it s not something that s a joke or we take lightly. and so we are looking at and listening to all of the witnesses that testified, because this is a drive for the truth. the american people deserve to know the truth. and that s what we are trying to do here. we are taking further testimony. there will be more testimony all of next woke. week. we ll combine. transcripts will be open for people to read. at some point there will be opening hearings. and so, look, we are doing a meticulous job that is fair and open to the president. just lastly, the president today tweeted you want i want to read something he tweeted. he quoted i m quoting so some day if a democrat becomes president the rep cans win the house by a tiny margin they can impeach the president without due process or legal rights all republicans must
s permanently so he decided to step aside. it is worth remembering that he took over after former secretary , kristen into was fired and the president even noted some of the success he had during his tenure tweeting he s done an outstanding job as acting secretary of homeland security. we ve worked well together with border crossings being way down. kevin now after many years in government wants to spend more time with his family and go to the private sector. the president said he would announce his replacement next week a former senior dhs official, says ken cuccinelli, the acting director is at the top of the president s list. but actually, getting him confirmed would be a challenge, because a number of gop leaders in the senate including mitch mcconnell are not fans of the former virginia attorney general who previously led efforts to primary senate rep cans as president senate conservative, though the source tells us they
done an outstanding job as acting secretary of homeland security. we ve worked well together with border crossings being way down. kevin now after many years in government wants to spend more time with his family and go to the private sector. the president said he would announce his replacement next week a former senior dhs official, says ken cuccinelli, the acting director is at the top of the president s list. but actually, getting him confirmed would be a challenge, because a number of gop leaders in the senate including mitch mcconnell are not fans of the former virginia attorney general who previously led efforts to primary senate rep cans as president senate conservative, though the source tells us they is in sync with white house advisor steven miller when it comes to key immigration policy and the white house has been working to make this happen. garrett, thank you. a busy weekend on the campaign trail ahead of the next
can t defend himself, so we re here to defend him as well. doesn t this sound like deja vu? during the campaign, then-candidate donald trump attacked judge curio, another judge who could not defend himself. this is candidate trump did this, prep cans for a long time have talked about activist judges that they don t like. is this something different this time? it is different, because now this statement, this lashing out, this ad hominem attack is coming from the executive office. it implies there s something going on between the executive branch and the judicial branch. on the campaign trail you give candidates a little bit of leeway. let s keep in mind, the attack on judge curiel signaled one of the low points of the campaign. he may i think get a similar blowback. we heard mitch mcconnell and
some common ground? democrats, look at the heart of it. the democrats say we won t cut a dollar a future spending unless you give us big tax increases on the tune of trillion of dollars. rep cans came up with tax reforms that generated more revenue that were in the hundreds of billions of dollars but the democrats said we will not cut a dime in spending unless you give us billions of dollars in tax increases. and look, here s what is going to happen as a result of the democrats unwilling to make any deal whatsoever. the automatic cuts fall on defense. $456 billion. that s the smallest part of the budget that we are going to talk about and the biggest cuts go there. $294 billion from nondiscretionary. most found in mandatory spending and the automatic cuts that come in 2013 come in the mandatory programs. $123 billion for medicare and $47 billion from other