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morley safer and bob schieffer. one of walter cronkite's army of producers who would go on to fame in her own right. susan zarinski holding in her hand one of the cronkite pieces of history that happened to be american history. >>> he was the calm voice of the news. on this occasion a voice that moved the nation's center of gravity. >> if the communist intention was to take and seize the cities they came closer here than anywhere else. now three weeks after the offensive began the firing still goes on. tonight back in more familiar surroundings in new york we would like to sum up our findings in vietnam, an analysis that must be speculative, personal, subjective. who wont and who lost in the great tet offensive? i'm not sure. the vietcong did not win by a knock out but neither did we. the referees of history may make it a draw. >> mr. cronkite died tonight at the age of 92. we are joined by the people who knew him and worked with him. susan zarinski was a producer for mr. cronkite. susan, your thoughts on this sad n

bob schieffer is off this morning.joining us now chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullen. thank you for being with us. i want to ask you first about afghanistan. there are new operations and they're testing the u.s. counterinsurgency strategy. can you give us a progress report. >> i'm comfortable with the strategy. we've had launched an operation earlier this week. the first significant one. what's most important is that i think we know how to do counterinsurgency. we've done that. this is very focused on providing security for the afghan people. but in the south, this is where the... we expect the toughest fighting. it's already started out to be pretty tough. we've made some advances early. but i suspect it will be tough for a while. and again we have enough forces there now not just to clear an area but to hold it. so we can build after. that's really the strategy. >> i want to ask you about the number of forces you say you're comfortable with the strategy. there was a report in "washington post" a

bob schieffer in washington. bob, thank you. good to talk to you. president obama made another nomination today. he chose regina benjamin, a 51- year-old doctor from alabama, to be the next surgeon general. benjamin has devoted her practice to caring for the poor, including many immigrants from southeast asia. she's been a leader in the fight to make sure everyone has access to good health care. in other news tonight, former vice president dick cheney finds himself in a familiar situation: in the middle of controversy. it involves a secret c.i.a. operation to wipe out al qaeda's brain trust following 9/11. the problem is, congressional leaders were never told about it and tonight nancy cordes reports some of them say it's time the full story came out. >> reporter: the c.i.a. never briefed congress on a sensitive counterterrorism plan because former vice president dick cheney told the c.i.a. not to. that's what democrats say c.i.a. director leon panetta told them when he met with intelligence committee members last month right after he learned about

let me thank you very much, bernie, susan, don on the phone, bob schieffer earlier. coming up, connie chung will join the discussion. walter cronkite in 1970 bidding farewell on the last night of one of his competitors over at nbc, chad huntley. >> he leads the daily broadcast scene, a giant departs the stage for journalism and ourselves. we hate to see him go. but that's the way it is friday, july 311, 1970. >> good-bye and good luck, walter. >> cbs evening news with walter cronkite. >>> tonight, this broadcast originates from outside the united states for the first time. this wall was begun 2300 years ago. a weeklong meeting in the kremlin with leaders of the only nation whose power rivals that of the united states. >> joining us now as we continue to talk about the impact and legacy of walter cronkite, from state line, nevada, connie chung, former co-anchor of the "cbs evening news" and a correspondent for walter cronkite. in new york, a former executive producer of the "cbs evening news" with walter cronkite, and here in washington, daniel shore, former cbs news

bob schieffer. bob, thank you so much. and by the way, bob's guest this sunday on "face the nation" will be david axelrod, senior advisor to president obama. turning to the economy now, state budgets have really taken a hit in this recession, especially california. tonight, lawmakers there approved a plan to close a $26 billion budget gap. this ends a very strange week that saw governor arnold schwarzenegger wielding a knife in a twitter video while asking for ideas on what to cut. the final agreement calls for drastic cuts in everything from education spending to highway maintenance. from cbsmoneywatch.com tonight, as many as five million workers just got a raise. the federal minimum wage went up 70 cents today to $7.25 an hour. backers of the increase say it was long overdue, but some economists say many businesses simply can't afford it and will end up cutting jobs. still ahead here on the "cbs evening news," the powerful and dangerous drug that may have killed michael jackson. more and more health care workers are beco

and now from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. senator leahy, the chairman of the judiciary committee and the committee's ranking republican senator jeff sessions are in the studio with us this morning. we invited them here, of course, to preview the hearings that open tomorrow on the nomination of sonia sotomayor to the supreme court. an will get to that. but first gentlemen to the top of the news. two big stories this morning. one in the "new york times" that says vice president cheney ordered the c.i.a. not to tell congress about certain still secret programs. that would be against the law. and that the administration is now considering appointing a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture during the previous administration. attorney general eric holder, now said to be leaning toward doing that, even though president obama has said he didn't want to go there, that he wanted to look forward not backward. let's start with you, senator leahy. what about this? should a special prosecutor be appointed? >> i've always

i have interviewed people you have had on your show this evening like people like bob schieffer and bob plant. they all talked about how tough walter cronkite was. he ran the cbs show there when you had roger mudd, schieffer, daniel shore doing investigative work and robert perpoint. it was quite a group around cbs and cronkite was the orchestra leader, duke ellington type of figure with all these figures. cronkite loved print reporting and he believed that cbs news television in that era was as fine as any newspaper because people that worked for him had to do the digging and had to read the wires. so i think what people remember about cronkite's voice is for one thing his street voice was the same as his tv voice. it wasn't an act. that was walter cronkite. secondly, when he said something like, named a soldier's name, let's say bob jones died. the way he would say that, you didn't need to have flourishes. you didn't need a lot of language. that's one of the things to me that comes through when you read his speeches, notes letters, his succinctness of language. both on the air and off

and now from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. well obviously when he said what he said in the news conference he later came to realize that on reflection that maybe that was not the way to go but i was just wondering was with there any particular incident the next day that made him realize that i need to get this straightened out? >> no, but i think that he certainly is, you know, aware of -- he reads widely, he, you know, gets summaries of coverage, he seize some coverage, i think he understood that the debate was veering off in the wrong direction and as he said, that his words may have contributed to that so he felt a responsibility to step forward and kind of cool the situation and acknowledge the fact that he had, he calibrated his words poorly and had contributed to that. so that is what he did and i think it has had the desired effect. i think people are talking more constructively now and i think the steam has gone out of this and instead of hat being generated maybe a little light will be generated off of this situation.

i'm with you and bob schieffer. we'll never see his kind again. i'm sitting here thinking that this is a man who broke tradition once as an impartial journalist, and he came back from vietnam and determined with all he could muster that we couldn't win the war. that's when lbj unwittingly wrote walter's epitaph, if i'm lost walter, i've lost middle america, because walter was us. he was a part of us, and he got us, speaking for so-called middle americans. these days you can wake up and there's already a cable network that agrees with you and you can watch it all day in total agreement with its -- its political bent, and it's hard to conjure up the past where there were just three choices on television. and at his height, he addressed the nation. he didn't just anchor the "evening news," he addressed the nation. he had a tear in his eye, twice in his career. and, again, fast-forward to today, we've got some hosts on television who cry twice a day easily. and it's just times have changed so, so much. and we -- we loved him as a country, the model wa

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. >> morley, another member of walter's a-team is bob schieffer, of course. he joins us on the phone -- he joins us live from california this morning. bob, you once said that you wanted to be walter when you grew up. why? >> i still do. walter, when i was a young reporter, walter was my idol. he was who i wanted to be when i grew up. and, you know, when i got the chance to come to work at cbs news and come into the great washington bureau, i was just beyond myself. i thought it would never get any better than that. and the fact of the matter is it never did. working for walter cronkite was one of the great honors of my life. walter loved the news. and people understd that. nothing got him -- he had this great respect for the news. and the people who covered it and also the people who made it. and it was just to be a part of that team and be with walter, i mean, it is something that i'll take -- i never got over it. this is someone we'll never see his likes again. he was a great mentor to me. he was the major influence on journalism in the 20th century. you kno

we hear from bob schieffer. this is humiliating. stand still so we can get an accurate reading. okay...um...eighteen pounds and a smidge. a smidge? y'know, there's really no need to weigh packages under 70 pounds. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service, if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. cool. you know this scale is off by a good 7, 8 pounds. maybe five. priority mail flat rate boxes only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship. >>> well, they will hold a private funeral service for walter cronkite in new york city on thursday and after that he will be buried next to his wife in his home state of missouri. the longtime cbs news anchor died friday at the age of 92. former colleagues say that he was much more than a news reader. >> of course, he was a reporter because he had been there, harry. everybody knew walter didn't get that suntan from the studio lights. he got it from being out on the scene of story after story after story. and that's why you like to work for walter. walter knew that the news didn't come in over the

we'll ask bob schieffer what the president must do to turn things around. >>> and new reports of a $4 million deal to keep debbie rowe from fighting for michael jackson's children "early" this tuesday morning, july 14th, 2009. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. welcome to "the early show." i'm julie chen along with harry smith. maggie rodriguez is on assignment. >> good morning, julie. >> ahead this morning, we'll talk to two of amanda knox's sisters. they're in italy, and they just visited with amanda this morning at the jail where she's being held in the murder of her roommate. we'll tell you what amanda had to say to them. >>> also coming up this morning, kids heading off to day camp today. maybe your kids are away at camp this summer. what about the h1n1 virus? what about the swine flu? how is this going to affect them, and how much should you be worried about it? we'll tell you more about that in just a little bit. >>> but first, southwest airlines is inspecting all of its boeing 737 jets after one had to make an emergency landing last night because of a hole in its fusel

walter called the washington bureau after the evening news for bob schieffer or roger mud, i mean, people were nervous, people got scared. >> there were things known as ww's, walter wants and you had to go get those quick. >> walter want was very simple, one, i want to know x or, two, you have got this fact but prove to me that it is correct. >> if walter wanted a story he got it, it was going to be done on his timetable and it was going to be done to his exacting specifications. >> what i learned from walter cronkite that i still live with today is his sense of competitiveness. walter did not like to get beat on anything. >> he didn't like losing on the tennis court anymore than he liked losing on a news story. >> a few weeks after i was there we were beaten on a story and uncle walter walked into the fishbowl and ripped up apart. how could we miss it? how did we get it wrong? and furthermore, we are going to get it right for the next feed. >> i did see him explode one night after a broadcast when there had been a question about whether we had gotten something right about president nixon

bob schieffer, he's the host on sunday morning of "face the nation." he's a longtime correspondent. bob, you worked with walter during all the times we talked about. the civil rights era, the vietnam war, the kennedy assassination. help us understand, help the country understand tonet, what we've lost. >> well, i did work for walter for a long time. and i'll tell you, john, walter was who i wanted to be when i was a young reporter. and a lot of young reporters did. he really set the standard. and the thing i always tried to stress to people about walter is that walter was off camera exactly the way he was on camera. he was exactly the same person. and so many times we meet people, you know, that movie stars or tv people we see, and we're always so disappointed because they turn out to be totally different when you meet them in person than when you see them in the role they play on television. walter was a reporter. he was a reporter's reporter. he loved the news. and he had -- he had the kind of curiosity and enthusiasm for the news that i don't think anyone could match. i told someb

on face the nation this morning bob schieffer asked presidential advisor david axelrod whether where mr. obama stands on that invitation. >> he did get assurances from both of them that they do want to meet and kind of talk this out. >> they expressed an interest in coming -- in coming to the white house. and -- and, you know, i think that -- that will likely happen. >> mitchell: secretary of state hillary clinton meets with china's foreign minister this week in washington. continuing what has been a busy time for the state department. kimberlie dozier has more now on the obama administration's globe-trotting summer. >> reporter: if you think this administration is stuck on the domestic u.s. agenda, hillary clinton would degg to -- beg to differ. >> the united states is back and ready to read. >> reporter: she racked up 100,000 air miles in the first six months as secretary of state touring from germany to india des pit a brief pause after breaking her elbow in june. last week on a visit to asia she issued a tough warning to north korea after its multiple missile launches and nuclear

the thing i was surprised though, no bob schieffer. who is a bigger country star than bob?i think -- i may be wrong -- >> cheered at the grand ole opry with brad. >> i think paisley and alison krauss opened for bob schieffer and we were only aloud 15 secon seconds of bob's performance. >> do you realize you two are dressed almost exactly the same? >> just one wall between our offices. let's welcome to the weather wall and see what's going on. check out the scene. it looks like if you're in the ohio valley, tennessee valley, deep south, you'll see thunderstorm activity. looks like we'll see instability return to the northeast later. today should be a pretty decent day. if you hear that line, oh, the heat in the southwest is just dry but it's bearable, not right now. why? we have moisture coming up from mexico, which is making that unpleasant. get out the pool gear in the pacific northwest. still very, very warm temperatures, everybody. again, this instability driving up to the northeast is coming up from the bahamas. keep in mind the next 24 hours, you'll have a little break

. >> cbs news chief washington correspondent and host of "face the nation," bob schieffer, joins us nowss walter cronkite. good morning, bob. >> good morning, julie. >> what was he like as a boss? what was he like to work for? >> he was great. he was a very good editor. walter could always think of the question to ask you that you had had forgotten to ask. on those rare occasions when you had the answer to that question, you just felt so good about it. i was just in awe of walter. he was what i wanted to be when i was a little boy growing up to be a reporter, and then when i went to work for him, it was a great honor to be a hart of his team. i go back and look at the tapes of myself in those early days, and it was clear i was trying to sound like walter cronkite. i finally got over that, of course. it was -- it's indescribable how it was to walk into this newsroom at cbs and discover you were on the team that had this great leader, which is something i'd wanted to do it all my life. when i got here, it just doesn't get any better than that. >> cronkite has had so many memorable moments

i think we're just at the beginning of this debate on health care, not at the end. >> bob schieffer, thanks very much. no lone star or liner batch as the beer summit tonight. take care. >>> russ mitchell. is he here this morning? >> he is indeed. >> good morning. a miraculous discovery and horrific crime. a baby cut from his slain mother's womb has been found alive. a suspect who knew the mother is under arrest. terrell brown joins us now with details. >> reporter: the baby looks to be in good condition this morning. right now she's being evaluated at a new hampshire hospital. >> we wanted that child -- this was the best case scenario out of this tragedy, that we have the child and it appears to be healthy. >> reporter: the baby's mother was last seen a week ago. it's not clear when she was killed. monday her mutilated body was discovered in a closet. it was in her home in worcester, massachusetts. it wasn't until tuesday that the medical examiner realized the mother of three had been eight months pregnant. it was the strange behavior of julie cory that led to a break in the case. co

. >>> also following the beer summit this morning, cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. what do you make of all of this? >> well the president hopes this is going to be a teachable moment and i think the teachable moment here is it underlines what happens when someone says something they didn't mean to say, and they step back and say, you know, i probably shouldn't have said that which is what the president did. i mean what you had, you had a scholar who popped off when he shouldn't have. you have a policeman who let it get under his skin when he shouldn't have. and then the president stepped out and talked about it, you know, before he got all the facts. just look what happened though after the president said i probably shouldn't have done that. how many car wrecks and shootings and how many marriages might have been saved if one of the people involved had just said you know i didn't mean to say what i said, and hei shouldn't have. i think he took all of the air out of it. i think at the white house today is anticli mattic. the fact the president arranged this, that's

. >> announcer: "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> they both expressed interest.xpect that it will happen. i think the president sees this as an opportunity to get dialogue going on an issue that's had historic -- that's been historically troubling and one he's worked on and they both seem very eager to move forward. so i expect it will. >> but i was just wondering, was there any particular incident the next day that made him realize that i need to get this straightened out? >> no, but i think, bob, he certainly is a -- he's aware of -- he reads widely, he, you know, gets summaries of coverage, he see being some coverage. i think he understood that the debate was veering off in the wrong direction and as he said that his words may have contributed to that so he felt a responsibility to step forward and kind of cool the situation down and acknowledge the fact that he had, as he said, calibrated his word poorly and had contributed to that. that's what he did and i think it's had the desired fect. i think people are talking more constructively now. i think the steam

bureau is, of course, bob schieffer. bob, the president tried to answer the question he said many americans have right now, what's in it for me? do you think he was persuasive and reassuring enough tonight? >> schieffer: well, the president put hit in the starkest terms he's put it yet. he said if we don't get this it's going to be put everybody's health care in danger whether you have health insurance or not and it's going to bankrupt, it's going to wreck the federal budget. he tried to argue that we have no choice but to do this, but what the president's really trying to do here, i think, katie, is take control of something that he had kind of farmed out to congress. he told congress to come up with health care... a health care reform plan that met his goals for reform. and so far, they haven't done it. they're still mired in debate and the fact that they're not close to an agreement yet is... we just saw it, he had to call a news conference tonight to try to gain control of this. now, maybe he can do it, maybe he can't

. >> bob schieffer, what are you reading this summer? >> well i just finished a book called bacon ridge about the great oil fortunes that were made in texas and it's by a writer named bryan burrough for "vanity fair." he is an absolutely terrific book. the best book i have read this summer, and one of the best books i have read since i don't know when is called the help which is a novel by a young writer called kathryn stockett, and it is the story of two black maids and a young white woman who live in jackson mississippi in 1963, and it tells more about the relations between blacks and whites with what was going on in the south, that was the year james meredith was enrolled at the university of mississippi, that was the first big story that i had covered. this is a wonderful book, and i just recommend it to everyone. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information, visit our web site at booktv.org. >>> guy sormon argues it would be a dangerous reaction to recent events. he states free market capitalism has lifted almos

marvin kalb at the state department and covering the war in vietnam morely safer, bernard kalb, bob schiefferthese were the names, very famous correspondents in their own right, and then eric sevareid's analysis, and then one of the reasons he was never attacked, sevareid was never attacked during the nixon administration was that the people in the nixon white house thought sevareid looked a little like what god looked like, so it was quite a team they put behind cronkite, and cronkite was open to all of that, liked reporters, honored correspondents, treated them well, and you could sense the rapport on the air, and it made for a very powerful combination. >> he is such a part of the fabric of america's last half century or so. i want to read a statement from former president george w. bush. his office released this statement upon the death of walter cronkite. he was an icon of american journalism who shaped his profession while he was on the air. tonight his family is in our thoughts and prayers." this is a guy who left college even before graduation, dropped out because he just had the bug,

marvin kalb at the state department and covering the war in vietnam morely safer, bernard kalb, bob schieffervery famous correspondents in their own right, and then eric sevareid's analysis, and then one of the reasons he was never attacked, sevareid was never attacked during the nixon administration was that the people in the nixon white house thought sevareid looked a little like what god looked like, so it was quite a team they put behind cronkite, and cronkite was open to all of that, liked reporters, honored correspondents, treated them well, and you could sense the rapport on the air, and it made for a very powerful combination. >> he is such a part of the fabric of america's last half century or so. i want to read a statement from former president george w. bush. his office released this statement upon the death of walter cronkite. he was an icon of american journalism who shaped his profession while he was on the air. tonight his family is in our thoughts and prayers." this is a guy who left college even before graduation, dropped out because he just had the bug, had the itch, and at

bernie shaw, conany chung, bob schieffer, the life and career of the legendary anchor walter cronkite passed away friday at age 92. >>> tuesday the senate judiciary committee will consider the nomination of sonia sotomayor to the supreme court. what did we really learn from the four days of intense questioning last week? did it get the coverage it deserved? howie will put those questions to reporters. >>> top of the hour the sound of sunday. as we do every week, best from all the morning sunday shows. cnn contributors bill bennett and donna brazile will help me analyze the sound that will become monday's headlines, all that on "state of the union." >>> as we do at this time, turn things over to

hatch and then on the back half of the show more remembrances of walter cronkite with john glenn, bob schiefferis storeian doug brinkley. >> mason: ahead now here on sunday morning. >> they didn't call walter the most trusteded man in america for thg.in >> mason: singing his praises. >> the headlines say it all. walter cronkite's death has touched millions of people both within the news business and without. many have spoken of their admiration for america's anchorman. we want to take a few minutes now to share some of their thoughts with you. beginning with president obama. >> in an industry of icons walter set the standard by which all others have been judged. he was there through wars and riots, marches and milestones, calmly telling us what we needed to know. >> good evening. >> couric: he was an anchor in every sense of the word. he kind of put things together, made sense of this crazy world around us. >> you've got to do your damnedest to give your very, very best. to prove to walter that you belonged as a correspondent for cbs news. >> from dallas, texas, the flash apparently official. p

there is bob schieffer walking and. -- walking in and. ]. trace: what an amazing event.we will bring you highlights of that. the actual memorial service should get underway in about 45 minutes. u.s. intelligence officials say that they are 85% certain that an american air strike killed osama bin laden's son saad. they cannot positively confirmed his death. we know that he is not the intended target of the strike. catherine herridge is following this live in washington, d.c. national intelligence is pretty sure that osama bin laden's son is dead. >> they are still seeking 1 under% confirmation, which would come through dna testing and other investigative methods. the intelligence community is still working through this process. they believe that he was collateral damage in one of these strikes. in other words, he was not significant enough to be considered the primary target. trace: why not just come out and say, we got him? >> if he is dead, it is a significant killed because he has toan important name. al qaeda has announced that martyrdom -- i understand that there mig

. >> announcer: ois nation the nation" with bob schieffer." >> what about this whole "dethat the viceeople are saying, i mean sources are saying this he told the cia not to tell the congress about it. that's a pretty serious charge. >> well, sources sources. >> but should that be looked into? >> i'm sure it will be. i will say sometimes leaked stories from unnamed sources don't turn out to be quite what they appear to be. maybe they don't know the full facts in some of these matters. some of the intelligence people are pushing back on those stories. i don't know what the facts are but i believe vice president cheney served his country with as much fidelity he could possibly give to it and he tried to serve news an effective way. i hope nothing like this would impact on his joud stanting record. >> so, senator, do you think we should leave that lay? >> i think it's impossible to leave it lay. it's either true or not true. i'd like to know if it's true or not. nobody in this country is above the law. if you don't like what a law says, get the law changed. but you can't have if you're vi

you see bob schieffer, co-anchor of "cbc evening news." he became the most trusted name in news. we'll check in on the funeral services to walter cronkite and listen to who is speaking there and bring it to you live. >>> well, there's new fighting in southern afghanistan where u.s. marines are facing off with taliban fighters. cnn's ivan watson is embedded with the marines in the battle-scarred helmand province. ivan joins me live now with an update, ivan? >> reporter: hi, kyra. yeah, we're in a town called kanmisin, it's the southern-most point that the marines have launched into since they launched an offensive in this province that was largely taliban controlled up until about three or four weeks ago. helmand province, considered the opium-producing capital of the world. they pushed toward the pakistani border. it's just about 70 miles away. we're actually staying within the grounds of at least 100-year-old afghan castle with mud-brick walls. it feels like you're going back in time here, and certainly when it comes to the amenities, you're going back in time. there's no electr

bob schieffer was around covering the pentagon. in the list went on. morton covered politics. and so on down the list. and at the beginning of the cbs evening news at night they would always tick off a list of correspondents that they have on hear that night, and then they would very frequently the attitude by the name of eric sever eyed for analysis. it was an extraordinary role of the behaviors that backed up this great anchorman. and it was a dominant force in the news for years and years. it wasn't just cronkite, it was cronkite backed up by a tremendous team. and he liked them, trusted them, encourage them, and you could sense on the air the report with the correspondence. >> clayton: he talked about his love of the wire service, working for united press international back in the day covering d-day, famously, and he has always been turned to in moments of change. people want his perspective on this change, this tipping point, and he was asked what he thought of twitter of all things, and he said he liked it, because it reminded him of his wire day

bob schieffer said that cronkite knew his stuff. >> walter knew that the news didn't come in over the wire service machine. that some reporter had to go out there, somebody had to climb up to the top of the city hall steeple to see how tall it was. somebody had to do that. walter knew how hard it was to get news, because he had been there. so when you walked four walter, he knew -- you knew that he appreciated what you had done to get the story. >> his chief of staff says kron kyl kite will be buried next to his late wife in missouri. cronkite was known as the most trusted man in america. he ended his newscast with his trademark signoff. >> and that's the way it is. >> walter cronkite was 92. >>> convicted dogfighter michael vick is a free man today, and here's ray with what is next for the former nfl star. we know what he wants to be next, right? >> vick has made no secret about his desire to return to his one lucrative nfl career. today he can take a step toward that when he can shed his electronic monitoring device. the next thing is a face-to-face meeting with nfl commissioner rog