Caller good morning. Im calling for those i am in support of gay marriage because i dont feel i have the right to tell anyone who they should marry. Especially if they are a taxpayer of a great country. Thank you. Host one more call. Montana calling us from brunswick, maine. Go ahead. Hello . That will be our last call on that topic. More information about those proceedings. If you were go to the senate to go to the Senate Judiciary committee j johnson is appearing before the committee to talk about issues related to his department. You can see that hearing live on cspan as it starts. Thank you for joining us today. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] thank you mr. Johnson for coming. Oversight is a critical function and a constitutional responsibility of our branch. Mr. Grassley every year this committee tries to invite the secr
Criminals, the department is not stepping up its efforts and indeed if you look to 2013, in 2013 the Department Released 36,007 criminal aliens with serious convictions. That included 116 with convictions for homicide. 43 with convictions with negligent manslaughter. 14 voluntary manslaughter. One with a conviction as i. C. E. Classified, willful, kill public official, gun and that individual was released. In addition to that 15,635 criminal aliens who had been convicted of drunk driving that were released back into the population. 2,691 who had convictions for assault that were released into the population. Why is the department releasing so many criminal aliens . And secondly, can you tell this committee in the 6 1 2 years of the obama administrations tenure just how many criminal aliens had been released, how many murderers, how many rapists, how many people convicted of violent assault had been released into the population . Secretary johnson yes. As you pointed out, senator, in fi
Every year the committee invites the Homeland Department of security to brief us on the affairs. To question the administrations policy as well as an opportunity for the department to take responsibility for its actions. It is a pleasure to have secretary johnson here. This is our first opportunity to question him publicly since his exact action on immigration in november. In another is an injunction we can get a good idea of what to expect from the programs based on the way the department has incremented the program. It appears that applications for deferred action are being rubberstamped. Evidenced by the fact that criminals and gang members are receiving special benefits despite supposed policies against it. Take the case of the recipient recipient, accused of murdering four people. Last week the department admitted that he had received dock a despite his gang membership which was known to adjudicators and despite being in department proceedings. Deportment proceedings. It is not cl
Biden but the president stopped short of conceding, claiming once again without veoffering a proof there was massive voter fraud and those repeated denials are not stopping the bide n wit another round of cabinet announcements next week. President trump choppered up to meet his family to play golf and avoiding reporters as Kaitlan Collins reports. Reporter before joining his family at camp david, President Trump spent the day at his golf course after claiming president elect biden cant enter the white house until he can prove he got 80 million votes. That tweet came after trump confirmed he will leave office if the Electoral Office certifies bidens win. Certainly i will. Certainly i will. And you know that. But i think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th. Reporter trump took questions thanksgiving night for the First Time Since the election and three weeks later, he still is denying reality. I did win by a tremendous amount but it hasnt been reported y