Supervised since 2013. Mary jo white, why did you even consider being the chairman of the securities and Exchange Commission . Great question. It is a wonderful agency. I was the attorney general in new york, worked very closely with sec. Professional staff, totally dedicated. They mean so much to our lives. To our markets. And it is public service. Nothing motivates like public service, particularly at this level, the sec. For someone who has no idea where it is, what it does, tell us. Sec has about 4000 employees. Its mission is to protect investors, which creates jobs. Keep our Capital Markets fair and orderly and efficient. It has a vast array of responsibilities. The sec oversees about 11,000 investment advisors, brokers who also advise. We oversee the exchanges. We are kind of everywhere that we can be to protect our Capital Markets and investors. But you do not have a criminal investigation role . We do not. We have a vast enforcement role. One of the most critical things the se
Professional staff, totally dedicated. They mean so much to our lives. To our markets. Public service. Nothing motivates like public service, particularly at this level, the sec. Someone who for has no idea where it is, what it does, tommy people tell us. About 130 thousand employees. Its mission is to protect investors, which creates jobs. Keep our Capital Markets fair and orderly and efficient. It has a vast array of responsibilities. The sec oversees about 11,000 investments advisors, brokers who also advise. We oversee the exchanges. We are kind of everywhere that we can be to protect our Capital Markets and investors. Do not have a criminal investigation role . We do not we have a vast enforcement role. One of the things the sec does is to enforce the laws. It does not write the rules, by the way, for wall street and brokerdealers and investment advisers. We cannot have criminal authority. We have the power to bring civil actions, civil fraud actions. We cant send anybody to jail,
Hostage because a group of conservatives in the house want to add a provision to the funding bill that stops president obamas executive action on immigration. Democrats and some republicans have pleaded with them to give it up. But still the fight goes on. With me now is exactly the person that i want to talk to about all of this the nations first ever secretary of Homeland Security tom ridge. Governor i know that you, too, disagree with what the president is doing Via Executive action on immigration. But is this the way to go about opposing his plan . You know, michael, the cacophony inside the beltway for the past couple weeks reminds me of an expression i think we all learned from our parents and teachers when we were kids two wrongs do not make a right. The president is wrong. I think he has exceeded his constitutional authority. I think my republican friends are wrong in holing the department hostage. I mean these men and women go out daily to try to make us more secure and safer
Democrats and some republicans have pleaded with them to give it up. The fight goes on. With me now is exactly the person i want to talk to about all of this the nations first ever secretary of Homeland Security tom ridge. Governor i know that you, too, disagree with what the president is doing Via Executive action on immigration. But is this the way to go about opposing his plan . Michael, the cocoa phony in the beltway the past couple weeks reminds me of an expression we heard when we were kids two wrongs do not make a right. The president is wrong i think he has exceeded his constitutional authority, i think my republican friends are wrong in holding the department hostage, these men and women go out daily to try to make us more secure and safer and i withholding their paychecks to accepted a message to the president is wrong. Im hopeful at the end of the day my colleagues in the house will embrace a full bill full funding for the balance of the year and then engage the president on
Because we have to begin tonight naturally, the universe has welcomed me back with latebreaking trump russia news. According to tonights Washington Post, yet another senior serving National Security official in the u. S. Government has reportedly now told associates that the president directed him, the president told him to intervene with the fbi to try to stop the trump russia investigation. When james comey, the fbi director, was fired by the white house, we first got a song and dance from the white house about all sorts of other reason yes he might have been fired. The president then soon admitted that he had the trump russia investigation on his mind when he fired fbi director james comey. We soon thereafter earned that james comey had told associates he had committed to writing. He had written in a memo and told other senior people at the fbi that the president had told him to stop the trump russia investigation. To l off the mike flynn part of the trump russia investigation. Agai