the clerk: h.r. 2453, a bill to amend the homeland security act of 2002 to establish the intelligence rotational assignment program in the department of homeland and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. gallagher, and the gentlelady from california, ms. barragan, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. gallagher: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five ledge slacive days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. gallagher: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. gallagher: thank you, mr. speaker. the department of home lan security has nine designated component intelligence component with trained analysts who could benefit from an authorized, better organized rotation program in order to truly develop expertise, d.h.s. has to develop and expand programs to cross train their broad cadre of analysts. one

and we have a counterterrorism in the cyber, homeland security and secret service and coast guard but integrating that i think over time it has become better integrated work but also it's got to be coordinated with the national security council, with the ic to get this real-time to stop the thread and dhs is more up the entity that that -- state local law enforcement depend on the homeland security to integrate with them because nine times out of 10 probably not going to be the fbi agent on the street but it's going to be that local citizen or local trooper or state police officer, nypd guy that we'll see something on the streets that doesn't look right and that's how we have been able to stop a lot of bad things from happening but i think the unanswered question in my mind is how is the tempo of this? is it going to continue to trend down or does it scale backup? i can tell you the islet -- ideology still strong. you are seeing it pop up in asia. we are saying it pop up not just in afghanistan we know libya and tunisia we know that's a safe haven. they will look at afghanistan and a

that's part of department of homeland security. it's a counterterrorism. we have a typer element to homeland security and secret service and coast guard. but integrating that i think over time t has become better integrated work together but also it's got to be coordinated as they do with the national security counsel, with the ic to get this real time intelligence to stop these threats. and it's more of the entity that cooperates with -- nine times otof ten it's not going to be i love the fbi, worked with them as a prosecutor. but probably thought going to be the fbi agenten the street. it's probably go being the local trooper or state police officer, nypd guy that's going to see something on the streets that doesn't look right and that's how we've been able to stop lot of bad things from happening. i think the unanswered question in my mind is how is the tempo of this? is it going to continue to trend down or is there going to be some event where this scales out? i can tell you the ideology is very strong globally and we're seeing it pop up in asia and n

elementerrorism, cyber to homeland security. secret service and coast guard, time, itng that over has become better integrated work together. but it has to be correlated -- coordinated that they deal with national security, i.t., to get real-time intelligence. thats more the entity caters to state a little bit. becauserate with them -- i love out of 10, the fbi, i've worked with them, but it's probably not going to be the fbi agent on the street of it is probably -- street. it's probably a guy off the street that sees something that doesn't look right. that is how we have been able to stop a lot of things from happening. is, howtion in my mind is the tempo of this? is it going to continue to trend down or is there an event that scales it back up? i can tell you the ideology is still strong globally and we are cannot not just in pakistan or afghanistan. i've been to tunisia. that is a safe haven. it will look at afghanistan as a safe haven. now you are seeing like the philippines, where you would not think al qaeda -- or even the

s law enforcement mission, jeopardizing homeland security and public safety. interior immigration enforcement is indispensable to national security and public safety and cannot be separated from border security. successful border patrol and immigration system must be supported by the enforcement of all pertinent laws. adding funds to procure another polar ice breaker, while a noble idea, is simply not practical at this time. coast guard is still in the early stages of design and will not be ready to procure the first ice breaker until late f.y. 2019 at the earliest. the funds will be unexcuteable and therefore a waste of limit red sources that we have. in addition, you discuss with the border patrol about the biggest deterrent we have, it is the threat of detention. so i ask that my colleagues join me in opposing this amendment. the chair: the gentleman reserves? mr. carter: reserve. the chair: the gentlelady from california is recognized. ms. roybal-allard: i want to emphasize the fact that my amendment still leaves i.c.e. with enough money for 30,000 detentio

the department of homeland security is try to do something the department of homeland security is trying something about these events. there have been a lot of copycats, that have necessitated first responders getting more prepared to respond to these kind of attacks. so it's created a simulation to help train first responders to what it calls "active shooter" attacks. the simulator is called the enhanced dynamic geo—social environment, or edge for short. it is a video game that is very similar to popular first—person shooters. using a pc, a team of first responders can work together to resolve an active shooting incident in a hotel. fire teams put out blazes, paramedics treat the injured and cops deal with the bad guy. orlando in florida is a hub of serious simulation and training activity. teams here create advanced simulations, including using animatronics to teach medics how to deal with soldiers injured by ieds. this facility is part of the army research labs. they are primarily concerned with building research and training the military. it is the birthplace of the edge system which

remind everyone what the center for health and homeland security does. we just celebrated our 15th anniversary, and for those 15 years, we have been an academic consulting operation getting planning advice, training advice to governments, federal, and we are also work with the state department to get that kind of advice to foreign countries. we have trained about 40 foreign countries in management, and basically our mission is to help governmental and institutions, and large rabbit institutions to prepare for, protect against, and respond to huge catastrophes, such as the one in houston now. host: according to accuweather, it talks about how harvey compares to other natural disasters. ,ven before harvey's landfall port aransas and port connor in texas had tropical storm allison, another major flooding disaster and the report states that the estimates of recovering from harvey could cost more than $190 billion, where will this come from? guest: from the american taxpayer by and large. usually, first of all, when you talk about size, the damage done here e

fema, dealing with the homeland security. it's the counter terrorists, cyber element to the secret service and coast guard and intergreated that, i think over time it's become better integrated and work together. also it's got to be coordinated as they do with the national security counsel, ice, and dhs is more of an agency that's at state and local. state law environment depends. nine times out of ten, the fbi working with someone. it's probably going to be a local citizen or trooper or state police officer, nypd guys, they'll see something on the street that doesn't look right and that's how we've been able to spot that. and answering the question in my mind is how is the temple of this. is it going to continue to trend down or some that will be scaled back up. i can tell you that the ideology is still strong globally. you're seeing it pop up in asia. we're seeing it pop up not just pakistan. we know libya and tunisia. we know that's a safe haven. they are going to look at the hot spots. >> places like philippines where you

i want to bring in republican congressman will herd of texas, a member of the homeland security committees. congressman, let me get your reaction to the statement from the acting homeland acting security elaine duke. listen to what she said earlier today. >> i am very satisfied. i know it's a hard storm to recover from but the amount of progress that's been made and i really would appreciate any support that we get. i know it is really a good news story in terms of our ability to reach people and the limited number of deaths that have taken place in such a devastating hurricane. >> do you agree with her assessment, congressman, that this is a, quote, good news story? >> well, it's unfortunate that there are so many puerto ricans that don't have access to electricity or food. you know, the hardships that they are having to go through, the fact that many of them lost their worldly possessions and the island is pretty devastated. this really, really is unfortunate. but having seen the men and women in fema work in harvey and hearing about what they were doing in irma, i know they're doing eve

chris, our senior official performing the duties of the undersecretary from the department of homeland security. before i do an update, just give you an idea, they have commitments on the back side so we'll have about 25 minutes with you so thanks. >> good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us as we continue to respond to hurricane irma. our number one concern today is with saving lives. the u.s. coast guard, customs and border protection and department of defense have deployed significant assets to the area to assist in search and rescue efforts. they are very pleased that the weather is allowing this effort on search and rescue. we are constrained by geography and our bases of operation are more limited than our response to hurricane harvey. we are working to get as many aircraft in the air as possible. i urge everyone impacted by the storm to continue to pay attention to your state and local officials. they will let you know when it's safe to return home. be patient. the federal government effort is working closely with our state and local partners in our response and recovery effo

earlier today at the white house brief, homeland security adviseor to president trump tom bossert briefed reporters on hurricane irma response and current global terrorism threats to the u.s. his is 25 minutes. in addition i would note that president trump continued a long tradition of presidents since 9/11 to receive a counterterrorism briefing this morning in the oval office from his intelligence community, from his director of national counterterrorism center, from myself and others on the team. the purpose of that is to give the president a sense of the terrorist threat that exists globally and to the homeland and give him a sense of what we're doing about it and make sure he's comfortable with our posture. as i said the other day, we don't have current, active threats against the homeland to our knowledge and that's a good ews story for today. let me move into a quick thought. before i do it, though, sarah noted we created the department of homeland security in the wake of 9/11. i would note that the government engaged in a massive reorganization of its structures and efforts to crea

the department of homeland security in their statement said under russian law, russian intelligence agencies may be able to compel kapersky labs to cooperate or provide access in a way that could undermine the security of u.s. federal agencies. they're concerned about that, so it will no longer be allowed to be used on government systems. i should say that kaspersky said that we've never helped or ever will help any government in the world with offensive cyber espionage. there's no hard evidence they've done this in the pass, but the dhs has made this decision and they will no longer be on u.s. government -- >> interesting development. i know there's more developments both of you are working on.

homeland security is securely making the system available to first responders, and soon teachers, fore to the arl, it also knows the carnage that can be wrought by a lone gunmen. this is pulse, it was a gay nightclub. last year it was the site of america's deadliest mass shooting. 0mar mateen, a lone gunman, armed with a pistol and an assault—style rifle killed 49 people here. in the wake of the pulse shooting, florida state senator linda stewart tried to introduce a bill limiting the sale of new assault—style weapons and large capacity magazines. the bill did not pass. homeland security has commissioned this simulation software, which is to train first responders and law enforcement, in how to deal with active shooter situations. what you think about that bit of software? i think it's absolutely necessary. i think that the more hands—on, or the more information that people who are having to respond have, the better they will be able to respond in real—time. in the meantime homeland security is hoping to create more environments for edge, eventually building a generic anytown usa for

the department of justice has advised the president and the department of homeland security that the department of homeland security should begin an orderly lawful wind down, including the cancellation of the memo that authorized this program. acting secretary duke has chosen appropriately to initiate a wind down process. this will enable the department of homeland security to conduct an orderly change and fulfill the desire of this administration to create a time period for congress to act should it so choose. we firmly believe this is the responsible path. simply put, if we're to further our goal of strengthening the constitutional order and the rule of law in america, the department of justice cannot defend this overreach. george washington university law professor jonathan turley in testimony before the house judiciary committee was clear about the enormous constitutional infirmities raised by this action. he said, quote, in his testimony, in ordering this blanket exception, president obama was nullifying part of a law that he simply disagreed with. if a president can claim sweep

and with us house homeland security, joining us from d.c., chairman, it seems like just a week ago we were chatting what's going on in your neck of the woods in texas and here we are in florida, and maybe jose is next. you talk about back to back to back storms in the hurricane season, is fema able to handle this in general or services and funding running dry, able to deal with it? >> well, fema did a fantastic job in response to my state's disaster with harvey and i think the president signing the advanced directive is helpful, we had the same scenario play out here in florida and behind me are the representatives of fema, representing all the sectors who are working with the people on the ground. with pre-positioned access after that was signed waiting out the storm. one the storm blows over, they will immediately go in and start to do search, rescue and recovery and rebuilding. so to your point, it's hard to imagine yet another hurricane of this magnitude hitting the united states. the congress, we just voted yesterday to appropriate 15.5 billion dollars for disaster relief fund fo

i just want to thank you for your many years of service at the department of homeland security and all of the work you have done in a number of things. on cyber security, which we had to work with you on over the years. of security and preventing foreign government interference with our election judges on so many areas that i have been involved with over the years, going back to my six years when i served as rhode island's secretary of state. in 1996 iwhich, overhauled rhode island's entire collection system. chaired a special legislative commission looking at the alternative voting systems before iran for secretary of state. i was very familiar with the various types of systems out there. at the time, the new stuff was the touchscreen technology. ofouldn't get over the issue how important it was to have some type of audit trail, that's why we went with an optical scan system. was grateful more and more everyday that that's the route we went. it obviously poses a number of challenges. in the years that i spent on the intelligence committee looking .t vulnerabilities there i appreciate

, that the department -- has advised the president, that the department of homeland security has run down the cancellation of the memo activating this. they have chosen to initiate a process. this will enable the department of homeland security to conduct an orderly change and fulfill the desire of this administration to create a time. congress period for tags, should it choose to we firmly believe this is the responsible path. if we were to further goals of stationing the constitutional order and the will of law in america, the department of justice cannot defend this overreach. george washington university law professor jonathan turley in testimony before the house judiciary committee was clear about the enormous constitutional infirmities raised by this action. he said "in ordering this blanket exception, president obama was nullifying part of a law that he simply disagreed with. if a president can claim sweeping discretion to suspend key federal laws, the entire legislative process becomes a little more than a pretense. the circumvention of the legislative process not onl

secretary shall can, and acting homeland security secretary traveled to the area to assess damage. the president declared a proclamation declaring the sunday a national day of prayer for those affected by the hurricane, and just this afternoon, the president heard from the heads of the salvation army and the southern baptist association on disaster relief. as gail mcgovern, the president american red cross said, the american people are determined to bounce back and this organization along with so many others that have been on the ground since the beginning, are helping the people of texas and louisiana to do just that. the president will be back in texas tomorrow to visit with survivors and tell them personally the federal government is here to help in any way we can. finalizing at is help first responders at the state and local level. today, the president spoke with the president of south korea, posix nine, and colombia. kazakhstan, and colombia. israel's will be available later today. finally, i would like to theerate the message that present's homeland security adviser gave yest

this will enable the department of homeland security to conduct an orderly change the fill the desire of this administration to create a time period for congress to act should it choose. we firmly believe this is the responsible path. simply put, if we are to further our goal of strengthening the constitution and the rule of law in america, the department of justice cannot defend this overreach. george washington university law professor jonathan turley in testimony before the house judiciary committee was clear about the enormous constitutional infirmities raised by this action. he said in his testimony "in ordering this blanket exception, president obama was nullifying part of a law that he simply disagreed with. if a president can claim sweeping discretion to suspend key federal laws, the entire legislative process becomes little more than a pretense. the circumvention of the legislative process not only undermines the authority of this branch -- referring to the legislative branch -- but destabilizes the system as a whole." it's an important first step. all immigration policies sh

adequate cbp staffing is dated to cisco with a reduced long wait times in my memo would direct homeland securityinvestigations. hsi tech of some of her toughest security challenges including human trafficking prior testingg hsi work will do far more to keep our communities safe in our nation secure then arresting students small business owners religious leaders are under this other religious leaders who committed no other crime is seeking a better life. my amendment straightforward. it increases security while simultaneously increasing the flow of trade in commerce. i think that would qualify as a win-win and i urge that they made in order. >> i thank the gentleman. mr. kelly from -- is prepared to testify. anything you have been writing google make sure's a part of the record but we welcome any comments you might have. if you will press the microphone button and your green light is on. we have had problems with the microphone earlier tonight and we will see if you can make it work. >> apparently it's not going to stay low -- together. >> you are unaware that this is mr. hastings 81st birthday s

we face a long and challenging road ahead, but the department of homeland security, our federal-state tribal and local partners will continue to stand with the people affected by the storm. whether you are in florida, georgia, south carolina, puerto rico or the u.s. virgin islands, we are here for you and we are here for the long haul. while we were wrapping up operations in florida, for the use in and louisiana affected by harvey, we are still with you. i actually spoke to governor abbott yesterday and will continue to support the state rebuilding efforts. i would now like to introduce chris crabs come the assistant secretary for infrastructure protection at dhs who is currently running our national protection and programs directorate. he will talk to you about power, water and communications in florida. thank you. >> good morning. thank you, madam secretary very briefly on the ground in florida we are looking at a little over five to 69 customers without power. that translates to about 16 million people without power. our department of homeland security is working closely with the d

homeland security department issued a statement saying it does not publicly disclose the sovereignty and security information, but on background, the officials say there is only preparatory action in a majority of the states, and in some states unsuccessful attempts were made to compromise their networks and information. and in a few states, they were successful. however, official saying in no case where the targeted network systems involved in the tallying of votes. again, dhs notifying 21 states of hacking before the election in 2016. we are going to continue to follow the story and get reaction and fallout. of course, as the special counsel, robert mueller continues to investigate any connection between the trump campaign, the trump team, any trump associates, and russia in trying to interfere with the 2016 election. i am bret baier reporting tonight from dallas. this is hour number two of our weeklong expanded "special report." arizona senator john mccain living up to his maverick reputation again tonight. he says he will not support the latest effort by his republican colleagues

secretary of homeland security.: the company reports it to the fbi and the department of homeland security. in that situation, the government wants the company to come to us as soon as possible because the government, national security, law enforcement, homeland security is in the best position to connect the dots globally, and has the broader perspective about what is going on. there have been instances, obviously, where companies do not report these things as quickly as they should, and i know from my own personal experience, the sooner the department of homeland security and the fbi is able to get in there to help the company with the forensics that identify the bad actors and root them out, the better. david: the company's chairman and ceo characterizes it as a disappointing event. i think that is putting it charitably or mildly. i would imagine a company's executives would be's petrified. is it something that is voluntary -- that the company have to be to tell the government, consumers about this? does somethin

i'm worried they will not. >> former homeland security secretary, jeh johnson.ime. >>> still ahead, former trump strategist steve bannon has advice for democrats. >>> and we're continuing to follow tropical storm irma as it moves north into georgia and south carolina agency the impact of the storm is still being assessed in southern florida. >> started pounding. not just for my family but for everybody. nobody wants to go through it. been trying to prepare for this day... and i'm still not ready. the reason i'm telling you this is that there will be moments in your life that... you'll never be ready for. your little girl getting married being one of them. ♪ ♪ hi..and i know that we have phonaccident forgiveness.gent, so the incredibly minor accident that i had tonight- four weeks without the car. okay, yup. good night. with accident forgiveness your rates won't go up just because of an accident. switching to allstate is worth it. >>> welcome back. president trump's former chief strategist steve bannon throwing flames at members of his own party and blasting repu

later this morning we will hear from the white house homeland security mr. tom bossert. and the deputy director of the nsa, george barron. i'm sure you can't wait for us to get started so let me move on to introduce our first keynote speaker, congressman will heard. he serves on the committee of oversight and government reform and chairs the information technology subcommittee. he also sits on the subcommittee on homeland security and is the vice chair of the order and maritime subcommittee. in 2017 he was appointed by speaker ryan to serve on a house permanent intelligence committee where he sits on the dod intelligence and overheard architecture as well as the emerging threat subcommittees. i'm sure everyone here is following theprogress of the federal ip modernization bill that he authored and is helping to push through and usher through congressional approvals now. congressman is one of the most knowledgeable voices regarding cyber security in congress. prior to being elected, he served as a clandestine service officer in the cia. the only current member of congress

homeland security says that they have concerns about election hacking let me make sure we understand that that involves the trump administration's department of homeland security not just the obama administration's homeland security now one key point i want to emphasize today nobody wants better relations with russia than i do and i'll address myself to anyone in the russian government who may hear the words i'm saying right now when there was a subway attack in moscow i believe i was on three or four programs on r t i believe that of was president in those days expressing my solidarity with the people of russia forget the propaganda forget the arguments to get to debates if we want to have better relations between the united states and russia my advice to the government of russia forget all the spin that's being said by anybody is is to stop these kinds of attacks in cyber war and all of this in the united states just stop and i don't really care if they admit it publicly just stop it in our people would find out almost immediately that it is stop and they would be an opportunity fo

acting homeland security travels to puerto rico today and meet with the governor and fema officials.re's confusion surrounding the delivery of supplies. >> according to the governor, there are 3,000 containers stuck in ports, some may not be related to hurricane relief. earlier, cnn had been told by shipping officials as many as 10,000 containers were stuck. either way, distribution remains an issue. >> they have just appointed the general to try to improve this. listen to the president's homeland security adviser when he was asked why it took so long to appoint buk cannon. >> do you acknowledge it was a mistake to not have this on the ground earlier? no. the not at all. in fact that doesn't affect the way we stage equipment and field operational commands. this is textbook and has been done well. >> about 75 hun u.s. troops are on the grouped. right now over 10,000 people in shelters. >> the grid not expected to be back on line for months. 90% of cell sites out of service. >> we heard from the podium yesterday that this is a good news story. the puerto rico response is a good news st

the homeland security counsel concept and it up with a aunterterrorism director and cyber security directoratend the preparedness and response directorate. these are functions that are translatable skills that can move to any region in the globe and they are transnational in nature. they include this all hazards concept. a number of things can be large consequential that they literally threaten the national security, and our ability to maintain our economy. consequential that they literally threaten the national the biggest challenges to contain the of facts of going into a spiral. -- with hurricane katrina, we came close to losing that handle. there were power outages that twost led to the loss of big pipelines that supply the east coast. that cascaded into the oil markets. two big pipelines thatwhat we try tn first. take sure the president is aware of those big picture items. and make sure there is a competent and organized federal government response. the idea of supporting the jobrnor and not doing his is paramount for me to stress. we have had governor abbott, governor scott do a bang up

we are pleased to welcome the acting secretary of homeland security, elaine duke. director of the federal bureau of investigation, christopher wray. and nicholas rasmussen. we want to thank all of you for your service. these are perilous times. the threats that face our homeland are growing. they're mess t.s.a. sizing. i don't envy any of your tasks. these are serious responsibilities. we are all grateful you stepped up to the plate and we have quality individuals with real talent that are accepting that responsibility. the mission statement of this committee is pretty simple. to enhance the economic and national security of america and to promote the efficient -- more efficient, effective, accountable government. very similar, i'd imagine, to some of the mission statements of your own departments and agencies. i don't want to spend a whole lot of time because we got a number of members here. but, again, i just want to acknowledge your service to this nation, the sacrifice you and your families are undertaking to serve this nation and with that i'll turn . over to s

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acting homeland security secretary elaine duke travels to puerto rico today. she will meet with the governor and fema officials to discuss response efforts. the there's widespread confusion surrounding the delivery of life saving supplies. >> according to the governor of puerto rico, there are 3,000 containers stuck in ports, some may not be related to kurk hurricane relief, earlier cnn had been told buy shipping officials as many as 10,000 containers were stuck. >> the pentagon has just appointed jeffrey buchanan to lead relief efforts. listen to the president's homeland security adviser when he was asked why it took so long to appoint buchanan. >> do you acknowledge it was a mistake looking back to not have this on the ground earlier? >> no. not at all. in fact that doesn't affect the way we stage equipment and handle commands. this is textbook and it's been done well. >> about 75 thoun u.s. troops and 10,000 federal relief workers are on the ground in puerto rico. right now, there are over 10,000 people in 160 shelters, the power grid is not ex pected to co

the associated press reports that the department of homeland security has now notified 21 states thatrs targeted their systems last year, although in most cases, the systems were not breached. ap says states targeted included alabama, colorado, illinois, maryland, virginia, washington, and wisconsin. homeland security officials also tell the ap that in september, hackers believed to be russian agents targeted voter registration systems in more than 20 states. the disclosure to the states comes as special counsel robert mueller probes whether if there was any coordination during the 2016 presidential campaign between russia and associates of donald trump. we are following this, waiting for dhs to weigh in officially and get more reaction from officials to this news. we told you last night facebook will now give congress access to political ads it ran that turned out to be linked to groups associated with russia. this comes as facebook's ceo is doing the kinds of things that make people wonder if he has his eye on running an even bigger company. senior correspondent adam housley has tha

we did daca when i was the secretary of homeland security. and we did it out of a recognition that there was -- there were a whole host of individuals who had been brought here as children, had been raised in the country. and from any kind of immigration enforcement perspective should be able to stay in the country without fear of deportation. and, so, deferred action for childhood arrivals, daca, was the resulting program that we initiated. and it is an exercise of prosecutorial discretion. each applicant is reviewed individually. they have to have a clean criminal record. they have to meet a whole host of other requirements to qualify. and at the university of california, you know, we estimate that we have around 4,000 undocumented students and the vast majority of them are in daca. indeed, about a quarter of the 800,000 daca recipients in the country are in california. and these young people are, you know, they're an important part of our university community. they are by and large first generation college students. they are -- and have do

what we're learning is that the department of homeland security could be replacing the current travel ban that is in effect for six middle eastern north african countries and instead would replace that ninety day travel restriction with more targeted restrictions adding to the list of countries affected by as many as nine additional countries what we're learning is that the department of homeland security essentially notified up to seventeen different nations that they failed to meet u.s. screening standards and they had a period of time and wish to become compliant half of those countries did so the remaining half did not as a result could be receiving these targeted restrictions in the form of additional visa requirements and that instead of having the ninety day deadline as we've seen in the past these restrictions would be indefinite now what we are hearing is that this announcement could be made on these expansion in terms of the number of countries affected as early as sunday and that is a significant day given the fact that that is when the current ninety day deadline that will

. >> a lame duke, as you mentioned, is the deputy there at homeland security.arded career person. but there has been criticism that no nomination has come yet to replace john kelly. a lot of talk on the hill that mike mccall, the house chairman of the homeland security committee, is a leading contender there. andy, does it matter whether or not there is a confirmed homeland security secretary in times like this? sdp >> this is all hands on deck. i don't think if matters now. yes, it would be nice to have somebody in that confirmed position. but they're doing a good job responding and they're not going to be distracted by the political debate, and it really is a political debate whether or not there is a confirmed secretary. she has the means and the power to reach the responsibilities of the department of homeland security and she's the acting secretary. and john kelly, the chief of staff having been the secretary of homeland security, is going to make sure the department is well cared for and well -- i'm going to say -- directed by the white house. so i think