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The different threat streams that face our homeland that can take account of it and prioritize appropriately. and it so happens that the mission set that i have is very similar to a lot of ministries of interior of our foreign counterparts that have border security, counterterrorism, border security, aviation security, response to natural disasters. it is the case that this is the third largest department and is probably the most decentralized. and over the last three years i've been in office, we've done a lot to centralize a lot of the different decision-making when it comes to ak wiz igs an...

The different threat streams that face our homeland that can take account of it and prioritize appropriately. and it so happens that the mission set that i have is very similar to a lot of ministries of interior of our foreign counterparts that have border security, counterterrorism, border security, aviation security, response to natural disasters. it is the case that this is the third largest department and is probably the most decentralized. and over the last three years i've been in office, we've done a lot to centralize a lot of the different decision-making when it comes to ak wiz igs an...

Don't have someone for them to connect with they are wasted resources, right now. we are beginning to generate more intelligence, more partnership with syrian arabs and also kurd forces and we have had deployments into turkey with our air power. so all of those things build. again, that's very different tan say, hey, at the very beginning, we should ship hundreds or thousands into thissiar when you done have a clear mission set for them to do. >> thank you for your insight. >> thank you, victor. of course, we are coverig the breaking news as well, a russian jetliner crashes 224 people on board...

>> yes. the simple answer is, yes. there's no other way around it. >> so what's the big deal? >> well, i agree with you, neil. i think we're worrying too much about parsing on words. what we said all along, and my prior capacity speaking for the pentagon, obviously american troops, some, were involved in combat operations in iraq and syria, when you are dropping bombs on an enemy, that's an act of combat. what we have always said and remains true today is that there's no mission of combat operations on the ground for troops in iraq or in syria. their job on the ground is largely training and a...

And that's the plan and quite an ambitious plan. nasa's extremely critical test flight later this year will be the first ever, what nasa believes and is confident of, will definitively and decisively put the u.s. back in the clear lead when it comes to space travel. all around kennedy space center, as well as in houston at johnson, excitement is abundant for the big return to space mission set for november or december. the orion space capsule which can fit four to seven astronauts is still being built and assembled but clearly it's taking shape. 60,000 parts, 20 miles of wires. and its heat sh...