now is the playwright lucas nate, director sam gold, and two of the stars, laurie metcalf and chris cooperleased to have all of them here at this table. welcome, welcome, welcome. lucas, let me begin with you. did you long think about what was going to happen here and over the aftermath of what happened to the character? lucas: yeah. i have always loved the play. i had seen it in many productions. the first thing that came to me was the title. i thought it was an audacious title for a play, "a doll's house, part two." it was not until i started writing it that i had to get serious and get past the joke of the title and really consider what does it mean to revisit the story. charlie: what do you think ibsen intended, for people to think about it and speculate about it? lucas: yeah. i think so. maybe in some ways what i did went against his intentions. i think he wanted that door to slam and us to consider the meaning of nora leaving. but, you know, over 100 years later, i think it is time to revisit that story and think about what does it mean that she left and what would it mean to return

joining me is the playwright lucas hnath, director sam gold and two of it's stars laurie metcalf and chris cooper who lay plays torvald. please to have all of them at this table. welcome, welcome. let me begin lucas with you. did you long think about what in the world was going to happen here and over the aftermath of what happened to the character? >> yeah, i mean, i have always loved the play. and i had seen it many productions. and i mean the first thing that came to me was the title. i just thought that was an audacious title for a play, "a doll's house, part 2" and it wasn't until i started writing it that i had to really get serious and past the joke of the title and really consider what does it mean to revisit the story. >> rose: what do you think ibsen intended? >> i think-- . >> rose: people to think about it and speculate about it for all the years after. >> i think so. maybe in some ways what i did goes against his intention. i think he wanted that door to slam and us to sort of consider the meaning of nora leaving. and plu you know, over a hundred years later, i think it's time to sor

john berman here in miami, chris cuomo in naples, anderson cooper up in tampa, cnn literally wrappingound the florida peninsula, delivering all kinds of misery in its path. the wind kicking up, the rains really coming down, and we did just get a piece of breaking news. city officials confirm to us now that a crain did crack in downtown miami. we're working to get picture for you of that. more than 20 cranes here in miami up there at risk so those cranes were left up. one has now cracked. it was a building under construction. no word yet if anyone is hurt, but people were told to leave buildings near cranes as storms got closer. we'll give you much more on that. in the meantime, congressman charlie crist joins me now by phone. as florida has ever seen, what are you seeing right now where you were? thank you first for your excellent coverage. i'm in downtown petersburg. we're seeing decent wind, not terrible. we nose there's more to come. >> what we're getting here in miami, you will potential get much worse. >> mow do you think the ampa bay area will be able to handle that? >> a storm

chris. we appreciate your cooperation and that from folks all around the country. in fact, the world. the keys are a special place. and we're fwlad that everybody is going to help us get back to t. >> be well. heather carruthers, monroe county, one of the leaders that will help this place get back on its feet. in charge of emergency management here in florida. he understands their capabilities and what they faced in the past. big dave, i've got to tell you, the density, the frequency of the damage is awesome down here. and i don't mean that in the way the kids use that word. i mean, it inspires awe. i cannot believe how much of the place was crushed by this storm. i haven't seen anything like it anywhere else in the state. now, we are at ground zero. this is where that eye first hit cudjoe key. this was the biggest sustained winds in naples. where we were before this, we saw that one big gust. that's just the headline, sticker shock. this is the reality down here. i can't believe people will be able to live here in a sustainable way any time soon. >> such a reality check there in the

if it wanted to be seen as being on the right side of history it needed to cooperate with congress. >> chrisressure facebook was probably feeling? >> yeah. and two things. one, dylan is right, the second these ads arrive in congress the next second some of them will be forwarded to reporters. so that reporters can see them. yeah, i mean i think facebook thought they could simply say well, we're just a conduit here. we didn't -- these are automated ads. we didn't have anything to do with it. the problem is we're talking about a foreign entity meddling actively in american presidential election using their technology and so they don't really get to get a pass. donald trump in his twitter feed tries to give them a pass. now they're talking about facebook. this is not a hoax. you can believe if you like donald trump colluded or didn't collude, people in his campaign colluded or didn't collude, we don't have evidence of collusion, but no one can deny that russians sought to interfere in this election using facebook and lots of other means. the fbi, the cia, the nsa, the former director of nationa

chris has a satellite phone which at the moment is not cooperating. however, he already filed this piece for us as he and the search and rescue group he's with in the fartherest remote island on key west >> reporter: the destruction you haven't seen. the first key, key west, disabled by irma. no power, water, gas. no hope for better any time soon. and yet these scenes backed up by the fact that so few lost their lives, a better than expected outcome. but each step close to cudjoe key where irma made landfall, devastation. more severe than anywhere else in florida. first responders of task force two in florida doing search and rescue have never seen anything like this. how do you make sense of all of these houses are gone and this house is stand something. >> luck of the draw, i guess. >> reporter: big pine key. not a big pine to be seen here. houses split ntered, gone. streets were rivers for hours. grouped littered with personal effects. one tape, a surreal suggestion. yes, that says gone with the wind. >> it looks like you had a crew with sledgehamm

cooperation? >> you know, obviously, chris, they are continuing to push china on this.ng and hearing that president ping is starting to get ratled and may come to the table a little bit more with president trump. but, obviously, yesterday, president trump also said we could shut off all trade with nations who are trading with north korea in some fashion. so, they keep threatening this. but it's not clear yet how far the administration is really willing to go. >> so, we know, jim, that the president sent a tweet yesterday that south korea is finding, as i have told them, that their talk of appeasement with north korea will not work. they only understand one thing. and now he's going to be having this phone call with south korea's president. what's that going to be like? >> you know, increasingly, he sounds like a bully without a pulpit, which is a phrase used yesterday by a texas a&m professor who is at the political science meeting. bully without a pulpit. so, he maybe raise his voice to help threaten him about some sort of trade cutoff. this is a "familiar conundrum."

chris. wouldn't it be nice if he just cooperated because it's the right thing to do or because he loves this country and wants to help the senate and the house understand how we were attacked and whether anyone worked with them? these guys only understand one way. that seems to be really compelling them. and forcing them to have to come forward. they only acknowledge contacts with russia after all of their denials are exhausted and they are confronted by the press or investigators. if that's the way it has to be, we will get to the bottom of this no matter how much they try to duck, hide, obstruct. >>> you encouraged by the fact that this is a joint statement by the chair, richard burr who is a republican and the ranking member together about this? there seems to be that fair degree of consensus at the top between the chair and the ranking member. >> yes. that is very encouraging and i hope that they are able to bring him in. hear from him in public. again, he only served himself by issuing a statement before going forward. they didn't help the senate investigation at all and the only way no

chris cuomo. >> we have to find the areas of cooperation even as we confront the destabilizindestabilizing.stions about who they did and who might have helped them, you believe those are all legitimate questions? >> of course and so does the president. >> cnn political director is like deja vu all over again. what do you make of the back and forth over whether russia meddled in the election. he can't stay with this. >> anything with russia somehow calls into question the legitimacy of his presidency. he seems incapable of separating those. he at times conceded yes, it's russia. move on. it's never consistent and here today he is calling it a hoax. >> we have polling released about this hour or just this hour about russia and the election. what are the numbers showing? >> take a look there. the majority of the country, 54% of americans say it is likely that the russian-backed content on social media did affect the out come in 2016. like everyone else in american life, partisanship drives so much of this. look at the difference. among democrats, 82% think it's likely that russia backed conten

everyone ♪ the best things in life they're free ♪ ♪ >>> i'm standing -- anderson cooper stand big in ft. myers, florida. chrisusly a great amount of concern in here in ft. myers that has ratcheted up dramatically over the last ten hours or so as people have seen this storm move somewhat to the west areas like naples, florida, collier county, here in ft. myers, tampa expecting greater storm surge than predicted earlier. 5 to 8 feet now of storm surge according to chad myers. 10 to 15 feet in collier county and points south on the west. again, a lot to be concerned about. if you i've been watching, you saw drew griffin outside a nearby shelter. he estimates there have been thousands of people lined up for hours trying to get into that shelter. it is orderly. people are calm. but that's thankfully in large part because it is not raining yet. it is not terrible out. it's actually a pretty calm day in terms of the weather and so people are able to just stand in line and wait. but when the rain comes as you've seen with chris' coverage from miami beach, things change verychanges on a dime. it's easy to get lulled i

he's survived by his third wife chris call and four adult children including cooper chief creative officer of the playboy company. he'll be remembered as more than an elderly gentle man in the robe. depending on your point of view he was a hero or villain. son cooper said he advocated civil rights and sexual freedom. michael. >> made a big mark. >> we'll get the latest from the white house where president trump unveiled his tax plan. the details shown so far say the wealthy will get the most. the president saying he may fire tom price after price used pri vat jets for trips at tax payer ks pence. we're now getting a look at some of the adds russians bought on facebook to influence the election. squon carl starts us off on taxes. >> good morning george. president trump promising to deliver on a big new tax cut that he says will be a mird l class miracle. >> reporter: president trump wants congress to pass one of the most ambitious tax plans ever. >> democrats and republicans in congress should come together finally to deliver this giant win for the american people and begin middle class mir

. >>> this is anderson cooper in tampa, welcome back to our continuing coverage. chris is in naples, john berman is in miami. we have correspondents all throughout the region. the story is this storm, as it moves up the west and -- as it moves on the east coast of florida, and obviously what is going to happen? that is the big question, on the west coast here later in the day as the hurricanes-force winds begin to make landfall on the west coast. a lot of places which, as early as two days didn't expect to be bearing the brunt of this storm, are now going to be doing just that. i want to go to senator bill nelson. how concerned are you about citying like napes, ft. myers and -- storm the level of a direct hit since 1921. >> very concerned. we talked about this yesterday, anderson, the phenomenon of this hurricane is that a few days ago it was going to be an east coast hurricane, andi knotts shifted to the west coast, and indeed, as it comes up that west coast, the counter clockwise winds are going to drive the water up into the bays and estuaries, so you're in tampa. th

cooper. he has the latest. an anderson, what are the rescuers dealing with? >> reporter: you know, chris, it's interesting. you talked about the precision of those pilots and helicopters to lower those rescue swimmers. i saw that firsthand today on a coast guard chopper. two pilots, lieutenant mayor and miller. they thought today was going to be a pretty calm day. they didn't think there would be a lot of rooftop rescues. we were in an area near beaumont, texas, out in that direction after being out there for 20, 30 minutes there was a man on a roof calling for help. they just saw him. they didn't get a 911 call or anything. their cell phones had run out. they lowered a rescue swimmer and he assessed what was going on. they brought his wife up to the roof and got them on board. that was just two of a total of 15 people in all that this one chopper crew rescued today. but just the precision of being able to get the helicopter that low to keep it steady so they could lower a rescue swimmer and bring that basket up with people in it and pets, it's just an extraordinary thing. the thing i hadn't realized, you

cooper. we've seen the outer bands of this hurricane hit miami. chrisin naples and starting to feel some of that as well. what about where you are in tampa? >> people have been watching the coverage here in tampa, seeing it in brickell whers, incredibl pictures of that water rushing down the street. this is a city has grown so fast over the years. and they have not experienced a storm of this magnitude, a cat 3 storm, which is what it's expect today be when it hits tampa, since 1921. it was not a very developed city. there were not a lot of people living here. there was one fatality. this is hillsborough river. this water is moving out towards tampa bay. and we've been watching the water actually go down over the last couple of hours. on the river, you can see a sandy embankment. we cannot see that where when we first came out here a couple hours ago p. and as chad pointed out, all that water that's going out, that's going to rush back in along with that storm surge. it was expected to be 5 to 8 feet yesterday. we still have no idea how much water that'

. >> chris: after a bust, and one of the guys -- and other guys rallied around and keep the cardinals out. 1:11 to play. zerrick cooper back in at quarterback. etienne wounds the middle. cassidy hubbarth will have the ford wrap-up show after the game. it can detail the highlights of all the correct picks today. it's only a short show. >> kirk: yeah, and it doesn't happen very often, so -- >> chris: final minute here. the coach's son, will swinney, in the ball game. number 16 there, spread out of the right. see if they can get him a catch. >> kirk: no chance. not up by 26. >> chris: well, the tigers are going to continue their domination of the atlantic division of the acc. it will be 18 in a row. 11 straight wins away from home. 19 straight pre-november wins. seven straight against ranked opponents. the shootout that many expected never materialized. search domestinance in the seco quarter, and then a 14-0 third quarter. 26-0 run. let's hear from dabo swinney with maria. >> maria: all right, coach. one of the challenges you knew you would face was disrupting louisville's defense, with a reigning trophy winner. how wou

. >> chris: after a bust, and one of the guys -- and other guys rallied around and keep the cardinals out. 1:11 to play. zerrick cooper back in at quarterback. etienne wounds the middle. cassidy hubbarth will have the ford wrap-up show after the game. it can detail the highlights of all the correct picks today. it's only a short show. >> kirk: yeah, and it doesn't happen very often, so -- >> chris: final minute here. the coach's son, will swinney, in the ball game. number 16 there, spread out of the right. see if they can get him a catch. >> kirk: no chance. not up by 26. >> chris: well, the tigers are going to continue their domination of the atlantic division of the acc. it will be 18 in a row. 11 straight wins away from home. 19 straight pre-november opponents. the shootout that many expected never materialized. search domestinance in the seco quarter, and then a 14-0 third quarter. 26-0 run. let's hear from dabo swinney with maria. >> maria: all right, coach. one of the challenges you knew you would face was disrupting louisville's defense, with a reigning trophy winner. how would you explain your defense in this

chris. this is from ryan maui, dr. ryan maui putting this together at weather bell. i'm going to take you to some wind gusts here and anderson cooperthat says an expected gust of 150 miles per hour. let's hope that doesn't happen, chris. it's triple what we've seen here, chad. i'll check back, the situation keeps changing and as the science changes, the situation on the ground changes. the people among us are the angels on earth and the red cross is among them and we've got craig cooper. so this is nothing. we just had a little bit of rain come, this is not the storm, this is the outer, outer, outer edge, we're still about 24 hours away. but we see what this amount of torm surge is doing to the banks here and this marine. what do you need people to know about the urgency, even if they're not in the path of the storm. >> everything we've seen and heard is that the storm is wider than the state of florida. everybody on the east coast and the west coast, we're all going to get hit and hit hard. people should not be lured into a false sense of security. because the category number changes. ? going to be a huge storm. we need people sti

well established is whether there were indeed contacts and cooperation between the trump campaign and the russians. the other thing we know, chrishe russians were trying to get into state election systems and registration roles. i think that's the point people are missing, by focusing so much on trump and the russians, we're missing the fact that the russians were doing this, they've done it in the past and they're going to keep doing it and we've got to be prepared for it. that's what i consider our major mission in this investigation is to prepare the american people and things like our voting systems for what will inevitably come in 2018 and 2020 and beyond. >> regardless of the involvement with the trump campaign, these issues matter, and they're going to matter in the upcoming elections. senator angus king, as always, a pleasure. thank you for being on the show. >> thanks, chris. >>> back to irma. the caribbean already seeing the power of hurricane irma firsthand. look at these pictures. we have a live report for you from puerto rico next. experience a shift in the natural order. experience amazing. they always refer to me

new jersey governor chris christie says he ordered his cabinet to begin planning for their transition to his successor. christie's term end in january and he is calling for cooperative transition whether it is his lieutenant governor kim guadagno or democratic candidate, phil movie hoy wins the november election. christie has asked both candidates to join his efforts to convince seattle based amazon to build its second headquarters in the garden state. >>> some tense moments for workers at one world trade center when they became trapped in the flooded elevator. the elevator was stuck between 69th and 70th floors of the lower manhattan sky scraper. building spokesperson says the lines from the air conditioning system failed and that is what caused the leak. >> all of a sudden i saw water dripping out of the top of the elevator, it slowed down and then the lights started flashing and then it just stopped. >> they were trapped for two hearst before rescuers were able to free them n1 was injured. >>> well, next why donations may be slow to trick until to puerto rico following hurricane maria. >>> also, stand still traffic and a lot of irate drivers after a truck driver

chris: what is the responsibility of the high-tech private sector to cooperate with the government, law enforcement and intelligence? mr. clapper: excellent question. that's been an issue, certainly was for us and of course one of e -- in the aftermath of edward snowden revelations was a chilling of -- i'll put it that way -- of the historical partnership between industry and the intelligence community. and some of that is understandable. this is another case, though, where we -- it's like the safety and security, civil liberties and privacy. there has to be a balance somewhere. i hear, you know, i understand tim cook, head of apple who akes a very absolutist view. what happened after revelations of edward snowden that the rate of commercial encryption accelerated by about seven years over what we thought we were going to see in 2020 we saw immediately. and of course the terrorists, particularly, regrettably, went to school on a lot of this and, of course, bought into what's app and other secure applications which we can't break. so i think there needs to be a serious discussion, seriou

cooperating with authorities. >>> it is the last week of summer and it will feel like it. chris sowers has the details. it's going to feel soupy, warm and humid, look for a shower, 84. tomorrow, spotty shower, 83. monday, clouds, breezy, 78. tuesday is the day we watch for hurricane jose cloudy and breezy, 75 degrees. gray. >> that's it for us, we'll be back in 30 minutes. now, back to "g.m.a." make it a great day. help you save money... and get better coverage with access to pharmacies across the nation. so take a closer look at silverscript. we think you'll like what you see. ♪ >>> welcome back to "gma" on a saturday morning. happening right now, breaking news, an 18-year-old man under arrest in connection with the bombing at a london subway station on friday during rush hour. britain on edge. nonetheless this morning hundreds of soldiers deployed in the streets. authorities keeping the terror threat level at critical meaning they believe another attack could be imminent. >>> also right now, new court date. a judge has ruled that bill cosby's retrial on charges that he drugged and molested a woman mo

the current leader of rotherham council, chris read, took the opportunity to criticise those former officers in charge of the council who didn't cooperateit was disappointing and frustrating for the victims and the survivors of this abuse and they deserved more than their miserable silence. single figures especially in eastern scotland, cloud into the west, the chance of some showers developing as the night goes on, outbreaks of rain pushing into the west, 10—30d overnight. tomorrow the wind picking up overnight. tomorrow the wind picking up quickly, we should see outbreaks of rain through the rest of scotland, northern ireland, towards northern england as we go through the afternoon and some patchy rain developing, wales and the west of england developing towards the midlands, with the exception of the odd shower the south—east should stay dry in daylight hours, sunny spells continuing. south wales and southern england could seek persistent rain on friday, sunny spells and scattered showers elsewhere on a blustery day. hello. this is bbc news with clive myrie. the top stories just after 7:30pm. hurricane irma, the most powerful atlanti

itself in just the point alright chris christie now this of my argument cristian assume you'll party talks of ending the sanctions policy. deepening economic cooperation with russia. in other words giving them exactly what they want. well run the textbook definition are not giving them what they want that is however what we say and sus. yeah well you may laugh at me but just listen for a moment this phone you and there are bill are added that the. court on there how states deal with one another but there's also another carter you any car on. where it says that? every people have the right to decide for themselves whether they want to be like to. and that's what really burning crimea dick. and insist in this way where you live. i wanted to least take into consideration maybe it wasn't so a legal after all what would happen there. little growing in florida. one of the matter is. be out if they. one two and those sanctions because they are ridiculous and they are. that they're not doing any good bit that that the russian people are suffering from it. and the germans suffer it from from it to we are losing jobs. all of that no end to the th okay press chr

chris, the other piece of this and the reason it's important to be precise is of course we are interested whether there was any collusion, cooperationthe russians on the attack on our elections. i believe, and i think the news out there would suggest, there was all kinds of influence, trading, all sorts of suggestions of i'm close to the president, we should do this. it may turn out if there are indictments it relates more to influence peddling, inappropriate contact, inappropriate use of either the campaign or the white house to suggest that access could be granted in exchange for xyz. >> a man that promised to drain the swamp seems to have surrounded himself with big al gators in terms of what kind of behavior he allowed to be around him and in the halls of government. whether or not there is a crime. collusion doesn't exist as a legal concept. it has to be conspiracy. we'll see. let me ask you about a more present danger, which is what's going on with health care in this country. there is an assumption that if the senate gets through the cassidy bill, the house will be in echo. do you believe that? >> i think so. >> you can't sto

but i just wanted to say charlie, patty, chris, friedrich, nick, i think the very presence of you here doing this should give us all optimism that the cooperation is good, and we all know it needs to get better. thank you very much. for all of you we're going to reconvene in here again at 1:15 sharp to hear from the directors of all of the national intelligence agencies. and then we will without a break roll right into a discussion between tisch long, our chairman of insa, with sue gordon, the new principal deputy director of national intelligence, to hear about some of our national intelligence priorities. so again, thank you gentlemen. [ applause ] >>> the senate homeland security committee takes a look at potential national security threats wednesday. with fbi director christopher wray and acting homeland security secretary elaine duke. you can watch that live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. and at the same time va secretary david shulkin testifies before the senate veterans affairs committee about suicide prevention among veterans. you'll find that live here on c-span 3. a reminder that all our live coverage is available online at c-span.o

that bipartisan cooperation within congress and, again, i applaud president trump for saying, he's going to get these things done, and i believe he will. >> all right. congressman chris collins, republican from new york. thanks for the time. >> good to be with you, steve. >>> and republicans aren't the only ones having to explain this flirtation with bipartisanship to their base. democrats have explaining to do. members of that party warning leadership not to overcommit in this marriage of convenience. joining me now, virginia democratic congressman jerry connelly. connellman, thanks for taking a few minutes. >> great to be with you, steve. >> we haven't seen all the details but it looks like the bake parameters are, you guys want permanent protection for daca people. trump says i'll give you that. i want more money for border security. no wall. is that a good deal? >> it could be. we're going to have to see the details. certainly, the parameters you just laid out are the parameters for a deal. to fix the problem donald trump created. let's remember, this isn't an issue that came out of the skies. he dismantled the program through executive order president obama put

cooper said his dad defined a lifestyle and ethos. on my facebook page, i shared iconic pictures from the photo gallery on our nbc washington app. over to you. >> chris, thank you. >>> in our other top stories today. the former prince george's county teacher's aide convicted of federal sex crimesds he pled guilty to sexually abusing kids at an elementary school. he heads to court today for a hearing on local charges and faces additional prison time. >>> people will be a little on edge returning to work at a fairfax county office building. it was a crime scene late wednesday evening after a man shot himself to death. fairfax county police are trying to figure out whether 52-year-old john francis wood n intended to hurt others but was prevented. it happened in a law office. a preschool is in the same building. no one but wood was hurt in the shooting. >>> we may never get the answers how otto warmbier died in north korea after being returned to the u.s. from north korea. there was a new report that says his cause of death is undetermined and no way to know if he was tortured as his parents believe. warmbier was arrested last year. he was sent back home

chris christie in naples, florida, on the western coast. one of the areas of particular vulnerability that became a big concern when the storm path shifted. we also have anderson cooper bay. that area. it has never seen a storm of the magnitude that might come that way. john berman in miami. dave been getting hit consistently for hours and cnn people are everywhere the storm has been, is now and will go. one of the big concerns about the west coast here is about the energy exchange of irma. she is a huge storm, and the way that the storm works in basic fashion is the winds are moving counterclockwise. i want to bring in randi kaye. because as the storm gives storm surge on one side it's sucking energy from the other side. we're seeing the water move away from places like naples and tampa bay, but that water's coming back and when it does it's going to multiply and have power behind it, that's where the fear of storm surge comes in. randi, what are you seeing up there? >> reporter: chris, hello to you. we are on bay shore boulevard here in tampa where the rain is coming down. let me pan off me and take a look. the situation, where a lot of folks have been playing in t

chris? >> all right, alex. thank you very much. obviously, as this storm comes in there, they the whole reality for the people up where alex markhart is, where anderson cooperas changed for them. they were supposed to get just a bad situation but not a potentially catastrophic one. but as the storm moves so do the requirements, so do the risks and so does the need for action. so down here, i guess we're out of the woods, right? wrong. just because it's not a direct hit does not mean it won't be bad. in these areas it does not take much to make a big difference. kyung lah is across the bay in south beach. she's been monitoring the situation over there. boy, did the dynamic change, the watchers gone, the ability to drive reduced to almost zero. how is it now? >> that was just a prelude of what's to come. we're experiencing a bit more wind. remember, this is going to intensify at night. here's what we're seeing. you can see some of the palm trees moving about. a lot of the buildings here are boarded up. you can see this particular hotel, that entire first floor has completely been boarded up because the anticipation here, chris, is that there is going to be a

i just wanted to say charlie, paddy, chris, frederick, the very presence of you here doing this should give us all optimism, that the cooperation is good and we all know that it needs to get ber. so thank you very much. >>> within the hour we have live coverage of a 9/11 service from shanksville, pennsylvania. the site of the crash of flight 93. that starts at about 9:45 eastern. until then, more from the intelligence national safety alliance forum with deputy director of national intelligence sue gordon. >>> thank you, jill. as sue and i were listening to that introduction, we agreed we saved the best for last. and of course, representing formally one of the great agencies of all time. sue, it's terrific to see you again and congratulations on your new position. >> how lucky am i? >> i think it's been a little over a month. >> it has. i thought i'd be better by now. i'm working on it. >> so confirmed on the 4th of august, a little over a month. but, of course you've been in the intelligence community for a few more years than a little over a month. so let's jump right into this. how would you characterize the state of the comm