host: our guest is alicia caldwell and this is a call from florida, republican line. caller: good morning. i have been to the mexican borders. one end ofit from arizona to another. our borders are wide open. dangers are not being addressed because the fence is not the discussed, the exit system is not being discussed. it seems to be held hostage in order to bring in all of the image -- it illegals that are here. based on that, we will have border security. and now we've got an attorney heading up homeland security and has never been in security before and they have hired, i'm not sure if it's 100 or 500 immigration attorneys to be on staff at homeland security. muslims influx of the that obama and hillary clinton have brought into this country, maybe 30,000 syrian refugees, i have a report that 80,000 muslims were brought in in 2011 and all of them are going to be in islamic centers. dallas is building a big one. they will go on federal benefits. citizen,lar american that we, the me people, are not getting our constitution or our laws enforced. i worked on the mexican

us is alicia caldwell. we're here to talk about the department of homeland security.re's a new leader there? >> there is. he?: who is guest: jay johns has come over, he was the top lawyer at the pentagon. tapped by the president know poll at a know decided to leave before the term was out. ut system in northern california. johnson took over the reins expanding.and he's number a -- four in a brief history. there's lots of change, developments, footing, if you will, to be laid. >> why did the president choose him? meetings.wasn't in the but he's a well-respected attorney. he's been in government for a number of ears and a different positions. he's a top attorney for the air force before going to the department of defense. by all accounts, he is a well regard e regarded smart guy who knows a lot about a lot. essentially the legal operations for drone strikes and been ininvolved and has national security. so homeland security kind of akes it a nice transition or a relatively easy transition. he's not coming into something ompletely unknown to him, though, again, there are

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alicia caldwell will discuss the future of the homeland security department under jeh johnson. this is all in washington journal. >> one of the things that we worry about his physical dangers. i always think, what keeps me up at night, -- i wonder what your greatest fear is to a physical attack here in our country. >> i would answer it by two things. by the fiber, an attack against our infrastructure. that would have a potential damaging event. financial is an area that we have to pay close attention to. side, there are a range of things that keep me up at night. when you see these mom by attacks, what happens in nairobi, what happens in the boston marathon, those are the things that we have to continue to work together on to make sure that we are working as seamlessly as possible to share everything we have on the defense side and the national side, but also on the arrow side. that is important. we are trying to work on integration of intelligent systems. >> the senate armed services committee looks at worldwide cyber rat. saturday morning at 10:00 a.m.. watch coverage of the

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