decades. how do you respond? i think we ve taken several steps to allow people access to this white house, in terms of, in particular, the press. we hold regular conferences, we release participant lists, we give the press the opportunity to come into the room, hear part of the discussion. i would respectfully disagree with that. abby? what do you say about 45% of americans don t believe the president only 45% believe he will keep his promises. given some reversals in the last week, does he risk being seen as a flip floper? i don t think so. i mentioned on the currency, on nato. we talked about this last week. the question in my mind isn t looking at the issue and seeing i mentioned nato. there are certain things. kwrerpbgs on nato, if you go back to september 29th of last
was six years ago, we were seeing 230,000 people die. in fact, in september 29th of last year, there was a magnitude 8.1 earthquake in the hebretes in samoa and tonga. we couldn t have done this five years ago. bill: the forecast turned out to be so extreme compared to what happened in places like hawaii and i m just trying to figure out, over the past five years, has the warning system gotten any better? well, it depends. it s like weather forecasting. it s a model-based enterprise. basically you have to have a good source model of the earthquake, then a good propogation model across the ocean, then a good tsunami run model when it gets ashore. the problem is with an earthquake that big, it actually takes a fair amount of time, perhaps even several hours, to get a good fix on the type of earthquake that it was. in this particular case, the zone in that area is horizontal so you re getting