secretary kiersten nielsen held firm in saying she did not hear the president after the word s-hole. nielsen clearly trying to pivot and change the narrative, send a signal to the base for the focus should not be on his words but deeds. the fact that he is taking action to crackdown on illegal immigration. secretary announcing today the administration is talking to federal prosecutors about criminal charges against local officials in sanctuary cities that refuse to follow through on federal orders to support criminals. also today the department of justice revealed it's going to try and go directly to the board -- supreme court to fast-track a ruling that new daca applications can start as the head of the justice department jeff sessions told fox tonight enough is enough. >> what good does it do to bring in somebody who is illiterate in their own country, has no skills and is going to struggle in our country and not be successful. that is not a good nation -- what a good nation should do. >> republican lindsey graham charged that's a dramatic turn from a week ago. the president gather

coming up, homeland security secretary kiersten nielsen will be testifying at the senate judiciary hearing on oversight of the department of homeland security. live coverage is underway at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. credit president trump officially signed a martin luther king day proclamation. forehand he made remarks about dr. king in the roosevelt room of the white house. president trump: good morning, everybody. thank you very much. thank you. i want to thank secretary carson alone with mr. isaac newton farris jr. and guests for joining us today. it is a great honor. earlier this week i had a privilege to join isaac and others to sign into law legislation redesignating the martin luther king jr. national historic site to the martin luther king jr. national historic park. the new law expands the area protected and historic sites for the future. generations of americans are becoming so important, and this is a great honor for us and a great honor to dr. king. today we gather in the white house to honor the memory of a great american hero, the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. on jan

kiersten nielsen who was at that meeting was pressed on capitol hill today on whether mr. trump use the vulgar language by the senator who has been locked in a war of words with the president ever sense. watch. >> what do you remember the president saying about immigration from african countries to the united states? >> what i heard him saying was that he liked to move away from a country-based quota system to a merit-based system. it shouldn't matter where you are from, it should matter what you can contribute to the united states. >> how did he characterize those countries in africa? >> i don't specifically remember a categorization of countries in africa. what i understood him to be saying is let's move away from the countries and let's look at the individual and make sure those we bring here can contribute to our society. >> harris: all of this is president trump continues to place fault on the senator durbin. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is following today's hearing and joins us now live from washington. catherine? >> just before we had that joi

all this as homeland security secretary kiersten nielsen is on capitol hill testifying before the senate judiciary committee. lawmakers are asking her a lot of questions including about the border wall and dreamers. >> it is our position to find a permanent solution. we are not interested in addressing this through piecemeal, year after year renewals, anything less than a permanent solution. >> would you be willing to work with us in that regard? >> absolutely. >> harris: an agreement on the way to protect dreamers from being deported. still front and center. democratic senator dick durbin pointing a finger at the president for not making a deal. >> the president challenged us in his cabinet meeting to come up with a bipartisan agreement to solve the problem, and we had four major elements in it. we did everything he asked. we presented it to him on thursday. it is the only bipartisan agreement that has been brought forward and we spent four months putting it together. so we met the president's criteria. remember at one point when he said whenever you send me, i'll sign. i'll take the po

. >> coming up today live on c-span, kiersten nielsen talks about combating terrorism at 11:30 eastern. a house gavel's and for general speeches at noon followed by legislative business at 4:30. members take up measures including a bill to strengthen protections for victims of sexual abuse. the briefing currently scheduled for 1:15 p.m. eastern time. a conference on internet security with remarks by lawmakers and cabinet members and the senate returns at 2:00 eastern to take up a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks. c-span3 is live with tomorrow's state of the union address, hearing from kellyanne conway, house minority leader nancy pelosi and shelley moore capit o and angus king. >> this week on the communicators, we take you to the consumer electronics show in las vegas and speak with industry leaders about developments in artificial , 300 60ence, robotics degree cameras and enhanced communications for self driving cars. watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> the president of the united states. >> tuesday night, president donald trump gives his first

. >> homeland security step -- secretary kristen -- kiersten nielsen says the president was using tough language in the meeting on immigration where the president reportedly made controversial remarks. she also said she wants a permanent solution on daca. republican congressional leaders are trying to avert a government shutdown on friday and they are struggling to separate the immigration blowup set off by president trump from a spending bill needed to keep the government in business. democrats say the bill must include a measure that keeps young undocumented immigrants from being deported. turkish president erdogan is calling on nato to form the border security force in syria. he said nato is obligated to take a stand against those who harass and violate the borders of your members. ties between turkey and the u.s. have deteriorated over u.s. support of the kurdish militia. calls those fighters a major threat to security. russia may go on a spending spree after years of austerity. the kremlin is considering a plan to boost spending on transport and roads by about 30% over three years.

this news as dhs secretary kiersten nielsen answered questions from senator harris who the state of californiaing to worry cities. >> the question is whether dhs is working with the justice department to bring charges or any criminal charges against state and local officials. >> the department of justice reviewing what avenues might be available. >> the doj has threatened for months to keep millions of dollars in federal funding from sanctuary cities. donald trump not shy about calling out the fake news media and today he is recognizing the worst of the worst with his dishonest and corrupt media awards. who deserves to win? a contributor for the hill joins me with her predictions, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. heather: let's look at the study by the media research center on 2017 media coverage of the president, they found 100 hours of evening coverage of donald trump in 2017, 90% of cable coverage of the president was negative. 43% of evening news coverage of the president focused on controversies so there has been a lot of talk about controversies, negative coverage and a

. >> homeland security secretary kiersten nielsen said today numerous people use profanities during ance meeting on immigration which she attended last week. she told the senate judiciary committee she didn't recall president trump using a specific paul garrity. -- vulgarity. >> the conversation was very impassioned. i don't dispute that the president was using tough language. others in the room were also using tough language. the concept and the context i believe in which this came up was the concept that the president would like to move to a merit-based system. >> illinois senator richard durbin the only democrat at that meeting said he stands by his account of president trump using vulgarity. he pressed nielsen on how mr. trump characterized countries in africa. she said, i don't specifically remember a categorization of countries in africa. president is rejecting her expulsion from the governing party as illegal. she says she will appeal the decision. the unity party's executive committee voted saturday to expel the 79-year-old president accusing her of violating the country's cons

secretary kiersten nielsen was in the cross fire as democrats demanded a deal to protect the dreamers, threatening a government shutdown. several lawmakers discussing a word i can't even say on tv allegedly used by the president last week on immigration. president trump questioned wasd about the remark a short time ago. >> did you say you want people to come in from norway? >> i wanted them to come in from everywhere. everywhere. thank you very much. >> just caucasian or white countries? do you want people to come in from other parts of the world? >> dana: mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. where does congress stand on a deal for those people brought to the country illegally by their parents? >> there are still talks but most of us don't believe -- there were six bipartisan senators last week that say they reached an agreement and they want to bring it to the floor to see if they have enough but bottom line, the white house and some conservatives rejected it. >> the president challenged this in his cabinet meeting. they had four major elements in it. we did everything he asked to p

to another, i do think that is why i say on the counterintelligence side, this is not really kiersten nielsen's department of homeland security. this is a tier one national security problem that requires the attorney general and the dni, this requires the president's cabinet to devote time and attention with a strategy. >> maybe it is fair to open up the -- to open up to the audience with some questions? something?as .> there is not been a coup fran, you served as the assistant to the president in homeland security. my question is, could you comment on what you see with respect to national security process today at the nsc. nscis it similar to past processes, how is it different and what do you think the points of comparison are? frances: i think from all accounts, when a new andnistration came in, every new administration you're going to see missteps in the beginning. you have a bunch of new people that never worked together before, in and try to figure out how to they want to run the process. i think this administration came in and thought they were going to start from scratch. they were goin

kiersten nielsen and dick durbin both in the oval office that da day. >> what was the strong language? >> strong language. there was -- apologies, i don't remember specific words. i was struck with the general profanity that was used in the room by almost everyone. >> new jersey senator cory booker pounced. >> when ignorance and bigotry is allied with power of the dangerous force in our country. your silence and your amnesia is complicity. >> democrats have seized on leg which, playing the racism card as a lever to give president trump less than what he wants in an daca deal. >> you want to begin the long road back to proving you are not a racist, you're not bigoted, support the bipartisan compromise that three republicans and three democrats have put on the floor. >> the white house stopped just short of calling such talk hypocrisy. >> i think that's an outrageous claim and frankly i think if the critics of the president or who he said he was why did nbc give him a show for a decade? why did chuck schumer and his colleagues begged donald trump for money? >> ending chain migration in

joining me now for an exclusive interview, the new secretary of lament security, kiersten nielsen. welcome to "fox news sunday." >> secretary nielsen: thank you, my pleasure. >> chris: before we get to immigration, let's discuss that false alarm in hawaii yesterday. just after 8:00 yesterday morning people across the state got this alert. ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii, seek immediate shelter, this is not a drill. people were understandably terrified for 38 minutes before they got the all clear. it turns out it was a state official who hit the wrong button, but as the head of federal dhs, what have you learned about the state of emergency preparedness in that state and across the country? >> secretary nielsen: i think this is a very important topic and i just want to encourage everyone first and foremost not to draw the wrong conclusion. i would hate for anybody not to abide by alert warnings coming from government systems. they can trust government systems, we test them every day. if this is a very unfortunate mistake, but these are vital, seconds and minutes can save l

administration has not conducted a full-scale exercise for this type of event, dhs secretary kiersten nielsenr the national response framework and had an exercise with deputy secretaries of the department, specifically related to this type of threat. she said there were plans for a cabinet level exercise in february. rick? rick: ellison bash or this remarkable story. thank you. let's bring back morgan, reporter from the hill. senator cotton said what happened in hawaii could be a game-changer on missile defense? >> absolutely. i think that this is a very, you know, illuminating issue, particularly because it does shine the light on the threat from north korea and what we need to do to respond and to prepare, i think, it's not only about these state alert systems, it's about missile defense. it's about broader issues with regards to tampering down tensions that have seemed to escalate in recent weeks. this contributes to the conversation that's been going about the threat from north korea and what the administration is really doing in terms of, you know, countering that. rick: yeah, this was a

secretary kiersten nielsen, as you mention, held firm in saying that last thursday, she did not hearhe president otter that expletive leading democrat cory booker to charge that her silence and amnesia meet her, and his words, complicit, and the president's comments. she clearly tried to pivot and change the narrative and send a signal to the president's face that he is all about not words, but action, by saying he is taking action to crack down on illegal immigration. the secretary announcing today the administration is talking to federal prosecutors about launching criminal charges against local officials and sanctuary cities that refused to follow through on federal orders to the port criminals. also new today, the department of justice revealed it's going to try to go directly to the supreme court to fast-track its appeal of a federal judge's ruling that new daca applications can start up. republican lindsey graham, meanwhile, charged all that to dramatic turnn from a one week ago today when the president gathered both parties in the cabinet room, you see it there, i think he wan

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fairness, i think they've done a pretty strainer job on immigration, customs and border's piece but kiersten nielsen who i also had the privilege to work with during the bush and ministration, she also has plum island. i bet you there's nobody here who knows what plum island is. >> we leave this discussion to go live to the u.s. conference of the mayor's winter meeting. members are expecting to hear from virginia governor mark warner. live coverage on c-span2. >> when he left office his state was ranked as the best date for business, the best managed state and the best date in which to receive a public education. in the senate he is distinguished himself as a leader who works with colleagues from both parties on behalf of his state and everyone in our country. he serves on the finance, banking, budget and rules committee and as vice chairman of the select committee on intelligence. senator warner is with us today. he has been a great leader for our country. please help me welcome him to speak to us. senator warner. [applause] >> thank you match. thank you for that introduction. thank you for the gre

coming up, homeland security secretary kiersten nielsen will be testifying at the senate judiciary hearing on oversight of the department of homeland security. live coverage is underway at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. credit president trump officially signed a martin luther king day proclamation. forehand he made remarks about dr. king in the roosevelt room of the white house. president trump: good morning, everybody. thank you very much. thank you. i want to thank secretary carson alone with mr. isaac newton farris jr. and guests for joining us today. it is a great honor. earlier this week i had a

a routine oversight hearing with kiersten nielsen --kirstjen nielsen. testified before the judiciary subcommittee on this issue. and also talked with a number of senators about the recent changes in daca and immigration. here is what she had to say with some -- senator amy klobuchar. >> listening to your answers under oath that you did not hear and i will not repeat this word and give it any dignity, we will collect the word s-hole. you testified under oath you did not hear the president use that word up a meeting. >> correct. >> is a possible he said the word at the meeting and you do not hear it? >> anything is possible. yes, ma'am. a possible he also said that wording you do not hear it? >> it is possible. there was crosstalk. i unfortunately was not -- the meeting was unscheduled. last-minute, when i was notified, i had to clear my schedule. i came in late. anything is possible. i can testify to what i don't know. number of one of our questions regarding language use with president trump last week, here is the entire hearing from earlier today. it i