Good morning, id like to start by welcoming our witnesses who appear today to provide information on the support that the department of defense is lending to the department of Homeland Security at the u. S. Mexico border. The d. O. D. s presence on the border is not new. Their support of d. H. S. Operations has indeed evolved over the past year. Right now, it would appear that this administration is testing the limits of that relationship. Since the first large group of migrants began traveling north from Central America in late april of last year, fleeing violence, persecution in their home country the president and d. H. S. Relied heavily on d. O. D. To support their Border Security operations. It is important to note here that the april, 2018, caravan the president caravan, the president s principal reason for deploying the National Guard, shrunk from 1,500 migrants to approximately 300. Nefrl, the president issued a memorandum at that time directing the second retear of defense to
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We leave a last minute or so of that interview to take you like to the u. S. Senate about to gamble in print lawmakers expected to work on 2018 defense programs and policies. Starting of the session with a moment of silence for the 16th anniversary of the 911 attacks. Will take you life out to the floor of the senate. Here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, our shelter and shield, today we remember 9 11. As we recall the tragedy and and heroism of that day, we better understand that freedom isnt free. We remember how the pain united us so that we knew that we were not hyphenated americans, but one people. Infuse us in these contentious times with a similar spirit of oneness inspiring us to work for the wellbeing of all people. Lord, we are grateful for the protection you have provided us for the 16 years since this calamitous day. May we continue to tru
Welcome back. Im Lindsey Reiser in for yasmin vossoughian. Breaking news from capitol hill. 11 more senators have signed on in the effort to overturn the election just days before congress is set to certify the electors. Theyre now demanding a pause to investigate the baseless allegations that they and the president have been peddling. Feeding into the false narrative that donald trump has sought to spread from day one, even though out of 64 cases, 59 have gone against them and the one for them was a trivial matter. Everybody is looking for vol dags has found them to be frivolous and false, and yet these are people for their own political purposes are undermining our democracy. Its really a shameful day. This attacks our constitution, to attack the electoral process in such a cynical way is really beyond me. It just goes to show you the amount of control that the president still has on republican primary voters with all of these people, a lot of them thinking about running for presiden