interests. washington journal is next. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] good morning and welcome. the senate will consider today the start treaty and will meet this afternoon in the closed session to discuss the nuclear arms treaty with russia. let s begin with a capitol hill reporter for the latest on congress, but first there is an investigative piece called monitoring america, a look at cooperation between the federal government and your community local agencies in fighting terrorism and crime. are we safer because of homeland security and under is to call are on your screen of the numbers to call. you can also send us an e-mail. journal@cspan.org. this piece starts this way. our question this morning is are we safer because of these homeland security measures? let s get right to the telephone. tom on the democrat line in michigan. caller: good morning. hileman are they going to keep