former secretary of homeland security, michael chertoff, joins me now. thank you so much for coming on. let's get right to it. the specific criticism is an earlier draft of the executive order had required the industry come up with the best practices standards and that regulatory agency would be assigned to go in and enforce that, it was taken out because they were lobbyists in the last minute that pressure the president into excluding that. what do you think of that charge? >> executive order is an important step, but it is not a final step. it can only really address what the u.s. government does and does not do, cannot make congress have to do something. i think the effort here is to move forward with a collaborative process in which the private sector works with the government so they are not facing unrealistic mandate. also to make sure we are raising our game in terms of defense all across the critical infrastructure. congress will have to act to really complete the process. melissa: what you think about practices that there would be some federal a

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we have a wide range of people including people such as the former dhs secretary michael chertoff, acting administrator of gsa administrator dan paganini, cam as mentioned to i think the wide range of present, the wide range of the audience and the size of the crowd just how critical cybersecurity has become as a broad ranging national security issue. and i thank all of you for your support. yesterday the administration took a big step forward in cybersecurity. as the president announced in his state of the union last night, he signed an executive order to approve the savagery of our in for such. at the same time he approved a presidential policy directive designed to produce a good and resilience of our critical infrastructure, and both cyberspace and in the physical realm. taken together, these documents will provide a significant push to our cybersecurity efforts. the president has taken this action because the threat the nancy. it is serious and israel. the consequences of inaction are simply too significant. but as a result of the actions that we taken over the last few days, the naz

principal at the chertoff group, a consulting firm run by former secretary of homeland security michael chertoff. he is also a distinguished visiting professor at george mason university, which if i do not get right i will be ripped off the stage. as you will learn, he brings a great sense of history, owing to his own studies, mission, and purpose to all that he has done in his life. he also brings a sense of humor, and i think you will see that, too. he has had some of the most incredible jobs with access to some of the most credible information on the planet. keep in mind in the modern era of national intelligence, this great, vast system of intelligence agencies across the government, really was born out of the emergency of the second world war and it was mostly than about breaking codes, figuring out what the enemy was up to, what whether systems were deployed and where they would attack next. the cold war was fought against it time -- an entirely different terrain against the backdrop of nuclear madness. today, it is very -- different. asymmetrical warfare, pilotless drones, people that do

>> guest: well, bush and more specifically secretary michael chertoff started something called the secure border initiative in 2006, and there was an attempt to build a virtual wall, they called it, fbi net, border or initiative network. there was a recruitment drive for border patrolmen. they brought the border patrol up to strength. it's now about 21,000 people. there was a creation of something called e-verify where employers had to verify electronically that people are here illegally and legally employable. there was the creation of u.s. visit which you referenced earlier, and that is a program to make sure that we know everybody who's coming into the united states. a lot of the proposals in the senate concept simply sort of intensified these programs that already exist. one program that has been debated a long time has been an exit strategy for u.s. visit. we know who's coming in, but we don't have a comprehensive for knowing someone who has overstayed their visa, who's leaving, when they left. and dhs, the department of homeland security, has resisted this because it's so expensive