ms. klobuchar: thank you very much, mr. president. when i was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. to me, that simple mission still holds true. we must make our world safer by rooting out evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who mean no harm. those 14 people in san bernardino, that american aide worker killed in mali, innocent families whose planes exploded over egypt and those young people killed and maimed in paris deserve nothing less. that means, of course, taking out the evil at its roots, increasing our efforts and leading an international coalition against isis. and it means keeping our homeland safe. part of that is tightening the visa waiver program. some of it is the work that must be done on encryption. but there is one commonsense way to get at this terror that i join my colleagues in supporting today, commonsense action to close a dangerous loophole that allows suspected terrorists to legally buy guns in the united states. incredibly current u

ms. klobuchar: thank you very much, mr. president. when i was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. to me, that simple mission still holds true. we must make our world safer by rooting out evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who mean no harm. those 14 people in san bernardino, that american aide worker killed in mali, innocent families whose planes exploded over egypt and those young people killed and maimed in paris deserve nothing less. that means, of course, taking out the evil at its roots, increasing our efforts and leading an international coalition against isis. and it means keeping our homeland safe. part of that is tightening the visa waiver program. some of it is the work that must be done on encryption. but there is one commonsense way to get at this terror that i join my colleagues in supporting today, commonsense action to close a dangerous loophole that allows suspected terrorists to legally buy guns in the united states. incredibly current u

ms. klobuchar: thank you very much, mr. president. when i was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. to me, that simple mission still holds true. we must make our world safer by rooting out evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who mean no harm. those 14 people in san bernardino, that american aide worker killed in mali, innocent families whose planes exploded over egypt and those young people killed and maimed in paris deserve nothing less. that means, of course, taking out the evil at its roots, increasing our efforts and leading an international coalition against isis. and it means keeping our homeland safe. part of that is tightening the visa waiver program. some of it is the work that must be done on encryption. but there is one commonsense way to get at this terror that i join my colleagues in supporting today, commonsense action to close a dangerous loophole that allows suspected terrorists to legally buy guns in the united states. incredibly current u

klobuchar. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you, ms. saldana, for very difficult work and your hard work. i'm a former prosecutor and i worked with law enforcement for eight years in that job, and obviously we had cases where we worked with federal authorities on deportation. and could you talk about the priority enforcement program in terms of the coordination with law enforcement, where do you think the strength are, where do you think could be changed to make it better? >> well, it is -- and let me make sure we understand. we work with about 3,000 jurisdictions across the nationn we have identified, oh, somewhere in the neighborhood of 300-plus who had at the beginning of this priority enforcement program not been cooperating with immigration and customs enforcement in connection with apprehensions of individuals from -- >> different jurisdictions around the country. >> yes, undocumented immigrants there. >> uh-huh. >> so we have set out, everyone, top to bottom, the secretary has assured and charged us with a mission to set out to w

klobuchar. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you, ms.ery difficult work and your hard work. i'm a former prosecutor and worked with law enforcement for eight years in that job and obviously we had cases where we worked with federal authorities on deportation and could you talk about the priority enforcement program in terms of the coordination with law enforcement? where do you think the strengths are? what do you think could be changed to make it better? >> well, it is -- and let me make sure we understand. we work with about 3,000 jushs dictions across the nation. we have identified somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 plus who had at the beginning of this priority enforcement program not been cooperating with immigration and customs enforcement in connection with apprehensions of individuals from -- >> different jurisdictions around the country? >> yes, undocumented immigrants there. so we have set out everyone top to bottom the secretary has assured and charged us with mission to set out to work with those state and local non-coopera

ms. clinton: i want to acknowledge a few of the other elected officials who are here. i am delighted to be joined by former colleagues and friends amy klobuchar and al franken who are the dynamic duo for your state, and i am grateful to them for everything they are doing and their support of my campaign. i want to thank tina smith and steve simon, your secretary of state. [applause] ms. clinton: and i understand betsy hodges is here, mayor of minneapolis. [applause] ms. clinton: i also want to acknowledge the dean of the humphrey school, eric schwartz. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: eric was my top adviser on refugee issues at the state department. i also had the great privilege of working with him when he was on the national security council during my husband's administration. you know, he brings a mix of expertise and empathy that has been conspicuously missing from much of our public debate. and i'm grateful that he is here today, but i'm also a little jealous that all of you here at the university get to have the benefit of his experience. over the past several months, i have listened to the problems that keep american families up at