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Were abandoned. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. We know that isil doesnt discriminate. Youre either with the terrorists, or theyll destroy you or sub ji you. Thank you. The two most powerful forces in the area are the Shiite Alliance in iran on the one hand, and the extremist sunnis on the other. Weve seen our friends, saudi arabia and others move toward what theyll expect as quote moderate islam, or acceptable islam, and embrace the brotherhood, turkey qatar and part of al qaeda. Had we done more to strengthen the more reasonable sunnis earlier in the process, perhaps saudi arabia would no...

And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis how best to defend our border with mexico, Sylvia Longmire a former air force officer and special agent working in the field of National Security has written a new home titled border insecurity, why big money, fences, and drones arent making us safer. Good to have you on the program. How important after all these ,ears of debate, still ongoing to challenge the conventional wisdom about this issue . Becausevery frustrating we have poured so many billions of dollars into securing our borders. There is so much rhetor...

Commissioner. Questions i will be able to dodge some if they are particularly difficult. Perfect time to talk about an evolving vision thecbp and talk about pressing concerns that we fisa and also where o that we face and where our agency is headed. Let me first talk about the workforce because i think that is actually the premier part. Soon to have 62,000 employees and 42 in 40 countries. Range and diversity of people and skillsets and as many you know from the federal Employee Survey we dont do particularly well when it comes morale in the department. Is so working on that particularly criti...

Many ideas. But there is also real darkness at the heart of the vision for the next four years. If there is engagement with the sunnis, it is about creating a new class of sunnis from the tribal and political groups at low level and trying to completely reduce and eradicate the National Level leadership of the sunnis. It struck me that the sunnis that wanted to support the sense of there being a Sunni Community who could Work Together, those people are the ones that the Iraqi Government were planning to continue persecuting. And if they were going to involve sunnis in future government, the pl...

Mention from every leader to that workforce. And important things. We are doing lots of experimentation in expanding telecommuting, changing the environment within the organization. But i think when that message comes across from all of the leaders, many of whom are seated in front of me today, that message comes across from all of the leaders about the importance and the value that they place in employees that i think translates well. The better that workforce does, the more efficient they are, the less sick time and on and on but many of you know this. We are hoping that we are going to be a...