year the president was pretty upset that his communications were not that secure once the underwear bomber struck on christmas day. threw things into chaos here. you remember reporting live around the clock about it. and i spoke yesterday to van rhodes, one of the president's national security aides, who was telling me some of the very same details you see this morning which is that the president said fix it and they have. and basically, the white house staff has come up with a system where the president's beach rental on the other side of oahu has basically the same capabilities as the white house situation room in terms of secure phones and secure video. he can have a linkup with secretary of state, secretary of defense, national security adviser, you name it from the beach house across the island. even more fascinating perhaps is hotel staff have the same capabilities as well. the first tip-off i had to this was the fact that down in one of these hotel hallways they've got a lot of people walking in and out all hours of the day kind of