>> dickerson: welcome back the "face the nation." i'm john dickerson. for more on where national security stands 15 years after the attacks of 9/11, we're joined by cbs news senior national security analyst and former homeland security adviser to george bush fran townsend. steven brill contributes to "the atlantic" and is the auth this month's cover story, "are we any safer." and jeffrey goldberg writes for the atlantic and he's also a visiting fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace. steve, i want the start with you. you worked for a year on this article, "are we any safer," and i apologize, but can you boil it down into an answer? >> in only 20 words. >> well, we're along stronger because of the work of the people like fran did and tens of thousands of others and the we strengthened our defense, but the nature of the threat has changed and evolved in a way that arguably in many ways makes us less safe. >> dickerson: fran, are we adapting to that environment that steve describeed? >> you'll appreciate, john, what happens is we never ad

: all right. >> dickerson: all right. mr. chairman, thank you so much for being with us. >> you bet. >> you bet. >> dickerson: we'll be right ba ...but they couldn't miss the show. so dad went to the new safelite-dot-com. and in just a few clicks, he scheduled a replacement... ...before the girls even took the stage. safelite-dot-com is the fast, easy way to schedule service anywhere in america! so you don't have to miss a thing. y'all did wonderful! that's another safelite advantage. >> dickerson: and we're back with our political panel. ruth marcus is a columnist at the washington post. salamle is an executive director with the national review. mark leibovich is with "the new york times". riewrkt i want the start with you. the response to this explosion in new york overnight. donald trump got off the plane immediately and said, a bought went off. turns out he was right. hillary clinton said we have to wait for the details. is that a frame from which we should look at the two candidates? >> it's pretty telling. he turned

bush attorney general and our >> dickerson: welcome back i'm john dickerson. joining us now is former attorney general alberto gonzales he is out with new book called "true faith and allegiance" a story of service and sacrifice in war and peace about his life and time serving the george w. bush administration. i want to start with where you were briefly the one administration official to be off in a secret location. temp us first a little bit about that experience. and then you said it gave you new appreciation for the presidency, how so? >> well, of course disaster and presidentsial and so, i spent that evening on airplane flying around, i remember thinking, watching president bush give the address that evening. i would advise him through two cars, i've experienced pretty big moments with him before. but sitting on that airplane suddenly hit me, my gosh, something happened in washington, would i and people on that airplane be able to govern a wounded nation. headed back to andrews air force base and we land. i had an appreciation of the tremendous pressure an

i'm john dickerson. we'll get to politics in a minute, but first an update on a story we've been following all week, that of the police shooting of keith lamont scott in charlotte, north carolina. we turn to cbs news correspondent errol barnett for an update. errol? >> reporter: good morning, john. last night saw mostly peaceful protest, but tensions here remain high as this story continues to unfold. saturday evening the charlotte mecklenburg police department released portions of dashboard camera and body of the encounter with keith lamont scott. the police department paints a scenario in which officers observed mr. scott with marijuana but didn't think it was an arrestable offense until they also saw him raise a weapon. the police released this photo of the handgun they say has traces of scott's d.n.a. meanwhile, the scott family says they have been left with more questions than answers. they asked if excessive force was necessary since scott was not behaving aggressively, and and today's carolina pan

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i'm john dickerson. today the nation honors those killed when terrorists hijacked planes and crashed them into the world trade center, the pentagon and a field in shanksville, pennsylvania. [bell tolls] moments of violence were observed at the three sites and around the world. york after the planes hit the twin towers were read at ground zero. both donald trump and hillary clinton paid their respects. here in washington, the president attended a memorial ceremony at the pentagon. >> we remember an we will never forget the nearly 3,000 beautiful lives taken from us so cruelly. >> dickerson: and we begin our coverage on this anniversary with the head of the central intelligence agency, john director brennan, what have we learned in 15 years? >> well, good morning, john. what we've learned is that these groups, whether it was al qaeda or isis, can cause much death and destruction as they pursue their mindless agenda. and so what we've learned over the last 15 years is to make sure we do everything possible

. >> dickerson: welcome back the "face the nation." i'm john dickerson. we continue with the chairman of the republican party, reince priebus. we'll leave the previous issue. you once said that the electoral... the way the electoral college works, democrats need to be good. republicans need to be nearly perfect. is donald trump running a nearly perfect campaign? >> well, let something. this is a fascinating year for everybody, we all know that, but i have been, and i think people need to get outside this beltway and get on the road. if they were to see what i see, i see one of the greatest ground game movements, to be ground, meaning people coming to events, 20,000 in middle pennsylvania, 22,000 in seattle. this is probably one of the biggest movements as far as people across this country in modern history. analyze donald trump all day long, 24/7 on cable, i think people have to look at what the facts are, and we're tied today, as we sit here, 51 days from the election. and we have a candidate that is capturing the electorate, america. it might not be cap

hillary clinton --. >> dickerson: wait. there is a standard that a candidate has to live up to, right? you're trying to build a mandate. >> sure. i think donald trump is new. he's a business guy running for president. so you're not going to see a conventional campaign, because he is not a conventional politician. he's not even a politician. in many ways that's refreshing to people. i think that's why he's been so successful. i think that's why he won the primary in the first place. so what do we say and do about, this those of us here in congress in this majority. this is the direction we're heading. >> dickerson: so the public should pay attention to your platform... >> they should pay attention to both of us because in conjunction with the nominee we're offering a unified front of solutions. >> dickerson: we'll be back in one minute with more of our one minute with more of our interview with speaker ryan and more on his advice to donald trump for debating hillary clinton. just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. stelara

good morning welcome to face the make i'm john dickerson. we've got a lot to get to today but we begin with hermine the storm that's caused heavy rain, high winds, power outages, dangerous surf and two fatalities as it moved across florida now up the eastern seaboard. eric fisher is chief meteorologist at our cbs affiliate wbz in boston. >> good morning, john. tricky storm we've been tracking the last several days and latest trend, a little farther to the overnight tonight, many along the coastline will see conditions over time as we head overnight. tropical storm warnings are up from the mid atlantic, tropical storm watches in southeastern newt gingrich. staying farther to the east with that means lot less rainfall, really no rain ex stept getting showers, heaviest rain stays off shore. at the same time very strong storm. big wind field. going to move very monday and tuesday strong winds churning up the surf. impacts are coastal flooding lot of beach erosion up to newt gingrich, rain totals some seeing the sun but beaches really taking a be

>> dickerson: anna werner in new york. thanks, anna. we go now to new york congressman peter king, who sits on both the house intelligence and homeland security committees. congressman, governor cuomo just international terrorism. do you think that's the case? >> we don't know. in fact, in many of these cases we don't know until two, three or four days later whether or not there is a terrorist link. whether or not it's connected overseas. whether or not it's homegrown. the fact there is no evidence right now doesn't mean much. we have the times square bombing back in new york in 2011 i guess it was, and there was no... it took several days before we realized that was coming out the taliban and pakistan. the boston marathon we didn't know for several days if that was terrorism. so i think we have to assume that terrorism is always a real possibility and go from there. whether it turns out to be or not, we don't know, but i certainly would in the think of ruling out terrorism at this stage. >> dickerson: what's the best way to react for t

captioning sponsored by cbs >> dickerson: today on "face the nation." candidate enter the final stretch of campaign 2016 and east coast prepares for another possible round of hurricane hermine. saturday, donald trump went to church looking for minority votes and maybe some divine intervention to help his campaign against hillary clinton. >> i am here today to listen your message and i hope my presence here will also help your voice to reach new audiences. >> dickerson: after surprise trip to mexico and speech on immigration further muddled his message, outreach strategy work income we'll find out battleground tracker poll numbers plus analysis of where the race stands. we'll talk with new jersey governor chris christie who heads donald trump's president shall transition team and check senator jeff flake see if he's any closer to supporting the republican president shall nominee. is hillary clinton closes books on a big month of august fundraising we'll talk about the fall out for new revelation that of her fbi interviews of the private e-mail server whi

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this is just how it is. >> dickerson: how is it now. there's been a big question about fact checking and what the moderator's role should be in that. how do you see that question? >> well, and i've said and i've thought about this over the years, after doing these things, the first fact checkers have to be the candidates themselves. if one candidate makes a mistake, you want to give the other person a chance to call him out on that. if he or she doesn't, then the moderator steps in and sets the record straight. but if you don't give the candidates themselves that opportunity, you're being unfair to both of them. >> dickerson: you have a theory that i love about letting the candidates talk. get out of the way. >> well, these debates are about more than just the issues, as it were. yes, issues are important. yes, party is important. do they have the right stuff? do they have the grace under pressure? this is a pretty tough job no matter what anybody says. it's a pretty tough job. and i think the role of the moderator is to give people a m