mike mccall who will be chairing this committee has just sat down. there is another reality, libby, the political reality in 2016. don't the republicans have to sort of tow a line here because they don't want to alienate latino voters. >> yeah, it's two things that republicans are fighting right now. one is the president's decisions on immigration, the actual policies, and we'll hear about that this morning, the other is the fact that the president has acted through his executive authority. and you have heard a lot of republican push back on that. they are trying to show the american public that they are upset by the mechanism the president used. if they go exclusively after the immigration issues, and the policies the president has put in place. the actual policies, they risk offender latino voters, that is going to be a key constituency come the next cycle. >> as you can see jeh johnson just came into the committee room. the hearing should be getting underway shortly. >> let's go now to our other correspondent covering this, jamie macintyre also in

president's decision to move forward on that last week has caused some major problems, something that mike mccallrman of the house homeland security committee, laid out today. listen. >> we are facing crucial challenges the wire congress and the white house to cooperate. from combating overseas threats to economic growth. but making an and run around congress, the president has deliberately and willfully broken the trust needed between our branches of government. >> house republicans were going to go first on the spending proposal and are in the middle of trying to figure out their pathway forward right now. one of the major fallouts? homeland security department, it looks like their funding will be kept on a short leash. we are already seeing direct reaction from house republicans. the primarythen concern? >> jeh johnson has a very good relationship with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on capitol hill, but there is no question today that amongst the tense of thes today, one questions was whether the president has the authority to take the action that he did. the other key thing is whether the ac

mike mccall is going to be the head of homeland security. hopefully they're going to be running with this one. it won't be out of energy, is that correct?? >> well this whole legislative initiative has circumstance vented the energy committees in the housand senate because, frankly, their eve been, i'm afraid, under the thumb of the electric utilities. >> they get their money, they get their lobbyists. let's talk straight >> they do. heefr's the big development. there is a senator ron wisconsi. she's indicated as recently as friday a the this conference that he's very intent on getting this bill handled through the senate early next year, and we want to support him in doing that. if we can't get it down in the lame duck session, which is really the priority. >> all right. frank gaffney, thanks so much for being with us. >> thank you for all of your help. >>> coming up, do you think if it's in print it's true? think again. the latest on the rolling stone uva debacle is next. >>> it was an article that caused nation wise outranl and damaged th

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we got a statement from the chair of the house committee on homeland security, congressman mike mccalld what we've witnessed in sydney should be a call to action and all our allies who have been threatened by violent extremists. the united states must wage a robust effort here at home to combat violent islamist extremism by working with local communities to intervene when we see signs of it, fighting against online islamist propaganda and providing ways to stop individuals lured into jihadi cool subculture before they act. how do we keep them from resorting to these horrific means? >> i would start off by saying it's a multi-tiered approach. you would look at possible communities where individuals could be lured into the magnetic appeal of groups like isis or perhaps other organizations, try to reach out to these communities, make their concerns heard, let them feel they're part of the process in this country. really kind of doubling up those efforts to make sure that nobody feels isolated from the political process in the country. also work on some socioeconomic factors. make sure tha

homeland security agent mike mechanicm mccall said there are -- the list is useful only if turkey is screening against hit. extremists are quickly finding even more vulnerable trance constituent points, they have reportedly begun to use cruise ships to come into the united states. this is a startlingly easy way for fighters to exit. >> and that's just one country. we have democratized air travel, in order to fly hundreds of millions of people a day all over the world, you're going to have to have a kind of efficiency and smoothness of the transit that makes this kind of thing inevitable. if you really wanted to stop and set aside all the privacy concerns and all the rers, and try and stop this flow and slow it down enough to give scrutiny to everyone coming through, international air travel would stop, that's not going to. >> you know, it's -- even in today's case, you know, the reality is i think that there are like 60 australians who have gone over to fight isil. if you stop to think about that, we had examples from muslim kids, their parents didn't even know it, but they had taken

joining us, the chairman of the house committee on homeland security, republican congressman mike mccall of texas. thanks very much for joining us. do you know of any evidence that this particular hostage-holder, this man had been part of a broader plot? >> we have no evidence of that at this time. that is clearly what u.s. and australian law enforcement informations, homeland security are investigate right now. we know that he pledged allegiance to isis on his website and called the u.s., the uk and australia terrorists. so it's clear there's a radical islamist bent to this individual. whether he was directed by isis, we don't have evidence at this time. clearly he was inspired, though, by isis. i think that's very clear from his postings. >> is there any indication -- anything we know about the timing, why this occurred, the hostage-holding, right now? >> well, i think it's important to note that after the air strikes began in iraq and syria, isis began a very impressive social media campaign calling for these types of attacks, these lone wolf attacks and they have obviously connection

he'll faceoff against a hostile group of republicans led by mike mccall, republican of texas, chairmane house homeland security committee. mccall has called the president's actions unconstitutional, and a threat to our democracy. he has warned that a wave of illegal i am grants will be inspired to cross the border. now, jay johnson's pushback on that is that the d.h.s. has limited resources and that instead of going after the so-called dreamers, young people who have come to this country with their parents at children, d.h.s. needs to spend its resources on trying to get the worst offender, those who committed serious crimes out of the country and deported. this is a big moment, partly cloudy we will see the fireworks really come to the front on capitol hill this morning. >> guaranteed that. how else are republicans strategizing to actually fight the president said immigration plans? >> well house republicans go behind closed doors this morning in conference to talk about their strategy going forward for the lame duck session and what's to come. house speaker john boehner has to threat

i want to thank chairman mike many mccall and certainly subcommittee chairman pat meehan and of course ranking member yvette clarke for their principled and unwavering leadership in bringing this legislation to the floor. i am touched by the gentlelady's words as well. i would also especially like to personally thank chairman pete sessions, the sole original co-sponsor of this bill, for being a tireless champion of protecting our nation's critical infrastructure against e.m.p. without objection, i would ask that the chairman sessions' entire statement to be entered into the record. the speaker pro tempore: that request is covered under general leave. mr. franks: back in august of 2003, a large section of our electric grid was knocked out across the eastern united states. 50 million people were affected after 21 power plants shut down in just three minutes. office workers streamed into parking lots and many commuters were stranded inside their trains. in a matter of moments, those things that make up our critical infrastructure, from the electric grid to water pumps to cell phone servic