caught asleep at the switch. instead of immediately responding, sending in the troops, it took a few days. president bush leaves for the disaster zone an hour from now, but one louisiana official says the federal recovery effort is a national disgrace. we can t take this. we have been. out here for three days. i don t want to die like this. because they concede of the post 9/11 world as a war, america s entire apparatus was geared towards one goal. stopping 19 guys from getting on four airplanes again. in that process, fema was put within the department of homeland security. it had no funding. did it not have the professional group of people that it once had. it was in many ways an organ of the entire homeland security
happened. and what we can do to stop this from ever happening in the united states again. we have made a lot of progress since 9/11. the department of homeland security was created after 9/11. my committee was created as a result of 9/11. everything we do on the committee and in the department is to make sure we can prevent another 9/11 from happening. so it s a very solemn moment that we reflect on, and remember those who lost their lives and never forget. obviously the wars that were launched after that are now entering their 16th year in the case of afghanistan. 14 for iraq. is america safer today than it was on september 10th, 2001? i think our intelligence apparatus, our homeland security apparatus has improved. i don t think a large scale operation like 9/11 could happen again. europe is getting more attacks, but the threat is still alive and well.
holding the president accountable for his words that some have called dangerous? i think republicans control the federal government right now so they have a responsibility to reassure the public that we have a handle on these white supremacist groups. we ve seen a lot of local news clippings over the past few days especially in places that are having debates about confederate monuments where white supremacist are saying we re going to have a rally. where i am in kentucky today, one white supremacist said, we re going to have a rally and it doesn t have to be like charlottesville, but it could be. you don t want those instances to become violent so the trump administration is in charge and republicans are in charge in washington right now, they absolutely have to reassure the public that our homeland security apparatus has a handle on these situations. i was pleased, frankly, today very little or no violence occurred it inn boston. that was a great thing for this situation. david, i
hopefully he ll recover. we ve been on that all week. shifting topics, since you re the chairman of the senate homeland security, take a list tone what james clapper former national intelligence under president obama told my colleague jim sciutto about president trump s travel ban. does the terror threat necessitate the ban from these seven countries? well, i don t believe we are aware of any extraordinary threats we weren t already deal with. does a ban like this in your view, does it damage u.s. image, but also counter terror partnership? yes. your reaction, sir. do you think first of all, are there threats that you know of now that the homeland security apparatus and people like the director of national intelligence didn t know of before president trump took office from those seven countries? second of all, do you think the ban were to be reimplemented, makes us safer? well, first of all, nothing
after all the reforms, tomorrow these collections systems are pretty much going to look very much, very similar to the way they do today. a lot of we have to take a look in the future. the question becomes for folks who use this information, who make life and death determinations as to when to send troops, how to resource our homeland security apparatus, what is going to be changed in terms of the information we are going to be deriving? i think what the president said was after review, we found the complaints were unfounded in terms of just a cavalier attitude by the intelligence community. one of the big problems here has been we have reformed our intelligence community after a scandal. you know, in the 1960s he referred to that, 9/11. well, here we have to take a look at maintaining the capability and enhancing it to protect this country while also addressing, tipping the hat to the privacy concerns. jenna: just real quick, michael, what are you going to be