Washington Ken Cuccinelli hes the acting number 2 at the department of Homeland Security which caused uproar after reports of its agents used Excessive Force during recent protests in Portland Oregon can these departments keep the peace in critical period. Welcome to conflict zone 3 weeks to polling day in the u. S. Can have faith in their electoral system yeah absolutely this is the most well protected election weve ever had and at the federal level the federal government has different responsibilities than the states we focus on Cyber Protection and dealing with nation states and people attacking the whole system weve got better service. And weve ever had before on the system and unlike 4 years ago we have great communication with all 50 states and the district of columbia about what were seeing in the threats that exist that didnt happen 4 years ago so all of us gas deliveries we have all of our states participating in our surveillance effort unlike only about a 3rd of them 4 years
Recent protests in Portland Oregon can these Department Keep the peace in this critical period. Ken cuccinelli welcome to conflict zone 3 weeks to polling day in the u. S. Can of americans have faith in their electoral system yeah absolutely this is the most well protected election weve ever had and at the federal level the federal government has different responsibilities than the states we focus on Cyber Protection and dealing with nation states and people attacking the whole system weve got better surveillance and weve ever had before on the system and unlike 4 years ago we have great communication with all 50 states and the district of columbia about what were seeing in the threats that exist that didnt happen 4 years ago so all of us care saylor is we have all of our states participating in our surveillance effort unlike only about a 3rd of them 4 years ago so all the scare stories about massive vote by mail fraud are simply untrue is that right now let me. Careful i said the fede
Prevent a double vote. Jeffrey says he doesnt think every registered voter should automatically get a ballot in the mail. The system we have now where you can ask for a mailin ballot makes sense because you ask for it. They send it to you. But to just send out ballots to everyone, especially in the middle of a pandemic where people have moved, people have lost their houses, people are in different locations. Reporter another issue were hearing, voters receiving a ballot in the mail that belongs to someone else, usually someone whos moved the secretary of States Office says you should mark the ballot envelope as return to sender, voter no longer lives there and put it back in the mail to the county elections office. This will notify the official to deactivate the previous registration. That was Anoushah Rasta reporting. Also tonight there are a lot of back room discussions and changing being made with the president ial debates. Next thursdays town hall is now canceled. President trump r
Wolf. Today we are meeting to consider the nomination of acting secretary of Homeland Security chad wolf to be the confirmed secretary of department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. I truly appreciate anybody who is willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be enter into the record without objection well do that. Ill just keep this short because i know we have time constraints here. But a quick description of what enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department, the responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Start with the federal Emergency Management agency deals with hurricanes and wild fires and now covid amongst many other responsibilities. Border security a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem, not by a long stretch, but thiS Administration done a good job of stopping the out of control illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. This agency
Winery. Those grapes have been made to smokey. They will not be able to use the grapes. If you look up the hill, there is fire up the hill, there is a big column of smoke but its been obliterated. Calistoga is famous for its hot springs. It sit on top of the in crest of earth atop molten rock. The big threat is the mountains above in the form of wildfires. It became painfully obvious before the dawns early light, to evacuate 5000 calistoga onions this afternoon. This time, as opposed to the fire of 2017, its a double threat to calistoga. Is surrounding us from the south end and it encompassing on the northeastern as well. Reporter if you look up here, you can see there is enough wind to make this fire very aggressive. What this fire now wants to do is march down the hill and get onto highway 29. Thats unlikely, but trees could easily fall into the path of cars. Local businessman thinks firefighters could and should be more aggressive. Fire like this easy to take care of and stop. The f