Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week Joe sits down with former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson about the Anniversary of 9/11, immigration, 2020 election security and more. Jeh Johnson was the 4th Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security from December 2013 until January of 2017. Before that he was an Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York. From 1998 until 2001, he was General Counsel of the Air Force and from February 2009 until December 2012 he was General Counsel of the Department of Defense under Secretary Robert Gates. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:11.6	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:15.2	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:18.2	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:24.6	To have power and words have consequences.
0:31.6	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Adam Levine with Joe Lockhart, Katie's off this week.
0:36.1	Our guest today was the fourth secretary of the Department of Homeland Security from
0:39.6	December 2013 until January of 2017.
0:43.4	Before that, he was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York.
0:47.0	From 1998 until 2001, he was the General Counsel of the Air Force and from February 2009
0:52.8	until December 2012, he was the General Counsel of the Department of Defense under Secretary
0:57.6	Robert Gates.
0:59.0	Jay Johnson, welcome back to Words Matter.
1:01.6	Thank you very much Adam.
1:03.3	So Mr. Secretary, please call me Jay.
1:06.0	Jay, I want to start literally at around zero.
1:09.1	This week is the 18th anniversary of the September 11th attack.
1:13.3	It's amazing that 18 years have gone by, but I want to start with your memory and experience
1:19.7	on that day.
1:21.1	Well, first of all, September 11th happens to be my birthday.
1:25.9	September 11th, 2001 was my 44th birthday.
1:29.6	We lived then and we lived now in Montcleron, New Jersey.
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