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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told senators on Tuesday that he would review legislation to create a "bug bounty" program to probe vulnerabilities in the Department of Homeland Security's networks.
Dan Coats, the nation's top intelligence official, is testifying before Congress after reports that President Donald Trump may have personally asked him to try to quash the FBI's investigation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) late Tuesday criticized President Trump after a report that Trump asked world leaders to contact him directly on his cellphone.
"Dear @realDonaldTrump: This is very stupid," Lieu tweeted, sharing a report titled, "Trump asks world leaders to call him on his cellphone."
Trump was relatively quiet abroad, but he still has a mess waiting for him back in the states.
Jamelle Bouie talks to Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., about the president's trip abroad and what he can expect when he makes his return stateside.
CLICK LINK FOR FULL PODCAST: https://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/trumpcast/2017/05/congressman_ted_lieu_on_donald_trump_s_foreign_trip.single.html
"Dear Jared: I have been told that Siberia, Russia has lovely weather this time of the year. You can backpack and back-channel all you want," Lieu wrote in a tweet.
President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Russia's ambassador to the United States discussed establishing a secret back-channel in order to avoid having their communications detected by US authorities, according to a report on Friday.
President Donald Trump's message Friday to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan was "inappropriate" because of his references to terrorism, Rep. Ted Lieu said Friday.
"The message was inappropriate," the California Democrat told Wolf Blitzer on CNN. "When you devote an entire paragraph to terrorist attacks, you are imputing to the 99.9 percent of Muslims who are peaceful that they are somehow linked to these terrorist attacks.
"You just don't do that in a holiday message."