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So confirmed on the 4th of august, a little over a month but of course you have been in the Intelligence Community for a few more years than a little over a month. So lets jump right into this. How would you characterize the sta state . What is working well and what do we need to improve on . Great question, before i answer, let me offer the apologies for the director. He really wanted to be here. Unfortunately, maybe as a sign of the times in terms of how this administration views intelligence he had a principals meeting that he had to go to. Why was the principals meeting set today . Its because i wanted to be here and i have 30 years of pretty slick trade craft. So keeping to his bad luck it was actual purposeful design. So here is what i would say about the community. Im old, and ive seen a lot. We have never been better. The capabilities that we bring to bear are as stunning as any ive seen, and ive seen a lot. The le ....
Lyndon johnson was certainly an imperial president. I think what we see in johnson we start to see the cusp of the end of the imperial president s in the United States. There have been president s the acted in three fleet since then. The bush, no doubt about that. But he was the last person i think to understand the use and abuse of power. Unfortunately, he abused it in many respects. As did many of the president s who succeeded him. But he wasnt the last person who understood because of his constant demand of power within the United States he understood much better how to maneuver power overseas. He was less interested in what went on overseas and, unfortunately, his presidency was really defined by his adventure in vietnam which were almost less than in many respects. He inherited that. He did not making any better, no doubt about that but he did understand the use of power a ....
And we kind of stay there for some time. Why did it wane . Look at drug patterns. They remain there about 15 or 16 years and a run in 20year cycles. The crack cocaine cycle is no more. There are still people who use crack cocaine. It is nowhere near where it used to be. In the absence of that driving the violence, and then we are down in the 200 range and we got stuck there for a long time. Even when i took over in 2007, in 2006. 69 one hundred 81 in 2007. We are persistent with yang violence. And violence was born accelerated during the crack cocaine. Even when the crack cocaine one away, the gangs didnt. Coming down from the 186 down to where we are now, about a 54 drop in murders. It has been constant focus on end guns, the high offenders and bring the community into work with us. That is been key in dropping at that last 54 . That was a portion of a presentation of q a. You can see the entire program today at 7 00 eastern here on cspan. Some news to share with you today. Just. S. P ....
And these type of government crises are likely to occur in the near future as long as these high rates of negativity toward the opposite party persist. Thank you very much. Should i take the handheld mic . I am going to launch the questions one of my own. I do not want to hog the microphone. You have this conference every four years, right after the election. I am going to guess that new jersey and virginia get a lot of analysis every four years. I hope this is not too far off topic. As a political reporter, i am very interested in your take on what happened two days ago. In new jersey, you had governor christie shattering the gop gender gap in a solid blue state. He had 57 of the women vote, a third of democrats, a majority of latinos, and a third of union voters. I wonder if his victory shows republicans a way out of the trend toward partisan polarization. Or is his model tied to him personally and not widely duplicatable, nationally or in other states . Would anyone like to try thei ....