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dionne and doris kearns goodwin here on "meet the press." >>> our political round table weighs in on the year ahead for the obama agenda. >>> we're back joined by presidential historian doris kearns goodwin, nbc news tom brokaw and david brooks of "the new york times." welcome to all of you. happy new year. tom brokaw, this christmas day plot, this this was the 3:00 a.m. wake-up call that hillary clinton talked about in the campaign. >> i think they have been more responsive. it dmen straights the vulnerability of great powers like the united states against an enemy that really is very nimble, cunning, and suicidal. and for all of the technology that we have in the world, all of the coordination that goes on with security apparatus in europe and the rest of the world one piece is not in place, somebody can slip through and have a devastating effect as that bomber might have had on that northwest flight that day. the administration certainly has now been responding in a much more robust fashion since then. >> we don't do a lot, david brooks, to celebrate successes in our security wall