the migrants know if they can get here, cross illegally and step foot into the u.s., they have a good chance of being released into the country and they are going to be good to go for several years in some cases because of how backlogged our court system is with immigration cases. back to you. sandra: bill, thank you. john. john: bring in florida republican congressman michael waltz, on the house intelligence committee and former green beret commander. the biden administration taking a victory lap over the sharp decline, but also this afghan national apprehended and hundreds of thousands of got-aways since biden took office, don t know who they are, where they are or what their intentions are. congressman, is that a problem for you? yeah, it s a huge problem, john. it s a problem for every american. we know that people from over 170 countries are now coming
will, pete and ainsley. back to you guys. pete: thank you very much. as mark was talking speculating. will said why don t you talk to the person on the house intel committee. why don t we do that. bring in elise stefanik chair of the house republican conference and the house armed services committee and intel committee. good morning. happy to be here. pete: what do you make of this? we step back and say how did this happen? another officer who is out affiliated with russians sharing the information. how did that happen. very important questions, pete. that s why this week at speaker mccarthy s leadership bipartisan briefing for all members of congress. i sit on the house intelligence committee and any type of leak especially of this gravity. we need to investigate it and make sure it never happens again. i have a lot of questions. why was there such extensive access to so much extensive material for such a young national guardsman. that creates lots of questions we have to answ
trust us, allies to trust us we are going to have to look at reforms. i sit on the house intelligence committee. i m a former army ranger and been to war and know the consequences of leaks like this on the battlefield there s three things going on here you have the first is the level of classification. that s secret and top secret and compartmented. people get different levels of classification the second is the level known as the need to know you have a top secret clearance, doesn t mean you should have access to everything that s top secret it s that level that seems to have failed here and then the third is putting mechanisms in place to make sure people are printing out materials, they re if they re accessing things in an unusual way that is spotted and detected that also is a point of failure. we re going to look at the last two categories and see what needs to be fixed here. he did not seem to have the political motivation, at least according to his friends who talked to the
so you will see border patrol families, you will see law enforcement. i m inviting a local county sheriff from montgomery county from my district to highlight the crime crisis and important laws that house republicans wanted to pass in order to support our law enforcement and address the crime crisis on our streets. but, you know, this is not my first state of the union hearing from joe biden. he tends to double down on his failed far left policies. ainsley: going to be interesting because kevin mccarthy will be sitting behind him. we are used to nancy pelosi sitting there we all remember during trump when she ripped up the state of the union. we want to ask you, too, about this chinese spy flight because he says he is not changing his speech. do you think he should? does he need to address. this he absolutely needs to address this, ainsley. i sit on the house intelligence committee and the house armed service was committee. a senior member on both of those committees. the fact that
depend on. and that is a clear nonstarter for democrats. you re on this committee and jim jordan is running it. what is your role going as a democrat on that committee going to look like? they can dress it up and wall it whatever they want. in reality, what this is the subcommittee to obstruct justice. it has broad powers including to conduct oversight over on going criminal investigations. what are the on going criminal investigation that s they want to conduct oversight of? the january 6 investigation into not only donald trump but house republicans. our role with democrats is to be the sober adult in the room, talks about facts. talks about truth. defends our democratic institutions. defends the rule of law. and that s what we will do. i spent ten years in the department of justice work ago long side the fbi. i worked on the house intelligence committee.