jeh johnson.ma asked him if he would like to say something and he said, "only if i see something." [ laughter ] back to work, everybody. back to work. [ applause ] back to work, everybody. doughnuts. [ laughter ] only if i see something. he had a deep voice. like shaq. >> steve: not shaft. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: shaq. shaq. shaft is one bad mother -- shut your mouth. what? >> jimmy: talking about shaft? >> steve: just talking about shrek. >> jimmy: shrek? he's a green mother --. >> steve: i'm shrek. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you guys on facebook? of course you are on facebook. apparently, people from all over the world have trouble logging onto facebook this morning. in fact, this went on for several hours if you are one of them, don't worry, here's what you missed, hayride, halloween costume, sunset, sunset, baby, dog, baby, cat, cat, cat, sunset. [ laughter ] there you go. that's what you missed on facebook. [ cheers and applause ] sorry about that. it's been alarming. speaking of facebook there ar

we are honored to have jeh johnson, the secretary of homeland security, here today. let's give him a round of applause before we bring him up. [applause] we want you to feel the love before you get up here. what is incredible is we see this as a recognition of the critical roles mayors are playing and first responders. the vast majority of whom work for local government. we play a role ensuring safety and security in our cities and nations. ticket terry johnson came to homeland security -- secretary johnson came to homeland security from the -- he oversaw the development of many aspects of our nation cost anti-terrorism policies, and co-authored the report that paved the way for repeal of don't ask don't tell. the secretary also has background in service to america 's largest cities, having served as an assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. secretary, we look forward to hearing your remarks. these, up and get a love welcome .rom your mayors -- and get a loveup welcome from your mayors. [applause] thank you very much, mayor johnson. you are co

my name is jeh johnson, and i represent the government. and for the next couple of minutes, i'm going the tell you what the evidence in this trial will show. and supposedly every single assertion of fact that you give in an opening statement has to begin with the words "the evidence will show," "the evidence will show." and so then you get to the end of your opening statement -- this was beat into me -- you get to the end of your opening statement, and you say, ladies and gentlemen, in conclusion i want you to do three things. i want you to listen to the evidence in this trial, i want you to listen to the law as judge so and so instructs you, and i want you to use your common sense. and if you use your common sense, i am confident that you will find the defendant guilty as charged. i did that 12 times in three years. it was beat into me. i never varied. i left the u.s. attorney's office, i went into private law practice. and part of my private practice was to be a criminal defense lawyer. and so that was my opportunity to finally be unshac

my name is jeh johnson, i am representing the government. every single assertion of fact that you get in an opening statement has to begin with the words "the evidence will show," "the evidence will show." and so then you get to the end of your opening statement. you get to the end of your opening statement, and you say, ladies and gentlemen, in conclusion, i want you to do three things. i want you to listen to the evidence in this trial, i want you to listen to the law as the judge instructed, and i want you to use your common sense. if you use your common sense i am confident you will find defendant guilty. i did at 12 times in three years. it was beat into me. i never varied. i left the u.s. attorneys office and went to private practice, part of my private practice was to be a criminal defense lawyer. and so that was my opportunity, to finally be unshackled, to be colorful, and follow all my instincts to be a trial lawyer. this was a pro bono case. it was a drug case. the defendant, the client, was on trial for selling drugs in upper manh

let me also say it is an honor to be here with secretary jeh johnson and administrator mccarthy just as it is a great honor to warm up the stage for my great friend and our vice president, joe biden. of all feels right that the martin luther king, junior days, to this point my i speak to you on this one. you see, last friday i flew home to charlotte to give a eulogy for a very good friend of mine. and yours. franklin mccain. ago, he was one of the four students who sat down at a lunch counter. along with his classmates, his simple but brave act touched off a wave of activism that spread throughout the south. and ended segregation as this country knew it. his passing coupled with the recent loss of another great friend, the great solar -- a civil rights lawyer, is making something clear to me and hopefully to all of us. that is that many of those who inod and in some cases sat the front lines of the civil rights unit -- movement, we are starting to lose them, and they are speaking to us out the challenges -- about the challenges today. half a century ago, the fight ist so many others

[applause] >> also today in washington, jeh johnson made his first major speech since taking office. here's a few minutes of his remarks at the u.s. conference of mayors meeting. isimmigration reform supported by the u.s. conference of mayors, businesses, and if the polls are to be believed, a majority of the american people. border security is inseparable from homeland security, and border security must and should comprehensive immigration reform, protecting our borders, securing our ports, promoting a lawful flow of trade and travel through our ports, two cities and other communities . over the past four years dhs has made history investments at borders in terms of manpower, comprehensive immigration reform would add even more to that effort. comprehensive immigration reform would also promote a more effective and efficient system for enforcing our immigration and should include an fored path to citizenship the approximately 11.5 million undocumented immigrants present in this country. something like 86% of whom have been here almost 10 years. an earned path to citizenship for thos

homeland security department secretary jeh johnson will talk about security concerns at the u.s. conference of mayors. we will hear from the conference committee chairman bill shuster with live coverage at 10:45 a.m. eastern here on c-span. in the afternoon, south carolina senator tim scott will deliver remarks to the republican national and it is winter meeting. that is live at 1230 eastern. >> now, former arkansas governor and 2008 republican residential primary candidate mike huckabee. he talks about the health care law and women voters. this is 30 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, thank you. thank you very much. when i got the introduction, he talked about all the things i was doing and i got nervous about what the end would be. one of these days, he will find something he is good at. [laughter] an honor to be here. thanks to all of you for braving the weather. he was talking about the musician part of me. last night, i was in anaheim california, playing on stage with new york yankees bernie williams who is an amazing guitar player and skunk baxter from the doobie brothers ar

secretary of homeland security jeh johnson called for changes to immigration policy and wants his firstic speech the news conference of mayors winter meeting. here are some of his remarks. common sense, immigration reform is supported by that u.s. conference of mayors, businesses , and if the polls are to be believed, the majority of american people. border security is inseparable from homeland security. border security should be part of the contents of immigration reform. protecting our borders and promoting trade and travel to cities and other communities. over the past four years, dhs has made historic investment in terms of manpower and comprehensive immigration reform with an even more to that effort. unpretentious immigration reform would promote more effective and efficient system for enforcing immigration include anould earned cap to citizenship or approximately 11.5 undocumented immigrants present in this country. -- 11 point 5 million undocumented immigrants present in this country. an earned path to citizenship for those present in this country is a matter of homeland securit

policy board and recently joined the homeland security board and where i will hopefully advise jeh johnsonsely about the policies here and getting them right. so in true bipartisan fashion that may start for something not in my testimony and that is an endorsement of some of the things you said chairman mccaul and some of them sees it ranking member thompson in your opening statements because i think they are both true as are many of the things my dear friend joe lieberman just said. chairman mccaul, you said that a terror threat is growing and some are not paying adequate attention to that. the terror threat has changed from the 9/11 days. the core al qaeda as a think as a thank you seven and no senator lieberman said has been substantially destroyed by the efforts of two administrative and, one a republican and one democrat and i think most people would agree president obama not only continued the efforts of president bush that he increased those efforts against core al qaeda and most of those high-value targets have been removed so it's less of a force. but the terror threat has morphed

. >> i had breakfast this one with the jeh johnson, our new secretary of homeland security. dr. coburn mentioned, the founders, people who wrote our constitution had in mind the system that was hard to get stuff done. they did make it easy. part of the job of senators to slow down but it doesn't stop the. back to what i said, what we have here is to figure out how to use the leverage of the subcommittee, committee or two committees working together with all these good government groups. work with the administration, and especially we have a team that omb, they want to do this stuff. the challenge for a certificate who the people are and figure out to work together. we can do that. we have a couple of great examples. we can set an example, your committee, our committee, we can set an example of something allu all agree on. people don't want us to waste their money. if i had a dollar for every time someone said, i don't mind paying a little more in taxes. i don't want you to waste my money. i don't want to waste my money or there is, and to so much we can do on a common agenda. le

changes to bring that forward, i'd be happy to work with craig fugate and the new secretary of dhs, jeh johnson, to focus on that. >> appreciate that answer, secretary. what we can do, mayor, is also we could sort of follow up if there's a group of mayors from this committee that are interested in going to the second level of that question, perhaps we can connect with the appropriate staff from whatever agencies and see what our next steps might be. so finish. >> [inaudible] >> we talked before. >> okay. we will -- let's to that. we'll make sure we do that. if i could be the bad guy, because we've got to keep going here, one more question because we have two other agenda items. i apologize out there. go ahead. >> thank you. secretary donovan, thank you for taking my question. and it's kind of simple, but -- [inaudible] city of north chicago. and we to have a va hospital -- >> mic, please? >> sorry about that. but we do have a va hospital in our town, and, you know, the homeless problem that exists through that, you know, it does affect not only our up to, but our county -- our town, but our cou