opiate deaths, and what happened and governor you know it well, you are an expert, and thank you for protecting texas from domestic and foreign threats, we appreciate your support. at the end of the day when the governor says we need something done immediately, and it s not the border patrol fault. brave men and women who sacrifice their lives, what they do is a tremendous national security function for the state of texas and the rest of the nation. when they are overwhelmed, and we have had influxes before, but never to this level. never over 1.3 million apprehensions in texas, ok, in a calendar year. never before. and back to 1986 the last time, and 720,000. and so border patrol is swamped, not only that, they have family units and unaccompanied children.
problems when you have these acting folks. one is a basic business or organizational matter. people need to know who s in charge, people need to know who their boss is, for morale, for organizational morale, for running a business. if you are running a small business. look, the president is the head of government but not running the bureau of land management from day to day. so to some extent people need to have someone in charge. that s important. more importantly, there are jobs in government that cannot or tasks that cannot be performed by someone that s acting. case in point, when we were getting sally yates confirmed, deputy attorney general, a big issue is that an acting deputy attorney general can t sign fisa applications, there are only three or four people in the government that can, none can be in an acting role. regardless of the concerns around fisa people may have, it is a core national security function and one that can t be performed by someone in an acting role.
i m not asking mexico to pay for it. he did. i m asking the american people to pay for it. at the end of the day, i think he ll claim mexico is paying more under the new nafta deal. i m not talking about what he said during the campaign. i m talking about what we can do now to open up a government. coast guard isn t going to be paid soon. dhs is an important national security function. we need wall money. democrats have voted for it in the past. the president has put on the table more than the bridge act, more than tps. i hope calmer heads will prevail. i talked with several democratic senators. there s a deal to be had, i think, if the president would get behind it, $5 billion for the wall, bridge act, tps and legal reform and we could reopen the government and be a more secure nation. real quick, assuming you do take the gavel as judiciary chairman, will you hold hearings on the deaths of migrant children? yes. i ll hold hearings on the deaths of these two children and the
do doj that permit them to do that. it simply is too unlikely to contemplate. not a single person on in panel has actually responded to my very first comment which was about the steele dossier which was funded by the clinton campaign. it has nothing to do with anything. yes, it does. let me respond to that, kerry. if i can respond to kerry s concern, i would be happy to talk about this. go ahead, joyce. i think it is important to note that the fbi doesn t just conduct criminal investigations. they also have a national security function. and we know that that s what they were doing here because they were involved in using the fisa process. so here s what the fbi s concern looks like. they were concerned that russia was trying to influence people inside of the campaign. fbi wasn t investigating the campaign, they were trying to put an end to russian action designed to compromise our security. and so what about
states where we don t have any idea who are the good guys and who are the bad guys and can t trust them, 6 failed states will not take any migrants or refugees from them until we put in vetting procedures that can tell us who is who. heather: the countries themselves have no vetting process that they can depend on and that is why iraq came off of the list. is that a good idea? it is. iraq is an ally, we have done a lot of work with them. there were considerations a lot of folks helped in our war efforts, interpreters and their families might have been affected by its the removing iraq where we do have a fair amount of influence make sense as well. the other states we cannot trust and they are chock-full of jihadists and people who shouldn t be coming to the united states so stopping that is legitimate national security function and we should not have liberal judges overseeing the president and substituting their judgment for his about what is