00:00I'm very privileged and honored today to have my family with me.
00:03I'd like to introduce them to you.
00:09Disruptions of congressional business is a violation of law as a criminal offense under federal law.
00:14Audience members are advised to take their seats and maintain order.
00:19The chairman may now ask Capitol Police to remove and arrest the persons creating the disturbance.
00:23Get ice off our streets! Stop terrorizing your community!
00:27Get ice off our streets! Stop terrorizing your community!
00:32Get ice off our streets! Stop terrorizing your community!
00:40He is operations director for the National Security Branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
00:45Mr. Klushin has served in national security for more than two decades,
00:49including as director of FBI's Terrorist Screening Center and assistant director to the National Security Branch.
00:53Prior to joining the Bureau, Mr. Klushin served in the U.S. Marine Corps.
00:58I thank all the witnesses for being here today.
01:02I now recognize Secretary Noem for five minutes to summarize her opening statement.
01:06Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Ranking Member, for holding this hearing today and inviting me to be a part of it.
01:14I'm looking forward to discussing the worldwide threats that this country faces
01:18and the work that President Trump and his administration does each and every day to make America safe again.
01:23I'm very privileged and honored today to have my family with me.
01:27I'd like to introduce them to you.
01:32Disruptions of congressional business is a violation of law as a criminal offense under federal law.
01:38Audience members are advised to take their seats and maintain order.
01:42The chairman may now ask Capitol Police to remove and arrest the persons creating the disturbance.
01:47Get ice off our streets. Stop terrorizing your community.
01:51Get ice off our streets. Stop terrorizing your community.
01:56Get ice off our streets. Stop terrorizing your community.
02:05Secretary, make it.
02:06I'll continue.
02:08Today with me, I have my husband, Brian, who's with me, and also two of my children.
02:12My oldest daughter, Cassidy, and her husband, Kyle, are sitting here in the front row.
02:17And then my middle child, Kennedy, and her husband, Tanner, and that was my grandbaby, Noah,
02:22that was crying a little bit during the ranking member's comments.
02:25I don't think she agreed with him.
02:27I don't have my son with me or three of my grandchildren,
02:30but I'm very blessed that I have a wonderful family who is here and loves this country
02:34and is grateful for the work that we get to do as a family each and every day.
02:37We also have the blessing of having some angel families with us as well.
02:42They are here in the audience, and I'm so grateful for them for being willing to come here and be strong.
02:47It's hard to lose someone that you dearly love to illegal criminal activity,
02:52to people who never should have been in our country to begin with,
02:54and to lose those loved ones to drug overdoses that get perpetuated by the terrorist organizations
03:00that filter them into our country that President Trump works so hard to stop.
03:04So I'm grateful that they're here and that they are telling their story.
03:08Under President Biden, he closed the office in the Department of Homeland Security that serviced these families.
03:14He closed it because he didn't want them to speak.
03:16He didn't want them to have support or services,
03:18and President Trump reopened the Voices office so that they can get services,
03:23so they can hear about the cases of the individuals who killed their family members,
03:27and they can get the kind of help that they need to get through the tragic grief that they've experienced.
03:32So I want to thank them for being here and continue to pray for them.
03:35I want to thank you for the opportunity to be in front of you today to discuss the wide range of threats
03:40that the Department of Homeland Security is working on to protect us from here at home and also around the world.
03:46Just two weeks ago, the day before Thanksgiving, a terrorist shot two of our National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C.,
03:53killing Sarah Beckstrom dead and Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe is still fighting for his life.
03:58Fortunately, we've had some really good news about Andrew recently,
04:01and he had the opportunity to stand up and is a miracle,
04:05and we're so grateful for his family for being so strong.
04:08We continue to lift him up and pray he has a full recovery.
04:11The terrorist who shot them was an Afghan national who entered the United States under Operation Allies Welcome.
04:18The same week, we arrested another Afghan national who came in under the same program.
04:23He was planning to carry out a bombing in Fort Worth, Texas.
04:26And just last week, just miles away in Washington, D.C.,
04:29we arrested another Afghan national who also came in under Operation Allies Welcome.
04:34That individual provided support to the Islamic State of Iraq and ISIS-K
04:39and weapons to his father, who was a commander of a militia group in Afghanistan.
04:44Those are only a handful of the challenges that we face
04:47and the threats that the Department of Homeland Security stands against every single day.
04:52Under President Trump's leadership, DHS is securing our borders,
04:56we're restoring the rule of law, and we're protecting the homeland.
04:59DHS is eradicating transnational organized crime
05:02and the stopping of deadly drugs from continuing to be funneled into our communities.
05:07We're ending illegal immigration, returning sanity back to our immigration system,
05:11and we're defending against cyber attacks against our critical infrastructure.
05:15We have sent a strong message to criminal illegal aliens
05:19that we will find you, we will arrest you, and we will deport you.
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