purpose for dhs is clear. it's even clearer now with the threats against our country, and we welcome an authorization act that would give us updated authorities, updated support and updated accountability, even, for the country which we support. we recognize that we have to ensure that we carry out the mission on behalf of the country and that we're serving even our employees, our 240,000 employees right. when we think passage of the authorization act would be helpful in us executing our authorities and our responsibilities. over the past year at dhs, i've been working on a unity of effort effort at dhs and this is critical, and hopefully we'll have time to talk about it today, but it's really looking at how we as the headquarters operate to enable and support the headquarters. and i see three roles for the headquarters elements, leading a community of practice, being subject matter experts and servicing the headquarters. and i think that your proposal, mr. chairman, of consolidating some of the committees wou

over the past year at dhs, i have been working on a unity effort at the dhs. looking at how we as the headquarters operate and support. community, subject i think yours, proposal mr. chairman, consolidating some of the committees would be a great parallel to what we are trying to do at headquarters. we've made great progress. we have to do more in this area. what we are looking for in an authorization bill overall is something that does what you say and codifies some of the efforts . but does not go so far as to thatte and legislate areas would be difficult to change or take away essential flexibility for the secretary. so, finding that right balance. we feel like areas in an authorization bill that will help us with personnel, things such as hiring retention, and fax ability, and management of our employees would be helpful. we can discuss this on a level of detail now or in discussions with you in the ranking member later. also, the depend -- department in cyber. we have the senior official performing the duty of the undersecretary. an accounting of weapons

for dhs the purpose is clear. it's even clearer now with the threat against our country and we welcome an authorization act that would give us updated authority or updated support and updated accountability even for the country which we support. we recognize that we have to ensure that we carry out the mission on behalf of the country and that we are serving even our employers are 240,000 employees right. missing passage of the authorization act would be helpful in executing executing our authorities and responsible is. over the past year at dhs have been working on a unity of effort at dhs and this is critical and hopefully we have time to talk about it today. it's looking at how we as the headquarters operate to enable and support the headquarters and i see three roles for the headquarters elements. leading a community of practice, seeing subject matter servicing the headquarters. i think your proposal, mr. chairman, consolidating some of committees would be a great parallel to what we were trying to do in headq

dhs hass establishment, progressed to addressing challenges, but to fulfill its vital mission,, dhs mustontinue to overcome challenges that hinders its efforts. my officeast years, has issued reports addressing the challenges that face dhs. many of those challenges congress addressed. with implementation of our recommendations in your legislation, dhs can continue to improve its operations and reduce fraud, waste, and abuse. however, if the department ignores these challenges, it will be difficult for dhs to address reemerging threats to the homeland. the last two annual reports on the challenges, we highlighted two of the most long-standing challenges. first, dhs's leadership, committing that it operates more as a single entity rather than a consideration of components. they must also establish a strong control environment -- a strong internal control environment. of thects all aspects mission, including border protection, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and cyber security. the dhs authorization act reinforces the need for department unity by streamlining accountability and redund

dhs is a large department. we are 200 -- almost 250,000 strong. and we leverage all of our law enforcement capabilities and capacity to target traffickers and to disrupt and dismantle their criminal enterprises throughout their pathways throughout the world. i'm sure you've talked a little bit today about transnational criminal organizations but i would like to add my voice to the specific part of the threat. tcus are using their networks to smuggle dangerous drugs, illegal aliens and potential terrorists into our country. they have no concern for human lives and they're solely motivated by profit and violence. these networks are significant and persistent and we're working tirelessly to stop them. but know that they also traffic in human souls. there are many, many reasons that the department of justice has made this a priority to fight and we join their fight at the department of homeland security. one example of how we have supported the fight is operation safe haven. an investigation into a loosely affiliated organization that coordinated the

we've done that through pretty structured means within dhs. our secretary who matt mentioned stood up at the election task force. she leads the election task force that's our belly but ton within dhs. working closely with the fbi to promote a front within that. we gone through process of working with particularly the national association of secretary of state,

dhs doesn't do everything. who else are you guys working with across national security community, and what other things are you working on? do you work on the fake news issue? is that somebody else? how are you leveraging intelligence and so on where other agencies are gathering to help certain locals defend against this? >> we don't work on the fake news issue. our lane is security and that's we focus our reference. it's important to go with the election stuff, supporting the state and local community. we work worked 30 this as a whf government approach so the fbi is heavily engaged in the work we are doing as was the intelligence community, and getting that information and getting it as the classic as against we can share it as broadly as we can so that the state and local officials can take action where needed. we are doing a really a whole host of things. one of the things we stood up inside the organization is an election task force to really bring everybody together very, very quickly to get things organi

what's wrong with dhs? you give washington dl$25 milli of the money they ask for, and they slam you. there's some crazy people out there. just shut them out. this is the best shot you'll ever get. america is with us, mr. president. if you'll be with us, we can make this bill better, but we're not going to turn this agenda over to the apostle of tom tancredo. steve miller is never going to run the show here and get you a successful outcome. go where the american people are. the american people want the border secured, and they want the wall you talked about. and you can get it. the american people want to give these young folks, the daca recipients, a better life. this is the only place they know. we'll go to the parents next and go to e-verify next and do legal immigration and do merit-based immigration next. but mr. president, listen to the american people. and lead us in congress, and all will turn out well. if you turn this agenda over to the most extreme people on this issue, you're going to fail like o

that is, it's the policy of dhs, if an alien passes a credible fear screening and dhs is able adequately to verify his identity and is satisfied the alien is not a flight risk and will not be dangerous if released into the community, unless there's some kind of veiling consideration the policy of dhs is to pull those individuals into the country. >> can you give me any idea of numbers? does 10% meet that requirement? 20% or do we know? >> we really don't know. dhs doesn't keep statistics as to the numbers. it's not either a formality in the sense of aliens being always or almost always paroled but between those two extremes i don't think we have reliable statistical evidence. >> i thought we had some. from what i understand, in 2012, i.c.e. has granted parole to 80% of arriving aliens. in 2015 the number dropped to 47%, and it may be lower now. so my question is, it's obviously the executive alone making this determination. what other area of law have we permitted a government agent, on his or her own, without a neutral party, looking at that decision to detain someone indefinitely? >> w

and so they actually -- we got a lot of direct attention from dhs and the staff dhs. we had them come down for in-person assessments to richmond. we actually had people on the ground on election day cybersecurity folks from dhs kind of with our cyber folks for election days and the lead up to. and so i think the services they provide, you know, to me, it's been a, you know, we had a big focus on cybersecurity during the mccullough administration, big focus on cybersecurity and we were doing a lot of things. i think where dhs has come in is, you know, where it's been important, is like judd said, even if you're already doing a lot of things around, figuring out how to secure your systems, where to make improvements, having this expertise to come in and review what you're doing and take a look at and say, hey, here are some potential vulnerabilities you may have in your system, here are ways to address them, i think that's a huge help to election officials. you know, it can be an overwhelming thing to see, you know, take a look -- a very close and intensive look at your

dhs does not do everything. who else are you working with across national security community and what other things are you working on? do you guys work on the fake news issue? is that somebody else? how are you leveraging intelligence and so on the other agencies are gathering to help state and locals? rick: we do not work on this fake news issue. our latest security. -- our lane is security. that is where we focus our efforts. it is important with these election things. we work -- this is a whole government approach. the fbi is heavily engaged in the work we're doing, as well as the intelligence community, getting that information as the -- -- and getting that as declassified as we can to share as broadly as we can, so that the state and local officials can take action where needed. we are doing a whole host of things. one of the things that we stood up inside the organization is an election task force to bring everybody together very quickly to get things organized and provide resources so that we can come up

this is not ainer fight dhs or e u.s. government can do on their 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's been tremendous progress, particularly in the technology center. last july the united kingdom home secretary amber rudd and i travel to silicon valley to meet with the newly launched global internet forum on counterterrorism, rgi sct. the j sct led by facebook, microsoft, youtube and twitter is the first time major companies have come together to work on research and technology techniques in thiss 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 theam work of gisct to counter this incredibly dangerous problem. we hope more companies will consider engaging with us to help stop terrorism here and abroad because terrorists radicalization makes the world and more dangerous place for each one of us. we also know t

we were doing a lot of things where dhs where it's been important. like jeff said even if you were already doing a lot of things around figuring out how to cure your system and where to make improvements having this expertise come and review what you were doing and take a look at that and say hey here are some potential vulnerabilities you may have in your system and here's a way to address them. i think that's a huge help to elected officials. it can be an overwhelming thing to take a close an intensive look at your system and go oh my gosh there are all these potential ways for people to get into an attacker system. where do we start? where will we get the most bang for our buck? what can we do in the timeframe that we have that would have the most impact? dhs has been super helpful in coming in and helping. we all have limited resources. would you grade if we had additional federal resources but having that expertise come and and say hearer potential vulnerabilities but you can focus on this and have a much bigger impact than you focus on these ot

dhs is offering cyber security help, but some states tell us they're still waiting. is there a waiting list for dhs help in the election? >> no. >> with regards to the election? >> there's no waiting list. >> no waiting list? >> no waiting list. >> reporter: secretary manfra says they will get to everybody and takes us to the secure location where experts look for vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit. it's a very small, lean, mean team here. >> it is. it is, but i like to think we have some of the best and the brightest. >> reporter: some states question whether the federal government should be involved at all. what do you say to the states who say, we're fine, we're good, thanks a lot, see ya? >> i'd say you're being naive and irresponsible to the people that you're supposed to serve. 2016 was the wake-up call, and now it's incumbent upon states and the feds to do something about it before our democracy is attacked again. >> many of the states complained to us that the federal government did not provide them with specific threat details saying that information

you had mentioned the reauthorization of dhs in your remarks. can you set some light on why that is so important? if i am not mistaken, it is a first-time the dhs has written a reauthorization bill. first, it's significance and fingers, not to point at the other chamber from a bicameral perspective, do you see the senate following through? rep. mccaul: i do. in my judgment, this has taken too long. the jurisdictions committee needs to be fixed first. i had to assign a mo you at the speaker's needs to be fixed first. leadern other chairman to get the first ever reauthorization of the department of homeland security since it's inception. that is astounding. a abdication of article one constitutional responsibilities. a lot of these offices really , like suzanne's don't exist. ice doesn't exist. host: the name change itself is so important. rep. mccaul: ice doesn't exist in law. it is kind of demoralizing to a department when congress has not officially authorized or recognized it. in law. that is why i think it is so important to codify these offi

dhs has done a lot of work in this race. we want to understand violent radicalism and terrorist recruitment so more people can identify it and prevent it. this includes tools such as developing social media and briefing on how the community has become aware online. it includes conferences such as the digital form on terrorism -- dhsion that dss sponsored. many of you, startups, organizations gathered together to showcase technology end techniques to counter the use of terrorist social media. across the government, dhs houses an interagency task force to increase information sharing with other agencies, including the national counterterrorism center, the fbi, and the department of justice. the wide range of stakeholders bring me to the third category, nongovernment solutions. i want to perforation or motto " everyone is a terrorism prevention stakeholder, even if they do not know it yet," and we believe that. we can drive nongovernmental responses to terrorism recruitment that are more scalable and sustainable. have counter n

and as for the dhs official who left documents on a plane... well dhs isn't commenting, calling it anel matter. drew griffin cnn atlanta." coming upnats: sounds of gunshots i was told by viewers to stop showing sideshows and they would go away . well i took their advice but they only got worse ... now some people are asking for a legal venue .. we'll look into this in the next edition of people behaving badly (sports) coming up i'll have all the day's sports highlights and scores. it's time for the 'ultimate sleep number event' on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting. does your bed do that? right now, our queen c2 mattress is only $699, save $200. ends soon. visit sleepnumber.com for a store near you. (pam) some people are calling 'sideshows' a bay area cultural expression that will never go away.(steve) but the activity is unquestionably dangerous, and despite law enforcement stepping up enforcement things have appeared to be taken to the next level....so is there anything that can be done to protect neighborhoods? sounds of shots

republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina on the dhs opposing that says that it seems as if dhs is intent on acting less like a partner and more like an adversary, the comments from the south carolina senator. the president also weighing in on immigration more broadly this morning on twitter, saying that while the republicans and democrats in congress are working hard to come up with a solution to daca, they should be strongly considering a system of merit-based immigration so that we'll have the people ready, willing, and able to help all of those companies moving into the u.s. we will hear from a couple of those senators, part of that bipartisan coalition, next here on c-span3. the debate on immigration continuing on the senate floor with four measures, as we mentioned, under consideration. you can follow the senate debate on c-span2. >> nice to have such a good group. turn off your phone. >> come on in. >> i'm going to stand with the vertically

so of the items that the report lists out, were those addressed by dhs prior to the super bowl?yeah, and we should also point out that that's why they have these exercises. the problems that detailed in the documents are designed to highlight the problems so they can be fixed before a big event, dhs officials say that is exactly what happened in this case, here is their statement they gave to us, the issues revealed in the exercise are eactly what we expect to see from such an event, a training event, and they did not highlight gaps that could not be addressed, they confirmed to us they did address these things. as for the dhs official whose name appears on the document, well, they would not comment, they call it a personnel matter. >> personnel matter, drew griffin, appreciate it, thank you. >>> turning now from a super bowl blunder to super bowl bliss. especially if you're an eagles fan. the city of brotherry love flying high on the wings of eagles on this monday, much more on the big game, next. duncan just protected his family with a $500,000 life insurance policy. how much

we've done that through pretty structured means within dhs. our secretary who matt mentioned stood up at the election task force. she leads the election task force that's our belly but ton within dhs. working closely with the fbi to promote a front within that. we gone through process of working with particularly the national association of secretary of state, the eac, the national state of direct tors, local governments to stand up a structure where collectively dhs can sit at the table with representatives of state local governments. this is through bureaucratic naming -- >> we'll leave this discussion here and go live to the white house for today's briefing, here is the spokesperson sarah sanders. >> this bill achieves our top priority a much needed increase and funding for national defense. this is increasing budget caps and provides certainty for the next two years. defense spending will match the request by the pentagon and reflects what the president signed into law with the national defense authorization act. thanks to president trump

i have looked at some of the reports made public from dhs and they are good, but they are or maybe i should say they are fair, but they don't really demonstrate the level of sophistication that the nation state adversary would have. these systems are uniformly vulnerable, and i think that any cybersecurity expert who looked at any of the systems would come to that conclusion. so we feed to be focused on the detection and the recovery and also to keep in mind that the average lag time according to the fbi from a compromise until the detection is in the range of three to six months, so coming out on the day after election day, and saying that there was no compromise, well, that is not really surprising that you have not seen a compromise, but it may not show up for three to six months on average. >> let's see. so, that was interesting. i want to also focus on what we can do now which is the move to paper ballots and eliminating the audits is really important and i want to give a shout out in particular to ed war goe dortez and is he here? i thought that i saw him on the agenda, and he

as suzanne spalding knows so well having worked at dhs. i want to applaud you for your service to the department. you did such a great job. [ applause ] as suzanne knows, our adversary, both nation state and non-state actors threaten us around the clock in cyberspace. and whether it's north korea launching a global cyber attack, crippling infrastructure, to china stealing our nation's valuable, intellectual property, to russia conducting disinformation warfare campaigns to sew discord among the people, to iran attacking our financial institutions, to terrorists spreading evil propaganda over the internet, or criminals taking our financial and personal information, we are all exposed to harm. i was one of the millions of victims and many of you are here in the room, of the opm data breach by china in 2014 and 2015, which resulted in over 20 million stolen security records, including social security numbers and fingerprints. to mitigate this threat, we must improve our cyber resiliency and protection. the house passed and i authored to eleva

with the immigration detainer request duly issued than the local officer has the same authority as dhs the way they would be considered an agent from department of homeland security and the entity person would sue in the event they are wrongly detained the civil rights are violated the responsibility should be on the federal government after all it was a request initiated with the federaln government my legislation does not curb an individual's ability to file a suit if there rights are violated intentional or accidental there is no curb on their ability to simply transferring the liability of the municipality to the origination of the detainer request that is the department of homeland security's assault on legal liability problem that has some municipalities across america and in pennsylvania. some of them choosing to be sanctuary cities even though they would rather not to be.ot now addressing that if my legislation is adopted solving the legal liability problem if the community does not participate then it will not get that protection just because they came here illegally despite t

dhs -- capabilities? >> you can argue that probably -- some argue of dod and doj and the standing authority in that regard. >> but the teams at the origin of the attacks have the authority to do so? >> granted the authority. they don't have the day to day authority. >> are you would have to be .irected by the president >> have you been directed by the

--blue january is the month that we at dhs remind everyone of this challenge -- it is our unified effort to raise public consciousness about human trafficking and bring traffickers to justice. in addition to new public service announcements as year, we will continue to develop training kits and products to private industry, law enforcement stakeholders and nonprofits to identify the signs of trafficking. from truckstop cashiers and hotel clerks to police officers and emergency room nurses, we want everyone who interacts with the public to recognize the signs of human trafficking. to know what to look for and whom to report to if they suspect it. at ask for your support in the blue campaign's efforts. more information can be found in our website. i am proud to say that many components play an important role. we conduct law-enforcement fourtions international and domestic human trafficking cases. -- the uscis provides trafficking victims with immigration relief and the cb the not only identifies victims along our borders -- the not only identifies victims and the borders but also helps the

so, nbc 10 and telemundo 62 are partnering with dhs to be part of the solution. we're hoping that the more people that know about foster parenting, the more they'll want to participate. with me now is the commissioner for the philadelphia department of human services, cynthia figueroa. and cynthia, want to kind of start at the beginning in terms of how we arrived in this place where you guys are looking for more foster parents. how did we get here? cynthia figueroa: well, certainly we know that a number of years ago, in the wake of the sandusky law changes, there was 24 changes, and we had a huge influx of new reporting, which is helpful, but it also meant we had a tremendous increase of kids coming into the system, which meant there was a strain on the existing foster care resources that we had for families. george: so, it's really this sense that the foster care network, as we heard, really kind of pushed to its limit. tell me about this new push that you guys are focused on now. what's the idea behind recruiting new parents? cynthia: recruitment is really we b

or concerns and serves as the intake point for travelers who need information about tsa pre-check, dhs traveler redress or their civil rights and civil liberties among other topics. reflective of the project tsa is making on this effort, in 2017, it faces a 14% decrease in the rate of complains despite a 3% increase in passenger throughput. while there are many reasons for this improvement, a key element of our success involves outreach. in tsa's erle whiest daarliest reached out to understand the public's needs and concerns. as a result, it was the establishment of tsa's disability and medical coalition and the tsa multicultural coalition. these coalitions rapt a wide spectrum of travelers including muslims, native americans, persons with ostomies, mothers traveling with breast milk, transgenders and people in wheel chairs and others. one outcome is our work with the committee which resulted in a change in tsa screening procedures by taking into consideration the religious sensitivities of this community, tsa now allows sikh passengers to pat down their own headwear and submit their h

>> the execution of dhs mission. >> you haven't given him them any advice? >> that's not really my role maam. we talk about tell me what you are doing, what are the capabilities and cyber command that could support you with. those are the discussions and i make sure the information flow, getting the benefits of fans that we are generating based on the actions we have taken? >> with regard to those kinds of conversations is homeland security doing what they need to be doing to counter russian interference continuing interference with our elections? >> you need to talk to them, maam. i don't have full knowledge that a barbara poma security is doing doing. that would be an ill formed opinion. >> with all the resources and the awareness that you have what kind of advice to be given to home in security because we do not get the impression that they are doing what's adequate definitely to counter anything that the russians are doing certainly not to the point where they will stop doing it. so i hope that at some point and some other committee or that the committee

under fbi review in march that with dhs national. that is something where we can use your -- i'm not proposing. what i think we left out was the issue mentioned which was the fact that we looked at all the different pathways terrorists can cross our borders but the reality is they can cross our borders hundreds of thousands of times every day online. that question of online radicalization is so difficult. i would be lying to you if i had a silver bullet solution for. when we talk about this stuff, things, maybe 20 people at the state department doing mean tweets against the jihadi's. i think we lost that capacity for information we had during the cold war, that makes sense. >> i agree with weight you are saying. the biggest thing on top of my head when u.s. that question was western europe. the vulnerabilities and western europe are real, substantial, and they can affect the united states. you have countries that don't do a good job of reporting intelligence at all. countries that don't share any intelligence. lost passports, stolen

dhs is offering cybersecurity help, but some states tell us they're still waiting.ere a waiting list for dhs help in the election -- in regards to the election? >> no waiting list. >> reporter: secretary manfra says they'll get to everybody, and takes us to the location that experts look for vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit. this is a very small, lean, mean team here. >> it is. i like to think we have some of the best and the brightest. >> reporter: some states question whether the federal government should be involved at all. what do you say to the states who say, we're fine, we're good, thanks a lot, see ya? >> you're being naive and irresponsible to the people that you're supposed to serve. 2016 was the wake-up call. now, it is incumbent upon states and the feds to do something about it before our democracy is attacked again. >> that was nbc's cynthia mcfadden. joining us is national security analyst clint watt, a former fbi special agent. he's testified four times in front of congress or russia interfering in our election. this is not news to you, clin

there still is no evidence any votes for changed or rolls were manipulated, kasie. >> do we know if dhsates that were successfully hacked? you mentioned there were some who said this isn't what happened, but do they have the information they needed from the u.s. government? >> it's not clear. they have been a lot of back and forth on that. because some of this information is classified. in the cases where some states disagree, it can be a matter of semantics. we saw them breach state systems with the intent. the bottom line is 1 states were targeted according to the federal government. >> thank you very much for helping us explain in august of. for more, i want to bring in democratic congressman jim hines of connecticut, a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you very much for your time today. >> hi, kasie. >> can you start by just explaining how much of this was new to you that there was success on the part of the russian government in breaching these voter rolls, voter systems in these certain states, and do you feel like dhs has done what they need to do in

and also, members of congress, we thank you for your support of dhs and doj. thank you all. if your recently announced framework, as you know, you asked congress to close loopholes you just talked about. when we talk about ms-13, we have two or three main loopholes. the first is we have an inadmissibility problem. when they come to our border, i have to let them in. i cannot keep them out by virtue of being in a gang. once we detect -- >> these things are unique to our country. no other country has this. this is unique to our country. it's got to change. >> so the framework that proposed will close these. i remain hopeful to work with congress on your behalf and administration's behalf to close these and other loopholes to secure our borders. so without going into further detail i'd like to turn it over to john cronin. he will walk us through a bit more of ms-13. >> as you know, mr. president, as you just stated, one of the most significant public safety threats that our communities face comes from ms-13. ms-13 has more than 30,000 members worldwide. but the gang has a parti

the dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen is telling state officials is ultimately up to them to keep electionecure. >> she has no desire or no intention to take over elections and run elections from the federal level to the state level. that's the thing we were most enthusiastic about. stick with the first primaries of the 2018 cycle are two weeks from tomorrow. there's a great sense of urgency to beef up cyber defenses even though there still no publicly available evidence to show russia or anybody ever hacked a polling place in 2016. >> john: they've got a big task ahead of them. no question. one state wants to turn back the clock in order to secure its elections. jonathan serrie reports from atlanta on big changes being talked about. >> voter fraud is very, very common. >> it was a problem long before the 2016 presidential race. now a unique effort underway in georgia to safeguard elections by taking voting machines back to the future. >> the most secure elections in the world are conducted with a piece of paper and pencil. >> state representative scott turner has introduced a bill to repl

the dhs is taking this seriously is really what i want to hear. states' side, that they are going to accept that help, because states run elections, even federal elections. you can see a state maybe who isn't so concerned about russian interference based on what happened last time around saying, you know what we got it, we don't need your help. that would be very, very troubling. >> elections are state matters, there's no overarching jurisdiction that can be hardened in washington. it's as good as your computers in texarkana in dallas or columbia. >> that's right. that was something the obama administration brought up right before the election. dhs did come out and say there were some states they were concerned about, that they had some vulnerabilities in their voter registration databases. but now we're -- one of the reasons that they came up that they couldn't do everything was not every state was accepting their help. but at this point, going into 2018 midterms, knowing what we know now, knowing the ability of russia or any other foreign govern