javelins. and there wasn t a hold put on purchasing of equipment, is that correct? not to my understanding, no. can i ask you a non-impeachment inquiry question, mrs. cooper? a non what? a non-impeachment inquiry question? sir, my time is yours. what can we do to help the ukrainians defend against russian electronic warfare? what more can we be doing to help defend? what i can say in an open hearing is there actually is some electronic warfare detection equipment that is included in the usai package. so there s a piece of capability we re already working to provide them. i think this specific topic, though, is more suitable for a closed door session. that s a good copy. thank you both for your service to our country. and chairman, i yield back.
2016 election was our cyber-pearl harbor. are we ready for 2020? no, we re not. and the reason we re not, we have 4,000 counties that all run election machinery. we have 50 states that all run their own election machinery. there are no federal security standards for federal election. and the states and the counties say, well, we didn t detect any attack. well, maybe that s because they don t have any detection equipment. they don t have modern sophisticated detention equipment because they don t have the money. when you don t have detention equipment, you can t detect when you re attacked. you can t detect when someone gets in and alters the voting rules, or does other things. the house has passed a bill to give money to those counties and states so they ll be able to defend themselves in 2020. and the senate, well, the senate refuses to take it up, because mitch mcconnell wouldn t let it come to the floor. something i was alarmed to learn in the book many
i think ear seeing the latest statistics coming out for the end of 2018, to actually see some improvement with overdoses. what i think has been good is the things we have done in the senate, by partisan and with the house, with the president s signature, with stopping the flow of drugs into the country. fenn fentanyl we ve worked on especially, the all kinds of transitional programs once you go to recovery, where are you going to go from there, but it s hit us particularlily heart, and we have a lot of solutions here, and we re going to show those to the acting secretary. what is your ask? what do you need from dhs? one of the things we put in the budget was at the border, entry centers, to make sure we have better detection equipment,
at some point you wonder if there will be a huge sinkhole on this side of the border. crime has not been rising because of this, we should point out. but there you see the challenge against a wall. what is your reaction to all of this? well, look, brianna, i was a border governor. i dealt with border issues. there has not been an increase in illegal immigration through borders. it s through tunnels, it s through ports of entry, it s through the ocean, the coast guard. it s not through having havin wall is overly expensive, it s not going to work. people will climb over a wall, they ll go under, as the tunnel shows. i think america and the congress need to come to an agreement that what is needed is more border security. i m for that. more detection equipment, more border patrol agents, more overflights, but a wall is
stephanie, rain or shine, these agents like border patrol agent thomas diaz, they re on the front line, saving lives, front line of defense here, preventing these smugglers from coming over. and actually saving the migrant families that are trying to cross. and we re out here in the middle of the desert, supervisor. can you tell us what was the call that you got, what we re doing out here? ten minutes ago we had an activation on our detection equipment in this area. so it indicates some sort of activity. i can t hear him. can you? [ no audio ] sorry. it looks like we lost our sound there. we ll go back to marianna in a few minutes. it is a complicated issue for