i appreciate your service you are the unsung hero steve bechtel i have to take you for yours. [laughter] >> with the strategic tools of power, we generally go to military every time the hi steve neck every time there is in international prices. n speemac what can we do better? speemac but do engaged with people. nmuch f speemac thank you very much for your service. n speemac the diplomatic enclave start castles. n it is their security officers. n speemac speemac it is rented out. n and then there is a cultural center. n my mother came down the steps it says you should work there one day based in paris okay there is. i will be in paris in my office with a typewriter and i will write to the next great novel . n [laughter] n thank that is the itos and has a ben the romantic. n is your mother a friend of greta garbo? i laugh tracks -- ask her steven q. spoke earlier of strong whenators c dictators in it in that situation, i know there are other options with theallatn regime part of the wars often claim to be bringing democracy to this area, is there any realist in that or any of th

i appreciate your service you are the unsung hero steve bechtel i have to take you for yours. [laughter] >> with the strategic tools of power, we generally go to military every time the military steps up. we did well easing the economic power with iran so what can we do better diplomatically? to not engage for the leaders? >> thank you very much for your service. that was one of the most dangerous frigid is beautiful parts of afghanistan. where we ought there together with the vehicle broke down? >> i was not there for that but you utilized. >> we've also become a bit. [laughter] to which probably is not allowed but the akio. [laughter] civic i hope we return to that to you. but this is a problem with the eric his diplomacy is the u.s. continues to retreat and go deeper and deeper with those diplomatic enclaves. it is not the diplomats and that is a problem with losing contact so you lose the texture. so the former u.s. consulate the house is rented of for-profit so you can come in to take italian language class's with parties and festivals? this seems like every night. as the

the good fortune of the newspaper of the united states of america that is a great starting point steve bechtel has the post changed when you were there in the middle of it? >> we changed our strategy in the previous era was articulate all about washington with important national things as it is the capital of the country but we did not see ourselves as a national news organization truly but now our strategy is to become a true national news organization beebe international over time so that is the biggest change. how? because now we live in the digital era with an opportunity to reinvest ourselves and to reach many more people that we couldn't reach before we do have to deliver a newspaper to their doorstep or print piggyback on the press of other distempers rule the country they can read this on their website of the facebook or twitter or however they decide so we reinvented ourselves for a national origin audit -- audience in the technological age. >>cspan: will your membership go up in then all the digital? in your lifetime? >> i don't know my business life is another question. i am 61 so i