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'She didnt care about people' Senate Homeland Security Top Dem on Noem · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Nator.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think we will see a concerted democratic effort
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  Speaker 2: understanding that because of the nature of Steven Miller's employment,
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  Speaker 2: there is not the same process for impeaching Stephen.
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  Speaker 3: Miller that there would have been for let's say Christinome. Still,
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  Speaker 3: I think we have seen pressure campaigns be enormously effective
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  Speaker 3: on this administration, especially as we saw in the case
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  Speaker 3: of Nome. If all of a sudden, the president believes
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  Speaker 3: that either attention is being distracted from himself or their
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  Speaker 3: unflattering headlines. So that question about Stephen Miller, And two,
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  Speaker 3: do you think her ousting in any way changes the
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  Speaker 3: contours of this DHS funding battle?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think it changes that funding battle because
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  Speaker 4: it is about making sure that we put the policies
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  Speaker 4: in place. I'm not going to trust that a a
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  Speaker 4: DHS secretary is going to behave differently. Now. We want
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  Speaker 4: to have a d secretary that we can reach out
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  Speaker 4: to and hopefully they will behave differently. But we have
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  Speaker 4: not seen any evidence of that from any of the
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  Speaker 4: Trump appointees. The only thing that he cares about when
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  Speaker 4: you look at the folks that he nominates, it's not
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  Speaker 4: about experience. It's not about the track record getting a
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  Speaker 4: job done. It's only about loyalty. You have to be
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  Speaker 4: absolutely loyal to the president. And if it's for some
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  Speaker 4: reason you make a mistake or embarrass him, you're gone.
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  Speaker 4: You're immediately fired. There's no loyalty that goes two ways.
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  Speaker 4: It's only a one way street. And so we have
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  Speaker 4: directors or secretaries that are really poor managers. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we were dealing with issues the DHS. We just put
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  Speaker 4: out a report, for example, from my committee that looks
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  Speaker 4: at FEMA applications for help. These are people who have
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  Speaker 4: suffered from natural disasters. They were sitting on Christinoam's desk
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  Speaker 4: for a long period of time, people who needed help. Immediately.
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  Speaker 4: She said she had a look at every single one
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  Speaker 4: that was not that large, but still she wanted to
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  Speaker 4: look at everyone. But then what happened where the people
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  Speaker 4: were not getting help? And I think in a lot
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  Speaker 4: of ways, she was showing that she just didn't care
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  Speaker 4: about people who were being impacted. So she certainly had
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  Speaker 4: some huge personal flaws. There's no question of it. We
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  Speaker 4: saw those demonstrated day in and day out. But ultimately
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  Speaker 4: we have to put blame or blame should be and
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  Speaker 4: that's with the President, and remind everybody out in the country,
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  Speaker 4: these people are basically doing his bidding. He is the
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  Speaker 4: one that's responsible for what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a very important point, Senator, because as
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  Speaker 1: this I think we're now in what day six of
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  Speaker 1: this war that the President has started with Iran, a
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  Speaker 1: war that the explanation for the war keeps changing from
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  Speaker 1: the White House. I know today Secretary Heads has said
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  Speaker 1: that they have very clear objectives and goals. I have
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  Speaker 1: not seen them interested if you have, sir. But one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that has popped up since this war
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  Speaker 1: started are Republicans on Capitol Hill saying this is why,
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  Speaker 1: because we are now in this war, Democrats need to
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  Speaker 1: fully fund the Department of Homeland Security because it is
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  Speaker 1: making us as Americans more vulnerable because you all are
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  Speaker 1: not funding them. Is that an argument you think that
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  Speaker 1: is going to win out with members of your caucus.
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  Speaker 1: I personally don't think it should, Michael Steele, But you
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  Speaker 1: know what, the spines had not been stealing.
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  Speaker 3: All year long.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm interested in that because it's something that I
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  Speaker 1: keep hearing publicly, but I'm also hearing it privately.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, We're gonna stand strong because we have to have
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  Speaker 4: those policies. And if you look at DHS, there are
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  Speaker 4: folks part of DHS that we don't have a beef with.
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  Speaker 4: We want our TSA agents to get paid. They're out
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  Speaker 4: there in the airport's doing the work. We have FEMA
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  Speaker 4: that are dealing with natural disasters. We have SISA for cybersecurity.
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  Speaker 4: We put a bill today we basically said pay everybody else,
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  Speaker 4: make sure that that's all funded, but no money additional
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  Speaker 4: money for ICE. As you know, they're already fully funded
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  Speaker 4: with the bill that passed in the summer. So ICE
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  Speaker 4: has all the money they need. They are fully funded.
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  Speaker 4: The other agencies aren't. Let's fund them. Republicans said no.
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  Speaker 4: They basically want to hold TSA agents, SISSA, our Cybersecurity Agency,
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  Speaker 4: and FEMA hostage because they don't want to have their
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  Speaker 4: federal agents have the same rules that our local police
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  Speaker 4: have in all of our communities. It's outrageous. But I'd
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  Speaker 4: also want to add, even prior to this budget battle
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  Speaker 4: that we're in right now with the war in Iran,
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  Speaker 4: probably the biggest threat to the homeland right now that
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  Speaker 4: I worry about the Iran is cyber or cyber attacks.
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  Speaker 4: They're very sophisticated, they're fully capable of doing a lot
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  Speaker 4: of harm. And yet prior to this Christine om Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 4: they've laid off or pushed out one third of the
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  Speaker 4: entire workforce of our cyber security folks, over eight hundred individuals.
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  Speaker 4: We're now trying to get more information about other individuals
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  Speaker 4: who are no longer doing cybersecurity work. They're doing immigration work,
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  Speaker 4: they're doing deportation work when they should be protecting our
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  Speaker 4: country from cyber attacks. That has to change, and those
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  Speaker 4: are the kinds of questions we're certainly going to ask
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  Speaker 4: the nominee for to be secretary. Are you going to
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  Speaker 4: bring cyber professionals back on the job, particularly when the
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  Speaker 4: United States is war, because this is an unacceptable risk
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  Speaker 4: that we're facing right now.
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  Speaker 1: Assass