lesko. other members of the subcommittee are reminded that opening statements may be submitted for the record. i want to welcome the panel of witnesses. our first witness, ms. patricia cogswell, is the acting deputy administrator for tsa. tsa, ms.joining cogswell held several leadership positions within the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement and dhs, including has acting undersecretary for the angels intelligence and analysis -- four dhs intelligence and analysis. our next witness, william russell, works for the government accountable in the office enforcement seymour he is responsible for transportation security. mr. russell has over 17 years of experience at gao and was previously an assistant director in the contracting and national security acquisition team. without objection, the witnesses' . it's will be inserted in the record. and now i ask each witness-- full statements will be inserted in the record. and i might ask each witness to submit their statement beginning with ms. cog

house judiciary and homeland security committees, debbie lesko. thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. maria: where is this going and what is your reaction to this week's hearings. >> the republicans don't know for sure, but i'm gearing up to be ready in judiciary committee for the report from schiff, when we return from thanksgiving break, so just in a couple weeks and who knows if we're even going to have witnesses in judiciary committee. i mean, the judiciary committee is the committee where they're allowing president trump to have his counsel there, but it's really up to chairman nadler what he's going to allow, if he's going to allow any republican witnesses, any witnesses at all, or what he's going to a how the president's -- allow the president's counsel to do or ask for. it's all up to the democratic control which is really quite biased. maria: in terms of timing, it will come to the judiciary next week. there's some speculation that the house will vote on an

amount of time, so i like to recognize miss debbie lesko for five minutes. >> thank you. this question is for this cogswell. section one or nine of the law requires tsa to produce spending reductions, and administrative savings that may be streamlining. this provision also asked tsa to eliminate the put of programs and reduce the number of senior executive by as much as 20%. i would assume, one one my questions is going to be if we can reduce these duplicate, if i'm sitting right, programs and reduce the number of senior executive personnel's, could we then move the money over to the concern about tsa officers pay, in this report it was due on august 1st. so my question is two fold. when will we have the report? and can we utilize any of these savings and move it over to tsa officer pay increase? >> we have completed the analysis, including implementing significant realignments across the agency. we also have projected in some additional cost savings for headquarters, associated with our move going into next year in springfield of about 11% over headquarters functions, bu

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joining us now is congresswoman debbie lesko.publican from arizona who sits on the house judiciary committee and joins us now. you have a lot on your hands in the coming days and weeks. we appreciate your time this morning. we know the d.o.j. is appealing this judge's decision. 120-page ruling. what does all this mean bigger picture for the impeachment process? >> well, we'll find out what the court says. the appeals court says. basically my understanding from the judge's ruling is that just basically said mcgahn needs to show up to congress but then he can exert executive privilege then. based on each question. so i don't know that it really changes a lot. we'll see what the court says. >> sandra: does it open up the possibility of other current and former white house aides to have to testify? mick mulvaney, john bolton and others? >> well again, we'll have to see what the appeals court says. that will determine it. this may take a while. i don't think it's in the timeline the democrats want. i don't think it works in their inte

lesko: thank you, madam speaker. i thank representative cole for yielding. this impeachment process is a total sham. this resolution which speaks to he -- which seeks to legitimize it misleads the american public. section of this bill is titled the open and transparent investigative proceedings by the permanent select committee on intelligence but the process set forth in this resolution is far from open and far from transparent. in fact, it is the exact opposite. the resolution continues the closed door meetings that blocked entry to members of congress and prohibits the president's due process rights. and it nearly -- it merely authorizes duh does not require chairman schiff to make transcripts public. last night republicans offered 17 amendments to add some fairness into this the process but democrats rejected them all. i had an treatment ensure minority witnesses could call an equal number of witnesses as the majority. democrats said no. i had amendment to require the intel chairman to turn over exculpatory materials to the judiciary committee. democrats

statement later this morning saying she still stands by impeachment, but the congresswoman debbie leskoe judiciary committee says that the impeachment was a bad play for democrats from the start. >> i'm not really sure that the democrats know what they're going to do and maybe it will change from minute to minute depending on if they have the vote or if they think they will lose seats in swing districts. i know brenda pretty well and she's a common sense woman so maybe she's seen the polling and sees this is not a good move for the democrats. >> reporter: so if the house judiciary committee does follow through and draft these articles of impeachment, david, congresswoman lesko says they are expecting to vote on those by december 20. david? david: hillary, thank you very much. meanwhile, president trump pushing for a vote on u.s. mca, and he may get one. our own edward lawrence is reporting in mexico's chief negotiator saying he was told by speaker pelosi and agreement with the trump adminitration should be reached some time between thanksgiving and the end of november. the house ways an

. >> laura: here now is arizona congresswoman debbie lesko, member of the house judiciary committee.f all, what is your committee's message to schiff tonight? is this going to happen? >> adam schiff is a known liar and sleeker, so it wouldn't surprise me at all of the real collusion story was him colluding with the whistle-blower. and so i welcome him to come. i hope he comes to the judiciary committee, so we can grill him under oath. hopefully he doesn't lie to the committee like he lies to the american public. >> laura: did you get the sense that it was all keeping it under the lid today? everyone was kind of saying the same thing. we take no joy in a solemn moment. we never wanted to be here. no one's happy about -- i mean, we were watching this this morning in my kitchen, and we were literally screaming out loud laughing, because it was so obvious and so stupid, it's so bad. i was thinking, maybe i'm wrong, maybe they are so serious. >> you are exactly right, this is total acting. over the top. are you kidding me? since president trump was elected, they have been calling for his

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i like to ask for unanimous consent for these statistics and lesko that was referenced and when you submitted for the record please. we have a brief follow-up question. >> they will both be admitted into the record as will the two page document that were holding and it's the document that can the most recent information regarding appearances by people appearing at the border. yes ranking member. >> thank you madam chair. miss vela you've been asked very is questions today. you've sat there with dignity and asked the best year ability. the panelists that is join you today and thank you for being here today. we all struggle as a nation to deal with the challenge we faced at the southern border. it's good that our chairwoman was courageous and called a searing and that testimony was offered based upon various opinions and it's our job to consider these opinions with respect for each other and for a common goal of finding some solution. i'd like to point out that it's been stated several times that the state department has indicated that it's too dangerous to travel for some of those areas in mex

lesko, for five minutes in >> first if you don't mind, i'd like to yield a few seconds to colleague, mr. higgins. >> five minutes. unanimousirman, i ask concept to enter into the record support ofrticles in biometric technology. the first is from the new york commissioner and the second is from managing director sherrtoff group. >> without objection. the gentlelady is recognized for additional time. >> thank you, mr. chairman. tooo ask unanimous consent enter into the record three letters expressing support for the effective and responsible biometrics by t.s.a. and c.b.p. these letters are from airlines for america. the international air transport association. and the global business travel association. >> without objections. >> ok. thank you. mr. chairmanons, and members, are for mr. gould. and my first question, mr. gould, is the pilot program deltaou have working with down in atlanta, where do you from?e photos is it opt in? do you get the database of passports from c.b.p.? that's my first question. >> yes, ma'am. c.b.p.'s tbs matching service for that. state accesses the departme

. >> the chair recognizes miss lesko. >> my first question is for mister homan. we talked about these loopholes in previous hearings as well and i said before and will repeat again, i think these loopholes incentivize people to travel thousands of miles, take cartels, huge amounts of money, a lot of women being raped. we had evidence, children being abused by the cartels, and so changing some of these loopholes and clearing them help to mitigate the entire problem. if somebody has been raped by cartels, children being abused by cartels, of course, none of us up here would want to ignore that but there is a difference in how we should mitigate the problem. mister homan, i have six bills i have introduced and sponsored that would try to clean up these loopholes to stop incentivizing people from coming here and one of them is to raise a credible fear standard for asylum because as you said, the initial standard is too low as evidenced by the numbers, 85%-90% pass be initial phase. a huge number, 86%, 87%. if we salt that problem with the loopholes how would that aff