had already indicated before his assassination that there should

>> conscientious objectors usually are opposed to war morally. that's usually the case. >> in the case that you find something morally reprehensible as an officer, the also believe legal to prove the case, as a legal thing. the law is the law. the graduate jagged officer and present evidence this is an illegal order. and i can't obey it pretty jagged officer will look at it and either tell you to execute or you're going to the jail or the brig. our yes you are right that isn't on lawful order. yes. that is interesting. so macarthur got fired, came back home to the united states and went on tour around the united states giving speeches in uniform opposing the truman administration and opposing his side of the situation insisting this is the right or for world war iii. and of course congress held hearings and took testimony from numerous individuals perhaps the most famous came from none other than omar bradley. this is the wrong time for the wrong fight in the wrong place. there's a lot to be said for that. the justification was our primary missio

for economic reasons, but for moral reasons. are moral principles, ladies and gentlemen. the moral duty that we owe to our children and our children's children. that is the new conservatism. as of this moment in time, the republican party must file for divorce from big business. and never look back. [applause] it must cite irrevocable differences and walk away from the oligarchs, the multinational corporations, and all the other massive business conglomerates that have no loyalty to this country. it is time to file for divorce from those multibilliona ires lake bezos and zach burke and everybody else. we have a disloyal elite in this country. the wealthiest, most powerful people are trying to destroy this country. this has never happened before. say what you will about rockefeller, carnegie, the titans of years past -- guggenheim, at least they love this country. at least they cared about this heritage. i will ask you two questions. you love the united states of america. we love its history? do you love its heroes? you love the

less than a year after the first moral monday protest, a moral march to the north carolina state capitolople. that was the largest civil rights rally in the south since the selma march in 1965. the moral monday movement spread to other states. you can see its influence among other places in the social justice protests that swept the country last summer in the aftermath of the killing of george floyd. now, this year, though, the state that is currently trying to pass the nation's most restrictive voting law is texas. and as democratic texas state legislators continue to block the passage of that law by staying out of their home state, they have been remaining in d.c. to advocate for a national voting rights law. one of the most prominent voices leading the charge back home against the restrictive voting law in texas has been beto o'rourke, the former texas congressman and presidential candidate who has become a full-time voting rights advocate, barnstorming across the state of texas holding rallies in something like 20 different cities trying to build momentum from texas for a federal vot

oh, i can on my cell moral hazard. and that is that if you constantly bail out the worst factors in the economy, they will act with morality. and so the fact is they've got moral hazard on steroids. they're rewarding the worst factors who are doing things like info and stealing hundreds of $1000000000.00, some people and destroying their own country in a trees in the fact argue with me, go ahead. try. i don't think they can ride on police report on december 2020 a group of anti finishes. fill out a film crew access for 3 months. 3rd row like people organization. it's an idea that must be opposed to the game ground. they make their faces, but they can say what they believe and we believe in helping our community. we believe that fascism is one of the major threats to the united states as gotten driven. this is a chance to see who and teeth are really are in order for me. my 1st amendment right and say that my life matter. i have to be onto the teeth. that's all america . we can't trust the police, we can't trust the gov

>> beyond a moral standpoint with that be. [inaudible] >> what conscientious objectors usually are opposed to war morally. i think that is really usually the case. yes? >> in the case you found something morally -- as an officer also. [inaudible] what's the procedure you go through to prove the case,. >> does not expressly dictated as a legal thing. the law is the law. >> you have to demonstrate. you could go to a jack officer and present evidence that this is an illegal order. i cannot obey it. and the jack officer look at it neither tell you to do the order -- execute you're going the jail or the brig. or yes, you are right that is an unlawful order. yes? [inaudible] >> that is so interesting. so, macarthur got fired came back home to the united states and went on tour around the united states giving speeches in uniform opposing the truman administration in presenting his side of the situation. and insisting this was the right war for world war iii. and of course, congress then held hearings and took testimony from numerous

they discussed workforce morale, cyber threats and border security. from the house homeland security committee this is just over two and half hours. >> the committee on homeland security will come to order. the committee is meeting today to receive testimony on securing the homeland, reforming dhs to meet today's threats. without objection the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. today, the committee is meeting to discuss how the department of homeland security must refocus its mission to best respond to the most serious threats facing our nation. this conversation comes at a timely moment as we approach the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. dhs was established in 2003 t prevent and respond to terrorist attacks within the united states. since then, the range of threats the department must manage has expanded well beyond foreign terrorism. today, dhs is also tasked with confronting the threats posed by the coronavirus, cyberattacks, violent domestic extremists, and climate change. it is critical that the department a

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to our culture and it transformed the whole racial issue in america into something of a morality playe of guilt and against innocence and we are still in that. in that format, guilt is what america, specifically what white america is supposed to go for its past. he last 60 years, we have made innocence of racism we have to infuse it with actual racial involving the development of focus on political correctness and social mr. biden and the left is an expert in always race theory signal of innocence. we are so innocent of racism, we practice this form of political correctness critical race theory. this whole confusion of social reform and morality created the power that the left had so the left simply says to everybody, you are immoral, racist, racist, racist, you are a sexist, you are a sexist, sexist. you are evil, associated with america's evil past. we, on the other hand, are innocent. we want to redeem america, we want to put it back together again, supersede all of these things so we create a vocabulary of critical race theory, enter sexuality, diversity and so forth that stand fo

but our analysis shows morale is not a hopeless task but far from it.nk taylor between 2014 and 2017 immigration and customs enforcement at the us secret service between 2017 and 2019 if i can ask the court to show slide three. was citizenship and immigration services fell off a cliff they fell from 90th to 339-2411 the reasons for the drop deserve a hearing of their own dhs had other success stories and the components with their response to the covid-19 pandemic and protecting the 2020 election shows morality and improves because of a combination of good leadership and this committee's hearing on may 4th what the recommendation to be the first on they need to be prioritize. and it's important now to ensure the necessary funding. >> but the better coordination of policy and resources to establish with that law enforcement activities without micromanaging and dhs needs to integrate civil liberties and what they said about congressional oversight also needs to be focusing on terrorism and immigration enforcement with a never again attitude toward another

we do have a moral obligation. and since, from april this year, april 2021, the british government is taking a decision to allow any afghans who work directly for the british government or agencies to apply for asylum status in the u. k. from afghanistan. and there may be up to 3000 afghans who would qualify. so i think after a long debate and taking a while, they've come to the right decision. so i hope that anyone who's worked for the breach government and that's going to stand, who's on the threat and who wants to relocate to the u. k. will be able to do so. ours, who it's clear that any afghan who worked for either the u. s. or other coalition forces is currently under threat. they've been under threat for quite some time. but how much more dangerous is the situation for african women who worked with us forces and other coalition forces? so have, you might have been an and now last week i think one of our con enterprises, his name was by there. he was beheaded by the solomon. has the talent promised that they w

so i was like, i needed some moral support to do that myself and grill. oh, grilly. oh, i'm in like a mild, sort of like, i wouldn't say sure. i would say like, he's like a me a worm. if you never even one of those, it's not going to help you out much. you how do you because you were air for 600 or 6 minutes or 400 degrees. the old they really reminded me at the sea food, so it does have the 1st time i got that that people told me i would get. whereas most the other ones, it was more like a peanut giving you the full lifespan of the cicada than them to the toner. all goes to the full, mature adult. yeah, look at that beautiful morsel morsels. yeah. the marshal cycle. try one of the, it's very mild. it's just kind of like took a i did you, did you think it is the case i just wrote, why not? i was a good lie to me. i mean that's not very satisfying. cicadas or just so plentiful, and i know from past broods that a lot of them are going to get eaten and even if they don't, they're going to die really soon after that. and so the ethical concern is somewhat less about like

and so the fact is they've got moral hazard steroids. they're rewarding the worst factors who are doing things like info and stealing hundreds of $1000000000.00, some people, and destroying their own country in a trees in the fact argue with me, go ahead. try ah to don't to leave, you will move a toy, knew he would say it was she who it's ready to love me because she knew she will be starting at me that she wants to teach julia category, but she's actually she was doing the best for me was upset for me and lasted with metro. okay. yeah. so this is what i need from the new new new which is what is the new? yes, i do see executable football once it went up. when i got to pull it up, when that got moved up and i will just leave me hiring and file introducing and found to, to a family when a new mother is going through that process. yeah, there's certainly tremendous cause for great joy, but because it's an event that causes so many different changes. it's stressful at many levels. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of t

but it is also a moral and national security issue for america. it is a moral issue because the american handshake must matter. we must be a country that honors our promises if we are to be a beacon of hope and democracy for the world. it is a national security issue because america is strong and not just because we have aircraft carriers, and fighters, and bombers, but because we have friends. and allies. we do not go it alone. we face many threats, and we will continue to in the future. and we will need friends to help us face those threats. if we turn our back on the afghan who served with us in the last two decades, it is going to be awfully hard to find a future friends. mister speaker, this is our chance to do the right thing. so, i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting the allies act, and i yield back the balance of my time. >> gentleman yields, gentleman from new york reserves, gentleman from california's recognize. >> thank you, mister speaker. i allow police to yield three minutes from the gentleman from florida, a veteran of the a

it's a moral issue because the american handshake must matter. we must be a country had a honors our promise it is we are to be a beacon of hope and democracy for the world. it's a national security issue because america's strong not just because we have aircraft carriers and fighters and bombers, but because we have friends and allies. we don't go it alone. we face many threats and we will continue to in the future. and we will need friends to help us face those he threats. if we -- face those threats. if we turn our back on the afghans who served with us the last two decades, it will be hard to find future friends. mr. speaker, this is our chance to do the right thing. so i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting the allies act, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. mcclintock: i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from florida, a veteran of the afghanistan war, mr. walz. the speaker pro temp

it's a moral issue because the american handshake must matter. we must be a country had a honors our promise it is we are to be a beacon of hope and democracy for the world. it's a national security issue because america's strong not just because we have aircraft carriers and fighters and bombers, but because we have friends and allies. we don't go it alone. we face many threats and we will continue to in the future. and we will need friends to help us face those he threats. if we -- face those threats. if we turn our back on the afghans who served with us the last two decades, it will be hard to find future friends. mr. speaker, this is our chance to do the right thing. so i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting the allies act, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. mcclintock: i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from florida, a veteran of the afghanistan war, mr. walz. the speaker pro temp

he did not have the moral authority.rtainly was not any consideration, a percent of people justice for all people. -- a pursuit of justice for all people. he simply could not deliver. host: do you ever engage in what if lincoln had survived? guest: of course. were not supposed to, but we do. i'm probably a little bit different in terms of, historians believe that if lincoln had survived there would not have been the kind of tragedies and reconstruction that occurred. i beg to differ. i think lincoln was so tired that he might have been willing to compromise with the south in a way that may not have extended rights to african-americans that were extended because johnson was so incompetent and congress was able to have their way. i suspect that the 14th amendment would not have been ratified as early. i don't think the 15th amendment would have been ratified as early. i think lincoln would have tried to find a way to compromise with the south because he had already indicated before his assassination that there should be a

the 1st point is moral hazard. so there's a concept in economics called moral hazard, and that is that if you constantly bail out the worst factors in the economy, they will act with, with morality. and so the fact is they've got moral hazard on steroids. they're rewarding the worst factors who are doing things like intel and stealing hundreds of billions of dollars, some people, and just drawing their own country in a trees. and the fact i argue with me go ahead. try the 2nd thing about the 9394 bond crash was that hillary clinton wanted to do universal health care and wall street didn't like that. so alan greenspan very politically raise rates to crash, the bond market and bill clinton. so when he comes back to life some day, but that ever happens, he wants to come back as a bond market because that is the most power of anyone in the world. so as the political is ation of the fed and they would do it today, but whether the interest rates at 0 percent, they are beyond the political is ation window. they're out the

human comfort and moral wealths for more people.hodses and new things in development stage and create new opportunities, new jobs, moral wealth for all in the years to come. television, the wings of tomorrow. new types of houses, air-conditioning, streamline train and a number of things will be developed because of this nation's imperishable heritage of life and the pursuit of happiness, it is this that has given us all of the industrial progress that we have achieved in the past and certainty of progress in the future. a certainty a long as this great gift of liberty, individual liberty to grow better and better is valued and protected. you are descendants of pioneers but you are also pioneers, opportunities still rise from every smokestack, every test tube, every laboratory, every workshop in the land. you have come a long way from the blacksmith shop and hand labor that day but your journey forward has just started because this is america. where do we go from here? >> straight ahead and don't spare the losses. >> i wonder what ou

tammy, morally helped those who had been impacted by violence. this is the granddaughter needs grow up there, right. this is why could you just tell me what was going on? that 1st made you want to work in your community. paul, it is the issues that we experience from such a young age, living in poverty, injustice, experience and injustice. been exposed to such extreme violence. when i was 15, my next door neighbor, my childhood friend more than he was on, killed a month before his 18. i'm so yeah, that was definitely a catalyst for me to want to one understand how things i can even happen in 5 people to work with in my community to support people who are experiencing the things that know people should actually experience, especially children and their friends does, could you just explain to you a little bit about the services that you provide? the young people for fun is on a mission, so empower young people and communities to fight for justice and freedom. and we support young people who have experience violence to create change in the own lives