. >> bob gates, who in that photo was off to my left, bob gates was in that same room when desert one and so my first glance was at him. >> if this had failed in spectacular fashion, it would have blown up your presidency by all estimates, would have been your waterloo and perhaps your watergate consumed with hearings and inquiries. how trick did the specter of jimmy carter, desert one hang in the air here? >> i thought of it. i will tell you that there are moments in your presidency where you really do put politics aside. certainly we thought about the fact that if there was a failure here, it would have disastrous consequences for me politically. we knew the examples of the carter presidency, and we understood what happened there. but i tell you, the only thing that i was thinking about throughout this entire enterprise was, i really want to get those guys back home safe. >> as they watched the attack play out from the situation room, they could see the blackhawk pilot had managed a kind of controlled crash landing, but still that helicopter was the first casualty of the mission and

. >> rose: i am pleased to have bob gates back at this table. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: so what are you doing since you left government? >> well, i am working on a book, a mental with a of my time under presidents bush and obama as secretary of defense, and doing some speaking but staying as far from washington, d.c. as i can. >> rose: when you look at writing a book, i mean, how hard is that for you to take the time anand think of all of the events and make sure that you get it right as you recollect it? >> first i have given myself a little out at the beginning by saying this is a purely personal reminiscence of what i experienced and what i saw, i am not trying to write the defensive history and others will have a different perspective on things, but it was -- we were at war every day of the four and a half years i was in office, and as i write in the book it wasn't just the wars in iraq and afghanistan, it was daily wars with the congress, with other agencies, with the white house, and also i would say with my own building, wi

bob gates. all right, george. >>> don't miss george's interview with treasury secretary geithner. >>> now to the all-out search for a cancer patient in arizona, a young girl being taken out of the hospital by her parents. her doctors say that the girl could die if she's not found immediately. >> reporter: this morning, phoenix police still on the lookout for an 11-year-old cancer patient whose life may be in danger after her mother snatched her from the phoenix children's hospital wednesday without doctors knowing. >> yes i'm the health supervisor at phoenix children's hospital. >> okay. >> we have a patient that has gone missing. >> reporter: the entire scene caught on hospital surveillance cameras. the young girl follows her mother into a hospital bathroom where her mother takes out her iv. emily wearing different clothing and a wig while her father waits for the pair outside of the hospital and drives them away in a black minivan the family hasn't been seen since. >> it's danger for her to be

remember bob gates was a republican as well. were to be appointed, two of his three defense secretaries would be republicans. >> interesting fact, brianna keilar thank you. >>> john berman has a look at some other stories making news. >> we're learning more about 22-year-old jacob roberts, the sandwich shop clerk who killed two people and wounded a teenage per. an e girlfriend says roberts quit his job last week and said he was moving to hawaii. it's not clear why he decided to go on a shooting rampage instead before he committed suicide. >>> big questions this morning about that satellite north korea just lifted into the sky. could it be tumbling out of control? u.s. officials do not believe north korea has full control over the satellite that was carried aboard the long range rocket that was launched yesterday. this is video you're looking at right now from north korean tv claiming to be from the control room in north korea as the rocket blasted off. u.s. officials says grand control has yet to send a key signal which could in

we know that they had problems with the helicopter and bob gates said to me boy when he saw that. because he was down at the heart of it and he remembered that. he says, you know, is this -- >> he had actually part of why he was in favor of the bomb as opposed to the helicopter raid. he was afraid of that. >> rose: here's the professionalism again. they said mission continues. there was not a moment that they didn't say. they may have considered it but they were so professional and so well trained that they knew the mission was still open to success. >> well it hadn't been, it was a hard landing, so there were no casualties, and i think the guys got shook up pretty good. but ... like you said, they do assaults every night. >> rose: the two of you when you were making this movie look at each other and say we're making a movie about one of the great stories of our time. >> i don't think we'll get another one this good. >> kind of the story of a lifetime. >> the whole time. >> rose: this is the story of a lifetime and we've been given this opportunity because we were prepared to do i

secretary of defense job like bill clinton did with bill cohen and president obama already did once with bob gates. calling it the bizarre tradition of sorts where democratic presidents suddenly act like republicans are right, that only they, republicans, can run our national security affairs. so there is general criticism from the left that democrats should stop bolstering the myth that republicans are stronger on defense because they're republicans, and therefore, only republicans should run defense even when a democrat is president. but there is also this one very specific criticism of chuck hagel individually. it's not a general criticism. it's about his record. back when it was mr. hagel who had the power to confirm presidential nominees or deny them, back when he was a united states senator, mr. hagel stood in opposition to president clinton's nominee to be the ambassador to luxembourg, a man named james hormel. senator hagel explained at the time that he was oppose odd to the nomination because mr. hormel was guy. he said to his hometown paper that ambassadors, quote are, representing ameri

and that -- that would be replacing bob gates.uld have left senator john kerry out of luck because u.n. ambassador susan rice was in line for the state department post. and then this bombshell... >> good day. we're coming on the air right now to break exclusive word that the united states ambassador to the united nations ambassador susan rice, has transmitted word to the president of the united states that she is withdrawing her own name from any future consideration for nomination to become perhaps the next secretary of state. >> jennifer: wow! and then president obama in response to her letter, released a statement saying... >> jennifer: he is, of course, referring to the relentless attacks from republicans who suggested that she purposely misled the country about the benghazi attack that killed ambassador christopher stevens. joining me now is bill press. he's most of current tv's "full court press." he's author of "the obama hate machine." the lies, distortions and personal attacks on the president and who is behind them and h

bill gates, a very good secretary of defense, -- bob gates said to me you need quickly to cultivate and devote time to relationships because you realize you're in this together. >> completely agree. and i would say if anything the pendulum is coming back hardener that direction. >> rose: meaning what? >> meaning coming out of the crisis. i think there's less trust in general. >> rose: it's part of the job in washington. so you value relationship very much and so there are hundreds of c.e.o.s that i know who i can pick up the phone and they trust g.e. and they trust g.e. because they know me or my team and i think that's immensely valuable and i think in the end it's important that business leaders and politicians have a better sense of trust than maybe what we've had over the last five years and, again, those things never work unless you assume you're 50% of the problem. that's what you've got to -- >> rose: assume you're 50% of the problem? in other words -- >> i'm not blameless. >> there's two kinds of advice you can give. this is what i try to do. one is here's what under do and the

bob gates also, who had moved over to deputy national security advisers. that little group kind of delayed the process for six months because the people in state were ready to progress with what had been achieved at the end of the second reagan administration. but it really delayed things. the person who turned that around who also deserves a great deal of credit was jim baker. jim baker did a great job putting together kind of an interagency management, and different players, and spent a good deal of time, would arrive in moscow with an entourage, with the negotiators, jim woolsey from csc, the relative assistant secretary, broke them into working groups and continue the process raws participated in, there was a delay. i don't think there were any problems as a result. >> just wanted to say james baker was named secretary of state the day after george bush was selected. within a week he met with regional assistant secretaries to understand their priorities. my priorities were opportunities and challenges to include eastern europe and the soviet union, and

presented by congressman hunter said, no, he would stick with the decision made by his predecessor, bob gatesit, you're making this up. why is this award so important to the marine corps? >> well, the marine corps is by its nature a brotherhood. and the marines who were there believe they are alive today because of what he did. and that's indy adthat'sdivisib. they're not going to rest because of a pathologist report who did not see the body. indeed, a blue ribbon commission did look at this and say with the conflicting evidence, medal of honor was not appropriate. marines will not buy off on that, although i don't know what they can do. the larger issue is why have there been so few medals, ten, in this decade of role. 246 in vietnam. why are we so reluctant to acknowledge bravery. nobody seems to have an adequate answer to that. it's the sort of thing that makes the marines heart sick. >> tony perry, thank you. >>> the stars came out last night rocking all in the name of charity for sandy relief. we'll bring you more highlights. [ woman ] dear cat, your hair mixes with pollen and dust. i ge

we were able, bob gates before me begin that effort. we have added about $60 billion on top of that in terms of further efficiencies. we will continue to review where greater efficiencies can be achieved. i ask that question when i first became secretary. what is the role of the service secretary visa be the service chief? the reality is that there is an important role for them. they are civilians. civilians are involved in providing policy in their areas. the also have to negotiate a lot of the politics. so there is an important role for them to play in terms of their particular service. having said that, there are a lot of other places where we can achieve savings in the pentagon and we will. >> at the defense department deals with downsizing services, have you considered cuts to the number of flight in general officers? >> i think that is part and parcel. as you do force reduction, we will be reducing the structure and i think as that happens, they have to review not just the reductions in our troops but also the reductions in terms

secretary bob gates said it's imperiling our national security. is that theater? is the national debt an illusion? americans don't think so. and the day we'll start acting. we'll start acting and we'll do something else. we'll cut taxes. we'll preserve those tax cuts. except for those millionaires, peek making over $1 million, as mr. van hollen said, we're going to let those tax rates go back up. which is exactly nancy pelosi proposed. we're going to take your proposal. as mr. van hollen said, probably won't get one democratic vote for something that your leader proposed three months ago. that's political theater, mr. van hollen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from maryland. mr. van hollen: thank you, mr. speaker. i wish our outgoing chairman of financial services would check his facts. ms. pelosi, the democratic leader, did not make a tax proposal that would give people over $1 million a year, a $50,000 tax break, which is exactly what the republican plan would do, number one. number two, the proposal that the president p

bob gates also who had moved over your tuesday at the national security phaser.ple at state were ready to progress with what had been achieved at the end of the second reagan illustration. but it just really delete things. the person who turned that around and he also deserves a great deal of credit which baker. jim baker did a great job putting together an interagency management of this process and the different players and spent a good deal of time for a year and half for two years for the in moscow with the entourage, with the negotiations. from the start, jim woolsey, the relevant assistant secretaries broken into working groups and continued the process with chevron i see a gorbachev. but there was a delay. i don't think it set us back. i don't think there are any problems as a result of that. >> i'm going to say that james baker was named secretary of state the day after george bush was elected. within a week he met with regional assistant secretary to understand their priorities. it's only my priorities for the opportunity challenges to his soviet union. i

. >> you know, bob gates was a republican too and he served as secretary of defense, ari.cain here and he said he's going to wait and see if he's nominated, he'll give him a shot see what he has to say during the confirmation process. but what you're saying is he's totally unacceptable even though i interviewed him myself. he's a very, very smart guy. >> wolf, i'm rising above party. to me this isn't the question of what party does somebody belong to? if president obama wants to appoint a democrat that's fine. but he should appoint somebody with a good record. i'm making nothing up. you know, hilary didn't refute anything i said. every fact i stated was chuck hagel's record. and it's a record that democrats raised when chuck hagel was thinking of running for president, i got all those facts, many of them from a democratic organization that decided why hagel wasn't even qualified to run for president. so my position -- hold on, hilary, my opposition is principled and based on the things that senator hagel has voted for and the troubling things he has said. >> he has said re

we were able -- bob gates before me begin that effort, achieved about, i believe about $150 billion in savings. we've added about 60 to 70 billion on top of that, in terms of further efficiencies. we'll continue to review where greater efficiencies can be achieved. right now, and i asked, i asked that question when he first became secretary. you know, what is the role of the service secretary, vis-À-vis the service chief? and the reality is that there is an important role for them because they are civilians. civilians are involved in providing policy in their areas. they also have to negotiate a lot of the politics of capitol hill. so there is an important role for them to play in terms of their particular service. but having said that, there are a hell of a lot of other places where we can achieve savings in the pentagon, and we will. >> as the defense department deals with the downsizing the services, have you considered cuts to the number of flag and general officers? >> you know, again i think, i think that's part and parcel of, as you do force reduction, and as i said we are going

i think whether it's been leon panetta, bob gates, admiral mullen, the constant focus on economic feminism, i don't know canada's net position with china, but it does raise this fundamental question of whether american debt is an asset or a liability. you know, the conference in dallas yesterday were recently, where someone made a comment that an american source of power to every different in the past that it defies the pentagon and the size american debt that we're too big to fail. deadhorse lake bigger problem than us. i be interested when you're anything about policy do you look at that as a source of leverage or does it strain american options tremendous a? >> steve, very simply, the u.s. situation with respect to our deficit and debt is a national security liability. we need our senior leadership. we need a senior leadership to take it on. we have an opportunity to do so. we have a requirement to do so. at the foundation of national power is ultimately economic comment and in terms of global influence, in terms of the ability to support a military, the economic is foundation. and we h

secretary of state, hillary clinton, defense secretary bob gates.u didn't have your commerce secretary, your energy secretary. so he relied on sort of the people just around him. i think this administration and the president should do a better job of getting his cabinet out there, because, frankly, most americans don't even know who the rest of the cabinet members are. >> finer point on it, roland. do you think the president is sending a message that he won't fight for his nominees? >> well, i think what he's doing is, he's picking and choosing his battles, but he needs to understand, the last four years, republicans fought him on everything. he should send the signal, i'm not going to play the games we played the last four years. i'm going to be very aggressive, and if you want to deny me my choice, then you should vote that person down. he should have put her forward, and look, if he wants former senator chuck hagel, put him forward as well, and tell the senate, i dare you to do it. >> alice, that brings up an interesting point. tom friedman wrote

but the other point i want to make is she was lashed together with bob gates when he was the secretaryfense. he's the one who said the state department needs more money. and i think going forward, there is a disturbing pattern of putting people out there and letting them be target practice. the president has the right to nominate who he chooses. he should frame the debate about these people. they're subject to a confirmation process. people can oppose him, but he is going to, it seems to me, if this continues, make good people not want to participate. >> but the trial balloons come from the white house where they say oh, let's put this name out there. >> that's what's wrong. >> you know, kind of let them twist in the wind slowly and see how the target practice -- >> that's wrong. >> develops and whether it's effective. >> it's demoralizing. >> you have to say this is what we're going to do, and this is where we're going, and there's a hesitancy to do that. >> mark halperin has a question for dr. brzezinski. mark? >> doctor, no what matter who ends up at state and defense, it's clear th

bob gates, who had moved over as deputy national security advisor, that little group kind of delayedrocess, i would say, for about six months. because the people at state, i think, were ready to progress with what had been achieved at the end of the second reagan administration. but just really delayed things. and the person who turned that around and he also deserves great deal of credit, was jim baker. jim baker did a great job putting together an inner-agency management of this process and the different players and spent a good deal of time, i would say for a year and a half or two years, would arrive in moscow with an untragedy -- entourage with the negotiators. the relevant assistant secretaries, broke them into working groups and i think continued that process that roz participated in with the russians. but there was a delay. but i don't think it set us back. i don't think there were any problems as a result of that process. >> thank you. >> i was going to say james baker was named secretary of state the day after george bush was elected. within a week he met with the regional

bob gates also, who moved over to national security. that little group kind of delayed the process i would say for about six months. the people let state i think were ready to kind of progress, you know, with what had been achieved toward the end of the second reagan administration. but it just really delayed things, because the person who turned that around, and he also deserves a great deal of credit, was jim baker. jim baker did a great job putting together kind of an inter-agency management for this process and the different players and he spent a good deal of time, i would say a year and a half or two years, arrived in moscow with an entourage with the negotiators from cfd of the relevant assistant secretaries. broke them into working groups and i think that process that ros participated in with schivinovski and gorbachev but there was a delay and i don't think it set us back. i don't think there were any problems as a result of that. >> thank you. >> i was just going to say that james baker was named secretary of state the day aft

we were able, bob gates before me begin that effort. we have added about $60 billion on top of that in terms of further efficiencies. we will continue to review where greater efficiencies can be achieved. i ask that question when i first became secretary. what is the role of the service secretary visa be the service chief? the reality is that there is an important role for them. they are civilians. civilians are involved in providing policy in their areas. the also have to negotiate a lot of the politics. so there is an important role for them to play in terms of their particular service. having said that, there are a lot of other places where we can achieve savings in the pentagon and we will. >> at the defense department deals with downsizing services, have you considered cuts to the number of flight in general officers? >> i think that is part and parcel. as you do force reduction, we will be reducing the structure and i think as that happens, they have to review not just the reductions in our troops but also the reductions in terms

secretary bob gates said it is in the international security. is that theater? is the national debt and illusion? americans do not think so. today we will start acting. we will start acting and we will do something else -- we will cut taxes. we will defer the tax cut. except for the millionaires, those making over $1 million. we will let those tax rates go back up, which is exactly what nancy pelosi proposed. we will take her proposal. and mr. van hollen says it will not give one a democratic road or something -- for something your leader proposed three months ago. that as political theater, mr. van hollen. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i wish the outgoing chairman of financial services well. this policy did not make the tax proposal that would -- nancy pelosi did not have a tax proposal that would give people earning over $1 million in tax break. no. 2, the proposal the president has put on the table has trillions of dollars of cuts, which is more than in the cuts on the table and would deal with the sequestered. the republican proposal will increase the likelihoo

>> pam kahanic began working at lymon in 1998, the same year she married her husband, bob kahanic, the prison's gateager supervisor. >> we first met in 1994 and got married in may of 1998. pam works in the garment factory. she is on the other side of the facility from where i'm at. every now and then i'll go over there during my lunch hour and we'll have a little lunch break together. >> but on september 12th, 2007 bob had to attend a meeting about 100 miles from the prison. >> well, it was about 3:00. and we were going to shut down at 3:30. so i had my paperwork. and i thought, well, i'll run it over here real quick and get ready for the next day. >> as kahanic made her way through the nearly empty factory, an off-duty inmate shipping clerk appeared at the door. >> he was an inmate that everybody trusted. which i know you shouldn't trust any of them, but you have to trust them to a certain point because you're working with them every day. >> the inmate said he needed to get something from one of the sewing stations. >> this was the machine. and i reached down and opened the drawer just like this an

bob, and he has kindly agreed to tell me everything i need to know about casting. i'm going to suit up and next, we're in the water. >> what any gentleman should do. golden gate angling has free lessons the second saturday of every month. we have equipment show up on the 9:30 on the second saturday of every month and we'll teach them to fly cast. >> ok. we are in the water. >> let me acquaint you with the fly rod. >> nice to meet you. >> this is the lower grip and the upper grip. this is a reel and a fly line. we are going to use the flex of this rod to fling away. exactly as you moved your hands. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> i'm a natural. >> push both arms forward and snap the lower hand into your tummy. push forward. >> i did gave it a try and had great time but i might need some more practice. i met someone else with real fly casting skills. her name is donna and she is an international fly casting champion. >> i have competed in the casting ponds in golden gate park in san francisco. i have been to japan and norway for fly casting competition. i spend my weekends here at the club and at the casting pond. it's a great place to learn and have fun. on a s