and took the transition very seriously and he began his transition talking to his chief of staff josh bolton in december of 2007 and steve hadley. who was the national security advisor around the same time began gathering information on memorandum countries and issues to provide with whomever came in so when you look at these the series of transitions that even though you have you're going to have a lot of turmoil at the same time when you look at biden's transition, how was it that he was able to come in with a white house staff of 2006 as amen filling out a lot of the presidential appointee positions. that did not require senate confirmation bush did did much the same thing and they had the biden people had their policies ready ready to start and how was it that they were able to do that even if they had a shortened transition and the same thing was a true with bush and bush with only 37 days had his first months mapped out first week education second week office of faith base initiatives in the in the government. and so what i look at or three particular elements in transitions that have

and josh bolton, i think since since the trumpet, ministration left, we haven't seen any sort of letting up in the pressure against. wow way. which kind of leads one to believe that this is part of a much more sort of bureaucratic bureaucratically entrenched set of interests within western intelligence communities who, who have succeeded in convincing political leaders. that while i does actually represent a threat to their national security, although that threat has never really been very well articulated by any government or by any political later. how much of a setback will this be to while, why now look, i think i sort of drew a line in the sand a long time ago and decided to sort of circle the wagons and focus on those markets where it's still had access, but particularly on its domestic market as well, but you have to remember there are many markets around the world where my way not only has access, but he's welcomed in latin america in africa, in class, the central asia and, and also some of the fastest growing markets in southeast asia. like indonesia, so i think, you know why we

and finally, my chief of staff josh bolton, one of the coolest guys i know, will be onstage as well. but beforehand, one of the real treats for laura and me was to have a beautiful little chapel there called evergreen chapel. a preacher there had a huge influence on us. his name is stan fornea. and thankfully stan fornea has agreed to join us tonight. so may i present -- navy captain stan fornea. [applause] >> thank you very much mister president. what a privilege it is for me to be here this evening. thank you for the invitation. on january 22nd, 1963, news reached camp david of the assassination of president kennedy, who had just been a recent visitor to camp david. there was a contractor working at camp at the time by the name of kenneth plummer. mr. plummer notice that in that experience, there was nowhere for people to gather to pray, to think, to be quiet. there were no sacred spaces whatsoever. so mr. plummer began the process of beginning of saying he wanted to build a chapel built a camp david. it took him some time, but through his persistence, he was able to form a nonprof