Rep. Brown: Early January, the press office in the White House said 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come into our country at our southern border. Days later, the DHS Secretary says 3,000 “special interest aliens,” which she defined as those with “terrorist travel patterns, and/or known or suspected ties with terrorism” – 3,000 and we’ve seen an increase at the southwest border. Now the State Department has downplayed that, but your comment in response to a question and reference to 49 buses from the southern border … I just need you to clarify: Do we have a terrorist threat in the Western Hemisphere that is based in Central America and is moving northward to our southwest border?

Maj. Gen. Hecker: I’m not aware of any terrorist threat, uh, on those 49 buses. And I didn’t mean to imply that there are any terrorists on those 49 buses. We were just asked to help because we were getting a massing of a caravan of roughly 2,000 people, of which I’m not aware that there’s a single terrorist in there and didn’t mean to imply that.