Washington, dc. Mr. Mcaleenan also touched on Election Security and the work the agency is doing with states and local governments to prepare for the 2020 elections. This is one hour. Good afternoon, how is everybody doing . Think you for the kind introduction. For the account introduction and the opportunity to be with you today and have this important discussion on the state of security and immigration concerns nationally, but also hopefully we will have a conversation and dialogue on some of the other department of Homeland Security priorities and of course, with the members here. I know many of you have been following the crisis over the past year and tracking the growing regional challenge of migration in the region. Not only has the situation had obvious implications for order security, but it has led to a significant humanitarian prices as well as a foreignpolicy challenge in the u. S. And throughout the region. I would like to take a dialogue today a little bit above the headli
Mr. Mcaleenan good afternoon. How is everybody doing . Really appreciate the opportunity. Thank you, fran, for the kind introduction, and thank you for the opportunity to be with you today to have this important discussion on the state of security and immigration concerns nationally, but also, hopefully, we will have a conversation and dialogue on some of the other department of Homeland Security priorities, and of course, with the members here. I know many of you have been following the crisis over the past year and tracking the growing regional challenge of migration in the region. Not only has the situation had obvious implications for order for our Border Security, but it has led to a significant humanitarian prices as well as a foreignpolicy challenge in the u. S. And throughout the region. I would like to take a dialogue the dialogue today a little and thee the headlines daily news cycle and kind of look back at the challenges over the past 10 months or so, in our efforts to addr
Thank you, richard. Thanks to all of you for coming out. Thanks, richard for your nice timeses of the new york columnist. General dunford, thank you so much for taking your time to do this. Orm sure in the last month so in your long service, you have got a lot of demands on your time, so your willingness to come out and talk about the world here, we really appreciate. Gen. Dunford i questioned my judgment when i looked at the schedule this morning. [laughter] david at the end of the hour, you may question it again. But for different reasons. [laughter] dunford undoubtedly. Today, as youplan can see from the many cameras best year our plan is that the general and i will have a conversation for about 30 minutes and then open it up for questions from our audience. , general dunford, we could go back on so many places, given your service and so many different roles, but you came into this job in 2015, appointed by president obama. How would you compare the Global Security environment you h
Thank you, richard. Thanks to all of you for coming out. Thanks, richard for your nice timeses of the new york columnist. General dunford, thank you so much for taking your time to do this. Orm sure in the last month so in your long service, you have got a lot of demands on your time, so your willingness to come out and talk about the world here, we really appreciate. Gen. Dunford i questioned my judgment when i looked at the schedule this morning. [laughter] david at the end of the hour, you may question it again. But for different reasons. [laughter] dunford undoubtedly. Today, as youplan can see from the many cameras best year our plan is that the general and i will have a conversation for about 30 minutes and then open it up for questions from our audience. , general dunford, we could go back on so many places, given your service and so many different roles, but you came into this job in 2015, appointed by president obama. How would you compare the Global Security environment you h
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