However, sir, that doesn't keep me at all from doing my job. I can have difference opinions with everybody in this room, but as Secretary of Homeland, I'll be protecting everybody, including Kentucky, as much as I will my own backyard in Oklahoma. It's bigger than the partisan bickering that we have. It's bigger than the political differences we have. The truth is I have a job to do. (01:48–01:54)
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Asserts commitment to protect all states equally, including Kentucky and Oklahoma.
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