good evening, thank you, portage square books. it is an honor to be here to help michael launch this fantastic war memoir; "civilianized." i will say a few words to introduce him and the book, ask him a few questions and we will open it up for your own questions. looking at the book, i was reminded of the image that was going around the internet about 6-8 years ago of a snapshot of a whiteboard in some military base in, i think it was afghanistan that said america is not at war. the marine corp is at war. america is at the mall. the wasn't just the marines who were at war. the army was too and with the army was michael anthony who was fresh out of bridge water high and joined at the age of 20, went to iraq, and helped build and then man combat support hospital where he assisted doctors cauterizing wounds, sutures and saving limbs of american and iraqi lives. this story, "civilianized," isn't so much about that experience although it is in the background but more about what he experienced when coming back to the states. he felt lik

night, following the arrest of an illegal immigrant woman, a convicted criminal who was later to portage us now with reaction as the secretary of state of kansas, kris kobach is with us, good to see you. >> great to be back with you. >> sean: i know a lot of people were pushing for you to be in charge of the department of homeland security, i also understand you met with the president, did you talk this stomach specifically about the wall? >> we have talked about the welcome i think he regards it as one of his top priority is to get this project uncover the america people want it done but it's doable. if it's 1,989 miles of border, we only have about 386 miles right now that you would consider a true impervious wall or a serious offense. if there's a lot to build. we put a man on the moon at this is not a high-tech project, this is a low-tech project. this is getting barriers in place and it will get done. >> sean: to me it's so basic and so fundamental and so simple, it's one of those common sense measures. i understand at the expense aspect of it but i would ask the president's numerou

somebody who is an undocumented individual and that person is a violent criminal, we want that person to portage have someone who was involved in gang activity or we've got somebody who's a suspected terrorist, we want to partner with the feds to get those people out. >> tucker: i ask you at the outset, what is the scope of the problem what's mark we know there's a lot of crimes committed by people in america illegally, the top news story on foxnews.com is this, from bridgeport as he did not far away, officer hernandez accused of killing his girlfriend and taking off with her daughter he was caught by federal officers in your city 2013, deported and came back. this is a real thing, for you to say virtually no crimes are committed by illegal aliens without knowing the actual number. >> your proving my point exactly, that's exactly the kind of person that we ought to be prioritizing. state, local, federal partners working together to prioritize people who have records of violent crime. that individual had a long record of violent crime, he was deported under the obama administration. that's exactl