you have my solemn commitment that i will position this agency to provide the intelligence support our country needs to meet the challenges of today and those of tomorrow. i welcome the opportunity to introduce myself to the american people for the first time. it is a new experience for me, as i spent over 30 years under cover and in the shadows. i don t have any social media accounts. but otherwise i think you will find me to be a typical middle class american. one with a strong sense of right and wrong and one who loves this country. i was born in kentucky, and while my family has deep roots there, i was an air force brat and we followed my father to postings all over the world. my childhood overseas instilled in me a deep love for foreign
you have my solemn commitment that i will position this agency to provide the intelligence support our country needs to meet the challenges of today and those of tomorrow. i welcome the opportunity to introduce myself to the american people for the first time. it is a new experience for me as i spent over 30 years undercover and in the shadows. i don t have any social media accounts. but otherwise, i think you will find me to be a typical, middle class american, one with a strong sense of right and wrong and one who loves this country. i was born in kentucky and while my family has deep roots there, i was an air force brat. and we followed my father to postings all over the world. my childhood overseas instilled
wing focus. rachel: the president promised lots of air power. that part i like. i m annual air force brat. i love hearing those planes. it s the sound of freedom. got to get to some headlines. turning now to your headlines, starting with a fox news alert. the 15th police officer this year shot and killed. and another injured in overnight standoff in california. police say the suspect opened fire while he was barricaded inside a home near los angeles. swat teams are still trying to arrest the shooter. the injured officer is in stable condition. also breaking overnight, we now know the identities of three hostages killed during hours long standoff inside the country s largest veterans home. the bodies of employees jennifer, christine and jennifer gonzalez were found inside the building in yountville, california north of napa. albert wong shot himself. police say he was kicked out of the pathsway home program which specializes in treating ptsd. unclear whether the women were coach at rand
it s actually a turn-around with regard to sandy, with what you witnessed earlier this week with the today show. you guys were all celebrating the reopening of seaside heights and jersey shore with governor christie. oh, my gosh, he and his wife, they are jersey shore. i consider myself a jersey girl having lived there at least 11 years now, i went to college at rutgers. so there s a lot of pride in the jersey shore, and in the resilience. the jersey strong. we got used to saying boston strong. but now the saying is, stronger than the storm. and i think, you know, what we saw there was truly the definition of how a recovery should happen. here s something interesting about you specifically, many people might not know this, but you were born in taipei, taiwan. explain that. service member baby. i m an air force brat. and my dad was stationed, at that time he was stationed in taiwan, but flying cargo missions to vietnam during the
those who don t know her childhood background, she grew up in japan and took her family there to show her kids where she grew up. she was an air force brat. so she had that background of military in the family, great intellect and we all saw how she went through some very public struggles, not only the loss of her son but the destruction of her marriage and the politics that is always tough. losing elections and so forth. so she was a very special person to cover. she was one of those candidates spouses who is always extra kind to those of us on the road with them and that was certainly appreciated. you seemed like you liked her. i did like her. i absolutely liked her. i found her to be warm and funny. i found her to be someone who understood what we chased after, we were trying to get information that we were doing our jobs. i had a sense that she really was passionate about the cause that they were running on, back in the time before we with knew all of the things that brought t