michael mccaul ( r ) tx :41-:57rep. steve russell - (r ) ok 1:06-1;16rep. zoe lofgren - (d) ca 1;18-1:26jeff barnd - national correspondent 1:2723 year old aws mohammed younis al-jayab of sacramento faces charges of making lse statements involving global terrorism.24 year old omar faraj saeed al hardan of houston is charged with attempting to provide material support to isis.both men came from iraq and the arrests come as concerns have been recently raised regarding the u.s. refugee screening process. as president obama plans to allow 10,000 rian refugees on u.s. soil by october 1st late last year, the house passed a measure to increase oversight of the refugee screening process. the chair of the homeland security committee stressed friday that the senate needs to act now to pass *his* house measure to strengthen the vetting process."/sot/"we have two refugee program.m. one actually traveled to syria, to train and come back as a foreign fighter. if this is not enough evidence as to why we need this legislation passed, than i don't know what more is necessar

kristine frazao brings us that part of the story. 3 on capitol hill - a sense of urgency to act.rep, michael mccaul/r-texas"we really can't afford to wait. these refugees are coming in, into this country as we speak.rep. buddy carter/r-georgia"terrorist groups have made it clear that they're going to act on the generosity of our country to try to intrude into us."the issue has been front and center in congrees since the terrorist attacks in paris and san bernardino, ca. as congress haggles over the vetting process, we wanted to know just how many refugees are already here . kf nat sot from briefing - "how many came in 2015?"the state department sent us these numbers:more than 12 thousand refugees from iraq and nearly 17 hundred from syria just in 2015.. president obama has called for the acceptance of 10 thousand more this year.kf standup rotunda"the obama administration stands by its current policy on refugees and warns making dramatic changes to the program would be john kirby/spokesperson, u.s. department of state"nothing is more important to the state department and to secretary kerry than the

announcer: the hudson institute issued a discussion wednesday texas congressman michael mccaul. he discussed president obama's state of the union speech and addressed a number of security threats, including the fight against isis. this is just under an hour. >> i cannot imagine a more fitting speaker for this event than the chairman of the house homeland security committee himself, a dedicated public servant and a great friend of hudson institute, congressman michael mccaul of texas. we are here today to talk homeland security. homeland security is a topic of significant concern to us here at hudson institute. over the past year, we have released a number of major studies on the issues, the leader one -- leading one being a blue-ribbon commission defense, aor bio commission that was cochaired by senator joseph lieberman and , that lookedriggs at the challenges we face in meeting the threat of bioterrorism or biohazard, and the commissioner's report garnered significant headlines and was the subject of hearings in both the house and the senate . i know that we briefed chairman mc

texas congressman michael mccaul is a republican and chairman of the house homeland security committee. he as a new book out "failures of imagination, the deadliest threat to our homeland and how to stop them." thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> you actually know what you're talking about and when you see this happened, there's not even a nod to them. the press doesn't care, the white house doesn't mention it. what does it tell you? >> the reason i wrote this book is so the american people can know what the truth is. this administration has downgraded this threat since major hasan at ft. hood. just the other day, the philadelphia police officer shot, he says it's jihad, and we should be listening to isis. yet the administration wants to down play this. >> why can't we accept the murderer at his word? >> why can't we accept the fact when hitler said he wanted to take over the entire globe, why didn't we listen to him? why don't we listen to isis? when they say it's radical islamic terror, we need to define it. only until we do that, can we defeat it. >> a lot of people a

michael mccaul: they're ticking time bombs. and how many ticking time bombs are we going to bring in through this refugee program without a proper vetting system in place? weijia: but the white house says the president has no plans to end the program. weijia jiang, cbs news, washington. stacey: six months after his gutsy prison break was caught on camera, fugitive mexican drug lord el chapo is recaptured. mexico's president made the announcement on twitter, saying "mission accomplished. we have him." el chapo was apprehended after a armchair detectives hoping for a different ending for two convicts featured in "making a murderer" will have to look beyond the president for help. an online white house petition urged president obama to pardon steven avery and brendan dassey. both are serving time for a 2005 murder. but petition-signers say the men were wrongfully convicted. the case attracted national attention, after the hit netflix documentary series. the white house says, under the constitution, the president can't pardon the m

house homeland security chairman michael mccaul. >> they're ticking time bombs. how many ticking time bombs are we going to bring in, in this refugee program without a proper vetting system in place? >> reporter: the white house today called the current screening process rigorous. lawyers for the two suspects could not be reached for comment. charlie, according to court papers, the two communicated through social media and discussed going to syria to fight. >> rose: thanks, jeff. maine is under fire for remarks he made while talking about the state's heroin epidemic. republican paul lepage spoke at a town meeting wednesday night. >> these are guys that are named d-money, smoothie, shifty, these type of guys that come from connecticut and new york. they come up here. they sell their heroin. then they go back home. incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave. >> rose: today lepage told reporters it was a slip of a tongue. he did not mean to inject race into the scurks but he also said this. >> instead of saying, maine women, i

kristine frazao brings us that part of the story. 3 on capitol hill - a sense of urgency to act.rep, michael mccaul/r-texas"we really can't afford to wait. these refugees are coming in, into this country as we speak.rep. buddy carter/r-georgia"terrorist groups have made it clear that they're going to act on the generosity of our country to try to intrude into us."the issue has been front and center in congrees since the terrorist attacks in paris and san bernardino, ca. as congress haggles over the vetting process, we wanted to know just how many refugees are already here . kf nat sot from briefing - "how many came in 2015?"the state department sent us these numbers:more iraq and nearly 17 hundred from syria just in 2015.. president obama has called for the acceptance of 10 thousand more this year.kf standup rotunda"the obama administration stands by its current policy on refugees and warns making dramatic changes to the program would be unnecessary and un-american." john kirby/spokesperson, u.s. department of state"nothing is more important to the state department and to secretary kerry than the s

still waiting for the house homeland security chairman michael mccaul to talk about terrorist threats. should appear here at the hudson institute in a couple of moments. we will go back to the senate floor yesterday and debate on auditing the federal reserve. >> thank you, mr. president. thank you, mr. president. i rise this moment to speak about the legislation that will be considering this afternoon, specifically my understanding is we will be voting on a procedural measure which will allow us to take up legislation that is commonly known as auditing the fed. i wanted to address this. let me start with the context of, i think is important to think about when we consider whether or not we ought to change the relationship even modestly that exist between congress and the fed. it starts for me with a simple observation that the financial crisis of 2008 is over. and actually ended a long time ago. spent a number of years now -- it's been a number of years now that our financial system and our economy has not been in the eminent crisis meltdown mode that it was in an a fall of 2008. in f

i'm michael mccaul anybody any names. for a lot ofle anger. a lot of resentment. a frustration that is out there. a desire to shake things up. whether they go in his direction, i am skeptical. gayla: we just saw a 13 hours about benghazi. do you think that movie will resonate with voters? my dad was in vietnam twice. i would never vote for any theblishment because of democrats or who did this. this is the way that our country is going. the e-mail scandal. this is why we no longer trust the establishment. i am a trump supporter. even though i don't like everything he says. i think he makes bold statements to bring attention to them. he actually says what he is thinking. charlie cook: i have not seen the movie 13 hours. i know there is considerable debate about whether everything in the movie is accurate. i wasn't there. i know the cia station chief has objected to part of it. defense,r secretary of bob gates, said there is nothing he would have done differently. clearly a horrible tragedy occurred. security was not what it should have been. whether there were the r

house homeland security chairman michael mccaul. >> they're ticking time bombs. how many ticking time bombs are we going to bring in, in this refugee program without a proper vetting system in place? >> reporter: the white house today called the current screening process rigorous. lawyers for the two suspects could not be reached for comment. charlie, according to court papers, the two communicated through social media and discussed going to syria to fight. >> rose: thanks, jeff. the governor of maine is under fire for remarks he made while talking about the state's heroin epidemic. republican paul lepage spoke at a town meeting wednesday night. >> these are guys that are named d-money, smoothie, shifty, these type of guys that come from connecticut and new york. they come up here. they sell their heroin. then they go back home. incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl >> rose: today lepage told reporters it was a slip of the tongue. he did not mean to inject race into the discussion, but he also said this. >> instead of saying, maine women

house homeland security chairman michael mccaul and representative candace miller issuing a joint statement saying the obama administration is blatantly breaking the law, a law the president himself signed. lauren: media reports in north korea say american student from university of virginia has beeners ad. the student reportedly entered the north korea on tourist visa. north korea says he is accused of carrying out a hostile act against the country. u.s. embassy in seoul is aware of the reports of the student's arrest. nicole: more fallout over the water crisis in flint, michigan. susan headmann regional director with the environmental protection agency resigned as of february 1st. she runs the epa agency in chicago which includes michigan. epa's gina mccarthy issued order to take actions to protect public health. high levels of lead were detected in flint's water since flint switched from detroit municipal system and began drawing from the flint river to save money back in 2014. lauren: let's get you caught inon global market action overnight. we'll start with nice gains in asia across th

michael mccaul on austin -- isis and national security threats and white house chief of staff dennis begun on the president's state of the union address. >> booker t said to him we have college age kids covered here in alabama but it is the kids in the elementary schools that are suffering. american kids are getting poor education, horrible buildings, not anything separate and not equal. >> sunday night documentary film maker eva cancer talks about -- kemper talks about her film. bringingschools and elementary education to children in rural america. they puthe said together these houses, why not just use the houses and the best thing booker t. washington ever said is a no. i want the communities to build it. so first thing the six schools were built and that is really amazing but from then, it morphed into 5000 schools all over the south including maryland. >> sunday night on eight eastern "q&a."n's >> here are some programs to watch out for this weekend. tvs coverage of the second annual bill of rights day book festival from the national constitution center in philadelphia. at 10 p.

house homeland security chair, michael mccaul of texas. after that, congressman ed royce of california discussing national security issues. then, a pentagon briefing with general kelly. on the next washington journal, u.s. immigration policy attentionf the recent on immigrants from central america. former national security advisor on the divide between iran and saudi arabia. a look at the first doniversary of the charlie heb attacks and the role of cartoonist. live at 7:00urnal a.m. eastern on c-span. as president obama prepares for his state of the union address, he released this video on twitter. >> i keep thinking about the road we have traveled together these past seven years. america great,es our capacity to change together, ability to come together as one of american family and pull ourselves closer to the america we believe in. it is hard to see sometimes in the day to day noise of washington, but it is who we are. on inwhat i want to focus this state of the union address. >> coverage starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern with senate historia

michael mccaul talks about terrorist threats and the white house chief of staff discusses the presidents state of the union address. tomorrow on c-span, prident obama holds a town hall meeting at a high school in baton rouge, louisiana. watch it live at 11:30 eastern time. at 1:30 eastern, a news conference with paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. they are at a retreat in baltimore for republican members of congress. we have it live for you here on c-span and www.c-span.org. >> feature this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, saturday night at 8:00 eastern, on lectures in history, arizona state university professor brooks simpson on the president's wartime role. >> it is the president. to educate. the president will say i know you don't understand this, there is really not any reason you should have understood this. aways in a place far, far with people who speak a different language, so i'm going to explain to you what american interests are. i will let opinion makers respond to that. i'm going to educate you and you can help make a decision. i'm going to ask you to do this and explai

gentlemen, the united states representative from the tenth district of texas, the honorable michael t. mccaulause ] >> thank you. what a great day. 73 years ago this week america was attacked at pearl harbor leading us into a war that would define who we are as a nation. today we honor the world war ii members of the civil air patrol with the congressional gold medal, the highest expression of national appreciation. we remember the over 400,000 servicemen and women who made the ultimate sacrifice so that we might be free. many of these brave americans were the unpaid volunteers of the civil air patrol who provided extraordinary humanitarian and combat services during a critical time of need for the nation. and without their service, many more would have perished. as a son of a b-17 bomber and a world war ii veteran, i am especially proud to be here to honor the veterans with us here today. my dad was my hero. and so, too, are all of you. many of you flew dangerous missions using your own aircraft to attack enemy submarines, nighttime tracking missions, cargo transport, search and rescue, fire

congressman michael mccaul of texas on 2 terror related charges.s, calling on the arrest of two terror-related charges. and congressman ed royce of california discussing national security issues. >> now, republican presidential candidate, ohio governor john ll meetingds a town ha eter, new hampshire. he'll discuss balancing the pshire and new ham security. the new hampshire primary is 9th.duled for the [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]. >> this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> good evening, everybody. tonight, it's my pleasure to introduce governor john kasich and welcome you all to our town hall meeting. to like to invite you all stand and join me in the pledge allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with leadership and for all. should also begin by both embarrassing and welcoming my wife and daughter to the town hall meeting. if i

gregg: congressman michael mccaul. the book is called "failures of imagination."eather: the face of evil. new photos he morning of isis executioner jihadi john unmasked. the terror thug later being killed by a u.s. airstrike. gregg: folks dig out after that massive snowstorm. i've smoked a lot and quit a lot, but ended up nowhere. now i use this. the nicoderm cq patch, with unique extended release technology, helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i want this time to be my last time. that's why i choose nicoderm cq. gregg: some new details on the historic blizzard that battered the northeast. city officials say they have plowed 7.25 million tons of snow from the streets in new york city. we did some calculations. that's enough to fill the empire state building 24 times over. residents in queens saying their streets were neglected. so send your complaints to mayor bill deblasio. heather: unmasking one of the world's most notorious killers. pictures emerging of the isis executioner known as jihadi john. he beheaded prisoners in videos before being killed in an air

kristine frazao brings us that part of the story. 3 on capitol hill - a sense of urgency to act.rep, michael mccaul/r-texas"we really can't afford to wait. these refugees are coming in, into this carter/r-georgia"terrorist groups have made it clear that they're going to act on the generosity of our country to try to intrudento us."the issue has been front and center in congrees since the terrorist attacks in paris and san bernardino, ca. as congress haggles over the vetting process, we wanted to know just how many refugees are already here . kf nat sot from briefing - "how many came in 2015?"the state department sent us these numbers:more than 12 thousand refugees from iraq and nearly 17 hundred from syria just in 2015.. president obama has called for the acceptance of 10 thousand more this year.kf standup rotunda"the obama administration stands by its current policy on refugees and warns making dramatic changes to the program would be unnecessary and un-american." john kirby/spokesperson, u.s. department of state"nothing is more important to the state department and to secrary kerry than the safet

homeland security chairman -- committee chairman michael mccaul says that he's not surprised about thatfendant, the suspect, calls it an act of islam, when he says he pledges allegiance to a sense and that we're going to backtrack and we're not really quite sure what the situation -- we all know what it is. and it's happened too often. >> investigators now trying to determine if a terror organization paid for archer's travels to the middle east. >>> a new potential bombshell for hillary clinton's private e-mail investigation. the state department has agreed to release a trove of e-mails from one of clinton's closest aides, huma abedin. this comes as we learn that the fbi has expanded its investigation into whether the clinton foundation donations broke our government corruption laws. the clinton campaign denies that claim, but our judge napolitano says her story simply doesn't add up. >> the other thing she said, after the report came out yesterday, was fox news is wrong, i'm not being investigated. she would not know whether or not she's being investigated. there's no obligation of the