i ask dha the senate consider qlums 267 and 276, that the senate vote on the nominations en bloc, without intervening action or debate, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, that the president be immediately notified of the senate's action. the presiding officer: without objection. the question is on the nominations en bloc. all in favor say aye. all opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: i have the request for seven committees to meet. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: i ask that the senate proceed to the consideration of vest # 456. the clerk: designateing -- as college application month. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: the preamble be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and

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you can expect dha at springtime. >> thank you, den on the cinquegrana.. >> happy thanksgiving. >> happy they'ving to you. >>> from food costs to fuel prices, it is not just at the pump it's also at the checkout across the country. joining us now a chief economist with more good news. veronica, thanks for being here. >> good morning. indeed we're about 4.5% down in our survey of thanksgiving day meal costs relative to last year we'll continue that trend. prices are a little bit better. >> one of the cheaper prices -- not cheap. it's thanksgiving. turkey prices are going down over 5%. 5.5% give us a sense. what's creating that situation, and give us a read for the rest of the holidays because people want to enjoy turkeys and hams for the rest of the holidays are the meat prices going to be down for the entire holiday season >> we want them to enjoy meat and other side dishes as well. so this year we had fewer cases of high-path avian influenza, which really infected the turkey flock back in 2022 usually when we think of turkeys, we think about going to the

secretary mayo mayorkas, given apprehensions are up what additional resources and authorities does dha need to approve security on southern onn border? >> thank you, senator. i believe i've approved a proximally 129 gaps in gate completion. we have sought a supplemental request supplemental funding request for people, technology, facilities, transportation of different varieties. we need a tremendous number of resources within of course if i said repeatedly and cannot say too often a broken a system. >> and gifford i'm going to turn into director ray and i wasn't you to weigh in on this as wellin the past two weeks as glade attacks on u.s. assets in iraq and syria.aq as a result u.s. is engaged in several counterstrike's on a radiant backed assets and syria to protect her strips and equity to the region. are you seeing a uptick in threats to americans at home or abroad? what are your agencies doing to increase security at home in light of the growing tensions? do you concerned about potential retaliation in the homeland to u.s. counterstrike's and r syri? >> so a whole number of things

any , the spylloon dha balloon across to the u.s., the building of a spacy site in cuba, all of those things. as far as ans as fary readout we seen, haven't come up. the interesting thing, just to counter up., kelly, just a little bit, is that china is vulnerable currentl tinyit hs in their economy. it has slowed and president xi is going to meet with americansc ,ceos later to tryan to get investment back into china. ityo they're hurting. and the ability to put the u.s. boot p the on the neck of china is there. the tariffs haven't been taken of f, but they've been loosened,sa much like the sanctions have been loosened on iranctionn. >> but they're still there. so the boot could be on the neck. and you're exactly d be on th right. and corporate america wants the boot off. pot the american people and most politicians, even in both parties, want the bootli on, especially after what they've done with vietnam doned and stealing the trade secrets. >> so where is this going to shake outso? >> i think we have to see wehavt have to see what happenst, wha tonight, what comes out of it. we'll ge

. >> true or false, the dha witness, using children to pose as family units to gain entry. >> that is 100% true and what we saw during my time was child recycling and saw some of the same children used across the border multiple times to get the adults into the country. >> so you a secretary in the trump administration protected children by taking them away from child molesters. is that correct? >> we did that during the trump administration and previous administrations did that and the biden administration continues to >> is it likely that families would be separated by having an open board or a secure border? >> less likely having a secure border. >> so, let me ask you about the success of the mpp remain in mexico policy. over the course of the limitation of mpp, tell me about what you saw in terms of apprehensions at the southern border. encounters and apprehensions. >> during the course of the life of mpp, certainly throughout fy 19 and will little bit if fy 20 for it hit. was on the number of illegal apprehensions reduced quite significantly, particularly as it relates to family