henry cuellar host: henry represents the 28th district in texas. welcome. guest: thank you.t: you sit on the homeland security committee. in the news going around right now, do you think that al qaeda is weaker or stronger given the new swirling around? guest: whenever you kill the leader of an organization, it is a blow to the organization. it doesn't mean that the organization is dead, but certainly it is a blow and we have to be ready for everything. it is why our intelligence committee has been working hard to pick up chatter out there. host: how do you make yourself ready for everything -- anything? guest: the basic premise is that the bad guys only have to get it right one time. we have to get it right every time, playing defense. we have to look at our intelligence agency. anyone suspicious needs to be involved. yesterday at the hearing there was something very interesting. he said -- notice that there was no demonstration across the arab world. notice that there was no american flag burning. if you notice, the aftermath was in the way that people fought, which i thou

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