gabriel was the one who told him to call bege n. you got to sell to the american people and sell it to congress, and that's a constraint on what you want to do and need to do. the tea party want cut the defense budget so i think the political people need to take that into account when they're formulating a defense budget. >> kevin gates was a hold over from the george w. bush administration. will these revelations kee make someone think twice about keeping someone on from a previous party? >> no, i don't think so. everyone knew he was going to put this book out while he still had a chance to perhaps influence the second term and not wait three years until obama leaves, or 30 or 50 whatever. i think something is going on right now where politics in washington does not understand or much less care about national security, vice versa, i think it's concerning. we were trying to cover this a little more in defense one. this goes to what the sense he's trying to say. the lyon panetta had the same frustrations and i think chuck layingel i hage