commissioner yaki. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman and thank you for your leadership in holding this briefing. i have a question, i guess, that starts with mr. landy and may filter out to some other folks here and probably elsewhere and other panels. i want to focus a little about the mandate that congress has to maintain a level of not less than 34,000 detention beds at any given appoint in time. i imagine in policy and planning, having to figure out a way to ensure that number affects not just whether or not you can physically do it but from a logistical point of view how is it that you get to that point. in other words, one of the criticisms, for example, is that the actual number of violent offenders -- violent as in real violence are in these facilities somewhere in the very low teens or single digit range and there's a criticism that in order to meet that mandate, the department is reaching down, so to speak, to get people who may have dui or marijuana or some other nonviolent offense. i don't want to put you on the spo

yaki and followed by commissioner heriot. >> thank you, very much, mr. chairman. i want to thank the panel and the previous panel that appeared today and i want to apologize for my absence today but i've been knocked down by the flu and my doctors do not want me to travel. with that being said, this is an extremely important subject for me personally. it's something that i wanted the -- when i was initially appointed to the commission over 10 years ago. i even campaigned, talked about how we could try to bring these types of issues before the commission, and it's taken a long road to get there and we're finally here and i want to thank all my colleagues for that. the question i have is directed to the panel from something that mr. clegg said. mr. clegg, thank you for being here. you and i quite vigorously spar at these hearings. but there's something you said. [ inaudible ] i wanted to go towards the legal basis for the nondiscrimination act and the impact on interstate commerce. i would like to hear from the advocates on the panel today about why you believe that

. >> joining us now is michael yaki.ment of homeland security looks a little by better. >> congress barely meeting the deadline. you have to ask yourself how long is john boehner going to happening onto the speakership. he showed an inability to held on to a bill to get conservatives to be a part. the democrats said. john, this is your bill. you get the votes to do it and 50 members of the he republican caucus deeffected and it failed and he comes back with the seven daypro vice so. and -- proviso and they said we will vote for it. because he promised a clean bill like they did in the senate. the republicans and conservatives said if he brings up a clean bill. we will not support that either. it will be very interesting. >> what happens behind the scenes with boehner trying to rain in the votes. >> it is whether or not he will figure out a way to bring up some kind of vote to give them the ability to stay back to the constituents. i voted against obama's immigration action. this is now we will do it. in the end, it is no

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i did 20 years of research which is what brought me to live in the tucson area to be near the yaki people and study with medicine people. so i walked the deserts a lot but wasn't dying of thirst. i was with people trying to teach me the life source in plants. >> host: jim is in new jersey, you're on booktv. >> hello. this is jim carvallo, when i lived in tucson -- >> guest: oh no; hi, jim. >> caller: i published a little journal called border beat. it's nice to see you. >> guest: oh,ey. thank you for publishing me. >> you're very welcome so nice to hear you again. i have a quick anecdote about chuck that you'll get a kick out and gift insight into his temperment. i was in a massacre in juarez at a restaurant, and when i told chuck about it, i also referred to one of the victims of the actual massacre was an american and the mexican press made reference to him as joe cool. so chuck said joe cool from america was shot in mexico. perhaps there is some justice on the border after all. >> guest: oh my god. that's chuck. that's chuck. >> caller: exactly. that was chuck. he was also the one who