And Customs Enforcement and rob herr, principle attorney general to talk about the department of Homeland Security and department of justice are doing to eradicate criminal organizations like ms13. Mr. Herl will speak to the Justice Department first and mr. Will answer your questions. As always, i put out a friendly reminder to stay on topic. After that ill come back up to take your questions. Thanks, guys. Thanks, sarah. Good afternoon. My name is robert herr. About five weeks ago i was sworn in as the principle associate Deputy Attorney general at the department of justice. In that role i serve as the principle advisor to the Deputy Attorney general. I appreciate the chance to talk to you about the Justice Departments aggressive efforts to achieve this administrations goal of dismantling the transNational Gang known as ms13. As you all know the president is traveling to long island tomorrow to talk about our fight to eradicate the violent threat of ms13. And as we speak the attorney
Required to come back in. You can watch the house lye when they return tomorrow morning at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. Well take you back to the briefing we were watching before the house gaveled back in. Robert they have filed charges against hundreds of members of ms13 in el salvador. Many of the members are of those are members of the clique who are centered in the la Paz Department of el salvador. Earlier, members of this clique committed several high profile murders in el salvador. The shooter in those fled to the United States and is in i. C. E. Custody this prosecution showcases how closely we are working with our partners in el salvador to combat ms13. Specifically, u. S. Law enforcement agents with i. C. E. , on the ground in el sal var do el salvador are coordinating with their counterparts to ensure the shooter is remove fled United States to face charges in el salvador. This investigation is being handled by salvadoran gang prosecute crorses, trained and mentored by prosecutors in
Required to come back in. You can watch the house lye when they return tomorrow morning at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. Well take you back to the briefing we were watching before the house gaveled back in. Robert they have filed charges against hundreds of members of ms13 in el salvador. Many of the members are of those are members of the clique who are centered in the la Paz Department of el salvador. Earlier, members of this clique committed several high profile murders in el salvador. The shooter in those fled to the United States and is in i. C. E. Custody this prosecution showcases how closely we are working with our partners in el salvador to combat ms13. Specifically, u. S. Law enforcement agents with i. C. E. , on the ground in el sal var do el salvador are coordinating with their counterparts to ensure the shooter is remove fled United States to face charges in el salvador. This investigation is being handled by salvadoran gang prosecute crorses, trained and mentored by prosecutors in
He tweeted basically he was going to go after the leakers. He was very angry because some of his own financial records had been disclosed. He said in light of the leak of my Financial Disclosure info, which is a felony, i will be contacting the fbi, the Justice Department, swamp. Reince 45, thats Reince Priebuss twitter address. Seems as though he was implicating reince as the leaker who possibly put out his financial forms and he deleted the tweet and wrote meantime, he was also on cnn, to get the viewer fully up to speed, saying reince would have to answer for these leaks to the president himself. What do you make of all this . Right now, ed, is he trying to basically get rid of the chief of staff . First of all, ive worked in three white houses. Ive worked around washington for 50 years. I cant imagine anyone doing this, my first boss, Bob Halderman or jim baker or don rumsfeld, they would have had his butt out of there in 35 seconds. Hes supposed to be developing a Communications P
Get something together, republicans are writing a new Health Care Bill over lunch. Six, the joint chiefs didnt even know about the president s transgender ban. And seven, just in to us here, we have the statement, the boy scouts are now apologizing for the president s wild speech. All of that in the last 24 hours. And at any moment, the white house is expected to brief the press on all of the above, so lets begin with the infighting, the new White House Communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, calling out chief of staff Reince Priebus to explain that he is not leaking stories to the press. Let me back up. Scaramucci is outraged after politico put this piece out about the millions of dollars hes making as hes revealed in Financial Disclosure forms, and he then sent out this tweet in response. Quoti quoting scaramucci from last evening, in light of the leak of my Financial Disclosure info, which is a felony, i will be contacting the fbi and the Justice Department. Swamp and then he t