John kelly will be speaking. This will be the first public address that secretary kelly has given since his swearingin. We are honored to have chosen washington for this venue. We are ranked as the most politically engaged body in the nation. Our students are actively ,nvolved in dollar dialogue and i am delighted a number of hours due to its rb are able a number of our students are able to be here today. Veteransad supporting actively for a number of years now. Currently we have 1800 veterans and dependence being educated here. On the topic of todays conversation, i want to talk about our longterm involvement in Homeland Security issues. Kellysecretary predecessors have visited our campus them and the speeches from people like secretary kelly highlight the work we do in this field. The faculty at George Washington has been working since before september 11. Director mention the of the George Washington center for cyber and Homeland Security. To have him introduce secretary kelly. I know you will enjoy his presentation today. Thank you. [applause] thank you, and before i interviewed secretary kelly, let me thank steve for his tenure as president of George Washington university. It ably and has been a proponent of research, academia, and the marriage between policy and research and academia. Thank you. He will be stepping down at the end of july. It is a distinct privilege to be able to host general kelly today. Leaders in the Homeland Security space in the audience are today, at as the president had mentioned, we had the opportunity to host all of his predecessors, but in this case we have the first secretary with operational experience. All i have to say is he is a marine. What else do you need . He served ably for 40plus years. 1970, went back to get his degree, and came back to the marines as an officer. He has moved up the ranks and served in so many various leadership roles, including command roles and staff roles, as well as educational roles. Really excited to hear from general kelly. He is a patriots fan. I will not hold that against him. And a red sox fan. Im thrilled to have general kelly for us today. So to be able to hear more in terms of the Strategic Vision of the department and the priorities he is setting for the men and women who are charged with the awesome responsibilities of protecting our homeland day in and day out. It is important to provide context, and ultimately we are a university, but we want to make sure we are empowering and arming our men and women with knowledge to be able to fulfill that objective. It is a privilege to have the opportunity to host general kelly. He is the fifth secretary of es aland security, overseas workforce of 200,000 people. He is here to recognize that Homeland Security starts overseas. We had a number of executives, coding ambassadors. I see the japanese executives, elgin ambassadors, who have been able to join us today. Secretary kelly, the floor is yours. We look forward to engaging in a. Ur comments and the q secretary kelly thanks very much, frank, and thanks for the kind words. G. W. For hosting this event today. When i retired my biggest fear was to be offered another inltime job, particularly the government. I did not want to go up and down the beltway that i did so many other times. Did not like the bureaucracy, but here i am today. Make my way up 95, the first thing i read is the clips that are taken out of areas publications around the country, and i read about frankly what i do or what i have done, what i have said, and i read about my people. It is one of the first things i do every day, and the other one is to read the daily intelligence briefing. Read about my people, my institution, and above me, occasionally, but more importantly, i read in the intel what we are actually accomplishing during the course of the day. Theres a big cap between the two, what is reported in the press and the media, and i mean no disrespect. Prouder to serve alongside the men and women of Homeland Security, and we as a nation oh then a debt of owe then a debt of gratitude. When you are having your morning coffee, the coast guard is pulling a fisherman out of his boat, capsized in pretty heavy seas, and while you are deciding what you want for lunch, the Training Center is teaching Law Enforcement officers how to respond to an active shooter. When you are scrolling through are poll facebook, we figuring out how to defeat ares, or investigators closing in on a child predator. Stopping ag madman who is local state and politicians read or listen to partial and oftentimes inaccurate media reporting on some alleged incident at an courthouse, and assumed the men and women at dhs are intentionally abusing innocent individuals while they break or ignore or while my people break and ignore u. S. Law. They make the assumption that my people are doing it wrong, as opposed to making the assumption that my people are doing it the law,rking within based on their training and just who they are as americans. That is the ordinary day and one that does not make the paper. Every day in a million different ways, dhs employees are making our country more secure, standing guard against all the hazards we face, and forcing the Laws Congress has passed because we are lucky enough to live in a nation of laws. We do our job so you can live your peaceful life, a safe life, in a free country. Make no mistake, we are in fact a nation under attack. Were under attack from criminals who think their greed justifies raping young girls at knife point, dealing poison to our youth, or killing some of us for fun. We are under attack from people who hate us, hate our freedoms, laws, values, hate the way we live our lives. We are under attack from failed states, smugglers, and radicals. Were under attack every single day. The threats against us are relentless. When people think about dhs, they think about how we respond to terrorism, and that is fair. This is our Foundation Given our larger story, and critical to what we do. But our jobs are to score the nation from the threats we face from all hazards. But one of the greatest hazard is from transnational criminal organizations. Inflictrorists, tcos butality and regularly ehead their victims. They exploit desperate people for their own purposes. They destroy their own communities and bring great shame on their countries of origin. They are utterly without laws, conscience, or respect for human life. Their business dealings and violent practices for the sophisticated networks move anything and everything across our borders including human beings. We have set out to stop that movement to the greatest degree we can. Take thousands of dollars from desperate people , people trying to escape a lack of Economic Opportunity in many s and send them on a course north on a network that rivals dantes journey into hell. The smugglers make a few here and hes and they offer no make few guarantees. Not every person moving along these networks is an economic refugee or trying to escape poverty we face real threats from socalled special interest aliens that move at great expense from fast distances outside the western sphere into the United States. The special interests, if from part of the world where nt, aresm is prese hostile to the united takes. These individuals take huge sums of money to transport them from the middle east, through south and central america. Do not get to vet them. You do not know their intentions. Do not know why they are here. They sent it to our country and noticed living among us. You are blind to what they are tcos do isdamage only part of the story. They move fast images of cocaine and heroin, methamphetamines. They move these tonnage is across tonnages across our borders. Protections,and onlyimmigrations, ice, and homeland investigations are witness to the vast quantity of drugs that are trafficked into the United States every day with devastating consequences. Recent data,most over 52,000 deaths from these drugs in the United States caused by these overdoses. It is the highest number of deaths our country has ever seen. More deaths than the peak of the aids epidemic. In a single year we have lost as Many Americans as we lost in entire world war i. Its almost we have lost in the 12 years of fighting in vietnam. That is just overdosed deaths. That number says nothing about the longterm health damaged our citizens who survived. To say nothing about the human misery, the families ripped apart, and the extremes of crime and violence inherent in the illegal drug enterprise. Let me be clear about marijuana. It is a potentially dangerous that frequently leads to the use of harder drugs. Science tells us it is not only psychologically addictive, but can have profound negative impacts on the still developing minds of teens and people up to their mid20s. The on that come its use and possession is against beyond that, its use and position is against the law. We are sworn to uphold all the laws that are on the books. Dhs personnel will continue to investigate marijuana illegal pathways along the network into the United States. We will arrest those involved in the drug trade according to federal law. Customs professionals who continue to search for marijuana at the, air, and land ports of appropriateake actions. When marijuana is found at airports, tsa personnel will take action. As will use convictions essential elements as they build their deportation, removal, apprehension packages for targeted operations against illegal aliens. They have done this in the past, are doing it today, and will continue in the future. Have asm tcos devastating effect on our homeland. The other aspect of the threat is terrorism. For a brief moment after the 9 11 attacks, we came together as a country and stood shoulder to shoulder against this horrible threat. But the years have passed and we have grown accustomed to it and now question all the security, all of the issues that we have put in place to secure the nation. It is a little bit of an inconvenience at an airport or as you pass on to an airplane. The threat to our nation, our american way of life, has not diminished. The threat has metastasized and decentralized him and the risk is threatening us today in a way that is worse than we experienced 16 years ago. As i speak these words, the fbi has opened terrorism investigations and all of our 50 states. Since 2013, there have been 37 ourlinked plot to attack country. This is bad news, but it gets worse. Experts estimate 10,000 citizens of europe have joined the caliphate fight in syria and in a iraqi. Houses more from nations in asia, africa, the western hemisphere have also joined that fight. I have learned how to make ieds, employed drones to drop ance. Againstlition, we are what is best described against conventional formations in the caliph i. The expectation that many of will holy warriors survive, come back to their home countries, where they will wreak , and theeurope, asia United States. Because many are citizens of countries in our visa waived programs, they can easily travel to the United States, which makes us and continues to make us a prime terrorist target. Homegrown terrorism is a difficult challenge. Few of the challenges we face from a terrorism point of view article. T we have seen an unprecedented spike in homegrown terrorism. The past 12 months, to have been 36 homegrown terrorist cases opened. These are the cases we know about. Homegrown terrorism is difficult to predict an almost impossible to control. What is feeding the violence . Typically, it is the internet. From anywhere across the world, organizations are sharing hateful propaganda with impressionable people. They published revolting howto manuals, teaching their followers how to build bombs and kill innocent people. These you may they trade pictures of people being stoned to death. If you are a terrorist within in internet connection, you can recruit soldiers, you can upload a video calling for a jihad with a few clicks. Thanks to encryption devices and security medication techniques, these individuals are becoming harder and harder, and i predict impossible to detect. Until community leaders, teachers, Law Enforcement, and their are more aware of options to prevent that message from taking hold, our youth are afraid to these predators. Prey to are these predators. These people despise the United States because we are a nation of rights, of laws, and of freedoms. They have a single mission, and that is our instruction. I tell youggeration, they tried to carry out this mission each and every day, each and every night. They are relentless. They cannot be stopped. Like thoseand women that serve at dhs, military, and Law Enforcement are ever visit. And they are. Cyber, not just bombs and guns are threats against him, and other type of conflict is taking place in the computer networks. We are under constant attack by a wide range of adversaries with an even wider range of capabilities in this realm. There are nationstate actors with sophisticated tools. There are global criminal organizations that operate like a legitimate is this right down to Customer Service support. There are lone wolves that buy now where on the internet. Sometimes they just want to create havoc. They target our government networks, Critical Infrastructure systems throughout america, which is being bombarded on an hourly basis. These attackers steal intellectual property, personal data, and health information. Y are thieves, seven tours saboteurs, and enemies of democracy. We rely on technology for everything. From our coffeemakers to running global corporations. But this reliance and perhaps overreliance brings risks. What would happen to our country if the stock market did not trades . What would happen to the transportation if the navigation satellites suddenly went dead . What happen if a major city lost power . Cyber threats present a tremendous danger to our way of life, which are no less see if significant from the regular world. It is a big job, this department. We are up against criminal organizations, cyber attacks, assassins, pandemics, hurricanes, and oil spills. The danger israel real, but so is our dedication, professionalism, and expertise. These risks that is why we do what we do. 16 times in my life i have raised my right hand and swore before my god that i would support and defend the constitution of the United States. Our nation is unique in that we swear our allegiance to a piece of paper, a constitution, to law, not to a king, a joint president , to a party, or the but the supreme law of the land. We vowed to uphold the law and to operate within it. Ise a sacred duty, and that the continuation of the United States as we know it. To protect our way of life and Exceptional People we are. Every day we take a stand against the forces that endeavor to take exceptionalism away from us. Say with help from our International Interagency and private sector partners, state and local partners, we are standing strong and winning the battle. We must win the battle on hundred percent of the time every day. 100 of the time every day. Our adversaries only need to succeed occasionally to make a point. Of the newirst week administration, we have been securing our borders and enforcing our immigration laws. Not only is this our right, it is our responsibility to ensure the safety of the american people. People who illegally cross our borders do not respect the laws of our nation. We want to get the lawbreakers out of our country. Being serious about our borders is not good for the american people, but will also save lives. In 2016, customs and Border Protection save nearly 4000 yeardebt individuals who found themselves abandoned by the coyotes in the desert and nearly died. 4000 saved. Much has been made up our efforts to discourage women from endangering themselves and their children at the hands of these human smugglers. It is working. 16,000 familyn units were apprehended in december, only 1100 were apprehended in march. This is a phenomenal drop in movements. Every one of them that did not come did not subject themselves to the dangers of the network and the abuse of that network. Fewer people are crossing the border illegally means fewer deaths, fewer people submitting themselves to that terrible network experience. And iothing more know i speak for the attorney general nothing more that we would like to do than put these human smugglers out of business, and we would do anything, our departments, to do just that within the law. The drop in illegal immigration is really remarkable. The germanic reduction traumatic reduction is evident along the southwest border. It is 64 lower than this time last. The numbers are lower because we are serious about Border Security and enforcing our immigration laws. Catch and release and focus on prosecuting and convicting the traffickers on the coyotes themselves. We have not done that before. Detainers foring deportation and have arrested more criminal aliens. We will continue to expand the prosecution of anyone, including family members, pay the traffickers, especially when they paid the traffickers to move children up that terrible network. Our dhs personnel will enforce ice, know, primarily they have a job to do an art job to to do it have a do and are trained to do it. These indicated men and women have the resources and they know they have an administration and a department and a secretary that have their back. While we have seen a drop in human smuggling, agencies across our department continued to seize vast amounts of dangerous drugs. At the midpoint of this fiscal year, the coast guard is combating a sharp uptick in cocaine flow and has removed nearly 243 thousand pounds that were headed to the United States. Cdp has reported a 39 increase seizures, 43,000 pounds. They have seen an increase in heroin and methamphetamine seizures, and it is only halfway through the year. Seizedsider that cvp see weery day, you can have a serious drug problem. We need a commitment to reduce drug demand in the United States, and i do not mean arresting our way out of this. It is a comprehensive plan to reduce demand. Effort that not only employs the full measure of the governments, but also hollywood, professional sports figures and teams, high school coaches, boy and girl scouts leaders, as well as Law Enforcement in their chasing the dragon program. As well as priests, pastors, rabbis, and imams. Home. Nally it begins at parents have got to be more engaged in what their children are doing, whether on the internet or taking drugs, experimenting with drugs. The time is now because this president has recognized this problem, and he has signed an executive order extension a commission on combating rug at addiction, of which i am part. Drug addiction, i wish i part. One of the things were doing, you had deterred successfully a huge amount of immigration coming up from the Central American countries. For the most part they leave because there is no Economic Opportunity for them. We are trying to get at that issue. The stateith department are hosting a conference in miami in june. We will have mexico helping as cohosts. We will have all four Central American countries, the Interamerican Development bank, European Partners harriet tubman, canadians, and as well as panama and costa rica will come in as observers. We will have a conference to stimulate Economic Development and investment in the three countries, honduras, el salvador, and guatemala. That way tried to create an environment where people will culturere, where their is, where their churches are, and not take that trip up into the United States. They lack the Economic Opportunity. That is why the majority of them leave. Cohosting with mexico, we will try to make a difference. We are not just trying to keep them away, we are trying to give them a reason to stay home. This conference on Central American prosperity is designed to help these countries in a way that we have never attempted before. Mentioned a number of times, we have tried to push the borders of the United States as far away as possible, and we do this in various ways, partnering with countries like colombia and mexico and the caribbean nations. Using an incredibly capable of National Security cutters of the United States coast guard that do unbelievable work in the caribbean and the eastern pacific in interdicting loads of cocaine and other drugs by the. On, not by the gram we must use our relative geographic distance to our advantage. We got to use. Terrorists from threatening our homeland. Know why theyre coming to our country before they have arrived at our doorstep. The first step is improving our vetting processes, increasing the reliability of those procedures overseas. We use all the tools we have available, social media, new technology, biometrics, more investigators, and top match topnotch intelligence. New intelover 900 leads were developed. These were bad people that we prevented from coming to our country. Withersonnel keep people terrorist ties of the United States. We have operationalized intelligence. Everything we do is based on the intelligence we gain from sources, not just we gain, but intelligence provided to us from the intelligence committee. We have successfully been able to stop much terrorism from coming to our shores. The same applies to what we do in the world of cyber, partnering with not only other of the of the agencies United States government, but in a big way the commercial and Even International partners to this Destructive Force as well. For too longle, the people in my department have been pawns, have been asked to and less. Ss they are often ridiculed by Public Officials and convicted in the court of Public Opinion by unfounded allegations testified to by street lawyers and stree spokespersons. Lawmakers do not like the laws we are charged to enforce, that we are sworn to enforce, then they should have the courage and spill skill to change those laws. Inerwise they should shut up front of the men and women on the front lines. [applause] havetary kelly my people been discouraged from doing ,heir jobs for nearly a decade disabled by pointless bureaucracy and political meddling, and suffered disrespect i Public Officials who have no idea by Public Officials who have no idea what it means to serve. During my hearings, members of the congress, press, and officials asked me about the morale problems the department has experienced over the last few years. My response has simply been when you discourage, disable, unjustly criticized and default to believing the initial reports as opposed to defaulting leaving stories told by my professionals, when you do all of those things and show disrespect to the individual who is risking his or her life to defend the country, when you do those things, what do you expect . All of the stock on january 20. It stopped with President Trump and with me. An impossible do job, deserve our nations thanks and respect, deserve to be proud of the jobs they do. We are moving in the right direction. Why . Because the best way to improve morale is to let employees do the job they were hired to do and recognize them for those jobs. We will never apologize for forcing and upholding the laws of this country. We will never apologize for carrying out our mission. We will never apologize for making our country more secure. We ask nothing more than respect and support. We do not do this for the thankyous. We seldom get thankyous. We do this to keep america strong, secure, and free. We live in a dangerous world. Ehose dangers ar increasing. And changing speed and direction every day. Every day we are vigilant for every day we are prepared, every day we do our jobs. With that, i will close and say thank you for the opportunity for me to come up here and make these comments, but i want to thank the men and women, nearly a quarter of a million, who do a great job at dhs every single day. They are all important, and you are all a road, our great public charging. Nd keep on thanks very much. [applause] let me thank you for a phenomenal Tour De Force covering a range of issues that the Part Department grapples with. Thank you, mr. Secretary. We have a couple of your predecessors here. I see secretary chertoff here. Have got our newly nominated new confirmed deputy secretary. Congratulations. One of our senior fellows. For people today. I thought i would start with a question that cuts at the actual title of todays event. You had mentioned in particular discussing cyber, the interconnected risk that we face today. Uponou expound or expand the home and away game, and obviously dhs has a Significant International role. But how do you see that coming together especially since before you came to the department you were the Combatant Commander of the Southern Command, which obviously shares a nber of risks. How do you see the military component interact with dhs and more generally the risk that we are facing today . Secretary kelly i would offer a story. One of my good friends, jeh johnson, and i was in Southern Command isd that responsible for interacting with our partners in central america, south america, the caribbean. It was during the big uac crisis, 2014. Jeh had just taken the job. He called me up one day. I have done my job for a period of time. Said, help, you have got to help me out here. What can you do to help me stop this illegal immigration and all of the drugs coming into the United States . I said, jeh, where are you . Im in texas. Which way are you looking . Looking south. Why dont you meet me on quantum on a riveruatemala and looked north and you will see a different perspective as to the problem of drugs, violence, and illegal immigration. To his great credit he did that the next week and we stood on the river between mexico and guatemala, that began a relationship with jeh and i. A couple times a month we talked, almost every week on issues, sometimes more than that. Exception ofhat, running detention off of guantanamo bay, very proud of that mission that icon pushed with my people, that i accomplished with my people. With the exception of guantanamo, 39 months, never had a conversation with the secretary of defense with the leader of southcom. Reality in that part of the world, where there is little possibility for state on state violence, what a huge partnering proudsibility, and very to say that while i was there, my predecessor had more carries on the tradition of partnering. [indiscernible] now the commander of Southern Command speak frequently. The same relationship. When we were in the green room prior to your march and we chatted about the terrorist Screening Center and capabilities. In your remark she talked about operationalizing intelligence. Of how expand in terms these pieces are coming together . Are we fully utilizing the capabilities that are there . Obviously, the intent is to get there before the bomb goes off, and intelligence is the lifeblood for our campaign against transnational criminal enterprises. What sort of steps do you see from a terror travel perspective . And speaking about our partners in mexico, it started a little bumpy. And you give us a sense of where that u. S. Mexico is right now . Secretary kelly let me start with the mexican relationship. Mexico was not part of the set of partners that interacted with. I interacted with their military frequently conferences, things like that. I have friends in the senior levels of the mexican military. I knew a number of ministers within the mexican government. Job, i madeok this it a point to get to central america, mexico very quickly and maintain the tremendous relationship we have. They are great partners along the southwest border. They are great workers in counterterrorism. They are great partners in working with our Law Enforcement, intelligence agencies, sharing information. We help them. They help us. Last year they stopped, apprehended, or detained and sent back to their home countries 160,000 Central Americans before they got beyond 100 miles from the guatemalan border. And i think that continues. I do not think i am increasingly close to the mexico ambassador to the United States. I met him in mexico city with Rex Tillerson. I hope there is not a mexican official that does not drop by. We are in good shape, in good coordination, a Good Partnership with the mexican government, mexican military, Law Enforcement. We have to recognize that. On the issue of terrorism, i am comforted by what i now know are the capabilities of the department of Homeland Security. A beenaround around a long time, but i take comfort in the fact that this organization is so effective in terms of intel sharing, taking advantage of databases, as well as reducing our own intel. When a person of interest, someone on a terrorist list, buys a plane ticket in tokyo and is flying to out to dobby abu dhabi, we know about it. The information sharing with the European Partners, everybody, it is really comforting. I would close on the topic by saying, when you hear a report of a family, and individual, whatever at an airport being put screening ory being refused entry into the United States, leave me, it is not because of their skin color, not because of the part of the world they come from, not because of their religion, it is because someone, something, some indicator, some tipper brought a to make aal there decision to put them into additional screening. It may have been something they said, their story did not work out, that may have been something on their cell phone that brought the attention. There is always more to the story. I cannot tell you the number of phone calls i get from it was a congress telling me about how we are refusing someones entry at lax or jfk because they are muslim or arab. It is not true. We do it for a reason. You should applaud those men and women for doing what they do. Mr. Cilluffo you mentioned transnational criminal organizations, which i might in your been elevated leadership at the department of Homeland Security, and i think rightfully so. You have mentioned terrorist organizations, as well as homegrown extremists. You mentioned cyber. Not that that is a short list. Anything that is missing on that list that keeps you up at night . Secretary kelly the only thing that would keep me up at night when i was at southcom, i talked about this a lot. Oftentimes told not to talk about it, but i did anyway. This issue of the network that inhave already slowed down 90 days. A 70 reduction in Illegal Migrants into the United States. And we have not done anything we have done things, but have not done the big things yet. Haveartnering with doj, we made a difference. Efficient, its so can move anything. It moves hundreds of tons of Illegal Drugs into the United States every year. Until recently, tens of immigration illegal immigrants, and that includes special interest aliens in unlimited numbers, that it could move other things, too. I was oftentimes in the last administration told that the cartels would not allow this incredible network, so efficient, so well developed, that the cartels would never let anyone in who is carrying a weapon, aype of biological weapon, a dirty bomb, or a nuclear weapon, because it would be bad for business. In a sense they are right, but i will always point out that a lot of subcontractors in this network, and these guys do not check passports, do not do explosive residue testing, do if look in anyones bag you got the money, you are in. When there i is another terrorist attack him if it comes outside the country, up until 90 days ago, that individual gets into the United States through the southwest border. I am staying up late at night to try to prevent that from happening. That is what keeps me awake at night. Mr. Cilluffo and the reality is smuggling is smuggling is smuggling. The altar, if you want to the old joe, if you want to smuggle a package wrap it in of marijuana. Terrorists are engaged in criminal operations. On top of whatever it is, it is a criminal operation. Anything from the counterterrorism environment that you think can be brought to bear . Because when you think of enterprises, anything to understand the business that you think we ought to be bear. Ng to in the post9 11 environment, finance, is there anything unique they can be brought secretary kelly a few years ago, a good friend of mine, but a phenomenal gunfighter, warrior, seal, tni corroborated he and i collaborated on drilling down how hard this terrorists in iraq interact with criminal organizations. Told repeatedly to let it go, it was not a military issue. Consequently, do not get involved in it. What we are learning more and more is the nexus touching between criminal networks and terrorist networks. We know that the Money Laundering of massive amounts of profit from the u. S. Drug demand there are terrorist organizations that make money from that moneylaundering process. Cocainethat when moves into magreb, they allow it to pass into europe. It is an incredibly lucrative way to raise money. Theyre not doing it in huge amounts yet, but to me it would be the next step. The nexus between criminal and terrorist networks is real, and i predict will get more sophisticated. Mr. Cilluffo and it takes networks to defeat networks. Lets turn to the cyber set of issues a little bit. Looking at thert vast responsibility to protect all of our Critical Infrastructures, if everything is critical, nothing is critical. So where would you see and i am not suggesting that dhs has designated 17 infrastructures to be critical and they are but when you look at evident resources, unlimited risk, where are you going to prioritize your resources . Seeanything from where you some of the congressional mpd should beher reauthorized . Secretary kelly the department is tasked for protecting the. Gov nets, and we do that. We do that not perfectly, but we expend a great time of energy attention to that. The other aspect is to partner to the greatest degree possible with commercial concerns. I was just out in seattle, met with the leadership of microsoft. They are very interested in partnering as we are. It is something that President Trump has taken on and is very involved in out reaching the government cannot do it by itself. Probably could do it less employ it did not could not do it as well if it did not have these partnerships thatthe commercial realm you get better. It is nonstop, and president n and has taken that oin is organizing a Commission Type of thing to look at it. I am really impressed with the interest by the United States congress. A congressman from texas, for example, he and his staff are extremely knowledgeable, very engaged. Of i think it is a whole government thing, and the way the president is going, it will be a whole of government and the private realm as well. You cannot protect everything. Left, he puteh the electoral system under Critical Infrastructure. That is controversial. I have tried to explain to people why he did it and what it means. Thing that we are from the federal government, we are here to help. Most people had for the door. Head for the door. Mr. Cilluffo any news from the executive order . Secretary kelly standing by with bated breath. Mr. Cilluffo and another question along the lines of the , and you rightfully said the department is being tasked with more and more and arguably getting fewer and fewer resources to be able to deliver on that vast mission. Where do you see thank the where do you see things standing there . Secretary kelly you never have enough money. One of the things you lane el aine will do is an efficiency thing. We will look at what jeh started, and i will continue that on steroids to streamline its, to see where we duplicate efforts, acquisition, whatever. Maze scales, acquisition is going to elaine fix that in six months. [laughter] secretary kelly in the world we live today, there was always this defense and nondefense spending, defense and nondefense professionals. The world we live in today, the away game, apartment of defense, cia, nsa has to meld with the home game which is dhs. We have to think in terms of security and nonsecurity as opposed to simply defense and over there. One of the things, we just had a great conference at the special Operations Command last week, and tony thomas and i were there and thinking in terms of as the caliphate is broken up and we are having Great Success in iraq and syria doing that, as that up,phate breaks decentralize is more, and our country from a smaller point of view but form a domestic point of view is at greater risk. The idea security as nonsecurity as opposed over there and back here. We have to do that. Todayink the coast guard does a phenomenal number of missions. It is taking hundreds of tons of drugs out of the caribbean flow, and it is wrapping itself around the arctic, not to mention just on theboaters lives great lakes. Phenomenal. But everything they do has to do with the security of our nation. Do not look at them as part of the security equation makes no sense. I would say that we should think in terms of security, not defense. Cars uffo and your and a few last questions. In your role as secretary of the department of Homeland Security, were you weighing in on some of the decisions, at least from that what the implications could become to defend the homeland in terms of ramping up, which we need to obviously accelerate the but what sort of implications does that have from a Homeland Security perspective, and did you weigh in on some of the decisions . Secretary kelly i was involved ina member of the cabinet the discussions in the situation room with the president. I do not think he would mind me saying this, he was open to anyone at the table talking, giving their ideas. You had someone like jim mat tis, Rex Tillerson and others. Did was give and take and he took that in and made i do not think he would mind me saying this exactly the right decision. Going forward from syria, who knows where that will end . We had some opportunities in thes in the past we never ized. But the one thing that concerns me is as the caliphate goes away, and we are seeing large numbers of the fighters go home, because they are from europe, their passport holders, born and raised in many cases in europe. As they go into europe, back into a continent that the not know they had left for 2, 3 years, most of the countries i mentioned are these a waiver countries. We have to start program, not eliminating it and doing anything excessive, but looking very hard and saying, what do we need to do . He real intent in many cases is for these individuals to get to the United States. That is where they want to come, whether it is knocking down airplanes in flight. I have taken some decisions about that that we will likely expand. They want to get here. They want to do us harm. That is my concern now that we are winning and soon to win in syria. Those fighters go back to their homes in europe and possibly make the trip to the United States. Mr. Cilluffo sobering, but i am glad youre taking that or site to thenext foresight next level. I would also note that other foreign terrorist organizations have potentially been biding their time. Al qaeda is down but not out. Is a direct concern to the United States. Let me ask the final question. Veryave served, had a distinct military career in all sorts of roles and capacities. Everyone i have spoken to will tell me this is a soldiers general. That means a lot. Not a soldier, you are a marine. Secretary kelly with all due respect to the soldiers. [laughter] mr. Cilluffo sorry about that. The reality is you are thinking about the men and women on the front lines, on the end of the spear. Now that you are at the department of Homeland Security, they dont bode overly well in surveys in terms of morale. You mentioned the unity effort on steroids, which i think it needs. Not illegal steroids, but where do you see things going now that you have an opportunity to speak to that . And i know you do every day. What should the rest of us as citizens be doing . Secretary kelly you should think about the fact that we have not had an airliner crash into a skyscraper in new york in quite a while. We have not had an airliner that has been hijacked. You should think in terms of the number of bad people that are illegal in our country that are either not here anymore or. E. Is afterse i. C them. You should think about the number of checkpoints. Whether they are land or air. In 45 and a half years in the marine corps, it came to me that get human beings to do anything you want them to do. They will invade and take it jima,team a, take iwo or they will shine their shoes. You just have to teach them and give them credit. Worst morale in the federal government in this department. 90 days ago, i made a deal with the people in this department that i will protect them. I have their back. I will encourage them to do their jobs, which they are doing each and every day. I suspect not because of me but because of the people they are that their morale is already going in the right direction. Not because of kelly, but because of what this administration has told him to do within the law. They are really good people. They are remarkable in their dedication. Every american ought to be very happy that they have men and women that fill out the ranks in dhs looking out for them and their families. General kelly, mr. Secretary, thank you for taking the time today. Thank you for your leadership. Please know that you are calling on all of us in whatever role we can have. Thank you. [applause] [indistinct conversations] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] coverage,missed any go to our website, cspan. Org. You can type Homeland Security threats in the search box. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. 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