host: alan gomez, how much of a fence actually exists?t: right now, the last check is about 650 miles of fencing along the border. where you see mostly is in the very highly populated areas. example, san diego county sheriff bill gore has explained to me this idea that the fence -- where they determine where they need a fence has to do with assimilation. how quickly can summary cross illegally into the united states and assimilate into the general population? in a place like san diego, you absolutely need a fence because back in the 1980's, you could run from tijuana into san diego, and it would take you a matter of minutes to blend in with the local populace. somewhere in the middle of the desert, maybe not so easy. what they're saying is where they have been fence is now a very highly populated areas like san diego, yuma, southwest arizona, some of the border towns along texas that yes, it is absolutely valuable, it helps in those areas, but once you start getting into the desert, what you see is maybe some posts with little barb wire i

and what law enforcement says is missing from policies proposed in washington, with "usa today's" alan gomez. and later, george mason university professor talks about people in washington who move between careers and business consulting, politics, and government. ♪washington journal" is next. . "thegood morning washington post" just posting that agreement between russia and the u.s. lays out the seizure of serious chemical -- of syria's chemical weapons. democrats sitting on the senate inking committee have come out against larry summers as a replacement for federal chairman ben bernanke. and other financial news, 40,000 federal workers did not get paid on friday because of the mistake

followed by alan gomez on immigration. george mason university infessor talks about people washington who moved between careers and business consulting, politics, and government. >> let me focused on something called advanced persistent threat. it relates to what stewart was talking about. there are footprints that are left regarding behaviors that go on out there that are indications of something that will occur. one of the reasons the changes that need to be made in the cyber security posture that eight have been made -- that have been made is that we need to move to continuous monitoring and we need to move to be able to look at the precursor or the context being set. defeatare never going to the cyber enemy, whether it is a nationstate, organized crime, any organization by having the private sector check for compliance box. that is inadequate. there has to be timely and continual information sharing. after all, the federal government relies on the private sector. >> the senate homeland security committee looks at where

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