mobile video app and ahead of the meeting hakeem jeffries and homeland committee ranking member bennie thompson held a news conference with other democratic lawmakers to express their opposition to the proceedings. this is just over half hour. we will the referral has come to the homeland security committee, which will be the first ever impeachment consideration by a committee other than the judiciary committee. more importantly, if tomorrow goes according to the republican leadership's plan it won't even get to the judiciary committee. so this is, at best, a shamthe d talked about the constitutional standard for impeachment. they said the proposed hearing didn't meet those standards, and so democrats are real concern that this is just one of those efforts to confuse the public that something is going wrong at the department of homeland security. our secretary worked at the direction of the president. his policies are his policies and he carries them out. this notion that in carrying out the directions of your boss somehow is in impeaching all offense, is wrong. we have released a report addres

meeting house democratic leader hakeem jeffries and homeland security committee ranking member bennie thompson held a news conference with other democraticmato expree proceedings. this is just over half an hour. >> good afternoon. we are here today to talk about the impeachment that is about to occur tomorrow with secretary mayorkas at the department ofecr committee as democrats on the committee we feel clearly that it's not in the best interests of this government to have this impeachment, that it's the deal put together to satisfy some of the most extreme elements in the republican party. if you remember margaret taylor greene offered this impeachment resolution to the house, and it was withdrawn with the notion that we will bring it up at a later date. well, the referral has come to the homelandra security committ, which will be the first ever impeachment consideration by a committee other than the judiciary committee. and more importantly, if tomorrow goes accordingac to republican leadership's plan, it won't even get to the judiciary committee. so this is at bestis a sham. the fact witnes

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you're listening to ranking member bennie thompson with the response to the republicans. >> -- indeedno official in american history has ever been convicted an impeachment for refusal to follow the law. these disputes are settled in the court system, not through impeachment. apparently, the republicans are upset, they lost in court. and are trying to relitigate their cases through impeachment. the constitution does not allow that. breach of public trust requires conduct intended to serve an official's own benefit or the benefit of a foreign power. no serious person can allege as secretary mayorkas' action meet the standard for breach of public trust under the constitution. nevertheless, throughout this truncated impeachment process, republicans have ignored the facts and misrepresented the law to justify their scheme. but the law is clear, and so is secretary's record. he's leveraged the full range of authorities at his disposal, while stretching the resources provided by congress to secure the border. he has removed record levels of migrants detained by more people than congress has

to all the members of congress, including representative bennie thompson and senator tammy duckworth, representative danny davis, the senator -- durbin, who is a wish, a speedy recovery from covid. he's just recovered recovery right now and who have long fought to honor the hill family. it's not new to any of them, to the joe family tonight and be with you again. you know, when i was preparing his remarks, i, i quite frankly and my colleagues understand this. i found myself trying to temper my anger as i was ready. i'm not joking. i can't fathom i can't fathom what it must have been like. it's hard to believe i was 12 years old at. and i just, you know, i know no matter how much time has how many birthdays how many events, how many anniversaries. it's hard to relive. this brings it all back. we're talking about as if it happened yesterday. the images, your head, things you remember. but it's inspiring to see how many of your family have continued as mothers. courage to find faith in pain. purpose in pain. that's that's remarkable. so it seems to me insisting on an open casket casket f

but having policy disagreements is not grounds for impeachment, and that is how bennie thompson, thet, in the committee hearing, opened, by saying you have not got into high crimes and misdemeanors, and bennie thompson's view of this was confirmed by our very own jonathan turley, who was on saying i don't think they have established any of those theses for impeachment. then he her former g.o.p. dhs secretary michael chertoff writing in "the wall street journal," again saying you are just as -- republicans are trying to get around doing the hard work, drop this impeachment, former g.o.p. chair congresswoman barbara comstock, same thing, this is going to shrink the majority which is already razor-thin, certainly down to george santos, you have the opportunity to do a deal and newt gingrich was on air last night apoplectic about this, that there is an opportunity to actually get something done and republicans now are kowtowing to donald trump, if you watch mike johnson, speaker of the house, from earlier today, he is being so evasive, a reporter asked him, did donald trump ask you to do

the top democrat on the homeland security committee, congressman bennie thompson says that what is glaringly missing is any real charge or even a shred of evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors. a bipartisan deal is now finalized but not yet released. the bill would give president biden the authority to shut down the border if it's overwhelmed. president biden says if given that authority he would use it as soon as the bill was signed into law. but even if the bill is passed, the senate speaker, or excuse me, passes in the senate, speak m er jspeaker johnson says it may dead in the house. >>> a sentencing hearing is scheduled for today for a man who leaked donald trump's tax records. prosecutors are recommending five years in prison. l rick scott says he was one of the victims and plans to read an impact statement at today's hearing. >>> republican candidate nikki haley has announced that her house in south carolina was the target of a swatting incident around a month ago. while she was not home at the time her elderly parents were present. when armed police responded to the property. here'

with congressman bennie thompson she led the blockbuster congressional investigation into trump's plot against the country, showing us all who did it and how. as a conservative, as a republican one dynamic that i think makes it particularly valuable for people like me, democrats and liberals at least, to hear from her, to know what she knows, is that her life experience is so different and her colleagues are so different, her milieu is so different, her sight lines are different than mine. and i guess maybe from yours. she doesn't hear from liberal constituents cheering her on for taking on the would-be dictator in washington. she hears from her congressional constituents in wyoming, which gave the single largest margin of victory to donald trump of any state in the country in 2020. i mean, even as a lot of the country is repeatedly struck by the insanity of what's been happening in republican politics, where she lives and among the people she serves and who elected her, it's all believed and earnestly so. and seeing that helps us understand how dangerous it is, makes it more explicabl

jeffries: what bennie thompson has indicate, that is a extreme cost because that would have been takingimpeachment without any committee hearing, any witnesses, any analysis, any testimony. and that was even a bridge too far for this extreme group of people. aty just referred to the homeland security committee. but again as many of my colleagues indicated, impeachment has a high constitution bar. and the housecans have come nowhere close■r■b■ to. [indiscernible question] mr. thompson: i'll let the lawyers handle it. ♪ 3] >> i'll take the first question. if you could prove that■ç secretary mayorkas was knowingly, will fully and intentionally fentanyl into this country, violating the laws in order to alloweoto stream over the southern border of whatever this motion of willful kneeing legitimate they have come up.@q even though there hasn't been determined as a high crime and misdemeanor. you come to the congress asking for more resources to stop the 500,000 american-made guns from going from the united states over the southern border into the drug cartels hands so they can control human t

i say it because the committee's own chairman bennie thompson said this. there are some questions of whether we have the authority to compel testimony from republican colleagues. he knew you didn't have that authority, and yet you still tried to assert it. what is the distinction? hunter biden has no claim to is -- insufficiency service of process. he stood on a lot of the senate the same day he was supposed to be here in asserted publicly i'm supposed to be somewhere else, i'm supposed to be giving a deposition, i will do it. i won't do it. secondly, hunter biden's claimed no privilege against testifying before this committee or the judiciary committee pursuant to the subpoena, except for the privilege that he has claimed throughout his life, that is the l.a. times set about hunter biden, biden is still on the nepotism gravy train. at the daily mail reported, hundred mitzie got $50,000 per month because of his family name. and it goes on and on. again, the los angeles times described hunter biden as a child of privilege. that is the only privilege hunter

the top democrat on the homeland security security, congressman bennie thompson, says what is glaringly missing is any real charge of even a shred of evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors. a bipartisan deal in the senate that mayorkas helped negotiate is now finalized, but not yet released. the bill would give president biden the authority to shut down the border if it is overwhelmed. president biden says it has given that authority, he would use it as soon as the bill was signed into law. but even if the bill passes the senate, house speaker mike johnson has warned that it may be dead on arrival in the house. frances? >> brie jackson for us, thank you. >>> republican presidential hopeful nikki haley has revealed that her house in south carolina was the target of a swatting incident around a month ago. while haley was not at home at the time, her elderly parents were present, when armed police responded to a prank call about an emergency at the property. >> the last thing you want is to see multiple law enforcement officials with guns drawn, pointing at my parents, and thinking that s

bennie thompson told me one day that the best disinfectant is truth. so we need more people to do speaking truth to power. and like i said, that's why, you know, one of the reasons i hope my book is that a lot of people, me about the congresspeople and, politicians or mayors who repeat these lies. you know, if they read my book, great. but the book isn't for them. the book is for the american people. and open some eyes and inspire to continue to speaking truth to power. speaking the book, there's some talk in terms of the structure it seemed to be part catharsis. there was a definite mental health track to this piece, part democracy primer, part history primer. was that intentional? so i'm this big hodgepodge of all that stuff that you just named. yes. it was intentional especially the mental health aspect of it. you know, you show me somebody who says they got it together all the time, then i'll show you the biggest liar, the face of this earth, because we all struggling with something. we all are. but i wanted people know where i got this forceful pr

and i wantan green, ranking member bennie thompson for leading the bipartisan companion in the house. i also thank house oversight ranking member jamie raskin for their work addressing this important u.s. secret service work force issue, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. raskin: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself as much time as i may consume. and i rise to support s.3427, overtime pay for protective services act. the legislation would see to it that secret service agents who work overtime get paid for the time they've worked. the bill authorizes an extension of the secret services current pay cap level of level 2 of the executive schedule through 2028 so that agents are permitted to receive compensation for the hours that they indeed work overtime. without this legislation, the pay of secret service agents would be capped at gs-15 level. the campaign years place great strain on secret service personnel according to the most rece data available, nearly 1,600 agents worked so many

and let's get the response quickly before we start taking your calls, congressman benny if thompson is democrat on the homeland security panel, and he calledel the impeachment a political stunt. >> this is a terrible day for the committee. the united states constitution and our great country. republican memberstt of congress sworn to support and defend the constitution are rejecting the framer s' clear intent and other two centuries of precedent in favor ofen a sham impeachment. republicans have failed to make a constitutionally-viable case to impeach secretary alejandro mayorkas, a dedicated public servant. the sham impeachment of secretary mayorkas is. a baseles political stunt by extreme maga reflynns -- republicans, chairman green, representative margaret taylor greene and others have pushed for and even fund raised batesed on this preplanned -- based on this preplannedded, predetermined scapegoating of the secretary. in the process of thousanding cans of spa if -- throwing cans of spaghetti at the wall, republicans have cooked up vague, unprecedented grounds to impeach secretary m

. >> narrator: bennie thompson-- a longtime democratic congressman-- chaired the committee. >> benniepi congressman, a black man who grew up during the civil rights era in mississippi, during the last vestiges of jim crow... >> ♪ glory, glory hallelujah ♪ >>..and saw how hard-fought the franchise to vote was for so many black americans. >> narrator: in january 6th, thompson saw parallels. >> one of the symbols of southern resistance to voting rights and equal oppounity was the confederate battle flag. (crowd clamoring) and to see that flag being waved by many of the protestors brought back those memories. >> when he saw rioters storm the capitol, carrying the confederate battle flag, essentially trying to take away the votes of the american people... >> (crowd chanting): fight for trump! >> ...that i know affected him profoundly. and certainly was a driving factor in the way that he led the select committee. >> narrator: thompson's committee had gathered a trove of information. the challenge: what do with it. >> the one thing that we knew was the information that we have is compelling

. >> well, then, then unclear, as long asy you didn't make bennie thompson -- >> i would never say thatdividual sitting in this committee. but i but i was very disapph your accusations but i would use thesema individuals as pawns. >> mr. chairman, your disappointment is fine, but one of the tenants of who we are as a democracy is that i have an opinion, and you have an opinion. opinion. and let's respect that. and so as long as you understand that we don't have to, we can disagree on the words. i i was just trying to get clarification about that. and since you say you were not talking about me■ specifically, then i'm fine. i yield back. >> gentleman yields. theee committee stands adjourned [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the house homeland security coittee meets today to consider to make impeachment charges against dhs secretary mayorkas. republicans are accusing him of refusing to uold the law and breaching theub his handling of immigration. the committee is expected to vote on whether to send the impeachment ar

. >> lastly, sandra, the ranking member of this committee benny thompson says he does not believe mayorkas should be impeached. >> we think it's unfortunate that the people there have had to be part of what we don't think is the solution to the department of homeland security. secretary mayorkas has been a good secretary, he's come before us voluntarily in the past. >> but republicans here in the hallways all day have been telling me they believe they are indeed going to move forward with impeachment and the next step you ask me would be a mark-up of the committee, which would draw up the articles of impeachment. unclear when that may happen in the coming weeks or months. sandra. >> sandra: griff, thank you. john. >> john: sandra, bring in florida democratic congressman jared moskowitz wh mayorkas and overall border policy in a second, congressman, but first of all, everybody knows that your 23rd congressional district includes parkland, florida, and the situation there very similar to what we saw in uvalde, a shooter went in, the police officer stayed outside while the shooting commenced.

you know, bennie thompson just loves to talk maga, maga, maga.his is a policy disagreement. it's not. i mean, it's a violation of the laws passed by congress. essentially a violation of his oath to the constitution. >> he said i will defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies sworn and domestic. constitution is very clear ons who duties are what. and he basically is subverted those and so we're going to hold him accountable. >> truly unbelievable what is happening in our country right now. >> it is. >> lawrence: thank you so much for joining the program. >> thanks, lawrence. >> lawrence: you are right about that. >> lawrence: we will finish up our chicago coverage here all morning. and then we will head over to denver, after that we will be in boston, over to you, carley. >> carley: lawrence, thank you so much. we have your news by the numbers right now. the first is $1. that's how much eligible am casts can buy a house for in newark, new jersey, first ever housing lottery. dozens of people prequalified for the program last

believe, that without the work that the january 6th committee date under the leadership of chairman bennie thompsony we see donald trump and as i was facing right now, would not be happening. >> symone, you are exactly right. thank you for having me here today. i'm happy to thread that needle, and the introduction use it of all the evidence and testimony of the january 6th committee put other for the american people. we now see the fruits of. the problem is, the risk of our democracy falling did not end on january 6th. and that's because donald trump it is still perpetuating this decline. he's still going about all of this. him and his allies. so that report you just mentioned talks about how the allies that donald trump head in congress think jim jordan, his right-hand man, the guy he called a few times that day, we still don't know what they talked about, by the way, because jim jordan defied a subpoena from the january 6th select committee. but him, speaker maga mike johnson, as we like to call him, who led the legal effort to keep trump from getting out, from -- trying to keep him in office. >>

the department of homeland security, in addition to democrats on the hill lik bennie thompson who ishe rankembe of the homeland securi cmittee calling this out to be asham i want to read partf their statement saying, quote,hi markup is more of the same political games from house homeland security republicans. they don't want to fix the problem, they want to campaign on it. that's very similar rhetoric we're hearing not only from democrats, but by other republicans namely in the senate painting their counterparts, their other republican colleagues on the border negotiations. they're saying their negativity towards it, pulling apart what's in the deal before they even read it is reminiscent of republicans who are just trying to have this as a political issue and a campaign issue. certainly all these things not happening in a vacuum. they are happening together. it will be interesting to see if and when the senate processes this bill, what happens in the house as they're pursuing impeachment against the guy who is in the room negotiating it. >> julie tsirkin, jake sherman, guad venegas,

enter into the record a letter to this committee dated january 11th, 2021, authored and signed by bennie thompsonto the administrator of transportation security administration encouraging tsa administrator to disrupt the travel of americans not under investigation nor accused of an crime. >> without objection, so ordered. any other uc requests? hearing none, and there being question now occurs on agreeing to the amendment and the nature of the substitute to h rez 863. all in favor say aye. all opposed to say no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it and e-- >> mr. chair, may i ask for a recorded vote. >> a recorded vote is requested. the clerk will call the [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] >> is there anyone else in t t vote recorded? hearing none, how am i recorded? >> you're not recorded. >> the chair votes aye. >> chairman green votes aye. >> would you report the tally? >> on that vote, mr. chairman, it was 18 ayes, and 15 nos. >> the ayes have it and the amendment and the nature of the substitute is agreed to. question now occurs on recording the resolution

. >> c concerts -- congresessman, bennie t thompson, t thank you much. we will bebe rightht back. reall. we will be right back. >>> in our pop culture lead, gypsy rose blanchard, the woman who plotted to have her boyfriend kill her abusive mother is speaking out after serving 8 1/2 years in prison. you might be familiar with her stories, the stories of her mother forcing her daughter to fake serious illnesses for most of her life were depicted over the years in various documentaries and tv series including 2017's "mommy dead and dearest" on our sister channel h brnhbo and "the act" on haulu. she spoke on a new docu series where she describes her time in prison as first time she tasted freedom. >> reporter: gypsy rose blanchard smiling and free, released on parole after serving 8 1/2 years of a 10-year prison sentence. blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016 after she and then-boyfriend hatched a plan to kill her mother, deedee. he admitted to stabbing her to death. he is serving a life sentence without parole. >> reporter: do you feel that the time you served was

bennie thompson, the top democrat calling it, a quote terrible day for the committee, the constitution's a political charade months in the making if successful in the house would be only the second impeachment of a u.s. cabinet secretary the first and also the first in 150 years and the sham maze all the more clear by the republican speaker who suggested if the senate reaches a bipartisan solution on board a security it wouldn't have a chance in the house. we are back with michael and with basil. michael, you and i were on set this weekend when these articles were filed and you were very clear, there is no basis here for an impeachment. this is pure politics through and through. >> this makes a show trial look like an embarrassment. the poor approach to all of this, the fact it is so heavily partisan and political to the point that redundancy is not even a relief here. it's just bad all around. if they can go back and say look what we've done. the fact of the matter is if republicans really wanted to do something like this, then you wouldn't have the speaker in terms of getting the pol

donald trump came in and sued bennie thompson saying as a former president, i have the right to assert executive privilege and prevent those records from being turned over to the house select committee. that was litigated. he lost there. it was litigated at the d.c. sur kit. they said we will apply every test possible, i mean the test that they need to apply, he loses under every test. the supreme court did not take that case. think said under every test he loses, we're not taking it. and that very night, the night that they issued their ruling, the documents started flowing to the house select committee. so i think if there's a thorough ruling, and the supreme court feels comfortable with it, i don't think they particular want to rule on this case. it's also highly possible they will. there's a not insignificant chance. tim, i want to turn to news out of the fulton county election case. you have trump's former white house chief of staff asking a federal appeals court to consider his request to move his case to federal court. again. he's asking the same court that rejected his request

security secretary mayorkas, i want to show viewers a little bit of that hearing starting with bennie thompson> any impeachment would do nothing to prevent families from suffering similar tragedies, if only it were that simple. these problems are not new, they require serious policymaking, not any impeachment vote. it will do nothing but undermine our constitutional system. if my republican colleagues were serious about addressing these issues, they would be working on legislation, collaborating with our city counterparts and the white house -- our senate counterparts at the white house. congress has a pending request president biden to find additional border patrol agent, additional law enforcement personnel, and increase fennel -- fentanyl detection technology . congress has refused to consider this request. instead of considering solutions to these problems, my colleagues on the other site of the aisle are chasing an illegitimate impeachment and using tragedy to score political points. this entire process has been conducted in bad faith with a predetermined outcome. >> i have to address the

. >> including the ranking number, bennie thompson. he is debating two impeachment articles against secretary mayorkas accusing him of a refusal to comply with the law. and a breach of the public trust. the washington post is reporting that in a six page letter sent today to the committee chair, secretary mayorkas detailed his lengthy career and pushed back on the gop's accusations that he has avoided their oversight requests.secretary mayorkas wrote, "we have provided congress hours of testimony and thousands of documents and hundreds of briefings and much more information that demonstrates quite clearly how we are enforcing the law. he continued writing, "i assure you that the false accusations do not rattle or divert me from the law enforcement and broader public service to which i remain devoted." >>> good afternoon. the committee will come to order. i have right now in the queue mr. carrere and mr. carter. mr. carter, you are up for three minutes. >> it was said earlier by one of my colleagues in the republican party that you are

even the chairman of this committee would agree to as benny thompson agreed to on the j6 committee issuancef subpoenas to members of congress. no he does not assert that kind of privilege he asserts only the privilege that he does not need to come and testify before the nine states congress he was issued him subpoena his attorneys acknowledge the subpoena and he personally has acknowledge the subpoena for the simple reason that he is a biden. so where are we? merrick garland has authorized pursuing republicans for contempt of congress. he must also authorize prosecution of hunter biden. failure to do so on the part of the attorney general will show his contempt for congress as well. but it will show even greater attempt -- met contempt for the american people who know it notrecognize the weaponization e federal government and the two-tiered system promulgated by democrats. mr. chairman, to mr. thompson former german thompsons questioning of his own authority to actually issue subpoenas to members of congress, chairman jordan requested legal analysis and authorities. but chairman thompson ne