that was preserved for pea net that. the staff of the dna has gotten to be quite large. think people were thinking of being dozens. the dni is sort of a strong chairman of the board for the whole community. there are really only three or four needs to pay much attention to. most of those agencies are quite small. i think probably having such a large staff kind of gets in the way jaeand generates sometimes conflicts between the dia and dcia that didn t occur before. well, he this is certainly a glitch, but he s the fifth director of national intelligence in five years. so when you say this thing can work if we have the right people, what kind of right person do we need? because clearly either we have the right people or the job is too overwhelming or the turf
getting democratic victories from pelosi and reid. instead, what he did in each one of these three victories he got was he formed an alliance outside the democratic caucus that really helped to bring public opinion his way and sway votes in the congress. on the big tax bill, he worked with the republican leadership, got it done. on don t ask, don t tell, he had secretary gates, who is a very influential figure in washington these days, along with the head of the joint chiefs, who lined up with him, they helped to really drive home the point. that don t ask, don t tell repeal was sound policy. on this final one, on the start treaty, this really turned around when he brought in the former secretaries of state, republicans, and that reversed the momentum. so david, you know, it takes every president a year or two to kind of come into his own and sort of figure out how to do, how to do the job really. do you feel like this is partly
volunteers since washington s day but after pearl harbor president roosevelt examined the women s auxiliary army corps. suddenly women were in uniform too. they didn t just sing and dance and make coffee but equal status was still a long way off. when world war ii ended and women went home, they and the country would never be the same. in 1948, president truman defied fierce opposition and ended segregation in the military. urging the president to action, a new movement was taking shape, the civil rights movement. 16 years later the civil rights act became law. today, with the end of don t ask, don t tell, the next chapter has begun. the military has always been the way we homogenize this country. which is why i believe in some sort of national service. once more, we change the military. it will surely change us. when we come back, a deal was reached today on the 9/11 responders health bill. we ll talk to a fire fighter who was at ground zero and has since been diagnosed with thy
differences. i think you have to negotiate. doesn t mean you re going to do what they want. keeping them isolated, i don t think it s ever worked. this is why i believe we need some kind of engagement by north korea. it s going to be carefully done. it s got to involve the six countries. it s got to be with verification. with benchmarks. but right now not talking, hoping they don t retaliation, that s not the way to go. but i think our policy has been firm. we re anchored with south korea. maybe now that they gave us this opening, somebody should respond to them and say, okay, do those arms control measures you told richardson, and then we ll talk and let s see where we go. all right, governor richardson, fascinating conversation. thank you. we ll be right back. do you think it was a good idea to create this office and can it be fixed so it works appropriately? i think it would have been
together, they always want to reorganize. because reorganization is one of the only things they can talk about. so getting the right people in the jobs, making some policy changes, often those are classified. and you can t the only thing you can talk about and show you ve done something is if you reorgani reorganize. i think you ought to be slow to reorganize. i m not yet ready to throw in the towel on this new system even though i didn t really want it implemented in the first place. mr. woolsey, before wlelt you go, i want to clarify one point. you said this system could work. that would suggest you currently do not think it s working. well, the jury s still kind of out from my point of view. i m so reluctant to reorganize. yet again i d like to see it work. i think clapper and pinetta are fine individuals. i ve known them both for 30 years. they re really very able. think they may well be able to make it work. i guess the way i d put it is the jury s still out. james woolsey