stay with us. >>> former homeland security secretaries jeh johnson and michael chertoff.ke being able to have you both here because you both dealt with a very hard problem set. so, a lot of people have opinions but you actually know what it's like to be in the job. let me give you a really hard one, which is what to do about the southern border. in the last year, 2.5 million migrants, roughly, have been encountered. that's a record high. the governor of texas is boasting he sent more than 13,000 immigrants to new york, to chicago, to washington and now to philadelphia, where bus loads arrived this week. secretary chertoff, these migrants have legal status because they're going through asylum. are the asylum laws too generous in this country?

secretary chertoff? >> well, it would be a very sad day in search of what is, again, a political stunt. threatening to impeach secretary mayorkas, congress didn't do the things, for example, secretary johnson just suggested. maybe adjust the standard with respect to asylum, create more resources available to adju adjudicate and work out additional things to undermine the cartels and smugglers. it would be basically putting form over substance to go through a big performance on impeachment that's never going anywhere rather than actually working with the administration to solve the problem. >> and secretary johnson, i imagine you agree? >> margaret, what people need to know, and michael and i know this, the secretary of homeland security is focused on border security, maritime security, aviation security, cyber security, the coast guard, the secret service and a host of other things. we can't have a secretary who's distracted by a stunt in congress in an attempt at impeachment. >> all right. thanks very m

. >>> plus, former homeland security secretaries jayoe jeh johnson and michael chertoff on what the publican do to stem the violence and prepare our immigration for a change at the southern border. it's all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >>> good morning. welcome to "face the nation." for many americans, thanksgiving felt almost normal this year. but a year after the deadly surge of covid's omicron variant, we're not out from under the virus just yet. the cdc says a new covid variant of concern, xbb has surfed. on the other side of the world, china is reporting a fourth daily record of new covid infections as an unprecedented wave of protests ripples across the country. residents from shanghai to beijing are taking to the streets in anger over china's zero covid policies that have kept much of the country under pandemic quarantine for years. those restrictions are weighing on the global supply chain. we begin this morning in the u.s. with the danger posed by three respiratory viruses. we spoke with president biden's chief medical adviser earlier and asked him about the risks for people

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