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The streets of portland. we saw the mayor turn his back on the citizens of portland for his political ambitions. i don't know who is worse, that mayor or oakland or philadelphia or new york. there are a whole bunch of them and never accepted this president and will put -- out of the public safety of their citizens. ireland the portland mayor because he will hear about this, ice employees are taxpayers and citizens, he has a duty to protect them. >> portland's mayor ted wheeler responding to reports he ordered police to ignore 911 calls from ice agents calling them, quote, inaccurate and inflam...

Todd: heading to his desk is a $717 billion defense bill that includes funding for military parade, 2.6% raise for our troops. the bill adds 16,000 active-duty members. >> the us on high alert as iran wants to carry out a military exercise in the next 48 hours. todd: the trump administration tightening its grip around iran. >> persistent protests, iran state -- answering economic conditions in the country and the us begins targeting more of iran's economy, restoring sanctions it once lifted as part of the iran nuclear agreement. >> hope that works out well. i hope it works out well.

The other question is what you raise and just how vulnerable our systems are today, how vulnerable they still are. the key to this, david, is public/private partnerships. it is the federal government working with our private sector to not only give them what they need. >> but to learn how they are defending themselves against this very aggressive and very capable actor. unfortunately, we don't have a demand signal from on high, from the president of the united states to his government, to his executive branch that this is a priority. until the executive branch, the full administration gets tha...

Agency does their job is also governed by who is at the top. so, the difference between the obama administration and the trump administration in the case of how i.c.e. performs their function, whether it be within the country or on the border is that this zero tolerance policy on the border was something that was from on high, right? so i.c.e. has to send their -- send the people that they catch on the other side of the border into the judicial system. that's not -- that's not the i.c.e. agent's fault. that is a higher -- that is a higher calling. >> absolutely. >> as well as like the raid eve...

Calls make people's heads blow up at dhs. and what you'll hear from dhs officials, rank and file, it's their job to enforce the law. they are a law enforcement agency and what they will say, pushing back against kamala harris, the senator from california, and senator king, is very much that the problem is the laws themselves. not the law enforcement agency. that's the argument you're going to hear back. that's something you'll hear from republicans as well. the challenge for progressives is to differentiate the way laws are enforced and the laws themselves. the one thing we know is congress is...