different scenarios. they actually could happen. if you could picture it, imagine it, outthink your opponent, you could prevent it from happening. is that the theory? yes. we call them red team exercises in the military. let s run exercises on what could happen and how can we learn from that and stop it. you were not chairman during this time. but bush and cheney were overhyping this to get ratings and popularity. to get people s attention. this is the other extreme. now we re seeing the other extreme. what would you rather live with? i d rather live with the truth. if you re going to down play, the campaign is end the war, close down guantanamo. brian, it didn t wk out that way. isis popped up and you cannot effectively deal with it and it s still the number one threat to homeland. great presidents react to the times. this president doesn t seem to be. chairman, thanks so much. brian congratulations on your book. i m sure it will be a great hit for a great cause.
the white house says personify the progress that has been made during the obama era. so tonight those guests will include the self-proclaimed accidental activist who became the plaintiff in the supreme court case that legalized same-sex marriage last year. spencer stone, the air force sergeant who helped disrupt a terrorist attack aboard a train bound for paris last august. and governor daniel malloy of connecticut, a point man in president obama s gun control campaign following the shootings at sandy hook elementary in newtown. one novel twist this year in addition to still other white house guests including a syrian war refugee and an illegal immigrant who joined the u.s. military, one seat in the first lady s box will remain empty to signify the victims of gun violence. house speaker paul ryan reflecting his own priorities, has invited members of little sisters of the poor, the group of nuns whose lawsuit challenging the contraception requirements of obamacare has advanced the supre
thing is happening with isis. and for those that want to call it radical islam, all the muslims will hear just the word islam and it will fire up the moderates. they want to deny it because they re losing. he wanted to pull out of iraq and afghanistan, close down guantanamo. it didn t work out that way. you can t ignore isis and pretend like they don t exist and like it s not a threat to the homeland. i know you argue that isis is a failure of leadership, a failure of presidential leadership. but you go through how 9/11 was a failure of imagination on our parts and you talk about scary scenarios like a possible dirty bomb at disney world. a possible terror attack in the mall of america. why do you raise those specifics? there was a failure of imagination at pearl harbor, 9/11. we need to use our imaginations to prevent this from happening. we didn t connect the dots at
communities where the war on police is prevalent and look at how not unified america is on things like gun control and immigration and the refugees. let s look back at the state of the union address and keep in mind, this dates back to george washington. it was time to get an update on the state of our union. george washington had a speech. it wasn t carried by all the networks. i m not sure why. he had the longest one. 1,089 words and the shortest the longest, jimmy carter was 33,367 words. 30 times the size. next up, it was fdr, franklin delano roosevelt who coined the phrase state of the union. before that it was the annual message to congress. here s an interesting tidbit. what is remarkable and actually brian this is your department, thomas jefferson did something that was up to that point unique. that is the fact that he never