walker, honorable members of the subcommittee, first of all, it is an absolute privilege to be here and to talk to you today on this really critical issue of potential threat that is coming still, as mike says, from isis and al qaeda, as well as from other groups that we're not discussing here today, but nevertheless exist and pop up now with regularity all of the world. the esteemed panel of witnesses you've assembled are all veterans of the u.s. government effort to contain the threat of terrorism over the past years and to ensure that the homeland, and all of them, and i as well, have grappled with i think what mike was trying to very will give you a picture of that is --the key questions of how number one we can best protect our borders in the counterterrorism effort, it is not all of ours to do. unfortunately, we don't have the resources. we don't have the ability, and you mentioned the german attack, and that is just one. but we find ourselves subject to a lot of resource issues, and i will get to that in a minute, we don't have the resources on our own to be doing this, and nor should we portray it that way. we really need to give it to our partners as something that is both ben