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So the president issues a strategy and says,

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"Look, I want all of these components to work together to achieve this."

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Well, we all know that people are busy, they have their own priorities.

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These are Cabinet-level officials.

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So how do you bring people together to share a set of goals

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and then, more importantly, to put time and resources into those goals?

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That's key.

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And at the end, Congress is going to, as they often do,

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ask some very tough questions like, "Well, how did everybody work together?

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How did you achieve the goals of working together?"

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CBP is very much the same way.

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We're a part of the Department of Homeland Security.

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But just as importantly, we have to work closely

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with the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense and others.

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So I had five years of bringing together the interagency

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to agree on goals and to put resources into achieving those goals.

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It helped that you had the imprimatur of the president,

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but we actually have the imprimatur of the secretary and the administration

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to do exactly that and that's, that's going to be key for us.