And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

host, David Axelrod.

I want to say a few words about Lisa Monaco, the former Homeland Security Advisor to President

Barack Obama.

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So Lisa Monaco, she's been a top aid at the FBI in the Justice Department, the federal

prosecutor who put some of the in-run swindlers in prison in the 2000s, and most recently,

the president's top advisor on Homeland Security and the Obama administration.

Lisa came by the Institute of Politics and sat down with me recently to talk about her

path to that position, how the threats have changed and morphed facing this country,

and what she sees for the future.

Lisa Monaco, welcome.

Thank you.

I was looking through your biography and so on, and I was thinking to myself, no kid grows

up saying, someday I'm going to be the Homeland Security advisor to the president of the

United States, but your background, your dad was like a doctor, right?

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