national marketplace. areome domains, we actually too fragmented. there are other domains where our policy is to centralized. my policy is not to say centralization is always good or bad. it is looking to the specific domains. i'm inclined to think there are ways in which are decentralized nature is not to our benefit. ramesh: mike would counter argument would be that the less we think of ourselves as an american people, the more we are concerned about our divisions, the more we distrust one another , the more we looked washington, d.c. to settle issues and prevent things from getting out of hand. if we do not trust the people of ohio or the people of cleveland, ohio to come up with an appropriate policy on how bathrooms are used, the federal government is going to have to issue an edict very that is what we have been doing for the last several decades. i think it gets more strength from the sense that we are not a united people. rich: i thought we were going to discuss the divisions within conservatism. w

of the nation. i think that the contributions this task force will make is recognized. >> i pointed it out because it's important to move forward. the other question, as you know, the national guard plays a critical role in determining russian aggression. maryland's state partnership program has created a top up summer capability in estonia. i have visited them in estonia. in august 2017, the estonian defense forces conducted a joint cyber exercise. i believe these operations are critical. i national guard cyber unix are just as effective as those in the active component of our military. my question in your opinion, to what is russia's assessment of our national guard cyber units, what challenges do you have? i will say i believe you have 500 people in estonia right now dealing on the cyber issue and it's very successful. >> i think the russians look at the national guard as they do across every other piece of the military operation that they do. they see us as part of the united states army and par

force nation. task force echo is a great example of what is going on in the national guard. i think that the contribution that this task force will make and has made -- >> i point it out because it is important to move forward and having national guard involved. the other question is you know the national guard plays a critical role in deterring russian aggression. the state partnership program created a top-notch cyber capability in astone ya. in august, 2017, the defense forces and -- entitled baltic jungle. i believe the operations are critical. and the national guard cyber -- my question in your opinion what is russia's assessment and i believe you have 500 people there now dealing on the issue and it is very successful. >> sir, i think the russians look at the national guard in cyber as they do across every other military operation we do. they see us part as the united states army and air force with similar capabilities and i think the national guard/cyber capability to bring special relations

in the defense of our nation. throughout the agencies 65 years of service, one constant has remained. the quality of the people. these men and women are national treasures and they are engaged in the missions that can only be called one of a kind. if confirmed, i know this work force will be the foundation of nsa's future and continued success. my focus will begin and end with them. throughout my career, i have been both a generator and consumer of nsa intelligence products and know firsthand the critical role the agency plays both as a combat, support and intelligence agency. the importance of delivering accurate, reliable and timely intelligence cannot be overstated. if confirmed, i commit to upholding the agency as a provider of objective, mission krit tall intelligence in support of our military and government. i recognize that our nation's adversaries continue to pose threats and posture themselves to reduce our global advantage. in light of this, the importance of an effective national security agency is par

they want their national flags. they want their national anthems.hey want their national soccer teams to win the world cup. that is what people want. is the natural, normal human situation. it is the nationstate we pledge our allegiance. to whom, although reluctantly, pay our taxes. it is the nationstate, to whom things go badly wrong, we are prepared to stand up and defend and fight for. don't be frightened by brexit. don't be frightened by trump. just recognize the world changed in 2016. in the future there will be governments with the interest of their own countries first, but equally, what it to work with friends and neighbors across the globe. yes, that does mean we want to control our borders. it does mean we want to be selective about who comes in this and works and settles in our country. in a world with a terrorist scourge, how can you blame voters who want to do that on their behalf? can we debate these issues of open borders without people suddenly shouting, racist? which is a substitute of having a proper, intellectual debate. the world

all supporting our nation's defense. there is no distinction between our active guard and reserve airman. we are lethal, and privilege to defend this great nation to where honor to serve alongside our joint partners and our allies, and ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country. during last years posturing i spoke about the pilot and maintenance retention challenge that we faced. during -- today the flight line manny for a part-time of citizen airmen remains very strong. it's nearly 100%. however, the steady demand on airline pilots and civilian industry aircraft maintainers continues to impact the retention for our full-time technician force. in response to the challenges we continue pursue the use of bonuses, and set the special salary rates for our pilots and our maintenance force. though this approach has positively impacted retention, it may not be sufficient for long-term, for the long-term solution. we need to continue to discuss other full-time options with you all and incentives with your staffs, and w

i've also vitsed whip, the national -- excuse me, the nevada national security site. pan tex, y 12, the kansas city security complex, mac narry dam and hanford. in a few weeks look at being in your home state and joining you there in alaska. wherever i go, there is one thing that is made ha abundantly clear to me. those who work for the department of energy are dedicated, they are patriotic and committed to serving the american people. in the end, it is you, the people's elected representatives who will decide how best to allocate the resources of our hard working taxpayers. my commitment to each of you, on this committee, is that we will do our best to use these resources wisely and in the pursuit of the vital goals that i outlined. and i thank you. and i'll do my best to answer your questions. >> very good. thank you, mr. secretary. before i begin my questions, senator heller has asked that a letter that he has provide today the committee be part of the record. so we will include that. and you will see a copy of that as well, mr. secretary. senator cantwell has ment

and the nation's problem is there is not a clear national cyber standard. all of our contract includes a cyber standard, hygiene standard. doubling down to report intrusions. but a greater problem is that in our headquarters, cyber is commander's business but not in everywhere across the country is cyber a ceo's business. >> so that -- how are you doing in terms of compliance? you have team that is will go out and review a major sub-contractor, with ships or planes, et cetera and then require them to make corrections, can you do that? >> we have the authority to go out and do inspections, but that's a relatively new one that we have not exercised yet. across the civil reserve air fleet contractors, they get a regular inspection and they are trying to get that to be a regular part of cyber, safety inspections. >> and do you have the resources to do that? >> not at the pace we probably would like to. but we've required that had they have someone check on their security as well. the problem is, i'm not sure everybody understands how probl problemattic it is. >

i can say this, and anybody who votes for the national republican or national democratic party will be throwing their vote away if they think like we do, because you do not have a choice there. host: governor, let's try it this way. you also said at that time, again, according to the new york times, if the election is thrown into the house, we, that is you, have all to gain and nothing to lose. you implied that that kind of a deadlock could force some important concessions in the presidential candidate, whose electorate vote, along with yours, would add up to 70. if you're thinking along those lines and thinking change. gov. wallace: the context in which that statement was made came about as a result from a question of a member of the press in the audience. i've never voluntarily said we are going to throw it into the house and that is our purpose. but the question is asked by members of the press, if the hypothetical question and speculated question, if neither one of the two parties get a majority, what would be your position? well, i always answer the hypothetical question by saying

and national guard has a modernization called national guard 4.0 that calls for those teams to be kept together and so they can deploy a fight to the. so this directly under mines these priorities. >> thank you. and by the way thank you all for your service to our country. thank you all. we have had a chance members of this committee to go down to honduras. went down to guatemala city. el salvador to look at the human trafficking operations going on there that are actually inducing people to come up to the border. we also have had an active role in what's going on in the tri border area where we have hezbollah on the ground, so there are major concerns there. my question is really about the efficiency and efficacy of our funding. is it better to try to divert money to national guard or, look, i voted for this $14 billion for border patrol enhanced border security. is that a better way to address the challenge ha that we have? or should we try to make it up as we go along using our national guards folks to do a job they necessarily werendidn'n up? >> the investment in border patrol has

it is not national security. when the president took office, the traffickers, smugglers and illegal aliens paused to see what our border enforcement efforts would look like and if we could follow through on the deportation and removal. while we have been apprehending aliens at the border with historic efficiency, these illegal smuggling group saw that our ability to remove those who come here illegally did not keep pace. they saw there were loopholes they could exploit to avoid detention and removal. let me give you some numbers on how that has changed our order security system. before 2013 approximately one out of every 100 arriving aliens claimed credible fear which is the first step in the united states asylum process. today more than one out of ten do so. why this matters is because this number, unfortunately demonstrates and is indicative of the rising level of fraud that plagues our system. this prevents us from helping those who really do need asylum when we have to deal with the fraud in the blac backlog

everything you have done and will continue to do for our beloved nation, we love this nation, we are in your debt and we are in the internal debt of every single person on this stage. the wounded warriors, these are most incredible people, our most incredible people. as you set out on your soldier ride, all of america will be cheering you on watching. all of america will be celebrating your strength and your tenacity and your unwavering love of your country. normalge to you, our warriors, is that my administration will support you and your loved ones and your amazing families every single day, now and always. never going to forget. that is our sacred commitment. i dan comes to the podium, want to again thank you all for honoring us with your presence today. thank you all and thank you all for the help, everybody. it's a term and is hell. this group in particular has been of great help. may god bless you. may god bless our wounded warriors. may god bless our military. and may god bless america. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, mr. president. i remember the firs

she is the author of a forthcoming book "a nation of immigrants, the california historical -- a nation of immigrants." the california historical society has said this event. i haveame is patty and the honor of introducing you to roxanne dunbar ortiz, your speaker. she grew up in oklahoma. as a veteran of the 1960's revolution, against the vietnam, imperialism, union organizing, was a founder of the liberation -- women's liberation movement. she has worked with the indigenous communities, land rights, and helped build the movement. with a doctrine in history, she is a professor at csu east bay, which is california state university east bay, and has written articles and books. she has done a memoir trilogy in the award-winning book "indigenous peoples history of the united states." her new book is called "loaded." the disarming history of the second amendment, which you can buy tonight as well as her two "indigenous peoples history of the united states." and another book, "native american myths." all books i would recommend. you can have her sign them. this book was published in january.

king's at the national cathedral. the supreme court, the cabinet and several thousand others jammed the church, the largest crowd in its history, larger than john kennedy's. at the white house, mr. johnson resumed his discussion with white leaders. justice thurgood marshall and housing director robert weaver u.s. army rolled up behind the white house just before the sun went down. the president ordered the soldiers not to ring the white house. that would be left to government police in hopes of using the -- easing the picture impact overseas. it was the saddest day of the johnson presidency since that november friday in 1963, when he returned to washington from dallas. dan rather, cbs news, the white house. >> washington bore the front of the daytime violence. but chicago claimed the fearful distinction as night fell. there, 6000 national guardsmen were called to duty as fires raged for a 16-block area. >> they call it garfield park, known as a bleak negro ghetto. tonight much of it is on fire. the looting vandalism a

we are a welcoming nation.ns of legal visitors every year as well as over 1 million legal immigrants. we will continue to do so. as i said, border security is national security. security of our nation is not a partisan issue. border security is national security. it's a foundational element to the very security of our systems, our citizens and our homeland. the president is committed to securing our border and using all the tools he has available to him. i thank him for his leadership and support of dhs. i thank you for listening and i look forward to your questions. >> maybe for some context, could you compare what the president is doing with what bush did 2006 national guard, arizona, new mexico, california, what president obama did about 1200. >> right. >> is he contemplating something larger tha tha a something of a longer duration? and how soon do you think, whatever the number is, the deployments will begin? >> let me take the last part first. we do hope that the deployment begins immediately. i will cont

we have seen a war of words at the united nations. we have also seen a at the united nations.nce secretary yesterday injected a note of caution, trying to put his foot on the brakes. but the us ambassador at the united nations put a foot on the gas this morning, laying out the case for air strikes. as i speak, she is on her way to washington for meetings at the white house. this, of course, is where this will ultimately be decided. we are in a holding pattern that the united nations. there is no meaningful diplomacy under way. we are all awaiting the decision of america's commander—in—chief, donald trump. our top story this evening: sir cliff richard breaks down in court, saying he felt forever tainted after bbc coverage of a police raid on his own. still to come: and still to come: it's aintree — racegoers get a soaking at ladies day. coming up on sports day, the latest from the commonwealth games on the gold coast, where katarina johnson—thompson secures the heptathlon title on a very successful day for england. in the uk, one in eight of those who are middle aged, could hav

national security council will likely discuss president trump's possible options for the nation. all of this while president trump is pointing the finger at president putin, iran and even former president barack obama but members of his own party are pointing the finger back at trump. saying this, quote, last week president trump signaled to the world that the united states would prematurely withdraw from syria and bashars a sat and his russian iranian backers have heard him and emboldened by american inaction, assad has reportedly launched another chemical attack against innocent men, women and children. fred, we're getting incredibly disturbing video from this suspected attack and we wanted to warn our viewers again that it was very graphic in nature, so, fred, what can you tell us? >> yeah, it certainly is very graphic in nature and it is really very disturbing images that we have been seeing coming in since basically late last night saturday night when apparently this incident happened. the information that we're getting from opposition sources, they say it was around 8:20 to

. -- and the nation. over the last four decades, the chinese people have significantly unleashed and enhanced productivity in china through hard work with an unyielding spirit. heaven rewards those who work follow in spring. the focus endeavor international development is the unwavering -- and the chinese people's unwavering commitment to opening up has brought tremendous changes. changes to the country. china has grown into the world's second-largest economy, the largest industrial producer, the largest trader of goods, and the holder of the largest afford it -- largest foreign exchange reserves. over the past 40 years, china 's gdp has averaged an annual growth rate of around 9.5% in comparable prices, and china's dollarstrade in u.s. has registered an annual growth of 14.5%. the chinese people have emerged from a life of shortages and now poverty and are now enjoyed abundant supplies and a moderately prosperous life. according to u.s. vendors, more than 700 million chinese people have been lifted out o

it's a national -- it rapidly becomes a national organization. he then joins forces with the naacp and urban league. right? churches and fraternal organizations. black institutions across the nation becoming increasingly invested in this idea about this march on washington. right? and it's organizing working folk, again, as well as middle class african-americans all across the country. this is a bit of a different animal than what we've seen in the past. right? this is a different type of organizing. this is a different type of response to the realities of segregation. and randolph's threat is very simple. says, look. president roosevelt, walter white of the naacp and i sent you suggestions of how we can, you know, end discrimination or at least improve working conditions for african-americans in the defense industry and you ignored us. okay. well, here's our second option. our second option is if you continue to ignore us, we're going to bring 100,000 negroes to protest in front of -- on the lawn of the white house. right? on the mall. on the na

these three things, if in place, i believe national consensus of all actors, provincial or national, will be conceivably achieved. >> we've regrettably come to the end of our time. the national security advisor has a hard stop at 11:30. i want to thank you all for coming. sorry we did not have time. please join me in think -- thanking mohammad hanif atmar for his time. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until the official party departs. >> u.s. attorney general jeff sessions will testify this afternoon before a senate appropriations subcommittee on his department's budget request. we will have live coverage beginning at 2:30 easton. the senate judiciary committee will debate legislation aiming to provide protections for special counsel's, like setting requirements. watch live through the at 10 am eastern here on c-span 3. and tomorrow, attorney general sessions returns to capitol hill to take questions from house lawmakers on his department's fiscal year 2019 budget request. we will have live re -- coverage thursday. >> new york times versus united stat

it undermines our nation's economic interest. make no mistake, interdiction without removing people without legitimate cause is not security. it's not national security. >> harris: standing by, the texas state attorney general as well as the acting deputy for border protection. jennifer griffin, getting the very latest from the pentagon. she has this briefing coming up. >> this will be the first time we have heard from pentagon officials since the president signed that proclamation ordering the national guard to the southern border. it's been light on details. pentagon officials said they did not know how many troops the white house and dhs are requesting, nor do they know where they are being sent or what their assignments will be. officials tell me it will take up to two months before any national guard will be in place. that's the way bureaucracy work works. they can assign those trips using title 32 authorities and pentagon money but then the state governors have to sign off and as we've said, there's no indication governor j

the first is that we have to strengthen the national, afghan national security forces. this strategy provides a good basis for the international support. and without the afghan national security forces, no peace and reconciliation would work in the country. second, there have to be national consensus for peace and reconciliation. not just among political actors, but also among all sections of our society. women must see themselves and in the process our minorities will have to be comfortable with the peace process. it will have to be a peace process for all afghans. third point, there will have to be an infra afghan process of dialogue. we have had good success with the hezbollah process. it was one of the three major insurgent groups taliban had, and there are two others. so it worked with them, infra afghan process, and we believe it will, but we need to have the right support for that process. and, fourth, u.s. and afghan alignment is key to the process. we have to make sure that the two countries are fully aligned in pursuit of the peace process. fifth is regional c

which was nationalism. i think you called it the national question. >> yeah. >> and that has certainly -- it stalks the world and forms good and bad. and i was thinking about this, and there was a republican president who addressed this with one of the creators of modern nationalism. and that was eulessis grant, after he was president he took a world tour. and one of the places he went was berlin. and he met with the iron chancellor. grant came in a business suit. the man who had never fired a weapon in anger, all decked out in a uniform. and they were talking about the civil war. and bismarck was very pro union. he said, well, of course, you won, it was to save the union. and grant said, and also, to end slavery. and then bismarck said, but of course, saving the union was the more important thing. and grant said, we thought so at first. but we saw that the union could not be saved without ending slavery. we didn't want to buy and sell people like cattle, and if slavery persisted, it would be the source of

next week, senator thomas dodd and the president of the national rifle association will "face the nation." >> next on reel america, we continue our look back at the 1968 presidential campaign. for governor george wallace ran on face the nation, the self-proclaimed law and order candidate discusses his chance of winning. what he sees as the failures and hypocrisy of the current parties, and his views on segregation, poverty, and the vietnam war. >> governor wallace, is your real ambition to win the presidency, or is it to get enough votes to dictate who does go to the white house? >> my real purpose for running for president is to win. on november 5.t if you will follow me around in the country and see the reception we're getting from one end of the country to the other, you can see that we have a chance of winning the election on november 5 at the polls. >> a spontaneous and unrehearsed news interview with george wallace, former governor of alabama and former candidate of -- presidential candidate of the american independent party. he will be questioned by cbs news correspondents, -- we

to be third in the national.wait. i hope i do win it, not because i'm female, but because i want to win it. but the female factor is driving the betting. bookies left facing a huge pay—out should national history be made. there is an awful lot of excitement around a female jockey winning the grand national, but bookmakers look at the odds, they arejust bookmakers look at the odds, they are just interested in the numbers. the odds suggest that at a single figure price it is shorter than 10—1 that we have a female jockey winning the grand national. to put that into context, this is the best chance we have ever had. and it is some 41 yea rs have ever had. and it is some 41 years since charlotte brew became the first woman to ride in the national. —— brew. aintree's fences have seen some famous victory since then, but tomorrow's winning post could be a sporting milestone. a match to look forward to one grand national day, of course. that is all from sportday. from everybody here at the bbc sports centre, good night.

that's 200,000 papers across the nation. 200 across the nation. the courier will be investigated by the fbi, and a young j. edgar hoofer and by the post office and the office of information and they're investigating for whether or not they can be charged with treason, right? again, we're also going to see a stifling of free speech and a stifling of dissent during the war years, but the other thing that the paper is going do and that black newspapers across the nation are going do is they're going to highlight and they'll turn local stories about segregation and inequality and they'll turn those local stories into national stories, right? into national stories. 1942 an african-american soldier loses his leg in a major battle in europe and he gets on a boat home and gets off this boat in los angeles. he is supposed to be picked up by his wife and his in-laws. he's not picked up by his wife and in-laws because they're in jail. the reason that they are in jail is because his wife tried to buy a home in a white neighborhood. the white neighborhood had

king's at the national cathedral. the supreme court, the cabinet and several thousand others attended the church, the largest larger than john kennedys. at the white house mr. johnson resumed his discussion with white leaders. u.s. army troops rolled up behind the white house just before the sun went down. the president ordered the soldiers not to ring the white house. easing thepes of impact overseas. it was the saddest day of the johnson presidency since that november in 1963 when he returned to washington. dan rather, cbs news, the white house. >> washington bore the front of the daytime violence. there are 6000 national guardsmen and calls of duty. fires raged through a 16 block area. >> they call it garfield park. known as the bleak negro ghetto. and burningalism beginning the afternoon as thousands of schoolchildren lest their classrooms. by late afternoon, as national guardsmen work coming, these fires were started. -- were coming, these fires were started. the looting went largely unchallenged. the scenes are

will soon cease and fact to be a sovereign nation. the threat is real. in order to prevent such a consequence, the president has said the department of defense and homeland security work together with our governors to deploy the national guard to our southwhwest border to assist the border patrol. the president will be signing a proclamation to that effect today. nermeen: on wednesday night, president trump issued a memorandum ordering the defense secretary, head of homeland security, and the attorney general to submit an action plan in 30 days that outlines how the agencies will increase border security. meanwhile, the "wall street journal" reports the trump administration is requesting that the u.s. military build walls for at least one military base along the u.s.-mexico border. in remarks on tuesday, trump suggested he was open to sending the military to the u.s.-mexico border to do what immigration authorities could not. pres. trump: we don't have laws. we have catch and he's. you catch and you will immediately release list of pe

national culture. so we have these natural disasters, the tornadoes in , that we are infamous for. there were several devastations to the city of moore. and f5n that happens, tornado, everyone is laid flat and the suffering, the people of oklahoma come together in profound ways that he race all of our patients. ciants. we had the bombing of the federal building in 2005, which in some ways, in many ways, be staged 9/11 and how people responded after the bombing. some people asked me, why do you want to go there? why do you have to go on very all of this ugliness? -- it'smportant for us smoothed over, it is at least --bbed over, it is a knife nice smooth scar, why open up the wound? because the wound can never be healed unless we do that. so it will continue to erupt every few decades, years, every few generations until we come to own what the true nature of our history is. >> with the help of our cox communications cable partners, we are in norman, oklahoma exploring the local literary scene. sarah on t

it's a contrast to a nation of men or a nation of people.i guess i should stay politically correct. that is state-of-the-art nation of law or call to arms the idea that we are governed by object of rules not by the will or the whim of a ruler which i guess is certainly a good thing but the will or the whim of the ruler is not the old me will or whim that bears down on us. in fact i think it's possible easily to put more emphasis on the nation than it is for anyone articulate for the citizens of this nation. i think most of us and where all lawyers go about our daily business and contribute to the general welfare we don't worry. that's a good thing particularly if you stop and consider the places where people at tactical doubts while keeping in mind constantly what the law is and what it requires of them and in particular what it can do if those requirements are not met. they come to realize countries where people go about with the constant focus on the law are most typically countries like north korea or cuba or whether or not you have the l

now, i believe in national security as well. and i bloo eve in keeping this country safe from not just terrorist threats but frankly the whole range of very real threats to this country. i just don't believe what the president has done is responsive to those threats. and it goes beyond what the president has the authority to do under immigration law and the constitution. but i'm all for keeping this country safe. and i'm all for if this president is concerned about how the individualized vetting is being done of people coming into this country, him working with those across his intelligence community, law enforcement to improve that. it's been improved with 9/11 repeatedly. and if there is more work that needs to be done, that's where the president should focus his efforts. >> if the court goes for hawaii does it limit president to put bans in place of similar nature? >> so much hinges how much the court writes down reasons. letsds say for example the court says nationality was taken off the table in 1965. whatever the president

it is a national epidemic. general shaughnessy has confirmed -- if confirmed, how would you prioritize the opioid crisis? adrenaline -- general shaughnessy: i would make it a high priority to find opportunities to provide unique capabilities. >> i am deeply concerned about heroin production. it is shipping from south america to new mexico. most heroin in the united states is coming semester. this is mexican government, i would you assess the ?apabilities shaughnessy: i would try to build on the relationship that has been built. from the strategic dialogue although adopted in 5000 mexican soldiers to try to increase their ability to interdict and mexico prior to reaching our border. relationship,"r patient with mexico is critically important to help secure the border. >> the close of relationship is, the better success we will have. if you want to put this in human terms, these are all of our sons and daughters who are dying. these are our brothers and sisters. i don't know any family that doesn't know somebody

with a lease two other nations. more naval strategic power from the united states moving into the region. if this is going to be sustained beyond a matter of days, the united states will have the firepower not only from its aerial assets, but its naval assets. but i think we will get a better indication at the top of the hour when we are briefed by the pentagon as to what sort of forces are being thrown at this initially. ok, just to bring our viewers up to speed, president trump at the top of the hour, addressed the nation in the international community, saying that the decision had been to strike inside syria. it had been taken in conjunction with the united kingdom and france. it is in reaction to the chemical weapons attack carried out in the syrian colour damascus suburb of douma, which happened on sunday night, monday morning. president trump said this was a significant escalation of the sarin gas attack which took place last year. the united states is reacting. we stay with steve herrmann. steve, listening to

you served your nation well. you should be very proud. i'll hold most of my questions for the classified portion of the hearing. so i'll abbreviate my remarks now. i look forward to hearing the testimony of the witnesses. >> great. now we'll ask each of the witnesses to summarize their opening statements. you'll be allowed five minutes. i will let you know each of the your opening statements in their full will be taken into the record without objection. so ordered. mr. rood, i recognize you first for your opening statement. >> mr. chairman, thank you. chairman rogers, ranking member cooper and distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to testify on behalf of the president's fiscal year '19 budget request in support of your efforts to improve our missile defense capabilities so that we remain ahead of the evolving threat while providing effective, upgraded and interoperable regional defenses in support of our global defense strategy. as the national defense strategy points out, the uni

so it's not just any nationalism and american nationalism has to understand what's best about itself if the other side has won the civil war, and it would be a nation and it wouldn't be one you want to live in. nationalism is out there and it's a huge force and we have to understand it and be critical in our approach to it. >> yes. >> and the chairman and i'm going to moderate here and i won't give a long essay on this, but, of course, one of the statements which best exemplifies how american conservatives today should address nationalism and here's the long quote from lincoln in which he recalls memory and also in which he talks about the better angels of our nature and when we are developing the country we love, we have to make sure that it is a country which is lovely, and which we want to -- we love as well as we -- as well as the strength against its enemies and i completely agree with that and i think it is very interesting that the debate about nationalism and this is true, i think, for england over brexit. the debate about nationalism and the future of america is conducted al

america in the nation immigrants. if view of all these considerations it's important to review president trump's recent decision to order deployment of up to 4,000 national guard personnel to the u.s. mexican border. clearly this decision is not unprecedented, both presidents george w. bush and president obama previously invoked so-called title 32 deployment to temporarily deploy unites. -- over 460,000 apprehensions in 2010. in 2017, the agency recorded, quote, the lowest level of illegal cross board immigration on record and pleasured by op he thinks. and inadmissible and counters as u.s. ports of country, close quote. the approximate 310,000 arrests for illegal border acrosses report in 2017 represents the lowest apprehension figure since 1971. 46 years ago. the president has stated, quote, we're looking from 2,000 to 4,000 and we'll probably keep them or a large portion of them until such time as we get the law, close quote. given that congress has not authorized funding for the entirety of the president's desire

the third infantry is one of the nation's -- is the nation's oldest active duty infantry unit and yet the reverence we feel for them goes beyond their mere length of service and to what they represent -- into what they represent: the dignity of freedom. the third infantry reactivated on orders of the secretary of the army. the ceremony was held just a few steps from here on the east plaza of the capitol. then the old guard immediately conducted another ceremony to present the flag of liberation to the president pro tempore of the senate and the speaker of the house. that flag had flown over this very capitol on pearl harbor day in 1941. then u.s. forces raised that flag over rome and berlin and tokyo after we had defeated the axis powers. finally the old guard led the army day parade from the capitol down constitution avenue where president truman sat in the reviewing stand at the ellipse. not bad for their first day back with the regimental colors. it had been only 18 months since the regiment, serving with the 106th division as an occupation force in berlin, was caught up in the rus

this strong militarism will not outshine our national cultures and national identities. it is exactly the other way around. this will allow our cultures and identities to be respected, to be protected, and to flourish freely together. why? because precisely our own sides s is based on both this unique ic, on taste for freedom, on this unique attachment for freedom. this is the unique option compatible with our nations, our cultures, our identities. . with the u.s. president. the with the support of the 535 members of this nation, with the whole american nation, we can actively contribute together to building the 21st century world order for our people -- for all people. the united tates -- states and europe have a historical role in this respect. because it is the only way to defend what we believe in, to promote our universal values, to express strongly that human rights, the rights of minorities, and shared liberty as a true answer to the isorders of the world. i believe in these rights and values, i believe that against ignorance we have education. against inequalitie

i moved up in rank, i was an instructor who became a national paramedic, on the national registry, which is when the hardest registries you can get into. i became an instructor for the national registry of paramedics. years,his for 20 fighting fires, saving people, saving lives. years i was stoned on marijuana every single day, driving an ambulance, driving a big heavy fire truck. episode theyerious could have been reflective of marijuana. the few damages i did in any wrecks were backing accidents where you back into objects that couldn't be seen like things in people's yards. host: what does that mean for national policy? it's not going to the national policy, it's just an example of what goes on. how many people smoked marijuana that were in the fire departments and you enough until i admitted it about five years and then when i went to work in columbia, i really found out how many people smoked marijuana while they were at work. host: walter in baltimore, maryland. good morning. caller: good morning, c-span. i appreciate you, but my question of justice, due process in particular, in p

it holds up national security as a pretense. when this proclamation went into effect it kept 150 million people from entering this country with the stroke of a pen. that's not the sort of aapproach to counterterrorism i or my colleagues are familiar with. threats come from individuals, that's why we have an individualized vetting system. keeping out whole countries is bad for counterterrorism partnerships and bad for america's standing in the world. >> so when the court debates this tomorrow, what will be the arguments not only from the government's standpoint but those the state of hawaii which is bringing the counter? >> the challenge is brought by the state of hawaii and other plaintiffs. the government says the court has nothing to see her. they say there's nothing for the court to get into in the substance of this case, it's offlimits. that's a bold argument given how controversial this is and it doesn't accurately capture what the court has done in the past. similar challenges where they have reached the herit merits o cas