aappreciate the support of john cornyn and chris coons. our country's heroes deserve to know those of us in congress in a bipartisan way will hold those two to account who break the law. it's so important for to us stand by law enforcement. especially those who are willing to give it their all outside of our borders. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentlelady from texas. ms. jackson lee: let me inquire do you have any further speakers? i'm prepared to close. mr. bents: we have no more speakers. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. excuse me, oregon. mr. bents: i'm prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. bents: i urge my colleagues to support this bill. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the

senator cornyn. >> good morning, mr. attorney general. on september 29th, 2021 as you know the national school board association wrote a letter to the president asking him to address the disruptions, confrontations that we've seen at local school boards across the country. parents expressing their concerns about not only the curriculum but also just generally the education of their children in public schools. would you agree that parents have a fund mental right to be involved in their children's education? >> absolutely. this is the job of parents to be involved and this is the role the first amendment to protect their ability to be involved. that's why my memo begins by saying that we respect the right to spirited debate about curriculum, about school policies and about anything like that. >> so it is not just a good idea, it is actually protected by the constitution of the united states, would you agree? >> absolutely. >> on october 4th, a few days later less than a week later after the national school board association wrote this lett

senator cornyn? senator cornyn: i enjoyed our conversation a few months ago. have you had a chance to review the guidelines that were issued on september 30 by secretary mayorkas? mr. magnus: senator, thank you for the question. at this point i am still familiarizing myself with some of that information but i want to become very familiar with it. sen. cornyn: were you aware that as a result of these guidelines, the department of homeland security will no longer detain and deport someone who has entered the country illegally, if that is their only offense? i think the secretary made that statement on television more than one time. are you familiar with any other area of law enforcement, given your extensive career, where the enforcer of the law decides which laws they will enforce? mr. magnus: well, senator, actually there is quite a bit of discretion in policing and there are decisions made based on the resources available about which laws will be enforced and how they will be enforced. this has especially been the case during covid, when the ability to even p

let's ask one of those republicans, texas senator john cornyn joins me now.new price tag between 1.7, 2 trillion. is that low enough? does that start to wet your whistle? >> pick a number, any number. started at six. came to three. manchin said no. 1.5. you know, this is not just about spending money although it is about spending money. this is about a plan from the democrats to transform our country. permanently change our tax system and turn us into a european welfare state. so there's a lot embedded in this. the strange thing is, the bill hasn't been written yet. the congressional budget office can't score it. we don't know what is in it other than general outlines. >> charles: meantime, i'm getting word now according to sources familiar with the sayings, parentally senator sinema has agreed to a tax provision to pay for the spending package. we started the day with sources saying she was against higher corporate taxes. an array of ideas were thrown out there. stocks buy backs. i know this news is breaking but you know what many be going on in the negotiat

cornyn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr.dent, i thank my friend, the senior senator from vermont, for his courtesy. tomorrow the senate will vote on the latest iteration of what has come to be known as the democrats' partisan power grab over our elections, conducted overwhelmingly by the states. actually exclusively at the state and local level. the legislation that prompted this discussion first popped up in 2019 when the newly elected majority in the house went on a messaging bill spree. over the last two years they've tried a number of different marketing strategies to convince the american people that this overhaul was needed. this latest version is proof that congress isn't buying what they're selling, and that's for good reason. at one point they said -- and those who were advocating for a national takeover of our state-run elections, at one point they said it was a matter of election security. then they said this was designed to help restore voter confidence. then they said this is a way to remove obstacles that preve

i worked with senator cornyn on the justice of victims of trafficking act, shepherding it through this committee and the senate and lead the committee in approving a major sponsorship by former senators to make more resources available for the victims of child pornography. we know that renewing vawa is our next priority. that's why i am concerned with this hearing today. before we begin i want to make this opportunity to mention that this is domestic violence awareness month. and that it is important that we adopt an extension of vawa. a senate passed authorization could include the language on which we have reached consensus and meanwhile could continue to engage in negotiations on additional important reforms and updates of vawa. i also want to recognize several of my republican colleagues who are not members of our committee but who have joined us here to testify today. senators ernst, capito, i thank you for being here and i would like to thank ms. monaco for being here on behalf of the department of justice. >> thank you, senator grassley. let me lay out the mechanics of the heari

senator cornyn? >> thank you for being here today. i'm a little surprised to see you given the fact that you refused to attend the hearing where the heinous conduct larry nass wasa exposed again and the fbi director personally apologized saying he wasr of these repeated sexual assault while they were olympic athletes. let me just ask you to respond to the statement that was reported in the hill by one of the witnesses, former u.s. olympic gymnast aly raisman. she attended a news conference that senator blumenthal and senator grassley held and as you know, senator blumenthal, senator feinstein had both written a letter to you and the attorney general asking serious questions for you to appear at the hearing we held three weeks ago. ms. raisman, one of the victims of repeated sexual assault by the olympic team doctors said the message by them not showing up sends the child -- sends the message that child abuse doesn't matter and she's talking about the department of justice and she's talking about you. it's shocking and disturbing they

so to create an opportunity to reach out to my colleagues on texas senator cornyn and to partner with utilities for investing in the electrical grid but from the resiliency the standpoint and also making it more efficient with the environmental benefits of that first as a standalone on both sides of the aisle that that is the weather we are asking for by five so that is approved by the senate we can wait for the get to the president's desk for signature. >> of course that legislation is bipartisan support is tethered to the plan of the democrats trying to move through the budget process threading the needle with that when because it requires every senate democrat on board are you optimistic that senators mentioned in senator sinema are the highest profile with concerns, can they be brought to yes have you had that discussion of the case you just laid out to me? >> at the end of the day will be in the weeks ahead not the months ahead is letting impacting west virginia but those other priority elements that senator mentioned will want to prioritize in senator sinema is also familiar wit

republicans like texas senator john cornyn are slamming democrats on how they plan to pay for the programsalso don't know how much they are willing to raise taxes to cover the costs. >> or how far they want to move america a european welfare state. >> and later this morning we'll hear from president biden before he heads off to year to meet with other world leaders reporting in washington rashad hudson, back to you. thank you for that report this morning was shot. >> well, coming up next to the kron 4 morning news another mountain lion has been spotted in the bay area. what experts say you should do. if you see one. well, a mountain lion was captured in santa rosa and has since. >> been released back into the wild ferry. is there. the young animals found in front of a home late on tuesday night. kron four's, gayle ong talk with neighbors who say the big cat gave them quite a shock. >> you know, i never thought thought of, you know, meeting us conquer, something like that on on the sidewalk fund every mountain lion. >> the signing was in the area of saint francis road in de soto drive in sa

. >> but the follow-up on the question senator cornyn raised this is similar i think in some respects to sanctuary cities but invited administration is circumventing immigration law and issuing these so-called notices to report leaked documents show there are tens of thousands of migrants admitted to the united states with you legal requirements other than to check in with customs enforcement wherever and whenever they reach their destinationin the states . do you believe that lax enforcement of our immigration laws intensify those pull factors for immigrants or migrants that g are receiving entry into the united states? >> 90 for the question. as we discussed i think that the issue of notice to appear is something that we want to achieve in any manner we can certainly are different agencies working together. by having more asylum officers and immigration judges. this is not a new challenge in many ways. it has been true in multiple administrations and it's going to take for the most part a congressional fix because we really do have a broken system and unfortunately there continue to

senator cornyn. .. deeply and profoundly sorry for the victims of t these repeated sexual assaults one of the world big athletes. let me just respond to a statement that was reported in the hill by one of the witnesses there, former us olympic gymnast, allie attended a news conference that senator blumenthal and senator grassley held and as you know senator blumenthal and senator feinstein with a letter to the attorney general asking serious questions for you to appear at the hearing we held three weeks ago. but she wanted victims of repeated sexual assault by the olympic team doctor said the message by them not showing up says that child abuse does not matter talking about the department of justice. you. i think it is completely shocking and disturbing that they did not think it was important what is your response? >> senator, i think the women who came and testified here last month are exceptionally brave. their voices were powerful. >> we are talking about you not showing up. essentially that was a d

cornyn: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, over the last few months, the american people have watched in disbelief and then in anger as the biden administration has completely fumbled the response to the border crisis. in spring, the biggest concerns were the thousands of children coming across the border. we lacked the facilities, the personnel, and the resources to provide proper care for those children, particularly in those kinds of numbers. at one point, one of the processing centers in donna, texas, in the rio grande valley was at 1600% of capacity. then in the summer, the scale and scope of the crisis grew. in addition to the thousands of unaccompanied children entering our country each month, the number of family units has skyrocketed. i should cause to add, mr. president, the reason why the smugglers send in unaccompanied children is because they know they will simply be placed with sponsors in the interior of the country, and most of them will fail to return to the immigration courts for their asylum heari

senator cornyn. >> thank you. good morning, mr. attorney general. on september 29, 2021, as you know, the national school board association wrote a letter to the president asking him to address the disruptions, confrontations that we've seen at local school boards across the country. parents expressing their concerns about not only the curriculum but also just generally the education of their children in public schools. would you agree that parents have a fundamental right to be involved in their children's education? >> absolutely. it's the job of parents to be involved. and this is the role of the first amendment, to protect their ability to be involved. that's why my memo begins by saying that we respect the right to spirited debate about curriculum, about school policies, about anything like that. >> so it's not just -- it's not just a good idea. it's actually protected by the constitution of the united states, would you agree? >> absolutely. >> on october 4, a few days later, less than a week later after the national school board association wr

january 7th, lindsey graham, john cornyn and mitch mcconnell saying had gone too far, but overall upset supporters that trump incited as he sat there. now nine months later you can't run for national office as republican without essentially taking position that what happened was either good for antifa false flag. josh was in ohio thinking we should have a 11/3 commission looking into imaginary fraud he's pretending he thinks happened because that's what the voters want of him. unanimity now that wasn't there. you have a pro insurrection party, true down to local offices. steve is right. >> show you a piece of video, lindsey graham in south carolina this past weekend. >> bottom line, i took the vaccine, i've had it, it kicks your butt. if you haven't had the vaccine, you ought to think about getting it. if you're my age -- >> no! >> i didn't tell you to get it, just think about it. >> hardly c. everett coop there. could argue he knows his audience because his party has given rise to the antivax movement what do you make of the moment? >> just pure insanity. just crazy. the republican par

i've introduced along with senator cornyn the bipartisan act which would authorize an apprenticeship program at cisa and it would also create a veteran cybersecurity training program at the department of veterans affairs. so director easterly, how would an apprenticeship help address workforce challenges at cisa? >> thanks for the question. live that, i love apprenticeship. we've already started talking about how we can implement apprenticeships at cisa. i would love to work with you on that legislation. i think we need to be as creative as possible to deal with the deficit we have across the country and across the federal cyber workforce. programs like apprenticeships, internships, and i'm very excited in particular about implementing our cyber talent management system finally to enable us to more flexibly hire people from all walks of life, basically based on their aptitude, not based on certifications or degrees. anything to do with workforce, senator, i would love to work with your team and this committee. >> great, i look forward to that. director inglis, are there other ways we

i introduced legislation with senator cornyn last congress to codify the program, and we're working to reauthorize it this congress. when do you expect all civilian agencies to have their electronic assets inventoried and continuously monitored via cdm? >> thanks for the question. it's a great one. and having a lot of experience in this space, and certainly in the private sector, asset inventories and insuring that you know exactly what's in your network is not a trivial endeavor. all that said, i'm told that we're at about 85% of an understanding of the federal end points, and so i think we will get there in the near term, and i'm happy to get you updated on the course of our progress. >> okay, and a related issue, of course, is whether cisa is reevaluating previously approved tools to insure they still meet the newest best practices and our zero trust strategy. so is that happening as well? >> yes, ma'am. absolutely as part of our entire modernization effort to make sure we're able to provision the right capabilities through the cdm program and some of the most important ones you're

. >> let's listen, republican senator john cornyn on this memo. >> mr.elligent and accomplished lawyer and judge. you can answer the question, did you consider the chilling effect that this sort of threat of federal prosecution would have on parents' exercise of their constitutional rights to be involved in their children's education. >> i don't believe it's reasonable to read this memorandum as chilling anyone's rights, it's about threats of violence, and it expressly recognizes the constitutional right to make arguments about your children's education. >> okay. i mean, look, this is the shouting and near violence that we have seen. look at that, at these school board meetings. i mean, the doj memo is not keeping parents from expressing themselves. >> yeah, look, you know, to paraphrase obi-wan kenobi, politics isn't my thing, and i'm not going to get into the political issues here but at the end of the day, there are a number of people on the committee likely running for the presidency in two or three years, and these cultural issues are wedge issues a

john cornyn asked you the same thing and you said it wasn't in the october 4 memorandum. it wasn't another memorandum, it was a press release from your office, right here in front of me, october 24, immediate release, you were going to credit a task force including the national security division. what on earth does national security have to do with parents expressing disagreements at school boards? 3 nothing in -- >> nothing in this memorandum or any memorandum is about parents expressing disagreement with school boards. the memorandum makes it clear that parents are entitled and protected by the first amendment to have vigorous debates. the justice department is not interested in that question. >> the national security division, these people are supposed to be chasing jihadists and chinese spies. what do they have to do with parents at school boards. >> it's not, again, about parents at school boards. it's about threats of violence. host: the attorney general this morning defends memo on threats to educators. that is the headline on yesterday's hearing and the question b

>> senator john cornyn of texas cosponsored the $52 million chips for america act to try to turn the>> literally everything that has been off and on switch depends on semiconductors. >> the u.s. dominates the developments basement manufacturing happens mostly overseas. pandemic related shortages inspired an executive order and the situation seems to be getting worse. a bigger variable: the sensitive manufacturing process. >> as long as no grain of sand falls into the swimming pool. >> a trip inside one of the top semiconductor research institutions in an state requires full decontamination. an electrical fire at a japanese auto chipmaker affected a third of global supplies. semiconductor history is uniquely american. silicon valley is named for the stuff they are made out of. gradual outsourcing helped companies like taiwan's company growth to produce some two-thirds of today's chips. quantitative finance professor george calhoun argues that has created a unique problem. >> the chinese leadership has been in my view making a lot of inexplicable blunders. >> imagine for a second if ch

cornyn: mr. president, are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we're not. mr. cornyn: i appreciate that, mr. president. after months of, well, i won't call it in-fighting. i'll call it intra party ne negotiating, our democrats colleagues are still trying to reex agreement on -- reach agreement on that taxing spree legislation. they've yet to agree on how much money they want to spent. our colleague from vermont started at $6 trillion. now we're hearing it may be more on the order of what the senator from west virginia said was his cap of $1.5 trillion. we still also don't know how much they are willing to raise taxes to cover the costs or how far they want to move america into a european welfare state. still, our colleagues are trying to reach a deal in a matter of days. our colleagues are rushing to -- the largest peacetime tax hike in american history and see how much government overreach those hard-earned tax dollars can buy. some experience buyers remorse before swiping the taxpayer's credit card, so they are trying to -- we read, we don't know, but it's be

cornyn was an elected senator in 2002, kind of a former judge, thoughtful guy.ns about him. he had a liberal education policy, liberal immigration policy. he opened up access to the university of texas system. you know, it was not a liberal state. it was not a liberal republican party, but nothing like this. it really is a good -- unfortunately accurate i guess you would say -- epitome of what has happened pretty quickly and pretty recently. there were problems in texas 15, 20 years ago but that is not the way things are going. texas is kind of shorthand, that's kind of very, very revealing. and anyone who cares about an older conservative -- older kind of republicanism and conservatism, very depressing. >> i agree. while it wasn't quite portlandia, it wasn't mississippi either. always thank you for coming on and taking our questions. >>> coming up for us, his organization argues it's time to choose democracy or trump because they argue you can't have both. rick wilson of the lincoln project joins us live next. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ like many people with

and senator cornyn said yesterday that republicans would use every tool at their disposal to slow democrats from doing this on their own. >> that as americans are facing some very real, serious, real-world consequences if the country does default. okay? the real issues. nearly 50 million seniors could be left holding the bag if social-security payments are held up. the stock market would, no doubt, plummet. mortgage rates would rise. and we could lose millions of jobs. and in the face of all of that, mitch mcconnell's hypocrisy is right out there for all the world to see. refusing to vote for something he has voted for 32 times, in the past. >> i think the -- the debt ceiling legislation is a time that brings us all together. >> in the case of the debt limit, we need to act quickly, given the new uncertainty from the large cost of the storm recovery. secretary of the treasury, the -- senator schumer and i had a good meeting this morning in my office to discuss the raising of the debt ceiling which we all know will need to be done. sometime in the next month or so and we are going to be look

john cornyn asked you the same thing. you said it wasn't in your october 4 memorandum. it was in a press release from your office here in front of me. you were going to credit a task force that includes the national security division. what on earth do the national security division have to do with parents expressing disagreements at school boards? >> nothing in this memorandum or any memorandum is about parents expressing disagreements with their school boards. the memorandum makes clear that parents are entitled and protected by the first amendment to have vigorous debates. we don't -- the justice department is not interested in that question at all. >> okay. so even in that case, what is the national security division, judge? these are the people that are supposed to be chasing jihadists and chinese spies. what does that have to do with parents at school boards? >> this is not about parents at school boards. it's about threats of violence. >> let me turn to that because you've said that phrase repeatedly throughout the morning. threats -- violence and threats of viole

republicans like texas senator john cornyn are slamming democrats on how they plan to pay for the programs don't know how much they are willing to raise taxes to cover the costs. >> or how far they want to move america a european welfare state. >> and following that meeting this morning with democratic lawmakers. the president will deliver remarks from the white house before heading out to europe for series of meetings reporting in washington. reshad hudson. back to you. thank you. reshad our we'll take a break here at 6.21 coming up on the kron 4 morning news drivers across the bay area and the digging a little deeper. >> when you fill up at the pump. we're going to take a look at how much more expensive gas is right now, especially when compared to last year and you want to see a giant cap. there was big mountain lion captured in santa rosa will take a look at why. >> there are so many big cat sightings lately. ♪ i see trees of green ♪ ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom for me and you ♪ (music) ♪ so i think to myself ♪ ♪ oh what a wonderful world ♪ save now with holiday deals! get 30%

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the republican leadership, mitch mcconnell who cut the deal, he voted for moving ahead, as did john cornynjohn thune another member of the leadership. as well as john barrasso. those are some of the members who voted yet. but some of the other ones who have often broken ranks with republicans like lisa murkowski, susan collins, they also voted to move ahead. then you're hearing from some republicans who are retiring, rob portman for one. the ohio republican also voted to move ahead. as did richard shelby, he's a long-time appropriator, someone who's retiring next year. he is voting to break this republican filibuster. and just moments ago shelley moore capito, a west virginia republican, also joined with mitch mcconnell. now, the question is who is going to be the 60th vote? we're waiting for that. they don't get 60, of course, that's a big problem. big questions going forward. but at the moment the republicans and democrats are supporting this feel confident that 60 will be there, but barely. >> wow. and yet still one shy. all right. amazing even with that the drama. and the turning on mi

cornyn: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: madam president, over the last couple of years, our democratic colleagues have suggested a range of unrealistic and downright harmful policies in our shared goal -- and i emphasize the word shared goal -- to reduce carbon emissions. but it's not just a question of what you're doing; it's a question of how you are going about doing it. and the wait they're going about doing it is going to raise the prices of electricity, gasoline, and all forms of energy on people on fixed incomes, people who are seniors living on social security, and others. they've proposed everything from the socialist agenda that is the green new deal to more targeted but no more realistic zero-net emission mandates. now, we all know that energy transition occurs at all times. i've traveled to india, as perhaps the presiding officer and -- as perhaps the presiding officer, and other countries. and i remember prime minister modi coming to houston texas during an event we called howdy modi. and we heralded th

for the record, if i could sense of information on a bill i'm introducing today with senator cornyn on promoting more subnational diplomacy, trying to make the department organize mayors and first selectman and governors to represent the united states abroad. i know this is something you care deeply about and believe in. my time is expired. i would love to continue to work with this committee and the administration on trying to buttress our official diplomatic corps with more americans who want to represent the good things about america abroad. >> i will be happy to talk about it. this is great interest to the secretary. senator haggerty. >> i would like to speak to senator murphy's point and come to senator barrasso's defense. this is about priorities, how the administration sets priorities and how senator schumer sets priorities how to set the dime on the senate floor. since i've been here i've seen the board of governors of the postal service seated. the time his be utilized to do that. since i have been here i have seen term appointees pushed out of their position leaving the depar