region and drag the united states even deeper. the issue is what to do now that three american soldiers are dead. the president says he holds iran responsible and has made a decision on how to respond. is it the right decision? what can he do to balance risk? secretary of state blinken says no one wants escalation. is that true of iran whose leaders call for death to america? in the atlantic, american policy toward iran has failed because it has always taken a segmented approach to the iran problem, defining it as a hostage problem or freedom of the seas problem or a nuclear problem or an iraq problem. but rarely as what it is. an islamic republic of iran problem. joining us now, nbc news pentagon correspondent and traveling with the president in miami is mike memoli. all right, so courtney, the president says he s made a decision. what do we know about what the pentagon proposed for him? we know that it was a wide range of options here. there have been several times in the
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about high-tech. what have they done in the last eight, nine, 10 months in hi-tech on the border? nothing at all. it wouldn t matter. even if you had hi-tech at the border all it would be doing is counting the gotaways able to evade apprehension. it doesn t do anything as far as allowing us to take people into custody. all it does is tells us where they are at. if we don t have the resources on the border to take people into custody it doesn t matter. one of the things i ve harpd on dhs to do is if we were to take these people. we re shipping from yuma off to laredo to be processed. why are we sendsing people on the southwest border to another sector? why aren t we sending them to the northern border to process there so we can have our resources in the field. if we have would do that in yuma. take the people we apprehend in yuma and send them to the northern border for processing
privilege. it certainly was a tragic privilege of serving on the homeland security committee since the heinous acts of 9/11. many of us were there on the first opening day gavel of this committee. i had the onerous responsibility of visiting ground zero in those early, early days. i would say to you that we are now at a stark moment in history, the convergence of the isis, the isil approach to establishing a state, its commitment to franchise terrorism, its direction that says, if you cannot come to be a foreign fighter, then stay at home and create havoc. that means that all of the world is facing a new phenomena of terrorism. the united states has been very fortunate. but the homeland security department, i must say, in the new legislative initiatives and pressures, to ensure there is communication on intelligence
vote for a clean funding for the department of homeland security. that s important to say, because i have worked with republicans on homeland security very closely, and they are dedicated, many of them wanting to move forward. why doesn t speaker boehner and the majority leader put a clean dhs funding on the floor of the house and, jose i can almost assure you, it would pass because people know members know that despite any conflicts in their district or people having different opinions and they have the right to they know that the higher responsibility the top responsibility, is securing this nation. and let s talk a little about that, congresswoman, because the fact is as you said on this hearing you attended just last week there are very real threats, terrorist threats against americans, and even right here in the homeland. how concerned are you about that reality in our futcher? future? jose, i have i call it a