I get the feeling you were a little detached from this. I don't get a sense your heart was in it. It's like Pontius Pilate washing his hands of responsibility.

I have a feeling that makes me very uneasy that the Department of Homeland Security is dysfunctional,

uneasy feeling that DHS is dysfunctional.

No. What I wanted you to do was do your job of coordinating,

There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers.

The bottom line is that the president made it clear we're in it for the long haul,