cbp has two important missions. i was pleased administration finally heeded my call to end travel restrictions at the canadian border. the reopening of the canadian border to vaccinated individuals is an important and long-overdue step. your background in law enforcement including -- how familiar are you and how will you prioritize and manage the mission? chief magnus: thank you for the question. not only has my time growing up in michigan, but also in the six and a half years i spent in north dakota where one of the cross-border traffic to canada is also essential for a host of reasons. it causes me to believe this is going to continue to be very important as perhaps the laws and rules change regarding title 42. whether it is appropriate staffing to address these issues , other factors that need to be considered, i'm very committed to cross-border traffic and trade. sen. wyden: senator daines is next. sen. daines: chief, if you are confirmed, you will be the helm of the largest law enforcement agency in the united

part of the very important cbp mission. as we discussed during our private meeting the substance abuse epidemic is ravaging my state of new hampshire and is ravaging arizona and communities across the country. customs and border protection as an important role in disrupting international drug smuggling operations and interdicting the flow of drugs across the us border. transnational criminal organizations are adapting and exploiting predictable procedures at usborders . they used rail transportation pedestrians, unmanned aerial vehicles and even submersible vessels to smuggle drugs into the united states. chief magnus as a police chief f of border community how have you prioritize and thought drug organizations undermining your community and if confirmed to leave what wouldyou do to fight international drug trafficking ? >> you very much for the question and your touching on an issue here that is really near and dear to my heart because only members of our community and tucson not to mention across the state and country hav

the commissioner cbp left because he was being moved. i know these two senior directors that were removed because they were also outspoken. this administration is hunting for anybody that doesn't and if i could to back to any in the country, hsi, fbi, dea, three letter designation and flying from the white house from the cabinet level secretary where they have gone down to a third level in the chain of command as mr. holman explained and they directed the removal of an individual and those organizations. it's never happened in the history. last thing and he's probably going to give me a hard time afterwards, but the friend and patriot to the country, rodney scott you are not going to find a finer man or human being in this country. i worked with alongside him a long time and appointed him the chief of border patrol and found him to be that official. he didn't come to work from the standpoint he came as an american and senior executive and enforcing the rule of law on the books as we have it today and the fact that he is forced out should

>> cbp and tsa and force it. yes sir. >> i yield back. >> . >> thank you mr. chairman and to each of our witnesses for an informative discussion we are having. so with the ranking member and with the front-line workers here. and then to have a predictability for a career and this would have on —- up with the morale issues. i have unique question in the 2t century with the board to hijack it and planes and trains and subways and buses to become increasingly automated so they inevitably it is launching a cyberattack against the operational or navigational system of the transportation target at least with the ransomware attack adversaries considered new targets off-limits. so administrator like to speak to you about this. how does tsa work with the partners to prevent malware from the systems with the planes or trains are subways or buses et cetera? to make sure the threat is addressed. >> and in close coordination with css a and all modes of transportation. so that coordination is very good. additionally it is important we coordinate closely with owners and op

how do you explain that quick. >> we coordinate all of those very closely with cbp. so my assumption based on the information you provide is all those individuals did cross the border and reregister with the biometrics supported by cbp. >> i don't know that. you assume. but you have to be right 100 percent of the time. the terrorist made 9/11 happened killing 3000 people as has been said they had the identification. they were just terrorist we have suicide bombers who has sophisticated things they can put in their bodies to blow the whole airplane up including themselves. how do you screen against that quick. >> we do a very thorough screening anything an individual is carrying on person including a patdown. >> i mean if they swallow it or put it in their cavity? >> we have a very thorough screening process. with on percent detection for carry on bags and we are very certain individual will not carry anything that could harm anybody on a flight. >> that they could put it on one of the body cavities. >> we have not seen in person. >> we have an open border of known te

we -- and in this case we were asked to come and help coordinate and support our partners at hhs and cbp are. we have a limited role and we no longer have a presence in supporting that mission and it came to us to her normal interagency avenue. >> how much money is then expanded? >> i don't have the exact dollar amount at all of the funding has been reversed by those agencies. >> could you get the numbers for us? could you report on why the dollars that were spent are still bare? >> we have nobody that is supporting that mission directly prince being supported through onour interagency venue. >> is there any other outstanding issues with other states that your agency needs to respond to or hasn't responded to? >> i would have to look specifically at what events you are talking about but to my knowledge we are still managing recovery so we will continue to support the disaster response and recovery effort. >> you left off with the fact that climate change is an overriding issue and i guess money is no object for combating climate change. are you aware of the study by m.i.t. that set in ev