carlucci. and this release is near and dear to our hearts here at the reagan institute because. kristen's father, secretary carlucci, had an outsize impact on the reagan administration serving in a variety of roles both terms. now, before serving in the reagan administration, frank carlucci enjoyed, an illustrious and diverse career in the foreign service in cold war hotspots, really across the globe in the 1960s, he was a political and a nixon and foreign ministrations he was ambassador to portugal during a particularly tumultuous of time he was deputy of the central intelligence agency during their careers and. he was caspar weinberger is reagan's first secretary of defense his deputy the department of defense during the first term and then served president reagan's national security advisor and then secretary of defense in the second term resume unlike pretty much anyone else, few could compare what secretary carlucci did during those years of government service. now, secretary carlucci is r

-- fran carlucci?uest: that discussion is one of the major reasons i wrote this book is because i feel strongly that his life is one that we should think about and remember and aspire to try to live out in some ways, even in in washington that is not conducive to it. >> questions from the audience. the gentleman in the back over here. please wait for the microphone and make it a question, please. less commentary. thank you. >> numerous successes and challenges your father faced, is there any particular challenge that stands out above them all in the memoir and in your life that you can think of was really the most challenging? >> most challenging. i don't know if he had one particular event that was the most challenging for him. i would say, i mean, if you ask me what would probably have been the most challenging for him, it is probably his earlier years in the foreign service. if you read the book, i mean, it sounds like they dropped him into the most conflict ridden zones in the world at the time and

power panel deroy murdock, fox news contributor and david carlucci former democratic new york state senatorll come to you first. this is really easy to program against as republicans because this is nuts. >> completely crazy. the democrats are in a situation where they are defending things that can't be defended. 47,000 for transgender opera in columbia. 50 million for condoms in gaza. can't they buy their own? you have this massive mine in pennsylvania with all these paperwork time. >> harris: my team is asking me. the gaza information was a mistake. elon musk has admitted that. >> many other examples. then inefficiency like the mine in pennsylvania that has all this paperwork for retirement. people down there as if it were the truman era. filling out paperwork with pencil and paper. no website, no computers. it is ridiculous. sensible for democrats to look, let's kill those things but these other programs are important. let's protect these programs and on a bipartisan basis will oppose it. they say f trump. engage in profanity and want to shut the whole thing done and puts them in an inde