Healthy, david. Would you fix your tie, please . David people would not recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. We will leave it this way. All right. I dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . We are here today with dr. Anthony, also tony, fauci, who is the director of the National Infectious Disease Institute of the National Institutes of health, which he has led since 1984, 35 years. That is a pretty long time to be leading the institute at nih. Is that a record . Dr. Fauci it is. Indeed. It is. David you havent gotten tired of doing this for 35 years . Dr. Fauci no, because things keep changing. We get new Infectious Diseases, new outbreaks, new challenges. So it is almost like a different job every year or two. David i always worried about getting a flu, so if
even questioning how this came to light. merrick garland was getting creamed in the pr war as trump repeatedly slammed the search as a break-in, but the attorney general felt he couldn t publicly respond. so justice department officials made hair case through leaks their case through leaks which violate the rights of a potential defendant who hasn t been charged with anything and may not be. they made garland s case from a behind a curtain of anonymity. a poll-up piece in the washington post cited people with direct information. as an ethical matter, the leaks are indefensible. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, we ll question senior white house adviser gene sperling on the fierce debate over the president forgiving college debt for millions. that new york times story triggered a media explosion, especially the part about donald trump repeatedly holding on to documents so sensitive they could only be seen in a secure government room and a deep s
Same words he would use every day as my chief of staff, mr. President , thank you for the privilege of serving. Did you say that i did. Sometimes it was a variation of it. Visited of staff, i with the president first thing every morning. He typically got to his desk about 6 45. I would give him about five minutes to get settled. Persondition was, first that the president sees is the chief of staff. I would walk in at about 6 50 in the morning and i always said something to the effect of, thank you for the privilege of serving. It wasnt intended to flatter him or to thank him. It was intended to remind me and help me remind everybody else what a privilege it was to be inside the white house. So i just made it a habit. I am glad i did. It was a privilege everyday. What did he say back . Nothing. He would just move on. President who i think really understood the presidency, understood both the responsibility and the privilege of being in the oval office. So he didnt need the reminding. He
He did every day in my chief of staff. Mr. President , thank you for the privilege of serving . Did you say that . I did. Sometimes there was a variation of it. But i did as chief of staff, i visited with the president first thing every morning. He got to his desk at about 6 45. And i would get five minutes to get settled. Our tradition was the first person the president sees was the chief of staff. I would walk in at about 6 50 in the morning. I always said something to the effect of, thank you for the privilege of serving. And it wasnt intended to flatter him or to thank him, it was intended to remind me and to help me remind everybody else what a privilege it was to be inside the white house. So i just made it a habit. It was a privilege. What did he say back . He would just move on. He was a president i think really understood the presidency, understood the privilege of being in the oval office. He didnt need the reminding. He probably didnt even need the reminding that i was appre
Myself. When you think back about the last three years, whats the first thing that comes to your mind. The last three years of the Bush Administration. When you were chief of staff. Whats the thing that flashes in front of you . Boy, a lot of things flash in front of me. Theres a trauma and a recency effect to the financial crisis. That was the last thing that happened on the way out the door. For the Bush Administration. You remember we went through 7 1 2 very difficult tumultuous years, hugely consequential, dramatic changes in the world and in the united states. You know, wed had a recession. We had a crisis of confidence in american business. We had the 9 11 attacks, the war in afghanistan, the war in iraq, hurricane katrina. All of these things. So when we approached the last year of the Bush Administration, as we got to 7 1 2 years in, most of us thought lets try to wrap this up in a responsible and effective way and for whoever wins the presidency, leave the country and the whit