>> mary fallon is the chairwoman of the national governor's association and she is here.nk a lot of people in the country were not aware of how the system works until this crisis began. we have federal planes and buses meeting people at the border and sending them to all parts of the country and some have been proprosed to be sent to oklahoma as well with no heads up to anybody. hhs said they have to protect the privacy of the illeglals. >> it happened here. we have children 12-17 and got rumor of this about four weeks ago that we might be receiving children in oklahoma. but it a tuesday, a couple days later, we had a national phone call that said we would be receiving some of the children and by wednesday they were there and by friday i went down to fort sill to see what was going to happen in the state. these are children first and r foremost so we want to treat them humanely. but we have sent had a failure at the time border and sent the reading for south america that they can come over and we are not securing the border. this huge influx that shocked the nation and th

oklahoma governor mary fallon is fed up. she just wrote a letter directly to president obama demanding that he end the secrecy surrounding the detention of immigrant children in states like her own. and governor fallon joins us. good evening, governor. >> hi, greta. governor what's with the secrecy? what isn't the president 'telling you. >> we just want straightforward answer for the governors of our state. we want to know what the president's end game is and what's he planning on doing? get us the facts and information on secrecy that some of our states were facing. we were told originally that we would have migrant children and youth who would stay in oklahoma about 120 days until october 10th. but we hear through back channels that it could be extended longer than that we have asked where are the children from we're told it's a privacy issue we can't know. we have been asked where are the children going once they leaf oklahoma, we know there has been about 212 teenagers have been released into oklahoma. we don't know wher

mary fallon is the governor of oklahoma, the first woman to chair the national governors association, and the former chairman of the nga. good oh to have you on the program, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, maria. always good to be with you. and i'm actually the third woman to be the chair, but the first republican woman to be the chair. >> well, thank you for that. apologies. can you characterize the problem from where you sit? >> absolutely. you know, i think governors across the nation are concerned about the migrant children coming into the united states. we want to know what is the plan and what is the end game for all that's going on across our nation with migrant children. we have received migrant children here in oklahoma. we were told they were going to be here 120 days, and then we could get back to our regular military operations at our army posts itself. but now we're hearing there may be rumors that they could be extended at that facility. so i would like to put the president on notice that the people of oklahoma accepted them for the 120 days, because that's where th

. >> we heard the same thing from mary fallon. we have leslie and mark here to talk about is.me of the children are by themselves and need to be taken care of. but do we have the capacity and dump people on the state without telling the governor they are on the way? >> actual i don't think dumping children on states without speaking to the governor and notifying them is the right thing to do regardless of who is sitting in the white house. but the reality is we have no ability based on a law from 2008 and lack of funds -- and this shouldn't be i don't believe a political issue despite the mid-term election. it is terrible using the children as pawns on either side. but we have to put the children somewhere. i do feel they should be tracked and the immigration status of the family members they are placed with should be found out and i do feel the governors should be notified. we have a solution which is turn them around and deport them quicker and currently with the 2008 legislation and lack of funding we cannot do that. >> changing the legislation is one think that can be done

and mary fallon and john hickenlooper will discuss jobs. later tomorrow afternoon we will have this special. and there's a lot of losing in baseball. they know there's a whole season to stir this up. ten out of 20 games, and they have a good chance to plan us. so it is the support of this democracy. >> latest book on base -- baseball and wrigley field on c-span "q&a." >> next, the confirmation hearing for three senior military nominees i'm a northern command, the afghanistan international security assistance force, and u.s. special operations command. they took questions from members of the senate armed services committee topics included border security in the ongoing situation in iraq and syria. this is just under 2.5 hours. [inaudible conversations] , laud[inaudible conversations] >> good morning, everyone. the committee meets today to consider the nomination of admiral william gordon and the north american aerospace defense command. this includes the international security force and the commander of united states forces in afghanistan an

oklahoma governor mary fallon, who chairs the nga, kicked off the opening meeting this morning. later today they'll be joined by vice president joe biden to discuss state/federal partnerships. we'll have live coverage of that discussion beginning at 2 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. also coming up at 4, the education and work force committee will meet to focus on the role of education and economic development. guest speaker is senator lamar alexander who's the senior republican on the education committee. the nga education committee is chaired by kentucky governor steve bashir. that'll be live, again, at 4 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. >>> tune into booktv this weekend for the harlem book fair with discussions on the state of african-american literature, multicultural book publishing and the black arts movement. live coverage starts saturday morning at 11:45 eastern on c-span2's booktv. >>> congressman ted poe of texas, digital privacy advocates took part in a presentation and discussion of federal digital privacy laws. this is about 90 minutes. >> good afternoon and welcome to th