conversation about the whistleblower statute is probably going to discourage whistle blowing. in other words, if you are someone and by the way, this is an important part of the intelligence world that intelligence leaders support because it is part of the morale of the intelligence community. make sure their job if they found troubling stuff if you see something, say something. and they tried do the right thing and it didn t go out. people had to go for the media. and caught up in bureaucracy now. is that what you expect, fewer missal bl whistleblowers? i would hope not. we haven t yet seen how it plays out. it may well play out that the information comes out and appropriate action is taken. so i would ask people not to be discouraged now. as john said, if you see something, say something. bob is right. okay then. that is a good way to end it. i was told when we book bed you, bob, that everybody said well, bob is the best by to have on
she doesn t want people to come out of their house, any unnecessary rescues to take place. we understand they re bringing in emergency response teams from neighboring states including tennessee. let me step away here. these images are just striking. take us through that. what are we seeing here? i know that they said that they live on hire grougher ground, b can t get to the restaurant that they open. that look like the downtown area and a ton of shops there now just flooded. reporter: sure. from what we understand, we just got here in the last several minute, but this is one of the lowest lying areas in columbia. we started to notice the flooding about six miles outside of the capital when we saw rivers swell. we saw tractor trailers digging out big vehicles from the swelled rivers. we noticed down power lines, lots of power outages.
hey, bob bob can t hear us? we re having an audio issue? we ll get him back. it s so fun to see what is going on in cleveland. what a big week for them, the gop convention going to be there. in 2016. we ll work on the audio issue. we ll get him back, and we ll get you back. quick break. we ll take a moment and be right back. vo: this is the summer. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. so get out there, and get the best price guaranteed. find it for less and we ll match it and give you $50 toward your next trip. expedia. find yours. live in the same communities that we serve. people here know that our operations have an impact locally. we re using more natural gas vehicles than ever before. the trucks are reliable, that s good for business. but they also reduce emissions, and that s good for everyone. it makes me feel very good about the future of our company.
had i am in the embassy. that is what is holding susan rice. kimberly: you think she is qualified add good choice? bob: i don t know enough about it. the ambassador of the u.n. and not be canvassed have request qualified. president obama made that a cabinet position so she has a seat at that table. the other part of this job is congressional relations. condi rice was president bush s first security advisor and steve had ley. i remember he would tell me what i needed to know. the questions in the briefing room at the time were 90% foreign policy related. one of the most important roles was congressional relations, calling up congress and keeping them informed even things that weren t supposed to be public yet.
campaign reform advocates go from here. greg: i want to know what they want. to me it seems like this is change they ve been waiting for which is a new universe, a new world order to use the old phrase. they have given america lap band surgery. it s okay if it is the side of belgium. bob: they built a campaign organization over a tremendous campaign organization in the history of this country. they need to feed it. if you look what the agenda on the meeting it s everything that obama has been asking congress to do and nothing more and nothing less. it s a way to stimulate grassroots support. greg: what they have to sustain a smaller economy and bigger government which is like having a giant man in a tiny car. you just said grassroots. that is the funniest thing.