i often have heard the example how the first dni john negroponte went from serving o from dni to the deputy secretary of state but at the time that was considered more prestigious looking at the way it serves in practice look at jim clapper with the benghazi attack operate independent of the intelligence agencies and then to get blowback and to do that follow one for the work fromn that. >>host: you say the principle is what does that mean on a basis only those others that have held that position full-time it is up for the president to decide how involved dni is with day-to-day operations the president gets the intelligence briefing and where they go for advice and what people are looking for and to what extent they will be involved in the day to day life as a former navy seal career service member with a series of seal teams six and that was the bulk of his career after he retired as the vice admiral he went on to work in the position most recently national counterterrorism it will be interesting to see how that experience waivers in his background we haven't had a military man sinc

ambassador to the united nations, ho honduras, meo and the philippines, john negroponte.reaction to what's happened in terms of secret talks between the u.s. and venezuela. >> kind of takes me back to the time we were trying to negotiate mr. noriega out of power in man panama and those talks ended up not faring as well and the administration had to go in with force, the bush administration ultimately did that. i don't know if this situation will turn out differently. i think the big issue is what's the price we're going to have to pay to mr. maduro for reaching some kind of agreement? is he going to be let off the hook completely? is he not going to be accountable for all the terrible things that have happened in his country for the fact that venezuela has become a narco trafficking state? i think the devil is going to be in the details. the other thing is how -- what kind of opportunity is this going to result in for the opposition? are they going to be kind of frozen out with the old maduro types allowed to stay in office or stay in their current positions? i think the