On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas responded to a question on the safety of the homeland 22 years after September 11 and criticism from Republicans about the national security threat of the border by stating that we face different threats than we did in 2001, and these include “The threat of adverse nation-states spreading disinformation and trying to sow discord in the United States was not something atop of mind, the frequency and gravity of extreme weather events.”
Co-host and POLITICO White House Bureau Chief Jonathan Lemire asked, “[I]t is more than two decades since those terror attacks, and a question that looms for all Americans is, are we safer today than we were then? Could you walk us through the efforts that this administration is taking to prevent an attack like this again, particularly, at a time when, as you know, members of the other party, Republicans, are very critical of the Biden administration’s border policies, including the possibility that some people with ill intent could get over the border?”
