was perhaps in the background o motivation for bush 43. that s right. i should point out the cleaning up from the national defense foreign dinner here so as you hear the glasses clinking behin me, that is the cleanup crew behind me for the international defense form as they re preparing. you have att little ambient noise on a very busy night. chris, thank you much for joining us as well. going to bring in more folks with closese ties to the presid we have dana perino, brad blakeman former adviser to w president george w. bush and juan williams joining us now. one, i want to start with you because we talked about the bipartisan appeal of president george h w bush in the fact tha he worked across the aisle. pr was somebody willing to compromise to get things done. you re thoughts on him tonight? the emotion flows out of me
campaign for senate. baker was a democrat and really never done anything politics before but i think he saw this as a grief therapy and there was a very strong personal bond. and i suspect that is one of the things you want to explore paid not just a professional loss were james baker, very much a personal loss. spoon the friendship and professional relationship lasted for so many years. chris wallace, at west at the reagan library. we will see you tomorrow for fox news sunday . chris: thank you. thank you ebony and leland. ebony: thank you. a live look at the national defense form where bill hemmer is leaving the panel. the hiring process for the nicest government is way too long and way too complicated. and very unrewarding. it is personal, it is hard to get the talent in. they have to confront the issue
it makes it hard. on the regulatory and oversight makes it hard for them to make curriculum changes. and so, what you have is that we still have an education system that very much is teaching for previous century without having made the evolution into teaching for the 21st century. unfortunately i m not sure that more regulation is the path to getting these school systems moving in the right direction for preparing k-12. we should think about our k-12 more as not just college prep. which i think ebony: that is bill hemmer, that is a bit of the defense form. you can check out these in their entirety streaming right now live on fox nation . leland: after the break, a
stopping leaks and it is almost nixonian in creating this team of plumbers, we ll find the leaks and plug the leaks, something he s obsessing over. i did say in the introduction to you, people don t know, for a period of time, you did represent rick gates who was the deputy campaign chair for a period of time and since pled guilty to various things to the special counsel. i wanted to throw it out there when i ask you about this other piece of information we re going to talk about. rudy giuliani has been brought on to the president s team to negotiate with the special counsel. based on what you ve seen of how the special counsel operates, do you think this will be a helpful endeavor for the president? i think it could be. and, of course, i can t disclose anything confidential about prior representation, but i think mr. giuliani is the kind of experienced white collar person you would want, however it is not so clear if this particular client is going to allow him to really take char
concern here at the defense form. the u.s. navy is short 41 warships and 90,000 sailors than it had on september 11, 2001 when the major focus right now is readiness of the us military. my colleagues are hosting a panel as we speak. earlier they spoke with the air force secretary who said, the us air force was to go to war with another country you should expect a lot of casualties. as 70 percent of the marine corps hornets cannot fly, after the air force bombers cannot fly. half of the air force jets overall cannot fly. the air force is also short 2000 pilots. the navy is short 50 percent of the f-18 hornets cannot fire an apparatus 542 jets that cannot fly. so jennifer griffin s panel is wrapping up and we will report the latest.