Responsible for the prior legal review and approval of every military operation approved by the president and secretary of defense during president obamas first term. If approved, hell be the fourth person nominated. Im joined now by our White House Correspondent Kristen Welker standing by. Micha Michael Isikoff and usa today kplum columnist raul reyes. What can you tell us about jeh johnson and the president s announcement . Reporter jeh johnson was an early supporter of president obamas during the 2008 campaign. The two men reportedly having a good rapport, one of the factors that wept into this decision. But as say, hes the top attorney with the pat the penta now. He has been at the forefront of decisions made particularly related to the use of drone strikes as well as ending the dont ask, dont tell policy. When you look at the philosophy that these two men have they are really in sync, jeh johnson is opposed to the idea of an indefinite war. That is something he said recently and p
Made the right decision to take a riskbased approach and put readers where they need to be. And that we think thats going to be a measure in our program for our program considering its a biometric credential. I think the last thing is share information. Which we do on a daily basis. So we need good, quality information to make good decisions with. We need the information to keep on coming so we can continue to make good decisions after we issue the credential. We need to install readers. And we need to continue to share information, which we do on a daily basis with our partners. Mr. Caldwell . Thank you very much. I mean, the most difficult question is how do you measure security and risk . I think we have actually looked at that quite a bit across a lot of these programs. I think one of the better problems we found is Coast Guard Program called maritime Security Risk analysis model where they can, at the facility level, try to measure the riskbased on vulnerabilities and threats and
Request project level data upfront so we can start to get that information to form even more effective measures of outcomes. On the grants management side, senator, we certainly have measures now, and even over fy 12 measures of our monitoring. Mr. Caldwell mentioned the level of monitoring. 100 of our Port Security grants undergo some level of monitoring. We have a tiered Monitoring System where our Program Staff on our routine basis look at every award, look at the history of the grantee, the history of the outcomes achieved, their Financial Measures from draw down, rate of expenditure, rate of deobligation. That, then, is reviewed. We do prioritize based on the risk we see in their management of the grants all the way up to desk reviews where we request a lot of information from grantees and site visits. What i would tell you, senator, i look forward to continue working with you and continue to get the data we need to form more effective measures. I agree with you that everybody can
Hotel. Our team is in place. Well bring you the latest on the forecast. First up is the today shows al roker and the search and rescue operations with former coast guard commandant thad allen. Al, the storm has packed quite a punch. Thats right, andrea, the strongest landfall in louisiana, last time was 1856, as you mentioned. Its the second storm, the third hurricane, to make landfall in 2020. In fact two other years has had three continental u. S. Hurricane landfalls, back in 1886 and 1916. This one made landfall 1 00 a. M. Central daylight time in cameron, louisiana, a category 4 storm with 150mileperhour winds. Weve got tornado watches right now stretching from louisiana all the way into mississippi and up into arkansas. And in fact, little rock, for the first time, is under a Tropical Storm warning. Shreveport had its first hurricane warning. Right now laura is a category 1 storm, 50 miles east southeast of shreveport, moving north at 15, weakening as it moves inland as a category
You can go to cnbc. Com she was talking about her to series, rising risk and clean start. Thank you for the conversation we appreciate it, talking to our viewers. We want to welcome our congressman, the democrat of california. Privilege and pleasure to host a group or by military veterans and families called we the veterans but it includes a coalition of different specific organizations that are fundamentally unified around the idea that veterans have a lot to contribute to our country and at a time where our country is in turmoil and maybe even in danger. They have a big part of potential solution to this problem not that we should be relying exclusively on the almost 20 Million People who have served this country and no longer are in uniform but that is remarkably capable dedicated of individuals. And probably for a group that can lead the way to help some of the rest of us make some inspiration as well as for ways to strengthen our democracy and serve our country even out of uniform