also his successor tom donilon. david, this has been expected at some point soon, but when you go back and certainly in bob wo woodwa woodward's reporting, jim jones was never an insider. he was a key adviser and endorsing of barack obama in the campaign and that was a big help with all of his stars, but he never really was an insider. >> he wasn't. and covering this in the bush administration and you covered this, the ins and outs of this every day, looking at the national security team and how this particular team operated, i think it's quite interesting. i don't think we should -- we should underscore how important it was that jim jones and his military background, what he brought to candidate obama. remember, this is a good friend of john mccain's as well. to have him in the administration, to have that relationship with the military mattered at a time when the president wanted to wind down a war in iraq and ramp up a war in afghanistan. >> marine general. >> right. so you had all of that, but almost from the ge

i have and have had a very productive and very good working relationship with tom donilon, contrary to what you may have read. >> reporter: sources say the woodward book only increased tension on the national security team. jones attempted to leave on a peaceful note by referring to donilon as an extraordinary ally and recognize his work ethic. >> you have been the man that kept the trains running on time. and your energy and your dedication is without equal. i thank you and wish you the best. >> reporter: in the end, jones is leaving like a marine. >> every time we do something on the national security arena, we think of our troops. our men and women in uniform. and their families. the incredible sacrifice an example they set for us every day around the world. >> a source told friends several weeks ago he was planning to stay until january and planning the president's upcoming overseas travel. aide says jones decided to make the announcement before the election. bret? >> bret: mike emanuel live in the briefing room tonight. thank you. >>> a provincial governor and 19 other people were

tom donilon. that post opened up about a week ago yesterday when rahm emanuel left to run for mayor. he was replaced on at least an interim basis by a little known, but well-railroadsed, peter rouse, and then lawrence summers announced his departure. the chair of the white house council of economic advisers stepped down weeks before that, so there's been a lot of turnover. as i mentioned, the president is due to speak live from the rose garden at any moment. our senior white house correspondent mr. ed henry joins us to tell us about what's going on there. so listen. the stage is set there, ed. what's going on? is this normal for mid terms to have so much turnover? >> it pretty much is, don. what i'm struck by when you lay it out on the wall and what i think our viewers should take away in part is there's been a lot of speculation that maybe when he finds a permanent chief of staff that the president will go outside the circle. i think when you look across that wall, that's not this president's sty

>> tom donilon is close to rahm emanuel and he is part of the washington domestic political scene. a skilled domestic policy paper. can move paper and get the bureaucracy to work. he was heading an international council can the deputy advisors. never met foreign leaders, never been over to afghanistan. >> bret: he has since been to afghanistan we are told. >> it is true, there is no getting away from it. the question becomes exactly how does he handle things sitting on the edge for the united states and specifically afghanistan. we are supposed to pull out next year. we are going to have some kind of review. how does he work with bob gates. i think he was trying to be nice about it but i think the honest assessment was in the woodward group. he sees an amateur at a time when the game requires expertise. >> this is a low level tension between the military commanders and the white house. the military commanders feel like sharing with the press. don't forget, general mcchrystal was fired after his staff sharing with rolling stone mocking of vice president biden. so then and then we ha

in terms of iraq and afghanistan, tom donilon said that he wants to rebalance american forces. it's starkly different than what this president has undertaken so far. so i do think that this could have real ramifications going forward. >> did he convince you to think about this differently, david? >> no. i think that, if you look again, let's look at the facts here. president obama is the type of president that likes to hear different point of views, balance them all. the fact that you have a deputy moving in, again, doesn't suggest that a directional shift for the entire administration. you'll have somebody else in that deputy slot. >> keep in mind, gates said that he would be a disaster and even the general himself said that he didn't have the credibility with the military. so, this is a real shake-up. there was tension between the predecessor and the successor. this isn't a normal transition. >> gentlemen, always a pleasure to see you. >> he looks sharp. i give him credit. >> flattery will get you anywhere. i'll come back to the show. >> hardball is straight ahead. is new jer

proud to announce that general jones will be succeeded by his deputy and one of my closes advisers, tom donilon. tom has a wealth of experience that will serve him well in this new assignment. he has served three presidents, and been immerse ned our national security for decades. over last two years there is not a single critical national security issue that has not crossed tom's desk. he has helped manage our national security team and the policy-making process, and won the respect and admiration of his colleagues in the white house and across the administration. he has a probing intellect and a remarkable work ethic although it's one that depends on a seemingly limitless quantity of diet coke. tom, however, is not the only valuable member of the donilon team who works at the white house. his wife kathy who is here has done an extraordinary job as joe biden's chief of staff. i'm grateful to the donilon family for all the work that they've already done for our nation and for agreeing to take on this additional responsibility. we have some huge challenges ahead. we remain a nation at war. we wil

he'll be replaced by his top deputy, tom donilon. >> he has served three presidents and been immersedn our national security for decades. over the last two years, there's not a single critical national security issue that has not crossed tom's desk. >> sreenivasan: donilon is shown as deeply skeptical of the troop surge in afghanistan in bob woodward's new book, "obama's wars." it also quotes defense secretary robert gates as saying donilon would be "a disaster" as national security advisor. but today, gates said he looks forward to working with donilon. >> i have and have had a very productive and very good working relationship with tom donilon, contrary to what you may have read. and i look forward to continuing to work with him. >> sreenivasan: today's news follows last week's resignation by chief of staff rahm emmanuel to run for mayor of chicago. two top economic advisers-- christina romer and lawrence summers-- resigned earlier. in northern afghanistan today, a powerful bomb killed at least 20 people, including a provincial governor. it exploded inside a packed mosque as worship

but he's highly respected, tom donilon, a lot of people like him a lot. this is what the president wants. the president gets to pick. >> he does. he is the president, after all. >>> we were talking about this earlier in our show, the e-mails. the shirley sherrod story in which she was outed at the u.s. agriculture department. we're seeing some of the back and forth between the white house and the ago department. have you had a chance to look at the e-mails and what do you make of them? >> it goes to show you what happens when you rush to judgment and you pannish on the basis of faulty information. you think it's true. and you have to check and check and recheck. it's the same in our business. if the story sounds too good to be true as you know, brooke, it's almost certainly too good to be true. you want to vet it. and before you go ahead and ruin someone's career and fire someone, you really have to be sure you have all of the information and not just some quotes and some -- and some stuff that's taken way out of context. >> you took the words out of my m

jones will be replaced by deputy national security adviser tom donilon. jones agreed but asked to be excused from the obligation after two years. the president added that jones' deputy, tom donilon, has a wealth of experience in natial security that will serve him well in his new role. >>> the supreme court justices sat down for their annual class photo today. led by cef justice john roberts, the group was all smiles for the camera. the nine justices included newly appointed justice elena kagan them gathered in the east coerence room at the urt. it is the first time in history that three women are serving on the court at the same time. the court's new term began on monday. >>> workers are trying to make the u.s. capitol dome picture perfect. crews have been restoring the dome since june. if you look very closely, you can see workers were at it again today. the dome is made of nearly 9 million pounds of cast iron. crews are repainting it and repairing some of the cracked iron work. it is the first time restoration work has been done since 2002. looking goo

he is replaced by tom donilon.ast week president obama's chief of staff, rom manuel -- emanuel resigned to run for office. >> 184 million gallons have leaked out of a tomentic oil sludge. authorities face a massive clean up operation, but they insist the river danube hasn't been contaminated. duncan kennedy reports. >> one of europe's biggest post war environmental clean-ups is underway, the result of a torrent of caustic slurry that claimed lives, removed houses and left a tomentic footprint. thousands of police, soldiers and volunteers have been trying to soak up the pollution before it reaches the danube. this is the home of clara, now a landscape of poisonous sludge. it is finished, she says. she took me to her garden, mud choking everything where life had ones flourished. she knows she cannot stay. the scale of the disaster is still being calculated, but it is thought 180 million gallons of the sludge escaped, nearly as much oil as leaked into the gulf of mexico. it covered an area 16 miles in size. it has cla

sources are saying tom donilon will be his replacement.f this comes as no surprise to the white house, as general jones had planned a tenure of only about two years. president obama is expected to announce the change this afternoon in the rose garden. we plan to have that ceremony here on c-span beginning at about 1:00 p.m. eastern. bank of america president and ceo brian moynihan will be at the national press club today. live coverage of that starts at 1:00 p.m. eastern. our campaign coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight with a second debate between connecticut's u.s. senate candidates, followed by a debate in a wisconsin between russ feingold ron johnson. at 10:00 p.m., a debate in north dakota, and then president obama at an illinois fund-raiser. tomorrow night, the 31st annual news and documentary emmy awards -- we will have live coverage. presenters include diane sawyer and dan rather. live coverage will begin at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> these are the politicians that nearly bankrupted our country, left a legacy of debt, are still

national security adviser, retired marine general jim jones is stepping aside, he will be placed by tom donilon. brian? >> savannah guthrie at the white house for us tonight. thanks. >>> a follow-up to the story that began our broadcast last night. the massive foreclosure that's been thrown into turmoil. bank of america is suspending foreclosures in all 50 states. politicians around the country are calling on all the banks to do the same thing now. none of this bothering wall street in the slightest. the dow closing above the 11,000 mark for the first time in five months. >>> if you live anywhere near a hot political contest, then you now political ads are all over the airwaves. candidates are spending a fortune this season, and outside groups are spending even more. some of them take liberties with the truth. some of the ads airing right now contain outright lies. others have more subtle deceptions. our report tonight from nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: almost heaven, west virginia, backwoods and hollers just some of the boys at the coffey shop. >> obama is messing things up. >> spending

and i have and have had a very productive and very good working relationship with tom donilon contrary have read. and i look forward to continue working with him. >> a little awkward moment there given what bob woodward writes, gates thought donilon would be a disaster as the national security advisor. give us your perspective, david. >> well, wolf, i had the opportunity to work with tom donilon very closely back in the clinton years when he was chief of staff to the secretary of state, warren christopher. we travelled the world together, became friends. i must tell you, i came away from that experience believing he was one of the most talented people i met in the clinton administration. he had a background as a lawyer. he'd long been in politics. all the way back to being the chief counter for jimmy carter in 1976. he's got a keenly analytical mind. he's a hard worker. he was better in getting things done in government than anybody i've ever met. he's terrific as taking a problem, breaking down the pieces, and getting it solved and moving things. hard to move things in government. whe

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. >> the replacement is going to be tom donilon. >> the unemployment rate is 9.6%. >> what was undercoverneybee killer has been found, 20 to 46% of colonies have collapsed but the u.s. discovered a fungus killing off the bees. well, here's why so what. honeybees don't just make honey but pollenate our crop making them critical to the food we eat. >>> a french court ruled the law banning the burqa in public places is legal. it's going to take effect this spring. but our undercover story of the week, the war in afghanistan. you may be thinking, what? i heard about it all week about the anniversary. well, it's still not enough. if you gave the average american a pop quiz on the war the vast majority would fail miserableably. where is the country? what language do they speak and what's the mission? i went lunch crashing on the ninth anniversary this week to find out. this is a globe. can you find afghanistan? i'll give you ten seconds. >> find afghanistan. go ahead. can you just try to find afghanistan on the globe for me? no. you got ten seconds to find afghanistan. what are you laughing at?

tom donilon. president obama said he has worked for three presidents and has a wealth of experience that will serve him well i his new role as national security adviser. >>> in the wake of what some are calling the foreclosure fraud scandal, the nation's biggest bank has stopped selling foreclos home. bank of america has halted sales in all 50 states until it can review potential flaws in foreclosure documents. chris clackum has the latest. >>> bank of america says it will actually continue to foreose on homeowners behind on mortgage payments. but just won't sell the property until it can verify foreclosure documents are accate. >> the banks do have to get their i's dotted. >> repter: it follow a week of foreclosure fraud accusations leld at not only bank of america but others like jpmorgan chase and allied gmac. and after an employee in texas admitted to robo signing. approving up to 8,000 foreclosures month without reading a majority of the paperwork. >> fears this f this practice is taking plac

defense secretary talking about the guy who has now been named to be the national security adviser, tom donilonates is quoted having told general jones that donilon didn't understand the military and his appointment would be a disaster, suggestion here jones told you this as well. >> look i carefully -- no. it's carefully reported, i'm certainly not saying, and remember, this is a portrait of the obama national security team over 18 months, and attitudes that might have existed last march may not exist now or they actually may be worse. >> you had had a one-hour interview with president obama for the book. sounded more perfunctory than revealing. >> no, actually it was quite revealing, because he validated a lot of the book. he said i'm not going to get into the specific quotes and say that's the exact quote, but then when i would give him quotes he would say well that may not be exact but that's my attitude, and throughout the book, he did not dispute anything, but what's important in that interview is we talked about the nature of war, and it comes through loud and clear, he does not like war

president obama has chosen deputy tom donilon to the spot. >>> why some democrats are warning a republican takeover of congress could be dangerous. it's coming up at the bottom of the hour. >>> we continue to watch a developing story in hollywood, florida. a rescue operation inside a water tower. here's what happened. two workers were inside the bowl of the tower, doing maintenance work, when the scaffold they were on collapsed. one of the workers has a serious leg injury. the other is semi conscious. there are eight rescue workers on the tour. they're trying to get the men out of there. onto another story, new evidence has surfaced in the case of an american tourist allegedly shot, killed, by mexican pirates on a lake that straddles the texas/mexico border. the sheriff said they found blood taken from a life vest of tiffa tiffany hartley. tiffany says pirates killed her husband while they are on the border in that lake. janet, this new evidence. i imagine they recovered that before. we're just learning about this detail. >> reporter: that's correct, tamron. you're exactly right. the sheri

security adviser to general jim jones announced his retirement on friday and has been replaced by tom donilon. the israeli cabinet has approved a proposal to require that all non jews seeking citizenship take a loyalty oath to the state of israel as a jewish and democratic state. 22 cabinet ministers voted for the oath, eight voted against it. on sunday, over 100 israeli artists, writers and intellectuals held a demonstration against the measure warning that israel was becoming a fascist day. a syrian man who was held at guantanamo for seven years has filed a lawsuit against the u.s.. abdul rzazk al janko describes his time at guantanamo as a "decade-long kafkaesque nightmare." he was detained by the u.s. in 2002 after he was held for 18 months by the taliban or a cut on suspicion that it was a pro- american israeli spy. his lawyers say he suffered a broken knee and other injuries during the delegations and has tried to commit suicide 17 times. the 32-year-old abdul rzazk al janko is the first man who was released through guantanamo habeas petition to file a civil case. in ecuador, one of the

we understand tom donilon is going to take over, a man who has a fair amount of political experience but not a great deal of military experience from what i can tell. >> well, that could be an interesting selection if that's who is in fact named. look, the national security adviser has to have three things under his belt from this point forward. one, he has to have a commanding -- a commanding knowledge of what's happening in afghanistan, he has to be able to multi task and balance the other national security issues that are around the world and he has to be sensitive to the priorities of the administration so, maybe a politician would do well at that but maybe somebody with other experience might have more successes. >> admiral john stuffelbeam, thank you for being with us and we'll take our viewers to the rose garden when the president makes that announcement. jenna: a lot going on on this busy friday, but first to hungary, as we've been talking to you about this for the last few days, the terrible sludge from theluma plant that has taken out cities and towns and is moving towards

. >> to be replaced by his deputy, tom donilon. >>> speaking of politics, shaking up the california's governor's race. the lawyer for whitman's former housekeeper promised here on "gma" yesterday, that she would produce a document that she says proves that whitman knew her maid was in the country i and shr in the presnce but whe nw and is willake e detector test to prove it. ateector test to prove it. >> reporter: good mornicf1o& e. this ion' seem to go away for meg whitm a major distraction for her campaign, as this race heads into the final month. at a morning news conference in santa monica, meg whitman was peppered with questions. >> why didn't you turn her into law enforcement? >> reporter: about her former nanny's immigration status. >> are you suggesting that she may have intercepted the letter. >> reporter: whether she had any inkling nicky diaz was an illegal immigrant. >> neither my husband or i received any letter from the social security administration. if there is a letter out there, i don't know how they got it. >> reporter: from day one, whitman has denied federal offic

had covered the clinton administration and written a book about it, and i thought to myself, boy, tom donilonmation, it doesn't mean that he's not qualified. he's one of these guys who works 20 hour days, whose life is his job, who knows a lot about national security. he's quite qualified, but he looks at things from a political perspective, so. >> yeah. >> on the subject of afghanistan he says we can't engage in a-- >> interesting stuff and we'll see if the public will sink their teeth on this or involved in other issues. >> we appreciate you joining us and braving the marathon. you can check out her writing at "the hill." . and using aggressive tax particular and calling one consumer's parents to get her to pay up. now she's suing. does she have a case? judge jeanine pirro is up live next. there she is in a man chair. . >> perhaps you've heard the phone calls. he decided to sue them. and joining us this morning is judge jeanine pirro. host of the judge jeanine pirro show. >> good morning. >> this is something that thousands have been dealing with. this person had a debt collector call his o

so, nobody knows tom donilon's views on afghanistan better than president obama and if in fact they remainen, donilon may be the man he wants to carry out the president's own policy. >> so it seems as if, if i'm hearing you correctly, maybe this is the best possible choice for president obama, put a guy in there who's anti-war, and who lays the groundwork for keeping this withdrawal on pace. >> well, exactly. and it con notes the national security advisor i think who is going to be very much a staff person, unlike his predecessor, general jones, substantial achievement. commandant of the marine corps, supreme allied commander in europe. somebody who can deal with the state department and pentagon as an equal. this is much more i think, a shadow of the president. >> reading the tea leaves, mr. ambassador, do we see the taliban starting to come to the table and a move to bring in the karzai government and the taliban sitting down for a possible peace agreement. is that the gunnibeginning of t ground work we're seeing for a withdrawal and president obama can wipe his hands clean of it, you kn

white house, last week, president obama replaced national security adviser with the deputy, dona a, tom donilon. what does this mean for the air force, and do you agree that date we focus on big power capabilities is needed? >> first of all, let me recognize jim and diane jones as being wonderful public servants over many, many decades. supreme allied commander in europe and then came out of retirement to do this job. he certainly did it well. the reality is, in my role, to train, equip, what the national security council deals with on a daily basis has relatively little effect on us in terms of that larger role. it certainly has a significant effect on how we employ, where we go, and so on it. so, i think, fundamentally, the change will be transparent. both are talented individuals, i know both of them well. the united states air force will fulfill its requirements and operate in ways that our civilian leadership mandates. >> this question is about military health care costs. whether military families and retirees should pay a greater share than states are paying right now to address the growi

tom donilon has just become -- is on his way to become national security adviser. i wrote a piece saying that one characteristic icy in this administration, -- insisted administration is how the white house is competing with other branches of the government that it ought to actually be running. the pentagon actually works for the white house, but the staff often feels like it is competing with strategists. i am wondering, from a congressional perspective, how do you see your branch store route -- surviving, or not doing well? >> your kind enough to refer to me in a hyperbolic fashion. congressman, thank you for your frankness, your directness, and willingness to let most of it hang out, if i could use that perverse the expression. mine is a companion question, when that you perhaps for good reasons steered away from. we are depressed that bipartisanship is an on known science and a forgotten history, appeared in particular. what could be done to resurrect it, or are we in the hopeless process of having partisanship be the watchword for the eternal future? >> thank

jones is stepping down from that post and in his place, tom dawnline, currently the deputy national security adviser will get that top job. donilon was mentioned as a potential replacement to rahm emanuel but signaled to the president that he would rather not take that job in hopes of getting the national security job and he has. another shake up in the west wing. this national security team making some changes, but ones that were long expected. jones had something of a rocky tenure at the white house. he certainly sparred with the political side of the white house. some of the operatives that were left over from the campaign, so this was not unexpected. knew it would happen in the next couple months, but, indeed, is happening to take effect in a couple weeks. the president will make the announcement later today. chris? >> thanks very much, savannah. of course, it comes on the heels of a number of shakeups in the president's cabinet, including many of them, many of the advisors on the economic team and joining me now live from the white house is austin goolsby. thank you very much for being with us g morning. >> thank you for hav