stefanik: not as fun. they said people underestimated what the house republicans could accomplish and we have set the agenda. whether it is the d.c. crime bill overwriting and forcing joe biden's hand, the esg cra which forced the first presidential veto, we are driving this policy agenda more than the senate. we are playing our role as the last backstop for the american people from single party democrat rule. jake: i'm going to press you on this. you used an important distinction which is bringing the budget toward balance. you guys in a stark change to 2010, 2012, 2014, you said you will not budget entitlements. entitlements are off the table. someone you worked with made changing entitlements a cornerstone of his agenda. that is no longer the position of the house republican conference. you cannot balance the budget without touching entitlements. how do you bring the budget toward balance without touching entitlements and mandatory spending? rep. stefanik: this is part of the discussion in the week of t

stefanik: not as fun. they said people underestimated what the house republicans could accomplish and we have set the agenda. whether it is the d.c. crime bill overwriting and forcing joe biden's hand, the esg cra which forced the first presidential veto, we are driving this policy agenda more than the senate. we are playing our role as the last backstop for the american people from single party democrat rule. jake: i'm going to press you on this. you used an important distinction which is bringing the budget toward balance. you guys in a stark change to 2010, 2012, 2014, you said you will not budget entitlements. entitlements are off the table. someone you worked with made changing entitlements a cornerstone of his agenda. that is no longer the position of the house republican conference. you cannot balance the budget without touching entitlements. how do you bring the budget toward balance without touching entitlements and mandatory spending? rep. stefanik: this is part of the discussion in the week of t

stefanik of new york for five minutes. ms. stefanik: thank you, mr. chairman. he want to ask both secretary austin and general milley about the unique role the 10th mountain division in fort drum play. i had the opportunity to visit with major general anderson who is doing a great job after the tremendous leadership by general beagle at fort drum. we discussed tkpwrepb jen anderson's initiative to return the mission to cold weather operations and mountaineering. given both of you were commanding generals at fort drum. are you very familiar with the post with unique strengths. what role do you see the 10th mountain division and fort drum specifically playing and outcompeting our adversaries in the arctic? secretary austin: 10th mountain division can play a significant role and does in that endeavor. i would also say there are multipurpose division. as they demonstrate they had can go a number of places and be very, very effective. because their strength is the quality of their people and their leadership. that's been demonstrated over and over again. ms. stefani

stefanik: good afternoon fellow republicans i am pleased to be here in front of you today as the chairthe new majority. thank you, america for firing nancy pelosi once and for all. in just two short years, under far left single party democrat rule, america has faced crisis after crisis. inflation has skyrocketed to the highest rate in my lifetime. crushing hard-working families, small businesses, farms and seniors. families need to choose between filling up their gas tank, heating their home and putting food on the table because of the binding administration in joe biden's war on energy independence. biden's crime is rampant not just in big cities but in small towns as well as democrats continue to push their radical defund the police rhetoric. we see joe biden has shamefully turned his back on our border patrol agents, as america faces a border crisis not just with our southern border but with our northern order wide open as well. with illegal fentanyl pouring across. our national debt is more than 31 trillion dollars. yet joe biden and the far left socialist's, they want a blank chec

stefanik: thank you to the whip. this is a historic day for america. this is about putting american workers first and american families first as we work hard to lower the cost of gas prices that has skyrocketed under joe biden's failed leadership. we're less than 100 days into the new republican majority and we are driving the policy agenda. just look at the checklist. we've reopened the people's house by is why we have a crowded room today. let's give a round of applause for that. we repealed the 87,000 i.r.s. agents. we passed the parents bill of rights. and today we are so proud to pass h.r. 1. and for all of the reporters, it is important to note that multiple democrats crossed the aisle because they know that we are governing and delivering solutions. and i am so proud to introduce one of our leading committee chairs who helped make this happen, chairman bruce westerman, our chair of natural resources. [applause] mr. westerman: thank you, elise. it feels great to win. and this is a winning team behind me right here. but this team is not winning fo

trey: congressman chair elise stefanik from the great state of new york thank you for joining us on ay night. >> thank you, trey. trey: isis k killed 13 u.s. service members in a sue sued bombing during the withdraw from afghanistan that group is reportedly planning more attacks against the u.s., claims isis k will target american assets abroad in as little as 6 months. joining us now to weigh in former national security adviceadviser to vice president mike fe pence. lieutenant general keith kellogg, do you agree? >> yes, first thank you for having me. they do. look, when we left afghanistan, the debacle departure we h isis-k was growing, they were competing against the taliban at the time, you said just a second ago, they were responsible for the a ab-- explosthat killed over a hundred afghans and 13 great young men and women. they were competing with at that time ban they have been an aggressive group. when you are in a place like afghanistan, which is a den of vipers, you have the taliban historically, that line themselves with al qaeda. taliban ran the nation that let al qaeda ran

. >> welcome chair of the house republican congress, elise stefanik. [applause] >> afternoon fellow conservatives. i'm so excited to be with you at the conference chair of the new house republican majority. [applause] thank you america for firing nancy pelosi once and for all. in just two short years under far left single party democrat rule america has faced crisis after crisis. inflation has skyrocketed to the highest rate in my lifetime . watching hard-working families, small businesses, farms and seniors g. families now have to choose between filling their gas tanks, or putting food on the table because of bidenflation. violent crime is rampant not just in the cities but small towns as well as democrats continue to push their radical d fund police policies and rhetoric. we've seen joe biden has turned his back on our border patrol agents s as america faces a border crisis not just with our southern border but our northern border while as well as millions of illegals delete that cross our national debt is more than $1 trillion. yet joe by the far le

stefanik: thank you so much for your advocacy. fairfax county, we know, was really ground zero for raising the national consciousness on the importance of this issue. thank you to you for being here on behalf of your sisters and your siblings. [applause] and we are very proud as republicans and in this republican majority to be the party of parents. and be the party of students. our next generation of leaders. two important aspects of this bill are ensuring and requiring that curriculums are not only made public for anyone to access, but that any parent at any time can have individual access to that curriculum. we also go a step further. any content or book in the school library or in the classroom or online content that is being taught, parents are able to review that at any time. that's important to me as a young mom. i think about my son sam's educational future, what kids are exposed to in terms of the content in terms of what they're reading, that is really important for parents to be able to review that material. and i will

to put, for example, a small monument to gorky in frankivsk, simply because he loved stefanik very much who was the reichratovstrian ambassador, well, for example, this is simply a question that is still up for discussion, and we need to emphasize our time in textbooks, and we already have to to do so that the next generation does not have those questions that and we have to solve them to find the answer to how their er-e ancestors are from odesa so there are still many different famous surnames all over the world that are related to odesa thank you ms. olena olena was a journalist, an activist from odesa was also with us. we thank our viewers who once again continued their roll call and once again greetings to us from italy, greetings from kherson , greetings from the 28th brigade, greetings to you too . thank you for what you do. prague welcomes the white church welcomes you in odessa. they say it's raining. you see, they already learned about the weather. the sumy is with us. even moscow writes that hello to all. kropyvnytskyi greets the zachepilivka in kharkiv oblast. also sends gre

we'll put it to elise stefanik, here coming up. >> over the last few years, china has made a leap in the development. it causes a genuine interest all over the world and we are even slightly jealous. president putin, i always call you my dear friend. we have carefully studied your proposals on settling the acute crisis in ukraine. we will discuss all those issues, including your initiatives. >> i am sure that the people of russia will support you in your best efforts. >> john: begin this monday with the high stakes meeting between xi jinping and vladimir putin as fears grow china is set to play a pivotal role in the war in ukraine. great to be kicking off another week with you. >> sandra: and great to see you early this morning john, and kick off a breaking news afternoon, i'm sandra smith in new york. this is "america reports." two leaders touting the strengths of their friendship to kick off a three-day summit in moscow serving dual purposes. xi, looking to highlight his diplomatic role in the world, putin seeks to show the west efforts to isolate him have failed. >> john: and puti

stefanik. ms stefanik: democrats objected to president bush's victory on the house floor? >> yes. >> isn't they objected to president bush's victory. >> the irony is so thick in the room. the democrats saw witnesses that come from the constitutional law center where less than two weeks ago the dean had to order mandatory training in the first amendment after her apology and shouting down. were you present for that event? >> no, i was not. >> you told us that the media networks. the other irony, our louisiana attorney general explained to us and put on a brilliant presentation that there is an enterprise now in the biden administration and our colleagues objected and wanted to strike his testimony as being too objectionable. we are illustrating. many actors in the biden administration have harassed and pressured to censor covid-19 content. that doesn't align with the chosen narrative. when people talk about the origins or mask mandates the benefits of natural immunity, they wanted to silence that. due to the great work of states in louisiana and missouri there was a campaig

drug seizures are up 590% according to elise stefanik and no one argues with those stats.es who you just saw will be with us in about two hours. meanwhile, go over to ashley for other breaking news. >> ashley: start with a fox news alert the in missouri. three kansas city police officers are recovering after being shot last night while attempting to execute a search warrant. >> their injuries are non life-threatening and right now i'm just thankful for that i'm thankful that they were alert, they were talking, and i'm just thanking god for that tonight. >> ashley: authorities are still in a standoff with the suspected shooter. officials say the independence police department has taken over the standoff. some individuals have left the home but swat negotiations are ongoing. a new report finds the air in east palestine actually is toxic that is despite the e.p.a.'s claims. scientists warn there are higher than normal concentrations of nine potentially harmful chemicals in the air. this as indiana governor eric holcomb is stunned by the decision to send hazardous waste from t

i turn it over to our conference chair, elice stefanik. >> the republican party is the party of parents. not a single democrat cross the aisle to vote on behalf of parents and kids across the country. they should have been a unanimous vote. this is a clear choice. we proudly stand for parents that -- at the driving decision-maker, we stand for transparency and educational rigor. that is so important to me as a new mom, as i think about one of the keys to the american dream, making sure we have the best education and parents are the driver to make that happen. i'm proud to be an original co-force -- cosponsor of the bill. i'm honored to introduce our hard-working chairwoman, a grandmother, a mom, an educator herself, dr. virginia foxx. >> she still would've my lines, the republican already is the party of parents and children. we fought hard against the bureaucrats and the unions to have parents have a voice in their children's education. again, as my colleagues have said, it makes all the sense in the world for parents to know what is being taught in the classroom. it makes all the sens

and thank you to elise stefanik, congressman from new york and the chair of the republican conference for allowing us to dr this again. this is our second year in a row interviewing a top republican leader of the republican retreat. last year we interviewed kevin mccarthy at the democratic retreat and hakim jeffries and pete aguilar and just aar note r the record, the republican conference did notec write any f these questions and had no editorial control, so here we go downwn the path. i'm jake from punchbowl news for those that don't know and hello to everyone in c-span land. let's start with the news of the day. president trump, former president donald trump as indicated he believes he will get indicted and arrestedt this week. you defended him. give us your read of the situation. >> so, first i want to thank you and punchbowl for hosting this today. i had the opportunity to speak with president trump this morning. >> that's news, you spoke to president trump this morning. >> i did. i think it's important to take a step back and look at how this is the epidermis asian of the weapon

from the parents and you can even ask us some questions, so let's start with our conference chair stefanik. you've been on this bill for quite some time to make sure this day comes to fruition and you know why she's smiling so much because she's got this young child that smiles, the happiest baby. >> thank you to the speakers and all of you for being here today. it's great to see so many kids and so many parents in support of the parents bill of rights. when i was first elected i wanted to be on the education and workforce committee because education was so important in my life and my parents advocacy to ensure i had the best quality education were it not for that i wouldn't have had the opportunity to serve my district in upstate new york and speaker mccarthy is right there's nothing more like changing then becoming a parent. i'm the proud mom of sam as kevin mentioned he's 18 months so i am the newest mom in congress and we are proud to be standing up for families, parents, grandparents but most importantly kids across the country so thank you to julio for introducing this bill. we are e

the republican new york congressman elise stefanik slamming the program, he is incentivizing and rewardingcrats all making out of new york city. amy. >> amy: this is so ironic because mayor adams is the one day after day in the newspaper saying he wants money from the governor. he wants money from federal government to take care of the 30,000 migrants in new york city. however, he is now creating another opportunity for spend for them. already costing new yorkers $364 per day per my grip and there are 30,000 migrants. that is about $4 million, $5 million per day currently spending on migrant issue. now, there is another opportunity to put money towards it. it is absolutely unbelievable in so many ways but. i can't believe he's complaining that we have no money to do it and comes up with a program like this. so many new yorkers would love to have free education for their children. we have 30,000 migrants that are homeless that we feed, clothe, house but new york city has about 17,000, 20,000 homeless people per day we are not taking care of i see every day. >> kayleigh: to that point, let's

border of new york and all the way across the continent started by ryan zinke, troy nehls, elise stefanik and human trafficking and other terrible things happening at our northern border. a lot of people forget about that. but we displaced so many border agents from the northern border to send them to deal with the problems in the southern border and we've had now over -- an increase of over 800% of illegal crossings. we can't even account for the fentanyl. a lot of low call sheriffs i deal with -- local sheriffs i deal with in the north country are talking about these fentanyl raids they've had and the amount of drugs coming across our northern of border which is very accessible to new york city where you can get to the cartels who quickly distribute this and are causing tragic deaths and the fact that our president is so callus and arrogant to laugh at the mothers that have lost their children, it's really just disgraceful. maria: it was an unbelievable answer to him to dare to blame trump again on that. that was just so incredible. is that the only reason that now the northern border i

elise stefanik, harvard. j.d. vance, yale. glenn youngkin, yale. ron desantis, harvard, yale.they're going to take back the world or the country from the woke elite, who do they mean? >> let's talk about one thing first off. the culture war is happening because the right doesn't want to talk about policy. they don't want to talk about the economy. they don't want to talk about the real things that americans need because they have no policies to address those things. so they talk about the culture war and get people excited about trans women going into bathrooms and black people taking your jobs, and immigrants breaking into your house, rather than having to talk about actual economic real serious political issues. the thing with the harvard club story that you brought up is it's actually, i believe that they would see the world that way because that is how they have constructed the world of alternate facts that they live in. that people like charles koch are paying certain scientists to come up with phony studies that they are creating media figures like sean hannity, who go o

representative elise stefanik she says that the weakness of this administration is what's hurting. listen. >> i think this is a direct result ever the weakness we have seen going back to the early days of the biden administration. whether it was their appeasing of russia. giving vladimir putin nord stream 2 part-time line. catastrophic withdrawal from afghanistan that let to the lost of 13 brave service members gold star families. that's weakness on the world stage and weakness has consequences. the consequences of that a rising communist china, a belligerent russia when it comes to invasion of ukraine. so, when it comes to house republicans, we are committing to having wrong national security, peace through strength and a strong, clear voice when it comes from the u.s. standing up for human rights and standing strongly with our allies, rather than letting our adversaries fill that void. >> brian: the actual war itself bakhmut did not fall. running out of armaments. russians are attacking with shovels in some cases. looks like a clash between wagner group as well as the regular rus

mccarthy indicates he has not spoken to donald trump about this, but elise stefanik indicated she didm yesterday and also talked to him, trump, about the steps house republicans are taking to defend him. >> manu raju on capitol hill, thanks so much. >>> the hush money case of course is not the only legal spector haunting donald trump right now. others include the justice department special counsel investigation of both trump's involvement in january 6th and his alleged mishandling of classified document, and the fulton county grand jury probe. cnn's katelyn polantz is with us now. have we seen any significant movement in these other cases involving donald trump? >> reporter: what we're hearing from our sources is that there is a lot bubbling under the surface in all of these criminal investigations, not just new york. in georgia, the prosecutors there, they are still at work. they reached out to someone in recent weeks that was a lawyer to donald trump wanting to talk with her voluntarily. they also are looking at potentially complicated multidefendant cases. we just reported yesterda

and there was this exchange between elise stefanik and the fbi director over the fbi's involvement with over the hunter biden laptop story. listen. >> where you are aware of the fbi's personnel were in contact with twitter regarding the hunter biden laptops were a question mark >> i don't believe the fbi were in contact with twe hunter laptop story specifically. there were people in contact with russian disinformation efforts. >> where you are where the fbi had hunter biden's laptop since 2019? >> i can't speak to exactly when we had the laptop. >> this stonewalling, director chris wray, the american people deserve answers and this is unacceptable. >> john: so there is this issue about plausible deniability. the fbi might not mention hunter biden with the laptop but to the degree that even mark zuckerberg, the head of facebook said, "when the hunter biden laptop story came around, this is what the fbi is talking about." >> a little dubious about that. i was there at the time as attorney general. there was approach will make a lot of pressure on the fbi to make sure there was no foreign

new york representative elise stefanik calls the move un-american. trump's former vice president mike pence is condemning the potential indictment as a political witch hunt. >> i'm taken aback at the idea of indicting a former president of the united states. and at a time when there is a crime wave in new york city that the fact that the manhattan d.a. thinks that indicting president trump is his top priority, i think it's -- it tells you everything you need to know about the radical left in this country. >> top democrats are reminding americans though that no one is above the law. former speaker of the house nancy pelosi calling trump's post urging his supporters to protest reckless and going on to say that our legal system will decide how to hold him accountable. cnn's kristen holmes explains how trump's legal team is preparing for this possible indictment. rz. >> reporter: good morning. well, former president trump's team has yet to hear from the manhattan district attorney's office regarding timing around this potential indictment. they are very

elise stefanik come out and said mayor adams is making a permanent welfare system for illegal immigrantsyork state. you better just understand when word gets out central and south america and to russia and ukraine and bolivia, wherever, they are -- just multiply how many people are going to hop on the bus. >> ainsley: the article interviews people that live in that area. one of them is raj patel, 49-year-old resident. a nice, quiet town and we don't know who these people are. >> brian: neither do we. >> ainsley: they could be criminals and drug dealers. they have no documentation. i am an immigrant. i came here legally. >> brian: yes. >> ainsley: nobody gave me anything, brian. i wanted to go to college. >> brian: but. >> ainsley: i started working and never stopped working it. seems unfair to me that you give free housing and a free college education to people just because you need a place to put them. >> steve: brian, ainsley, pause, because she was expecting you to continue to heckle her. >> brian: i am. i wanted to do color commentary. so, yeah. i just -- i'm astounded by. this and j

. >> top of the hour, elise stefanik on how they deal with china, what we are learning and how will alls. citizens on the fbi's terror watch list have now been caught trying to enter this country illegally. since october. and reports, tom homan will react, and we are waiting the white house press briefing where general kirby will be present, looming as president she meets with vladimir putin in moscow for the first time since russia invaded ukraine. we will be watching and listening for that live, come join john roberts and me live as "america reports" in moments. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> kayleigh: the goalie for the san jose sharks is facing a firestorm on social media after opting out of participating in the team's pride night festivities, james announced on twitter he would not wear a pride theme to warm up jersey ahead of saturday's game with the new york islanders, citing his religious beliefs. he writes "for all 13 years of my nhl career, i've been a christian, not just in title, but in how i choose to live my daily life. i have a personal faith in jesus christ who died on the cross for my sins

it is essentially meaning that they want to be outwardl stefanik they want to be outwardl homophobic they are against any sort of progress that we are making an creating a more inclusive open and welcoming society. they are not offering a single policy solution in addressin the climate crisis that we are dealing with, not only in th united states but globally they are not addressing th pervasive hunger problem tha exists in our country. homelessness, many of th problems that our constituents are concerned with you know, securing and defending social security an medicare funding our public schools and trying to make sure our kids are actually getting the adequate education that they need in order to not jus compete here in the united states but globally. addressing the immigration crisis that we consistentl have all they want to do is china paid for their base. and they are only interested i having power for the sake of having power i look at mccarthy and think you, know this is somebody who doesn't ever have a single policy discussion. he wanted to be speaker so tha he could just hav

elise stefanik the house caucus chair is responding to this.gly condemns it, calling it unamerican and it's just, it's the mentality that has people mad right now. stuart: sure it does. lauren: it should be condemned. stuart: we know we really need a legal eagle. can we find one? i do believe we have one. fox news sunday anchor shannon bream is the legal eagle. trump has been indicted and we just learned he's expected to be arraigned next tuesday, 2:15 p.m. to be precise. take me through this legally. what happens after that? >> we all want to know what's in the indictment because we can only speculate at they we we know exactly what these charges are and what this is about. we'll get to see that indictment , and when the arraignment happens so tuesday is going to be our big day hope you guys aren't busy because we're all going to be tuned in and finding out what happens here but from there this has such a long place. the former president will be here and he will make his plea at that point. i assume he's going to say not guilty as he's been sa

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nominees, but there are also political benefits and personal upsides for these members as a lease, stefanik knows very well. she emerged as one of the top defenders of donald trump during his first impeachment and what happened, she raised her profile . she became a fundraising powerhouse, and they decided to use her to replace this training in leadership. and so these members have seen the benefits to going out currying favor with the foreign president. and i think this shows he still has sway, at least in the house, probably in conference. he's also doling out praise for the people who he thinks are doing a good job. just listen to him just this past weekend. i don't know whether it helps or hurts. i can tell you in my opinion. it's a new way of cheating on elections, people are pleading. with the prosecutor. don't do it . don't do it. it's wrong. even democrats. even people that traditionally are not exactly. my fans are saying don't do it. because i didn't do anything wrong. no picking up on where you left off there. i mean, marjorie taylor green when she was able to say that she was on

the chair recognizes the young lady from new york, miss stefanik. >> i want to echo the chairman. thank you miss parker for your extraordinary service and courage being here today. mr. turley, i want to start with. you leave codifies labor for the american people what you correctly called unconstitutional, quote, censorship by surrogate. he met writes, twitter's contact withh the fbi was but constant and pervasive as if it were a subsidiary. do you agree with that assessment? >> i do, we know on the record so far shows a relationship that goes beyond we this informal exchange of ideas. >> you are correct. in fact, isn't it true that leading up to the 2020 election, twitter had weekly meetings with not just the fbi, with doj, with dhs, with dni, to conduct this unconstitutional censorship by surrogate, we know that because of the twitter files, correct? >> correct. >> it was not just meetings, not just censorship of stories like the hunter biden laptop story, we also now know that the fbi paid twitter over three point $4 million of taxpayer funds to censor these stories before the

the chair now recognizes the gentlelady from new york, miss stefanik. >> mr. seligman, isn't it true that democrats objected to president george w. bush's victory in 2000 on the house floor. >> yes, it is? >> isn't it true that democrats objected to president george w. bush's victory in 2004. >> yes. >> i yield the remainder of my time. >> the irony is so thick in the room today that you can cut it with a nice. the democrats all witnesses this democrat from the constitutional law center at stanford law school where, less than two weeks ago, the dean had ordered mandatory training in the first amendment to faculty in students after her apology for the debacle of them shouting down a fifth circuit appellate court judge. were you present for that event? >> no, i was not. >> you just told us that basically the media networks need to censor viewpoints they disagree with. it is unbelievable. the other irony is our louisiana turning general jeff landry just explain to us in detail putting on a recent detail pointing out that there is literally a censorship enterprise

conference chair elise stefanik said yesterday -- >> no, no, no, we're not going to play anything she said. >> let me just -- >> mika, let me tell you -- >> i want to see a second. >> no, we're not going to play it. >> why. >> harvard, by the way. >> disgrace. >> another phony populist from an ivy league school. they have to do a better job screening their prospects. anyway -- >> i kind of want to see it. >> i don't want to see it. >> you have to face what's going on here. >> she says, oh, here's another example. see tweeted, here's another example of the justice department or the d.a. or whomever leaking, leaking things that will attack donald trump. george conway just sub-tweeted and said, ah, it was donald trump who released this. like, the stupidity. >> we don't need that. >> also, willie, i think -- and we ought to hear from gene, too, on this, but, willie, i think maybe we kind of brushed over the desantis thing, too, you know, talking about him, going, well, i don't know what it is like to pay off a porn star to keep them quiet from an alleged affair. we did kind of brush past

stefanik new for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. would ask both secretary austin and general milley about the unique role the tenth mountain division in ft. drum played great power competition. i had the opportunity to visit with major anderson who's doing a great job after the tremendous leadership by general beagle up at fort drum and we discussed general anderson's alpine initiative to return the tenth mountain division to its roots of cold weather operations and mountaineering. even that both you, mr. secretary, and you general milley were commanding generals at fort drum you are very familiar with the post with unique strengths of tenth mountain. what role do you see the tenth mountain division and fort drum specifically playing in outcompeting our adversaries in the arctic? >> i think tenth mountain division can play a significant role and does play a significant role in that endeavor. i would also say that are multipurpose division here it can, they have demonstrated they can go a number of places at a very, very effective be

the term i think is more appropriate that your colleague, congresswoman stefanik used, the rotten culture, the culture rot. specifically, as regards centralization, there is no question about traditionally the fbi field agent had an investigation, had a field supervisor above him, above him was the agent in charge of that office, only then did the information and the decision-making go to fbi headquarters -- what happened under the centralized -- that was eliminated. they ran keen vest against since, the hillary clinton email investigation, and then the trump collusion investigation, out of headquarters, eliminating layers of independent judgment, supervision gone. you had someone like somebody mentioned his name already here -- not only writes the communication, opening the case. he goes the next day to london and connects -- conducts the first interview in the case. you have mckay, a deputy director, number two in the whole bureau, directs the investigation and sends to agents to the white house to interview general flynn. no levels of review -- it was bound to and badly. >> thank you.

the chairman of the republican caucus, miss stefanik said, over 800 pounds of fentanyl were seized at our southern border in october. this is biden's border crisis. this is just cheering on chaos. instead of honoring the police who did the tough job, the hard work, and seized the drugs and took them off the streets. if we want to talk about some of the fentanyl facts, 96% of the fentanyl seized in the last fiscal year was seized at ports of entry. 86% of the convictions around fentanyl coming across our border were convictions of u.s. persons. 86%. so we should talk about fentanyl. we should go after china, but this? this is chaos what i'm seeing from my republican colleagues. and when george bush had successes, rightful successes stopping the war on terror, i never heard my republican colleagues say, while someone was stopped from carrying out a terrorist attack. this is george bush's terrorism crisis. we should celebrate law enforcement. we should not deride them and use them to make points that actually don't even land because the fentanyl crisis isn't happening where you are all c

he knows that people have been arrested for this for doing far less, and elise stefanik, she doesn't even believe -- none of these people even believe what they're saying, lindsey, all of them, they all trashed donald trump until they figured out their scam would be better if they supported donald trump. they don't believe any of what they're saying, and for good reason, because it's stupid. it doesn't -- it's not consistent with facts. it's not consistent with the law. they're just playing to their base, and they're insulting their base thinking their base is too stupid. >> it's a reflex, isn't it, when they're asked about donald trump to quickly race to their defense, whether you're jim jordan or lindsey graham, this investigation into donald trump in manhattan has been going on for a long time. they didn't suddenly discover all of this information. the possibility he could be indicted is relatively new. the investigation is not. this didn't just come out when he decided to run for president. despite what you heard from senator graham there, the possible charge of falsifying busine

of his people, and they have followed suit from marjorie taylor greene to kevin mccarthy to elise stefanik and even tim scott and people who may be running for president. they are targeting the manhattan d.a. what is inconvenient for trump is that now there are developments, thanks to the reporting of ken dilanian and others, in other cases, including this news report over the last 24 hours that he lied to his attorneys as it related to his handling of classified documents. largely for democrats, let this happen. don't redirect your strategy, your focus, your public arguments on to explaining the trump cases, would be my advice. also, if you have to talk about it, make clear that there is a range of cases. try to get the spotlight off of just the manhattan d.a. case. that's what the trump team wants. >> well, there is a range of cases. >> a range, a healthy range. a range as big as the yellowstone ranch. georgia. >> that's a big one. >> huge one. >> that's the one you kind of go, what's going on there? >> mar-a-lago. >> obvious evidence. let's talk about that. there was a development in an

you heard stefanik say he got $1 million from george soros. none of that is true.nnounced his candidacy for d.a. in 2019. in 2021, a pac said, we're going to promote george soros. someone gives them $1 million. they spend half a million dollars on alvin bragg's campaign. it's their own ads promoting bragg. no money changes hands. the color of change gave no money to alvin bragg. george soros, no $1 million, no $500,000. we reached out to the soros people. george soros has never met with alvin bragg, never spoke with him, never emailed alvin bragg, never been on a zoom call with alvin bragg, never given a dime to alvin bragg. in what world, in what world is alvin bragg a soros d.a. or animal, to disgustingly quote donald trump. only in the anti-semitic conspiracy theorists who dominate the american conservative movement. joe, quick point, republicans say they love money and politics. money is speech. even if he did give money to bragg, which he didn't, what is wrong with that? what objection could they have to the jewish billionaire holocaust survivor? i can't possi

that's a tweet from rep stefanik. to me, the fact that you are seizing these drugs is a success. i think there's a need here to acknowledge the successful work you are doing. i appreciate that. i wanted to ask, as border patrol agents, distinguished from those who work at ports of entry doing inspection, are we focusing enough energy and resources on detection and staffing at ports of entry? cars,i have been to that locat, i've seen the volume of cars, pedestrians that they are trying to process in a day. the more we do that ports of entry to halt smuggling a fentanyl, does that push it into more dangerous sectors and out into the border areas where you are? in other words, we are squeezing one part of it down, doing with it detection, technology, x-ray, is that then pushing people into these more dangerous, different tactics? chief modlin, you have thoughts on this? >> yes ma'am, thanks again. i will circle back to the spike in fentanyl. sometimes answer come to me a little later than they probably should. i would say that perhaps that is also because of the recognition of fenta