now, a conversation on national security and reducing foreign threats with homeland security under secretary for intelligence kenneth weinstein. he highlights election security, domestic terrorism, and the balance between constitutional protections and national security needs. this is just over an hour. >> all right, everyone. a hush has come over the crowd. so it's officially time to kickoff another fantastic baton hour. my name is phil potter. i'm a professor here at the baton school director of the national security policy center. and we're here at sort of an incredibly timely moment to talk about election security and safeguarding the united states from external threats. we're privileged to have ken wainstein, at the. dougg.: of homeland security. i'll introduce him in more detail in a moment. let me say at the outset that what we're here to talk about is this sort of increasingly gray line between the foreign and the domestic. this is something they think is incredibly troubling to a lot of people. it's something that is really, really difficult to grapple with. and the folks we have he

homeland security adviser to george w. bush, assistant attorney general, chief of staff to robert mueller. he received his law degree from school i hadn't heard of in the bay area. i looked it up. seems decent. but is redeemed by the fact that he is a d.a. from the university of virginia. his daughter is here with us now. incredibly excited to have ken wainstein with us. thanks again and talking to ken, today we'll have ashley geeks. he's of the national security policy center. she's a professor of law here at the university of virginia, director of the national security law center there -- law center there. with associate white house counsel and deputy legal adviser in the early part of the bind administration. i'm going to turn it over to you two and expect to learn a great deal from the conversation. thanks very much. [applause] >> thank you so much, phil. thanks to the baton school and the school of democracy and the meller center for hosting this and for bringing us here today and especially thanks to ken for taking t

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draws upon the resources of the department of homeland security.work seamlessly as one department, a cohesive force in support of the american people. we also reach outside of the department of homeland security as one united administration in the service of one united country. we have to put those politics aside and remember that we are one country. we assist people in need regardless of politics. >> one final thing. there's been a lot of politics here. we know what's been happening at the top of the ticket. there are significant criticisms by some republican governors who are not generally responding politically. they are responding because they don't think things were placed in the right position, they didn't have enough supplies. for instance, gasoline. the governor there says they have enough gasoline supplies. but you see there are empty gas tanks and people don't know how to evacuate in florida right now. >> andrea, we support state and local officials. the governor has, indeed, stated publicly that they have the supply of gasoline that the

homeland security committee we're doing everything to get him power to make sure this border is securetop these terrorists criminals drugs coming across our border if you are violateing the law in this country you are going to be deported. you are going to be sent out of this country this has to stop. i think about it for my grandkids how safe in this society i don't get democrats my opponent all for open borders she wants to before i more than to illegals raise taxes who are these people why don't they represent americans, not just against republicans, happening to democrats too i don't know how anybody, anybody can vote for a democrat maria: pictures that we're looking at unreal the number of he illegal migrants heard toward america right now another caravan on the way kamala harris will not take responsibility for any of it she was asked last night at cnn townhall about it watch this. >> your administration, took a number hundreds of executive actions did not stem the flow numbers kept going up, finally, in 2024, just in june three weeks before the last -- first presidential debate

the secretary of homeland security, total disaster for what he has done in the last three and a half years. ask and we have got to get these people out of office because they do nothing right and everything wrong. elizabeth: senator tommy tuberville, come back soon. it's good to see you. >> thank you. elizabeth: to this story, transportation secretary pete buttigieg now says that this massive port if strike could deliver a real punch to the u.s. economy. more inflation, shortages. now the dock workers are striking because his or toic inflation under the biden-harris white house has torched and, you know, basically blown through their paychecks. ashley webster in the port of savannah, georgia, with the story. >> it's day three of the longshoremen's strike, still no contract in place. here at the port of savannah, the strikers have been walking the picket if lines now sun-up to sundown. the concern is with each passing day, the tightening and squeeze on products coming into the country will get worse. food supplies, auto parts, consumer goods all could be affected, the big box retailer

. >> joining me as homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. department of homeland security overseas a lot. upstart there. i want to ask about misinformation but before i get there, want to start with a story on the top of "the new york times" right now as people are watching the hurricane and hurricane movement. "the new york times" reporting that fema is running out of staff to respond to this hurricane that seems to be barreling towards florida. the story says only 9% of the agency's personnel is available. for people watching, dhs, fema, do they have what it needs to respond to the storm? >> yes, it does. quite clearly and everybody should rest confident that fema has the resources. we already have 900 personnel deployed, pre-position, in florida. people responding to hurricane helene. people who were responding previously to hurricanes. we are there. we have search and rescue teams. the army corps of engineers are there. we are ready. we have the personnel. fema likes to say it is fema flexible. we can respond to multiple events at a sing

comer is accusing the department of homeland security of stone wall the subpoena. they say they neglected to produce a single responsive document. the house oversight committee said walz traveled to china an estimated 30 times. he organized a trip to china for his high school students reportedly paid for by the chinese government. maria: there's more to it, right. the ccp used honey pots to do some of its influencing. that's spoken about in this situation. >> absolutely. they're going to continue the investigation, obviously six days ahead of the election here. this is something comer has been looking into since august. we'll keep following it. maria: brooke, thank you, this is a scary part of tim walz. your thoughts. >> it really is. tim walz has been to china 30 times in his personal capacity. he'll have access to classified information. we need to know what tree layings ship looks like. -- relationship looks like. when china is paying for foreign travel it's a national security risk. they're not to be trusted. you have a contender for vp. we need more informatio

there was internal memo at the department of homeland security a nation state threat they called thissed, those very, very concerned about this, why did not this come out in the vetting process? you know. why is this not being reported as a story? we have a guy giving second, in line to presidency compromised by chinese communist party. maria: what you are saying absolutely stunning, i know, that marco rubio on senate side is demanding that tim walz be investigated, after this relationship, with a chinese communist party official's daughter was revealed i want to understand this he wasn't anybody when he had this affair so did they target him and send honeypot at him what kind of information was she able to gain from him? and by the way, do you know who paid for all these trips to china we understand he went to china 30 times with communist chinese party of china paying for his travel. >> sure there was a private organizations, by ccp to get him to china, and then do what they do, that is, you know espionage, then they throw women, you know at these people positions of pour to potenti

that's why texas and florida have sued the department of homeland security. is recruits -- refusing -- federal law says they have to provide access to their database to state officials and they are not doing it. the biggest issue, this could all be resolved easily if they were allowed to put in requirements to provide proof of citizenship when you are registered to vote. there was a federal bill to do that recently. on a partyline basis, it was stopped. it passed the house. that would easily solve this problem. host: what are the ways you could prove you are a citizen? guest: a number of years ago kansas proposed a statute. they had a dozen different ways to do it. everything from passports, birth certificates, school records. host: a school record will show you are a citizen? guest: certain kinds. you could get an administrative hearing for the many different ways to do it. it is no different from the fact that in many states you have to show id to vote, that is a good requirement. id requirements would be disproven, it is not true and it is not the same wit

right now in this country, margaret, we have 320,000 children the department of homeland security has effectively lost. some of the trickle of them have been traffic. some hopefully are at homes with

the former president stoking up concerns as the department of homeland security flags 600 migrants with potential ties to that venezuelan gang. the agency recommending that more than 100 of them be put on the f.b.i. watch list. that's amazing. former f.b.i. special agent dan brunner with me now. good morning. nice to have you back on the program. call for number one, fiscal year 2023 venezuelan migrants apprehended at the southern border, 266,000. followed by another 261,000 the following year. you stha number of 600, however, is misleading because it is undercounting. go ahead and explain that first. >> absolutely, bill, thanks for having me. the number 600 is absolutely way -- misleading. i think the number of tren de aragua in the united states i would say we're talking 2,000 to 4,000. you have to understand a lot of these members of this organization have been training, have been receiving familiarity with all the crimes they're already conducting here. they've been active in chile, peru rick columbia. when conducting criminal activities down there, their organization, the tren de a

in february 2002, at a meeting with the press defending new hires and homeland security mcgreevey saidwe will not skimp on security and he added that goal on sapelo was quote, a security advisor from the israeli defense force probably the best in the world, not probably they do the best in the world you still think he was qualified for that job for it wasn't harmed by the way, i carry one you know, the homeland security adviser was a counselor to you and in his portfolio, their homeland security adviser at 20 years in the fbi. but i mean, so there's something about being in israeli that does give somebody, but truly been in today. >> he had at orban in that portfolio of answer's no well, clearly and unequivocally, you brought them up, you brought him up in that meeting. >> you didn't bring up the fbi again? yep. you brought up go along yeah. >> i wasn't i wasn't with the fbi guy. >> did you want to be outed? did you want to be discovered yeah. it's probably a mix or components are factors as that decision-making not to purchase psychiatry without a license, but that's some level i was

both biden, kamala harris, homeland security secretary mayorkas claiming fema is out of disaster moneynd weekend fema sitting on at least $8 billion in unspent cash that could be used now to help hurricane victims. it could be ten times higher that fema is sitting on. we have the story and we're on top of this. liz separate october 7 events and deputies say she's botching it and could lose to trump. that's a brand new politico story. former president trump about to honor the one year anniversary of the 10/7 hamas terror attack in israel and bring you to that when he comes out. but first, this. florida is bracing for the second hurricane in two weeks over 6 million under hurricane watch. mayor evacuations underway and store shelves emptying and hurricane barreling towards florida as a dangerous cat boyer 5. robert ray is standing by live in ft. myers beach, florida with the latest. good to see you. reporter: you too, liz. a mandatory evacuation went into play and that's leftover from two years ago when hurricane ian averaged this area -- ravaged this area and they're still rebuilding an

. >> thank you, director graham, i will go now to secretary mayorkas, the secretary trump homeland security ally over to you. >> thank you very much. >> less. mr. president, madam vice president, if i can just pick up on the important for the words matter, i want to thank you for the strength and moral clarity with which you have been speaking to bat down false information that is being spread that false information is only hurting survivors in need of help and it is also hurting the first responders who are so bravely risking their lives to deliver that help to the survivors mr. president, madam vice president, we are executing on your directive to not only rely on fema to provide emergency relief, but to draw up on other resources throughout the department of homeland security and throughout the federal government, throughout your administration. i know you will hear from the commandant of the united states coast guard, linda fagan, the united states coast guard. it's deployed almost 1,300 personnel to florida not just for search and rescue, but also to ensure the safety and security the

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kevin carroll, a former trump homeland security official.t be easy for you to speak out about your experience without a doubt. you are going to get heat. what did you learn working for donald trump as president and what made you decide to speak out? >> i learned his unfitness to be president. we want our leaders. trump is the opposite. kamala harris when she was here began speaking to the court saying kamala harris is for the people. donald trump is for himself. it is antithetical to him to do something for someone else who can't do something for him in return. it is shown for example in his comments about our deceased soldiers, fallen servicemembers being suckers and losers. and him withholding aid until his staff convinced him otherwise. >> and you experienced that? >> yes. it was common knowledge on the staff that trump was trying to withhold. more to my point, john kelly confirmed it. he said this was the case in fourth distrust both puerto rico and california that he had to at great length convinced trump to release the aid to folks tha

they fall under the department of homeland security.s i shall ofd a statement today writing this. we'll fully consider the panel's recommendations and taking the actions needed to advance the secret service protection mission. secret service acting director weighed in about a plan he says is being worked on right now. this plan focuses on increasing and retaining the agency's personnel. modernizing technology and building a training plan sustainable now and into the future. this report recommends specifically new leadership at the secret service and refocusing its core protective mission. >> harris: that's good news. my goodness, it has been long enough. thank you. in "focus" steve hilton. we're moving forward. not a rush in steps but hopefully that will change. >> this is an absolutely awful verdict. hard to imagine a more devastating report. the worst thing not just a shambles from a management perspective this agency before butler, before the first assassination attempt. they also criticized the lack of reflection afterwards. the who

and immigration with the former acting homeland security secretary in the trump administration from 2019 the 2021. welcome back to the program. guest: thanks for having me. host: a little bit about the institute itself, what is it and how is it funded? guest: the america first policy institute is a 501-c3 institution, we are a think tank and we started in 2021 shortly after the end of the trump administration. we've been going on for 3.5 years with about 16 different policy centers. we talk about all of the public policy facing the country today from national security to homeland security to health care, education, tax policy, and everything in between. we talked about the america first approach that was practiced under president trump's first term, and so we do events, speaker series, white papers. talk to members of congress and their staff about legislation and things of that nature. it's been going well. we continue to grow year after year and i think we are having a pretty sizable impact for just being organization that is about 3.5 years old. host: to what degree is that an ex

now, a conversation on national security and reducing foreign threats with homeland security under secretary for intelligence kenneth weinstein. he highlights election security, domestic terrorism, and the balance between constitutional protections and national security needs. this is just over an hour.

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also, homeland security secretary alejandra mayorkas provides an update on recovery updates following hurricane helene. they joined white house press secretary kareem john perry for this 50-minute briefing. -- karine jean pierre for this 50 have admitted briefing -- 50-minute briefing. >> good afternoon, everyone. going to be really quick here. i have the national security advisor jake sullivan to talk about the latest in the middle east. mr. sullivan: good afternoon. i am here to provide a grief report on the iranian ballistic missile attack against israel that occurred earlier today. i can take just a few questions because this is an ongoing situation and i need to get back to my desk. today, iran launched nearly 200 listed missiles towards targets in israel. the united states military coordinated closely with the israeli defense forces to help defend israel against this attack. u.s. naval destroyers joined israeli air defense units in firing interceptors to shoot down inbound missiles. president biden and vice president harris monitored the attack and the response from the white ho

they just got a piece of paper from the department of homeland security that says i'm this person. ey don't know. and that's why it was quite a warning from the inspector general yesterday. >> ainsley: dhs 2025 homeland threat assessment says this. over the next year, we expect some individuals with terrorism ties and some criminal actors will continue their efforts to exploit migration flows. and the complex border security environment to enter the united states. doesn't make us feel safe. >> lawrence: the interesting thing about this is you have to layer that report from the inspector general to the quote that we got from dhs upset about tony gonzales releasing the numbers about the amount of criminals, rapists, as well as murderers that were coming across. people had criminal records. they said it was over a 40-year period. as i told you guys during that period of time, it's a numbers game. the more people that you have coming across the border, that are unvetted, the higher that number is going to be. and so on one hand, they want to dispute that big number and say it's over a 4

. >> reporter: but fema's disaster relief funds are separate from other department of homeland security programs that support migrant response. >> good afternoon, everyone. >> reporter: at the white house, a remarkable scene. in the middle of an emergency response, having to knock down conspiracies. >> this needs to stop. this needs to stop. if you care about your constituents, if you care about the people, if you care about americans, you shouldn't do this. you shouldn't spread these falsehoods. it is dangerous. >> reporter: the white house debunking multiple claims being spread on social media that fema is confiscating property, or that survivors will only get $750 in aid. >> people who have a microphone and a podium should not continue to spread this falsehood. >> reporter: fema's director warning the false claims could keep aid from getting to the people who need it most. >> people that have been impacted are afraid to apply for our assistance, assistance that then they can get a hotel room, they can get reimbursements for some of the cost of damage to their homes. >> reporter: nort

the department of homeland security oversees a lot. before i get there, i just want to start with the story on the top of the "new york times" now, as people are watching the hurricane and hurricane movement. the "new york times" reporting that fema is running at a staff to respond to this hurricane that seems to be barreling toward florida. the story says that only 9% of agency's personnel is available. for people watching out there, does dhs, does fema have what it needs to restart respond to the storm? >> jen, great to see you. it does. everybody should rest confident that fema has the resources. we already have 900 personnel deployed, pre-positioned in florida, people who were responding to hurricane helene, people who were responding previously to hurricane dahlia and debbie. we have search and rescue teams, the army corps of engineers are there. we are ready, we have the personnel. fema likes to say, it is fema taxable. we can respond to multiple events at a single time . >> one of the things, and you certainly are doing that rig

day the fbi arrested the suspect after he bought rifles and ammo from an undercover agent, the homeland security secretary is refusing to answer any questions about it, watch this. >> afghan national who was working for the cia and afghanistan, how was this man brought into the u.s. >> i would be very pleased to answer your question in a different setting. >> how do you not have those answers prepared. >> i would be pleased to discuss this issue at a different time. maria: was with the tightlipped he will answer questions, this guy wanted to plot a terrorist attack on election day. >> this is about america's national security and here we are, homeland security not answering no one should be surprised that they're not answering our questions, we are in a scary time when our enemy spells weakness in the white house this is what happens, i would appraise that fbi and d.o.j. for finding individual in trying to find justice here but the american people deserve answers at a bare minimum we write the checks and they pay the bills for their jobs and pay their salaries in the american people deserve answ

kevin carroll, a former trump homeland security official.t be easy for you to speak out about your experience. without a doubt, you're going to get heat. what did you learn working for donald trump as president and what made you decide to speak up? >> i learned his unfitness to be president of the united states. we want our leaders to be leaders, that's what i was taught growing up in the army and kamala harris when she was a prosecutor saying kamala harris for the people, donald trump is saying for himself. it's antithetical to him to do something for someone else who can't do something for him in return. it's shown, for example, his comments about our deceased soldiers were fallen servicemembers being suckers and losers and it's shown here by him withholding, seeming to withhold until his staff [ inaudible ] otherwise. >> and you experienced that? >> i'm sorry? >> you experienced that during the trump administration? >> it was common knowledge on the staff and at dhs that trump was trying to withhold [ inaudible ] but john kelly confirmed.

. >> that was homeland security director alejandro dorcas peeking over air force one and members of congress have been quick to point point out fema has diverted funds instead allocating $700 billion in 2023 to organizations providing food and shelter for migrants . fema is on track to get up a similar amount this year yet secretary mayorkas claims there is no money to help us citizens in need . mike huckabee will join us later to discuss this topic further and of course there was the first and only presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle. >> as i read the minnesota wall that he built into law, the statute you sign into law it says that doctor who presides over an abortion is under no obligation to provide life-saving care to a baby that survives a botched late-term abortion . >> that's not true. >> that is fundamentally barbaric. >> that was senator jd vance challenging tim waltzed over along the side that will remove protections for babies who survived abortions and were born alive . we will cover some of the debate highlights and more on this week on the hill . >> today's edition i

with that, i will hand it over to the homeland security advisor. >> mr. president, madame vice president, you will now receive a briefing on the latest forecast for hurricane milton and actions we have taken to prepare and to be ready to respond. you will hear from the administrator of fema, the director of the national hurricane center, the director of the national weather service, the secretary of homeland security and the commandant of the coast guard. we will begin everything with administrator chris wells. >> thank you. mr. president, madam vice president, i want to assure you we are taking this storm very seriously. as you will hear shortly, milton is currently a category 4 storm and will remain a hurricane as it crosses over florida. at your direction, mr. president, i will travel to tallahassee tonight to meet with my team and state partners and i will be there to assess the damages and the impacts immediately following the storm, working in close coordination with the state to ensure they have everything they need to support their priorities. as

homeland security chief warned that number could rise potentially to over 600. joe biden said he hopes to visit some of the area's hardest hit latethis week. thousands of search-and-rescue personnel have been deployed through states in the southeast have try to find them still missing or unaccounted for. helene made landfall last thursday in florida's big band as a powerful category four storm. the hurricane that moved north over georgia, bringing historic levels of damage. over the weekend, helene plowed northeastern north carolina, where it was downgraded to a severe tropical storm, but that did nothing to slow its impact on north carolina as the storm unleashed devastating floods. the state of us if he, roy cooper, said many -- the state's governor, roy cooper, said many communities were practically wiped off the map. here is what joe biden had to say. pres. biden: we will be with you, as long as it takes. excuse me -- [coughs] hired everyone to listen to look -- i urge everyone to listen to local officials and follow all safety instructions. take this seriou

unofficial at the department of homeland security warned governor tim walz's vice president nominationchina's efforts to influence washington dc. oversight committee chair james comber joins me now. what is his connection to the chinese communist party? >> he has been there more than any american politician. we know that he has given speeches and spoken favorably about the chinese communist party and how they operate which should be concerning to every american because china is our biggest adversary, a communist country but the most important thing, we know there were intelligence officials and officials in the department of homeland security that were concerned about tim walz being influenced by china long before kamala harris selected him to be vice president. we also know there is information memorialized in classified and unclassified documents pertaining to tim walz and his close relationship with china. we have asked for those documents, subpoenaed those documents and for the life of me i don't understand why the department of homeland security won't turnover those documents and

susan spalding served as senior adviser for homeland security and director of the defending democratic institutions project at the center for strategic and international studies. previously she served as under secretary for department of homeland security and led the national programs and protection director rat and called the cyber and security infrastructure agency or cisa. and was intelligence of minority staff director for house of representatives on the permanent intelligence committee. spent six years as central intelligence agency also. ivana stradner studies rush shoo's military strategies and doctrines to understand how they use it for communication and previously testified before european parliament and briefed various government officials and served as special correspondent for the post. moderating today's conversation is politico cybersecurity reporter maggie miller. her beat includes coverage of international threats from russia, china, iran, and north korea along with spending time on capitol hill reports on federal cyber priorities. before we dive in, a few words about f

but the department of homeland security, director of u.s. citizenship and immigration services and the deputy secretary, and now as the secretary, i have always known the flood insurance program to be in the red. sec. jean-pierre: go ahead. >> mr. secretary, this is courtney rosen from bloomberg government. i would like to ask about the upcoming election. are you thinking about that in terms of voters being able to access their polling places in states that are having such significant damage? sec. mayorkas: courtney, we have seen state and local officials who are, of course course, on point, ensuring access to voting. we have seen them take measures to ensure that people can in fact reach their polling places. some polling places have been damaged. for example, as a result of hurricane helene. but they are pivoting to make sure there are other facilities available to them and they will have different places at which they can place their votes. this is something that this is -- that the cybersecurity agency of our department, as it is known b

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i follow nina jankowicz, who was the head of an agency within the department of homeland security, andshe sort of forms the backbone of the book. she was the head of a, a coordinating group within the department of homeland security, and she was the target of many, many lies. and then threats and death threats. and the lies just turned her life upside down. so lying is not a victimless crime. okay. >> can i just ask you, then why is it that seemingly politicians are more willing to engage in it? that is, you know, you refer to, hey, there used to be a consequence, right? if you were caught. oh, okay, i'll correct it. ha, ha. because i don't want to either lose votes or lose credibility. what happened to all that? what's changed? >> well, i think two big things have changed. one is the districts that politicians represent are are so much more partizan that it's easy for politicians to say what they want and not face retribution from with, from their own voters. and also they're they're often only answerable to partizan media that not only doesn't question their lies, but echoes their li

. >> that was homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas speaking wednesday aboard air force one. some members of congress have been quick to point out the demands diverted funds meant to help americans, instead allocating over $700 million in 2023 to organizations providing good and shelter for migrants. fema is on track to get out a similar amount this year. secretary mayorkas claims there is no money to help u.s. citizens in need. former arkansas governor mike huckabee will join us later to discuss this topic further. and of course there was the first and only vice presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle. >> is a read the minutes law that you signed, the statute that you signed into law, it says that a doctor who presides over and abortion with the baby survives, the doctor is under no obligation to provide life-saving care to a baby who survived a botched, late-term abortion. that is fundamentally barbaric. >> that was senator jd vance challenging governor tim walz over a law he signed which removed protections for babies who survived abortions and were born alive. we w

so the new department of homeland security was created to bring all of those different pieces of the national security system, all under one person in one leadership. i think it's really important for americans to understand and what happens here in the capitol and what our elected representatives do on our behalf. the historical investigations that we have put on display here allow americans to see how this process works and by seeing how congress has acted and how congress has invested created in the past. i hope that will be able to better understand what is happening today in current investigations and that they can use that historical context to to know how things are working, what is actually happening in congress, and why it's important to them.

this news the republicans of homeland security investigating the biden white house and homeland securitys under my orcas for bmo spending amid an ongoing controversy over fema spending on illegal aliens amid disaster relief efforts. americans grover norquist, to get to see you again. what do you make of this new investigation? >> we need to look into this because the white house and fema were saying ocoee don't have money. and yet they have not made more request to congress than what they got. they had $20 billion in a continuing resolution passed. they have only one or 2% of it. their argument that their lack of getting things done and lack of getting aid into the areas was a lack of money. it seems to be completely untrue. they are sitting on a great deal of money that was just put in their budget. they are hiding their own incompetence and failure to get things done in blaming congress for not giving them enough money, which isn't true and there is no, the congressman said show us where you ask for more. >> the watchdog inspector general for homeland security said it's sitting on a le

now, as you can see, we also have secretary of homeland security alejandro mayorkas. >> thank you and good afternoon. before standing at the podium i was at fema's national operations center being briefed by our personnel as well as state emergency personnel. i thought it very moving and very telling that north carolina's emergency management director described hurricane helene as catastrophic, and noted the fact that numerous towns situated along the river had virtually disappeared. had been completely destroyed. in fact, hurricane helene is of an historic magnitude. this many states hit this hard. the windfield of the hurricane stretched 350 miles from its center. more than 100 fatalities have been reported. hundreds and hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed. our hearts break for those who have lost loved ones and we pray for the swift assistance and rescue of those who are currently missing. we are in different phases of a post-hurricane environment, depending on the state and the location within the state. in some areas we are still in search and recovery, search-and-rescue o

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if you're the secret service, if you're homeland security, if you're the most elite of the elite, howed to be covered? do you feel angry about losing him? yeah. very. i'm angry because, uh, there were a lot of mistakes made that day. and it didn't have to happen. it didn't have to happen. there are mixed feelings about donald trump's return to butler. some parents deciding to keep their children away. but in this staunchly pro—trump county, many believe they owe it to the former president to welcome him back. gary 0'donoghue, bbc news butler, pennsylvania. and bbc verify�*s ros atkins has been examining what happened on that day injuly as donald trump returns to the town where he was shot. you can find his report on the bbc website. ahead of the us presidential election, the department of homeland security has repeated its warnings of the threat that online video and audio fakes could pose in the run—up to the vote. the bbc s disinformation and social media correspondent marianna spring has been investigating how one faked clip divided a baltimore community. this peaceful baltimore su

we heard that from the secretary of homeland security, alejandro majorkas, saying there is likely to effort. one more note to talk about here. there are residents we talked to who simply lost everything. living in a mobile home park, the water came up five feet high, spilt into their homes. the worry now is that many of these types of people simply don't have flood insurance. they told us their homes have now been condemned, they're not sure what will happen next. this could be another unfolding disaster, a financial one. if there is no flood insurance for many people here in north carolina, where will they go next? how will they afford to buy their next residence? that is something we will have to see in the future. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. now to some other stories making news. downing street says sir keir starmer has paid back more than £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality that he received since becoming prime minister following an ongoing controversy over donations. the prime minister said it was the right thing to do as he seeks to tighten the rules

we heard that from the secretary of homeland security, alejandro majorkas, saying there is likely to more note to talk about here. there are residents we talked to who simply lost everything. living in a mobile home park, the water came up five feet high, spilt into their homes. the worry now is that many of these types of people simply don't have flood insurance. they told us their homes have now been condemned, they're not sure what will happen next. this could be another unfolding disaster, a financial one. if there is no flood insurance for many people here in north carolina, where will they go next? how will they afford to buy their next residence? that is something we will have to see in the future. besides affecting shipping and goods transportation the devastation could hold the production of semiconductor chips which power everything from smartphones to medical devices. we spoke to the us transport minister and this is what he said his department is doing to overcome these challenges.— doing to overcome these challen . es. ,., doing to overcome these challenues. ,. ., , chal

can graham secretary of homeland security, ali mayorkas, and the commandant of the coast guard, admiral linda fagan, will begin to briefing with administrator criswell over to you, diane thank you, liz. >> mr. president, madam vice president. i just want to assure you we are taking this storm very seriously. >> as you will hear from dr. brennan shortly, milton is currently a category four storm and will remain a hurricane as it crosses over florida as your direction, mr. president, i will be traveling down to tallahassee tonight to embed at the state eoc to meet with my team as well as our state partners. >> and i will be there to assess the damages and the impacts immediately following the storm. working in close coordination with the state to ensure that they have everything that they need to support their priorities. as you have always directed me to do, i am leaning forward to make sure that we are strategically placing our resources and our teams to be able to rapidly respond in florida there are currently over 1,000 federal personnel on the ground in florida supporting the efforts