And yet the city of Portland. I'm repeatedly destroyed protective fencing extensively graffiti the courthouse to plywood down from the courthouse and then lit it on fire. I've erected barriers to block entrances to courthouses attempted to breach the courthouse have thrown explosive materials in the courthouse and again the city of Portland takes a little to no action. The reasons the reasons increased DHS personnel are important or in in Portland is twofold one. Violent criminal activity every single night for 52 nights and two the lack of action from city officials and law enforcement Department of Law enforcement officers are there to protect the symbol of Justice the courthouse we mostly do that in a very defensive posture, However, we have been forced because of lack of local law enforcement presence to take measures such as arrest to protect our officials. The Clear on what our authority entails specifically federal statute States that the Secretary of Homeland Security and I'm quoting shall protect buildings grounds and property that are owned occupied and secured by the federal government The law goes on to state that the Department can conduct investigations again. I'm quoting on and off property in question on the offenses that may have been committed against property owned and occupied by the federal government or persons on that property. In other words. Expressively allowed to leave federal property to conduct investigations and arrest individuals who have damaged federal property We do this of course in conjunction with the Department of Justice. many of our law enforcement officers in Portland have other responsibilities around the country. They're away from their families and putting their lives at risk every night the smear attacks leveled against our officers is disgusting as it relates to CBP officers deployed in Portland, this highly trained. Are in camouflage wear because they work on the Southwest border and they work in an environment that demands that that is their everyday uniform and it is completely appropriate They have insignia on their uniforms that police and they have patches in the acting Commissioner will talk about that in a little bit That indicate which agency they're from. Let me repeat these officers are not military. Let's not confuse that I've seen inaccurate press reporting, accusing them of being military. They are not military. They are civilian. Police officers these police officers are not Stormtroopers. They are not the Gestapo some have described them That description is offensive. It's hyperbolic and it's dishonest and every law enforcement officer in every reasonable American knows this well. I look forward to the day that our officers are deployed back to their regular day to day mission. We will not shrink from our duty because of this violence. I've heard the mayor of Portland recently stated that the federal government is to blame for this. Rational people know that's not true. Have you believe that enforcing federal law incites violence? he would have you believe that holding criminals accountable incites violence in the last 52 days, Portland has declared a riot on numerous occasions because of this nightly violence and while this action helps unfortunately, they only take this action when city officials or local law enforcement or targeted not federal. on July third before any surge of DHS law enforcement resources arrived in Portland, the mayor said The. And I quote has been going on for more than a month now groups continue to target the Justice Center They continue to hurt small businesses and they and these attacks undermine public safety. These words are true today as they were before DHS law enforcement arrived in the city of Portland. My message is very simple if you're looking to peacefully protest in Portland, the Department respects your right to do so please do so. From the violent activity that's taking place near the courthouse on a nightly basis for your own safety if you are a violent rider looking to inflict damage the federal property or law enforcement officers, you need to find another line of work We will not retreat. We will not continue or we will continue to take the appropriate action to protect our facilities and our law enforcement officers if you're a local leader now is the time to step up and protect your community work with the. And other federal authorities in Portland to responsibly bring this nightly violence to a close. and if you're the in the media report, the facts all the facts do not glamorize the anarchist and the criminals and do not perpetuate the false narratives. Many of us have seen recently, I pulled two headlines pull two headlines before coming down here today, One US official calls protest and arcs. inaccurate and misleading individuals trying. Fire to a building or no longer protesting they are criminals. I or any other senior official at the Department has no problem with peaceful protesters so that a couple of times I'll say that again second headline unidentified federal agents are detaining protesters in Portland again, inaccurate and false As you've heard, I say you'll hear acting Commissioner Morgan say all officers are identified as police law enforcement officers. We are only. And arresting those who have been identified as committing criminal acts like any other law enforcement agency does across the country every single day of the week. We all have a responsibility to condone the violent activity that is occurring night after night. I was in Portland last week. It's a beautiful city, but unfortunately I saw buildings and businesses shut down and boarded up. I was briefed that the violence has cost the city businesses, roughly 23 million in lost revenue. We cannot let one of our cities continue to experience this lawlessness night after night. Let me turn it over now to Chris Klein, who's our deputy director of our Federal Protective Service FPS FPS has the mission to protect federal property across the country. WP Doctor Klein will walk you through the role of FPS as well as the operational summary of the past few nights after that, we'll have acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan we'll talk to you about the role of the C B P's playing in Portland. Thank you. Good afternoon everyone so as the Secretary mentioned, the federal protective service or FPS, we were established in 1971 as part of the General Services Administration with the responsibility for protecting federally owned buildings and property FPS was transferred to the Department of Homeland Security in 2002 as part of the Homeland Security Act. and like the Secretary and we're responsible for the protection of public buildings and grounds that our own occupied secured by the federal government since May 20, - eight the to give you some background we've observed over. And 20 -, five demonstrations and 260 attacks at federal facilities across the country. These attacks include bullets fired at federal facilities arson and objects thrown through windows actually on May 20 ninth at a federal facility in Oakland, California during a pretty violent demonstration, two of our protective security officers were shot in a drive-by shooting one of those protective security officers Underwood died of Be aware in Portland the Multnomah County Justice Center has been under attack by demonstrators for the last 52 days. they actually paint that facility is painted every morning and it's been painted about 47 times in the last 52 days directly adjacent to the Justice Center on one side to the North is the Eh Green Linda Wyatt federal building. It's one of our facilities we protect and to the North. I'm sorry to the South is the Hatfield United States Court. Which has been a primary target of recent attacks we've noticed during the demonstrations and violence at the Justice Center that some of that violence started creeping over to federal facilities and our staff. It's normally assigned to Portland was quickly overwhelmed due to the number of demonstrations and the attacks that we're seeing in Portland, we requested support from CBP and ice within our authority that the Secretary mentioned our law enforcement authority. It's a title 40 section 1315 of the United States Code. we have the ability. Cross designate DHS officers and agents with that authority when we need the assistance at to protect the federal facility, there's a process to do that. There's attorney general guidelines that were established in 2005 on what is required for someone to have that 1315 authority. So we have to ensure that the training of those officers and agents are meet the requirement of the attorney general guidelines and secondly we have to provide those other DHS officers and agents with specific training on FPS authority and jurisdiction. so they know what they're responsible for Wanna highlight what took place over the last 20 - four hours this has been a recurring issue in Portland so typically between the hours of six PM and 11 PM the peaceful a normal demonstration that you might see in March social advocacy and FPS we deal with about 900 of those a year. It's a pretty simple process we coordinate with the group we provide an area for them to do the demonstration and then once they're done we clean up and they go home the 900. Nine point, nine of those are peaceful but last night at midnight violent demonstrators walked the streets around the Hatfield courthouse. The Justice Center we mentioned earlier and the Edith Green federal building so the streets were blocked at 1250 five AM. we observed someone taking pictures of the water intake system at the Edith Green federal building. later that night Twitter user tweeted so we can now shut off the water to the buildings. The feds are staying in to make it a nightmare for them. At 120 protesters were beginning to bang on the walls of the Hatfield courthouse. I think if you've seen images of that, we've got plywood on the front of that, we did paint that plywood with paint that can't catch on fire. so demonstrators were banging on those walls trying to tear the plywood off a short while later, protesters were kicking the main doors of the courthouse and shining lasers at officers about 20 minutes later, a fire was reported at what used to be the elk statue in the Middle of the city Park across the Street from the Hatfield courthouse. This is an area where a violent demonstrators typically are meeting at night time. so while later the group has grown increasingly violent and aggressive the plywood protecting the Hatfield courthouse was taken down and the window was broken while protesters were attempting to breach the courthouse several hard objects, including canned food and glass bottles were thrown at our officers who were out to move them Protests. Protesters advanced to engage the officers and throwing water bottles and other hard objects, fireworks and using. We have talked about you've seen the Green lasers that have been used out there. We have three officers who currently have eye injuries and they may not recover site and those eyes from the those laser attacks we have purchased anti glasses if you will these are glasses that the officers are wearing now to prevent those injuries at 329 this morning the protesters smashed the glass of the with the fire extinguisher and attempted to throw commercial-grade. Inside the courthouse to the broken glass once again, our teams went outside to push them away from the front of the have to a courthouse the team's face significant resistance from the crowds, fireworks and glass bottles were thrown at the officers and protesters attempted a lot of tree on fire directly in front of the Hatfield courthouse. We did make a total of seven arrests last night, Two of those were for 18 USC 111, which is assault on a federal law enforcement officer. the other five were for misdemeanor charges that tell you to comply with instructions or or vandalism, but at a misdemeanor level. I do wanna quickly discuss the uniforms that our offices wearing out there and I know Mister Morgan has bought some examples of what his officers are wearing. This is what I'm wearing is the typical FPS uniform that officers wearing in Portland because of the nature of the assignment they're and they are wearing long sleeves. They wear an external vest carrier with their ballistics best inside the panels on the back police homeland security the panels on the front police DHS, It has the name Williams We are gonna convert the name to. Their badge number because about 38 of our officers that are out there have been docked and they're personal information has been put online and they were a badge on the front it's so please so you know we've got some CBP officers out there assisting us with our performance of our duties. This is our typical uniform. Mister Morgan We'll get into more detail on that later, but it's a standard uniform. It is more tactical, but it's a standard uniform that these teams wear day to day and next time. And this is the ice special RN team officers same type of uniform camouflage, but you can see the police panels in the front and the back the SRT and then the badge or their patch on the on the side there This morning. Thank you. I'm gonna be brief the CD P's role with with with respect to what's happening in Portland is really straightforward as part of the Department of Homeland Security, CBP, is there to support FPS and you heard with their with respect to their primary mission to defend a federal property and is this country's largest law enforcement Organization in the United States. we we have a considerable amount of highly trained tactical units that provides an immediate. With respect to a wide vast array of high risk incidents and they are highly and specially specialized and received high training and specialized training and skills and tactics We have our SRT. We call our special response team and that's the tactical unit that's attached to our office of field operations, and in addition to that as I'm sure everyone's heard of the vortex, that's our specialized tactical team that's assigned to our United States border. These agents and officers are among the most highly trained agents and officers that we have within CBP and that includes training and riot control. In fact, more T was established in 1980 - four precisely to respond to right control and detention facilities. The special response team of 00 that I mentioned they have an extensive experience with respect to responding to a Mass protests and riots at our land ports of entry and they've been doing that for for a very long time in addition to that. vortex and SRT these teams are dispatched to help a local state and federal law enforcement organizations throughout the United States with respect to a variety of law enforcement operations. They've been doing this for decades, a couple of things to that I wanna foot stomp on that the Secretary said, and and both deputy director declined with respect to the arrest you've seen specifically with respect to the units more T that you've seen out there in the past few days, I wanna make sure everybody. That these arrests are highly coordinated within the incident, command their at Portland FPS has the lead and and as as deputy said there are multitude of agencies are there were one entity? That's there every single arrest that's made is coordinated within that Unified command and they are narrowly targeted and they're done so in accordance with established procedures and authorities as a Secretary mentioned, for example, as already been mentioned individuals who are with intent. Willfully arming themselves with weapons that they come there each and every night They with intent arm themselves with a barrage of weapons with the intent to destroy federal property and seriously injure federal law enforcement officers. Those are the individuals that we're talking about so when you see a a a CBP vortex agent or an SRT officer that is out there. Are doing so in a very targeted fashion to go after somebody that has committed a federal crime and that very narrow targeted approach. What I'm talking about specifically are those who have actually intentionally harmed a federal officer so and they're doing so while these agents and officers are protecting the federal property so we are and that case we will make a targeted arrest based on probable cause and that includes. The Secretary said even if that subject goes off the off the property, it just makes common sense. We're not gonna allow somebody to walk up to the federal property assault a federal officer or agent and because of they walk off federal property. They're gonna say, Oh, we can't go arrest well that doesn't make sense. of course, we're gonna arrest you and we have the authority to make that arrest and we will continue to do that. So what this means is we're not patrolling the streets of Portland has been falsely reported multiple times in. Few days I'd like to address two other persistent questions that come up first unmarked vehicles. look I've been in law enforcement for almost three decades the use of unmarked vehicles is a standard procedure standard practice among every local state and federal law enforcement agency in this country actually in the world, it's nothing new but it's especially important under these circumstances every one of. Every one of us in the past few weeks has seen what have they been doing? I call these individuals criminals, not the peaceful protesters, but they individuals again with intent that are going to go out and actually target marked vehicles. We've seen it time and time again we've seen Mark Patrol vehicles in the last few weeks among a variety of cities in this country on fire, we all know about the story in New York, where in the scenery device was actually thrown inside a marked vehicle while there were. Officers inside the vehicle so yeah, I think not only is it a common practice among law enforcement, but also in these circumstances, it makes sense to use an unmarked vehicle, not only first and foremost for the protection of the officers and agents doing their job to protect federal property and arresting criminals, but also for the protection of the public and the last thing I'd like to talk about is the uniform markings There has been a tremendous a tremendous amount of false information out there. I've seen news reporting that news Reporting Tweet after Tweet saying quote you know Unidentified you know mask Stormtroopers again, I wanna put up on the Secretary, said it is offensive offensive to reform to refer to these dedicated men and women that are out there as law enforcement professionals to make that reference. It is disgusting and it's also a lie as we can see we've shown you time and time again. so you saw you saw the the Mark. The deputy director of Kline put out I wanted to blow that up to show you our vortex, for example, this is benefit identification every single one of them has on their uniform and this is a baseline. This is a baseline I wanted to bring a real life version. This is what they're wearing. This is a real life version of what they're wearing. This is a baseline of all the different identifications that they have so first and foremost you see clearly marked that they are part of the customs and border. The second line of is it shows the component within CBP that they're Associated with and this incident Border patrol clearly police. it's marked on the front and the back clearly every single agent in addition to to that, a unique identifier deputy director, Klein said he doesn't have his officers were name tags cuz they're being dots. That's exactly right. That's another thing. That's absolutely disgusting. so they're not only jeopardizing the lives of the agents, they're also jeopardizing the lives of their families as they're putting out their home information and their suggesting that. Vigils go to their homes so yes I I think Commissioner have authorized and supported removing their names from their uniform. Instead, what we have, though is a personal identifier. so we have that so we can identify and we have each identifier Associated with a specific name. so we have all that information internally and we'll share that with the corporate entities when it's necessary our SRT teams, it's the same thing right clearly identified. Uniform clearly identified so I I hope that puts a rest, The lies and the false rumors about that. they're not properly marked the last thing that I mentioned about this as well is there's been some additional information out there about how they identified themselves you will find in each and every instance when we approach somebody who we believe who we have probable cause who's committed a federal crime, we do identifies I identify ourselves as police or a federal agent. The truth Thank You open it up to a few questions. with you, you wanna call it out. Yeah. Okay. Can you tell us how many people in total have been arrested by DHS for since this all began and also what are you doing for DHS to try to deescalate the situation and work with the Portland authorities to so the number I have is since July Fourth, which is really when you saw an increased presence there in Portland, there's been 43 federal arrest you that's not only by. Officials but that's also we have other federal law enforcement. The US Marshals are there that took place in some of these activities as well. So 40 - three is the number that I have but again as you indicate as a deputy director indicated there's rest every night so that numbers gonna fluctuate what have I done to de-escalate? So if you go back a week to a week and a half, I placed a phone call to the mayor and the governor it was very specific. What do you need from the Department to help address this situation to bring the violence? And still allow the peaceful protesters to protest each and every night I can give you I can give you I can give you no person. I can give you capabilities and I can give you other types of assets to help you address this if you have been overwhelmed their response was no thanks and please leave the city and take all of your law enforcement with you. That's almost a quote that was on Wednesday. I didn't do anything with that. That was a conversation. What I saw was later that evening and the next day they started tweeting about this. Tweeting about our conversation and and turned it into a political issue for them. I, of course had to respond to that, but again as you heard in my remarks, I'm willing to work with them We need to deescalate. We need to find a peaceful outcome to what is going on again for 52 nights. I asked the mayor as the governor, How long do you plan to have this continue is it 82 nights? Is it 92 nights again no response so we'll continue to work with them. FPS has a good local relationship there with the authorities. They'll continue to do that again We stand ready. I'm ready to pull my officers out of there. if the violence stops, Portland is unique, There's no other city like it right now that we see this violence at federal courthouses. We have no other teams like has been described here in any other city. It's just Portland and unfortunately we've seen this from Portland in the past in 2018, we had an ice facility laid siege to for 20 - eight days while local law enforcement local officials did nothing about that we had to In to clear a path to get individuals in and out of that facility, so there's a little bit of a pattern here that obviously I'm concerned about and we're trying to work with him. I wanna find a peaceful solution, but at the end of the day we have to as you've heard we have to protect the federal property in the law enforcement officers there. thank you for having this with your Secretary, you said yesterday that you do not need the permission from local mayors as well as state governors in order to deploy these teams. I'm aware of that, in addition to the CBP, a that are in Portland, as well as others who have rapid deployment teams that include various federal officials as well, where are those teams now in terms of cities throughout the United States and where are you planning on dispatching the answer to that? our teams are in Portland, you only have them for our teams are important and in terms of the President's comments yesterday and many other cities that are that he is ready to. Federal agents are you are you deploying those rats? Why would you let the President of the White House that question they can they can answer that what I can tell you is the Department will continue to do our authorized mission in any city across the the country. So pick a major metropolitan City. We have hundreds of law enforcement officers there that are doing criminal work criminal activity targeting gangs targeting illicit narcotics and we'll continue to do that. We'll search there if we need to we'll continue to do what our authority is under the Department of Homeland Security, and of course we're going to come to the assistance of. Agencies that need assistance as well. We've done that for the entire life of the Department and we'll continue to do that in terms of of US 40 - 15, I just curious because I know that the subsection that you've read it does say conducting investigations on and off property, but the question that I think many people have is what exactly is going into those investigations. What level of probable cause are you getting that some people are saying that they're being detained on the sidewalk by an agent that they don't recognize and being put into an unmarked What exactly is the standard of problem cause that you're getting and how is that not a violation of civil at the deputy director talk a little bit about that because he's working with the US Attorney Department of Justice there again, but what I would sort of a big picture question is this is a very difficult environment to work in when you have 500 600 violent individuals, violent criminals across the Street from you trying to inflict harm on your property and that law enforcement officers. We do our best to identify who they are using that probable cause. What we don't do is we don't go into that crowd. We don't try to go into a violent crowd of 400 people and try to arrest people. That's that's dangerous for our law enforcement officers dangerous for those individuals as well. so we try to identify individuals as best we can Again working with the entire federal presence there in Portland and address it that way. but let's have a talk to you a little bit about that thank you so the the 40 S a 1315 authority does allow us to do investigations both on and off the property based on a crime occurring or an alleged crime occur on federal property. So, in this instance, you're probably talking about the van. So the CP the border patrol officers have been crossed with authority the individual that they were questioning was in a crowd and in an area where an individual was aiming a laser at the eyes of of officers. we have people in the area that observed keep track of him where he's going. We don't wanna go into the crowd because it's a fight between our guys and the demonstrators so we wait till the individual gets into it somewhat quiet area where we don't expect to have violence when we wanna talk to him in this instance, the CB. Officers approached him and he saw the approach it was peaceful. There was no there was no get on the ground and they want to talk to him, but as they approached him, they noticed that coming in their direction were demonstrators that now see what's going on and they wanna go help so they asked the individual please get in the van and they did take them to an area that was safe for both the officers and the individual to do the questioning so it's it's not a custodial arrest. we need a question this individual to find out what their role was in this laser pointing and It got kind of spin out of control with the Red about what happened. It was a simple engagement. The individual was with the CBP officers for less than 20 minutes while they did the questioning they had to get out of the area so they weren't attacked and then they conducted the questioning and they released individuals cuz they did not have what they needed the US attorney's offices consulted on every engagement that our offices are doing the US Attorneys office is also at our role call every evening to make sure that our officers and agents are aware of the use of force. Engagement Authority jurisdiction, they spend a lot of time on that. so that's that's how that came about. Thanks Christina what actions would you like to see from the mayor or governor that could help potentially call the violence? Yeah, I think the difference between Portland and any other city not just take Washington DC cuz that's what we're here. There's a reason that we don't have violent anarchist for 52 nights in DC because we have local police and local officials that are working with federal partners to address any type of violent criminal activity like that. So that's my ask. What we know is there's an environment in Portland, right now that in these individuals attack city property, federal or Portland police property they don't do anything they don't take any action. They don't make any arrests. They don't do anything of the like as long as it's pointed at federal facilities. It's hands off for them so my ass would be to engage to engage like any other city across this country engages work with local law enforcement. you know if you don't wanna talk to me, that's fine work with local law enforcement and do the. And let's address the violent criminal activity so that the peaceful protesting can continue. two questions. The first is what police have hit a Navy veteran who said that he was standing there peacefully the video shows him standing there. He was pepper sprayed his right hand was broken. Why are those specific actions appropriate and will officers face any sort of consequences because at least on the video didn't seem like he's trying to damage? I will probably it seems like he's a veteran standing there protester yes, it is Chris has any additional information those officers are US Marshals in that video that you see there. Again not part of the Department of Homeland Security, so I don't have all the information you might ask the Department of Justice. I'm sure they're looking at that would have some further insights to it and that's exactly what the deputy US Marshal. that was part of the the team at the Hatfield courthouse. we've seen what you've seen the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General is conducting an investigation into that. there was an allegation of excessive use of force and the Department of Justice. A wedge is investigating. Question is what do you say to critics who say that you touched on this a bit in your remarks? But what do you say to critics say the US government specifically your agency is acting like an authoritarian regime, especially because you have the governor of Oregon and she spoke to you specifically Secretary Wilkins said that her she doesn't want your officers in her state that she doesn't need them that there is escalating tensions well what I would say is if you did your job from a local perspective, we wouldn't be there just like we're not in any other city with this type of deployment force that the other courthouses the fact that we are there. Is because local officials are not taking action. They're not protecting they're not helping to address the situation. I think that's the key difference in whether we look at any other metropolitan city that FPS has facilities that they are protecting they have a partnership with local law enforcement and they help protect that facility. They'll help make local arrest. They'll help disperse crowds. They'll help do a variety of things when violent activity occurring that is not taking place in Portland. so that's the difference. between what we see in Portland and what we see in any other place now regarding whether it's a mayor or the Portland or sorry the the governor not wanting us there. Okay. I appreciate that we still have a job to do so we're gonna have to continue to protect that federal facility. What we know is if we left tomorrow they would burn that building down. I'm sure you're not advocating for that, but they would burn that building down. they have stated that publicly we know they've tried. We have them on video trying that multiple different times. so we have a responsibility. I read it to you. It says that the Secretary shall protect buildings doesn't say you can it doesn't give me the option. it says. I shall so I'm continue to use my resources to protect those buildings clarifying questions, the President said yesterday that you said, you're saying that you're not expanding this at all. It's the President said Very clearly that this was gonna be. I think what let's make sure that we're talking about two very different things here. We're talking about Portland, which is unique about violent violent anarchist violent anarchists in Portland. Is normal city criminal activity and behavior by gangs by criminal elements throughout the country. Those are two different things the President you know you can certainly ask the White House and others. That's what he was referring to. so what we have in Portland is very different than we see in any other city. Yes, I'm just gonna ask thank you for having us you said these are well organized and there's a large numbers of people night after night. Do you have information about who is supporting these disc criminal activity you name it again. I would refer you to the Department of Justice, Fbi is on the ground. they have they are investigating just. so they're gonna have the best information for you on that. he said. He spoke to the governor and the mayor at one point and asked them what they needed from you has it have you or any other federal officials spoken to Mayor or the governor since that opening conversation, or is it just been all over Twitter? So I've again, I talked to the mayor and the governor gave them my number told them to certainly reach out to me if they need anything from the federal government again to bring. To a close my phone is operating at working I'm happy to talk with them anytime they wanna talk it hasn't happened since that first conversation in the conversation that we had was very definitive on what actions they would like DHS to take those actions were not we're not helpful it wasn't a productive dialogue on their side. I came with options for them and it was really listening on what it is that they needed. it wasn't. But I'm happy to talk to him at any point I think for doing this could you perhaps let us know how much this operation Portland's cost the taxpayer and could you also confirm between the different agencies? how many officers have been sent there. We're seeing reports of about 60. just is that accurate, so I don't have the cost on what this is costing the federal government. we can. I'm sure we can probably figure that out. we have a number of agents. I'm not gonna give out an exact number for operational security reasons but we have. Now that can protect our federal property, you heard the deputy director talk about not only the Hatfield courthouse the Green, but we have other properties there as well. so we need to make sure that we're we're able to protect all of them. I did you just clarify the officers that are in Portland are acting to the executive order of the June 26. - Six executive order on and then what the President was talking about when he was talking about other cities is that something different can you just sort of tell us what just to clarify what are? I'm sorry, I thought we were clear so the individuals that are in Portland are acting under FPS Authority Department of Homeland Security Authority doesn't have anything to do with an executive order. This is existing authority that has been on the books for decades decades. that is the authority they're using to go in and to protect a federal facility. FPS protects almost 9000 facilities around the country. There's no other facility that has this type of violent activity night after night after night so that's the authority they're using and again Port. Different than any other city that we're talking about that has normal generalized criminal activity and crime What we call Street crime whether it's drugs guns or the like two totally different scenarios that are going on you mentioned that 43 people were arrested how many of those were charged. You know how many offhand but Chris or Mark do you guys know anything? okay We're gonna have to confirm with the US Attorney's office. There's a number. it's a long process to go from. detention to final adjudication of the charges but that that goes on every night. the second question the US attorney called for the DHS Inspector General to look at the incident with the van and he also called for the incident last week. But that's not you. That's the what's your reaction to that so again I would say that we welcome the inspector General's review of the case what we know is. Officers were properly trained you heard about that what we've seen from video is that they acted appropriately so we're confident that the I g's review once it's complete. It's gonna demonstrate that the officers did what they were trained to do and operated within their authorities. So I'm not gonna comment anymore about that investigation, but that's that's our opinion and that's our view. Secretary of those hearing What Commissioner said about some of those tactical agents in the training that they received if that is sufficient training for the training for the right control that for the rights that we're seeing there now then why was it included in the memo used to brief review that they lacked the training to respond to that? I've seen some of the reporting about some some type of I've never seen any type of memo. I think what is clear that you heard today. what we have confirmed over and over again is that these individuals these highly specialized units that the Commissioner talked about have received advanced training. This is what they do. There's a reason we did not law enforcement officers from. the Transportation Security Administration within DHS. they don't have this training to the reason we didn't take other 00 officers in blue uniforms that you see back here they don't have the training these specialized units that have this training specifically selected because they can deal with this force protection they can deal with large groups of individuals. So all I know is that is the absolute truth. That is what we're operating under you've heard FPS talk about additional training that FPS does once they come on site and so that's the fact. That's how we laid them out, so you can see that briefing. Thank you. you're saying you did not see that in your briefing book. Great.