backed congressman raul labrador, tom friedman, former white house chief of staff for bill clinton john podesta, republican strategist mike murphy, and nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. >>> from nbc news in washington, the world's longest-running television program, this is "meet the press" with david gregory. >>> good sunday morning. with the president's national security team under fire over the petraeus resignation and the benghazi attacks, the president arrived on the world stage this morning for a summit in east asia, and he's got new worries on his mind about the prospect of a war in the middle east as israel and palestinian militants get closer to the brink this weekend. israel expanding its air assault against hamas and palestinian militants continuing to fire rockets into civilian areas of southern israel. that's where i want to begin this morning. i've got nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell and "new york times" columnist tom friedman. who better to have to discuss this. tom, as the two sides get closer to the brink, based on your expe

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john podesta had the same job in bill clinton's second term and cnn's david gergen advised those two presidents plus presidents nixon and ford. john, you were there before and during the transition and chief of staff in the second term. how do you re-energize an administration going into the second term? is it important to change personnel, have new policy initiatives? what were your lessons? >> well, there's a natural changing of personnel because these are grueling jobs so a lot of people are going to leave. we know the secretary of state hillary clinton and sec treasury tim geithner are leaving. those are two of the all-stars in the administration. so there's going to be a lot of turnover. and what you want is both a certain level of experience in your personnel, but you also want some new blood, and i think the president met with his team and they're in the process of making the new selections. secondly you have to focus on what you want to accomplish, especially in the first year. the first year is the time to get a lot done. >> ken, do you think that it is possible to make -- to

followed by former clinton administration chief of staff john podesta. and later former senators lead a discussion on the future of u.s. energy policy. on washington journal tomorrow morning, we'll hear about the investigation in to the attacks in benghazi, libya that killed four americans. from michael her issue. the rest of the program will focused on the so-called fiscal cliff and the bush era tax rates. our guest will include alex from the mesh enterprise substitute and e than poll lick with the economic policy substitute. washington journal is live on c-span every day at 7:a.m. eastern. >>> on 16 or 17 bases in the united states we have military -- [inaudible] the average cost to agent dmield that school per year is $50,000. almost four times what the rest of the public education costs. and many -- the vast majority of our bases we use public schools. we can take the money we're spending today, pay every public school system $1 4,000 per child and save billions of dollars per year. and with the same or better outcomes. >>> this weekend you can take

satellite corp. 2012] >> also today at the education summit in washington, former clinton white house chief of staff, john podesta, spoke about the prospects for education reform. following his 20-minute remarks, former governor jeb bush joins him for the "q&a" session. [applause] >> thank you for that wonderful introduction, it was really a pleasure to be here and thank you, governor bush, and the foundation for excellence in education for inviting me to be here today. it will probably come as no shock to anyone in the room that the governor and i don't agree on everything. notwithstanding his relationship to my ex-boss. but one thing i think we both agree on is the importance of having strong voices in both parties championing the cause of education as a critical element of our nation's agenda, and building a strong coalition in the center to demand reform of our public education system. a system that, quite frankly, is still not working for too many of our students. governor, i really admire that building on your success as governor, you have invested so much time in keeping the nation's attention focused on t

kevin duberstein, and chairman and ceo of his own firm, and john podesta, former white house chief of staff for president clinton and we are rising above the partisan rhetoric to find a solution for the fiscal cliff. in recognition of commitment for our crucial problem, we're wearing these rise above buttons, and they are also available for the low, low price of $4.99 -- no, i don't know. >> no. >> why aren't we? why aren't we? >> such a bargain. >> is anything you see on tv not really something that -- all of us are. we're talking about the price, right? let me start, john, before we get to ken. we already had roger altman, and he's been singing your praises about if anybody knows how hard tax reform is, it is you. and the reason that we're talking about this is in the context of some temporary fix for the fiscal cliff as a prelude to major reform and that we could do something like that and roger's point was, yeah, you can promise to do that, but in the meantime, we need to raise some revenue somewhere, and it takes so long to do this. took four years that you can't expect -- so we're going to need -- he wants