Slowed down. I can tell you right now there are still a few hot spots out there, but for the most part most of the equipment brought in this afternoon to fight this fire has already been packed up and has already driven off. Many of cal fires rigs have been packed up and directed back to their stations tonight. This fire has been largely snuffed out, but at its height it was fast moving and dpru gre 526 acres. You can see the long line of flames as they inch towards home. This fire drived in the open space, a popular recreational area. People could see the massive plume of smoke all over the bay area. I saw it all over richmond and i was coming out here i was like uhoh, it must be close to my home. That was scary and then last year was the paradise fire and brought back a lot of bad memories, so scary to have it so close to home but looks like its getting contained tonight. Thick smoke prompted some people to put on masks an advisory and it was issued just around sunset and all roads i
Congress. My i am sure that all of president s have spent a lot of time consulting informally up , explaining policies and all of the rest, it is an important part of the job. I learned everything that i know about being a National Security adviser from the man who is in the front row here, brent scowcroft. Learned fromings i him, when we researched on the tower commission, which was established by president reagan in 1986 in the wake of the enron arms sales that iran arms sales was to stave off the action by congress to basically take over the National Security structure. It required the National Security adviser to be confirmed, that the organizational structure. Brent led the charge to frustrate the, because it was not just an issue of privacy, it was an issue of separation of balance. If the president cannot gather inund him or her a staff which he can have great confidence, he will not be able to carry out the constitutionallyprescribed roles that the president is prescribed in po
Leadership. And white house counsel. I have tremendous advantages quite frankly. Of course youre gonna meet new people and people that dont know you because theres a hundred 5,000 people at the department and they all want to look at the boss. If the project a level of confidence and also from my perspective i spent as much time as i could. Going to the various agencies and their floors and stopping by shaking peoples hands and getting to know the employees at the department of justice. I would say that question is a little bit unfair to me. B final comments . Because my wife is here i want to say and i talk about this in the book and i think it will be reflected in the book. That is the importance of family and support. I could not had done what i did without the support of my family. I talk about the difficult times that we went through in washington and how it affected my family and becky was always there for me. Im very grateful for the service that she provided. Grateful to George
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She was bad, but she was good, too. Anything else . [inaudible] my biggest concern is how do you deal with that when you go out and combat, but how do you every day keep going and not let that ruin your life . While youre in there . Afterwards . Youve got to get home. Its one of those things they dont like down upon but they dont encourage you to seek mental help. When we get back, heres their situation. One day he might be overseas killing bad guys and 24 hours after that hes had our. No one knows when he leaves. No one knows when it comes back. The first thing you want to do is go have a bust and all that deployment the newly saved up and make some young grow rich. Jan girl rich. [laughter] but yeah, just getting help. Youre not stop for doing it. You have to let them know that. But definitely get help. It is going through something. Alcoholism is a big contributor to the suicide. I was selfmedicating for years. I remember waking up at 6 00 in the morning and drinking all the way unt