Bennie Thompson: “Thank you for holding this hearing to review the Department of Homeland Security's involvement with the National…”

Whether it's the Capitol on January 6 or Los Angeles this weekend, it's clear Trump is totally fine with lighting the match to stoke violence if he thinks it'll help him politically.

Essentially turning them into 'jails,' which the Mississippi Democrat says would constitute a misuse of the facilities.

It should go without saying that administration officials should not be using Signal for discussing intelligence matters reserved for the situation room — not to mention doing so incompetently by including members of the public.

At a time when DHS is rightly warning about an elevated threat environment from terrorists and cartels, we should be focused on plugging security gaps rather than senselessly creating new ones.