and suggest there are major gaps in the vetting and oversight of dhs contracted physicians who treat the detainee population. i asked the review those findings in detail. and that where we'll have a follow-up engagement to discuss the steps that dhs is taking an needs to take to ensure that the dignity and human and constitutional rights. >> i look forward to doing, senator. >> thank you mister secretary, thank you mister chairman. >> thank you, senator ossoff, to our witnesses, we have had you there for quite some time so we will take a brief break, we will come back for the second round for the senators who won a second round. but, the time will be just five minutes in the second round. let's take a recess for five minutes and we will reconvene. [whispering] [whispering] [whispering] [whispering] [whispering] [whispering] [whispering] [whispering] >> we will come back and order, senator ossoff you are recognized for a second round. >> thank you for the extraordinary courtesy, mister chairman, and welcome back to our panel. i would like to began, director wray, by requesting an upda

a bill that reauthorize as the office and empowers the newly created office of health security and dhs. the bill clarifies roles and responsibilities for both offices, and, adds important accountability and oversight measures. secretary mayorkas, can you explain to this committee how the exploration of the authorization will impacts if it expires. particularly how important the legislation has to deal with local, tribal, and territorial partners on this critical issue? >> mister chairman, the office of countering the the department of homeland security, i think if we look back in time and see the use of chemical weapons in syria and the tragedies that inflicted on the people there, that is one powerful example. we do not have to look that far back in history to understand the importance of the office, just the fact that the potential specter of the use of nuclear weapons was discussed in public form and white of russia's unprovoked aggression against ukraine speaks of the criticality of this office. and we do hold the bipartisan bill that you have presented. we need this office reautho

it is not as ou dhs conducts that analysis o knows in advance. it conducts the analysis when it is making relief determination for those >> already in custody. we can move onto individual queson and i'm sure some of it will deal with remedy. >>>> in the area your posio on vega tour, th snded to me to be fairly radical and inconsistent wh for example, for those of five times before eaast that is what you do in an apa case. all of a sudden you are telling us y cnot vacate it. you do something different. are you overturninghawhole established practice under the hpa? -- the apa? >> i'd knowledge the lor courts he in getting this one wrong. they have reflexively assumed fake it or is authorized but what i would say is -- >> and other courts have been doing all the time as a staple of their decision output. >> they veot been doing it with any attention to the text, context and sty of the provision. it is not as ou there are decisions that have engaged with these arguments and ce t the other way. it seems this hpened and came about because courts reflex

the mismatch here is 1226 c governs when dhs has already made thehaing decisions. if we have a noncitizen in custody we will obta tm are described in section 1226 c. ice does not make release determinations witho tt analysis. i don't think therisny fundamental overridbeuse the guidelines don't have anything to do with continued detention. >> let's break that dain. a and c operate only when you have decided to remove somebody. >> because of the pending removal proceedings. nothing in a and c takes away your discretion to decide not to remove any particular person. >> that is correct. >>>> what it says is you have to do something when you decide to arrest and detain and remove. >> at that point we are prohibited from release if tre are pending removal proceeding at any point in this process you are saying the guidelines we are focusing on the guidelines as making a dermation of whether to detain. you are ki a determination as to whether rove or not. >> that crect. >> it is only then that a and c come into effect. >> yes. we have been talking about 1226. your question

in march of 2003 he was transferred to dhs. dhs delegated this facility in light of its role to help protect and secure the nation. it's the stewardship of the isc ensures the workforce leverages state local territorial tribal organizations as well as the private sector all central partners as we work to ensure the continued protection of federal facilities and assets across the nation and around the world. executive order 12977 gave the isc three key responsibilities. these include established policies with security and the protection of federal facilities developing and evaluating security standards and strategy to ensure compliance and to take action to enhance quality and effectiveness of the security protection of federal facilities. the isc fulfill these responsibilities in multiple lines including the risk process standard. the standard provides an integrate physical security countermeasures in guidance and customization for all nonmilitary facilities. iac members created the standard to provide a common method for all f

we continue to work with dhs. the chief human caught capital officer, a recruiting team will be at a military base tomorrow continue our recruiting efforts. we just started a class at the federal law enforcement training center last monday. 24 new students. we have other classes scheduled for this year. so it is a continued challenge for us but our goal in fy 23 is to fill all over vacancies including our law enforcement and support position vacancies. >> given what we have seen in the aftermath of january's the general six investigations that uncovered both military and law enforcement personnel being involved in the insurrection, what is a fierce doing do weed out the potential nature of this ideological folks amongst your ranks? >> thank you for your question. when we recruit and hire new officers, they go through a security clearance profit to the dhs office of the chief security officer. it's a very rigorous process, very detailed and thorough analysis of their background in suitability. once they come on boa

how is dhs planning to ensure they are probably removed from the country? >> the data evidence is quite powerful that individuals who are represented by counsel have a much higher appearance rate in the immigration enforcement proceedings. the immigration system is extraordinarily complex and we are dealing with vulnerable populations without counsel. number two we expanded our alternatives to detention and technology iced -- technologiz ed -- the ankle bracelets but by phone systems that does not allow people to make calls. but actually it enables us to keep track and make sure they are checking in with us. the expansion of alternatives is an effort we have underway. >> the act which you just referenced and highlighted in our budget hearing earlier this year creates regional centers across the u.s. and these centers would colo locate offices and agencies that play a role in the -- as introduced the text placed a border patrol in charge of detention but this year we have seen additional agents being pulled out of the field due to processing needs which has

it said dhs is n containing thsa amount of criminals. it shows that over the time in question, the number of criminal noncitizens remained unchaed in respect to removal, dhs had less scessful action on removals. 250,000 removals, and 2021, 55,000. they ignore that it was during the pandemi in the c's public health order in dhs excluded more than one million noncitenunder the title to order. there was less immigration enforcement was clear error. >> if i can move to the merits, let's say i disagree with you on standing and remedies and i have to gto the merits. we are in a position where as you see it, congress passed a law it is impossible for the executive toomy with. it is our job to y th the law is. not whether or not it could be implemented or if their difficulties there. d't think we should change that responsibilityecause congress a t executives can agree on something thais possible to address this problem. i don't think we should leth off the hook. should we just say what the law is even if we think shall make shallndait for them

the national organized crime section is doing work with partnership in agencies like dhs. drugs, guns, and money into the united states across our southern border. they brought and up of the fdr dedicated men and women are tackling each and every day is staggering. in comments are -- and i know we will continue to answer the call, thank you again for having me here today and i would be happy to answer your questions. >> thank you, director wray. dr. christine abizaid is the eight senate confirmed director of the national counterterrorism center. previously she served on the national security council staff as well director for counter terrorism and senior policy adviser to assistant the president for a moment security and counter-terrorism. she has also served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for afghanistan, pakistan, and central into. and, as a senior intelligence analyst for the agency. thank you for repairing before this committee, it is good to have you back. we are pretty with your opening remarks. >> thank you very much, chairman peters foul. thank you for th

i think, dhs was caught several months ago about this disinformation board. to disband it, not only were they getting criticism obviously from the left but also from the left. because the left also saw this was not needed. this has gone beyond the mission of dhs what they do every day to protect the homeland. so when you see that disinformation board dissolved, but yet you still see the department undertaking these types of events and you're saying to yourself, maybe they're still doing it without the board in the name. i think that is again what is the concerning part. it deserves some oversight. elizabeth: chad, final question, why is he monitoring the botched information about the botched withdrawal by the biden white house from afghanistan and now aid to ukraine to battle russia? why is mayorkas monitoring that? >> it is bizarre. it is bizarre. he needs to be questioned about that. why is that somehow dangerous to americans to understand why we would withdraw from afghanistan or aid to ukraine in what capacity? i think he needs to be held accountable to t

number one, it is a fierce positioned correctly within dhs to be the most effective? number two, how does fps work with cisa and how collaborative is that relationship? three, why do you such a large majority of a fiasco security assessment recommendations go and implemented? and in turn, is or better we can facilitate this process? for, does fps have the right structure with most of their workforce being contract support. and five, is the fees structure appropriate and effective for the role of fdr's today? >> mr., chairman i'm grateful we are holding this hearing and in the sometimes overlooked agency within dhs as they play never important role protecting our government. we have to take our oversight responsibility here seriously, and i look forward to hearing from our witnesses determine what actions we can take moving forward. thank you, and i yield back. >> thank you. now i would like to welcome our panel of witnesses. first we have mr. cline, the principal deputy director for the federal protective service. mr. cohen has worked with a fierce for 20 years where

the national organized crime section is doing work with partnership in agencies like dhs. drugs, guns, and money into the united states across our southern border. they brought and up of the fdr dedicated men and women are tackling each and every day is staggering. in comments are -- and i know we will continue to answer the call, thank you again for having me here today and i would be happy to answer your questions. >> thank you, director wray. dr. christine abizaid is the eight senate confirmed director of the national counterterrorism center. previously she served on the national security council staff as well director for counter terrorism and senior policy adviser to assistant the president for a moment security and counter-terrorism. she has also served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for afghanistan, pakistan, and central into. and, as a senior intelligence analyst for the agency. thank you for repairing before this committee, it is good to have you back. we are pretty with your opening remarks. >> thank you very much, chairman peters foul. thank you for th

dhs says mayorkas is not planning to step down and contend the agency inherited a broken immigration system. bryan: kc steagall live in eagle pass, texas. thank you. >> for more, the border crisis and republican calling on dhs secretary mayorkas to resign. let's bring in arizona attorney general mark brnovich, thank you for joining us again. i want to start here, cdp commissioner resigned last week at the request of secretary mayorkas so should mayorkas also resign? how would it help? >> eventually you have to hold people accountable and as the report indicated we see record numbers, we are losing adjectives. since joe biden became pres president, is the equivalent of four u.s. states illegally entering the country. we seen enough internal to potentially kill every single american and this last month more than 200,000 encounters, that's like to tiger stadiums in louisiana every single month entering the country illegally so we as a society, not fair to taxpayers and we've allowed them to seize control of our border so secretary mayorkas needs to either resign or impeached because som

strategy for countering domestic terrorism established in a domestic terrorism analytic branch within dhs's office of intelligence and analysis and designating domestic violent extremism as a national priority area for homeland security grants. increasingly willing to engage in targeted violence whether at a synagogue in pittsburgh, walmart in el paso or a supermarketll in buffalo. i hope to speak to our witnesses today about the assessment of the current threat on our terrorism and targeted violence and what the agencies are doing to protect the homeland. cbeyond terrorism i remain concerned about cyber threats particularly from russia, china and iran. in responseyo to these threats e biden administration has raised our cyberro security posture by issuing an executive order on and improving the nation's cyber security leading global efforts to confront ran somewhere threats and launching a groundbreaking public-private collaboration to help secure industrial control systems. i want to hear from the witnesses about how they assess the current threat to cyber and critical infrastructure, wha

the intercept's reporting is based on years of internal dhs memos, emails, and documents.to one internal document, the agency is focusing on a number of topics including "the originsf the covid-19 pandemic and the efficacy of covid-19 vaccines, racial justice, u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan, and the nature of u.s. support to ukraine." the fbi has also played a key role in the effort. we are joined by lee fang. he cowrote the intercept's investigation headlined "truth cops: leaked documents outline dhs's plans to police disinformation." why don't you lay out exactly what you found and how you got these documents. >> amy, thank you for having me. good morning. earlier this week we reported this story that shows involving mission of the department of homeland security that they're moving to police online discourse under the mantle of fighting alleged disinformation and misinformation. this effort began in earnest in 2017 after russian interference in the 2016 election. there was a dry run of efforts to censure and influen social media around the pandemic, around the 2020 el

how is dhs approaching this task? >> thank you very much, congressman. i believe i caught the gist of your question. we are doing quite a number of things to address cybersecurity and specifically in the critical infrastructure arena. of course, the mandatory cyber incident reporting legislation that you and other members of this committee champions is going to be so, so vitally importance and, quite frankly, a model for other countries to follow. tsa, the transportation security administration, for the first time, used its regulatory authority following the colonial pipeline attack to promulgate security directives to really require stakeholders in that sector too employ some of the more basic cyber hydrant mechanisms. just in the last few weeks, cisa, the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, promulgated it's top cybersecurity performance goals, which make cyber hygiene far more understandable and accessible to a broad spectrum of industry leaders and industry participants. where we recommend a particular measure, we identify the costs of e

and, you know, just broadly speaking, the story just also looks at the admission creep of dhs.s an agency that was founded in the aftermath of 9/11 to combat foreign terror threats of al qaeda and the like. but over the last five years it's kind of evolved in its mission. it's moved towards fighting disinfo and their justification is, you know, disinformation radicalizes the homeland, it can lead to disruptions in public health or in political violence. so they have a justification, we have these documents and they're pushing forward with this broad censorship agenda. >> tucker: criticizing the people in charge is dangerous. you know, i don't know why you did this story at the intercept, i'm just so grateful that you did. it's a great story, it's a huge public service, i hope you're rewardeded for it. i doubt you will be but thank you. lee fanning thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: thank you. so most republican voters believe that if liz cheyney attacks you, you're probably someone they want to vote for. and so by that standard, kari lake just got maybe

they believe that they way dhs agents.they were instead just cause play artists and characters shooing greyish e aiding themselves. oh credit to the united states postal investigations or is that uncovered it. is that essentially a personnel matter? that is the response that the department has been given to our committee an inquiry. look at how such a glaring security left clinic or. >> congressman, i cannot speak to the facts. they are under review. there is a process there. and i can say this with tremendous conviction, i am intensely proud of the men and women of the united states secret service. if and the manner in which they execute their mission. i am a beneficiary of the willingness to risk their lives for the safety and security of others. >> the gentleman's time has expired. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. torres. you have five minutes. >> my question is directed towards a director. i am the future congressman for yale on the wrong. prevail happens to be home to the russian diplomatic co

and house leader kevin mccarthy calling for the dhs mayorkas to resign after refusing to secure the southern border for two long years. later, a story that will shock and disgust you, new ad campaign from a fashion brand featuring kids

and yet we just do not have acknowledgment of that problem from dhs.so president biden requested and received an additional $15 million for the fbi to conduct counterterror investigations of known or suspected terrorists among the afghan evacuees released into our country by dhs pretty astra $15 million to get to the fbi to do this additional vetting. and yet the administration says it's not a problem this to her inconsistent of course. so perhaps we can talk about those views on the panel this morning. we all recognize the great threat posed by our adversary such as russia, iran, and china are rely on disinformation tactics to weaken our democracy. i think there is consensus about that. but at home we've got to be much more careful around issues of domestic speech. you must respond to imminent threats of violence. i don't think anyone on this committee disagrees with that. but censoring constitutionally protected speech is an entirely different matter. to be precise that should be redlining. hope we can all agree the nice its government should not sen

i want to switch topics and talk about a house hearing going down later today, dhs secretary mayorkasy will be testifying in front of congress. the testimony is going to be focused on threats to the u.s., but senator josh hawley is accusing mayorkas of suppressing speech and he wrote in part, while you were publicly announces you disbanded the misinformation governance board, there were still meetings with facebook to suppress free speech, talking about that report that said dhs maintained line of communication with social media playoffs and telling social media playoffs what they deem to be disinformation and things that should be taken down. when people hear that, that strikes folks as violation to the first miami, what say you? >> you're absolutely right. it is no different than if the government were doing it itself, that intersept material is like what we put out, consistent and showing behind the scenes collaboration between social media companies and the government and the government telling social media companies which posts are problematic or which are disinformation and dire

what is dhs doing to support and more specifically expedite this rulemaking so we don't have to wait years to see results and how is dhs working with other regulators to harmonize new requirements through, for example the cyber incident reporting council established? >> congresswoman, thank you for championing this critical security effort. this cybersecurity effort. we are already engaging with the private sector in preparation for the promulgation of the regulations that will implement the new legislation. it's vitally important as you and other members of the committee no champion this. the public-private partnerships are the bedrock, the foundation of the cybersecurity ecosystem so we already have begun to engage with the private sector in anticipation of the regulations that we will issue. number two, we have a counsel that is working across the agency to ensure to the best of our abilities the harmonization of the reporting requirements and i should say we've also taken that critical harmonization needed and expanded in the international domain speaking with our international p

but that doesn't mean dhs has dn stopped trying't to censor you. oh, they are used to know about it. t thanks to the intercept, which just obtained many years of internal documents from dhs. we know that companies like worg with tok and twitter have been working closely with the biden administration to , quote, curb speech that the administration doesn't approve of. emails also show that twitter's top censor, vagi gaudi, was just fired by elon musk, met every month with the by demonstration sensors dhs to talk about new ways to get wy you to shut up and unconstitutional fashion.. lee fang broke the story. he's an investigative journalist. from id joinsight. us tonight. we thanks so mucnk youh fo sr cg on . this seems like really important story, is which is for bein some reason being ignored. >>igno do we get the outlines, n the administration is working with the tech companies to censor people? yeah, that's right, tucker. we looked at really hundreds of documents that paint a vivid picture of the fbi, the closely collaborating with the top social

they believe that they way dhs agents.they were instead just cause play artists and characters shooing greyish e aiding themselves. oh credit to the united states postal investigations or is that uncovered it. is that essentially a personnel matter? that is the response that the department has been given to our committee an inquiry. look at how such a glaring security left clinic or. >> congressman, i cannot speak to the facts. they are under review. there is a process there. and i can say this with tremendous conviction, i am intensely proud of the men and women of the united states secret service. if and the manner in which they execute their mission. i am a beneficiary of the willingness to risk their lives for the safety and security of others. >> the gentleman's time has expired. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. torres. you have five minutes. >> my question is directed towards a director. i am the future congressman for yale on the wrong. prevail happens to be home to the russian diplomatic co

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seems as dhs political leadership has lost confidence in him.nure has been 11 or 12 months maybe has been upwards of failure for the most part but i think it's important to remember that even if the commissioner is let go and somehow fired or resigns that somehow the strategy is going to change and we are going to see different results. the decisions made from the border are made from the white house and dhs political leadership at the highest, highest levels, cbp and the border patrol simple yes carry out those -- those orders and so i don't see anything changing with the removal of the commissioner. griff: you know, i know speaking to my sources close to border patrol chief raÚl ortiz that the chief is very frustrated by his lack of leadership whether it was the accusations over the horse patrol or even, chad, the ability, willingness to allow chiefs to speak to people like me, bill melugin and interesting for you to say that it may not change if, indeed, the problem goes to the top should mayorkas be impeached if the house could actually do t

. >> dhs pushing back against calls for alejandro mayorkas to resign or face possible impeachment.s from republicans, specifically gop house leader kevin mccarthy. dhs says mayorkas does not plan to step down and argues the agency inherited a broken immigration system. jon: casey stegall, live in eagle pass, texas, thank you. house democrats have a month left in control of the chamber. was that agenda in congress reconvened? phil wegman joins us next. ♪ just ten days until georgia senate runoff between raphael warnock and republican challenger herschel walker. early voting today in several counties after a ruling by the supreme court. senior correspondent steve harrigan live in a better. >> the first day of early voting is just about to wrap up and there's a strong turnout, most people waiting one to two hours in much the same records from around the state, there seems to be enthusiasm to get to vote in a runoff senate election unlike two years ago when control of the senate was at stake, that's not happening this time but could be a buffer vote for the democrats. running against e

this is dhs responding to mccarthy's call for mayorkas to resign. secretary mayorkas proud to advance the noble mission of this department, support its extraordinary workforce and serve the american people. the department will continue our work to enforce our laws and secure or border while building a safe, orderly and humane immigration system. members of congress can do something better than point the finger, they should work on solutions for the system and outdated laws which have not been overhauled in 40 years. your thoughts on that reaction from dhs. >> well, it is preposterous to come out and say something like that, when we have had 23 months of what's been going on down at the border. mayorkas has abandoned his sworn oath, he should resign right now or he should be impeached immediately. i think that, and i agree with 100% with our new speaker designate, kevin mccarthy, who i was -- who i was with, several of my other colleagues on the border in el paso. and we saw with our own eyes, i mean, we saw a tent city with hundreds of tents, probab

meantime, dhs is pushing back on g.o.p. house leader kevin mccarthy's calls for dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas to resign or being impeached, he says he's staying put, saying they inherited a broken system and mayorkas has faced enormous criticism, a record 2.3 million migrant encounters at the southern border last year, charles. charles: casey, thank you so much. as we mentioned, republicans, they continue to call for dhs secretary mayorkas to resign or face impeachment. what does my next guest think? opportunity chris olivarez from public safety. it's a statement for minority leader mccarthy who will be majority leader soon. will that go in your mind to a way to get some resolution or something out of this administration is this. >> that's what we're hoping for, charles and speaking with border patrol agents in the field as well. and why they've let this get out of hand. there's no disputing that, we to for fact the records were numbered low as far as apprehensions and encounters, enforcement action, ice agents were allo

dhs secretary mayokas on screen. he is facing impeachment from republicans in the house and four democratic senators sent him a letter saying we've expressed concern with dhs's preparations for the end of title 42 especially as the situation has deteriorated. it is not safe and creates a dangerous situation for migrants and communities, end quote. >> dana: at the same time kevin mccarthy said he invited the president to join him on a visit to the border so he could see the crisis firsthand. >> i invited the president to go to the border with me. if we would send people back, the country that they came from, border agents will tell you they stop coming. i explained to the president what i saw. you could see the videos of the cartels shooting tracers at our national guard. i also explained to him what's happening when it comes to fentanyl. there is not just any city. every city today is now a border city. >> bill: griff jenkins is live in d.c. with more on this today. nice to see you, good morning. >> good morning, bil

dhs argues that they don't have the resources to deport them all. texas and louisiana are among the gop led states, suing, argumenting the federal congressional mandatory arrest and deportation for those 11 million must happen for those in the u.s. illegally. the biden administration says it has discretion to enforce immigration and policy as it sees fit. but it's arguing that challenging the current policy, sandra, would open up the flood gates and encourage other states to sue on other similar issues. listen. >> federal courts should not now be transformed in to open forums for each and every policy dispute between the states and the national government. on the merits. >> that was the solicitor general for the united states. this argument today comes as we continue to see record border crossings. secretary of homeland security alejandro mayorkas has been put on notice by the incoming republican-led house on capitol hill to either step down or be impeached. >> this is a really important case. because the biden administration has run up the white fl

the dhs put out the statement. people. the department will continue our work to enforce laws and secure our border by building a safe, orderly and humane immigration system. so, what is it like at the southern border right now? since the beginning of october, there have been 130,000 got a ways and 350,000 encounters and 53 deaths. there may be a ripple effect here on error safety. the air marshall national council voted piece for the "the hill" the air marshals sent down to address the crisis they are leaving critical caps on a number of what he calls high risk flights on a long holiday weekend when millions, todd and carley will be traveling. speed to doug thank you for that reporting. the national border patrol council brandon judd on that front. brandon my belief we have you, there you go. great to see you. i think this marshall thing, air marshall thing will come as a surprise to a lot of people. you have hundreds of air marshals being taken from their post. these are trained guys being sent to the southern bor

democratic senators tell the dhs secretary the border is "untenable." we begin with breaking news across the southeast, extremely dangerous tornadoes coming at an extremely dangerous time, the dark of night. marianne rafferty tracking threat levels that will last well into the opening hours. marianne, what do we know? >> it's dangerous severe weather outbreak is underway and parts of the south and conditions are expected to get much worse. the national weather service confirming tornadoes were on the ground in mississippi tonight. tornado and flash flood warnings issued earlier in the state, is dangerous super cells move through. the state's emergency management agency urging the entire state to be vigilant. >> i think the nighttime portion, that's what worries us the most, because some people may be asleep, some people may be traveling. >> reports coming from choctaw county of destruction from strong winds, several homes torn apart on a steeple blown off the church. major lightning strike in jackson, sheriff's deputy describing some of that damage. >>

you have a system from dhs looks at cyber risk and the vulnerable infrastructure.e are seeing and others are doing is mapping more of what extreme rainfall looks like? what those vulnerabilities are. think general accounting offices made recommendations probably the epa's lead with the corps of engineers from fema and others provide a lot of this funding, can we be more targeted? a term i learned from a mentor, move away from discovery learning and go find out which of our systems now are most vulnerable. look at how we have prioritized that targeting. it may not necessarily be division across populations or states. it may be their parts of the country have different risks, different needs between drought and extreme rainfall events our systems were not built for. notwithstanding maintenance issues, funding issues, training issues, leadership issues. it is just all accelerating. i think it triaged list is where i would start. it all the agencies together come back and say can we come up with a criteria to measure against water systems? don't forget little systems a

dhs as an organization as interpreted that ability in a very narrow and very narrow way.w as things are written, this notion of stop hatreating everybody as an asylum seeker can be done without additional legislation . it would require dhs to change kind of how those we implement the implement thing language of the legislation is already past. >> so as we speak, monday would have been the date that title 42 would have been lifted. that was a rule, a law that was in place by the trump administration that was supposed to prevent people seeking asylum at the border due to concerns about covid. now covid, we're past covid 19 pretty much so let title 42 because it was a covid restriction but we have people n,in the right side saying no, keep it in place. these are the same people who say you don't have to wear a mask on an airplane and covid was a hoax and these other things so is title 42 about immigration or covid and is it disingenuous trying to confuse it as a way to keep people coming into the country and seeking asylum. >> there's an absolute lack of ideological consiste

dhs is an organization has interpreted that ability and a varro narrow way. things are written this notion of stop b treating everyone as an asylum-seekers can be done without additional legislation part it would require dhs to change how they implement of the language of the legislation that's already past. >> as we speak monday it would have been the date title 42 would have been lifted. that was a rule, a lot of us put in place by the trump administration. that was supposed to prevent people from seeking asylum due to concerns about covid-19. now covid-19 we are past covid-19 pretty much. and people are saying okay, lifted title 42 it was a covid restriction. but we have people on the right side saying keep it in place. these are theou same people you don't have to wear masks on an airplane of it was a hoax and all these other things. is title 42 about immigration or is it about covid and disingenuous trying to use it as a way to keep people from coming into the country and seeking asylum? >> there's an absolute lack of ideological consistency on those sup

. >>> also this hour, there is a new terror bulletin going out from dhs, first reported by nbc news, warning of domestic threats to the lbgtq + community, as well as jewish places of worship and migrants. more on that ahead. and a look at the big board, stocks up across the board with the investors psyched about the news out of the fed, suggesting smaller interest rate hikes could be on the way. the dow jones up 400. let's get to nbc news justice and intel correspondent ken dilanian and correspondent ryan reilly. ken, we have a news conference, we suppose, we don't know if he will take questions, from the attorney general, read the tea leaves for us, is this kinds of a victory lap given the verdict against the oath keepers? >> it feels that way, hallie, we're not expecting any major announcements but garland could always surprise us. and the attorney general wants to talk about this very important landmark victory by the justice department, winning two seditious conspiracy convictions against stewart rhodes, the founder of the oath keepers, and wants to talk about the situation in ja

dhs's own projections?t if title 42 was removed you get potentially have 400,000 people a month coming to our border legal. this is their projection. this is this is not my projection. to give some context the first year of donald trump he deported for the entire year 200,000 people. so that influx would have been would have been pretty pretty significant pretty serious and one of the things i get frustrated on this entire immigration issue, is is that lack of ideological consistency on both sides of this one of my the things that i was most frustrated with when i was in congress was not getting a solution for a daca for dreamers that the kids that have only known the united states of america as as their own a couple of us renegade republicans. we're trying to jam republican leadership at the time and we came to in essence two votes away from pulling something off where we would have been able to introduce legislation. that would have gotten over north of 250th votes and it likely would have passed a senate

i believe dhs must do more to crack down.however, i'm concerned that this issue is not being arrested an urgent matter from the department. mister secretary, despite repeated efforts, officials from the refuse to answer my questions or publicly speak out on what measures being taken in response to these lottery numbers of storm vehicles being taken to reports. i reached out to your office multiple times, and i heard from no one. to come to new jersey, enter justice issue, what you refuse. what you imagine is very frustrating for the people that i represent. it's a serious as. she had asked, already, think it's a serious issue? why are you communicating more the public? why are you taking more serious steps and what is your plan? >> congressman, forgive me. i am an familiar with your request to speak to me directly about what is clearly a homeland security issue. i would be pleased to speak with you subsequent to this hearing, and i will proactively reach out to your office. i was in one of our reports on the east coast workin

. >> house gop hopes to impeach dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas florida attorney general ashley moodyg in, we'll be right back. . waiting. sometimes it's just inevitable. but if you're over 50 or live with a chronic condition, waiting could be deadly. because conditions like heart disease or diabetes raise your risk of serious illness or death from untreated covid. and if you don't get treatment within days, you may not be able to get treatment. so, got covid symptoms? get tested and get treated right away. it can't wait. maria: welcome back. >> headlines for you this morning, stormy weather causing a post thanksgiving nightmare this weekend thousands flights delayed saturday and sunday, 4400 flights delayed 67 canceled, sunday 644 flights delayed 177 canceled, largest delays in new york city as rain fell in the area, rainstorms sweeping across atlantic region, a tough day for travels in st. louis, in particular, 2.5 million air travelers on sunday, highest since december of 2019. well new this morning some america's biggest banks reportly working on plan to compensates consumers ho f

given congressional funding choices it would be impossible for dhs to do so. >> bret: we're back nowh his argument, and chief justice roberts echoed that, saying, listen, if you look at the federal immigration law mandates that dhs detain and remove most noncitizens. seems like the conservative majority here is on the same page. >> no, it does. it's interesting watching them sort of going back and forth with the thought process. you have the biden administration saying if you go through with this, with the lawsuit, that was put forward by texas and louisiana, you're going to be actually opening up not just this administration, but other administrations facing lawsuits for how they are trying to prioritize enforcement guidelines, but if you pull back a little bit, you know, the administration is also just trying to step back from how donald trump has been pushing in terms of what he was doing in his administration, and pulling away from the sort of scale that he was doing the deportations and detentions. >> bret: if you go back, hugh hewitt, to september of 2021, secretsays they've be

he was the deputy at the dhs when the surge in 2014 occurred and saw us fix it. he knows what the policy should be and what works. and they're moving the other direction. yeah, it is due to the white house putting him in charge. >> congresswoman went on the defensive when asked about the border. >> what is his plan, what is he doing to help the situation we're seeing? we have put a solution to this on the president's first day in the white house, he put forth a comprehensive immigration, stopping fentanyl before it makes it to the streets of the united states. so we have a plan, the republican party has no plan. they do nothing except do political stunts. >> congresswoman, the democrat plan, the pied plan is to keep the border open. there is a republican plan that probably looks like president trump's former plan, but what will republicans do here? >> so i would suggest the white house actually look at the bills we have put forward, that we have been able to make sight of day because we have an administration and speaker that won't bring them to the floor. there'

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so both wray and the dhs secretary mayorkas says this is a huge security threat.uper bowl and new years eve at times square and the formula one race in arizona will not be protected from the threat of drones if this law is not passed and he went on to say that, as you played there, that there are instances they're investigating where people try to put bombs on drones in the united states and we're seeing in the ukraine war that drones are increasingly lethal and precise. >> that's pretty terrifying, first of all. what does this new report from the committee tell us about the root cause of why this is? as dhs secretary mayorkas calls it, the most lethal and persistent terrorism-related threat to our country. >> so this report criticizes both the fbi and dhs and the four major social media platforms. it says that the fbi, the dhs, have not reacted quickly muff to the resources of the threat of domestic terrorism and doesn't have the data to track, it isn't putting enough into. it in terms of the social media companies, the report says their business models are essen

chris magnus was told by dhs secretary alejandro b arcus reselling or be fired. magnus first refuse and then sent his wreck his resignation the following day. >> jonathan bai he says it magnus as a scapegoat sacrifice by the biden administration after the midterms. >> they had to do something to give that they're taking this issue seriously. >> the former secretary of the department of homeland security says magnus was doomed from the start. they hired him because they wha cbp too fail. they want border patrol to fail just like they went ice to fail into its mission of deporting illegals. >> whatever the intention, migrants are undeterred. a group of more than 300 soda petit eagle pass, texas those likely to be turned away come under cover of night. a smuggler lead troopers and a high-speed chase and bracken bell, texas when his truck wrecked his payload was for illegal immigrants. police and agents who work the border expressed no optimism fo improvement with a see you be chief chief the border crisis i due to a leadership problem. writing the core problem remai