first is the honorable gil kerlikowske who is here as the commissioner of u.s. customs and border protection, sworn in in march. customs and -- commissioner of protection.border he has an extensive history within the law enforcement and now runs the largest federal law enforcement agency in the country. hiswe are looking ford to remarks this morning. customs and border protection of late,in the news and he is going to have some good questions put forth to him our discussant adam iles who managing director at the chair top group and has had plenty of his own experience years on homeland security. to me turn it over kerlikowski and let him give his remarks. >> it is a great pleasure to be back at csis. especially o be in the beautiful facility. i think well over a year ago i had the opportunity to deliver remarks on another noncontroversial topic, drug csis. at so to be back and have another ascontroversial topic such immigration, border security, et delight. just a te tee thank you again and let me bed things.t with a few i had -- let me go ahead and start with a

first is the honorable gil kerlikowske who is here as the commissioner of u.s. customs and border protection, sworn in in march. historyn extensive within the law enforcement community. now he runs the largest law enforcement, federal law enforcement agency in the country. we are very much looking forward to his remarks this morning. customs and border protection has been very much in the news havey and he is going to some good questions put forth to him by eric discussant, adam at theho is a manager chertoff group and has had his own experience over the years on homeland security. without further at do, let me turn it over to commissioner gil kerlikowske and let him give his remarks. >> thank you very much, kathleen. it's a great pleasure to be here and back at csis. especially to be in this beautiful new facility. well over a year ago, i had the opportunity to deliver some remarks on another noncontroversial topic, drug said to be back and have another noncontroversial topic such as immigration and border security is a delight. thank you again. let me go ahead

first of course is the honorable gil kerlikowske, who is here as the commissioner of u.s. ustoms and border protection, sworn in and large. mr. kerlikowske has an extensive history within mod worsening community and of course now he runs the largest law enforcement -- federal law-enforcement agency in the country and we are very much looking forward to his remarks this morning. customs and border protection has been very much in the news of late and he is going to have some good questions put forth to him by her discussant, adam isles come in managing director chertoff grew up in us had plenty of his own experience over the years on homeland security. so without further ado, let me turn it over to commissioner kerlikowske and let him get his remarks. >> thank you very much, kathleen. it is a great pleasure to be here. it's a great pleasure to be back us up to, especially in this beautiful new facility where well over a year ago i had the opportunity to deliver some remarks on another non-controversial topic, drug policy at csis. so to be back and have another noncontroversi

first, of course, is the honorable dwil kerlikowske -- gil kerlikowske, sworn in in march. he has an extensive history within the law enforcement community and, of course, now he runs the largest law enforcement, federal law enforcement agency in the country. and we're very much looking forward to his remarks this morning. customs and border protection has been very much in the news of late, and he's going to have some good questions put forth to him by adam isles who is the managing director at the chertoff group and has had plenty of husband own experience over -- his own experience over the years on homeland security. so without further ado, let me turn it over to commissioner kerlikowske and let him give his remarks. >> well, thank you very much, kathleen. the it's a great pleasure to be here. it's a great pleasure to be back at csis, especially to be in this beautiful new facility. i think well over a year ago i had the opportunity to deliver some remarks on another noncontroversial topic, drug policy, at csis. so to be back and have another noncontroversial topic such

[inaudible conversations] >> today on c-span, gil kerlikowske, the net of customs and border protectionalks about the changes he's making in border enforcement. live coverage from senate's for strategic and international studies begins at 10 a.m. eastern time. at 12:30, an update on the escalating violence in iraq as islam is militants gain control of key cities. live coverage from the washington institute for near east policy on c-span and c-span.org. >> when i started covering congress, you had people like senator russell long, wilbur mills, danny rostenkowski, howard baker, people who were giants in their own way. a couple of those guys got themselves into trouble, but over all these ar these were peo knew how -- they were all very intelligent. they knew how to craft legislation. a new have to do a deal and they all worked with who ever the president was, what it was their party or the other party. yes, there was politics but at the end of the day the usual featherweight to come together. and make decisions for the good of the country. >> today you just don't see that anymore. first