mr. rodriguez knew. i know that the individual involved has been an associate of mr. some time. >> pelley: the deal was done right there. bosch would testify, and in return, baseball would pay for his security, pay his legal fees, drop its lawsuit, and defend him against any other legal claims. bosch began telling baseball about the effort to obstruct its investigation, including this bank statement for an unsolicited wire transfer of just under $50,000 to bosch's lawyer from "a-rod corporation"- - rodriguez's private company. the money came before bosch began to cooperate with baseball. bosch's lawyer returned it. you think that's a bribe? >> manfred: i do. i do. >> pelley: rodriguez's appeal of his suspension was heard by a three-member arbitration panel made up of rob manfred, david prouty of the players' union, and fredric horowitz, an independent arbitrator. during the hearing, rodriguez's lawyer, joe tacopina, challenged bosch's testimony. >> tacopina: aside from all his credibility issues-- his past lies, the fact that he has all the motive in the world to try a

mr. chairman. director rodriguez, good to have you with us this morning. mr. rodriguez, the bush administration required that certain employers such as federal contraries, those employing foreign students in the optical practical training program and others use e-verify. what plans do you have to expand mandatory e-verify use? >> right now there are obviously very limited segment of employers subject to mandatory e-verify. i have been pleased to say that the accuracy rate for e-verify is at a high level. and our ability to adjudicate temporary nonconfirmations appears to be very effective. employers who utilize e-verify report high level satisfaction with that system. our agency has prepared a report to this body which was delivered some time ago that talked about what would be required to move to universal mandatory e-verify as a capability that we could achieve. i look forward to a continuing conversation with how we get there. >> i thank you for that. how do you ensure that employers -- strike that. how do you ensure those employers required to use e-verify

mr. rodriguez. >> thank you. i appreciate that. >> thank you. i yield back. >> chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. forbes, for five minutes. >> mr. chairman, thank you. mr. director, thank you so much for being here today. let's cut to the chase. the president is not enforcing the immigration laws because any time you issue an order for the massive unilateral nonprosecution of individuals who are breaking the law, that's by definition not enforcing the law. and what bothers me even more than that, because i recognize some people in this committee don't want him to enforce the law, other people that want him to enforce the law. but when we have the head of the i.c.e. agent unions sitting right beside you and the head of the border patrol agents union, who unlike you have been on the job much longer than three weeks who have conducted literally thousands of interviews with these individuals coming across the border and they say unequivocally that the reason we're having this crisis is because of the president's policies and they've to

mr. chairman. director rodriguez, i do appreciate your testimony. i'd like to give you a little bit of a narrative of what's in the front of my mind listening to this. that is that i took mr. gutierrez's advice last weekend and went down to the border. started at the mouth of the rio grande river, right there at the physical border. planted a flag there, by the way. worked my way upstream all the way to loredo. stopped in at multiple places, at brownsville, mccallan, other places up the river, and received briefings from border protection, from border patrol, from each law enforcement entity that's down there, including the department of public safety of texas and texas rangers and talked to people on the street. here's what comes out of that for me. and that is -- and they will all tell us that daca is the magnet. one of the excuses is the '08 law for the other than mexican unaccompanied alien children. that is developing into a broader policy because it's being exploited. these children are being sent into the united states at the expense of the am

mr. chairman. director rodriguez, good to have you with us this morning. mr. rodriguez, the bush administration required that certain employers such as federal contraries, those employing foreign students in the optical practical training program and others use e-verify. what plans do you have to expand mandatory e-verify use? >> right now there are obviously very limited segment of employers subject to mandatory e-verify. i have been pleased to say that the accuracy rate for e-verify is at a high level. and our ability to adjudicate temporary nonconfirmations appears to be very effective. employers who utilize e-verify report high level satisfaction with that system. our agency has prepared a report to this body which was delivered some time ago that talked about what would be required to move to universal mandatory e-verify as a capability that we could achieve. i look forward to a continuing conversation with how we get there. >> i thank you for that. how do you ensure that employers -- strike that. how do you ensure those employers required to use e-verify

mr. rodriguez told me about this important part of the process as we circle back if we make solar mandatory how much are we go back to make certainty percentages you know this is where it gets challenging and fun at the same time there's the different choice about lancaster said new development and other commercial development and a by the way, if you do the rehabilitation of the building go we're going to trigger the mandatory solar as well as and the other potential uses it becomes fun. my thought say, i want it everywhere and go solar with mayor ed lee and go solar since 2010 this year and theeshgs this is the right time so these great >> this is another global step we're so much bigger than lancaster we're making a statement that will go wide and far people watch san francisco and your right it's exciting thought. colleagues. >> and then maybe just so we know essentially we're slording the process of continuing the stakeholder engagement to get everyone together and to craft and process this policy south pole's soulgdz there's interest at the board of supervisors and we understand the m

mr. rodriguez let you know that although a lot of people wear those t-shirts when i was in college my mother sent me an anti -- i read get the award to my african-american studies course. [applause] >> you can imagine how well that went over specifically i wore it particularly when they would start boosting -- the lesson plan. it was great. hy wants to start by thanking the young american foundation for having me today. when they sal was inspired to do what i'm doing now as a result of attending a conference here in 2008 it is absolutely true. young america foundation does change the lives of students especially when they're constantly in a hostile environment in their college campuses. what we provide in terms of tools and mentor ship for people is extremely important and i continue the work they do really has an impact. living in washington d.c. and seeing all the graduates of the american foundation's program working in policy positions or media, really making a difference really proves how important your support is and how important this organization has been for years but especially now

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mr. rodriguez, thank you for being here. start with a little bit of housekeeping in reviewing your confirmation proceedings over in the senate. i note that april 3rd executive meeting, senator grassley pointed out you had admitted to the judiciary committee you were personally aware of e-mails between political employees and career prosecutors discussing the decision to decline to prosecute the new black panther party voter intimidation case and that had contradicted the testimony of your boss, mr. perez. so i thought i'd take the opportunity to ask you if you were aware of any e-mails between lois lerner or a different member of the internal revenue service and career prosecutors in the department of justice regarding the prosecution or investigation of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. >> you're asking me if i know anything about lois lerner, congressman? >> if you're aware of any e-mails -- >> i only know what i've read in the paper about that situation. i've never -- >> so while you're in the department of j