agencies using its products always lawyer said fears beijing might compel it to spy were baseless and john homeland. if we install back doors or collect intelligence on behalf of others it's tantamount to committing suicide and we have no intention of committing suicide. for the chinese government i believe they also hope continue to pay tax create employment and drive growth in the whole industry i don't think they prefer to use while we as a tool to attack others. on in shrugged off the right with the usa income from its network business at the center of the espionage was down while we said it was a long term business and the effects will be felt in a few years' time. couldn't is following this story for us cliff it weighs chair is cold the us government loses it is is that what all of this comes down to basically a competition between the top two economies in the world i think it is i mean if you look at the language it's a strong word loser is we're talking about trade war and in a way while ways at the front line of this trade war between the u.s. and china so it's stephanie more than just a p

agencies using its products always lawyer said fears beijing my competitor to spy were baseless and john homeland. if we install back doors or collect intelligence on behalf of others it's tantamount to committing suicide and we have no intention of committing suicide. for the chinese government i believe they also hope our way continue to pay tax create employment and drive growth in the whole industry i don't think they prefer to use while we as a tool to attack others. while we are uninsured off the road with the usa income from its network business at the center of the espionage was down while we said it was a long term business and the effects will be felt in a few years' time. and in the latest turn in the ongoing investigation into the crash of an ethiopian airlines flight initial data have reportedly now shown that the anti stall system was activated shortly before the accident whether the system misfired has been a central question of the probe there's been no comment so far from the plane maker boeing it's continued to insist the mac series is safe. the wall street journal reports the m

joining us to talk about this is john cohen, former counterterrorism coordinator at the u.s. department of homeland security. first, john, we hear these terms a lot. what exactly is white supremacy or white nationalism? >> yeah, people who subscribe to the white nationalistic or white supremacist beliefs, they believe white people of european descent are superior to nonwhites. and further they believe that society is better when white people live separate from nonwhites, and further they tend to believe that the problems of society, whether it be crime, whether it be terrorism, whether it be economic issues are due to nonwhites, whether they be jews or muslims or other ethnic minorities. immigrants are allowed to live together with white people. >> we've seen more and more of these displays in the past several years, charlottesville, the pittsburgh synagogue shooting. we're seeing this both here in the u.s. and all across europe. what is behind this recent rise? >> well, there is a rise and there's a rise in public expression of white supremacist belief. it's come out of the shadows and it's been v

joined the trump administration in january of 2017 as chief of staff to then secretary of homeland security john kelly. in that position, she advised the secretary on all operational, policy, and legal matters, including counterterrorism, cyber terrorism, cyber sick dirty, and border security. secretary nielsen has also served in the private sector. seen on a range of homeland and national security matters, including preparedness againstes, to protect and respond to catastrophic events for critical if the shutter and interdependencies that go with that. in 2004, she was commissioned by president bush to serve as a special assistant to the president for preparedness and response on the light hit -- white house homeland security council, where they included the development, coordination, and oversight of u.s. government policy. she has also served as chair of the world economic forms global agenda council on risk and resilience. she is an attorney by training and has served as a senior fellow with the center for cyber and homeland security. in other words, she has walked the walk in many different

acting inspector general john kelly says the department of homeland security was not fully prepared for the administration and 0-tolerance policy. chuck grassley and diane feinstein asked the health and human services secretary, inspector general to investigate allegations of sexual abuse of unaccompanied minors. >> time for the power panel. fox news contributor leslie marshall, radio show host larry o'connor, host of the jesse and kelly show in houston, welcome to all of you. the numbers that came out today and some of the revelations by the dhs secretary including the regnant the test of every girl over the age of 10 who comes to the border because what happens to them on this trip, that was shocking to me. >> it is shocking and that is part of the crisis, not that these people are coming here, but what happens to them after they get here, separated from their parents, whether they are victims of harassment, sexual assault, molestation and we have a four your backlog in our courts, no legal representation for these individuals and if we have an emergency over the numbers we need to lo

john kelly. secretary nielsen's predecessor at the department of homeland security and before that was former attorneyssions. john kelly used the "d" word, deter, all the way back in march of 2017. long before the policy took effect or was even being drafted. so that idea of a deterrent, it was in his mind and everybody's mind as they were dreaming this up. now, the attorney general spoke as it was being implemented with more than 2,000 kids in custody. and, again, whatever you think of the policy, they were at least being honest about what it was and why they supported it. but not secretary nielsen. >> do you initiate the separation of families for the expressed purpose of deterring families from coming to the united states? >> no, i did not. again, the whole purpose of that was to increase consequences for those who choose to break the law. that's a bedrock of our criminal, as you know, the way that our criminal system works. if there's no consequences, we do not see the instances of the crime decreasing. so what we did was we increased the number of prosecutions. we didn't make up the law. the law

acting inspector general john b kelley said the department of homeland security was not fully preparedor the administration zero-tolerance policy. the house homeland security chairman applauded the move. >> i'm not surprised that people looking at it as if what i'm hearing today doesn't give me any confidence at all. >> also today chuck grassley and dianne feinstein asked the health and human services inspector general to investigate allegations of sexual abuse of unaccompanied minors, bret. >> bret: mike, thanks. president trump to rally senate republicans to his cause to prevent more defections over the national emergency declaration. chief white house correspondent john roberts has that story from the north lawn, good evening john. >> john: good evening to you and the factors on the republican side of the aisle support the president strongly on border security. but when it comes to the white house trying to circumvent that congressional operations process, allies quickly become opponents. >> the senate vote is unexpected for another eight days, but the white house is putting the har

john cohen is a former counterterrorism coordinator at the department of homeland security. >> just because he can do it doesn't mean that it's in the best interest of our national security. >> reporter: white house press secretary sarah sanders issued a statement saying we don't comment oneances. kenneth. >> we will see what the house says if anything later today. zachary, thank you. >>> new questions following president trump's nuclear summit with north korea. and his new interview with john hannity. president trump said the summit ended after kim jong-un demanded too much. the president claims north korea wanted all sanctions lifted in exchange for partially dismantling their nuclear weapons program. but north korean officials say they only asked for some of the sanctions to be lifted. meanwhile, another big headline from that sean hannity interview, he asked the president about michael cohen's statement on capitol hill wednesday. when cohen testified that trump directed him to make hush money payments to stormy daniels. hannity claims to have inside knowledge about those payments. take

abc news consultant john cohen who held a senior role at homeland security, said the last time the borderlosed was during the reagan administration and caused severe economic harm to both countries. >> history tells us that when you shut down the southern border, you do little to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the united states, you do little to stop illegal immigration. yu do cause significant economic harm to the united states. >> reporter: the u.s. chamber of commerce said the border closure that happened last fall near san diego for a mere five hours cost $5.3 million in lost revenue. the president claiming it will do the opposite. >> closing the border will be a profit-making operation. >> reporter: mexico's foreign minister responding saying that mexico does not act on the basis of threats. abc news, los angeles. >>> the attorney general has announced that he'll release the entire 400-page mueller report to the public by mid-april or even earlier. the president in the meantime is declaring the russia hoax as dead. abc news reporter serena marshall reports from washington. >> re

the commander in march 2017, then secretary of homeland security, john kelly, publicly stated that dhs was considering separating children from their parents at the border and at the time child advocates sounded the alarm on the negative effect separation would have. i understand when you testified before the senate judiciary committee you raised concerns about the policy. what were -- i know you said something about this, but could you get specific, what were the concerns you had and who did you raise them with if you could? >> the concerns which i expressed were two. first, that this would be inconsistent with our legal requirement to act in the best interest of the child and would expose children to unnecessary risk of harm. second, that it would exceed the capacity of the program issues of capacity are very important to orr because it constitutes our ability to provide a safe and appropriate environment to every child. not only would this likely exceed our capacity but particularly exceed our capacity that was specifically licensed for what we call tender age children which is to s

even john kelly who led homeland security as well said at an event at duke university didn't think a to shining sea makes sense. >> i think we need to move past this concept of one solid wall and move towards actual border security based on a real needs assessment. we need border security. we need to be honest about that but we also need to be smart about it and that is not a wall from sea to shining sea as kelly said. >> a new report from bloomberg says this morning the white house is now drawing up demands to have germany, japan and eventually any other country hosting u.s. troops to pay the full price of american soldiers deployed on their soil plus 50 pk50% or more for hosting them. the report says that in some cases, nations hosting american forces could be asked to pay up to 6 times as much as they do now under the formula. dav david, this is once again just shows the complete ignorance and shortsightedness, i hate to say this, of donald trump just not understanding that we want the troops there, not for their benefit. i hate -- i hate to reveal this secret, we want the the tro

john. let me just get it to you. the u.s. house homelandcommittee chairman is telling four major tech companies they must do better after the new zealand mass shooting. they have asked twitter, facebook, google's parent company alphabet which also owns youtube and microsoft to brief the committee next week on their response. how do you think silicon valley is doing in combatting violence and stopping it on their platform? >> right. right. that was like a frankenstein monster that facebook has created with the live video streams. as soon as they were taking down one video, another would appear of new zealand. it was just a horrific situation to begin with, and to compound that with these videos being broadcast around the world. i think the great fear is that something like this, another horrible tragedy, we are going to see the same occurrence. i think this might be an idea that was fostered by the last person who did this in new zealand who might see this happening, becoming part of this cycle or abuse of social media and it also pushes eve

john mccain. >> yeah, no, his own fbi, the swr justice department, the homeland security department contradictst and says white nationalism is the single greatest internal threat when it comes to home-grown terrorism and this completely contradicts the president. you had 50 muslims killed specifically in new zealand because of their faith. and the president going to twitter and talking about defending a fox news host that was in trouble because she attacked a muslim -- one of the first muslims in congress for wearing a hijab and suggesting she is not a true patriot because she wears a hijab. i mean, these are clearly not the priorities that american people would want their president to be talking about after a massacre like this. and regarding, you know, white nationalism, it just -- it just -- it per plexs the miplex what is so hard about calling out white narkism and saying it's a problem? amy klobuchar was asked about this over the weekend and did trump contribute in any way? she said you can't say the president is in any way responsible for any one of these attacks, but the rhetoric doesn't

. >> reporter: homeland security secretary kristjen nielsen says the potential overflow of children in dhs custody represents our most acute humanitarian risk. i am john lawrence reporting. >> secretary nielsen also told congress her department's funds are running low even though it recently received more money for operational and humanitarian work. >>> it is 4:40 am. >> a pricey instrument >>> i am anne mackovec at the live news desk. we have information on the shooting in the west oakland bart station last night. a woman was shot and she is now at the hospital. that station was closed down for about an hour with trains just running through. it is now reopen . that happened just before 11:30 pm last night. bart investigators are still reviewing surveillance footage this morning. >>> a woman could face theft charges after she walked away with the teenage musicians violin. william has been playing the violin eight years. the student said he got distracted and accidentally left it on the 38 muni bus last month. shortly after, woman was seen on video picking it up and walking off. a few hours after police posted her picture on social media yesterday, the

john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. fireworks on capitol hill. the homelandan emergency, a chain of misery, she calls it, at the u.s.-mexico border. secretary nielsen says a border wall would help. democrats disagree. new cnn reporting that the president personally intervened to get his daughter ivanka a security clearance over the objection of his experts and top aides and democrats wrestle with the language of the resolution designed to rebuke anti-semitic

john. >>> joining us now is clarissa word, levi west, and juliet kiam, former assistant secretary of homeland security and national security analyst. clarissa, we want to start with you. obviously you have done long investigative pieces and specials on extremism throughout europe and beyond. and so what is the status of this right-wing extremism? >> it's clear this is a growing problem not just in the u.s., europe, but across much of the world. we've spent the morning combing through this 87-page rant, manifesto, whatever you would call it. it's very difficult, i think, to know how much of this is sincere, how much of it is intended to sort of throw up smoke screens, how much of it is intended to be deliberately provocative. but the kind of language you hear here, this man saying he was inspired by the right wing nationalist who killed more than 70 people in norway. he also lists dyllan roof who killed nine worshippers in a church in the u.s. and he's driven by this idea, you heard john talking about it, islam is the enemy, muslims are the enemy, they are reproducing at a faster rate than we

homeland security secretary or the dynamics there. how did this happen? >> well, basically secretary nielsen and john kelly were very close. she was his chief of staff when she was the homeland security secretary and she came over, she was his top deputy at the white house. frankly, her relationship with president trump was fraught from the start because the president felt like john kelly had manipulated the process to choose his successor. he was very irritated learning she had worked for the george w. bush administration. he's spent the first year berating her. and with the departure of john kelly, the relationship with the president seems to have staeblized and that's in no small part because of her testimony yesterday where she's gone al in on drft's immigration policy. >> donald trump is waking up this morning to the number of losing streaks that he currently is juggle, the fact that barack obama did better for donald trump in eight years in stopping border crossings. weep have a 12-your spike that's higher than at any time during barack obama as administration. any chance he's going to turn his fire on kirstjen nielse

john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. fireworks on capitol hill. the homelandecurity secretary says there is an emergency, a chain of misery, she calls it, at the u.s.-mexico border. secretary nielsen says a border wall would help. democrats disagree. new cnn reporting that the president personally intervened to get his daughter ivanka a security clearance over the objection of his experts and top aides and democrats wrestle with the language of the resolution designed to rebuke anti-semitic remarks by congresswoman omar. prejudice and tolerance that this time is across the aisle. >> so now the house of representatives seemed to distance itself from this member's remarks and will apparently send a vote to condemn anti-semitism for the second time in just a few weeks. well, i hope this time the message is clear. support for israel isn't about the benjamins, it's about the hearts and minds of the american people. >> back to that story in a moment, but we begin the hour on capitol hill where kirstjen nielsen is making the declaration, and warning that the things a

his homeland had a difficult discussion on guns when a man killed with a semiautomatic weapon. and then, johnplained to angry gun owners why he was taking away some of their guns. >> if we believe it is in the national interest, there will be a dramatic reduction in the number of automatic and semiautomatic weapons. >> reporter: annual gun deaths in australia have dropped by around 70%. the united kingdom also experienced the mass gun violence in 1996, when a man entered a school. shooting dead 16 children and a teacher in a scottish town. he used four handguns. those weapons were outlawed within two years. >> we owed a debt to the people. we said m.p.s would vote to have handguns. the people have spoken. handguns are banned. we have honored our debt. >> reporter: norway was forced to think of the importance of its gun culture, after a terrorist used explosives. that was 2011. in 2018, the country finally moved to ban military-style rifles. new zealand's government has promised rapid change. and it's now supported by some of those who previously resisted gun reform, like the company's prime m

now this is what former chief of staff and department of homeland security director john kelly said. quote, jeff sessions was the one that instituted the zero tolerance process on the border that resulted in both people being detained and the family separation. he surprised us, end quote. mr. mchenry, was the zero tolerance policy just alluded to was that a policy developed by the justice department? >> yes, sir, it was. it was issued by the attorney general on april 6th, 2018, following a memorandum he issued in april 2017 following an executive order. >> does the department of justice usually do initiatives without consulting the white house first? >> i can't speak to what consultations the department of justice -- >> thank you. on april 23rd there was a memo signed by a department of homeland security secretary nielsen approving family separation mentions and that this was an analysis that has not been provided to this committee. attorney general jeff sessions said on may 7th, 2018, as it relates to the family separation policy, quote, if you cross the border unlawfully then we wi

again, former chief-of-staff and john kelly -- john kelly is no liberal when it comes to border policy. he, in fact, was right head of department of homelandt job because of his hard line stances on immigration but he quite clearly believes something different as it relates to immigration than the president of the united states. maybe that's why he's not the chief-of-staff any more. back to you. >> overwhelmingly not criminals he says to your point about the trump narrative that there's a national security crisis at the border because of who's coming across. chris, we appreciate that. thank you. >>> britains royal family making new moves against hate and racism online. meghan markle is now being targeted by trolls. that we just hit the motherlode of soft-serve ice cream? i got cones, anybody wants one! oh, yeah! get ya some! no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. ed! ed! we struck sprinkles! [cheers] believe it. geico could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. geico could save you fifteen percent even if no one in your home smokes, secondhand smoke can be closer than yo

homeland security surrendering our border, kirstjen nielson imienin whinin. whose notable career accomplishment were serving in several staff roles in bush administration became secretary if december 2017, seceding john kelly, worsening border crisis makes it too clear secretary kirstjen nielson is in way overhear are her head, william with latest on crisis on southern border and the refusal of dhs to secure that border. reporter: today lou commissioner of customs and border protection raised a white flag, 40% of border patrol agents are not patrolling the border but processing, baby sitting and a tacky service for -- taxi service for migrants. >> monday we saw highest total of apprehensions, in a sense el day. yesterday we broke record, with 4100. reporter: right now official say in effect we have a open border,. of those apprehended, 60% are family, 40% are children, a perform storm of factors, most democrats in congress are in denial, calling this a manufactured crisis, in is no consequences, no jail dime or fine, there also an unlimited supply of central americans making $5 a day, they can make 15 an hour, here in the u.s. today commissioner begged congress are i for help. >> only way this will b

homeland security secretary kirsten nielsen will be testifying. former chief of staff johnor a public event on wednesday night. likely to be movement on the mueller report. paul manafort sentenced thursday. and any friday can be a mueller friday. so we'll keep an eye on that. nbc's jeff bennett joins us from the white house. let's talk about what's going to be happening on capitol hill. wednesday incredibly busy. >> reporter: yes. >> let's talk about michael cohen, the fourth installment. >> reporter: you were talking earlier about the president's cpac speech. this is all related. my read of the president's speech based on people close to the president is that his two hour disjointed freewheeling profane cpac speech was a paranoid preempt stiff strike against the russia investigation. as you mentioned, robert mueller can submit his final report to the ag as early as tomorrow and the white house, i'm told, is bracing for -- preparing for bad news. if not an obstruction charge, then at least a special counsel report that outlines bad behavior by people who aren't charged with

john bolton, the national security advisor, he says the u.s. is concerned about this shooting and that the u.s. is following the developments closely. the homeland security secretary says there is no specific or credible threat to our homeland, but all americans should remain vigilant so we can prevent such violent hate. we expect to see the president publicly later today. that will be the first chance to get the president on the record about all of this. >> i want to show just another excerpt from this manifesto. it would seem as if this was a guy who was motivated by this anti-immigrant bias, this white supremacy stuff. motivated by it, but it appears part of his motivation was to try and perhaps effect domestic policy in this country. this is from the apparent manifesto. this conflict over the second amendment and the attempted removal of fire arms rights will result in a civil war that will eventually balconize the u.s. among political cultural and most importantly racial lines. how do you read that? >> this guy is doing everything he can to get this message of white supremacy across. he's been successful. because we're repeating it out loud

homeland security issue as well. >> we need the federal government to invest in our highways. >> i hope it's a wake up call for the region. >> reporter:ns john td with triple a says the region need come together. >> there are a hundred incidents like this a month that can morph into something of this magnit e magnitude. >> reporter: triple a ertimates yey's accident cost the region 5 to $6 million in lost r uctivity. from the american legion bridge, mark segraves news4. >>> yesterday's crash also hadha impact on metro. the transit agency tells us they had about 715,000rips yesterday, that is total rider ship for the day. it is more than any day so far this year and it is the biggest day metro has had since the cap's victory parade back in june. >>> u.s. park police released the names of the officersn involved a high profile deadly shooting that has a grieving family and members of congress demanding more information. alejandroamaya and lucas vin yardt and killed jna ginard after a car chase on the bw parkway. cameras caught the toooting. y the family told us they're updatingde the wrongfuh lawsuit to include the names of officers in a statem

homeland security secretary, kirstjen nielsen, kindiredirect personnel there. we can't underestimate the massive economic impacts doing this will create. i will be interesting to see what john cornyn, a border state senator has to say about this, when $1.7 billion of goods are traded between u.s. and mexico every day. >> the funding cut. the administration has the leeway to do it. $450 million after the announcement -- >> he doesn't know that or follow that. that's the point on all this stuff. he's not super engaged on the policies. he reacts to the news coverage. that's what creates this chaos, week in, week out. >> keep an eye on this. it's going to be a big issue. up next, why the trump white house is trying again to kill obamacare. first, politicians say the darndest things, particularly lindsey graham's christmas list. >> every day is like christmas. there's something under the tree with trump. you just don't know what it is. some days it's the shotgun you've been dreaming for. some days it's a red sweater and you say hmm. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, every day can begin with flakes. it's a reminder of your struggles with psoriasis. but what if your

homeland security kristen nielsen said closing the border is absolutely on the table and she warned of significant disruptions to cross-border commerce unless mexico does something to avoid a closure. bret? >> bret: john, thanks. kirstjen nielsen also saying that the department is immediately redirecting additional personnel from across the department to assist agents and officers at the border. agents there say they are so overwhelmed by the sheer number of migrant families crossing that they have begun releasing them in the u.s. a move that supporters say bolsters the presidents ' to seal the border. jeff paul with a closer look at the situation. >>acity and under resourced. u.s. customs and porter agent say a giving them no choice but to now directly release many of them. >> law enforcement operations, we are not funded for the humanitarian need. >> border patrol says it's on page two reach 100,000 arestin months, the highest total in decades. >> a direct response and are vulnerable in legal frameworks for migrants and smugglers know that they will be released and allowed to stay in the u.s. definitely pending immigration proceedings that could be many years felt like years out. >> they are letting

john. you and i have from the same village, probably. we don't look at each other and say how is it going in the homeland? t know a word of nor we john that's what i hope every group who comes here does. i'm proud of the folks who got me here. ultimately i'm proud of this flag and country. that is what brings us together. jedediah: that's what i'm hoping for. particularly millennials coming out of college campuses this message is apeeling to them. my hope it's not resonating as well. pete: military is the ultimate melting pot. if generals are saying it's not working there, what other institution could heal this cancer? he is right it is a cancer. ed: your jump shot around march madness wasn't too good. >> i don't have video of it. jedediah: could have come prepared. ed: we have the harlem globe trotters on the show. wait, you have video. pete pete last year my 3 is far off. ed nailed the three. jedediah: that's why you brought video. pete pee rematch. steve: you played division one basketball? ed: i don't want to trigger you. we will have fun. ed: will you with be us. jedediah: not this weekend. i will be

john roberts is live on the front lawn. >> good afternoon to you. the president has threatened to close down the border before, back on november 19, the department of homeland security did for a period of three hours close down the border crossing at san ysidro after the caravan of central americaning my grants showed signs it was trying to break through the border from mexico into the united states. the president is threatening the new government that if mexico dogs not do something to stop migrant car vans traveling through mexico the president will take drastic action, tweeting a short time ago, if mexico doesn't immediate are you stop all illegal immigration coming into the united states, through our southern border, i will be closing the border, or large sections of the border, next week. and then just a little i89 while ago, just west of palm bech where the president is spending the weekend, he made the same point in american. person. listen here. >> president trump: we have right now two big caravans coming up from guatemala, massive caravans, walking right through mexico. mexico, they can stop them but they chose not to. now they're going on stop 'e

director john brennan and steele dossier that figured in the russia investigation. peter king serves on the homeland claim late yesterday on twitter. that interview from "fox & friends" earlier today. were you aware of the claim that he is now making about john brennan is true? >> i was not aware of all the particulars and i'm not certain exactly what brennan's role was. it was a bad role. i felt from the start of this going back to october, november and december of 2016 that brennan was rigging this and slanting the report. he has been repeatedly on television and the media talking about collusion. now he says maybe he misinterpreted the evidence. if that's the case either he is a liar or number two he wasn't smart enough to be c.i.a. director if he would go on national television and basically call the president a traitor by misinterpreting evidence. what rand paul said it could be true. you have brennan, clapper, comey. if president obama was not aware of it. if there is any collusion it may have been in the white house or top intelligence people working for president obama. >> bill: you just sai

homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen visited the border. she says there is a true crisis there and she called on congress to change the asylum laws. john sandwig is with us, former acting i.c.e. director. i have editorialized on this program and i say it's the democrats' fault. they have invited them in. now they're here and who do you blame? who do you blame? >> stuart, i'm going to blame congress on this one. listen, i think the laws are fine the way they are. only 20% of these people are actually getting asylum to the united states. what's drawing them here is the fact it's taking years, years before a decision is made on their case. that's simply because congress hasn't funded the immigration courts to process these cases quickly and we are in a crisis now, when you have 76,000 last month, 100,000 this month, we are going, you know, these people will be here for years to come as a result of congress's failure to adequately resource the system to move these cases along fast. stuart: look, we were showing people these tent cities, we are showing them to you again today. these are tent cities in the united states, they are growing rap