he confirmed that indeed andy card and steve hadley, two of the president's top lieutenants had tried to recruit him to be the director of national intelligence. i think this is very interesting contemporaneous view of the statue immediately after it passed and indeed was really looking down the road to some of the problems that dni would have been his first years. he gave me his e-mail said he sent to the white house in december and january of 2004, 2005, critiquing the law and trying to lay out some of the conditions he would ask president bush for cover for him to even consider it. secretary gates, and i have this in the book, described the new law as quote, strange. he said the president needs to make here that the new director of national intelligence ahead of the intelligence community. that's an air budget to your art coordinator who just has common denominator, the ability to convene people and only hash out the common denominator about policies and directives affecting the u.s. intelligence community eventually, secretary gates turned down the offer. she said sort of funnily

. >> steve hadley if we identify richard nixon and henry kissinger as the people who open engagement with china with mao and zhou en lai i think it's fair to say that zbigniew brzezinski was the person who consolidated that opening with deng xiaoping in a period that is less celebrated the probably no less important. i want to ask you to think aboue chinese had in saying through their new president xi jinping that they were seeking a new form of great power relationship with the united states. i know you have been in china and please share some thoughts with us. >> one of the things, china, really the growth of asia generally in terms of this economic power and within it china's growth, is going to be a real opportunity but also a challenge for the united states over the next couple of decades and one of the things i worry about quite frankly is that dr. brzezinski and brent and kissinger in many ways have carried the u.s. china relationship and that has contributed in office but they have been for 40 years the face, the u.s. face to u.s.-china relations. i worry about where our coun