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Southeastern yemen. chaos engulfing the lawless country with deep implications for safety on the u.s. homeland. the new american defense secretary conceded that the fall of the u.s. allies gostd withdraw of u.s. special forces and the closing of u.s. embassy in yemen all reduced america's ability to fight the terror threat. >> it is hard to imagine for people at home to imagine there's the same control and response -- >> it's easier if there's a government with which we can cooperate in existence in that country. we're not going to find that all the time in all places in the world and that's w...

Control. >> it's easier if there's a government with which we can cooperate in existence. we won't find that all the time in all places in the world. that's why we have counterterrorism capabilities that don't depend on that. and we voter to them and need them -- we resort to them and use them in circumstances where we need to protection ourselves. >> if i could follow up on ukraine. it's more than a year since russia took crimea, and you have action in eastern ukraine and fighting flaring up despite the attempted crease fire and vladimir putin again claimed there are no russian troops on the ...

>> it's easier if there's a government with which we can cooperate in kpis tansexistence. we're not going to find that all the time in all places in the world. that's why we have counterterrorism capabilities that don't depend on that and we resort to them and need them and use them in a circumstance like this where we need to protect ourselves anyway. >> if i could just follow on ukraine. it's more than a year since russia took crimea and of course you have the action following in eastern ukraine and fighting flaring up despite the attempt of the cease-fire. i took note today that the russian...

Terror in iraq. all over the middle east. now the threats of the terrorists in the united states drawn to isis in syria and iraq. while that is happening, there is a showdown over funding for homeland security. the senate has decided to send a clean dhs funding bill back to the house. that means no add-ons to overturn the president's immigration actions. homeland security funding runs out midnight on friday. law enforcement officials like new york officials are getting nervous. >> this is not the time to engage in activities that would threaten our counterterrorism capabilities. such as exhibi...

Last decade, we to shift to make sure we have coverage in the middle southeast and north africa. you look at a country like yemen, a very impoverished country, and one that has its own sectarian or ethnic divisions, will is -- we do have a committed partner and we have been able to help to develop their capacities without putting large numbers of u.s. troops on the ground. at the same time as we got muff c.t., counterterrorism capabilities, we able to go after folks that may try to hit our embassy or might be trying to export terrorism in a europe or the united states. and looking at how we ca...