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No matter how rigorous you are you can flip people. go ahead, rick. >> let's talk about who is actually doing rigorous process. it's a first-term foreign service officer who is on the front lines and we have not given that young foreign service officer the tools that he or she needs to actually understand what they are doing. they are going to have a quick meeting, they are going to look at a data base. they are going to ask a couple of questions and then they have got to make a judgment of thousand rate this person coming in. >> okay. >> we are asking foreign service officers to be on the fro...

No matter how rigorous you are you can flip people. go ahead, rick. >> let's talk about who is actually doing rigorous process. it's a first-term foreign service officer who is on the front lines and we have not given that young foreign service officer the tools that he or she needs to actually understand what they are doing. they are going to have a quick meeting, they are going to look at a data base. they are going to ask a couple of questions and then they have got to make a judgment of thousand rate this person coming in. >> okay. >> we are asking foreign service officers to be on the fro...

Would have the vice president of the united states, joe biden, secretary clinton, general petraeus, leon panetta, bob gates before him, richard holbrook when he was with us. it was a very strong group of principals. and indeed one of the things that i am quite happy with over the last four and a half years is that we have not had the historical norm. the historical norm is that you have a tremendous amount of public conflict among very high-profile and strong-willed national security principals. we haven't had that in this administration, very little of that. the reason i think is, is that pre...

He insists on rigorous process, as i said. he insists on seeing all the options fully developed. he insists on hearing from his advisers. and has asked the same question over and over again, what's in the national interest? and very importantly, and this goes back to your question on syria, for example, asked not just what would seem to be a good idea today, but how does this play out two and three and four steps down the line. and i've seen this now, again, close up for four and a half years. >> tom donilon, thank you very much. and thank you for the work you've done for the country. >> thank...

They did in terms of the scale and scope of the assistance that we're providing to the opposition. stepping back on searia, it's a tragedy. i've been to syria many times. and for assad to wreck that country, its heritage and impose the cost it has on its people is appalling. and we have from the outset organized the international community to support the opposition. we have been the leader in the humanitarian assistance, now $850 million worth of humanitarian assistance. we have said for a long time now that we would support the opposition and we are supporting the opposition and we're trying ...