security when i was in congress on the homeland security committee so we overlap overlapped there and then had the wisdom to go to california where i instill the residence and thrilled now that she's at berkeley, which is headed by a good friend so just wanted to say not only can i remember things but kudos and a spectacular career so far. how in the world did i name this book it is getting so much attention. well, it wasn't my idea. i had a boring title in mind relative to the topic and i was talking to my fourth child a daughter that is a writer and i said i'm writing this book. here's what it's about and here's the title. the title is insanity defense. and she said that will excite the audience and that tells what you're talking about and i said sold. what it means, i'm sure we all know, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity and that's what i talked about over the three decades. >> your book is a kind of fascinating exposition particularly of your time in congress. why don't you share with the viewers how you came to

security. >> host: the department of homeland security is a behemoth and it's the largest reorganization of the federal government since the creation of the department of defense in the aftermath of world war ii. but i will acknowledge we had some pains along the way. it was challenging but i also would agree that the department now and i'm going to include the trump ears but the department now is very much involved since its initial phase . one thing that hasn't evolved about it is the issue of congressional oversight. he mentioned in the book there are 88 committees and subcommittees of the congress that exercise some sort of jurisdiction over the department of homeland security. do you think there's any realistic way for that to be reformed? that was one of the recommendations of the 9/11 commission and is it's the one that hasn't had any action yet. guess who i misspoke because i said only the largest is part of the pentagon. it leaves the last time i checked it does have committees and subcommittees with some piece of jurisdiction over homeland security enterprise which is absurd an

of homeland security? >> yes. >> excellent. so can you tell me what the job description of the borders is? >> do you mean the secretary of homeland security? my responsibilities -- >> i'm referring to the appointment from president biden to vice president harris as the border czar. >> congresswoman, you are speaking with the individual who has responsibility for border security as the secretary of homeland security. the vice president's responsibility -- >> so it is our understanding that vice president harris has been appointed by president biden as a border czar. >> that is a misunderstanding. the vice president, her focus is on addressing the root causes of regular migration, working with the countries of guatemala, el salvador and honduras in the northern triangle to understand why people are leaving their home countries, their homes where they speak the language, where they built their lives -- >> i understand where you're going with this, but i'm going to reclaim my time. i'm just going to redirect.

>> the department of homeland security is responsible for that issue. because of the large numbers that you are talking about, they, i understand, they have a priorities, and first and most important, the people who are a risk to the united states and public safety. i think that and lastly, they are trying to deport recent arrivals in order to send the message that people not come. >> i was with you and secretary mayorkas when we went through this, because i am shocked of what he said, because the number of people coming across is massively up, and the people deported is going down, so i am struck by the department of homeland security that it is illegal to cross the border in this country and somebody is found to have claimed in their fail of asylum and 90% do, that they will be deported. that is the message that people in the countries need to hear. not that, well, don't come, but if you do, nothing is going to happen to you. >> it is a misdemeanor to cross the border without proper documentation is correct, and the question to rights to apply for asy

department of of homeland security. madam president, very sadly, our chairman, gary peters, chairman of the homeland security, lost his mom this week and cannot be here this week. normally he would be here speaking on behalf of the nomination. his mother whom i have known personally, she is a huge detroit tigers baseball fan as am i. i have had the pleasure of going with her to baseball games and consider her a kindred spirit. i want to, as we think about senator peters and his family this morning, i just want to ask maybe for a moment of silence to remember her and the peters family. thank you. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. carper: madam president, as many of our colleagues know, the department of homeland security is still a fairly young agency created in response to the attacks on september 11, 2001. i vividly remember the tragic events of that day, a day as beautiful like today -- sunshine, blue skies -- and then the world changes. i was riding the train from wilmington to washington, d.c. i recall a

but at any rate, we did think that there ought to be a homeland security, dedicated homeland security function in the whited house. and president bush 43 created one. and tom ridge, former governor of pennsylvania, was in the post. and i tell some funny stories about that. at any rate, we -- we, the group on capitol hill, bipartisan -- thought that position should have more power to direct a homeland response across the government. we were not plotting to create a new department. but what happened was that we te were just increasing clues or there were -- it was clear that there were missed clues on 9/11. that's what it was. and one of them was that an fbi agent in the midwest had noticed -- this was before 9/11 -- that some folks were taking flight instruction, air flight, airplane -- >> host: pilot training. >> guest: yes. that's what they were doing. but they weren't interested in taking off and landing. they were only interested in how do you fly the plane which, obviously, caught the attention of the instructors at the school. it was reported to the fbi, and this woman named coll

, key elements to homeland security. and we need to incentivize investments through tax benefits, we need to make it easier for individuals, businesses, and government to invest in resiliency. we need to ensure the use of resilient american made products in the construction and retrofit of our key lifeline infrastructure. and finally, and maybe most importantly, we need to build capacity. we must ensure that state, local, tribal governments, regional entities are given the tools and resources that they need to increase capacity and capability to even identify risk and hazards and mitigate those risks before the next crisis occurs. for this country to be resilient we must focus at capacity levels in all levels of government and sustainability, adaptability and create a financial instruments that can be leveraged to drive socially responsible. and this will be streamlining programs and this committee is going to need to focus on effective grants management and oversight to leverage these systematically and systematically.

it is my responsibility as the secretary of homeland security. today the situation is dramatically different. the border patrol station not overcrowded. the children spent an average of less than 30 hours in it. board surge has been a challenge for years and years. to address the challenge successfully requires a multipart plan. we have a plan. the vice president is leading our nation's effort to tackle the root causes of migration, why people leave their homes in the first place. i and my colleagues in the cabinet have been directed to execute the rest of the plan, to build safe and legal path ways for people who qualify for humanitarian relief. to rebuild our country's asylum system that was dismantled under the prior administration in an orderly and just way. to remove those whose claims do not qualify. i am immensely proud to lead the workforce and the men and women of d.h.s. to secure the border and execute safe, orderly and humane process as the president and the vice president have directed. i am grateful to the vice president for leading

you saw the secretary of homeland security testifying before the house homeland security committee in which he says it is his job to address the southern border. >> it's why i'm the secretary of homeland security and it is my responsibility to manage the border at the direction of the president and the vice president. and i have visited the border on multiple occasions. >> vice president harris has gone to central america causing migrants to leave the triangle for the united states. during that trip harris did plead with those considering a journey not to come to the u.s. republicans in washington and in state capitols are criticizing her for her failure to travel thus far to the southern u.s. border. >> they realize it's a disaster and they think if she goes it will highlight it even more. but i'll tell you, not showing up and not taking decisive action is ultimately the bad policy response. >> the vice president scheduled to land shortly in atlanta. the governor of georgia, brian kemp tweeted while v.p. still has not been to the border i would be happy to arrange for her to receive

homeland security's office of strategy, policy, and plans. in his role, mr. shahoulian coordinates and develops policy for dhs headquarters and component hits. mr. benjamine huffman is the executive assistant commission of enterprise services for u.s. customs and border protection. in his role, mr. huffman oversees componentwide efforts to improve and increase collaboration among cbp offices that provide services to frontline operators. katherine dueholm is the acting deputy assistant secretary for western hemisphere affairs at the u.s. department of state. in her role, ms. dueholm is responsible for u.s. engagement with mexico and central america. patrick lechleitner is the acting executive associate director for homeland security investigations at u.s. immigration and custom enforcement. in his role, he oversees the principal investigative component of the department of homeland security that is responsible for investigating and disrupting transnational criminal organizations and terrorist networks seeking to exploit u.s. customs or immigra

reports released by the homeland security and the department of defense categorized climate cap rise change as an urgent growing threat based on its ability to critical infrastructure deplete military resources and fuel terrorism despite the pressing need to address the risk posed by climate change and despite the progress that has been made by the obama administration president trump disregarded these challenges increased the likelihood that americans would experience these risks and took steps to eliminate federal research and response climate change programs in contrast through multiple executive orders on the climate crisis and by providing one billion dollars to communities through fema's pre-disaster building resilience infrastructure and communities program and through the biden administration's plan to invest in resilient critical infrastructure through the american jobs plan and the administration's budget proposal president biden continues to take swift and bold action to restore america's leadership on climate issues and confront the risks posed by climate change in prepar

the department of homeland security is expanding its intelligence analysis, production, and sharing. it is prioritizing relevant grant funding to support state and local partners. it is enhancing its collaboration with community-based organizations, and state, and local, and industry partners, to address domestic terrorism threats while protecting privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. and is working to support the development of resources that enhance critical thinking and media literacy as a mechanism to strengthen resilience to misinformation and disinformation. the department of homeland security is also focused on community-based violence prevention programs in order to empower and revamp support to community partners who can help to prevent individuals from ever reaching the point of committing a terrorist attack. the department of defense will train service members on the potential targeting of current and former military members by violent extremists in order to help prevent radicalization. the department of health and human services will work with the departments of edu

we do not have metrics and the department of homeland security. it isn't necessarily based on the flow that we see but rather the public health details and facts that underlie our actions and we are in close touch on a daily basis with the cdc to understand the public health conditions that serve as a predicate for the use of that authority. >> the cdc will begin as required by law the right to claimy asylum. how are you preparing for this change and what additional resources will be needed to effectively manage it? >> we and the department of homeland security, our personnel have dealt with surges many times before and they occur periodically and more specifically seasonally. we are not only looking at the tools we have historically used under our different authorities and under title eight of the united states code but once again, we are looking at the processes the we have and how we can build upon them and in prove them so we are looking at for example the asylum system and the length of time it takes to achieve a final adjudication and how we

and look at more things even outside of the capitol police because we did it with homeland security, whichdi included looking at the role of the defense department decisions as well as the fbi and homeland security and the like, our focus was on what happened that day and what we can do to make sure it doesn't happen again. we believe that we should not wait to implement changes that can be made immediately, and today's hearing on oversight of capitol police practices and procedures is an important step as we look at reforms that should be put in place without delay.to toward that end, we are glad that mr. bolton is here to discuss his work and perspective on the major issues facing the department. since january 6th, mr. bolton has issued four flash reports looking into the breakdowns and failures in the lead-up to and on that day. these inspector general reports, which covered topics including intelligence, operational planning, the civil disturbance unit, and threat assessment, have expanded our understanding of what happened that day. these reports also identify changes that are n

to part and of homeland security. how can our resources be dedicated in the enforcement of federal immigration law to deliver in the enforcement arena the greatest public safety impact? so we are not pursuing cases indiscriminately. we are not pursuing them devoid of factors that educate and inform the admonition of coming on justice or civil immigration justice. we are doing so by looking at what poses the greatest threat, what resources do we have, and what delivers the best outcome for the american people, and that is what we are doing. >> thank you, sir. thank you, madam chair. >> mr. agee la -- mr. aguilar. >> thank you, madam chair and mr. secretary for being here. i wanted to follow up briefly on the line of questioning that my colleague miss underwood talked about, given the byzantine nature of the dhs medical officer's perspective, i wanted to ask what role that individual dhs' chief medical officer will clay in establishing guidelines to process individuals at the southern border, as we look toward a post ti

., fema administrator testifies before the house homeland security committee on agency readiness. at 11 a.m. on c-span3, a house armed services committee hearing on the army's 2022 budget with army secretary christine warmuth and chief of staff general james mcconville. at 3 p.m., a house subcommittee looks at the financial services industry's commitment towards economic and racial justice. now, a conversation on the heritage foundation's report on china including china's influence in the region and national security concerns. this is about 50 minutes. >> all right, everyone. we are going live in 3, 2, 1 -- >> the broadcast is now starting. all attendees in listen-only mode. >> thank you for joining us on heritage events live. we're delighted to welcome you to the heritage foundation's 2021 china transparency report. we hope you enjoy the program. >> thank you, and thank you to everyone joining us online for this discussion. you know, on servers have known and lamented the lack of transparency in the china across the board going back many, many years from economy to military to in

this was held by the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee.

security committee to extend thatit jurisdiction because we did it before homeland security with thehe defense departmentd with homeland securityle but the focus is on what happened that day w and what we can do to make sure it doesn't happen again. we cannot wait to implement changes that canle be made immediately in today's hearing on oversight with those procedures is an important step looking at reforms to be put in place without delay toward that and we are glad mr. bolton is here to discuss his work and perspectives on the major issues facing the department. since january 6 issuing reports looking at the breakdown and failures of the lead up to and on that day. the inspector general reports which cover topics including intelligence, operational planning and the threat assessment have expanded our understanding of what happened that day. they identify changes that are needed with the practices and procedures of capital police leadership especially as the rank-and-file officers has been seriously undermined. many of mr. bolton's recommendations identify reform and we also put those

we are already getting a preview of the administration's new posture from homeland security secretary. he says the number one focus of the plan to fight domestic terror, to deter, detect, and prosecute groups intent on causing violence. >> we are focused on is violence. the incitement of violence, the drive to violence, the commission of violent acts. >> joining me is pete williams who conducted that interview and intelligence and national security correspondent ken dilanian and clint watts. he's worked as a consultant to the fbi counterterrorism division and is a distinguished research fellow and msnbc national security analyst. welcome to you all, guys. as we are awaiting this press conference, pete, i want to start with you. we heard part of your interview with secretary mayorkas on this new plan. walk us through, pete what this new strategy looks like and what pushed the administration to make it. >> reporter: well, in many ways it looks like what the government is already doing only more so. better trying to coordinate with social media companies to keep tabs on the sort of trend

under the department of homeland security. and we enacted the secure fence act, which would have established defense along 750 miles of the southern border. so, we did take measures in that timeframe, in the 12 years i was in congress, but to your point that has been a problem for decades. previous administrations on the republican side, and the democrat side, have been slow to aggressively enforce the border. it's something that we are still dealing with today. host: greg, republican in new carlisle, ohio. caller: how were you? host: doing well. caller: i believe it is time to talk about impeachment of the biden administration because two migrants went to my best friend's home down in texas and killed the family. now, you do not hear nothing about that. they are covering it up. and i am tired of biden. it's time to renounce. guest: impeachment would be a measure to potentially addresses, but unfortunately what we need to do is put in policies -- put in place policies now that would provide for strengthening the border now. if

the homeland security secretary writing in "usa today." let's hear from bruce in lubbock, texas, a republican. hi, bruce. >> hi. i don't understand for either a republican or a democratic politician has he ever told me why the american taxpayers should support daca or any other immigrants coming to this country. ellis island is a false narrative because they came, immigrants came through one point, did what was necessary. these people are flooding across the border. it's not the same thing. so i'm waiting for an explanation from any politician why american taxpayers should support daca or any of these immigrants coming to this country. >> all right, bruce. bruce in texas. as bruce was talking, the president has arrived in geneva to the site of the summit with the russian president. here on "washington journal" this morning we're spending the first hour talking about whether you support or oppose the daca program. president obama created it nine years ago yesterday in an announcement from the rose garden. yesterday on capitol hill the senat

and with that i'm going to now introduce the secretary of the department of homeland security , ali mayorkas. >> thank you very much madame vice president . it's a privilege to be with you today. i recommended to the vice president that we visit el paso because it is one of the biggest sections of the border. el paso reflect the many diverseelements of our mission . it demonstrates also the progress that has been made and the work that remains area in march this sector experienced overcrowding and unaccompanied children at the border control stations or more than an average of 120 hours. we saw too many children in a border patrol facility not designed for them. before too long. the president and vice president directed me and the execution of my responsibilities as the secretary of homeland security to take care of it. today, the situation is dramatically different. the border patrol station is not overcrowded. with children and unaccompanied average of less than 30 hours in it. the border searches have been a challenge for years and years. and to address the challenges successfully require

i'll ask the homeland security secretary about the january 6th report and its glaring omission of former president trump's role. president biden's negotiations with a key republican just collapsed without reaching a deal on infrastructure. is he running out of options to get a top priority passed? and we're also standing by for a news conference by vice president harris in mexico, facing her first diplomatic tests abroad. former president obama warns the republican party's view of democracy is, quote, unrecognizable and unacceptable as he talks to cnn about trump, the 2020 election and race in america. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we begin our coverage with our congressional correspondent ryan nobles and that new u.s. senate report on the capitol insurrection. this is the most detailed account yet of what happened on january 6th right here in the nation's capitol. it's also notable for what was left out. >> reporter: no doubt about that. we learned a lot from this report about what went wr

your budget is a 0% increase in homeland security. nobody is finished building of border wall with the budget approved in allocated from border wall construction and contract years are still being paid despite construction halting. i met is this owner, you don't pay people for not doing the work and americans are paying contractors and not to the wall. there are film -- 4 million who are flooding our border. [inaudible] this is at a time when the border crossings are at a 21 year high and -- unaccompanied minors at the border their parents themselves suffering from their children because of this of mr. since policy. in april we saw a record high of 170,000 illegal aliens. there were 170,000 apprehensions authorities are encased after hand 1.35 million this fiscal year the most sense 2000. meanwhile the biden administration -- more than 26,000 illegal aliens in communities across the united states. i seen them flown under airplanes paid for by her night united states tax dollars and getting on planes without an idea as well. the silent

it's something i've been talking about and it's something the department of homeland security is taking a closer look beyond the traditional threat of counterterrorism and other threats the country is facing from china. a big part of that what is going on in our universities today, china's ultimate goal as we all know is to be the world leader in science and technology into do that they will need to recruit individuals and foreign experts in the way they do that is looking at u.s. institutions, universities and college they can do that in different ways that we have seen they can recruit u.s. researchers and professors and through a couple of different programs will talk about the confucius institute but also sending chinese nationals to the u.s. on u.s. student visas and how they take advantage of the visas, what they do on the visas while they're here in the knowledge transfer they sent back to china on a variety of sensitive subjects. we need to look closer harder look at that we did that with the trump of administration and hopefully that will continue but that's critically importan

. >> comment security secretary -- homeland security secretary ella hunter mayorkas -- alejandro mayorkas testified before the home went -- house homeland security committee.

and remind everyone we also have serious security spending like homeland security and department of justice and usaid and state department. i appreciate the difference between defense and nondefense but we do have significant security funding on the side that is growing. >> does the administration not think that these are credible threats? that the us should be conceding the world leadership role? >> we think $753 billion we have the tools available to make sure we can counter china in any other adversary but we have a diplomatic budget that keeps up with complex and to change and that's what you see here. >> let me ask you unlike the president and vice president i have seen the humanitarian crisis in the national security crisis and i would venture to say that the president budget calls for funding for fiscal year 23 why is that? if you know what's going on at the southern border? that the president called for an additional $760 million of facilities to improve border and migrantor processing and 200 million more for p technologyol. almost 900 million more for immigration judges. >> so tho

then we have the story angel families say they deserve a seat at the table but the homeland security secretary as a biden administration rewrites the rule basically letting dangerous criminal illegals back on the street, the administration is moving to build more border facilities in texas , texas is moving to st, don't mess with texas, i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" start right now. ♪ welcome to the show you're watching the fox business network, the s&p and the nasdaq hitting a highs even as investors digest new inflation data coming in and the federal reserve this week may signal rate hikes look at what's going on j.p. morgan chase, jamie diane entered i meditated stockpiling cash because it thinks inflation can be long-term making interest-rate hikes over there but start with tennessee senator marsha blackburn, it's great to have you back on. elizabeth: thank you for joining us. what is your reaction to president biden in the g7 leaders that there should be a new investigation into whether the wuhan lab leaked covid-19. >> i think it's a g7 were to take us up it wou

but i don't think the vice president making a trip to the border with the secretary of homeland security is going to prevent or change what the former president says. reporter: senator tester is saying they are are on the raiser's edge for infrastructure, can they go forward. do you feel that there is a possibility of some kind of development within the next 24 hours? would you agree with that sense of the timing? and is there anything knew new that the white house has offered for paying for these infrastructure programs? >> there is no question and much easier to negotiate with congress when they are in session. we are going to look at congress. there are a couple more days in the week and hopeful to make progress. if we see progress continuing to be made and then we look forward tore welcoming democrats and republicans to meet with the president. in terms of what we offer, the president has offered a range of ways to pay for these proposals and taken some of our proposals off the table including ensuring that individuals pay a higher rate for this specific negotiation and also raising

homeland security like department of justice. like our u.s. and state department. appreciate the split between defense and nondefense pride we certainly have security funding in this side that ishi growing. >> dizzy administration not think it's a credible threat we are seeing? the u.s. should be conceding its leadership role? >> we think it seven or $53 billion we have the tools available toll make sure we can counter china and any othersa adversary. we also think we have to have a diplomatic budget that keeps up with complex changing world. that is what you see here. >> let me ask you, unlike our president vice president, i visited the border. been to the border recently pressing the humanitarian crisis the national security crisis we have down there. in fact a venture to say it's more than a crisis it is a disaster. but nevertheless, the president budget calls for a freeze on funding for the department of homeland security for fiscal year 22. white is that what we know what is going on at the southern border? >> the president

that homeland security adviser to the same levels as national security adviser. now, we've worked well together, coordinated efforts, but there were periods of tension, and of course, we've learned from 9/11, i think we should've learned. from 77, we should've learned that we can't just focus on our homeland security efforts at the water's edge. we have to ensure that we are engaged with challenges and threats to national security abroad because once those threats recharge, they can only be dealt with at an exorbitant cost and price. i think that's also the case for covid—19, as the chinese communist party foisted covid—19 on the world by suppressing the news of human—to—human transmission, shutting down domestic travel before international travel, going after any of the doctors orjournalists who were trying to ring the alarm bells about it. of course, those actions prevented us, the world, from containing what could've been a local epidemic, and it became a global catastrophe. with the uk's new national security adviser starting work in march, general mc