Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

Michael Chertoff and the Department of Homeland Security, they have the primary responsibility of ensuring that our ports are secure.

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