Dealing getting to us this point. Democrats passing the measure to get legislation to help the socalled dreamers. The house will vote after the senate sometime this evening. We have you covered from both sides of capitol hill. Joining us from the house, congresswoman Martha Mcsally from arizona. Lets go to montana senator steve daines. Thanks for coming in. Clear senator schumer and democrats are painting this as some kind of a win or draw the a any rate this bill was very different from the last bill s there any truth to that . Ill tell you what, if you want to talk about winners and losers, the losers were the American People. This is ridiculous. It was a pointless exercise to shut the government down. The losers were the American People. I would argue the schumer shutdown it didnt work. Chuck schumer lost that. David by the way Mick Mulvaney coined term or came out with it first. It seemed to stick, didnt it . It has nice alliteration but you know what . It is the truth. An old sayi
Old pleasanton native, was shot at pier 14 last week. Let us know about the release of someone that they gave custody of and was prevented and could have prevented all of this thrift reporter u. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have requested notification prior to this spirit that was not honored and now disparate sentences got all senator Dianne Feinstein has called upon the mayor to commit to federal authorities. I received, senator feinstein is a phone call and i was appreciative of it and i know that she is focusing on the same thing as i am. We both agreed that some think could have occurred as far as notification. Reporter the mayor pointed and years back that up for the spirit and is critical case. Pointed fingers knowing that they could have done more than handed him over could have had a warrant out for his our rest. Arrest reporter it will continue to look for more solutions. They will continue reporter it is now the law you are looking at Alameda Countys new
[inaudible conversation] morning. This hearing of the senate communit committee is called to order. I this is our annual threats to the homeland committee. I want to welcome eyewitnesses and acknowledge the victims of the hurricane and houston texas, florida, throughout the caribbean and puerto rico. Im sure we will be discussing that quite a bit. Maybe it wasnt contemplated when we first set up and schedule this hearing on the other enormous threats, but there are real threats to human life occurring now throughout our nation and we will certainly knowledge that all those individuals are in our thoughts and prayers. Im sure everyone on this committee joins me on that. We are pleased to welcome the acting sector of Homeland Security, diane duke, Christopher Ray the director of fbi, the National Counterterrorism Center Director niclas rasmussen. We want to thank you all for your service. These are perilous times. The threats that face us are growing and metastasizing. I do not envy any
Dr. Zupans book look at the sources of national decline. Typically when people think about the sources of national decline they often look outside of government at specialInterest Groups that try to coopt government for their own benefit. However dr. Zupan takes a different approach and looks at the sources of national decline that come from inside government , from government insiders and it may cause even more harm to countries and civilizations than the harm that comes from outside of government we are really looking forward to hearing from dr. Zupan today. The way we will be framing todays book forums first we are going to hear remarks from dr. Zupan and then we will have comments from both Lindsay Cutshall from the Brookings Institute and myself. First i would like to introduce dr. Zupan. Dr. Zupan begin his tenure as the 14th president of alford university on july 1, 2016. Histidine at the Business School at the university of rochester from january 1, 2004. Zupan served as dean a
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee on oversight and government reform come to order and without objection the chairs authors to declare recess at any time. Preparing for this hearing and, im telling you is hard to keep your cool and preparing for this meeting. Let me tell you the at the heart of why we are here today. Immigration, immigration and Customs Enforcement, ive met with the men and women who work there, the wonderful hardworking dedicated people who do a hard and difficult job. But ive got to tell you whats going on at Homeland Security, whats going on with immigration Customs Enforcement is one of the most infuriating things i think i have seen in this government yet. In a threeyear period immigration and Customs Enforcement has released more than 86,000 criminal aliens into the american public. These are people who were here illegally, got committing a crime, were convicted of that crime in stead of deporting them they were released back out i