right now it is the dhs headquarters, 24 hours a day. and the mobile system i mentioned that we have the ability to move to other places based on threat levels. but we have currently is adequate for fps. i cannot speak on cbp, coast guard, or the secret service. >> i appreciate that. mr. breor and director cline, this question goes to both of you and it is based on something that mr. marroni testified to. federal agencies as we talked about, failed to implement most of the 32,000 security recommendations made by the fps from 2017 to 2023. agencies failed to be even respond to more than half of the recommendations and according to gao, they implemented viewer than 1800 of the recommendations made during the period. is there a record of who specifically at any agency or other facility security committee determines which recommendations will be implemented, and to follow-up, who is responsible for the decision that a facility will accept a certain level of risk and not implement the recommendation. mr. breor, we will start with you. >> at t

this is also demoralizing the people who work for the dhs.y'all tout these trips you took to the border. well we've all been to the border. you talk to one or two people, we talked to others. we've had testimony. the people at the border need the resources. that's what they are telling us, insistently. so i think what we're doing here has serious consequences for the constitution, for our democracy, for the people who are working at the border, who are on the front lines, and all for you to have some kind of political stunt, i think, and as mr. higgins will know, i think another sagan, appropriately describes what's going on here, and that's just shoveling the same old and calling it sugar. that's not what people want us to do, so i yield back. >> the gentle lady yields. i now recognize ms. lee for five minutes to discuss. >> thank you mr. chairman. and on that note, here we are again, subjected to the characterizations of house democrats who attack the purpose and the validity of this hearing, who have today referred to it as a waste of time

dhs supervisors had failed to train and supervise dhs employees to properly screen minors attemptingr salvador. the operational neglect committed by dhs carried over into dhhs, whose operational neglect further sealed my daughter's fate. dhhs operational neglect included its emplees a minor to be placed with a verified relative before entering the u.s. employees neglected and recklessly failed to verify a legitimate family member of the assailant or sponsor before allowing him to enter u.s. soil. there were clear inconsistencies in the dhs and dhhs records regag ty of the relative to whom the assailant was released. ultimately, dhs dhhs's failures to identify the ms-13 gang member as a minor to rent a room in a trailer park from another individual who was also an illegal immigrant. there was also a lack of transparency by dhs and dhhs, including but not limited to dhhs failure to provide house of representatives copy of its audit report. let's take a moment and think about how kayla felt that day. how scared she must have been that day, knowing that she was dying. if she was going to

dhs says there is no border crisis.nd security secretary mayorkas says the border is not open. mayorkas says the border is closed . mayorkas takes heat for repeating the border is secure during house hearings. dhs treats the secure border claim alive. mayorkas is accused of lying under oath . my favorite, mr. chairman, mayorkas latest litany of lies on the border puts desantis to shame. these are the headlines and these are what is being talked about. he has been untruthful for congress. he comes in here and he raises his hand and then he lies when he says the border is secure. he lies when the says the border is not open and we are allowing over 370,000 immigrants to flood across the border last month alone. we want to talk about what ho we are doing this again for political theater. last year we passed hr 2, the most comprehensive package that i have seen during my time in congress. we talked about funding. what have we done on funding? the house appropriations bill, dealing with funding went above and beyond this req

dhs is responding, the statement says this farce of an impeachment is a distraction from other vitalnal security priorities and the work congress should be doing to fix the broken immigration laws but that's unlikely to move any of the house republicans and the speaker of the house, mike johnson, says they'll move to vote on these articles of impeachment for mayorkas as soon as possible. back to you. >> all right, he peter, thank you so much. >> thank you very much. >> let's bring in congressman august pfluger, a republican from texas, a member of the house homeland security commit at this. good morning to you. your committee did the investigation. tell us why you decided to move forward with these articles of impeachment against the dhs secretary. >> well, thank you for having me. i take no pleasure in talking about this. what we want is a secure border. but when you look at the egregious nature of what this administration has done under the leadership of secretary mayorkas who took an oath of office to protect and defend the constitution, you're talking over 8 million people illega

the first one is we have had multiple dhs whistleblowers who are special investigators and dhs come forward to my office and i think others and allege they were pulled off of their assignments investigating child abuse, child trafficking, fentanyl there pulled off at ofthat and sent to the southern border in order to perform in their words and menial tasks. i just want to do it in the officers to your knowledge been reassigned to the southern border to help with migrant processing? >> yes, sir. we do have a number of officers that are supporting the southern border into locations. that is going on today. >> you say assisting with processing? >> not processing let me explain. the goal is for us to support the border patrol so they can go back to the work of the border. our officers are transporting people to hospital appointments, to medical visits, to emergency rooms date may need treatment. on the border patrol does have to that they focus on the border we are supporting them in escorting people to these appointments. >> if i could just ask where these folks coming from who are transportin

and i also want to know what else dhs and dhs is hiding. i was told her murders file is so thick that jim jordan only had two hours to look at the file. what else are they hiding about this murderer? i want to know. i mean i want to know what they are hiding about this murderer. why he is being protected. when everything about him is being protected. we haven't even gotten to trial yet. trial was set for june 28 of this year and they have four or five thick binders full of a bunch of evidence that we haven't even known yet. we don't even know over half of the stuff that was done to her in that room. >> i'm good ask you as a follow- up to my 30 seconds left, a statement that talks about, i actually quoted this before this committee, it actually comes out of the old testament, where it talks about blood on your hands. if you see destruction coming, he talks about a watchman and you don't cry out, do you think the secretary, based upon him knowing what is happening letting people come into this country, do you think he has blood on his hands?

some have accused dhs of not enforcing our nations laws. this could not be further from the truth. having begun my public service career as a prosecutor for 12 years ultimately serving as the united states attorney there's nothing i take more seriously than our responsibility to uphold the law and the men and women of dhs working around the clock to do so. the individuals who've been returned to their countries of origin certainly know this. after the ending of title 42 through the end of the fiscal year, dhs removed or returned more noncitizens without a basis to remain in the united states that in any other five month period in the last ten years. in fact, the majority of all migrants encountered at the southwest border throughout this administration have been removed, returned or expelled. a majority of them. we are doing everything we can within a broken system to incentivize noncitizens to use the lawful pathways to impose consequences on those who do not and to reduce irregular migration. we will continue to do everything we can and continue to enforce the law but we need con

it shows secretary mayorkas and dhs enforced title 42 policy and the dhs carried out over 2.5 millionrants from march 2020 until title 42 expired in may. >> i ask unanimous consent to include section 751 of joseph stories commentaries on the constitution, which explains the power of impeachment is not expected in any government to be in constant or frequent exercise. >> without >> i ask unanimous consent to include in the record article three section one of the north carolina constition. article three of the delaware constitution showing the constitution's framers had examples of impeachment language based on malice administration and explicitly rejected using suchage as a basis for impeachment. >> i ask unanimous consent to include the record of the phase five interim report titled the massive waste and abused enabled by dhs. secretary alejandro mayorkas, where republicans wrongly point to the biden administration budget request as an example of secretary mayorkas attempting to evade the law. >> mr. chairman? >> for what purpose? >> i ask unanimous consent we enter into the record th

the chairman recently pinned an op-ed saying, and i quote, not of another time to dhs.til the republican bill is signed into law, even though he knows full well the disastrous bill has absolutely zero chance of being inactive. it should be unthinkable that a chairman of the committee of homeland security would threaten to defund dhs. but, that is exactly what happened. this is funding our frontline board and immigration agencies need to better secure the border. republicans have tried to excuse their opposition to border funding by claiming that border patrol doesn't want more funding, but that is blatantly false. in interviews with the committee border patrol chiefs unequivocally supported more resources. republicans know that. they were in the realm and they have the transcripts. but let me refresh their memory. jason owens, currently the chief of the border patrol said, we always need more agents. chief in tucson and an agency, we need a lot more, a lot more people. from chief in san diego, we all need resources and technology. in el centro, the additional resources

not dhs.o if the secretary does anything he does something consistent with the house of representatives and the senate. that is how we set the space and that's how we pay for.■ç i have heard my colleagues talk about it. that is how the process works. his a budget for something put before us is a recommendation that comes from the administration ultimately we determine what those numbers are. by we, the house of representatives makes that determination. that is so important because that's part of what the framers put together. we are criticizing our secretary and this impeachment for something congress has a responsibility to do and its authority. so this notion that we are here today to impeach the secretary, who in my opinion, works for the president of the united states he is not an independent person. he is recomme ultimately because of that confirmation in the presence recommendation he is the secretary carries that out and obviously there are challenges in the position. but those are chal

he claimed that i wrote that i to dhs. this is accurate.ot support another time to dhs until the policies of hr 2 are signed into law and enforced by supplemental, so we are not talking about the budget, which is already gone through and past the house. we're talking about additional dollars in the supplemental. to suggest that i would defund the department of homeland security is disingenuous best. i can tell you there have been a lot of democrats who said defund ice, defund the police. i never said security and i'd also like to address the claim that secretary mayorkas isn't at fault here, but he isn't to blame for e eccrisis in latin america. i agree. poverty in latin america is nothing new and actually poverty rates in latin america have stayed flat from last administration to this one. further, i'd like to reiterate the democrats sent these articles of impeachment to our committee in november. they sent it to this coit has the authority of the house to conduct these impeachment proceedings, and that's exactly what we're going to do. de

chair i ask unanimous consent to include in the record dhs fact sheet titled dhs on the front lines combatting>> without objection. >> which highlights initiatives secretary mayorkas has overseen such ass, operation rolling wave and operation apollo. >> without objection, so ordered. >> mr. claire i ask unanimous consent to include in the record. cato institute, convicted traffickers in 2022, 0.0009%-- >> without objection, so ordered. >> arrested by oer title, miss just the title. >> any amount of fentanyl. that was the title. i was■g getting to the period. >> good job, my bad. you're recognized. >> mr. chair, i ask unanimous consent tonc record dhs countering human trafficking here and review report which highlights that the center of the countering human trafficking significant results including substantially increasing the number of dhs u.s. traffic investigations and arrest and improvement victim support. >> without objection, so ordered. >> thank you, sir. >> i yield back. >> miss titus. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ask unanimous consent to include in the record a cato institute blog post

dhs says there is no border crisis. homeland security secretary mayorkas says the border is not open. mayorkas says the border is closed . mayorkas takes heat for repeating the border is secure during house hearings. dhs treats the secure border claim alive. mayorkas is accused of lying under oath . my favorite, mr. chairman, mayorkas latest litany of lies on the border puts desantis to shame. these are the headlines and these are what is being talked about. he has been untruthful for congress. he comes in here and he raises his hand and then he lies when he says the border is secure. he lies when the says the border is not open and we are allowing over 370,000 immigrants to flood across the border last month alone. we want to talk about what house republicans have done. we are doing this again for political theater. last year we passed hr 2, the most comprehensive package that i have seen during my time in congress. we talked about funding. what have we done on funding? the house appropriations bill, dealing with fundi

and i also want to know what else dhs and dhs is hiding.d two hours to look at the file. what else are they hiding about this murderer? i want to know. i mean i want to know what they are hiding about this murderer. why he is being protected. when everything about him is be we haven't even gotten to trial yet. trial was set for june 28 of this year and they have full of bunch of evidence that we haven't even known yet. we don't even know over half of the stuff that was done to her in that room. >> i'm good ask you as a follow- up to my 30 seconds left, a statement that talks about, i actually quoted this before this committee, it actually comes out of the old testament, where it talks about blood on your hands. if you see destruction coming, he talks about a watcyou don't the secretary, based upon him knowing what is happening letting people come into this country, do you think he has blood on his hands? >> yes, he is responsible for my daughter's >> i know that secretary mayorkas has two daughters. and they are grown adults. and i just don

dhs clarified the figure ebbs and flows. >> not enforcing the nation's laws.ld not be further from the truth. there is nothing i take more seriously than our responsibility to uphold the law and the men and women of dhs are working round-the-clock to do so. >> reporter: during his trip the secretary met privately with eagle pass's mayor and maverick county judge. this community has been a primary hotspot during the escalating situation. one of the reasons we've been posted appear for more than three years. stuart: we hear you. the president of mexico issued a list of demands if we want his help with the border crisis. you wants biden to give $20 billion to latin american countries, work visas for 10 million hispanics already in america and end sanctions against venezuela and end blockade of cuba. senator roger marshall is here. i think that's a humiliation for our president. what say you? >> feels like mexico took president biden's lunch panel. how dare they do this? when you have a president operating from the point of weakness that there's chaos going on, th

dhs personnel shall not rely on the fact that conviction is going to pass the law. cannot take that into account. that is not prosecutorial discretion. it takes away the discretion. going back to oral arguments made before the court -- i found this very fascinating. during the debate, biden's general responded to kavanaugh and said instead of judicial review, you are saying they don't have standings that congress would have to resort to impeachment or dramatic in the face of the law. the biden solicitor general says that she agrees. in the face of a dramatic abdication of statutory responsibility by the executive branch suchthat would be warranted, the biden administration's general saying the legal position of impeachment is the proper remedy for dramatic abdication of statutory responsibility. returning to the founding fathers, they did not have a whole lot of criminal statutes back then. james madison, when they are reporting the department of state, it is called foreign affairs. what if they filled the department with unworthy men of public trust? it says on the

he claimed i wrote that i will not support another dime to dhs. what i wrote is i will not support another dime to dhs until the policies of hr2 are signed into law. we are talking about the supplemental. we are not talking about the budget which has already passed the house, we are talking about additional dollars in the supplemental. to suggest that i would defund the department of homeland security is disingenuous at best. i can tell you there have been a lot of democrats who said defund i.c.e. and defund the police. i never said defund homeland security. i'd also like to address the claim that secretary mayorkas is not at fault for the economic crisis in latin america. i agree. poverty in latin america is nothing too new. actually poverty rates in latin america have stated flat from the last administration to this one. further i would like to reiterate the democrats sent these articles of impeachment to our committee in november. they sent it went security committee has the authority of the house to conduct these impeachment proceedings, and t

again sent another letter declining the invitation claiming that dhs has limited compassty to support-- capacity to support such a hearing request. either this is disappointing mr. chairman, and under unanimous consent i'd like to enter into thetations this committee has sent to the secretary. >> without objection so ordered. >> will the gentleman yield? >> not. no. [inaudible conversations] >> the gentleman still has some time left. >> i yield for the chairman. >> the gentleman yields. i now recognize -- [inaudible conversations] mr. magaziner for five minutes. >> thank you. i want to return the mr. bishop's comments because again, we're supposed to be talking about the legal basis for impeachment or lack thereof in these articles. two things. mr. bishop noted that there are seven statutes in the article that he allege as the secretary has not fully complied with. i have read them. six of them is have to do with detention, one of them has to do with parole, right? if all seven all seven are statutes9 that the prior secretary also used his to follow when he could with the resources th

that is what dhs has been able to do since may 12. i will remin you, last week we had homeland security adviser sure what randall and secraries biden and mayorkas meet wh the mexican government. that was a productive conversation and we lieve the president of mexictook significant enforcement actions and we are starting to see the results. a lot of this is just -- diplacy. a lot of it is enforcement. i just laid out how last may, while dhs was removing folks that were not here on a legal basis he had house republicans voting to get rid of000 voter patrol agents. we are trying to deal with the issue. we get it. it arabs and -- it ebbs and flows every year. that is why there are negotiations on the senate side for republicans and democrats to deal with the issue. >> the administration is also fighting to remove razor wire along the borr that is intended to keep this surge lower. to keep people out from crossing illegally. governor abbott's razor wire does not prevent noncitizens from lawfully crossing. ifnything, it puts the lives of th

dhs later clarified to us that figure ebbs and flows. >> some have accused dhs of not enforcing our nation's laws. this could not be further from the truth. there is nothing i take more seriously than our responsibility to uphold the law. and the men and women of dhs are working around the clock to do so. >> many disagree with that but during his trip the secretary also met privately with eagle pass's mayor and maverick county judge. as you know this community has been a primary hot spot during this unprecedented crisis, which is why we have been posted up here for more than three years now. dana and bill. >> dana: it goes on and on. >> bill: tennessee republican mark green is here with us chairman of the homeland security committee. good morning to you. mayorkas is making this argument at the border, same with bret last week. if you make a claim for relief you are allowed to stay here. but it seems as if just about -- is it 85%? is it 95% of those who make a claim are staying here. >> yeah, it's actually against the law. the immigration and naturalization act is clear. when you release some

the chairman recently pinned an op-ed saying, and i quote, not of another time to dhs.il the republican bill is signed into law, even though he knows full well the disastrous bill has absolutely zero chance of being inactive. it should be unthinkable that a chairman of the committee of homeland security would threaten to defund dhs. but, that is exactly what happened. this is funding our frontline board and immigration agencies need tobetter secure the border. republicans have tried to excuse their opposition to border funding by claiming that border patrol doesn't want more funding, but that is blatantly false. in interviews with the committee border patrol chiefs unequivocally supported more resources. republicans know that. they were in the realm and they have the transcripts. but let me refresh their memory. jason owens, currently the chief of the border patrol said, we always need more agents. chief in tucson and an agency, we need a lot more, a lot more people. from chief in san diego, we all need resources and technology. in el centro, the additional resources is

everything you need to know and dhs mayorkas stopping by the border. a former border patrol agent is here. did you see this? >> back to the five. has space and takes off and hardy block down field. hardy is going to go. he's at midfield. nobody is going to catch him. hardy, 95 yards. >> todd: bills fans are happy and n.f.l. playoffs are set. teams prepare for a run to the super bowl, others are making changes. black monday arrived on sunday night. you're watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. carley has the day off. we begin with this fox news alert. lloyd austin, defense secretary, remains in the hospital. officials were not told the extent of his condition. this is concerning. >> brooke: defense secretary lloyd austin has been in the hospital for eight days now. pentagon officials were unaware for several days. major general patrick ryder said on friday, december 22nd, lloyd austin underwent an elective medical procedure. he was on leave. he returned home on the 23rd. evening of the 21st he was transported back and admitted to intensive car

dhs and dhhs failed to make a comment or say anything to me about kayla or anything. >> let me ask youthink the secretary is doing everything he can to secure the southern border? >> no. >> i know it comes across as a question that anyone who was lost what you lost, you have the utmost right to be heard by the american people. is one thing to abstract talk about this, another thing to be victimized by someone's refusal to enforce what the law of the land is, what congressional law is. if you were able to speak to secretary mayorkas, which my inclination is he probably is of the invitation are chairman centum, what would you say to secretary mayorkas and what questions would you ask him and i will give you all the time you want. i will lend my conclusions there. when you get done, there is time on the clock, i want to hear your comments. what would you tell secretary? >> i would ask him how did you are lower known gang member to be allowed in this country? how can anyone be okay with a known gang member to come into this country and to end up in maryland and i also want know what else d

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i understand you refer these questions to dhs because dhs controls border control, but at a certain point, texas national guard soldiers and national guard soldiers from other states are being used to frustrate federal auth being used to get n the way of federal immigration enforcement and to flout a court order from a federal court. at what point does the president step in and say enough of that, these are american soldiers, i am ordering them to let border patrol do their jobs because they took an oath to the constitution and i am their commander-in-chief? when does enough become enough? sec. jean-pierre: i will say this, i won't speculate on any action the president could use, i'm just not going to do that. it is very clear, and i would remind everyone the circumstances under which the federal government can mobilize a states national guard are underlined in the law. i will that there. i will not get into speculation on actions the president will take at this time. i will reiterate, if these republican governors actually cared about doing something to deal with the challenges at the bo

casey stegall in dallas, thank you. >> john: former acting dhs secretary, chad wolf.back on the screen again, it really is unbelievable. in one month, december alone, according to sources, 302000. >> one month we had 60,000 apprehensions and how we had to do better and now 300,000 in one 30-day period. and the border patrol agents three years into the crisis and don't seen an end in sight. they see it going the opposite direction with more and more illegal activity hurting americans, american communities, their loved ones and everyone else along the border. >> gillian: earlier last week an emergency summit, president biden sent secretary mayorkas and blinken to meet with the government, and i traveled on the trip. i'm curious what you made out of that and what you hoped to see the same mexican officials will travel here to meet with biden at the white house this month. what do you want to see? >> i would have expected a little more coming out of, i'm not going to say the summit but the meeting and what you got from the communique or the readout was boilerplate languag

so boris, what we're waiting for is for dhs. dhs issued a cease and desist order to the state of texas saying that the state of texas needed to give u.s. border patrol access to shelby park into the area. we are waiting to hear what dhs is going to do. -- that deadline has expired. texas says it will hold down the fort here. let's see what dhs at the end of the day does. we are waiting for that. boris, fact. you >> are showdown likely headed for the supreme court. rosa flores from eagle pass, texas. thank you so much. breonna? >> we are keeping an eye on the senate. these live pictures here. borders -- key part of discussions on capitol hill. there is no room for error as congress races to avert a partial shutdown by tomorrow. the senate now voting on that stock gap bill. let's get straight to cnn's -- who is on the hill. what is the latest here on this spending battle? >> listen, there is two different tracks. one is to keep the government open before friday at 11:59 pm. we time and again, kicking the can down the, road trying

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the dhs would need significantly more funding in order to be able to even do that. and democrats, under president biden, and over the last two congresses, have requested from republicans, bipartisan agreement, to add additional funding for the department. and the republicans have rejected it. so, they are creating a scenario here that is impossible to meet, that does not accurately reflect the law, and is being done purely for donald trump's political interests because donald trump has been open and many republicans have said this, that he wants to run on the border in this election, and therefore he does not want the republicans to solve the problems at the border, through bipartisan legislation, he wants them to submarine legislation to continue the chaos at the border so that he can run on that. it is political cynicism at its absolute worst and we must call out the republicans for their desire to continue the chaos. >> it seems that both democrats and republicans agree that there needs to be a change at the border. we reported record numbers in december daily. t

that dhs would be forced to shut down the border, stop taking in migrants.co could have to take them back. we know so many now are coming not just from central america, but from countries like venezuela. colombia. even africa. the middle east. all this would have to be absorbed back to mexico and right now, we don't know of any deal between mexico and the united states to start taking back more than they are. the negotiations between the u.s. and mexico, they're not even at the point of talk about numbers or any kind of funding the u.s. could give mexico for these efforts. basically, the officials are worried this political messaging, if it turns into something they're going to have to carry out, could lead to a lot of chaos at the border and more to back us. if you think pack to when we used to talk about immigration waves under the trump administration like in 2019, one of the biggest problems was the massive back ups. people out in the sun. people left in such tight cells they couldn't even lie down to sleep. these things could happen again. saw it also u

dhs released a statement backing that claim.ment strongly denies the allegation saying mexican authorities handled the drownings and white house weighed in on unfirmed allegation writing in part "on friday night a woman and two children drowned near eagle pass and texas blocked u.s. border patrol from attempting to provide emergency assistance". in the newest court filing, department of homeland security confirms what texas actually says happened and the drownings occurred around 8:00 p.m. and mexican authorities handled the incident and didn't alert the u.s. till one hour after the migrants died. dhs writes in the latest filing, "mexican officials informed border patrol that thee migrants, one woman and two children drowned at approximately 8:00 p.m. in the same area". aside from the drowning of the three migrants, dhs argues it was trying to rescue two other myograns in the area and claim that -- myograns in the area and claim texas blocked them as well. they have to reopen the property to federal agents by tomorrow or they're

you chaired the first hearing today on impeaching dhs tech -- secretary a mayorkas.he broke the law, high crimes and misdemeanors. what are they? >> yeah. so he lied to congress, number one. and then he subverted the immigration and nationality act on multiple different levels, both we resistance -- with resistance or actually the refusal to deport and detain people. and this automatic parole he's set up, he even admitted recently 8 a 5% are being released into the country, it's in violation of law. four courts have ruled basically that he should cease and desist because he's violating the laws passed by congress, and he's ignored those court orders. so he's basically disregarded two coequal branches of government, one that writes the laws, the other one that interprets the laws, and he's just doing whatever he wants. and that's a violation of his oath of office to defend the constitution. clearly says we write the laws in the executive branch -- and the executive branch executes those laws. of course, the lying to congress and things like that. we think he's abused

what's the next steps in this lawsuit against dhs? >> yeah, griff.'s not just dhs, it's health and human services as well. they are equally culpable because when this individual was allowed to cross the board werer, he's put in a holding facility. -- border, dhhs, griff, is required to make a phone call and find what's called a verified sponsor for this kid to go to, a relative. not another illegal immigrant. and they catastrophically failed kayla and this country. they let him go with somebody who's not a relative. he runs away from if that home a month later and ends up renting a room with kayla from another illegal immigrant. and after he murders and rapes kayla, he ends up placed in a group foster home by our pathetic dhhs where he could have murdered something else. that's why we're filing this lawsuit. we're going to get answers, and our federal government has blood on its hands. unless we take a stand now, hold them accountable, get answers, then this is going to continue to happen. griff: last ten seconds, tammy. you hold secretary mayorkas f

dhs later clarified to us the figure ebbs and flows. >> some have accused dhs of not enforcing our nation's be further from the truth. there is nothing, i take more seriously than our responsibility to uphold the law and the men and women of dhs are working around the clock to do so. >> reporter: during his trip the secretary also met privately with eagle pass's mayor and maverick county judge this community has been a primary hot spot during this escalating situation. of course the reason we have been posted up here now for more than three years covering the story. cheryl? cheryl: we certainly have and we've got the video to prove it even if some deny that what's happening at the border is not real but we have it with our own cameras. casey stiegel, thank you very much. i want to bring in texas congressman lance gooden. congressman, i want to get your reaction to casey's report here. obviously secretary mayorkas is now going to be coming before the committee, the house committee and the topic is impeachment. your thoughts? >> well, first of all he is absolutely a candidate for impeachment