were important in the bush years including david petraeus and a lot of others in the vast majority of the record, which makes this such a valuable document of history. >> has dick cheney been consistent in this position since 2000? >> he has been. for the most part. focused on the idea that 9/11 represents only a tip of the iceberg. he advocated policies that others may not have made and he believed it was necessary in defense of the country and he remained fixed on it. president bush always believed in the defense of the country but began to see these other trade-offs pursued a different direction like more diplomacy and things that are so controversial.

you only have to ask people like general david petraeus. they will tell you our people were there every step of the way. while we were there, while we are there and what we learn about the threat is something that is necessary and important to the defense of this country. we see the threats that come in to this nation. see what a foreign intelligence agency is expected to see. prior to 9-11, we had no way of collecting those dots. nsa would see one side and the fbi the other. how can we connect these dots and do it in the least intrusive manner. , the senate, the executive branch, and the courts, we have programs to do that. you for yourthank comments. the statements you have made are greatly appreciated.

it is much bigger than the medal of honor has found that david petraeus has been awarded downgraded.ng backup during his seven hour data with the taliban in 2009. he received the medal of honor last month. twenty to 25 coworkers are believed to have done so. in our first guess as long long before nuclear the wizard and reach within the united states, it had already begun quietly lifting some of the financial pressure. eli lake, it is bit heavy with us. the idea that this administration had secretly been easing sanctions. >> this includes permitting activities in violation of the sanctions and i wasn't matched by the treasury department and sends rouhani was elected, only six individuals in poor front companies that have been designated as violators of the fiction. the experts say my colleague and i talked to a deliberate effort to try to begin to create the atmosphere for a the docs right now and that is a fairly important thing. so when you stop, designating new violators, it allows iran to build a network by which they can, you know, try to negate sanctions by the best that they ca

every time, david. petraeus. petraeus. >>> he's >> he's a war hero! >> when i send eric off to college, he's going to have left wing professors like this who try to indoctrinate him. listen. >> -- on print, on radio and on tv, is the last vestige of angry old white people. republicans are 82% white. losers. >> republican, bob, 82% white, angry, all grumy. wow. my kid's going to learn from that bozo? >> that fits you pretty well. look, the reality is this guy represents a very small percentage. you know today in america, there are more kids taking business administration than there are taking liberal arts in college? >> thank goodness. >> the idea that somehow -- greg's not here but this whole notion that all the professors are like that is silly. all liberal kids are going to treat petraeus like that. >> saying republicans are angry -- you completely went down the rabbit hole. that was a nice try. let's start with the petraeus thing. if your kids -- >> i had a chance to talk to general petraeus who's finishing up that semester teaching for a dollar af

one-fifth of all the officers promoted in the senior intelligence service were women, cia director david petraeusexamine. found they failed to sponsor women officers which directly impacted the mission. joining me director for inclusion at the ciera. carmen, thank you for being with us. you've been there and seen a lot of change. do you think the cia has broken the glass ceiling in an important enough way or still steps that need to be taken? >> i think the answer is yes to both. cia certainly has a strong and rich history of looking at workforce issues such as women in the workplace. one of our first studies at cia was called peti coat panel study. really this came about when one gutsy female officer asked then director dulles what are you going to do about discrimination in the workplace against women? fast forward to 1991 and '92, cia sponsored glass ceiling study. finally the report you mentioned with secretary albright coming in to look at the progress in the cia. >> when we talk about john bren and took over, he did not promote to the head of the covert operations, the d.o., the woman who h

you only have to ask people like general david petraeus. they will tell you our people were there every step of the way. while we were there, while we are there and what we learn about the threat is something that is necessary and important to the defense of this country. we see the threats that come in to this nation. see what a foreign intelligence agency is expected to see. prior to 9-11, we had no way of collecting those dots. nsa would see one side and the fbi the other. how can we connect these dots and do it in the least intrusive manner. , the senate, the executive branch, and the courts, we have programs to do that. you for yourthank comments. the statements you have made are greatly appreciated. and in then at nsa military still remembers that day and our commitment to those people that we will not forget. that does not mean we are going to trample on our civil liberties and privacy. how do we do both? wet is the constitution that all swore to uphold and defend. that's what we are doing. look at the program we have. citizens, ever

there were about 275 people that were important in the bush years including david petraeus and a lot of others in the vast majority of the record, which makes this such a valuable document of history. >> has dick cheney been consistent in this position since 2000? >> he has been. for the most part. focused on the idea that 9/11 represents only a tip of the iceberg. he advocated policies that others may not have made and he believed it was necessary in defense of the country and he remained fixed on it. president bush always believed in the defense of the country but began to see these other trade-offs pursued a different direction like more diplomacy and things that are so controversial. even eight democrat, he basically does much of the terrorism programs. >> that terrorism program was also part of this, was in an? >> yes, he was resistant to some of the changes. he thought that they were too far in giving in to the class. making compromises on military conditions and he began living a lot of prisoners outside of guantÁnamo in his time and so these are changes that he finds alarming

there were about 275 people that were important in the bush years including david petraeus and a lot of others in the vast majority of the record, which makes this such a valuable document of history. >> has dick cheney been consistent in this position since 2000? >> he has been. for the most part. focused on the idea that 9/11 represents only a tip of the iceberg. he advocated policies that others may not have made and he believed it was necessary in defense of the country and he remained fixed on it. president bush always believed in the defense of the country but began to see these other trade-offs pursued a different direction like more diplomacy and things that are so controversial. even eight democrat, he basically does much of the terrorism programs. >> that terrorism program was also part of this, was in an? >> yes, he was resistant to some of the changes. he thought that they were too far in giving in to the class. making compromises on military conditions and he began living a lot of prisoners outside of guantÁnamo in his time and so these are changes that he finds alarming

. >> guest: interviewed vice president cheney, coppty rice, colin powell, david petraeus. everybody except for president bush who chose not to be interviewed. the great thing about it is most of them were on the record. the vast majority of them were choosing to be on the record understanding now it's history and it's time to document what happened for the record. >> host: why days of fire as the title? >> guest: well, that comes from the president's second term inaugural address. you can see the title was really eight years of crises that they confronted, war and terrorism, natural disaster and financial collapse, really eight years of days of fire. pretty tumultuous time both for them and the country. so one that we need to look back at and figure out what happened so that we can understand what's happening today because we're still debating many of the same issues under the current administration. >> host: peter baker, "days of fire" is the name of the book. you're watching booktv on c-span2. >> you're. watching booktv. coming up next, sheryl sandberg, the coo of facebo