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Want to thank law enforcement. they are incredible. [cheers and applause] we have launched historic and unprecedented action to secure our southern border. we have just released brand new border numbers today showing that we have successfully reduced illegal crossings by more than 70% since may. [cheers and applause] and i can proudly announce that we have ended catch and release and we are building the wall faster than anyone thought possible. [cheers and applause] [chanting build that wall] >>...

I want to thank i.c.e. and i want to thank law enforcement. they are incredible. [cheers and applause] we have launched historic and unprecedented action to secure our southern border. we have just released brand new border numbers today showing that we have successfully reduced illegal crossings by more than 70% since may. [cheers and applause] and i can proudly announce that we have ended catch and release and we are building the wall faster than anyone thought possible. [cheers and applause] ...

They need our help and expertise. the fbi and homeland security investigations, they can dismantle these organizations by attacking their transportation infrastructure, their financial infrastructure. once you attack their money you can dismantle the organization. jillian: a lot of people make the argument we have a lot of drugs, got across the border and through ports but why should people be concerned about the violence going on their? >> several reasons. violence will cross to the united stat...

Heather: house lawmakers hold a hearing on terror and threats to the homeland. christopher ray and homeland security secretary kevin mc howinin. is final day on the job is tomorrow as we learn stunning the numbers about the border crisis. 16,000 criminal illegal immigrants were detained during the fiscal year. 750,000 pounds of drugs in 1700 weapons were seized. mark morgan says this should allow everyone. >> these were numbers no immigration system in the world can handle. not even in this coun...

Time as the white house finds an official nominee, but senior administration officials worry theres no one confirmable who wants the job. joining me, julia. good to have you. first off, who is chad wolf? >> hes someone been with the department of home security for a long time. he started there with the tsa after 9/11. he left to become a lobbiest for 11 years then came back at nielsens chief of staff, the form rer dhs secretary who left in april when the president was upset about the rising bord...

Had a replacement on the horizon so far in the west wing. so it will be interesting to see who it is the president picks next. but when it came down to mcaleenan, though at times the president praised him, he was never really someone who gained president trumps trust. the president often lashed out at him blaming him for border numbers and of course in turn, kevin mcaleenan didnt like the hard-liners that the president hired to work not only in the department of homeland security, but also he wa...

Submitted his resignation to the white house. he is the fourth person to serve in that position for president trump. here with more tonight is cnns kaitlan collins. kaitlan, good evening to you. whats behind the latest high-profile departure? >> reporter: well, don, i got to say its not that surprising to people in the white house who never thought kevin mcaleenan was going to get the permanent job. but of course this resignation is coming after hes been in that acting position for several dozen...

Permanent. >> well, ironically, hes done the one thing that matters most to the president. the always extreme proposals ta came out of these meetings with president trump and the white house that expressed the degree of frustration he had at the border, we can remember back in may, there was a peak and 144,000 people being taken into custody and a single month and macalini driven those numbers down. those levels and border numbers are fallen by nearly two-thirds. the thing that driven the presid...

We sort of dont necessarily think about that group in that sense, but thats one of the reasons -- hes obviously an immigration hawk himself, but that certainly energizes the base. and you saw him when he went to fayetteville, he essentially told those folks democrats want to change your way of life and he said that hes the only person standing in the way of democrats taking your way of life from you. its an identity politics play and it works. it very much energizes this group and it makes them ...

>> they say they agree, the department could get congress to do their job. >> perhaps we could agree on some things with aoc. you want to get rid of i.c.e.? let us all work more efficiently again. so who knows? maybe we could find some common ground there. >> this as dhs releases new border numbers. every engines are down a whopping 20% over the last few months alone. in may, about 144,000 migrants were picked up by border control along the southern border while in june that number dropped down ...