thousands of migrants have been released from dhs custody. in addition, the inspector general released a report saying that your department has failed to take preventative measures at the border, which puts the dhs workforce and communities at unnecessary risk of being exposed to covid-19. to me, it is clear, that either your department does not have a strategy or it is not effectively executing a strategy that will effectively mitigate the risks of covid-19 at the border. why is that? >> congressman, we do have a strategy and we have heard the recommendations of the inspector general office. we are implementing them. we have made changes. and i can walk through the processes that the employees, currently with respect to the population of migrants who we are encountering at the border -- >> okay, well let me ask you this. you say you have a strategy and you are implementing it. when will final implementation of the strategy be complete? because -- go ahead. >> we are working as quickly as possible to implement the recommendations of the offic

dhs did concur with two recommendations in that report, i believe. do you agree that it's your responsibility to ensure that there are strong protocols at the border to mitigate the spread of covid-19? do you commit to implementing the ig's recommendations and identify ways to mitigate the spread of covid-19 and do you commit to report back to this committee in a month on the progress the department has made at the border on testing for covid-19? thank you. >> congresswoman, may i seek your indulgence to obtain a transcript of all the questions that you've asked and answer them rapidly? i did not catch them all now. i will say, congresswoman, that i do appreciate your focus on the communicable diseases with respect to migration, whether it's by air or by land. and in fact by sea. we have concurred in the inspector general's recommendations. we have made changes to our covid-19 protocols. and i will provide the requested information to you as rapidly as possible. >> mr. secretary, i appreciate your respects for the questions i asked. but i've been ask

fourth, dhs continues to support efforts to combat the covid-19 pandemic. fema helped stand up more than 800 community vaccination centers, including almost 200 mobile sites to more increase access to covid-19 vaccines across vulnerable and rural populations. the transportation security administration acted to protect the health of the traveling public and transportation personnel by implementing a federal mask mandate at airports on commercial aircraft and in various modes of surface transportation. the u.s. secret service and immigration and customs enforcement have partnered with other federal agencies to protect americans from covid-19 related fraud and criminal activity, including by preventing more than $3 billion of much needed covid-19 relief from fraudulently ending up in the pockets of criminals. finally, we are countering the growing existential threat posed by climate change. hurricane ida was the latest manifestation of a devastating reality. natural disasters, rising in intensity and destructive reach. however, this threat is not new. nor is i

fifth, dhs continues to support nationwide efforts to combat the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. fema has helped stand up more than 800 community vaccination centers, including almost 200 mobile sites to more equitably increase access to covid-19 vaccines across vulnerable and rural populations. the trapgs and rural association acted to protect by implementing a federal mask mandate at airport, on commercial aircraft and in various modes of service transportation. meanwhile the u.s. secret service and immigration and customs enforcement have partnered with other federal agencies to protect americans from covid-19-related fraud and criminal activity including by preventing more than $3 billion worth of much-needed covid-19 relief from fraudulently ending up in the pockets of criminals. finally, we are countering the current and existential growing threat posed by climate change. hurricane ida was the latest of a devastating reality. natural disasterers rising in intensity and destructive reach. however the threat is not new or unique to any region. to rep, to help. president biden

dhs stopped ran j smware.gov to help combat ran j sm wear. our experts at the cyber security and infrastructure security agency stoods up the joint cyber defense collaborative to bring together partners from every level of government and the private sector to reduce cyber risks. our office of intelligence and analysis are working with all 50 states, local jurisdictions do keep our election secure. we are building a top tier cyber security work force by investing in the development of diverse talent pipelines and building the expertise to keep addressing changes threats. the logistical operations. while streamlining multi-national cooperation on investigations and prosecutions. fifth, dhs continues to support nation wide efforts to combat the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. fema has help stand up more than 800 community vaccination centers, including almost 200 mobile sites to more equitiablely increase access to covid-19 vaccines across vulnerable and rural populations. meanwhile, the u.s. secret service and immigration and customs enforcement hav

it's an email that dhs' national operations center sent at 1:30 p.m. on january 6 to the defense department. the head of the capitol u.s. capitol police is begging the dod to send in the national guard. the first protesters at the capitol building have started smashing barriers and it's been four hours since protesters at the washington monument were in violent clashes with police officers. what does dhs' national operations center tell the pentagon at 1:30 p.m.? they say there's no major instance of law breaking going on in d.c., specifically in the context of these protests. the fact that dhs, which is responsible for pushing back against major threats, was giving information that was that jaw-droppingly incorrect to the pentagon, it boggles the mind and raises all sorts of questions. >> do you know whose name is on that email, from whom it was sent? >> we don't know whose name is on the email. we know it was sent by a communication system that connects the department of homeland security to dod. this system exists so dhs can regularly give dod updat

we have to hold people accountable in dhs under donald trump.p accountable. we have to hold republicans in congress accountable. anybody that was involved with enabling this or magnifying this or not doing anything about it should be held accountable because in the end, those 400 or 300 or 500 people that they've been arrested or trying to prosecute, isn't going to solve this problem. the only way to solve this problem are people in high office that allowed this or facilitated this happening in the course of this, and this is another demonstration that the republican party in america today has become the party that no longer cares about law and order, that no longer fundamentally cares about the systems and norms of our democracy, and that poll shows that that has come further and further and further down as we leave away from january 6th, and the other thing, final thing i'll say, alicia, is that we can never forget january 6th. people should burn that date in their memory, just like they burn 9/11 in their memory, just like they burn pearl har

former acting dhs secretary chad wolf reacted earlier. >> they refuse to call it a crisis at the end of the day and we need to be honest with the american people, on average in any given month, it is three times the amount we have seen in previous years. that is catastrophic at the end of the day. >> another number that stands out, we have had more than

once folks have been obtained and going before the court, then attorneys for dhs and i.c.e. are coming and saying allow us prosecutorial discretion to release this individual. is this a new process or something ongoing? >> prosecutorial discretion is -- >> i'm talking about going to the court and requesting it? >> i believe that's been long-standing. >> okay. we'll follow up and get additional details. it's my understanding there has -- i received recent information about 6,234 cases that have been dismissed, and then the process of those cases, once they're in the process, and some of them included some folks with a criminal record as well. and we're just trying to get additional information. >> i look forward to providing that to you. i know that the office of legal counsel within immigration and customs enforcement is promulgated new guidelines for its attorneys, and if you don't have those guidelines, we would be pleased to share them. >> that would be helpful. this goes back to the i.c.e. guidelines on detention that we're trying to get clarity, needed by august. you sa

at dhs -- i'm sorry g. at dhs. wilmer hale notes at the outset of their report that, of course, any citizen has the right to question a presidential nomination in their personal capacity. federal employees in their capacity as private citizens have a first amendment right to express their political opinions and may contact law make maniers to do so -- lawmakers to do so. however, it is misuse of authority for a federal employee to interfere with a presidential nomination or the senate confirmation process. and then they say federal employees should not use their government resources, including the the e-mail system or access to lawmakers or other government officials, for personal gain or for any other unauthorized purposes. wilmer hale further reports in their investigation, following their investigation that these individuals who were opposed to the doctor's nomination within dhs oig came to you, ms. lerner, to discuss the nomination. they wrote to you saying that they had a sensitive matter related to the dhs i'

i helped pass a requirement in the fiscal year '20 ndaa that required both the fbi and the dhs to report data on this threat. yet both of your agencies took close to a year to provide roughly half of the response that we were looking for. a year to provide half. director wray, in the case of the fbi, half would be a very generous assessment of what the fbi provided. it's considerably less than that. if we can't get that kind of data, it's difficult for us to understand what the efforts are, what efforts are being made and how we might be able to support those efforts. you have reporting requirements under the law, and i would hope that you would comply on time and in full. can i get a commitment that we can get the rest of that information that's well over a year past the expected date? >> well, certainly you can have my commitment that we're going to do better and work with you as quickly as we can to get you the information that we can. part of the challenge that we're not happy about is of course the pandemic hit and many of the people that we're involved in pulling together the infor

we went to the dhs contracts, take a look at this video are drawn team shot yesterday, dhs officially saying they are canceling all remaining a boardwalk contracts for the border walls in the rio grande valley in laredo. what you are looking at are the pylons that were never put into the ground the border wall in the joya texas one of the biggest hotspots in the rio grande valley, only a half-mile was built while wall construction halted in january as president biden took over we have piles of metal already paid for by the taxpayers, that is resting in the sun, there is never going to be anything done in the border agents that we talk to incredibly frustrated because they need these walls out here because this is a hotspot area, they have to deal with runners all the time in the walls create chokepoints, right now it is basically a free-for-all in la jolla. take a listen to former border patrol chief ron, he was also the head of vice, he says these walls are incredibly effective and is making the border agents job harder without having them. >> they know full well when they have a wal

back with us now, former dhs oversight council, great to have you back on.thousands of migrant caravans heading to u.s. border saying they will arrive in about 20 days and they are thankfully ready to go to war with mexico to cross. that sounds pretty serious, what you think. >> personal from this notion that they are saying we are going to go to war with mexico? are the people we want in our country? what happens when we turn around and have to remove them? certainly biden will try who cares about enforcement lockbox what are we going to do with illegal aliens ready to go to war if someone disturbs their illegal immigration patterns? it's no surprise they keep on coming. joe biden and his minions have opened the gate and invited everyone in, it's tragic. liz: texas governor abbott and others were at the border to highlight the crisis in the white house again has rejected a federal disaster declaration for the border. the new york times reports 100,000 people have gone missing in mexico. 100,000 people missing in mexico the last decade, the cartel wars are r

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>> i think there's a lot of dhs officials that yowe an explanation. maher, who replaced me. he shut down all of the collection we had in place that would, sure as i'm sitting here, that we would have found and detected. these people were not hiding. this was in plain sight and he shut that down and he's now on the committee as a member. serving under one of the republicans. i'm for the committee, you know, finding the truth, the objective truth, and i'm concerned one of the people needs to testify is actually working on the committee. investigating himself. >> you alleged that chad wolfe and ken kuch nelly cavgave the orders. do you think they got this directive from the white house? is there anything that indicates that they got this from the white house because i remember from covering the administration there were things that were just unspoken and you understood it if you worked in various parts, that officials really cared about it. >> i was never told that directly, but i share the idea you just expressed, that it was unsaid from on high down or

the decision means the biden administration can excel migrants while the matter is litigated after dhs secretary mayorkas asked whether or not they were ready to handle 400,000 migrants crossing the border in october. more encounters increased more than 1 million in october of 2020. a new directive given to ice agents. new york is saying illegal status of migrants should not be the basis for deportation. he directed agents not to support illegal farmworkers or arrest them, elderly or activist, he wants them to prioritize arrests and removal of migrants and the democratic mayor of laredo, texas slammed biden and his border disaster saying, quote, we need to secure the border. it was working under trump. if biden doesn't come out with implementing a virtual wall, people will be begging for a physical structure. because of lack of attention to the border and especially the size of the surges, he said certain trump era policies have been beneficial including the remain in mexico policy but public services are in desperate need of relief. a wave of 85,000 patients crossed there and believe

the inspector general recommended dhs reassess its covid response framework and dhs agreed with this recommendation. with that in mind will you prioritize working with other federal agencies to ensure accurate and complete data transparency regarding covid-19 in cbp facilities? mr. magnus: thank you for the question. without good data collection, i think we are not in a great vision. i support data collection, i support being transparent with that data, particularly as it relates to covid, i think it is critical. mr. magnus: will you commit -- sen. warren: will you commit to keeping congress informed of those items? -- findings? mr. magnus: i will. sen. warren: the cbp commissioner has the opposition to ensure the care of individuals and its custody congress and the public have a right to know what's happening. so i appreciate your commitment to making that a priority. thank you and thank you mr. chairman. sen. wyden: we go now to senator cassidy and then senator bennett . senator cassidy. sen. cassidy: i know there's been a discussion of this recently earlier, but as regards to immu

. >> dhs announced they are bolstering intelligence to better gather information to monitor and protect migrants coming from south and central america. why is this happening now and why wasn't it in place already? ms. psaki: i'm not sure what you are referring to. is it a specific program? >> nbc news reported earlier today they are building an intelligence gathering cell, which dhs confirmed to me as well, that they are doing to help better monitor and predict migrants. it could also help with messaging. what are the goals for that? ms. psaki: i think the department of homeland security would have the details. i am happy to check with them, but it is under their purview. >> how does this affect the white house, the biden administration addressing root causes, mostly focused in central america? ms. psaki: let me get more details on this program and we can talk more about it tomorrow or offline and i can connect you with dhs. >> biden was asked if he supported term limits for the supreme court and he said no. that appears to be the area in the draft report materials last week. why is he

morgan has a 30 year career in law enforcement with dhs and the fbi. mark served as acting commissioner jess customs and border protection and is acting director of immigration customs enforcement, i.c.e., during the trump administration. president obama appointed mr. morgan as u.s. border patrol jeep as she served on the detail from the fbi to cbp as acting assistant commissioner for internal affairs. mr. morgan n served for nearly 0 years at the fbi. during his tenure he served in numerous units and task forces including the eurasian organized crime task force and hispanic gang task force out of the los angeles field office. the fbi's deputy on scene commander for the counterterrorism division in baghdad and special agent in charge in the el paso division. you can see mr. morgan is a great deal of espresso mr. morgan thanks formo being here. >> senator johnson, senator portman and senator scott, first of all i would like to say thank you for your time, attention on this very critically important issue facing this country. we know you're busy so it's

dhs life sick -- cycle report says 3%. this is by design. many with covid, many with criminal histories that will never leave. >> if i may, senators, in support of what the former director said, i can tell you first hand in my area of massachusetts, the i.c.e. officer walked in the office the other day and said he put his badge on the desk and his weapon and said i'm all done. i didn't get into this business to be social worker and log people in as they are standing in rope lines outside this facility. that's what they have done. there's between 13 and 30 agents every day that are spending their time logging people in that are pouring in over this border. one other important thing that's really worth pointing out, it was mentioned earlier about atf, dea and these other federal agencies that are partners with us in law enforcement, why would anyone, particularly in this administration, that took the same oath of public trust to uphold the laws of this nation, the most fundamental responsibility we have to protect the citizens of this nation s

. >> yesterday as the big bust in mexico happened anthony blinken, dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas and aaron garland were in mexico meeting with the mexican government having high level security talks like cartels, drugs, border issues but noticeably absent from the meeting with the vice president kamala harris, she was in new jersey at a daycare center playing with children she ended up going to a testing site for covid-19 as well she has not been to the border since el paso in late june where she made her infamous comments that there was extreme progress being made and as we wrap up take a live look at the fox drone this is the trump border wall that was being built in the way of texas one of the busiest spots along the border only half-mile got built yesterday dhs announced they are canceling all remaining border wall contracts in the rio grande valley even though it is paid for taxpayers on the hook, this half-mile is not going to grow any further the biden administration since i don't believe in the border wall and they want to invest in smarter security options. eric: it's pretty

political appointees have been planted in i.c.e., cbp, dhs and the white house.ho they are listening to. they are being written by activists and he's not talking to the men and women who spent decades writing this and standing on the border enforcing the law. that is the biggest difference and you can see if i talk to the experts who was more successful on the shutting down and securing the border to the highest degree. it was president trump. >> can i follow up on that for a second? one thing that has come up today is technology sensors, cameras. i think i told you this when i was down at the el paso sector, i asked how much of the technology had been stopped because you go down there and you see there are literally gaps in the wall. it has to be a 24/7 presence. so they said only 10% of the technology was completed. democrats always talk about technology and i think it's important. if you don't have the sensors and the cameras it is much less effective because people can scale it. they said only 10% of the technology. and we won't talk about the details because

and we have a new dhs directive which is killing me was just telling i.c.e. status alone should not be the basis for deportation and let me go on. under the new guidelines that are set to take effect, agents are distracted, constructed to determine whether the severity of the client crime warrants deportation. severity of the crime. it isn't illegally crossing the border a crime and of itself? so much for deterring the flood of illegal that we are seeing, so i'm not surprised, and by two months from now it's not going to be 100,000. it's going to keep going. to see the video in the picture is actually of the babies in these carrying apparatuses on their parents chest as they are crawling through these dangers, that in of itself it's a human crisis. the administration is looking at these images and saying, come on in. >> kayleigh: exactly. i know the trump administration warned biden about this and you know i panama foreign minister david, the mexican president, and everyone seems to get it except joe. >> kayleigh: we know this but i would also say going back

according to a dhs whistle-blower -- now, listen closely.ave been put on notice, you get vaccinated by november 1, or you will be terminated. so border patrol agents must be vaccinated, illegal immigrants -- you know, waiting, waltzing across the border, they don't need to be vaccinated. there's no mandate, they don't even get covid tested. it's the biggest super-spreader event in the history of this country. even the dhs secretary admitting it's as high as 1.5 million illegal -- i'm sorry, 1 out of 5 illegal immigrants that are covid positive. we had over 1.5 million come in and without a covid test or a vaccine, they are going to be bused or flown to all different parts of the country, but the open border madness doesn't stor there, because new dhc guidelines reportedly say that someone shouldn't be deported just for being in the country illegally. okay, explain that to me. so let's be clear, joe biden is surrendering american sovereignty, not only not enforcing the laws of our land, which he is sworn to do, but also aiding and abetting th

you're a component of dhs. the rest of the federal government is the deadline for the mandate is november 22nd. is that yours as well? >> senator, i have not publicly stated a deadline yet. it wouldn't be disingenuous to say the 22nd but i have sort of removed that decision space to see how things unfold. we are driving in the right duplex toward compliance but i haven't -- the right direction toward compliance but i haven't put out a hard date to our men and women yet. >> secretary austin said the mandatory vaccination will receive only those with full fda approval with accordans with labeling and guidance. at the same time when the fda on the 23rd when they did that distinct approval for comernity or however you pronounce that and extent of emergency use the fda said there is not sufficient approved vaccine available for distribution. there just wasn't. on september 13th nih published a statement that pfizer does not plan to produce any product with these new version over the next few months while the eua aut

griff: for more, joining us now former acting secretary for the dhs, chad wolf. mr.aking time and what a perfect guest to talk about what we just heard from our great reporter, bill melugin, down there. he was talking about the 650 migrants stopped, many of them children. and i can't help but think it's interesting that it coincided on the same day that your counterpart, secretary mayorkas, and secretary blink were in mexico talking about -- secretary blinken were in mexico talking about border security issues. what do you make of it? >> the issue we saw with hundreds of migrants in those tractor-trailer trucks is, again, another symptom of this very inhumane immigration and border policy that the biden administration has. again, they don't want to talk concern you don't see officials or the secretary or any other administration official talking about that type of seizure and the pain and the dangerous journey that those migrants are being put through. but they're doing that because they know that the u.s. border is open. and so the biden administration is sending th

dhs has the existing statutory authority and technical talent that we need to tackle this challenge. and finally, before i conclude, i must note my disappointment that the fbi declined an invitation to attend this meeting. it is critical that members fully understand the fbi's role and efforts to countering cyber threats and i look forward to their participation in future events on these topics. that said, i am looking forward to hearing from today's witnesses about how the attack on colonial pipeline will inform their approaches going forward. and the chair now recognizes the ranking member of the subcommittee on transportation and maritime security, the gentleman from florida, for an opening statement. >> thank you, chairwoman. chairman clarke and ranking member garbarino. i'm pleased that the cipi and tms committees are holding this joint committee today on cyber threats to pipelines. as we saw with the recent ransomware attack on the colonial pipeline, securing our nation's 2.7 million miles of pipeline is of utmost importance. i look forward to hearing today from mr. eric goldst

>> well, wolf, this is significant because these two top dhs officials, chad wolf and chad cuccinelliember election and what happened on january 6th. we know during that timeframe, the trump white house was going to great lengths to try to get government agencies to get involved in what they believed or at least tried to claim was election fraud across the country. in fact, there's even a report of rudy giuliani, the former president's lawyer at the time, reaching out to ken cuccinelli and suggesting perhaps dhs needed to go in and impound some election voting machines across the country. so the committee could ask both of these men serious questions about the pressure campaign that was put on the trump white house to the department of homeland security during that period of time, and what if anything that could have possibly led to what we saw here on january 6th. we should point out, wolf, at this point, they have just been asked to voluntarily ask questions from this committee, there's no sign they have taken that step, wolf. >> we're also learning, ryan, at least five staffers who

up next former dhs official, chad wolf.over up with a multitude of sins and a fog bank of rhetoric just how bad the border crisis really is. border arrests hit the highest level since the 196 amnesty bill under -- 1986 amnesty bill under reagan. senator ted cruz think he has a fix. put migrant points of entry in what he calls fancy democrat conclaves. >> they bring terror in the neighborhood through trafficking of humans or illegal drugs. does it get tangled up in knots? or fall victim to gravity? or maybe it winds up somewhere over the bermuda triangle. perhaps you'll come up with your own theory of where the stress goes. behind the wheel of a lincoln is a mighty fine place to start. living with metastatic breast cancer means being relentless. because every day matters. and having more of them is possible with verzenio. the only one of its kind proven to help you live significantly longer when taken with fulvestrant, regardless of menopause. verzenio + fulvestrant is for hr+, her2-metastatic breast cancer that has progress

i smoke to said during the trump office that the office of intelligence and analysis that's inside dhs lot of this tracking, they actually dwindled from that mission. a lot of what they did there focused more on law enforcement, on protests like what we saw in portland in 2020 that office by and large shut down a lot of these weekly reports that they used to do under the obama administration on migrant movements, sorry they are saying they are now revamping a lot of that. they are bringing it back and then for the first time ever they are trying to work with cia, the intelligence community and law enforcement officials in those countries to be able to even get aerial surveillance of migrant movement. >> progress. julia ainsley, thank you. >>> at least 28 people killed in heavy rain and flash flooding in southern india several landslides reported, including one that killed six members of one family. the indian army and navy are helping with search and rescue efforts. thousands are taking shelter in more than 200 relief camps this is the same area where 400 people died in flooding three

>> dhs personnel. so, this is how it worked up to january 0th.was proud to be part of it. people got brought in a room from ice. cis. department of justice, from u.s. border patrol and they were told hey, how -- what can we do with what we have. we are still going to work with congress and get some of these laws fixed but, in the meantime, what can we work with? what can we do to secure the border so we can goat out and tell america we know who and what is crossing that border to the best ability we possibly can? >> bret: what's your biggest fear when you look at the border. >> beyond the border now what i'm seeing at the national level is hiding of information from the american public so they can't even make a good decision. they can't make an educated decision because they don't have the information. that worries me. just society in general how it's harder and harder to even people listening to me right now. you don't have to believe anything i say. anybody that thinks that an uneducated smuggler bringing cocaine and marijuana across the border

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additionally, the plan designates dhs designate cisa to lead the response. what rationale were you and the acting director given for d.o.e. given the lead response for this incident? do you or any of cisa's leadership raise concerns with the white house? >> i think it is useful to separate the various elements of this incident. it is one of the first instances we've seen in this country where cyber event led to a decision to disrupt a physical function upon which americans depend. there really were three distinct aspects to the incident. the first was the cyber intrusion itself. the cyber intrusion, insofar as the federal response plan, managed in accordance with ppd 41, the fbi led a chlorinated response and assisted -- led a coordinated response. colonial chose to engage a third-party incident response firm, rather than expect -- rather than except cisa's assistance. under current law, that is their prerogative to do. cisa focus on our broader role in protecting others. as mentioned in our opening statement, shared urgent advisors with detailed information

rachel: tom, we know dhs canceled or terminated the border wall contracts. that to not build the wall. now we finally terminated contract. i want to read you statement from dhs. get your reaction on the other side. u.s. customsu.s customs & borden intends to cancel remaining contracts located in the laredo border valley sector, instead fund smarter border security measures. what the heck is that and what kind of credibility does the dhs on these new smarter security measures. >> first the secretary has no credibility. he is an embarassment to the position he holds. if he had any integrity at all he would resign today. he is the secretary of homeland security. one thing he needs to understand, we don't have national security, we don't have homeland security unless you have border security. i just discussed how vulnerable the southern border is. now if he took five minutes to look at the data, data clearly shows every place they built a border barrier, every place, illegal immigration went down, illegal drug flow went down. that is security. the wall is someth