dhs works closely with the faa when dhs requests a tfr. and they are necessary to grant waivers to allow activity to allow that first amendment protected activity as well. >> mr. weidman? >> i think the counter drone business is very much a team sport. we work with uas, dhs, and faa whether we want to or not. everything we do, we work together. horizontally there is a lot of collaboration. and we are working vertically with our state partners, including delaware, the delaware state police are part of our working group on drug activity. if we can get the authority we are asking for today, we will be working much more intensively with states and locals across the country. this is an activity where law enforcement and homeland security officials are working together all the time together with the faa. >> i have several more questions i would like to ask, take you so much for joining us today for your collaboration and commitment. so much. >> senator lankford, you are recognized for your questions. >> thank you to all the witnesses and for the

dhs couldn't take remain in mexico off of the table. the biden administration quickly ran to the fifth circuit for a state. then they went to the supreme court and that was denied. the biden administration sued or appealed it in the fifth circuit in order to overturn that judges order. on october 29, 2021, or days before oral arguments before the fifth circuit, the dhs secretary rescinded his prior termination memo and issued a new one that said this is the real reason we are terminating mpp. it didn't make the fifth circuit happy. the biden administration ran and saying now the old one is moot, we changed the rules, you don't have to worry about it, this is the law. the fifth circuit said forget that. it is one termination decision, it doesn't matter it's memos you used to do it. we are going to focus on the june 1 memo and we will consider the october 29 memo as well. on december 13, 2021, the fifth circuit dismissed dhs appeal. that prompted the by the administration to go to the supreme court and in february, the supreme court agree

dhs does that. it does not grant parole to any individual non-citizen without reviewing the individual case and making an assessment of individualized factors like flight risk, likelihood of absconding, and whether the release of that individual would advance an urgent humanitarian reason or a substantial public -- a significant public benefit. and that's, of course, the substantive criteria. our position is that dhs can permissibly take account of its detention capacity in determining that there is a significant public benefit from releasing a low-priority individual who's not a flight risk, who doesn't have a criminal history, if that would preserve a bed space for someone who's a higher priority under our detention policies. justice kagan: but you're saying we don't need -- or you don't need to argue for residual discretion because you're not using any residual discretion? general prelogar: that's right. justice kagan: -- that everything fits in these four categories. general prelogar: we are not

dhs and d.o.b. are working together to improve outreach and educate service members on the steps they need to take to achieve sarah's -- citizenship and completing the process before they transition back to civilian life. the circumstances of veterans that have been deployed are complicated and often reflect complex societal challenges. these veterans of all ages, backgrounds, and nationalities, and most came to the u.s. legally as children. they also served their country in vietnam, desert storm, and some more recently in the global war on terror. what most have in common is they committed crimes that lead to removal from the u.s.. these veterans omitted they made mistakes. foremost, the mistakes occurred in the district -- distant past. those convicted of serious crimes served sentences in the u.s. before they were deported. many accepted responsibility for their actions and demonstrate rehabilitation. we have succeeded at rebuilding their lives and they often dedicate their lives to supporting ot

among the issues dhs faces every day. our mission is to make sure that federal, state, local and territorial and front-line responders have the capabilities to protect against them. indeed, our working relationships with state and local partners are among our most tickled. through flagship programs including fire watching securing the cities, we provide detection equipment, training and exercise support to help front line operators detect see brn threats early and take quick action to save lives. last fall, i issued the first ever see wmd state and local engagement strategy in recognition of the key role our state and local partners play in countering see brn threats. with covid restrictions we have recently reiterated -- reenergized our engagements with these partners. in june, our partners from ohio heard directly how we can best support their efforts. at cwmd, our workforce is truly our greatest asset. it remains focused on continuing to strengthen employee engagement. we have more work to do. i was pleased to see the

to dhs resources. as well as having a regional coordinators expertise and implementing targeted violent terrorism prevention programs. lastly, we have engaged with our round experts on this topic for michigan state university, collaborate with us and provide guidance as we move forward. as far as your question on best buy to this is, first and foremost providing actionable relevant untimely information to stakeholders. then building that work in multiple disciplines that have regular meetings to engage with each other. identify that social reporting mechanism and how distribution of information should occur. discussing appropriate interventions as well as joint training sessions. that fosters trust, demonstrates the effectiveness of interagency and multiple discipline -- multi disciplinary collaboration. we continue to look at what has been done in virginia. north carolina. recently, florida who has shown the behavioral threat assessment management is a best path forward with a believe it was may 2007

dhs has submitted news onad that in the last 24 hours. this will bolster oversight efforts of all public health and workforce safety at the department will also perform a role in relating to the dhs broad mission set so i look forwardce to this new office of health security and actions that will take to coordinate on the wmd health matters and want to make sure we are lining up with of the reauthorization and actions at the department over the last 24 hours. the authorities of the officers had to expire late next year and again as the committee considers the reauthorization legislation that we've introduced i look forward to hearing all of the witnesses as we did on the threat landscape and now the bipartisan legislation will strengthen this levelre of preparedness. thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you ranking member portman. the chemical, radiological and nuclear weapons refer to are the most fatal and fatally disruptive potential tax that the nation faces. examples by nefarious actors include the use of an advanced nerve agent by russia

dhs targeted violence or prevention grant program. today, we'll be discussing how we are using this important federal support. too many times in recent years, we have experienced incidents across the great nation where individuals have targeted others who committed acts of violence leading to for too many senseless death. the targeted violence and terrorism prevention grants is a tool that is helping us in michigan to hopefully prevent these incidences before they occur by establishing regional behavioral assessment manager team and a statewide liaison officer program. a behavioral threat assessment management team consisted of multi disciplinary and multi jurisdictional partners who identify individuals who are on a pathway to violence and intervene by providing them with productive alternative outcomes. the statewide liaison officer program includes law enforcement, first responders, private sector partners across michigan who will enhance awareness and strengthen collaboration information sharing to aid and prevent targeted acts of

why did the dhs cover this up. why did the dhs know last year that the secret service had deleted the texts and were dragging their feet on this investigation, thought about notifying congress, but decided not to. that is an oversight hearing i can't wait to see. >> all right. also we're learning new details this morning about tonight's prime time hearing by the house january 6 select committee. lawmakers are set to give a minute-by-minute account of what happened inside of the white house during the 187 minutes between the conclusion of former president trump's rally at the ellipse and his tweet telling his rioters to go home. the committee said testimony will focus specifically on trump's actions. and his, quote, dereliction of duty. committee chairman bennie thompson will chair the meeting remotely after testing positive for covid-19 earlier this week and most of the questioning will be conducted by democratic congresswoman elaine loria and adam kinzinger. both lawmakers are military veterans. the committee said

but also, look, i came from dhs. when you work at senior levels in the trump administration you kind of know where people's loyalties lie. there is a reason that i went very public with my concerns about the trump administration rather than going through the traditional whistle-blower process which would have led me to the inspector general's office at dhs. and i'll just say that. there's a level of trust there that you understand. the other part of it is i've got to tell you, being a trump admin person, most of the administration communicated on encrypted signal apps. a lot of the time these messages were likely disappearing. i mean, i don't know. it's a little bit suspect. you can either turn in your government phone. was there an encrypted app? was it on the personal phone. in any way, it seems the messages are gone either way. >> phil mudd, you worked in deposit, cia, fbi. these are agencies charged with fighting cyber crime. also for the secret service arguably the most stressful day for the service since the re

the dhs launched its office of health security on tuesday. >> led by doctor gandhi who told senators today that his priority is preparing americans. >> if we do not equip our local and state partners with data information, resources and best practices. we're doing a disservice. democrat and republican senators say this office is critical to keep americans safe. >> and announced their new bipartisan reauthorization bill, the health security act, which will authorize additional money to help support dhs in implementing and executing the new office in washington. i'm anna wiernicki. >> happening now, stay away from the beach today or least to keep your distance from the water. the national weather service says there is a high risk of deadly rip currents and strong sneaker waves. right now. that advisory is in place through tomorrow. if you go, people being reminded stay far away from the water and never turn your back on the ocean because if you do, it's going to be that one sneaker way. yeah, you're not going to see is going to come get you. those temperatures still cold out the ocean.

we know in dhs, these are dhs's own numbers they apprehended between 45 and suspected known terrorist watch list on the 17 of this month, the administration. before that you have to go back three to five years to actually catch 20 known and suspected terrorists appearance of these individuals know what the rest of the world knows which if you want to come into the u.s. illegally want to be undetected and remain in the u.s., now is the time to do it across the southern border. i'm not sure what the administration is doing what they are waiting on to change course. 17 months of a failed strategy, filled for the border patrol, men and women border patrol agents trying to do their job, trying to give them the resources, time to give them the policies that work and give them a secure border and not only for every community but in the united states. >> carley: what goes through your mind when you hear the h secretary alejandro mayorkas say the border is secure and closed. no one believes him. the homeland security is him the title of his name, of his title? >> well, i think he is doing a di

the reason it requires dhs to write the reports on parole request received and grantedn. in the first report is due may 14 but we never received that you know the status quick. >> sorry i do not like get back to you. >> it was due may 14 we are over one month late can you get that to the committee by the end of the week quick. >> i am not familiar with that report is not within my responsibility i cannot commit to providing that to you but men now it is six weeks old past due. so i just want to point our having thisy. hearing today we should have secretary mayorkas but he testified the border was operationally secure even after reviewing what he had said that and said actually there is a statutory definition but he went on to say with that strict definition for operational control there is a big difference to have operational , control so i like to submit those two hearings for the record. >> without objection. >> you think the committee should be investigating why the biden administration for members of the military force them to get covid-19 shots forcing servicemembers

dhs has on my texts, emails, phone logs, schedules. meanwhile, the january 6th committee is now focusing on trump administration figures, and the justice department appears to be escalating its own inquiry in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. today, former trump acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, revealed white house investigators wanted to know during his interview. >> i sent some tweets and some text on january 6th, they wanted to talk about that. i was also fairly heavily involved in the trump campaign. one thing they want to know was the discussions i've had leading up to the election day, and the discussions right after election day. and then interestingly, there were some questions towards the end about general questions about how a white house might run. they wanted to know the process, for example, and how visitors would come see the president. or how would a chief of staff typically try to include or exclude people from meetings with the president. >> mulvaney also told nbc news the committee was interested in his comm

any issues with missing data needs to be addressed with dhs. to imploy otherwise is lazy reporting, clearly taking stab at "the washington post" there. but he is saying refer to questions to the department, not to me. ken cuccinelli relaying this text message he had with a friend today basically saying, look, the "washington post" is going after you for handing in your government phone, just like you were supposed to do and having it erased by security personnel when you were no longer in a position to control what they did. so, here, cuccinelli is basically using his firebrand we were so used to seeing when he was in this position at dhs, a very close ally of trump's. trump did appoint him immigration czar at a period of time. he's wanting to fire back at "the washington post" here. really what it comes down to here, there's really not a lot of gray area. it's that these men handed in their phones and dhs did not properly record or log this information as they would have been required to do by the federal records act. it's one more thing, one

in 2020, dhs relaunch the program under the new name with the new public health focus approach. through this new grant funding program dhs supports the efforts of local partners who seek to raise awareness about the domestic violence extremism threat and develop community-based networks to provide support to individuals who may be radicalized or radicalizing violence before the crimes are actually committed. our witness to date represent four of the organizations that have received grants and either fiscal year 2020 or fiscal year 2021 grant cycles. the projects executed over a period of two years represent the wide variety of violence prevention efforts that are funded by this program. the office support projects that implement promising practices as well as those who propose to test new and innovative solutions to terrorism prevention. these projects fall into a number of categories including enhancing threat assessment capability. challenging online mobilization narrative and establishing or enhancing local prevention frameworks. the program has demonstrated some promising ea

he, said this is a dhs tech issue not an individual official issue. dhs issues iphones but can't centrally manage i message because they're encrypted on the device and apple makes it hard to access messages. messaging should be disabled, which is what the white house does. so, if all this is true. the crowds account is true, it's a mess up screw up by. dhs retaining documents is an important part of, governing especially around the white house, everyone who works in other news. it so then you have to ask, well, how and why wasn't allowed to happen? and that brings us to a guy named joseph safari, who maybe you've heard of. he's the inspector general for dhs, that the person in charge of oversight the agency. and to be honest, he's exactly the kind of oversight guy donald trump would want. first, he appears to be, well, a little dishonest. much like his. pause for, instance his government biography claims that he has a doctorate in philosophy and he would sign his emails, joseph the coup, fiery come, a ph.d.. mother jones found that his ph.d. in manage

whether you're talking about capitol police, other parts of dhs.reported here that customs protection were armed and ready to go but kept in the basement of the reagan building during the insurrection that was happening blocks away. a lot of questions about secret service response. they were responsible for the president's security that day, would have known his every detail, every movement and request, and also, of course, protecting the vice president as a mob was chanting that they wanted to hang him, joe. i can't even believe i'm saying that. >> yeah. julia ainsley, it is extraordinary the secret service, an organization that largely remained outside of politics for so long, has been pulled into this. but carol lenig wrote an entire book about the politicization of the secret service. how much did donald trump have to do with that? it plays into what we're talking about here, that he brought in loyalists. he had people close to him that were more loyal to him perhaps than the organization. >> yeah. you know, that's part of the reporting i want

as well as 100-day review of dhs law enforcement policies. thankfully, this was blocked by a federal judge. i want to have you explain, i don't know why you are trying to improve border enforcement capabilities at a time when we were and are experiencing record numbers of illegal immigration. >> sir, we don't have enough resources, clearly, to handle the number of people coming across the border. we are trying to focus the resources we have. no agency in this government has all the resources they need to do the jobs that they have been asked to do. >> i'm sorry. so, your answer is that you wanted to do less enforcement just ignore everybody that was here before november 1st, 2020? >> not at all. we want to do more effective enforcement. >> here's what you attempted to do. you try to narrow dhs's enforcement abilities to include only three, three types of illegal aliens. one, spies and terrorists. to, you aliens who entered after november 1st, 2020. where those convicted of aggravated felonies and were released from incarceration on or after t

and it could be prosecuted, katy. >> we'll see what dhs finds on that. again, even if it's not nefarious, it certainly was not responsible considering that they were told you're supposed to back up your data, especially if you work in a government agency. the hearing tonight, we're going to hear some new information according to the reporting. josh talked about potential outtakes from donald trump's speech. what will you be looking out for? >> this is the culmination that the lawmakers wanted to make the case to the american people that former president trump was someone who not only formed this mob against the capitol but also was someone who refused -- who basically ignored once violence had broken out and, by the way, tried to direct the mob at the vice president by tweeting out his anger to vice president pence as he was quite literally being evacuated from the capitol. you might call it the white house black box, 187 minutes. penny thompson has been burning those numbers into all of our heads because he wanted to know specifically what in the world

you will play a critical role in ensuring our screening procedures and standards, specifically the dhs traveler inquiry program, are fair and equitable, easy to navigate and as transparent as absolutely possible. i look forward to working with you to ensure tsa can proactively protect travelers and our transportation facilities. and to hearing more from you about your vision for continuing the tsa is critical mission. ranking member portman will be joining us shortly. we have a lot going on all around capitol hill right now, he will be here shortly and we'll have an opportunity for opening statements at that time. but now, it is the practice of the committee to swear in witnesses. so, if you will please stand, sir, and raise your right hand. do you swear that the testimony that you will give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> i do. >> thank you. you may be seated. today, our witness is david pekoske, who is nominated to serve a second term as administrator of the transportation security administration at the departmen

best case scenario for dhs, secret service is part of dhs, best case scenario, gross incompetence, maybe worse than that. we don't know. >> i'm going to say a name most viewers have never heard, ken klukowsky. he's important and now cooperating with the justice department. tell us why it's significant. >> well, victor, it is significant because this is the part of this investigation, this criminal investigation of the justice department that we, from our sources, believe is at the most advanced stage. where is where you see a lot of activity recently. there was a search at jeffrey clark's home where they took some of his electronics. john eastman, who was involved in some of the fake elector stuff, they stopped him outside of a restaurant and searched his telephone as well. and now ken was working with clark on some of these issues, which was essentially to try to convince the state of georgia that there was enough fraud to essentially shelf their election results. he was key to some of that effort. so the idea that he is now cooperating with the justice department is helpful to prosecut

>> reporter: former dhs secretary chad wolf. "washington post" reporting that text messages from wolf and his deputy ken cuccinelli were lost from their government devices. wolf said he handed over his phone intact when he resigned after january 6th. meanwhile, the house minority leader, kevin mccarthy, who cassidy hutchinson said was among one of the leaders who pleaded for trump to call supporters off, claim he doesn't remember calling her. >> if i talked to her, i don't remember it. if it was coming up here, i don't think i wanted a lot of people coming up to the capitol. but i don't remember the conversation. >> reporter: and today is scheduled to be the last day for the house of representatives before they leave on their long august recess. and that means the committee is not expected to have any public work until september hearings, which are planned in the next few months. and that means committee members are going to be working behind closed doors preparing for the secretary hearings. casey, i just spoke with congressman

what dhs has to do is monitor as best they can and coordinate as best they can.a big country with lots of players in it in the law enforcement realm, in the community realm. it's just very difficult. you know, we started a campaign when i was secretary, see something, say something, which was designed to get every citizen occulturated to the notion that everyone has a role to play here. the stakes are very high. these extremist groups are trying to undermine our country, trying to undermine our democracy. that's what we saw on january 6th. so, it's a very serious homeland security issue. >> secretary, part of me wonders if people have taken that so literally and in a different way, the see something, say something. because part of extremists groups, they are very vocal about the things they believe in. they're saying things in a way that is either enticing others to join and act out their political dissent in ways i think was not contemplated when people spoke about the freedom of speech and the first amendment and addressing grievances and trying to use the gove

i spoke with dhs officials who worked there at the time who said they saw this playing out. they were concerned. they can't realize, they didn't think too hard about the roles of what the department of homeland security might be and only a few months later, there was a violent attack at charlottesville and wrote the chronicle. at that point trump administration political officials within dhs realized that there was a met at that time sizing: : . metastasizing, and weren't going to talk about it, and coupled with the fact that president at the time was pressuring dhs only looking at the southwest border security, to the exclusion to with almost anything else, combined with the people who want today work on this threat, being sidelined and totally incapable of doing it themselves. and secretary of terrorism at the time, elizabeth newman told me about six months before the january 6th attack, during the trump administration, before she left the administration, one of the challenges was dealing with trump himself and his personality. she said when you're spending all of your ene

they're pointing fingers back at dhs. how do we get to the bottom of this? >> well, i'm not an investigator, but i certainly hope that they do. dhs was not only involved in -- at so many levels, the secret service, the idea that trump is pressuring ken cuccinelli to seize voting machines, but also the dhs was certifying for the american public the safest -- one of the most safe and secure elections we've had and that biden had indeed won, and there was no massive fraud that would have altered the outcome. so they were in the cross hairs of trump. so this is really -- this is appalling and obviously so suspicious of a piece where we just see, you know, all this critical evidence being lost into the ether because of resets and migration and reboots of phones. and i seriously hope there is a way in 2022 that these deleted things can be -- can resurface, be obtained. it's not clear that they will. we hope they can put this together through other people and other data ultimately. >> so here we are only ten minutes into the show, one day in this long, many months'

these are two top officials at dhs in the days leading up to january 6th. dhs includes the secret service. so of course investigators want to see this. of course congress wants to see this. of course prosecutor also want to see this some day. and andy's exactly right. this feels exactly what we heard last week about the other missing secret service texts. i'm very, very skeptical. a, given the pattern. and b, given the fact that it is known throughout dhs that you have an obligation to preserve those texts. you don't just say, well, we're getting better cell phones so everything gets tossed out. you have legal obligations to keep those, you have ethical obligations, you have recordkeeping obligations, and you're talking about the two highest ranking officials. i have some serious questions about this. >> thank you for helping me with the developing news and news just coming in to cnn. "the washington post" reporting text messages for chad wolf, ken cucinelli are missing for a key period leading up to the attack on the capitol. gentlemen, thank you very much

what were you see up to election day and dhs in particular, individuals in dhs in particular really tried to set the record straight on these things. i don't know if we can talk about the political pressures that were applied but i think everyone who worked with dhs thought that was in an incredibly professional group and the role you playedwas important . >> thank you david and thank you for letting me be on this panel but it's pretty humbling as the folks that administer the election across this country that as wayne said in the midst of a global pandemic wrist their own lives and the health of themselves and their staff and their families to ensure democracy administered is overwhelming so i'm thankful to be here and incredibly humbled to serve on this panel with these folks sitting in this room. at cisa we work since the critical infrastructure designation to build relationships and engage with state and local election li officials and by the time we got to 2020, not just november 2020 but as all we had relationships with all 50 states , the territories and literal thousands of local

he was number two at dhs at the time. i was on the speakerphone, and the president essentially said, can, i'm sitting here with the acting attorney general. he just told me it's your job to see some scenes and you're not doing your job. and mr. cuccinelli responded. >> mr. rosen, did you ever tell the president that the department of homeland security could seize voting machines? >> no, certainly not. >> mr. donahue, during this meeting, it did the president tell you that he would remove you and mr. rosen because you weren't declaring and there was election fraud? >> towards the end of the meeting the president again was getting a very agitated and he said, people tell me i should just get rid of both of you. i should just remove you. and make a change in leadership put, jeff clock in, maybe something will finally get done. and i responded as i think i had earlier in the december 27th call, mister president, you should have the leadership that you want. but understand, the united states justice department functions on fac

as and the entire dhs team for their support during this process. i deeply appreciate the support my family provides me in this position in throughout my career. when president biden announced my renomination, one equate and said to me, that's a tough job, why would you want to do it again for another five years? the answer to this is simple. i want to continue to support the amazing tsa workforce. the tsa workforce is exceptional and, during my time at tsa, they have performed at a high-level image challenging in historic circum i'm immensely proud to be part of an organization laser focused on protecting our nation and its transportationon system. they are a dedicated and committed workforce for for four transportation secured secured offers interact with people everyday and perform a critical national security function forta nation. their watch never stops. they came to work without pay for 35 day partial government shutdown in 2019. based checkpointsur with much of the rest of the country remained calm amidst the covid-19 pandemic. the transport

i think we have seen some of that from dhs. and other law enforcement partners. election officials at all levels , that is a national ready. it needs to continue to get louder. using all the platforms that the american government has available to it. in terms of recruitment, when i grew up, serving as a poll official, that was a typically considered civic duty. a sense of community was installed. i think we might've got away from that. the more we can do that at all levels of government to send the message that being a part of the election process, particularly if you are someone who has questions or concerns about the integrity of our process, is a wonderful way to be a public citizen. and also make sure that our elections have integrity. >> thank you. people want to know about the resources that are necessary. the productions -- protections that need to exist locally. so that election workers and poll workers have a system that has their back. so they are recognizing that, particularly in this next election. >> thank you so much for the question. i would highli