already all the expulsions, mayorkas testified there are still about 375,000 in the country. this week senator james lankford sent a letter to mayorkas over leaked ice documents that he says suggests the secretary is not doing enough. today, mayorkas responded. >> i do believe that individuals who pose a public safety threat, who pose a national security threat, who pose a about border security threat should be removed. >> what should an higher priority of the united states government? securing our border or giving amnesty to illegal aliens who are already here? >> um, senator, justice is our priority. that includes securing our border and providing relief to those who qualify for it under our laws. >> justice may come in the form of settlement payments for families separated at the border, which democrats support. >> god forbid these 1800 kids who are still separated with their parents trying to ask for some compensation. >> but mayorkas punted to the doj. >> i am not involved in those negotiations. >> and, bret, secretary mayorkas was also asked today by senator tom cotton

so senator mayorkas, senator mayorkas. mayorkas, that's all he gets from me. step down. give that job to somebody who will actually care about citizens in this country and not illegals. >> his failure to acknowledge these losses of these families from substances pouring into the southwest border is probably one of the greatest tragedies ever committed by people in leadership roles in our country. you know, within 60 days of the covid outbreak, everyone in this country knew three things. wash your hands, social distance, and wear a mask. we are eight years into this illicit fentanyl crisis, and they haven't even taken the initiative to launch a campaign to tell our kids if the pill didn't come from a pharmacy, it's not safe. it's one of the greatest failures i think we've ever had, and it's going to continue to get worse. so i would ask him, how many of our children's bodies will it take? >> sheriff, has mayorkas ever called you? >> well, i sent him a letter after they shut down my operation, that they need to set it back up after 25 years of never failing an audit in the

and homeland security secretary mayorkas and trouble and capito hill. more than double the total from october 2020. we begin tonight with that bombshell accusation that the fbi may be investigating. suit get heated at school board meetings. what is the truth? trace gallagher is on the case tonight. good evening, trace. >> the whistleblower is reportedly an fbi agent who provided several republican lawmakers with the internal mem from the head up the criminal and counterterrorism division. the memo directed ages to -- intimidation against its to cater spike using a threat tag, which allows agents to gauge whether the threat is on a national level and provide information to state and local law enforcement. republican nominee is that the whistleblower memorable is proo positive that the fbi is taggin parents they consider threatening. the fbi says a threat tag quoting here and no way changes the long-standing requirements for opening an investigation, nor does it represent a shift i how the fbi prioritizes threats. that is little comfort to parents conside

he had the audacity, mayorkas, to say that the southern border is close.ne minute with a border agent, with anyone on the border regions and you know that that's a flat out lied. that's not nuanced. it's not obfuscation. it's a lie. they know it's open. they wish we didn't have video cameras and drone footage. asking tough questions. they tried to stop it. it's amazing, the audacity. >> harris: and you and i mean they tried to stop us from seeing it. they didn't try to actually stop what's happening. kennedy, we got some breaking news, as mayorkas was sitting there and i believe it was senator graham who was talking with him at that point and senator graham said a million people, you're telling me than a million people have received orders to leave the country and they are still here? why is that? he couldn't answer that and while they were going back and forth, we learned that the images of the border patrol on horseback, that many in the white house, the administration of biden and some of the mainstream media have said they were whipping people on those

colleague support the association position of no-confidence in mayorkas a the ongoing border crisis,g, quote, since appointments we've seen his policies enacted the are personal, political ideologies that dismantle a we call on president biden to the appropriate steps to remove secretary mayorkas. donald trump slamming the biden administration's handling of afghanistan on hannity. >> biden should never have allowed the withdrawal to happen the way happened. i got us down to 2500 soldiers and we were totally secure. they were not touching us. i told them you can't do it, i don't go into great detail but they knew they better not mess around and we were going to get american citizens out first and others the deserve to come out not like they did taking hundreds of thousands of people out of afghanistan, have no idea who they are. >> 13 us service others lost their lives during the final days of the us exit. todd: despite record shattering illegal immigration and botched withdrawal in afghanistan it was last year president biden touted his national security team as top-notch. >> america

mayorkas, i've known you for a long time. it is very good to see you sitting there and i thank you for your service. i want the ask a controversial question, and it has to do with guns. each year -- excuse me, last month tsa announced their officers have seized 4,495 firearms at security points this year. that is new record. in the agency's 20 year history. having an average of more than a dozen firemans seized at airport checkpoints each day is really troubling. so what is happening? to what do you attribute this increase? and how is tsa combatting this very concerning issue? >> senator, it is wonderful to see you, and i am grateful for the support you have provided me throughout my enforcement career. >> could you speak up please? i don't want to miss it. >> i just express my gratitude to you, senator for your support. >> thank you. >> and throughout my enforcement career. >> thank you. >> and it is wonderful to see you. >> thank you. >> it is difficult to understand the cause for the increase in the carrying of firearm, th

marsha blackburn is one of the lawmakers who got to question mayorkas today. and payment to migrants, but you flip the question to ask, does the biden administration have any plans to issue payments, direct patients to families of those who were killed or assaulted by illegal aliens, is what you asked. >> that's right sandra, because so many times what we hear is, these families cannot even get these illegal immigrants into court. they fully the country and they never get justice. as i have talked to these angel families who have experienced many times the death of a loved one or serious injury, this is a big part of their frustration and what we sought repeatedly over and over is that this administration is welcoming to illegal aliens. they are even incentivizing illegal crossings at the southern border and they don't seem to appreciate that paying $450,000 to individuals, whether they were separated matter of hours or days or weeks, that this is not going to incentivize people to come to this country. and even when asked, secretary mayorkas is in favor of gi

mayorkas punted to the doj. he says he's not involved in that. as you mentioned, billions in taxpayer money could be on the way to illegal immigrant families. democrats just changed the rules for the child tax credit program in the president's massive build back better plan. so families no longer have to provide a social security number to cash in on that credit, which now opens upwards of $2.3 billion for parents of illegal immigrants. here's senator tom cotton grilling mayorkas about his priorities. >> what should be a higher priority of the us government, securing or border our giving amnesty to illegal aliens that are already here? >> senator, justice is our priority. that includes securing our border and providing relief to those that qualify for it under our laws. >> martha, bottom line, mayorkas says our immigration system is broken but it's the job of congress to fix it. martha? >> thank you very much. joining me now, tom cotton who you just heard questioning secretary mayorkas. senator, good to have you here today. here's the rest of tha

>> has mayorkas ever called you? >> i actually shut down my operation and i set it back up after 25 years of never failing an audit in the detention operation. it was clear that it was a political hit. i've been outspoken on this issue of being across the country with america's sheriffs and they thought this would be a good way to send a message. unfortunately, they sent a message that people in my county do not deserve to be safe. that's exactly what happened, and i've never heard from them. >> the short answer is no, i've not heard from him or his office. >> i talked to deputy secretary mayorkas many times. let's be clear. deputy secretary mayorkas knew how to stop this surge. how did we stop them? we detained people. we made them see a judge. sent them home, numbers went down. this secretary mayorkas is doing the complete opposite of what he knows works. he's not keeping them, he's releasing them. i just read the memo that i.c.e. is not detaining anybody. so he's doing the complete opposite of what he knows works.

and mayorkas, you should show the other party. cruz asked him a number of questions he couldn't even answer. he came unprepared. my question is, when trump was in office, they had the aoc and people like that were coming down to the border to check and see the immigrants, especially kids, dying in the river, right in the rio grande river, where is aoc now, where are these people? their silence is deafening. what about all the people that are coming in with covid? we know that. they said that. they said it on c-span. these people are being spread out across america. if you laid a map out of where they spread these people and where the covid outbreaks were, you would find some kind of correlation. the hypocrisy is just terrible. terrible as far as what's going on. dead children in the rivers and the cnn and other stations, they don't even report it. it's disgusting. we need to build a wall, retain millions of dollars to let the materials for the wall sit there and be guarded or whatever, and where are the people coming in? around th

. >> alejandra mayorkas during the senate judiciary hearing, most notably, senator ted cruz questioned him on the migrant facility earlier this year. >> how many children have been in the biden cages in calendar year 2021. >> i respect we disagree with your use of the term cajun. >> i have seen the biden cages. >> precisely why i stated in march of this year that border patrol station is no place for a child. >> he struggled to answer questions about borders are kamala harris, he said he never consulted her on dhs decision to end the remain in mexico policy or change ice guidance. he defended his work, and it is in a forever despite migrant apprehensions this past fiscal year. federal authority targeting parents with a counterterrorism select tag according to bombshell memo shared by the whistleblower, it is dated october 20th, to investigate parents, and the next day, merrick garland testified the rodeo day was not using computers and efforts against - >> - and putting them in harm's way. >> i would say it is illegal for citizens to target government officials online. your, just a sti

we got the briefing from blinken and mayorkas and they told us that. we will see what we can do going forward. it was what was expected from this administration that screwed up everything they have touched. >> yes. congressman, biggs, nothing has gone wrong. even a broken clock is right work twice a day. we are dealing with terrorists issues and we had rapes and assaults on our military bases against our troupes. congressman biggs, this is a national security threat. what are our options when we find out something like this is happening? >> i think we have to take it seriously. my opinion is we need to get mayorkas replaced. he needs to be fired and so does joe biden. tammy, we were up in arms over the afghans because they let in 86,000 unvetted. mayorkas let in about 400,000 getaways across the southern border. >> a great point. congressmen, thanks for joining us and happy thanksgiving. why are democrats so intent on letting criminals walk free? the just $5 million cash bail is still low for anyone suspected of mowing down innocent victims. he was out

how can mayorkas not have any idea? >> harris, good afternoon to your.he might not know the number of covid positive released into th public is because they don't test everybody. when they're being apprehended out here on the front lines, they're not being tested before they're put on buses you only people we see testing them are ngos, that catholic charity out here in the mcallen area was testing them before they were put on buses or planes, but we just had a group of 200 here apprehended this morning. the border patrol left about 50 minutes ago. not a single person was covid tested out here in the field where the only signs that there ever actually covid tested is when they're showing obvious symptoms, flulike symptoms that sort of thing. it's the various ngos doing mos of the testing. i believe i heard secretary mayorkas say that that they are partnering with different ngos doing that sort of a thing, but keep in mind that's not a perfect solution. we remember that incident over the where the catholic charity was testing them here and than quietly put

and border security caucus co-chair are calling on the president to fire homeland security chief mayorkasr what's going on at the southern border. you wrote under his watch more than 1.1 million aliens have attempted to illegally cross the southern border. that number is 1.6. vast quantities of illegal drugs have entered our country because agents were distracted taking care of large groups of illegal migrants and responsible for countless american deaths. another caravan of illegal my grants are on its way now. they want to send national guard units and put up his own wall on the southern border. arizona attorney general torching the biden administration here on this program yesterday. >> make no mistake about it. as a result of the failure of the biden administration's policies we see a record amount of people illegally cross the southern border. when we talk about the 2 million people who will cross just this year, you are talking about a fiscal impact and impact on our hospitals, social net. but more importantly the cartels have used this opportunity to dramatically increase the amoun

in d.c., secretary mayorkas admitted in testimony that the border is quote fundamentally broken underiden and mayorkas was hammered for dubious tough talk, no action and no answers to basic questions about crime. he delivered a bombshell. we got it, the news from this heated hearing. the white house's defining moment. it could stop biden. it is inflation just as it slammed presidents nixon, ford and carter but the white house botching it again with the new blame shifting narrative that can be easily circled back to democrats. all to cover up that they had no answers to stopping the pain americans now feel in their wallets. also they have got zero solutions to rising gas and heating prices as winter approaches. we've got the latest on the billions of dollars biden is now giving to a new civilian climate corps to go after oil and gas companies. we have more on his infrastructure czar's ties to, china and biden's controversial comptroller nominee, saule omarova is worse than realized. tonight the invasive government control she wants for your bang accounts, the government and the economy

secretary alejandro mayorkas.e have worked hard to find this to on your calendar and avoiding pandemic and every other challenge that were thrown at us. secretary inherited a department that was in chaos. under president trump, dhs lurched from one secretary or acting secretary to the next. six in total. only two were senate confirmed. listen to every confirmed dhs secretary prior to the trump administration. two republicans, two democrats. they wrote "this is a new secretary in this department every 9.5 months to manage the turbulent challenges of large-scale cyber attacks, border security, violent white nationalism, wildfires in the west, step shakeups and firings, the politicization of the agency's mission, and at least one acting sec. was serving illegally." that was by the four last serving secretaries. they added "leadership vacuum may have contributed to the failure to anticipate and adequately prepare for the attack on the capitol. ." the chaos what our nation's security -- put our nation's security at ris

mayorkas. do you believe that the walls around the prisons in this country work? people aren't getting in and people aren't getting out. why wouldn't they work down there? it's a simple question and one i'm sure he's not going to be able to honestly answer in relation to the border. >> did you want to address the morale issue? >> i would like to address the specific question. yeah, i am worried. agents, even before i retired, the increase in retirements that were voluntary, not mandatory, were increasing. the dialogue about the agents, i love my job, all border patrol agents are highly trained, highly professional patriots, but when they see the secretary of homeland security and even the president of the united states take due process and throw it in the trash can for a political event like the horse issue in del rio and then immediately show they're willing to sacrifice federal law enforcement agents that have given up their entire career to keep this country safe, they start looking at their families and how do they explain to their wife and kids that this is a

>> we have to take it seriously and my opinion is we need -- mayorkas needs to be replaced, he needs to be fired and so this president biden. we are up in arms over the afghan is because they let 86,000 totally inverted but mayorkas has left in 400,000 get aways across the southern border. >> thank you for being here, so much going on and happy thanksgiving to you gentlemen, why are democrats so intent on letting criminals walk 3, the waukesha parade attack suspect, $5 million cash bail which is way too low for anyone fatally suspected of mowing down six but he was originally out on $1,000 bail after punching and running over the mother of the child. this man has a rap sheet 50 pages long for mostly violent offenses and district attorney john chisholm put it that low despite his history. the thing is the da news the progressive policies could result in someone being hurt. thanks to the milwaukee journal sentinel in 2007, quote, is there going to be an individual i divert put into treatment programs who's going to go out and kill somebody? you bet, guaranteed. it is guaranteed to happ

mayorkas, testified before the senate judiciary committee. it's the first time he has been before the judiciary committee for an oversight hearing. of course our minds were all on the crisis that is currently under way and has been since the beginning of this year at the border when our colleague senator lindsey graham, ask him how he would rate his own performance so far, he gave a bizarre answer. he said i'd give myself an a for effort. that's the type of rating you would give yourself if you offered to cook dinner and completely bungled the recipe or if you ordered a really thoughtful christmas gift for your spouse but it didn't arrive on time. give yourself an a for effort. but when you're talking about the person who's responsible for some of our nation's most critical responsibilities for which they are -- which there are life and death consequences, an a for effort is hardly acceptable. and in this case it's an overly generous assessment. over the last year, customs and border protection has encountered more than 1.7 million migrants a

secretary mayorkas constantly lies about what's going on. they know that the american public, the more aware they become of what's happening on the border, the more unpopular their program becomes. so moving children in the middle of the night makes sense to them. and thank god someone finally got it on videotape to prove what myself and mr. morgan has been saying since january. they released 600,000. that's just the border patrol. i.c.e. has released thousands. at the order of political appointees. i worked with i.c.e. for decades. like i say, i was the director. when i was the director, i was the director. and i ran operations. however, now the director has no authority. political appointees are running the law enforcement agencies under dhs. a lady by the name of oliveria, an immigration activist in miami, she is the lady in the white house who wrote -- an immigration attorney, an immigration activist wrote the policy director for i.c.e..ed on what they can and can't do. the reason i know that, i got a copy of the memo. i went into the pr

>> she has not been -- maria: mayorkas did not have a firm number of amount of children there., i was the first journalist to enter the donna border facility back in may when the administration expanded the facility and we got a up close look at the facilities where people are behind, i don't know if you want to call it cages or jails, but that's where they are kept. michael, your reaction to what we are seeing at the border? >> you know, this is a terrible political football. our members are entrepreneurs. if you look at our membership, we have immigrants across the country who have built america, so there's a mix of opinions. we need healthy immigration and we need to secure the borders but we need to find a balance that works for this country. maria: you know, lee carter, i am just mystified in terms of why this administration doesn't take this issue seriously at all. what are your thoughts in terms of the impact on voters, the impact or the perception of this administration, given the fact that it's all right here in our faces, you know, we are going to see 2 million migran

mike lee told mayorkas to fix it or step down but as you both mentioned, he hit back saying he givesr effort. jillian: ohio, parents, formerly known as facebook, for misleading the public on danger to kids and costing investors $100 billion. todd: the attorney general of ohio joins me with more on a lawsuit. what is the crux of your case? >> the internal review memo, they weren't actually doing things they were doing publicly. the same internal review memo leaked to the wall street journal went on to say it is a breach of public trust. >> because of that, the state of ohio lost money. >> that is right. ohio pension system like many other investors held facebook, when this news hit the stock price tanked. if you mislead investors to public statements that are not true. those losses are yours, the bp case, the explosion, various frogs we had. >> we learned a lot about what was happening at facebook through the efforts of was a lower, here she is at a hearing. >> this week and our democracy. the company's leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram safer but won't make necessary

mayorkas said his estimation 375,000 have been released this year.ts, unaccompanied teenagers, young kids is right. the cartels like to advertise on social media they can get kids across the border into the usa. back live for a moment we met for a woman in christie hutchinson, the founder of women fighting for america. a group throughout the border crisis has gone to different border towns and work with law enforcement and has a sophisticated drone to help track down runners. we were here with them the other night using the drone with thermal imaging. didn't take long. we found a group of five to six runners taking off in the brush after crossing illegally into texas. as the drone was watching the migrants using the thermal imaging they were relaying the coordinates to agents on the ground. they quickly closed in on the illegal immigrants. because of the help of the drone they apprehended every one of those runners. we talked to hutchinson why she feels the need to do it. she is a mom and she has two boys and listen. >> drug trafficking has gone up o

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when we come back, senator ted cruz grilled dhs secretary mayorkas on the hill today. we've got a tape. senator cruz will join us next enter whistle-blower has now come forward with devastating information about the fbi's abuse of power. those details straight ahead. >> sean: now failing dhs secretary was grilled on capitol hill today amid the biden administration's open borders failures, now he himself admitted that not all of the 1.2 million illegal immigrants with final removal orders should be deported exposing what is the bite and open agenda even further. thankfully, senate republicans where they are to answer tough questions, take a look. >> how many murderers have you released? >> i am not aware of any murderers. i am not aware of any. >> how many child molesters? >> i am not aware of any child molesters whom we have released. >> we have a president with an international mandate, somebody who comes across the border illegally shouldn't be vaccinated for that's a reason for expulsion. under title 42 or any other law. >> senator, the analysis for migrants encount

at the direction of secretary mayorkas, i.c.e. prioritizing i think i should know folks who pose a threat to public safety. do these priorities take away from i.c.e.'s ability to arrest anyone enters the country unlawfully? just a guess on a. >> no. >> second question, do you believe local jurisdiction should cooperate with i.c.e. when it comes to apprehending and those who pose a threat to public safety or nationals agouti, yes or no? >> yes, sir. >> and lastly do you believe i.c.e. should be abolished? >> no. >> all right, we are 343. let me talk a little bit about root causes. as my colleagues on the spinning of i'm a cause guy. i believe -- lack of economic opportunity drives folks in central america and northern tribal and other places -- address of those drivers to make the journey north they will continue to see migrants arriving illegally. .. >> a lack of record for over four years, four years. having said if confirmed how would you work with the dhs and counterparts root causes to the mission and work of agents at ice? >>

elizabeth: dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas, he testified to senate judiciary yesterday.dicated support of 450,000-dollar payouts to border-crossers separated under the trump zero tolerance policy. the point being that when they came here though, they broke the law. biden earlier this month did call this idea of payments quote, garbage. he then flip-flopped on that after outrage. let's watch the secretary of homeland security in action yesterday. watch this. >> the immigration system though is fundamentally broken, a fact that everyone agrees upon. >> true or false, secretary mayorkas, this year under joe biden we've seen the highest rate of illegal immigration in 61 years? >> again i don't know the number of years but certainly a historic high, senator. >> so you're right it is broken but you broke it. >> where does that leave us? how many people are estimate here? of the 1.7 million, how many people are still here? >> i would estimate approximately 375,000 are -- >> still here? >> yes. okay. elizabeth: that's a lot. 375,000 inside of the u.s. interior. came in. we have

i am grateful for the support of the president and secretary mayorkas. originally created in 1789, in order to pay our country's revolutionary war debts, cbp's modern-day responsibilities facilitating immigration, protecting our nation's border security, promoting trade and travel, and more, are as critical now as they were in the early days following our natio.s cbp is a key part of the immigration system that has welcomed so many families to the country including my own. my father was an english and art history professor who emigrated to the u.s. from norway in 1921. my mother, a pianist and homemaker, was the daughter of german immigrants. i have two sisters, carol and beth, and a brother, gerhart. my husband, terrence cheung, with me today, immigrated to the united states from hong kong with his wonderful mother clara, who retired after running her own small business for three decades. terrence has been a journalist, chief of staff for a mayor and super -- county supervisor and works for the arizona superior court in pima county. i could not ask for

secretary mayorkas called for congress to act.

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do you agree with me that the decision by secretary mayorkas to no longer detain or deport the peoplewho enter the country illegally is a poll factor that encourages more people to make that long, dangerous trip? >> senator, as i think we discussed, i think there are both strong push and pull factors out there. >> i'm just asking about the poll factors now. would you agree with me that a policy of non enforcement is a poll factor that is encouraging more illegal immigration? >> senator, thank you for the question. i think that there are many factors that contribute to this. >> is that one of them? >> it is certainly one part of, it yes, sir. >> thank you. you are a border state police officer and chief. and i know you know a lot about the border, although i will tell you, in my experience, with senator roy sinema, flying to tucson, it's a much different situation in the rio grande valley. but one thing i think we share in common is that the cartels have figured out how to overwhelm our border security, including our border patrols and as a result of the fact that unaccompanied childre

vice president harris attorney general garland and general mayorkas thank you for your leadership. tomorrow i will sign three bills for law enforcement first responders in the communities they serve. i want to thank everyone for working together to pass these bipartisan bills. before he i turn to the specifics of the bill i want to say when we look at what our communities need and what our law enforcement has to do is going to require more resources, not fewer resources and that's why my is investing in the community policing training partnership and law enforcement in their communities have been requested these community-based programs can stop violence before it starts. think about from counselors to law enforcement. everything in between. just this morning the department of justice released in investment community policing to quincy related services. these grants which total $140 million will go to 182 law enforcement agencies and a lot of them fund over 1000 new law enforcement positions to build legitimacy -- glib didymus ian committees and combat domestic extremism and respon

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>> i did not. >> reporter: senator cotton telling fox news secretary mayorkas claimed he wasn't awarenational school board association to target concerned parents. who is in charge of the department of homeland security? congressman jim jordan wants an answer to this question. >> the number one question is what is the number? how many parents have this tag, this terrorism tag, how many have that tag on them? >> republicans demanding answers from the doj as they prepare to introduce a parents bill of rights on capitol hill. democrats are rushing to the congressional budget office ahead of the report on the real price of biden's social spending bill. >> cbo does not have experienced with revenue amounts gained from cracking down on wealthy tax cheats taking advantage of every honest taxpayer. >> reporter: this as democrat lawmakers worry a poor analysis could derail house speaker nancy pelosi's effort to get biden's bill passed. as oil and gas prices continue to surge energy companies say that increased regulation from the white house has left them unable to help with the rising prices.

secretory mayorkas, that's you. what is he going to do to fix it?or having me but the funny thing here is all the folks asking questions, they are all auditioning to be present and while they are doing that, they also have the ability to fix the problem. we can acknowledge we have a broken immigration system, which often pass laws to fix it. kennedy: i completely agree to pass laws to raymond what he's doing, they could pass laws to change the biden administration operating at the border and get they want a brain scan for u.s. congress for the cameras. kennedy: senators have a great responsibility here if only we had a vice president was fresh from the senate who could talk to some of her old pals who now have a slim majority and talk about legislative fix is here. oh wait, she's not doing that because she doesn't want to do her job either. it is interesting because as i look at this situation, and it is a broken system and we need new legislation but anytime you have prohibition brothers drugs or guns people, you will have the same authorities at p

. >> today homeland security secretary mayorkas testifies on border policies before the judiciary committee. watch on c-span 3, on-line or on c-span now, our new video app. >> washington unfiltered, c-span in your pocket. download c-span now today. vermont senator patrick leahy announced he'll rely from the senate after eight terms. first elected in 1974, he's the senate pro tempore and the longest current senator. he announced his retirement in the vermont state capitol. >> good morning. [applause] >> i'm told i could take this off here, so i will. very nice, you all, this room, very, very excellent. and i thank you all for being here. it's special to both myself, not just because i used to ride my tricycle up and down these halls. [laughter] >> i actually did, a long time ago. i don't know what rules that broke. but having grown up right across the street, my sister mary is here and my brother, and decided to gather here back in 1974, our parents, our children, including son kevin was here, mark, may my sister mary and i used the room to announce my candidacy for the united states senate.

this all comes as alejandra mayorkas will testify in front of the senate judiciary committee. >> a texasleaving the party. >> many of us are waking up to the fact that the values of those in washington dc are not our values. the ideology of defunding the police, destroying the oil and gas industry in the chaos and our border is disastrous for those who live here in south texas. todd: ryan dylan, formally announcing his change in affiliation alongside governor greg abbott. the lawmaker disheartened by texas democrats after they fled the state to avoid voting on legislation over the summer. i had momentarily forgotten about that. remember when they did that? how ridiculous is that? but this should come as no surprise when you think about henry cuellar who is strong on the border issue, what is it 1.7 million border crossings over the last year a more and more every month, alejandra mayorkas saying if you're here illegally you can't be deported by a switch is the purpose of ice and president biden supporting the plan to pay illegal immigrants separated at the border and all of these things

we call on president biden to take the appropriate steps to remove secretary mayorkas.t to vote in some local elections. the idea getting pushback with even the far left mayor bill deblasio expressing concern. >> i have reservations. i understand of folks say i am a pathway to citizenship but also have feelings about the value of citizenship, wanting to encourage people to become citizens fully. todd: a south texas republican congressional candidate who became a us citizen when she was 6 years old, joins me to discuss how bad an idea is this if not even deblasio is on board. >> it is a horrible idea. this is i just believe being an american citizen is a privilege, a blessing the only americans should be able to vote in this country. in mexico where i'm from you need a border id and trust be a citizen of mexico to vote. why would it be different here? local elections to me are more important because it impacts us directly. it is a horrible idea and send the wrong message and wants to encourage people to become american citizens. these people will not see the value of it

vice president harris, attorney general garland, and secretary mayorkas thank you for your leadership. in a moment i'll be signing into law three bills that extend critical support to our law enforcement and first responders and the communities they serve. i want to thank everyone who worked together to pass each of these bipartisan bills. emphasize bipartisan bills. before i turn to the specific of the bills, i want to say that when you look at what our communities need, what our law enforcement is being asked to do it's going to require more resources, not fewer. that's why my administration is investing in the community policing. we know works. and the training and partnership of law enforcement in our communities have requested. the community-based programs and intervention that is can stop violence before it starts. think about what we ask a police officer. we ask them to do everything from counselors to law enforcement to folks to take down the bad guy. just this morning the department of justice released a significant new investment in community policing, true community oranted

mayorkas is not familiar with that term. lauren: jennifer lopez's super bowl performance.essman michael waltz, republican from florida joins me now. congressman, you say this is the bare minimum, that an economic boycott should be next. i want to focus on the olympics for a minute. do you really want america to just not attend the winter olympics, do you want to go that far? >> i do want to go that far. i introduced the resolution in the house calling for a full boycott. we have to understand dictators love the olympics. our preference was the ioc, international olympic committee move the games but since they refused despite repeated requests for years now, at this point we put a full boycott in place. look we did the same thing for apartheid in south africa. the south african olympic team was not allowed to compete anywhere in the world for 28 years because of the apartheid regime. i would tell you the massive, grotesque human rights abuses going on are disgusting. covid unleashed in the world. stamping out freedom on hong kong. how can we wave the american flag there. ho

this hearing was delayed after it senator mayorkas tested positive for covid-19. also, the leading cyber security experts from the white house, homeland security and the fbi will testify for the house oversight and reform committee on strategies to trick crackdown on ransomware attack's and build resilience against cyber threats. on wednesday at 10:00 eastern, live on c-span3, the confirmation hearing for sec nominee jessica rosenbaum before the -- the come a will take up other nominations including commissioner of the federal trade commission. at 10:30 eastern, a virtual meeting of the house appropriations subcommittee to discuss the u.s. role in covid vaccine equity. watch this week on c-span networks or he could watch. or john c-span now, our new mobile video app. also c-span.org for scheduling information or to stream video live or on-demand any time. c-span, giving you a front row seat to democracy.-- c-span, c-span is your unfiltered view of government. >> watch a time anywhere on our new mobile video app. axis top pilots, listen to c-span radio and discover

the dhs said this, quoting here about secretary mayorkas, the secretary recognizes the mpp is likelylows. but it did so by imposing substantial and unjustifiable human cost on migrants were exposed to harm while waiting in mexico. what he his saying, the remaining mexico policy worked but we don't like it. >> picking up on what everyone is saying, i think it's important to note that this new policy that will be reinstated this week, one has to be approved by the mexican government but to it includes covid protection for anyone coming in under the new rules. it's not an affirmation of what happened in the previous administration with regard to separating families, the maltreatment of children that is now ending up in the courts. i think what were seen as abide in the administration saying were looking for strategies that work and we don't have one at the moment. and no matter if your president bush, president obama, president trump and now president biden, you get no help from the congress. it all comes down to the president having to come up with executive action policy that are cont