labour are weak on border protection. the australian people know it, and this leader of the labour party is weak on border protection. he confirmed that today by his response and his reaction to the repeal of the medevac bill. our government's policies were supporting people to require medical attention, and they were brought to australia. it was our government that got every single child -- that was done under my prime ministership. we ensured we did that. this labor party was the labor party that sent children to the island. how do i know that? i went there as a shadow immigration minister, and i sat with the mothers and children they sense there. i will not take pictures -- [crosstalking] -- outrageous treatment of women and children, and they did nothing. we got every single child. the labor party's record on this issue is beyond disgrace. if this leader of the labour party ever got the opportunity to be in charge of border protection, he would set a new low. >> right at the end of the parliamentary year was a surpris

labour are week on border protection. the australian people know it. he confirmed that today by his response and reaction to the repeal of the medevac ville. wasgovernment policy supporting people who required medical attention and they were brought to australia. it was our government that got every single child. that was done under my prime ministership. we delivered that. party was the labour party that sent children to manus island. how do i know that? i went there and i sat with the mothers and children that they sent to manus island. --ill not take lecture [inaudible] outrageous treatment of women and children. we gotd nothing while every child off manus island. party record on this issue is the obvious trait. the opportunity to be in charge of border protection, he would set a new low. theight at the end of parliamentary year there was a surprising announcement on policy and rearranging and restructuring the department within government compare. five department heads have gone. >> the member for greenway. >> i question is to the prime minister. c

border protection. contract now. >> protesters in front of the head quarters in san francisco demanding the company stop doing business with u.s. border protection. they say they're treating immigrants inhumanely. >> even though this is a sanctuary city you have agencies like customs and border protections and i.c.e. coming out tearing out human rights atrocities. >> they have contracts with the customs and border protection department through other companies it deals with. >>> a new scu campus could be coming to the bay area. they say campuses are overcrowded so they're considering building a new one. the new location could accommodate up to 8,000 more students. it would be the school's 24th cam wuss. locations being talked about would be in concord, chula vista, and palm desert being considered. >>> when the senate get the articles of impeachment, the reason nancy pelosi maintains leverage over republican counterparts. >>> he is not on the stage tonight but he's making sure his voice is heard. we sat

customs and border protection. next mr. alston gold assistant administrator for the requirements and capabilities analysis at the transportation security administration. next joseph r., the chief technology officer of the u.s. secret service and finally doctor charles romaine, the director of the laboratory at the commerce department's national institute of standards and technologies. i look forward to hearing from you all today. without objection the witnesses .-full-stop and will be inserted into the record in bible now ask each to summarize his or her statement for five minutes beginning with mr. wagner. >> chairman thompson, ranking member rogers, members of the committee thank you for the opportunity to testify on behalf of u.s. customs and border protection. i'd like to begin with a few excerpts from the 9/11 commission report. when people travel internationally they move through channels or portals and it may seem to acquire a passport and it may be to apply for a visa or exit controls at airports and seapor

customs and border protection. next we have pfister austin gold, assistant administrator for requirements and capabilities of analysis at the transportation security administration and next we have joseph r, chief technology officer of u.s. secret service but finally, we have doctor charles romain, director of the information technology laboratory at the commerce department of national institute of standards and technology. i look forward to hearing from you all today. without objection the witnesses for statement will be inserted into the record and an out ask each witness to summarize his a statement for five minutes beginning with mr. wagoner. >> chairman thompson, ranking member rogers, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today on behalf of the border protection but i like to begin with the 911 commission report were people when people travel internationally they move through channels or portals and may seek to acquire a passport and it may apply for a visa and stop the ticket counters, no one u

. >> tomorrow, the act of head of customs and border protection talks about immigration policy and border protection. live from the national press club at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. later in the day, we bring you president trump signing the national defense authorization act, which sets defense policy and programs for fiscal year 2020. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern, american history tv on c-span3 looks back at the second impeachment trial of bill clinton which took place over five weeks in january and of 1990 nine. >> we are here today because the president suffered a terrible lapse. not a breach of the public trust, not a crime against society, the two things hamilton talked about in federalist paper 65 -- i recommend it to you -- but it was a breach of his marriage vows. it was a breach of his family trust. it is a sex scandal. >> explore our nation's past. watch the clinton impeachment trial sunday night at 8:00 eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >> earlier today, the house improved implementation of the u.s.-mexico canada trade agreement as a replacement to nafta. , debate

. >> acting customs and border protection commissioner mark morgan now on law-enforcement efforts at the southern border. from the national press club this is about one hour. >> good afternoon. thank you all for being here to today's newsmaker interview. today our guest? morgan who is the acting commissioner of customs and border protection. it is one of the dhs agencies and it is the largest law-enforcement agency in the country and brings in the second-highest amount of revenue of any law enforcement agency and i'd venture to say probably more popular than the one that brings in the most which is the irs but -- [laughter] thank you for being here. >> of course. >> the acting commissioners had a long and established career in law enforcement, including -- while he was named to his present post in june of this year and prior to taking the job of actingg commissioner he has been chief of border patrol and has been the special agent in charge of the fbi in el paso so plenty of border experience. he has had a number of roles in law enforcement and in intelligence and counterterrorism, vi

the acting customs and border protection commissioner mark morgan discusses his agents efforts at the southern border and talked about funding or a border wall, implementing new technologies and efforts to prevent human trafficking. of or discuss the holding children and families in detention facilities at the order. jessica: thank you for coming. i want to let everyone know that commissioner morgan will be in the hot seat for a while with mike russians but if you have questions that you would like to have asked, please fill out the index cards that we are providing. i'm going to go for maybe half an hour or 35 minutes and we will take some questions from the audience. jump think i'm going to right in with the topic i think everyone wants to know about the most -- can you give us an update on what is happening at the southwest border? >> sure, when we talk about the border we have to put it into two pockets. one is the crisis regarding immigration and the other is the massive security crisis. -- the drive or focus in the last year plus has been the migration flow from the northern tri

jessica: customs and border protection officers, especially border patrol, have in recent times been subject to a lot of disparagement, been vilified, been accused of abusing authority. what do you say to those who have said that officers routinely are overzellous, that -- routinely are overzealous, that their mission is inherently inhumane? mark: i say it is a lie. people who say that have not been down to the border or have actually seen border patrol agents and officers do their jobs. i have. let me give you a couple of facts. not hyperbole and not a motion although i do get emotional about this because i know they are lying about the men and women. 4,900 rescues last year. 4,900 rescues. jessica: that's huge. mark: not apprehended, but rescues. they saw somebody in need. they didn't stop to say wait a minute, are you trying to enter this country illegally. they didn't ask -- what is your nationality? they saw a human being in need and they immediately went into action with respect to their training and what's in their d.n.a. to help and protect people and they risked their own li

customs and border protect law enforcement officers are the first -- protection law enforcement fers -- officers are the first line of defense against drugs and contraband from entering our country. i walked the border with my brothers and sisters of the thin blue line and i've seen what c.b.p. is up against. i can tell you firsthand that our cartel adversaries are ruthless and steadfast in their determination to exploit our laws and poison our communities. transnational drug traffickers operate like a business, always looking to capitalize on products high in demand and high with profit margin. today their focus is fentanyl. a drug 100 times more powerful than morphine. just two milligrams is enough to be lethal. fentanyl and its analogues are being produced mostly in china, but also increasingly in mexico. elicit opioids enter the united states through the mail, concealed within vehicles or cargo, coming through the ports of entry, and in backpacks of cartel drug runners. initially chinese drug traffickers were so confident that fentanyl would not be interdicted they sent stacks of

national cable satellite corp. 2019] >> coming up today, mark morgan, acting head of customs and border protection will talk about immigration policy and border operations. that is lit from the national press club at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. later, we will bring you president trump signing the national defense authorization act which sets defense policy and programs for fiscal year 2020. that is live starting at 7:20 p.m. eastern. you can watch online at c-span.org, and listen with the free c-span radio app. q&a, wallnight on street trader turned photojournalist chris arnoty on his book "giddy -- dignity." it was a saturday. it was empty. all the semi's were gone. it's an industrial part of hunts point. immediately intelligence came right through. we spoke for about an hour, half an hour or so. she told me her life.

, customs border protection and commissioner mark morgan has been aggressive moving this forward alonge corps of engineers. that is going to continue. we'll be close at the end of this year. our real goal at the end of 2020, to be well past the 400 on our way to 500. have more than 500 under contract and construction. liz: we're here in new york. we've been reporting on ms-13 gang violence, machete attacks. the president had angel families in his, at his state of the union. those stories we are seeing still problems with gang attacks. >> yes. >> criminal illegal crime. but it seems like it is somewhat abating. the numbers are still staggering. but "the wall street journal" is reporting that i.c.e., work place immigration inquiries quadrupled under this administration as opposed to the obama administration. can you explain that story quickly to the viewer? >> you have seen various forms of enforcement go up under president trump. and it shouldn't be any surprise. if i could comment on your ms-13 piece. a few years back i was virginia's attorney general and i would say then and today the

customs and border protection agency. organizers say salesforce has several contracts with the agency and those contracts allow the government to commit human rights abuses including the separation of families. similar demands have been made for google and amazon to stop spying products to immigration officials. happened in the this is because of voting on a short-term rental bad tonight, meeting comes after vote early this week on the city council attended tuesday's meeting. last month, the past the that band short-term airbnb type rental. the cornet spices a third and expected to extend that law today. the proposal came after five people died in the hallowed at airbnb rental in orinda. >>> infused with thc triggering a national crisis. even more forms of marijuana may come with serious health risks >>> a hero today. how she helps her loved ones get to safety after a fire started in her grandmother's home. you know when you go to ross for a few gifts and realize... oh yeah! you should've gotten a cart? that's yes for les

this is when immigrants present themselves to customs and border protection and make an asulim claim,hey are sent back to mexico and in this case ciudad juarez as they wait for their asylum claim. and what they're given in that moment before they are sent back is something called a notice to appear, what they call an nta. and that is for give them all of the information about where they need to be at what date so that they can begin the process of claiming asylum. now, on these forms though what lawyers have found through hundreds of people that they have interviewed is that rather than having an address of a u.s. family member or somewhere where they could be contacted in mexico about their case, instead they are seeing the same address of a migrant shelter that none of these immigrants have ever heard of. it's somewhere in ciudad juarez. they haven't been there. it may have been a place where immigrants went this summer when the policy first started. and for some reason the border agents just got used to writing down that address. but in case after case, and i interviewed a woman wh

custom and border protection agency. sales force has the contracts with the agencies, and those contracts allow the government to commit human rights abuses. similar demands are made for google and amazon to stop supplying them. >>> time is 4:05. prosecutors expecting to tell the judge in the byot homicide case if they want to go ahead in the retrial. he is accused of the killing of green. the girlfriend's two daughters. tiffany lee was acquitted on first degree murder and conspiracy charges in the death of green. the jury was not able to reach that decision on the same charges against byott. this case made national headlines when tiffany lee posted $35 million for her bail. that was a record for the county. >>> a registered sex offender is in the jail this morning. administrators found 39 eared old willy jones wondering the grounds yesterday morning. now, school classrooms were locked as a precaution, and jones his escorted off campus. police sa that it was only after he left and officers arrived that they learned about

. >> reporter: filmmaker eva lewiu says u.soms and border protection did not respond to her request for an interview for the documentary. pbs newshour weekend also reached out to c.b.pan interview, or written statement, for this report, but the agency did not respond. the documentary highlights local activism through the volunteer group "people helping people in the border zone", or "p.h.p.," which formed in 2012.he >> we are to deliver this petition. >> reporter: residents are shown petitioning for the removal ofec the kpoint on arivaca road. >> this checkpoint must go. s >> reportece 2014, p.h.p. volunteers have monitored from a distance how agents conduct stops. that year, the group says it submitted information related to more than 2,300 vehicle stops ta a cientist at the university of arizona for analysis. >> latinos we 26 times more like to show identification at the checkpoint than non-latinos. and they were 20 times, 20 times, not0%, 20 times more likely to be pulled into secondary inspection. >>hen i go with my sister my brother-in-law, even my own kids or grandkids, because of

kind of thing also jumping in head fast to the whirlpool of christmas for parts us customs and border protection they congratulated santa for not scaling and he was sorry chimney. this year and applying for his visa on time like you'd expect it went down like a sack of presents hundreds of kids in texas are spending christmas eve taking care of each other freezing cold insufficient food water medical attention hygiene it resources no contact with their parents many as young as one hope he brought gifts for these kids. he missed the stop so instead of the usual merry christmas one and all they got this and may at times this year have felt. that small steps can make a world of difference. a very legal way of defining being on the brink of a constitutional crisis that fingers crossed hoping your son didn't spend night sweating away with a convicted sex offender and then the icing sugar on top of the your blog the un decided to pick the day christ was born to talk about how motherhood is a real chore which will apparently leave you poor bond employed and most likely gender discriminated against i wo

kind of thing also jumping in head fast to the whirlpool of christmas for parts us customs and border protection they congratulated santa for not scaling any walls sorry chimneys this year. and applying for his visa on time like you'd expect it went down like a sack of presents hundreds of kids in texas are spending christmas eve taking care of each other freezing cold insufficient food water medical attention hygiene resources no contact with their parents many as young as one who brought gifts for these kids. he missed the stop and across the pond things want much better queen elizabeth the 2nd film test 67th christmas speech you think after all these years she'd have it down pat but it's been a tough year for poor queenie what with prince andrew clearly not being a natural in t.v. interviews perry marrying an american divorcee said divorcée crying on t.v. about being bullied by the very people who pay the heating bill at buckingham palace harry saying that he and william are fighting harry being a climate activists while jetting around a private jets her story not my weekly therapy session so

[applause] the 2020 ndaa protects the legal tools we need to defend america's borders, it protects childcarevate housing for military families and ends the so-called widow's tax, which blocked benefits for the families of fallen heroes. that is gone. [applause] it was very important. that was very important to us, widow's taxes. god. after years of unrealized promises by other politicians, i honor my commitment today as i signed paid parental leave for the federal civilian workforce. [applause] that is into law. so thank you very much, i would say that is a very big thing. paid parental leave, another thing they have been trying to get for many years. as we head into christmas, i'm proud to report we are giving every soldier, sailor, air man, coast guardsmen and marine a well-earned payraise. in january, each of you will see the largest increase that you have had in such a long time. in fact, it goes back so far that a lot of people don't even know what that date is. i can just tell you, it is a lot of money. i say it again, if you would like not to take it, you would like to make a donation

. >> we are here to protect our borders. protecto give themselves up. >> it's all happening pretty fast. i guess it's what you are used to. >> lara? >> so watch this show. get fox nation because of this show. i'm not good at promotion. it's not my thing. steve: have people watch. pete: promotion with the code celebrate between now and christmas you get 35% off. talk about, you know, sit down with the family and watch this special. look how beautifully it was shot. >> those guys are the best. katie: thank you so much for your work. steve: merry christmas. >> thank you. katie: jillian? jillian: let's begin with this boeing star liner rocket taking off on first flight to the international space station. carrying christmas presents for the iss crew and dock this weekend. last major test before running crude missions in 2020. but, that doesn't mean today's launch was unmanned. boeing tweeting out this picture of a snoopy doll inside of the capsule. the flying aces joining rose the dummy here named after world war ii icon rosy the riveter

next, acting customs and border protection commissioner mark morgan discusses law-enforcement efforts of at the southern border at an event hosted at the center for immigration studies. acting commissioner morgan also addressed criticism for his agency including the holding of children and families and detention facilities at the border. jessica: good afternoon, thank you all for being here for today's newsmaker interview. today our guest is mark morgan, acting commissioner of customs and border protection, one of the d.h.s. agencies. it's the largest law enforcement agency in the country and brings in the second highest amount of revenue of any agency, probably

and protect american lives. we would close the bordernd protect the social services for those poor in america. in our own country. in my district the wait for social services has expanded considerably because they are being overrun by people who came to the country illegally. if they care about the americans waiting in line or americans addicted to opiates coming across our southern border or people getting killed by members of ms-13 pouring across the southern border. those are the ones we are fighting for. >> it doesn't seem that hard. they make it sound as if somehow you are being racist tore anti-immigrants if you say hey, we ought to have some borders. we ought to be vigilant about making sure we are bringing people here who can contribute to the overall economic welfare of the united states of america. somehow that's wrong? >> that's their response to everything. they can't pitch an argument so they start calling people names. any conservative principle, you want to protect the southern border, you are a racist. you want to fight i