Insightful with respect to the wall and if we have time at the end i will be happy to take some questions. Let me start with kind of what weve been spending our time on at the department the. This is the operational policy challenges of the department so the first challenge i want to discuss its counterterrorism and as joe and others now counterterrorism was the Founding Mission of the department and it continues to be the cornerstone of what we do compared to 2003 when the department was established the terrorism threat today is more challenging and more decentralized and diffuse and arguably more complex. We are more concerned about the foreign fighters who leave this country and others have traveled to another and take up to the fight and link up with a terrorist organization. They are concerned about the terrorist organizations adapted and skilled use of the internet to publicly recruit and inspire individuals. To prevent the travel of the foreign terrorist fighters the secretary r
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When he gets in the car, he knows what he is going to happen what is going to happen. Tonight, on cspans q and a. Now, Homeland Security undersecretary Suzanne Spaulding talks about protecting the nations infrastructure. She was part of an event hosted by the American Bar Association. It is about 90 minutes. [applause] youood morning and thank for that very gracious introduction. Some of you know and everybody will eventually learn that when you have spent over six decades occupying space, you take on a variety of roles. Way, you it another wear a variety of hats. I will explain to you three different hats that i wear. And currently special advisor to the American Bar Association Standing Committee on net law and National Security, we celebrated by 54th birthday, founded aba president and Later Supreme Court Justice Lewis powell and chicago lawyer. The committee focused on the legal aspects of Security Issues and conducted studies and sponsored programs and conferences and highlights t
That was not secure and was in exposing herries, and her emails to potential enemies of this country. How is that not one of the worst things that you can do . Host florida, good morning to donald. Good morning cspan and good morning to your guests. I have not seen any plan that donald trump has had put out except make it great, trust me and i am going to do it. He really hasnt given a plan on anything he will do. Remarks and comments that he has made, these are things that came out of his , from recordings of him saying things. Its not like somebody is putting words in his mouth. He is a racist. Dollars. 0 policy specifics, is this something you would like more from the campaign . I understand why, he is not professional politician. He has not had the same briefings, people sitting down and talking with him. He is starting from scratch and is working his way through it. That he ise listening and trying to form a policy, instead of telling us what we should accept from him. I would lik
Different way. We would not regard success by a al nusra as a satisfactory or acceptable outcome. If i was put on the spot of ranking control i would have to think quite hard about that. Both would be unacceptable to us. We have made that clear to any of your partners in the coalition who have ever been inclined to think otherwise. It includes al musra but other parties as well. We recognize the situation on the ground is not as we would like it to be. It is complex. Sometimes compromises do have to be made on the ground, tactical compromises. You know, the history of warfare is you have to make tactical compromises. The complexity, for example, is everyone. Isnt this an area where british diplomatic capability, the capacity to coordinate in a sense combined with our unlimited hard power actually cant make difference in isolation. Soft power diplomacy is where the nations main effort in trying to bring others together. Thats where our main effort ought to be focused, isnt it . Its part