00:00Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem spent her Tuesday being grilled by the Senate Judiciary
00:04Committee, and today it is the House's turn. In the upper chamber, the support for and criticism
00:10of Noem fell mostly down party lines, although she did take some friendly fire, particularly
00:15over a pro-ICE ad campaign in which she starred, to the tune of $220 million taxpayer dollars.
00:23Louisiana Senator John Kennedy was skeptical of the Secretary's defense of that expense.
00:28I think it would be helpful to know is how effective that communications has been.
00:33Well, they were effective in your name recognition. I mean, I personally just, I mean, to me,
00:42it puts the president in a terribly awkward spot. And I just, I'm not saying you're not telling the
00:50truth. It's just hard for me to believe. And then there was retiring Senator Tom Tillis of North
00:54Carolina. His objection was to the Secretary's deportation strategy for illegal immigrants.
01:00Quality matters, not quantity, quality. And what we've seen is a disaster. Under your leadership,
01:08Ms. Noem, a disaster. What we've seen is innocent people getting detained that turn out are American
01:15citizens. Secretary Noem was unfazed by this line of attack. The hearings yesterday and today come
01:21as Congress has Noem's department partially shut down as they debate funding.
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