transportation, energy, telecommunications systems, not falling behind. yet here we are, business, labor, and government we all agree that there s no dispute about the need for infrastructure. and about the danger that it poses to our country if we do not do it. all we want to see is investment made yet this is not happening. we have a jobs crisis. there is massive work to be done to restore our competitiveness. and unemployment in the construction industry is at historic highs. congress has yet to pass any major infrastructure builbill. key congressional leaders have made it clear that they are opposed to funding infrastructure. there is no profound there s no greater profound logjam in america than this right now the idea that the focal process to address our nation s fundamental needs is not just about our future competitiveness or about the potential for job creation. the failure to repair our roads and bridges, our most basic infrastructure need
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guest: it was interesting when he said early in the book would be worked for gerald ford, a cut accommodation with the panamanians of the canal and dick cheney said he did not, he agreed with ronald reagan. host: republican line. a mobile, alabama. phonebill, you re on the with fred barnes. his take on dick cheney s new book. if you i m wondering have read norman schwarzkopf s books, it does not take a hero? guest: , i have not. caller: he is not very kind to dick cheney. he seems to y that he wanted colin powell to get him off his back, that he was coming up with hairbrained ideas that we re going to get people killed. this was written at a time when he was no longer defense secretary. he was in private business. i just never heard anyone say anything about that. host: i think i understand the comment. dick cheney was tough on the generals during the iraq war, the second and first war, specifically when he saw something they said publicly that did not sound right. he wou
9/11. there has been one successful terrorist attack inside the united states in that period of time. that was due to a failure of intelligence. a lot of things have been done right in two administrations. if i had one failure that i put above any of the rest it was the failure to give the director of national intelligence troop control over the entire intelligence community budgetary control, more control over personnel. there is one major improvement, one way to see to it that everyone is singing of the same page of the hymn book, it would be to enhance the authority of the dni. senator lemon? i would like to emphasize the positive and the negative. there is much to be proud of as americans to see how many of the writings were implemented. i think we are definitely safer. i would use in new york city as an example of a leadership that took everything we said seriously and implemented nearly all of that and did it very effectively. because of them following our recomme
one. when you think about smith in 1828 in 1928. he paved the way for roosevelt. i can pre much guarantee there will be fascinating and surprising. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] history percent for history professor gene baker and richard norton smith talk about the 14 men who ran for president and lost. it is a preview for the contenders, a new series on c- span. next, a discussion on how the public and private sectors can work together to create jobs. this session looks at infrastructure investment. we will hear from transportation secretary railroad. this bipartisan council on jobs and transportation secretary ood.woullah this by pressing council on jobs was created by president obama. i have no position on who should win the game tomorrow night. i am honored to be here. we are holding what we call listening sessions on particular issues. the issue we re talking about today i
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