Good morning. This hearing will come to order. This is the hearing of the title is resources needed to protect and secure the homeland. We will review the budget of Homeland Security. We have acting secretary of Homeland Security, the honorable Kevin Mcaleenan here to testify. I want to first of all appreciate and thank you for your long service to this country. And in particular at this moment where we are grappling with so many issues. The aftermath of an unprecedented level of disasters with hurricanes and fires in california, hurricanes, you know, obviously in the gulf coast, the dister that aster oct the border right now. If we could quickly put up our chart. I think ee hawe have our chart. Not only do we have it on the chart, but we had an event in oshkosh over the weekend that required a giveaway. I produced a chart. It shows how out of control the problem is. In the first seven months of this year we have over 300, the total is actually 312,000 individuals coming either as over
We begin this hour with all signs pointing to a fourth indictment for donald trump in georgia. Two witnesses say that they will appear tuesday before the fulton grand jury. Journalist george chidi and former Lieutenant Governor jeff duncan both announcing their pending testimonies on twitter. Duncan writing i look forward to answering their questions around the 2020 election. Republicans should never let honesty be mistaken for weakness. The Fulton County georgia courthouse already on high alert. The barricades blocking the building from traffic. The bomb sniffing dogs inspecting vehicles. Trump, meanwhile, is proclaiming his innocence on the campaign trail. Heres what he told nbcs Vaughn Hillyard when he was asked about a possible plea deal in georgia. Any chance you take a plea deal in georgia . Yes, sir. Its a wise guy question. We dont take plea deals. Trumps commentary on the criminal cases are under review for the d. C. Judge. Friday, they restricted how the judge can handle evid
more beds, changes the ten-year backlog that in we re many now to weeks before people are deported. the bottom line is, everybody that looks at our bill says it will greatly reduce the flow of the illegals in this country. the american people are done with this. the border has to be secured. the president has the authority right now. he doesn t need another act of congress. he can do it right now. he s unwilling to do it. there s a clear choice for republicans. fix the border or keep chaos at the border because it helps donald trump. it s like they were trying to sell us on gucci. but it s the package in the guy in the alley pulled out of his trunk. that s the equivalent of this border bill. all right. you re looking live at capitol hill where the battle is on and the knives are out. the senate releasing their 118 billion spending bill with aid for ukraine and israel tied to border security. leaders on both sides of the senate say it s the best you re going to get a
sight of the aim. we re going to dismantle hamas. we re going to bring back the hostages, and we re going to return safety to israelis. meanwhile, thousands of israelis gathered in tel aviv tonight, including the families of hostages pleading with the israeli government to bring back their loved ones, bring them back to israel, this as another hostage 27-year-old inbar hynum died while being held captive by hamas. according to the israeli prime minister s office her death means 21 hostages have died inside gaza, while 129 others remain held captive. we have all the latest developments from tel aviv. reporter: in the wake of the tragic deaths of three israeli hostages killed by israeli soldiers in northern gaza, a large crowd gathered in downtown tel aviv on saturday night in what has become known as hostages square to demand that thes tajz in gaza come home, demand that the hostages in gaza come holm, demand that the netanyahu government does more. i spoke to a number o
states. reporter: the number of flight delays are still climbing along with major outrage over how air travel came to a near unprecedented halt. the faa did just post that no u.s. departures will happen today until 9:00 a.m. reporter: wednesday morning, airports across the country stood still as the federal aviation administration implemented a nationwide ground stop, something not seen since the n9/11 terrorist attacks. interesting day. everybody except medivac and military stopped. reporter: the faa fail injury st failure started overnight in notices to air missions the bulletins provide the latest information about airports and air space. it s absolutely essential and the system can be very fragile. reporter: the effect cascading cancellations and delays in the thousands. first it was a 20-minute delay and then an hour. reporter: anger is stretching from concourses to capitol hill. ted cruz the top senate republican overseeing transportation is calling