another federal or state or local law enforcement job in the future. given the fbi s success administering its own polygraph, and i ve asked this of mr. comey as well, will you commit to provide guidance or share best practices with cbp and dhs to better conduct their polygraph examination? well, senator, that s not an issue that i m especially familiar with at this stage. but something i would look forward to learning more about and seeing how we at the bureau could be helpful to cbp in that regard. that would be helpful. the fbi, we understand, has a much better program there. and it is a significant problem on our border to hire just to deal with attrition, let alone hire the number of officers as border patrol agents or port officials that we need. now, over the past few years,
dollars are not going to fund discrimination ain federally funded programs. that s what this agency is going to do and we can t stand for it. and are you concerned that the agencies, morale of the people who are doing this work in these agencies, you know, how will they even continue to do the work that they, you know, signed on to do and not create pay. absolutely. i think that the career men and women who signed on to do the important work of enforcing laws. it s a law enforcement job that they are taxed to do. that the morale is suffering. i also worry very much about the impact in communities around the country that rely on this very core function. civil rights enforcement is not super this is core to what the feral gernmt is tasked to do. it is what american taxpayers expect of the federal government and so i am very deeply concerned not only about the moralities of these folks that
know that their dollars are not going to fund discrimination in federally funded programs. it is a very serious mandate that this administration is seeking to cut back in all kinds of different ways. we can t stand for it. are you concerned that the agencies that the moral of the people doing this work in these agencies, how will they continue to do the work that they signed on to do at not great pay? absolutely. i think the career men and women who signed on to do the important work of enforcing federal civil rights laws, it s a law enforcement job that they are tasked to do, that the moral is suffering. i also worry very much about the impacted communities around the country that rely on this very core function. civil rights enforcement is not a superfluous federal function. this is core to what the federal government is tasked to do and what american taxpayers expect of the federal government. i am concerned not only of the
that agency respects because they know they re not going to count the political winds and they know that they are talented and doing the law enforcement job. trish: lieberman was connecticut s attorney general for 6 years before here was first elected to the senate back in 1988. he was also a democrat and he was al gore s running mate in 2000. he later became an independent and he endorsed john mccain back in 2008. he s been on both sides of the aisle. by most accounts, he s pretty independent and an ethical guy. what s your impression of joe lieberman and would he be good at the fbi job? mike: i love him. as a human being and as a person. everything that s said about him in terms of being honorable and a man of impeccable integrity, absolutely ironclad. i find it interesting that the democrats are already this is not spontaneous on their part. they come out and say we wants a buddy who s not political.
nonconventional way beside that and it has drown the attention of many democrats. the fact he supported the iraq war, that he was critical of president bill clinton as well. we heard from senator dianne feinstein yesterday. here was kind of a diplomatic way that she put it. i think that the political part of this is not the best part for the fbi. i think the fbi has to have someone that every member of that agency respects because they know their law enforcement. they know they re not going to cave to political whims. and they know that they re talented in doing the law enforcement job. president trump has interviewed liebermann and three other candidates that they have identified at the top of the list. very quickly here andrew mccabe, former oklahoma governor frank