ahead, mike mullen will be here. >> he will have power to prosecute. >> this is wide ranging. the fbi director vacancy has become a challenge. >> it seems to be supported on both sides of the aisle. >> it's been re-energized and somebody has been ptut a the top that both democrats and republicans have praised so this can no longer be knocked town as a partisan witch hunt. >> the family says they'll work with the medicalmi exaner to feg out what was happening. >> he was just here in the studio. >> last month. and seemed in very good shape. >>> last year the league rolled out new rules about concussion protocol. it may not have subjected the biggest star. >> he's saying, man, i'm glad i'm not part of this anymore. hello. oh, for god's sake. would it help if i said i'm too old for this? >>> i'm charlie king and norah o'donnell. president trump responded this morning topintment of a special counsel with ties to the campaign and russia. the president tweeted moments ago, this is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in american history. >> the justice department announced

a parade of fire trucks and ambulances soluted 911 dispatchers, john bush, casey mccardy and mike mullene trio punched out of work for the last time. >> have a safe night and get home. there are people waiting for you. >> i want to leave with my health and prosperity. hopefully, everybody stays safe. >> together these men have 90 years experience serving the people of camden county. mr. bush is also the fire chief in new jersey. >> action sports sunday is next on channel6. "action news" continues tomorrow morning at 6:30. >> now for walte and the entire "action news" team, i'm sarah bloomquist. have a great night. >> goodnight. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tonight on sports sunday, the phillies suffer their ninth straight series loss. >> it is gone. >> what more can manager pete >> welcome to sports sunday, alongside mike missanelli, i'm jeff skversky. are you counting theda

we begin with admiral mike mullen who was a primary adviser to president obama. >> you go in the office and closing the door and giving the president very frank advice, telling the president where he's wrong is very tough. and every president needs somebody to do that. >> charlie: we conclude with cbs sportscaster and his mission to do something about alzheimer's. >> hoping ultimately to cure but at this stage if we can slow progression and doing trials joe can talk to you about. the amazing thing about the hope is if you can get the disease early, block and tackle it, knock it down, you do it at an early stage we call mild cognitive impairment. if you can prevent it from progressing from mild cognitive impairment to full-blown alzheimer's you can lead an almost normal life at that stage with more hope than we've had. >> charlie: with mike mullen and the effort to do something about alzheimer's when we continue. funding for "charlie rose" is provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose comm

ahead, reaction from admiral mike mullen.> bringing in robert mueller really changes things. as special counsel, he will have the power to prosecute. >> the new flynn revelations add to the list of white house woes and filling the fbi director vacancy is a challenge. >> mueller is supported on both sides of the aisle. >> this investigation has been re-energized and somebody has been put at the top that both republicans and democrats has been praised. >> roger ailes helped rupert murdoch launch fox news more than two decades ago. >> this stunned everybody. 52 years old. >> he was just here in this studio. >> he was here in this studio last month. >> yeah. he seemed in very good shape. >> last year the league rolled out new rules about the concussion protocol. these comments suggest those may not have protected the league's biggest star. >> robert mueller. actually he ran the fbi before comey. i can only imagine him sitting at home watching all this comey stuff and saying to himself, i'm glad i'm not part of this anymore. ring,

>> admiral mike mullen has said on occasion that the biggest threat to this country is our national debt so i always like to bring in that this is actually a national security issue in so many ways. i think the point is absolutely right. i think one of the real problems with this budget is that the president has taken so many things off the table. he's talked about what he wants to do. he wants to increase defense, increase infrastructure, but at the same time he's not open to raising revenue. so i think revenue neutral tax reform makes a whole lot of sense. but really troubling is he's said he's not going to touch social security and medicare, despite the fact that they face major financing challenges. that means there is a huge amount of pressure on a very small sliver of the budget. the areas where we have public investments and programs for kids and welfare programs. and, yes, many of these things there are savings to be found, there are overhauls, but you can't balance the budget from that small a piece of the budget. so we need to not take things off of the table when figuring out

charlie: admiral mike mullen is here.1 after serving four years as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. that role made him because military advisor to president bush and president obama during the wars in iraq and afghanistan. he now teaches at the princeton school of international affairs and has been a frequent guest on this program. i'm pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. admiral mullen: is good to be back. charlie: what are you doing since retirement? admiral mullen: a mix of things. all of volunteer side,

charlie: admiral mike mullen is here.ur years as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. that role made him military advisor to president bush and president obama during the wars in iraq and afghanistan. he now teaches at the princeton woodrow wilson school of international affairs and he has been a frequent guest on this program. i'm pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. admiral mullen: it is good to be back. charlie: what are you doing

about mike mullen, chief of naval operations, and left to become chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was a big pacific admiral. he had to have his picture taken with fat leonard, because everybody had their picture taken with fat leonard. gary ruff was in the same position. , even if itd ties was just that they had their picture taken with him at a party. potential that you named somebody, and he would come under investigation, and embarrassed the navy again. i've never had a straight answer admiral greener it was under investigation. i have asked many times. -- indson was seen as some ways as a clean alternative. the navy took the unprecedented move of taking him out of nr, the head of naval nuclear of this, he's in charge very, very serious engineering that is very specific, he was taken out of that and became chief of naval operations. that's a piece of fallout from gdma right there. without this investigation, he probably would still be nr. brian: let me drop back 23 years. weevil show you -- we show a -- frank,.k . i want to run this, because this is another time in navy's past

charlie: admiral mike mullen is here.e retired in 2011 after serving four years as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. that role made him because military advisor to president bush and president obama during the wars in iraq and afghanistan. he now teaches at the princeton school of international affairs and has been a frequent guest on this program. i'm pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. admiral mullen: is good to be back. charlie: what are you doing since retirement? admiral mullen: a mix of things. deb and iunteer side, spend a lot of time with that in their family. charities. to you mentioned the teaching which i enjoyed more than anything else. i am on the couple of boards, general motors and sprint. which has also been growth for me to learn about how those businesses work. most particularly, i stayed out of the fray in washington consciously. although i think i am as concerned about what is going on there is anybody else. i don't just mean now. i have been concerned about the paralysis, the polariz

up speed and by april 21st, 2011, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the time, admiral mike mullen, attended a dress rehearsal with a team of navy s.e.a.l.s at a mock compound they had set up in the nevada desert. >> i met that night every single member of the night of the rehearsal, every single member that was on that mission. and i got to look each of them in the eye, they showed me in their execution of rehearsal and also in that steely eyed glare that they give you that they were ready to go. >> did they suspect anything when the chairman of the joint chiefs came to watch them practice and drill? >> i never asked that question. i certainly suspect that they did. >> when did they learn exactly what their mission was and who their target was? >> actually you have to ask bill mccraven that. but they're not idiots. i mean, they knew certainly how critical this was, they knew who they were and who they were working with. >> one week after the rehearsal, the launch window opened up, a favorable forecast and a moonless night, essential for an attack by air. they knew it could be mont

we begin with admiral mike mullen who was a primary adviser to president obama. >> you go in the office closing the door and giving the president very frank advice, telling the president where he's wrong is very tough. and every president needs somebody to do that. >> charlie: we conclude with cbs sportscaster and his mission to do something about alzheimer's. >> hoping ultimately to cure but at this stage if we can slow progression and doing trials joe can talk to you about. the ama

because mike mullen is a military man who talks about the real costs of cutting global health, pet frogramsr sub san african at a time when people talk about counterterrorism programs that we will see the results in major ways in terms of military needs. >> your point is very well taken. and the issue here is if we are serious about trying to prevent young people around the world from becoming terrorists, from becoming anti-american, they have got to know -- poor people all over the world have got to know what used to be the case is that the united states of america stands with them, that well do everything we can to eradicate illnesses that for a few cents a day can keep children from dying. that we will work to help educate the poor people of this world, that we will provide housing, we'll provide nutrition. that is what america used to stand for. we were a beacon of help for poor people. but to suggest that the future is simply to put more money into the military and cut back on the kinds of support and state department programs that uplifted poor people around the world, that made them