Jeh Johnson

In my judgment, long-term principal threat to national security is climate change. In short-term, of course, it`s COVID-19. In midterm, it is what we saw vividly on January 6th.

I know that 1,000, being 1,000 cases a day, overwhelms the system. I cannot begin to imagine what 4,000 a day looks like, so we are truly in a crisis.

this very, very dangerous, and frankly, reckless experiment that we engaged in four years ago of electing Donald Trump, someone with virtually no qualifications for office and a lot of dangerous inclinations will be over.

Four years ago, the inauguration that I had the overall responsibility for securing, Donald Trump stood on the Western Front of the Capitol and talked about American carnage. And a lot of us went wondered what he was talking about. But…

Seven months ago, you'll recall, he threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and put American troops on the streets of Washington, D.C., in Portland and other cities. But that's exactly what we must do now, because of the violence that…

I hope and expect that the incoming Biden administration will clean this up and fix it.

This will be an NSSE, I suspect, on steroids and I also suspect that the ratio of attendees to gun carriers with badges will be about one to one.

I cannot imagine a legitimate worthwhile circumstance under which any of Donald Trump`s successors will need to consult him on a classified matter.

Wednesday`s will be what we refer to as an NSSE, a national special security event.

We have known that this little $0.10 device can save lives.

In my judgment, right now, in this environment, the greatest threat we face is frankly misinformation hysteria.

This really is a wake-up call for all Americans to remind us that we are still very much in the clutches of this invisible enemy.

It has become a matter of, in some corners, political correctness or real men don't wear a mask and so forth.

Anything that can kill 210,000 Americans in seven months is a national security crisis that touches every corner of our nation.

All the lights on the dashboard should be blinking red right now at the same time this administration wants to seem to put a line on getting this valuable information out to the American people.

I think it's important, Rachel, that we see this as part of a larger, very disturbing picture.

DHS, the FBI should be notifying state election officials about exactly what the nature of this effort is to get into election infrastructure.

I thank Mr. Collins for his attention to this issue.

I know that Ranking Member Collins agrees with me that the threat to our elections is a threat to the American republic.

There is no amount of border security you can put on our southern border that is going to stop it.

There is a crisis, 4,000 apprehensions in one day 100,000 apprehensions in a month on the southern border.

It is physically impossible to shut down a 1,900-mile border.

I think is the exact wrong thing to do in this circumstance.

What you have coming from Central America are women, children, families.

This change may be necessary and should be considered immediately.