it's no coincidence, in my view, that leon panetta was the gold standard at both. there were certainly other great white as cheese and of the great cia directors but panetta was right up there with the best in both jobs. that's partly because that had a lot to do with the fact that a netted when you begin director for obama he was 70. yet been around the block. he served in congress. he was comfortable in the corridors of power. he knew the white house and he could walk into the oval office, close the door and tell barack obama what he didn't want to hear, and that's essential in both jobs. >> you portrayed him as being not just an honest broker but like a brilliant strategist. >> he was, he was. one of the great infighting stories that i felt in the leon panetta chapter is about the time that poor denny blair who was then director of national intelligence made the mistake of trying to take on leon panetta in a bureaucratic struggle over who would appoint the cia station chiefs. well, i guess you could on paper make the argument that the director of national intelli

>>among many leon panetta is also a board member at oracle. >>another company that recently chose to leave the bay doctor panetta, thanks for joining us tonight ever. mister panetta mister we all know it's expensive to live in california to do business in california, but it's been expensive here for many many years so why suddenly are we seeing some big giant companies leaving the bay area. >>well has really been like all of you in a in a major way particularly during 2020. not just with the covid-19 obviously a very deep recession. impact on our economy we've lost almost 2 million jobs. it's certainly on our minority asians blacks of what he knows have been impacted almost 25% unemployment but if you add to that climate change wildfires power outages. congestion housing. high taxes and a high cost living. then you can imagine why boards and ceos and companies are beginning to look other areas in order to try to find relief. >>well, you certainly just listed the reasons that companies are leaving a lot of individuals are also moving for some of

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not a lot on covid but a lot certain on all of this other stuff. >>> joining me now, leon panetta, former director and secretary of defense in the obama administration and former white house chief of staff to president clinton. secretary panetta, mr. panetta, thank you so much for being with us. first of all, the president is ramping up his pressure on the supreme court to try to overturn joe biden's victory. our legal experts, pete williams and other legal experts, say it's such a long shot. but how does this hurt joe biden's ability, you just heard shannon say that so many people believe the election was fraudulent as well as damaging america's reputation for the peaceful transfer of power and for our democratic institutions overseas. >> well, all of this is incredibly harmful to the ability of our democracy to function as it should be functioning. there should be a peaceful transition of power going on. there should be cooperation between this administration and the incoming administration. there should be no question as to who is going to be the next president of the united states. al

george bush, bill webster, leon panetta and mike pompeo.ll talk about pompeo in a second because he's a bit different in the way he was a restorer. the first three are here to stabilize the ship in periods of controversy. when you think about bush becoming head of our agency right after the start of the scandals of the mid-1970s and congressional investigations are winding down. he's there to, in effect, make the agency seem like it's not the ogre it was being portrayed to be in some sectors of congress. initially as a politician, agency professionals did not like this appointment because we did not want the agency turned into, in effect, just another cabinet office with a political hack or big donor running it. bush was able to allay those concerns very quickly just because he was basically a nice guy. everybody could get along with him. he was very honest about what his agenda was. and by the end of his 11 months he accomplished exactly what president ford wanted him to. webster gets appointed right after the iran/contra scandal, and you

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becoming exhausted themselves on trying to help people recover plus former secretary of defense leon panettaoins us live he has a lot to say about the number of people and companies leaving the bay area including oracle where he served on the board of directors, the news at 6 is next. >>now at 6 another milestone in the fight against coronavirus just a week after approving pfizer's covid vaccine. a panel of experts is now recommending that the fda authorize moderna's coronavirus shot bringing much needed protection to millions of americans. thanks for joining us tonight, i'm ken wayne and i'm pam moore, the same panel that granted approval for pfizer's covid-19 vaccine is also backing emergency use for moderna's version and the approval could happen as soon as force catherine heenan live in the studio now with details catherine yeah, this is very welcome news, pam and can a second vaccine of course badly needed the covid numbers just keep. >>climbing as we approach the holidays. >>as with the pfizer vaccine. full fda approval is expected soon could be tonight or tomorrow tonight that panel o

leon panetta, bob gates, others at that time. >> thank yo >> thank you for a wonderful conversation.can buy the book on the invitation there's a button you can pay for the link that you got today. you are going to like it i can tell you that right now. thank you very much. i'm sure we will talk again soon. >> thanks for having me.

intelligence because they never saw that intelligence -- they went out on a limb and we had people like leon panettang this letter. this is outrageous, the former intelligence officials are trying to put one over on the american people. >> sean: we've chronicled all this, you are on the show as we did very different coverage in the rest of the media mob. they get it wrong, they never retract, they never apologize, they never correct the record, they go onto the next conspiracy theory and the next life. >> it's a foreign concept because the people running these networks aren't interested in truth, they are interested in ratings, interested in clicks and interested in the result and the result in this case was joe biden as it stands now being the next president of the united states say for the president's legal challenges that are ongoing. you mentioned joe biden had another event today and this is an ongoing theme where he ran off the stage -- i may be dating myself but bo jackson at the old kingdom went right down the field and out the tunnel without answering any questions about something -- a topi

they didn't see anything, and they went out on a limb, and we had people like leon panetta letter.thisutrageous, with the former intelligence officials are trying to put one over on the americans, people. >> sean:er and joe, we chronicled all of this. you are on this show, as we did very different coverage than the rest of the media mob, and they get it wrong, they never retract, never apologize, never correct the record, they just go on to the next conspiracy theory and the next live. >> contrition is a foreign concept, sean, because the people running th these networks are interested in clicks and the results, and the result in this case was joe biden as it stands now being the next president of the united states, save for the president legal challenges that are ongoing. you mentioned o joe biden had another event today, and this is an ongoing theme now, where he ran off the stage, may be dating himself, like bo jackson at the with kingdom, without answering any questions about something, a topic iner terms of the hunter biden story that he was called a smear campaign, that his enabl

joining us for important perspective, former defense secretary and former cia director leon panetta.ecretary, first, when you try to put this in context, it is sometimes difficult compared to say a physical attack that americans are able to see. this is something that's a little abstract. they can't necessarily see the threat. put this into perspective for us. >> i've always said that cyber is the battlefield of the future and the nightmare we've always worried about is broad cyber attack that goes after our most important agencies and companies, and provides the basis for almost paralyzing our country as a consequence. what we're seeing now is without question the gravest cyber attack against the united states that we've seen. the danger isn't just spooig, it can can alter the truth and undermine trust in data. it is a serious, dangerous attack by the russians. >> so russia is suspected now to be behind this attack. it hasn't been confirmed. that appears to be the assessment now. knowing that, what can the u.s. do in response. >> there are a number of steps to be taken. obviously si

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in june, i moderated a virtual fireside chat with secretary leon panetta and ambassador susan rice forional commission on military and subservice. the commission had just released its final report. inspired to serve to the americans and the president, to build a culture of service in america. they did great work. in the executive summary, they made this point. in the course of its work, the commission identified a major flaw in the american educational system. the lack of exposure to high-quality civic education for students throughout much. fixing that, that's the hard part. i want to know what you think, go to my website @smerconish.com this hour and answer the survey question, do you believe the u.s. citizenship test should be increased in length and difficulty? joining me now to discuss is american historian kenneth c. davis, it's been 30 years since he wrote the best-selling book "don't know much about history." it's been updated. including "strongman" the rise of five dictators and the fall of democracy." mr. davis, love your books, do you think most americans could pass the new

leon panetta's memoir is a full bore autobiography covering his time in congress. his time at cia.his time previously as chief of staff. and then a bit as secretary of defense. all of these books went through our publication's review board so they do not tell any secrets out of school. they have all been vetted for national security information. and lastly, i'd like to just finish up with some measures of success that would be bases for evaluating, i think, an objective fashion how well a director succeeded. i've already indicated inferentially those that i don't think were very good and those i think were first rate. i'd certainly put down as kind of the ulysses grants and warren hardings of cia, people like deutch and turner and rayborn to some extent. i think the washingtons, lincolns and trumans and eisenhowers would be people like smith and mccone, to some extent hayden. i think they were all very excellent at doing what the presidents appointed them to do. so if you step back and look as a biographer like me would, these are the areas you'd focus on. whether they had a durabl

she is not steeped in the budget history or mechanics like a rob portman or josh bollton or leon panettawatch. she is such a political person and not somebody to control a 4.8 trillion dollar budget. >> trace: brad says it won't happen. the caveat is if the republicans maintain control of the senate. i want to play a sound bite and get your response. the former speaker newt gingrich on. >> you would have thought they would have run the traps, called a bunch of people and found out whether or not tanden was acceptable. i think it's a dangerous sign if this is the future of the biden administration that they can't do the basic blocking and tackling that you've got to do. >> trace: basic blocking and tackling means wouldn't you have run this up the flagpole before you said this thing out loud? >> quite frankly, trace, i guess we're in a time when you have to do that. i'm old enough to remember when presidents picked their own cabinet, their own staff, and it's a very different time. the bottom line here is although i'm hearing this from brad i'm not hearing from most of the republicans abou