Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
Thank you for having me. When i started it this will be too much information i cannot take it in is based on your knowledge and research over 70 interviews. And billy it is not so much about the cia director but the relationship to the white house and the president. Do you agree . Thank you for your kind words because what i really tried to do above all else is to humanize these directors and with his cast of characters those that were the quintessential cia director is a james bond character cigarette in one hand and the dry martini and another to walk into the oval office to tell lbj the domino theory was god and then Going Forward to me was the corleone of the cia and then you have okc and an amazing cast the characters all the way up to gina haskell the first woman to run the cia. The book focuses a lot on the relationship between the president and the cia director its almost an impossible balancing act for a cia director because he or she have to tell the president a hard truth wi
This is a wonderful read. When i started it i was sort of like this is going be too much information. I will be able to take it in. Its fantastic. Its based on an addition to your own knowledge and research its based on over 70 interviews and youve interviewed among those the leading director of the living directors of the caa except for the current one. Its really not going to say it, its not so much about the cia directors as about the cia directors and the relationship to the white house and the president. Would you agree with that . Thanks for the kind words about the book, because one of the things i really tried to do, maybe above all, was to humanize these directors. I was lucky because it is a cast of characters never couldve dreamt up, from dick helms act in the 60s was the quintessential cia director bob gates described to me as a james bond type character. Cigarette in one hand, dry martini in the other who could walk into the oval office and tell lbj that the domino theory
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