what we focus on the threat of terrorism abroad seems like things are missed here at home exactly what my next guest has experienced first hand as she worked as a customs and border protection officer on the border of mexico her story result of the crackdown against her by the federal government so talk about her case and its broader implications i'm joined now by julia davis former customs and border protection officer and national security whistleblower thanks so much for coming on julie i thank you so much for having me so first looking very briefly explain what it is that you saw we had very specific alerts that on fourth of july two thousand and four members of al qaeda were planning to cross the borders into the united states using our land borders with mexico which is exactly where i worked at the largest and busiest land border crossing in united states which is also a link to the san diego area where most of the nine eleven hijackers had to enter and some of them. there so we...

in fact according to government officials the us just launched another drone strike in the country this week killing at least six people don't worry though they were all suspected militants which we already know means absolutely nothing so understandably kerry was hounded repeatedly by pakistanis wanting to know when the u.s. would end its drone war there and it's not just the locals and kerry's pakistani counterpart. stressed that the answer isn't a slow draw down but instead an end to the strikes altogether and finally unable to avoid deal with it in the room any longer kerry respond to the question on pakistani television. the timeline that you and the sausage for ending this. strike with i think the president has a very real and we hope it's going to be very very soon. oh my god very very soon it's amazing it was almost a legitimate answer almost but even that vaguely positive affirmation was too good to be true see only hours later the very agency kerry overseas backpedaled issued