extracted every day by those wars. joining us now from capitol hill, new jersey congressman bill pascarel, a democrat on the homeland security committee. and deputy public safety secretary for new york state. representative pascarel, how fragile at this point is the fight on philosophy relative to the funding we re getting here? well, i believe that dylan, good afternoon. i believe that the administration is doing the best that it can. and the money is there, there s no question about it. because of the recovery money, which was a one-shot deal last february, that, those dollars should have been cut. i fought, i ve been on this homeland security committee since the very beginning, along with peter king. we re not going to let anybody, anybody within the metropolitan area. you mentioned the recovery act before, dylan. you should know that that saved or created the jobs of five, almost 5,000 police officers. i do