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 of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Why did you decide to write a book on leadership as opposed to another biography . What really intrigued me from the time i was in graduate school was questions revolving around leadership, the ones we used to debate when we were young, staying up at night. Our leaders born or made . When does a person recognize themselves as a leader . Where does ambition come from . David when you write a book, how long does it take . It is embarrassing. It took me longer to write about world war ii than it took the war to be fun. It took me 10 years to write about lincoln. You are catapulting yourself into another time. You want to think about how they thought. It takes a long time. I love it. David when you are thinking about writing
and know that they were working with who they identified as their afghan brothers so just i m regret that so much hey, bad i can remember the first time i went to afghanistan with sheila jackson-lee. she pointed out that bad news has no feet and excuse me. what is it? good news has no feet and bad news has wings. and wow. but the bad the good thing is that extraordinary progress has been made and i agree with the chairman, too, that success in afghanistan is to deny terrorists safe havens which protects american families and that we cannot forget it was september 11th, 2001, the attacks on our country, that were originated, planned and culminated from caves in afghanistan so i m just very appreciative of your efforts and the largely bipartisan support we have here w. that in mind, with this special operations reliance of support from conventional forces, if conventional forces are reduced, as has been called for, how can special operations fill in this gap? sir,
this subject, week after next, train and equip, not just iraq. iraq, syria and afghanistan. historically in a broader context, what are the lessons? is it always hard? are there particular circumstances in every country beyond our control? are there lessons we can apply more broadly to different countries and our efforts to improve their security forces? we can t do everything ourselves. so nebraska s gsomebody s got t there helping us do it. we re trying to work with others. you just heard somebody today mention poland. we have allies of different capabilities. how well are we organized, equipped, prepared to work with those different capabilities? i think this is a big, very important question. so is the hearing going to be oversight or education? both. so we re going to have close the roundtable, we re going to have outside experts, we re going to have administration witnesses at different events. so it s try to understand, but it s also hone in on what we re doing now
statement yesterday, that republicans are entitled to some amendments, i m asking now, we re able to get it down to 25 amendments, just to be considered, and will the majority consider these 25 amendments which can be done it could be done in half day. would he car that consider that? mr. levin: there are no democratic amendments on his list mr. inhofe: i said 25 for this is your list, you come up with your list. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: we cannot agree to a list of amendments, many of which are not agreed to on this side, many which would be filibustered on this side which would result in just making it impossible for us to get to a defense authorization bill conclusion. i would ask unanimous consent, madam president, that a unanimous consent request which i was going to make but i will withhold that lists 25 26 amendments, half democratic and half republican, that i was going to ask unanimous consent be adopted because they ve b
what would you like to happen to this house? i want a medicine man to go in there and pray, you know and let her go and all that. let her spirit go, because i feel like she s still in there. [ theme ] bill: hey, good morning everybody. what do you say? it is thursday morning february 28th. this is the full court press. welcome to the program here on current tv as we boom out to you live from our studio on capitol hill and bring you up to date on all the goings on today here in our nation s capital. and around the country around the globe. today is benedict xvi s last day on the job as pope. it is jack lew s first day on the job as our new treasury secretary. and today is the last chance congress has to take any action to avoid the sequester. it ain t gonna happen. the cuts are going to kick in. now, the only question is who is going to get the blame? we know who deserves the blame republicans in the house of representatives. that s it. that and a lot more for the f