nielsen: dhs does not play that role. that is a state and local role to ensure the integrity of electric dust collection systems . we provide support and guidance and will continue to do so. sen. whitehouse: you are testifying the united states department of homeland security has no role in protecting the country from -- sec. nielsen: that is not what i said. we are providing guidance and support, risk vulnerability assessments upon request. it is the responsibility of the state to ensure its election process. sen. whitehouse: i guess what i'm trying to get clear response of what your interest and concerns are in this area. it sounds as if what you have told us is that you see the federal role in protecting american protection -- elections as subordinate to the role of the states and the role of your department is only to provide and whatever other support you are offering? guidance -- sec. nielsen: guidance, support, information sharing, and vulnerability assessment. sen. whitehouse: does that include the other areas bey

the dhs is not standing on the sideline.e working with congress, the white house, and interagency partners to develop authority to identify, track, and takedown drones that pose a threat to our public safety. a second counterterrorism priority is to block terrorists from reaching the united states. lots have been done under this administration. i released a report with this attorney general revealing that between 2011 and the end of 2016 at least 549 individuals were convicted of international related terrorism charges in the united states. cases, 73%,f those were foreign-born. this is a red flag. we must do more to keep dangerous individuals out of the united states in the first place. and to prevent foreign allies from right of lysing once i get here. -- from radicalizing once they get here. -- assaulted or tried to attack public venues, military bases, and law enforcement officers. the good news is that we are making significant process in -- progress in combating this threat. directeddent improvements to block criminals

as our bellybutton with dhs. and to work closely with the fbi in the intelligence community to promote an inner agency front within that. we've also done then gone through the process of working with particularly the national association of secretary of state and the local government to stand up a structure where collectively dhs concert at the table with representatives of state and local government. through the bureaucratic naming. it's called the government core nader council. we meet regularly. they had responsibilities to help secure our elections. this is different than a lot of others. there are 27 members 24 of them represent state and local governments there are five leaders through the represent state and local governments. we created this within the government. as because we think it is an important aspect of how we are going to take on the security challenge. they are working to set priorities will talk to some of those. publish a plan going forward it will be widely available to the election communit

we have done that h through pretty structured means within dhs and the undersecretary chris crabbs who led the dhs resources together, and that is our resources to work together with the fbi and to promote a unified intraagency front within that. and we have gone within the process to working particularly with the national association of secretaries of state, and the national association of state electors and the representatives of local governments to stand up a structure where collectively dhs can sit at the table with representatives of the state and local governments. this is called through the bureaucratic name ing thing thae within the critical infrastructure community called a coordinating council. it is a government coordinating council and government officials who have the responsibilities to secure our elections. this is different than others. there are 27 member, and 24 h of them represent state and local governmen governments. there are five leaders of the government coordinating council, and two of the eca and the dhs and three that represent the state and local government

can you explain why dhs is planning to rescind this policy? sec. nielsen: we would be happy to work with you on that. i think broadly, we are looking at all the visa categories, which you know are numerous. unfortunately over the years in general, we gotten away with the intent of congress with the visa categories. we need to look holistically. h-1b -- i would be happy to get back to you specifically on that. sen. hatch: evaluating ways that -- reports indicate that the department is evaluating ways that it can stop granting three-year extensions for h-1b holders who are being sponsored for green cards. and, who are subject to lengthy delays because of her country per country green card limits. i believe congress previously addressed this issue in 2000 and indicated its intent to allow such extensions. can you tell me of the department is considering ways to stop granting these three-year extensions? and if so, why? i would also be interested to hear the department declaration -- the department's explanation of how ending these extensions squares w

at dhs we done a lot of work in this space over the last year. we want to expand understanding of violent radicalism and terrorist e recruitment so more people can identify it, and more importantly, more people can prevent it. this includes tools such as developing social media community awareness briefings to help technology sector become b aware of terrorist recruitment online so they can catalyze efforts to counter it. it also includes conferencesun such as the digital form on terrorism prevention that dhs cosponsored last september. at the digital forum, experts from government, the tech industry, maybe many of you, startups, community organizations gathered together to share information and t showcase technologies and techniques to counter the use of terrorist sociall media. across the u.s. government, dhs also administered of the houses an interagency task force to decrease information sharing a terrorism prevention with othere agencies. including the national counterterrorism center, the fbi and department of justice. that wide range of st

that's not the policy of dhs. if you are daca compliant with your registration, meaning you haven't committed a crime and registered, you are not priority of enforcement for i.c.e. should the program end. >> so if you are here as d.r.e.a.mer and program ends, they won't make you deportation right away if you haven't committed a crime. that sounds like a shadow daca. >> and the president has said, as you said, he has heart for these young immigrants that were brought here. he wants to do something to help them solve their immigration status question. she is saying that the government will not make it a priority to go out and hunt them out and sort of toss them out of the country if there is no deal by the deadline. >> so how do they fix this? how do they get past this? is there a solution that comes in the next four days going to make everybody happy? >> probably not in the next four days. but get past the budget cry cities and then revisit daca. not in anyone interest not to have ha solution. by the way, how we go

can you explain why dhs is planning to re sind thplan ing to rescind this policy?i would be happy to work with you on this. all the categories are numerous. i think unfortunately over the years, in general, we have gotten away from the intent of congress with respect to some of the visa categories. so we need to look wholistically. h-1b, i'll be happy to get back to you with that. >> the department is evaluating ways to stop granting three year extensions for the visa holders who are being sponsored for green cards. and who are subject to lengthy delays because of per country green card limits. now, i believe that congress previously addressed this issue in 2000, and indicated its intent to allow such extensions. can you tell me if the department is, in fact, considering ways to stop granting these three year extensions and if so, why? and i also would be interested to hear the department's explanation of how ending these extensions squares with the 2000 law. >> thank you, sir. i'm not familiar with the specific example on h-1b, but i'll get back to you immediately

right now she is talking about a new dhs report, a new dhs study found u.s.rts convicted 549 people with international terrorism-related charges dating back to september 2001 through december 31st, 2016. what they found was that 73% of them were foreign born and 148 of those convicted have become naturalized u.s. citizens and quoted recently as saying to continue to enhance our screening and vetting we must also continually vet some legal residents. she is going over that new dhs study right now. we do expect she will be begin taking questions soon and we'll go to that when that happens. >> bill: there is also breaking news this morning out of south carolina. four police officers there have been shot responding to a domestic disturbance in york county southwest of charlotte. the suspect initially escaped but now tracked down and apparently is in custody. we have the story live in atlanta now. what's up? >> the four injured officers include three york county sheriffs deputies and a city police officer from the city of york, south carolina in the upstate region

so we will see what i can do to give you some information about dhs and where we are on the state of the net which hopefully will be useful to those of you here in the room today. as everyone points out, everyone is an internet stakeholder even if they don't know it yet. i'm learning more and more each day and that is what brings me here today, how the internet has increasingly been connecting us with threats and homeland security. specifically, parents are using the internet to recruit and radicalizing share information for do-it-yourself mass murder. nearly every terrorist plot uncovered to date has a digital dimension. to give you the sense of the scale of the problem, the fbi says there are currently 1,000 homegrown terrorist investigations across the 50 states and 1,000 isis related investigations. some of these overlap, but still the scale is alarming and those are just the suspects we know about. it's like living among potential landmines. in both recent two biggest attacks in new york, the attempted port authority bus station bomber and holocene attack with the tracks, the at

and what the doj, dhs section 11 report says about that. let's bring in my panel now. zach, former hillary clinton campaign staff and former dnc advisor. alex, former communications director for senator marco rubio. in fact, the last time we saw each other senator aruba was on outnumbered. >> he was. >> harris: it's great to see you again. we can talk a little bit about why the white house started with a special guest today, the assistant attorney general talking about the subject of terrorism in america. >> yeah. that was a little strange to me. look, i think they are trying to build support for immigration reform around the idea that this -- we have real vulnerabilities in border security and that's why border security has to be part of any daca deal. however, the real arguments that they are trying to make in terms of chain migration and other things is an economic argument. so by mixing national security in with the larger debate, i think it confuses the issue a little bit. >> harris: zach, i don't know if you caught it but democrat congressman joe crowley was on t

that list of convictions of terrorism, internationalism terrorism related offenses or a subsequent dhs analysis of those 549 individuals convicted of international terrorism related offenses determined approximately 73%, or 402, of hundred two, the 549 individuals were foreign-born. a further breakdown of use citizenship status of these individuals at the time of their respective conviction show that 254 were not united states citizens, 148 were foreign-born, natural light and received u.s. citizenship, and 147 were citizens come, your citizens by birth. i'll point out one of the cases that highlighted in the section 11 report refers to a defendant who we convicted in the southern district of new york. he came into the united states i believe in 1980 as as a family member of a legal permanent resident. he was ultimate convicted of providing material support to al-qaeda, s supervise when as chief of the terrorism unit in the southern district of new york. the evidence in the trial showed that he attempted to assist other individuals who were affiliated with al-qaeda to try to enter the

new report from doj and dhs shows that nearly 3 in 4 individuals convicted of terrorism-related charges are

you for your leadership on this issue and i really appreciate your support of the men and women of dhs. they have a very dangerous job, one we don't often like to talk about. they do put their lives in danger for all us every developer to working with all of you learning today about your progress. border security we have to have the wall and the technology and personnel that go with that we also need to close the loopholes that we can do expedited renewables because that is a core part of border security. so look very much for to working with you and others to get things done. >> you are going to break all his records, right? >> absolutely. >> yet some pretty good record, 78%, the best numbers. we have to break 78%. you will do it. >> yes, sir. >> thank you all very much. appreciate it. >> your message to dreamers? >> hopefully everything is going to work out really well. i can tell you the republicans want to see work out very well. if we had support from the democrats i think daca is going to be terrific. we have people that if and what you on this a long time as lindy said as others

thank you for the new leadership at dhs as well. james lankford has been a german us help, not only on what we just passed, but a tremendous help on this agenda. i can say for all of the men and the people in this room. they have been fast asset -- fantastic. john, you have been more than a whip up in be have been fantastic on the taxes and the tax cuts and the reform and the success of that. certainly, it wasn't easy. it went right to the last minute and you are right there. we want to thank you for the job you did. it's fantastic. senator gordon? thank you for having us here. america is the most generous country in the world when it comes to illegal immigration. that generosity has been abused by people who are exploiting the vulnerabilities we have along the border with a lack of enforcement. we saw the previous administration that tried to usurp the authority that only congress and the white house have in passing immigration laws . they tried to do it by executive action and the courts have struck that down. i do think this is a

i've looked at some reports made public from dhs. they are good but they are -- maybe i should say they're fair but they don't really demonstrate the level of sophistication the nation's state adversary would have. the systems are uniformly vulnerable. i think any cyber expert that looked at any of these systems would come to that conclusion. we need to be focused on detection and recovery. and the average lag time from a compromise until detection is in the range of six months. coming out on the day after election day and saying there was no compromise, that's not really surprising that you haven't seen a compromise. it may not show up for three to six months, on average. let's see. that was the first thing. i want to also focus on what we can do now, which is the move to paper ballots and audits is really important. i want to give a shout out to edgardo, i thought i saw on the agenda, from virginia who has made major pushes in virginia, my state, to get paper ballots. if you haven't read the report that caused virginia to get rid o

in the interrogation of the dhs secretary. he conjured up all of the tears of rage, the i'm so outraged, how could you say this, as if he never sat at a senate hearing were a cabinet member actually defends the president of the united states. he actually acted like this dhs secretary was complicit in marching with the kkk. i found a low point for him. i found that he had lost a lot of credibility with a lot of people. >> here's where i agree with you. i thought it was theatrical, but let me also state that i think as a u.s. senator, as a politician, i think it was incumbent upon him to say, hey, dhs secretary, you were in the room, and somehow you can't remember. you say that it was bad language. what that language did you hear? that's what dick durbin, the senator from illinois who has said that the president said that. what bad language did you hear? she said this on fox news sunday. she couldn't answer. so she clearly was defending the president. >> laura: so what? why should a cabinet member have to reveal anything about a

charles: dhs is look into the possibility of bringing charges against some sanctuary city leaders.atie, i have got to tell you, the saber rattling is becoming very intense. to hear dhs say we may ultimately go and arrest these officials brings to mind maybe we could see rahm emanuel doing aer. doing -- doing a perp walk. is it going to go that far? >> i would caution going that far. if there are charges they can file. there is nothing concrete now. but it goes to say that these sanctuary cities are harboring criminals. they are harboring dangerous illegal immigrants who have killed people and have broken the law, and that's putting americans at risk, and that's not acceptable no matter who you are. charles: boston and cambridge all laughed at the possibility of dhs considering arresting them for taking action against them. everyone is emboldened. they are emboldened to tell the federal government, we are not going to listen. to tell american citizens we are not going to protect you and we think these illegal immigrants have as much rights as you do. >> the people giving them sanctu

in 2017 alone, dhs encountered 2,554 individuals on terrorist watch lists, formerly known as the fbi's terrorist screening database. those individuals were attempting to get into the united states. additional important statistics provided by dhs and documented include that a total of 355,345 non-citizen offenders were arrested after previously being convicted of an aggravated felony or two or more crimes, each punishable by more than one year. during that same time period, according to dhs, 372,098 non-citizen offenders were removed from the united states after conviction of an aggravated felony or two or more felonies. and between fiscal year 2010 and fiscal year 2017, customs and border protection, cbp, identified and prevented the boarding of 73,261 foreign travelers on flights destined from the united states who may have presented an immigration or security risk. in a statement yesterday about the report, attorney general sessions indicated that there are currently thousands of terrorism related investigations into thousands of people in the united states, including hundreds of peo

thank you for the new leadership at dhs as well, and looking forward. pres. trump: james lankford has been a tremendous help not only on what we does past, but -- thank you for your support, fantastic. i can say that for all the men and people in this room, they have been fantastic. john, you have, we can't even call you the whip, you have been more than a whip, you have been so fantastic on the taxes and the tax cuts and the reform and the success of that. it wasn't easy, it went right to the last minute, and you are right there, and we all want to thank you. senator cornyn, want to say a few words? senator cornyn: mr. president, thank you for having us here. america is the most generous country in the world when it comes to legal immigration, but that generosity has been abused by people exploiting the vulnerabilities we have along the border. and we saw the previous administration that tried to usurp the authority that only congress and the white house have, in passing immigration laws, trying to do it by executive action, and the courts have struck that d

dhs chief kiersten nielsen revealed there is talk at justice of arresting mayors and others who will not play ball. >> my question is whether dhs is currently working with the justice department to bring any criminal charges against states or local officials. >> i believe the request was made, the department of justice is reviewing what avenues might be available. >> while much of the public posturing about immigration deal has been about daca and people brought here illegally as little kids, the administration is highlighting instead what they see as the public safety risk of crimes committed by illegal immigrants. >> shannon: all right, peter doocy. thank you very much. a new report alleges congressional investigations into the infamous dirty dossier are going beyond the justice department and fbi are now looking into a possible connection to former president obama's state department. the "washington examiner" reporting that house intelligence committee members may be looking into what individuals state department officials may have done to help ex-british agent christopher steele

you for your leadership on this issue and i really appreciate your support of the men and women of dhs. they have a very dangerous job. one that we don't often like to talk about. they are, they do put their lives in danger for us every day and i really look forward to working with all of you. learning about your progress. as you know, border security, we have to have the wall and the text message and personnel that go with that, but we need to close the loopholes so we can do the expedited removal. so look very much forward to working with you and others to get this done. >> and you're going to break all of general kelly's reports. >> absolutely. >> 78% so far, that's the best number. so we have to break 78%. that's you'll do it. >> yes, sir. >> thank you all very much. appreciate it. thank you very much. hopefully everything's going to work out very well. we really want it to work out well. the republicans want to see it work out very well. if we have support from the democrat, i think daca is going to be terrific. we have people that have been working on this issue for a long time.

once we briefed him, when i was at dhs, and told him the real experts on defending the southwest border, customs and border protection men and women, came in and did a survey of the border. there are places where geographically, a wall would not be realistic. there are other parts of the southwest border that are so wild and untamed that there is no traffic that goes through them. there is other places we think about 800 miles additional wall to include the 600 that's already in place, the fencing. that would suffice. he has evolved in the way he's looked at things. campaign to governing our two different things in this president has been very, very flexible in terms of what's within the realm of the possible. >> bret: mexico is not going to pay. >> we have some ideas on how things like visa fees, renegotiation on nafta on what that would mean to our economy. in one way or another, it's possible that we could get the revenue from mexico but not directly from their government. >> bret: the reason you're at this point with congress is because of the bigger funding, daca border security de

this is not a fight dhs odious government can win on its own. our enemies are dispersed and they are crowdsourcing their activities. fortunately, our allies are fighting with us in the same space. in the past year there has been tremendous progress, particularly in the technology center. last july the united kingdom home secretary and i travel to silicon valley to meet with the newly launched global internet forum on counterterrorism, or gis ct, it is led by facebook, microsoft, youtube and twitter is the first time major companies have come together to work on research and technology techniques in this area. moreover, they are committed to helping smaller companies that may not have the same resources to tackle terrorism prevention online. i am very, very encouraged by the work of gisct to counter this incredibly dangerous problem. we hope our companies will consider engaging with us to help stop terrorism here and abroad, because terrorist radicalization makes the world a more dangerous place for each one of us. we also know that other countri

he's saying, look, kick it over to dhs.ere's going to be anymore action specifically from this administration? >> i think the troubling thing is that they are moving this over to dhs because they couldn't get it done through a commission because there were a lot of fights, there was a lot of litigation, there were organizations that were filing public information requests to get all of the memos behind it. what they think is they will move it to the department of homeland security so they can do their dirt in darkness. they're moving it to dhs hoping that what they will continue to do is continue the threat, point the finger at undocumented immigrants saying they're committing fraud. what we know is they will continue to fight this, we will continue to investigate, we will continue to know that there is actually no evidence of voter fraud. they won't be able to find it. but we don't want it also to have a suppressive effect so that people won't vote because they're concerned about dhs coming after him. >> he just mensed thi

and dhs issued this statement this afternoon for context.e decision to remove haiti, belease and samoa from the list was made as a result of inner agency coordination between dhs and the department of state. it, of course, would be hard forrest administration to have picked a worst time to announce this as they are fighting democrats, martha to do everything possible to paint republicans and specifically the president as both racist and anti-immigrant to gain the political leverage as the government shut down fight continues, quite literally as we speak, martha. >> martha: leland, thank you very much. here now tucker carlson to talk about this. tucker, good to see you tonight. >> hey, martha. >> martha: thanks for popping up a little bit early for us because this story has you and the work have you done on it written all over it. it strikes me that it says something about president donald trump that he is willing to essentially double down on this in this moment and say essentially, you know, the language has been disputed about what was sai

if you are cold, take me signed dh. a true act of charity has no name behind it. so i'm honestly donating it and it's a true act of charity. there's a lot of good out there. perhaps dh stands for regardless of the true meeting, find one in a chilly floridian who benefited from someone with a big heart. >> it always seems the worst at first but watch and listen and you will know. >>> now wusa9 sports with darren haynes brought to you by xfinity.>>> so kirk cousins plans to shed light on his future with the redskins friday and until then let's keep it real as we go inside the red zone and kirk cousins will do what is best for his family. he's been a family guy all his life and never fully committed to staying in the dmv anyways. if that was the case he would never have removed things related to redskins on his social media pages. at his future home will be in potomac and not the lake michigan. nothing personal but a business decision but the person who handles the business is in kirk cousins but his agent, mike mccartney. i find it interesting on his agents website

that's based on a study from dhs.hat is not something we want, it is something dhs says this country needs. so the only people being untruthful here are democrats, and i will give you one more example, and that is -- there is one simple fact that democrats cannot shake that clearly puts this shutdown in their corner, math. we had 51 votes in the senate. we have to have nine democrats that are willing to switch party -- that are willing to put the american people above party, and right now democrats are playing politics with american lives. >> hogan gidley, i will turn to alex gidley, who is here with us following the story. he has a quick question. guest: thanks for taking my question. something chuck schumer said in a press conference earlier today is that at the meeting at the white house on friday, he basically told the president that he was willing to deal on the wall and he asked the president what number would be acceptable for securing the southwest border, how much money he wanted to see appropriated. the pres

international cities first, then we work with dhs to identify, excuse me, and we work with dhs to identify the appropriate u.s. partner city. we try to identify cities with complimentary skill sets and those express interest in maintaining connections beyond the exchange. these cities aren't necessarily part of the strong cities network. although some of them are, and we certainly those who are not we encourage them to join. one point i want to mention is when people think of cities to partner with international cities, the first one may be like los angeles or minneapolis, the problem is when you have delegations going to the same city, that's taxing on their schedules. we want connections that people who have the time, the capacity to engage their international counterparts. so let's say today we exchange business cards. we want connections where when we introduce them to their u.s. counterparts, they have the ability and interest in following up and forming partnerships that as you know require a lot of time and effort. each delegation has five to nine people and has someone from mayor o

but with this incident i would have to refer you to fema or dhs. can you briefly talked about the emergency alert system? i know you talk generally but in light of this recent discussion of it has been a success in your view? >> over the last five years emergency alerts are a lifesaver returning kids who are objected, helped also void tornadoes rolling through their town now we start to see the use to locate suspects and there are key reasons why the targeting is the only tool in the toolbox to help find you where you are in now as we continue to improve wireless emergency alerts we can access the better links to content to get that information and act on it. >> mr. chairman thank you for everything you have been doing a have a number of questions i will give them to you all at once you can take them to the extent you are still undergoing the investigation in hawaii but the first question is who gets the alert and who doesn't? you have those who turn off those push notifications. so if on television a cable tv watcher doesn't have the opportunity t

what you saw last week report from dhs says there 2,500 people on the terror watch list trying to get into the united states each and every year. ta means seven per day that are either apprehended or turned away. we have serious security concerns and it's being ignored in this debate right now. i think when you talk about a bill of love, let me just step back for a second and say where we are in the negotiations. i'm perhaps too optimistic. i feel like there's been significant progress. democrats have moved significantly toward our position of the physical barriers that we're asking for. the front line officers have asked for and democrats have asked us to say, as opposed to 600,000 people, would you be willing to consider that beyond, their position is there are some who were either afraid to come out of the dark and to register or what not and we said, yes, we'den willing to do that. there's a lot of progress here. why we're having a manufactured shutdown when you're having progress and negotiations so you're shutting down the government over an issue that's not in front of you in t

the dhs secretary who's in that meeting.ing face-to-face with dick durbin and lindsey graham who both talked about that two-hour period from the time a phone call came from the president saying i want to do this, let's be bipartisan, come on over to the white house, until they go there and they are blind-sided by what happened. i don't know if you had a chance to watch, peter, that hearing. i did not hear secretary nielsen at any point deny that racist terms were used. i just wonder what you make of what's developed over the last couple of hours? >> yes, she seemed to deny the very specific word that senator durbin recalled. but she did not deny there were other words. it could have been taken in a similar vein. >> she called them cuss words and strong language. >> yes, she tried to basically force, you know, say, well, it was both sides were using bad language. the point is not whether people were using bad language. the point is whether or not the language was derogatory toward an entire group of people based on their race

it is the case that the threats to the national security are not showing any signs of relenting and dhs encountered 2,554 individuals on terrorist watch lists formerly known as the screening database. they were of course attempting to get into the united states. additional statistics provided include the fact between october 1, 2011 and septembe september 302017, a total of 355,345 noncitizens offenders were arrested after being convicted of an aggregated felony or two or more crimes each punishable by more than one year for a regular felony. during the same time. cody hs 372,098 noncitizens offenders were removed from the united states at the conviction of an aggregated felony or two or more felonies and between fiscal year 2010 and 2017 customs and border protection identified and prevented the boarding of 73,261 travelers on flight tested from the united states who may have presented a security risk. in a statement yesterday about the paper, attorney general sessions indicate that there are thousands of investigations and thousands of people in the united states including those who c

we at dhs has been in contact with governor brown's office. we appreciate the very strong partnership that we have. i would like to thank all the state and local officials and federal partners such as epa and the core of engineers for their tireless and dedicated efforts and i thank you all for your leadership in dealing with this crisis. i would like to thank all the men and women of fema and dhs who served from near and far to help our fellow americans in the face of these historic wild fires and we have learned solid lessons and coordination and partnership and we'll carry these throughout the country to other disasters we face. there's a lot of work to do. the fires left many californians facing the daunting task of recovery in one of the debris largest -- i learned today that the amount of debris collected to date is equal to the weight of 4/5 of the weight of the golden gate bridge. that is a tremendous amount of debris and we're just beginning. in addition -- in addition to the grant, the president approved public assistance for some of

those efforts by the dhs impacted you personally? one, theys is number are resending one of the rules ding one of the rules for the spouses of dependence, they could not work before. the obama administration passed educated people could work in this country. dhs hastly enough, started the process to rescind that rule. somewhere in may, june, my spouse will not be able to work. stop thealso trying to extensions of h-1b visas beyond -- years, and it is not there are not enough green cards available for permanent residence. the immigrants who come from countries in europe, they become permanent residents in america in six months to a year, but from india and china, we have the issues waiting. when you wait in line you are expected you are treated fairly, and right now due to all the actions going on behind the curtain where they are trying to needus out, you hear, you to do it legally and do it in the right channels, that is not necessarily true because even if you do that, you see these actions where the implied message that, we do not

he has been meeting with dhs officials. he was a former dhs secretary himself. he has taken a pretty hands on role in this. when he saw the plan he thought it would be bad for the president politically. and then the president started hearing from hard line conservative members. folks who are more hawkish and support the wall saying you can't take this deal mr. president. >> i want to hear more about chief of staff john kelly. there is something of an impression outside of the white house that maybe he has been moderating voice on the preside president. maybe that is john kelly's true -- i don't know if it is true feelings or if it is just a political move to preserve the base. john kelly is not a political figure. he was dhs secretary and doesn't understand ins and outs of congress maybe as much as some folks. just the minutia of congress. i think john kelly has been a moderating voice of some sense. he put rigor and discipline on the staff. when it comes to many issues he -- >> do you have reporting on why senators purdue and cotton decided to change their tune

military, fema and dhs. we provide all the emergency communications for the american red cross and salvation army. to quote former fema administrator craig few gate, quote, as much as we think we are indicates technology, things break. seeing how amateur radio in a disaster in a crisis often times is the one thing that was still up and run, a ham transmitting can mean the difference between life and death. end quote. amateur radio operators are included in emergency operations plans in every state of the union. the role played by ham in disasters was in full display in fall of 2017 which saw four major hurricanes make landfall in the united states and its territories. these caused significant damage to florida, texas, puerto rico, and the virgin islands. in advance of, during, and in the aftermath of each one trained radio operators using radio stations in their homes and portable radio facilities responded in large numbers. they reported critical weather to the national weather service and the national hurr

>> it is unclear to me what would be turned over to dhs. since d.o.j. said the voter rolls wouldn't be turned over at all, there is not much left to turn over. there were no reports made by the commission. the commission didn't agree on any points of view. mr. kobach, even in a brietbart article a couple of days ago said, "oh, well look at all this voter fraud that the commission has found." that's not true at all. there are instances of voter fraud submitted into the record but they were never considered by the commission they were never fact checked. so at this point the commission hasn't made any findings and it's not clear to me what would be turned turned over to dhs, if something should be. >> sreenivasan: jessica huseman of propublica. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> this is "pbs newshour weekend," saturday. >> sreenivasan: the east coast is still gripped by a record cold snap, with temperatures dipping into the single digits and driving winds that make it feel even colder. wind chill advisories and warnings were in effect up and down the e

top officials at dhs are very alarmed by their actions. before becoming white house chief of staff, secretary of homeland security john kelly explained to a national security forum last july, to me personally, that one of his top concerns is a partnership between tcos and international terror groups. if such alliances were formed, terrorists would have an easier time sneaking a dirty bomb or other catastrophic weapon and resources into the united states. further, in written testimony before our full committee back in november, acting secretary duke stated that tcos are, quote, bringing drugs, violence and dangerous goods across our borders and pose a persistent national security threat to the united states, end of quote. unfortunately, some of these partnerships are starting to take hold. recent reports have shown that hezbollah has been very activity in recent years with international drug cartels in latin america. we cannot allow such dangerous actors to gather in our hemisphere unchallenged. the ability of tcos secreting terrorists and