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region and drag the united states even deeper. the issue is what to do now that three american soldiers are dead. the president says he holds iran responsible and has made a decision on how to respond. is it the right decision? what can he do to balance risk? secretary of state blinken says no one wants escalation. is that true of iran whose leaders call for death to america? in the atlantic, american policy toward iran has failed because it has always taken a segmented approach to the...

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About high-tech. what have they done in the last eight, nine, 10 months in hi-tech on the border? >> nothing at all. it wouldnt matter. even if you had hi-tech at the border all it would be doing is counting the gotaways able to evade apprehension. it doesnt do anything as far as allowing us to take people into custody. all it does is tells us where they are at. if we dont have the resources on the border to take people into custody it doesnt matter. one of the things ive harpd on dhs to do is i...

Privilege. it certainly was a tragic privilege of serving on the homeland security committee since the heinous acts of 9/11. many of us were there on the first opening day gavel of this committee. i had the onerous responsibility of visiting ground zero in those early, early days. i would say to you that we are now at a stark moment in history, the convergence of the isis, the isil approach to establishing a state, its commitment to franchise terrorism, its direction that says, if you cannot com...

Vote for a clean funding for the department of homeland security. thats important to say, because i have worked with republicans on homeland security very closely, and they are dedicated, many of them wanting to move forward. why doesnt speaker boehner and the majority leader put a clean dhs funding on the floor of the house and, jose i can almost assure you, it would pass because people know members know that despite any conflicts in their district or people having different opinions and they h...

Confident the president is within his constitutional parameters to do what he did. if you disagree take a different approach to raising your concerns. the lawsuit now has given an injunction. the court did not rule unconstitutional but pause for a moment. thats an out, and lets pass full funding for the department of homeland security in the backdrop of these enormous challenges that we have jose. >> yeah because, look even if the judge in texas takes apparently today was the first day he said h...

Remember the jobs number this friday, we should continue to see wage gains, and that should also pull up consumer spending as well. so lets hope it continues. back over to you. >> and mandy, hows the patrol petroleum situation? >> the petroleum situation? always sticky at the top. even though you know wti as in crude prices kind of sort of been stabilizing around a range, right? but gasoline prices you know naturally they rise and then takes a little while for them to fall. what we call sticky a...

It goes down to the wire, and there is no possibility of any compromise, it doesnt -- its not only that its going to shut down this friday but theres no future possibilities? >> right. and they have to work on that. if it shuts down that increases pressure, you can imagine. a lot of conservative republicans, these ten members leading the charge on this they got the wrong message from the last shutdown. they saw gains in 2014 after they shut down the government. after being told that oh the polit...

Investigation going on in every single state. that means all 50 states. what is happening now is that the republicans -- the republicans. let me be very clear -- in the house, are forbidding homeland security secretary johnson from the approach of fighting terrorism. the soft touch, which we spoke of at at counterterrorism meeting i attended at the white house a few weeks ago, but also ensuring that our border patrol agents customs in border protection, the faa which has, we have oversight over ...

Looking for help from fellow leaders in the house and senate calling for the bill to go to conference to hammer out differences. the senate votes on that question later today but harry reids spokesperson says the minority leader isnt interested. the senator cleared on the fact there will be no conference. that seems to put us right back where we started with a group of house conservatives determineded to use dhs funding as a leverage to derail president obamas immigration action but getting plen...