mr. desantis. i look forward to watching the video of your remarks along with our other vets last night. congratulations. i wanted to ask an additional question so the members can as well. because of its gee graphicographic location, yemen is close a short boat ride away from africa. very unstable. we have got -- do you worry about the -- were the movement to take place that the houthi rebels, isil, whatever faction of terrorist organization could very well move their troops a little boat ride away and be yet in another area where they can control that land and destabilize an already troubled region? >> we certainly worried a lot about linkages between particularly the aqap in yemen and shabab in somalia. we know that shabab was sending people to yemen to receive training. as you say quite correctly, the distances are very short. we are talking about from yemen to gentleman bud ee, maybe 20 miles by sea. so it is very close by. and it is something that would be of concern to us and again as part of

mr. desantis.i look forward to watching the video of your remarks along with our other vets last night. congratulations. i wanted to ask an additional question so the members can as well. because of its geographic location, yemen is close, a short boat ride away from africa. very unstable. we have got -- do you worry about the -- were the movement to take place, that the houthi rebels, isil, whatever faction of terrorist organization could very well move their troops a little boat ride away and be yet in another area where they can control that land and destabilize an already troubled region? >> we certainly worried a lot about linkages between particularly the aqap in yemen and shabab in somalia. we know that shabab was sending people to yemen to receive training. as you say quite correctly, the distances are very short. we are talking about from yemen to jebadi, maybe 20 miles by sea. so it is very close by. and it is something that would be of concern to us and again as part of our efforts again

mr. desantis, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. desantis: thank you madam speaker. i rise today to discuss the situation with iran. president obama recently said that criticism of the concessions that his administration is making to iran, quote, needs to stop. well, i disagree. we in this body have a responsibility to speak the truth and to stop a dangerous deal. take a step back a little bit from some of the recent hub about a loo about whether -- hubabaloo about whether iran has the same understanding of the deal as the united states does. it's true if you listen to the ayatollah he basically said the deal represents complete surrender on everything from day one. and the administration when they put out their fact sheet what they put out was different. here's a fundamental problem with this. even if you take the administration's talking point as the meeting of the minds even if you assume that this will be written down and memorialized and even assume that iran keeps the various components of the deal the fact of the matter is thi

mr. desantis. >> thank you, mr. chairman. hi director, thank you for coming. november 20th secretary johnson issued the memorandum establishing priorities for apprehension, detention and removal of illegal aliens. my first question is if an alien was illegally present in the united states, but did not fall within the enforcement priorities would that alien still be subject to removal? >> it could be because as i pointed out earlier, there's a provision in here that says even if someone doesn't meet the priorities, and but you believe they are a threat to public safety, you're permitted to go forward with that to speak to your supervisor and see if that decision -- different decision should be made in that instance. that's on a case-by-case basis. >> if somebody is not in one of the criteria, you obviously would need some affirmative evidence that they were a threat to public safety. i mean, there are people who are threats that we may not have evidence for so the absence of evidence doesn't mean that they are a threat. in that situation, if there's no evidence

mr. desantis. i look forward to watching the video of your remarks along with our other vets last night. congratulations. i wanted to ask an additional question so the members can as well. because of its geographic location, yemen is close, a short boat ride away from africa. very unstable. we have got -- do you worry about the -- were the movement to take place, that the houthi rebels, isil, whatever faction of terrorist organization could very well move their troops a little boat ride away and be yet in another area where they can control that land and destabilize an already troubled region? >> we certainly worried a lot about linkages between particularly the aqap in yemen and shabab in somalia. we know that shabab was sending people to yemen to receive training. as you say quite correctly, the distances are very short. we are talking about from yemen to gentleman bud ee, maybe 20 miles by sea. so it is very close by. and it is something that would be of concern to us and again as part of our ef

mr. desantis. i look forward to watching the video of your remarks along with our other vets last night. congratulations. i wanted to ask an additional question so the members can as well. because of its gee graphicographic location, yemen is close a short boat ride away from africa. very unstable. we have got -- do you worry about the -- were the movement to take place that the houthi rebels, isil, whatever faction of terrorist organization could very well move their troops a little boat ride away and be yet in another area where they can control that land and destabilize an already troubled region? >> we certainly worried a lot about linkages between particularly the aqap in yemen and shabab in somalia. we know that shabab was sending people to yemen to receive training. as you say quite correctly, the distances are very short. we are talking about from yemen to gentleman bud ee, maybe 20 miles by sea. so it is very close by. and it is something that would be of concern to us and again as part of

mr. desantis: i thank the gentleman for yielding back. i thank the gentleman for putting this all in a broader perspective in terms of this administration's approach to the world. i think if you look around the world, there are probably two countries that we have better relations with than when the president took office and almost uniformly everywhere else we're worse off. cuba we have much closer relationships now. the president shakes the hand of raul castro a bloodstained hand, a hand that has suppressed thousands and thousands of people, that's killed dissenters, that's caused thousands of people to flee in shark-infested waters to try to reach the shore of florida. but the president is doing business with him. not helping the cuban people. you actually see political repression has increased since we changed policy. but the president seems fine with that then iran. we talked with iran a lot -- we talk with iran a lot more than we ever have. is that a good thing? i think the answer is, a dance with the devil foreign policy has never re