The former executive editor len downie was in the newsroom as Katharine Grahams granddaughter announced jeff bezos, the founder of amazon, wasas buying the paper. She read a statement in which she made clear he strongngly subscribes to the journalistic values of the Washington Post. Lets take off the pundit hats. Give me your personal reaction. Lois, you wrote a fine piece for politico. Thank you. My first reaction was shock. I was home, working. I got in the car, and went back to the office. It was a little bit of sadness, and then i thought maybe this is a od thing. Maybehave tried everything. The model needs to be blown up and ybe jeff bezos will bring a fresh eye. Colby, who would have thought the grahams would give up the newspaper . I was the last person to think that. This is the second time the Washington Post rocked my world the first timime was in marc, 1954, when i reported to duty to deliver theewspaper and saw the times herald had been shockers one was a because of the presence of absentee ownership. The graham family is such an institution, going far beyond the newspaper. The interest in the city was deeper than that. Charles . If you asked anyone who works for the post or lives in this town, at is the least likely event that would hapn in this life, it would be that they would sell the newspaper, but the best explanation was from one of the people that worked at the Washington Post, who said to me, Daniel Graham loved the paper so much that he loved it too much to love it to death. What does it tell you about the future of newspapers . I have a unique perspective. I worked for my hometown paper for years. It was passed around like an el camino. I have been down this road. In terms of the constellation of potential owners and the understanding of the marketplace, jeff bezos is about as good as you can get, but i will tell you it is a total wild card. You never know what will happen. Here is a line that i love i love the smelof newsprint and my favorite time of day is 30 minutes till deadline. That is from Dave Kindreds book on the post, in a story about bob kaizer, which he says we can sell an entire electronic post for several times the newsstand price without using an ounce of ink. Kindred tells that steve coll, 11 years later, they have a retreat on the Eastern Shore and he has a proposal for the post to put their arms around the internet and nothing happens. The line was in 2003 washingtonpost. Com still came off as your grandpas newspaper taped to the computer screen. That has changed, colby. It has changed, but it took a long time to get there. I have, from my place in annapolis, i had an outbreak, nonelectric royal operate, nonelectric royal typewriter. That was the means by whh we communicated to the public good today public. Today, we have this which allows us to speak to everyone around the globe, take interest instantaneously, and create newsprint that is filed within seconds. Newspapers are not obsolete, but they have change the way in which they deliver information to people. Tastes have changed. Some people do not read comics anymore. Your publication does not even produce comics. We have a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist. We get our comics from fox news and msnbc. I remember in the last edition of the rocky news goodbye, colorado. Is that the future . It is not the future of the post as we know it on the the post will be there, i suspect, from the kind of owner it will have, but it will have a different kind of market. The brand might be there, but the product will be much different. I thinkhey will still have a newspaper. It will be much different, smaller. What jeff bezos will do is try to figure out he has a plan, by the way. He went away for three months and came back to buy it, so he has a plan. He will try to figure out how to fully digitize it. One problem they have had is the demographics. They have not been able to get out of the older demographics and that is what jefeff bezos could bring in a big way. The purchase comes after they made significant newewsroom changes, investing god knows how much money in this new kind of online video project with thisth inhouse tv station. There have been staff reductions. To a certain extent, they are buying pers that have made transformations. Charles . In regards to whether we will have a paper in hand, the new owner said neighbors will not ist as papers in 20 years, i remember, this is a guy in amazon that sells things. He is not selling hair or dots on the screen. He sells things that arrive at your door. He will probably try to sell the paper as a paper, but the one problem is i do not kn anyone in my sons generation that reads and holds a newspaper, or even a magazine. That, i think, is simply a habit, generational, that i do not know how you can recreate. If that generation has never done tha t they are not going to. It is not just his gegeneration. I was in the barbershop a couple of days ago, as you can see, and there was a tv on, but all of the customers were reading, not newspapers, but working with their smartphones. I get the times and the post delivered, and i do not i give it to my kids and they take it to summer camp. I use my subscription to access the digital stuff. The times has sold the boston globe to the owner of the boston red s. How would you like to be a Sports Writer in boston . They are paying players more than that. Threats that trigger shutdowns of embassies. Transcanada sees north americas whole Energy Picture, from investing in renewables, to the critical keystone xl pipeline. Keystone xl transports energy from a trusted ally that operates under albertas strict environmental policies. Researchers in the scieicific journal nature state keystone xl transported oil is cleaner than heavy californian oil. Studies show keystone xl would have little effect on climate change. The keystone xl pipeline is a critical piece of a secure Energy Picture for america. Lets get it done. We are accomplishing what we set out to do. Because of you, ososama bin ladn is no more. [applause] because of you, al qaedas top theks have been hammered. Core of al qaeda in afghanistatn and pakistan is on the way to defeat. President obama with the marines this week. Osama bin laden is gone, but his number two man is still around, and so is his personal assistant, who has planned an attack on american targets, leading to the closing of 19 embassies and the Stat Department has ordered nonessenential staff to leave te u. S. Consulate and issued a travel warning. Colby, the game is not over. The game is not over and raises questions about the information that led to the decision and how we got it. It goes back to the megadata that has been gathered. Does it suggest there is value in what they have done . The activity that we have been reading about there is fruit from it that allows them to take the action they have taken . The threat has not gone away. How about this we do not want another benghazi . Is that the message . It islear part ofof the motivation was because of benghazizi, the embarrassment, e fact the sto will not go away and we dnot have explanations as to why the warnings were ignored, etc. , but there is a larger problem in that al qaeda has metastasized, and in this administration, what has been overlooked is we are relying 100 on signal intelligence because we do not have human intelligence because this administration, in a fit of righteousness, declared at the vevery beginning, when obama was sworn in, they would abolish all of that nasty stuff those interrogations, and the reason that we kill everyone with a drone is because if you capture a terrorist, you have nowhere to put him, no way to interrogate. In the absence of that, we rely entirely on signal and it leaves a lot of gaps. One of the reasons the benghazi thing happened was because it was essentially a cia statanion and apparently there s a glut of 41, 42 i have heard different numbers of cia operatives looking to get out of dodge. What i think is funny is for all of this talk about a sophisticated dragnet with the nsa, the reason we got this is beuse al qaeda held a conference call. [laughter] please press mute. You have to be listening to get it, collecting information. I agree, a lot of it has been driven by not needing another benghazi on their hands and also the president pulled back, saying we do not want to be perpetually at war. We will be perpetually at war. Charlesentioned in sa. The nsa. Now that Vladimir Putin has granted asylum, the president says we will not have a meeting. What is your take . This is a collapse of the reset. Obama came into office saying that relations with h russia had under thed to drift. Bush administration and find that it was our fault. He was going to warm them up. He caved on Missile Defense in europe. He thought hwould get cooperation on iraq, syria, arms control, and he has been stymied and humiliated every time. This was the final straw. It was a gratuitous poke in the eye, and he finally had to show some gumption in canceling that. He is still showing up in russia for the g 20 conference. He should have stayed home. He had no choice. He could not go, and Edward Snowden gave him the opening to do it, but as charles says, there are bigger issues arming syria everything is blowing up. To go would make him look weak. To me it was putin. I agree. Why did it take the white house two or three weeks to make this decision . They could have done it days earlier, at least at the beginning of the week. It is hard to figure out. Beyond Edward Snowden, the other sues that charles mentioned, i agree. I do not know why he is stepping foot on russian soil. The g 20 is not that the nest has been getting a little too quiet of late. So i decided it was time to find some real harmony with nature. [ screaming ] whoo oh, yeah. Elmo [ howling ] mmm [ eagle chirps ] [ train whistles ] [ bird chirping ] [ screaming ] [ tuba bellows ] whoa. Hey [ screaming ] [ snoring ] music to moms ears. We may live in houses, but were born for busch gardens. For too long, these compies were able toake that knowing that if they went bad, taxpayer would be left holdi the bag. The president imposed restructuring, propos proposed restructuring. Housing is doing well. Fannie and freddie is profitable. As of next month, they will have paid back about 146 in of government loans. These folks made all of these this money. We encourage them to do that. They were pushed to do it. They pushed thmoney out the door to do it. Barney frank, god bless him, they were the ones that pushed fannie mae and freddieac tdo this. They back 90 of new mortgages . That they should not have. They werere buying this stuff u. What happens if they go away, fannie mae and freddie mac . They should. If they do . The problem is they will have to phase of government support, but there is always a trick. Here were entities that have the implicit guarantee of the government, never explicit, but of course implicit enough that every penny was reimbursed. There is no reason that the government should be in the business. Canada does not even have a deduction for mortgages and it did not have a financicial collapse. Government always has wonderful goals encouraging homeownership. It is a lovely thing, but it distorts the market and sets us up for mobile after mobile. Bubble after bubble. Talking about bubble after bubble, the thing that chilled my blood was the housing crisis in nevada and arizona, 35 . The current hud secretary, shaun donovan, had in a previous life, been an advocate for talking about reals subsidizing or creating situations for rentals in cities to be more affordable. The conversation is over and this is how seems to be reorienting to homeownership. That is the contrary. In the speech that obama gave, he is talking up rentals. No money behind it waiaitg list. The idea is they will do with fannie mae and freddie mac paying the money back, take the money and put it into these programs. I think that is a mistake. Homeownership still has value. It is almost everybodys goal. We are all in agreement that we should get rid of these agencies, but this will beard they hack they back what 80 , 90 of the mortgag market . Sell them to amazon. I read that senator Mitch Mcconnells Campaign Manager said he took the job holding his nose because he thought it would help rand paul. This is not helpful. You could make the ads for the democrats, and it involves a lot of fingers pinching noses. That t is wrong what is wrong with nsa snooping. He is the only Campaign Manager in the world that could say this and not get fired. Colby . No comment. [laughter] all right. Peter rouse leaving the white house. He will leave a big hole there. Are a lotot of big holes. We have lost a lot of big players. You see the tumbleweeds rolling by. Pete rouse is a big part of his success. He was his first chief of staff. He is 67 years old. He has been in government for larger decades. If you move forward, we are done. We are done playing in the sandbox, through the song and dance as if ything wer hunkydory. Here is what the republican chairman angry about. Nbc is running a fourpapart miniseries on hillary clinton. Cnis also planning a documentary. Reince priebusus argueues they e nothing more than campaign ads, and free ones at that. Free ones at that, glenn. The interesting thing is Reince Priebus will likely not be around for the party in 2016, but what he is doing is evererything he cacan n to degrr image, get in early, so it is ok criticize hillary cnton again, who is arguably the most popular not al figure. Do they do they not have a point . These lines are getting blurred. Ththis is not a criticism that s serious. Maybe this i is an idea republicans have of cutting down the debates. I do not think ey will tremble about an absee of debates. It is a marker of a much more serious issue. The e bias of the media is so obvious that it is not worth discussing here it it is like the discussing. It ike the sun rising in the east. This is like jumping the shark. It is shark week. You will have networks four hours on a network and expect people will say this is an historical document . Of course it is to pump her up. It reflects the bubble these people live in. I like diane lane. If she were playing anybody, i wowould like to watch her, but i remember when john glenn entered the democratic primary, ey came up with the movie the ght stuff, and they montel a lter mondale operative said it is all over for us. What happened to john glenn . Nothing. He went up in space again. Yeah, but he could not get to the imaries. That will not change the polical lascape. I do not think the thing will get made. The documentary will, because they are made on candidates all of the time. So what . Think there is a lot of pressure from the news side, and my guess is they pull the plug on the miniseries. Having been trapped in the hillary vortex for three years, to my familys great detriment, i n sathiss part where they are building g her up, then they are tearing her down. Theyll be coming up. You get the last word, glenn. Thank you. See you next week. Government matters this week on this weweek on ernment matters it is a much easier undertaking than if you are trying to retrofit shared services into a model that exists. The challenges of a share first culture. We have not had to secure additiononal real estate. That is huge. E. The u. S. Patent office, works strategy pays off. Government matters starts right now. Fm abc numeralal seven and news channel eight, this is government matters. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicaprg government runs the city, and at is why government matters. I am maurice jones. The pentagon found sufficient savings in the final months of the fiscal years to cut furlough days from 11 to six, meaningr most workers the final furlough day will be next week. Icials found 1. 5 million 1. 5 billion in new savings. Post reportsn senator r tom coburn has listed hihis hold on the confirmation f katherine archuleta. He deced to allow the senate opm put a proposed rulesoror howow obamace will affect Health Coverage forr capitol hill staffers. Headlines,eck made as he will be picked to lead the homeland s surity ciber didivision. I willrotect. S. Networks from foreign and domtic hackers that will protect u. S. Networks from the foreign and domestic hackers. In the report calls on government to acmore like a business. If successful, the approach would make politicians happy, by eliminating government waste and putting more resources in the right place. It is the most obvious way to do better treat it as an enterprise. Government like a business that is the theme in a new report that tackles the gigantic task of making government more efficient, especially in a time when resources are limited. Thursday, the partnership for Public Service released the 30 mustpage report focuses on management reform, designed to assist the obama administration, which recently launched an effort to create a new management agenda. The report is an answer to his call. Y need serious, capable, Political Leadership to make sure the key goals are concerned pursued, and you have a workforce that has the enterprisewide view to enable them to get it done. Another key component of the report is the alignment of budgets with similarar objectivs in different project with similar objectives in different areas that should be brought together. Enough it is an effort to eliminate veteran homelessness. Toy have come together reduce veteran homelessness at a time when we have serious economic challenges. He says the challenges could be used in a postobama, possibly the public and republican administration. This is a not about a girl or smaller. Bigger or smalaller. Part of they is a solution. Enterprise licenses, etc. It is a significant way of hieving savings so that frankly, the government has not really leverage. Informationtechnology. Thinking like a corporation rather than a collection of agencies. It is about onene team, won e fight dealing with the dicit crisis. Contracting headlines. A 10 billion Club Services contraract for the interior department can movehead. The federal claims court struck down a protest from centurylink. Theederal times reports they thought it was too big. The court disagre. 10 vendors will be paid as much as 1 billion ch. Monday, the air rce awarded a 960 millionollar contract to six firms to provide i. T. Suort serves, training dk support and testing over the next seven years. Under r the contract, companies will compete with ea other for task orders. We will turn from headlines to tech straight ahead. The white house has a strategy for shared services and a guide for r agencies that wawant to pt in place. It is a tall o year in tech matters, sharing services across the federal government. There are 300 organizations in the executive branch, employing 2. 6 million people, operating more than 10,000 i. T. Systems. The fed spends about 80 billion a year on i. T. And the number is rising. The white house released a strategy for shared services, and in april, a guide to put the strategy in place. We turn to dr. Richchard hold i, president of the American Council forechnology. How do federal agencies really utilized services shared services . Is a greater point of emphasis. Most of the not realize we have been around for 35 years, and providing a forum through which government and industry can collaborate to make government opate more effectively. One of the areas is shared service. We have been active to identify opportunities for re aggressive adoption o of shared services acrosthe fedel governmement. It isis a massive uertaking, requiring a new mindset. The white hou calls it a sharefit culture. Is that a tatall order . It is. We have en when you have the opportunity to pursue share first, w whether it is pursuing for a fit option, it is much itsier than trying to retrof sharedservices into a model that already exist. When it comes to things like mobility and mile services, where there arare not a lot of entrenched services, we have seen early adoption. You might find more faculty in shared Services Adoption where there is an existing model fo the delivery of services. Last week, gornme matters focused on the role of thefederal cio, and strategy depends on the cio focus on c commoty i. Does t cio face a huge roadblock . It is a Culture Shift and mind set shift. Certainly, we would all agree, as the authors stated, we could do a much better and more effecte job of managining the 80 billion of i. T. Across the federal government. There is an open question about what is the most effective mechchanism to change the behavr across agencies, and you have Seen Movement from some agencies like the department of homeland sesecurity where there has been Movement Toward a shared Services Model at the Department Level. Otother agencies that do not hae a history of collaboration at the Department Level are struggling more with moving to that kind of a model. Reality to new reduce cost. Under the n directive, how do you know if youure getting the best deal. Factorsf the addional is the costf visibili and transparency. The initiative has accomplished an increased focus and awareness on the cost of delivering i. Within our agencies and across agencies. We have a sense of how we compare t to our peers a and otr federal agencies in the way deliver and acquire services, revivisiting a group deal for u. Presenting a goodeal. How do you find all of this working for you . It is working gradually. We, in the department of justice, are one of those agencies that does not have a history of shared Services Within our department, but we have, under the increasing budget measures that we all face, increasingly looked to a shared svices model for better efficiency and cost effectiveness in the way that we consume and acquire i. T. Services. We are making substantial strideand it is to the collective betterment of all of us in the department of justice. Dr. Richard holgate, good to haveve you with us on governmet matters. Thank you. From tech to security straight ahead on government matters. Later this year, one of the Nation Largest federal contractors will split in two. Thnest has been getting a little too quiet of late. So i decided it was time to find some real harmony with nature. [ screaming ] whoo oh, yeah. Elmo [ howling ] mmm [ eagle chirps ] [ train whistles ] [ bird chirping ] [ screaming ] [ tuba bellows ] whoa. Hey [ screaming ] [ snoring ] music to moms ears. We may live in houses, but were born for busch gardens. About one year ago, science applations International Corporation announced they woud separate into two independent publicly traded companies. The spinoff will focus on onutions, and the new tecical. Campupus in tyso cocorner. The median group picked it up. Has the company csen a new yes. Uarters . Will be moving to the resting area. It inot officially annnced, but t the move will be happenin. Sonot officially announced, your making news. Absolutely. That talk about the split. Why was it necessary . We have proud and rich history, and over time, as we transition from an Employee Owned company and a private company, and a company that differentiated itself from Government Services and government solutions, a split or a differentiation became inevitable. One part of the company needed a more efficient cost structure while another part needed a structure that relied more on research and develop an, and a little bit more overhead. This is not about sequestration. It is about a journey we have been ofor quite some tim when will this split take place . We are going through the Legal Process and the regulatory approvals. This will all happen in the next six weeks or so to o two momont. Your company has been active on the legal front. 5. 5 7 million to settle aaiforce contract and then to settle a whistleblower lawsuit. Here is a quote fromom a rent articl ansaic spokeswan said t the timingg of the settlement is negotiate with the government and not related to the company seration schedule the decision in thehe first pla, that, of course, is made by the company. Why settle . The legalt tied up in matters, and is not appropriate to comment, but we do what is best for shareholders when we go throug these processes and deal with legal disputes. Ththese are solutions that aim that shareholders and the valale to the sreholders. Ic butut in the first quartersaic, in the first droper saic posted a 30 in revenue, and you blame sequestration, but other firms brought in more revenue. The c companies dealing mon that forms and dealing more in platforms and product are in different cost, half it structure than those of us profit structure than those of us in the engineering business. It is not a surprise to see we are under more pressure than those big mpanies that you named. Also, you know, with the troops overseas, of the aor our funding is under snificant pressure. These things are expected. They are all within predicted ranges of performance, and nobody is escapaping without soe pressure from sequestration. Everybody has an opinion on questration. Tell me more about yours. Suestration is one ofhose things t that nobody thought wod happen, but he we are. We are splitting the company and the separation is helping us to deal with those dynamics. We still have not seen the full effect. I think everybody is waiting to see where we go with sequestration. We are bracing ourselves fort. Our separation and ability to take out significant loss costs within our company will help us deal with it rather well, but there is sti much unknown ead of us. Last week, presesident obama nominated the saic p president f tech and engineeriring to be the next secretary of the air force. Having worked with her, what qualifies her for this position . I have known debbie for a long time and she has asked strong history of selfless she has a strong history of selfle service to the nation. She has proved herself to be exactly the kind of business person you are talking about earlier in the show someone that wld bring his next sense to the department of defensese. We are proud to have h in that position business sense to the department of defense. Ware proud to have her. You have seen a lot of things change in teterms of t tech. Yes, we have. Technology has brought us a long way, and i i have relieded on Companies Like saic and oerss like saic to make us the best military in the world. General johjumper, see , anklow ceoo of saic you. Strghhead, at the u. S. Patent and Trademark Office, telework is a way of life. Now managers can work from home. My oneonone interview transcanada sees north americas whole Energy Picture, from investing in renewables, to the critical keystone xl pipeline. Keystone xl transports energy from a trusted ally that operates under albertas strict environmental policies. Researchers in the scientific journal nature state keystone xl transported oil is cleaner than heavy californian oioil. Studies show keystone xl would have little effect on climate change. The keystone xl pipeline is a critical piece of a secure Energy Picture for america. Lets get it done. The u. S. Had been Trademark Office has long been considered a leader in telework and limitation and now they are even from home. Agers work i diussed this with annette campbell. How many employees spend time teleworking question mark teleworkrking . We have 7700 eloyees working from home anywhere between one and five days a week, and ofhose, we have one in 4000 working from home full time. In july, your office announced a new schedule that allowed 100 10 managers to telework fulltime. Tell us abt the pilot study that got you involved with this. Challengeshad securing and keeping our patent managers that had dissipated in the patent manager telework programs, that participated in patent manager telework programs, that at supervised teleworkers, so executives came up with a plan to offer r a ful Time Initiative to our patent managers. Of we decid that in may 2012, i believe it was, to start a pilot. We ran the pilot for six months with 11 supervisory patentt examiners. Ran ifor six months, collected data, analyzed the data, and in the and determined it would be a great fit for our patent managers that would like they are stillble to manage. Their workers just as they were when they were on the campus. How can a manager working from home effectively manage workers that are also teleworking . We have clear defined measures in place. Expeations are clearly defined. Patent examination is basically protectitiondriven, and it maks remote root easy. Technology plays an instrument of role beside the telephone and computer, what other tools are necessary . Everyone has a universal laptop. When an individual has been trained, they received i. T. And noni. T. Training, and once that happens, they receive a combination to the lock on their laptop in their office. They can unlock the laptop and take it home to work from home. Everything is encrypted here. There is no possibility of dataa becoming jeopardized. s with ave secure id rotating number. Eryone is assigned a pin to get in. And ed in with ours our user id and additional password. It i is three levels of curity prior to getting into the sysystem. That is impressive. What kind of Financial Impact has an aggressive telework strategy had on your agencies budget . One of the most incredible things about this initiative is program,telework especially our fulltime telework programs, have enabled secure about 20 million real estate. The fullTime Initiative has a huge impact. The commission about 5000 had to. Loyees that they u. S. P fast forward to 2013, we now have 11,600 employees. We have not had toto secure any Additional Real Estate on the alexandria campus toccommodate the new hires. That is huge. You advise other agencies on their options regarding telework. Do ever advise agencies against it . Of course not, but what i do distinctis is a Business Strategy and it really has to be about the Business Case scenario. While this agency cares a grgret deal about employees, and i think all federal agenes do, it really has to be more about the Business Impact telework will have another agencies. Annette campbell, good luck and thank you. Thank you for coming. I am morris jones. Your weekk is filled with other matters. Save sunday for us. Thank you for being with us. Good morning, and welcome to this week. Spy shift. The president reforms americas secret surveillance programs. Was his hand forced by this man . No, i dont think he was a patriot. This morning, snowdens father responds. Brand new details. Will his son come home to face trial . What will he reveal next in only on this week. Plus this morning, the embassies reopen after the worldwide terror alert. Are we at risk . And why is donald trump stumping in iowa . The Republican Party is in serious trouble. The roundtable weighs in on the ti
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