that is co-chaired by former secretary michael chertoff and me. we met with the secretary this morning about a report we have produced to recommend some action he might take. we hope to be useful in the future. so today i am pleased to welcome secretary jeh johnson for his first major policy address since taking office on december 23. as a former assistant u.s. attorney, general counsel of the air force and later dod, he has been on the front lines of counterterrorism policy, from desperately needed reform at guantÁnamo bay to our u.s. drone policy. more said later. in a major speech at the oxford union in 2012, he said, "we must be able to say to ourselves that our efforts should no longer be considered an armed conflict against al qaeda. rather, a counterterrorism effort against individuals who are scattered remnants of al qaeda, who are part of groups unaffiliated, for which the law enforcement and intelligence resources of our government are principally responsible in cooperation with the international community." that was his tryout speech fo

michael chertoff, your predecessor was the secretary, he was routinely invite me as the chairman of a subcommittee down here for breakfast and we would talk about issues. we formed a professional relationship which developed into a friendship. i know you are having fun. it is a fact of that 100 committees and subcommittees of the united states congress, this is not an exaggeration. they have some piece of the homeland security mission. i think of is on the national journal cover and look like a where's waldo picture. it showed all the different jurisdictions. the 9/11 commission was a member of that recommended a number of wings which congress did in the president did except there is one glaring gap. tgap was to reorganize congress in a way that would streamline the home and mission. you are going to get numerous requests to testify across the board. that is one issue in terms of the times map for you. the other way is when you are a member of congress want to do something legislatively, let's save cybersecurity performed which we'll get into a moment. pick one peer production of over

that is cochaired by former secretary michael chertoff. me and -- we met with the secretary this morning about a report we have produced to recommend some action he might take. we hope to be useful in the future. so, today, i am pleased to welcome secretary jeh johnson for his first major policy address since taking office on december 23. as a former assistant u.s. attorney, general counsel of the air force, and later dod, he has been on the frontlines of counterterrorism policy, from desperately needed reform at guantÁnamo bay to our u.s. drone policy. more said later. the oxfordspeech at union in 2012, he said " we must be able to say to ourselves that our efforts should no longer be considered an armed conflict against al qaeda, rather, eight counterterrorism effort against individuals who are scattered remnants -- who are part of groups unaffiliated, for which the law enforcement and intelligence resources of our government are principally responsible in quad operation with the international community." that was his tryout speech for s

general michael hayden and also a principal of the chertoff group and i asked him what this means torussia? >> as important as ukraine is to us, it's absolutely critical to putin and his broader, greater russian federation. secretary kerry has said some things today. he said, you know, this isn't a resemption of the cold war and this could be win/win. and that's noble and, gee, i wish it were so. but this is not win/win for vladimir putin. vladimir putin he views this as zero -- should that affect our behavior? i don't know. but we really have to appreciate that for him this is a zero sum game. he's not looking for a win/win scenario. it is, not my words, but they are wonderful words. it was a description of how the europeans deal with the ukrainian crisis two, three weeks ago and the observation was they brought a baguette to a knife fight. and we need to be very much aware after the -- to the extremes that putin might go to because his perception of this isn't win/win. his perception is win/lose. >> extremes are military confrontation. >> one would hope he doesn't do that. he is go