CONGRESSMAN:
00:00:51
Has this agent investigated? But this is not the intended use of this weapon, correct? The intended use is to try to avoid escalating this, to de-escalate the situation.
CONGRESSMAN:
00:01:01
All right, well, he was already pinned to the ground by three other agents. I think he had been de-escalated.
LINDSEY REISER:
00:01:06
CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nikole Killion joins us now on Capitol Hill. Give us a sense of how lawmakers are feeling. Well, I did have a chance, Lindsey, to talk to not only the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, which convened this hearing, but also to the ranking member, Andrew Garbarino and Bennie Thompson, respectively. Andrew Garbarino, the chair, told me that, overall, he was satisfied with the answers provided by these immigration-enforcement chiefs, precisely because he felt it was an opportunity for them to kind of clear the air and clear things up with respect to the conduct of their respective agencies. That being said, when I asked the ranking member, Bennie Thompson, he said he wasn't satisfied, obviously, with respect to the conduct issue, particularly around the issue of, for instance, how kids are handled in detention, some of the training issues, in his view. So, obviously, Republicans and Democrats kind of went into this hearing with different lines of questioning and certainly remain at odds coming out of it in terms of what it accomplished. But both of them did acknowledge to me that at least they were able to get these officials on the record, which is significant, especially coming after the incidents in Minnesota where, of course, we saw the fatal shooting of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Both the head of ICE and CPB said that they would make the findings of those investigations available. And they talked a little bit more about the conduct, more broadly speaking, of their officers but also kind of defended them in terms of some of the tactics. For instance, the head of ICE said that his agents would not unmask, that they would keep those on, that it is a tactic, for instance, for them to protect themselves because threats against ICE agents have been up. So again, more to come. These officials will be back here on Capitol Hill later this week before a Senate panel where they're likely to face more questions. What is the latest on DHS funding and that fight? Well, obviously, there is not a resolution just yet. We saw, of course, Democrats provide their proposals to Republicans with respect to some of the reforms they are seeking, like the unmasking of agents, like ending roving patrols, the need for judicial warrants. But the White House came back with a counteroffer. In fact, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told me earlier today that that proposal walked away from a lot of the reforms that Democrats were pushing for. So, in his view and the view of Leader Schumer, it was incomplete and insufficient. So with both sides kind of at loggerheads, we're still waiting to see what those next steps may be. Otherwise, without a compromise, of course, we could see a funding lapse for the entire Department of Homeland Security agency come this Friday, Lindsey.
LINDSEY REISER:
00:03:56
Nikole Killion, thank you.