but i really miss being the commander in chief of such fine men and women. >> the woodward city managersaid it was the first presidential visit to the town since dwight eisenhower who made a brief stop in the 1950s. >>> former secretary of state colin powell says president obama's agenda may be too ambitious and just too expensive. in an interview with john king from our sister network cnn, powell says he worries he's trying to tackle too many big issues at one time and he offered some advice. >> i think one of the challenges president obama has now is that he's got so many things on the table. these are issues that the american people find important. health care and so many other issues. but i think one of the cautions that has to be given to the president, and i've talked to some of his people about this is you can't have so many things on the table thank you can't absorb it all and you can't pay for it all. >> despite his concerns, powell says he has a good relationship with president obama. you can catch more of john king's interview with colin powell today on state of the union. th

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the fight atthat point. going after terroristsr sponsorsferrorismike iraq. rose: woodward and grah on washington. next. captioning sponsored by rose communication from our studi in new york city, this is charlie rose >> rose: bob woodward joins tonight from wasngton. he's an asciatedtor for the "washington post," he's considered one of the pre-eminent invtigative journalists of our time and certainly the most fous. his investation into t wateate coverup with fellow "washington post" repoer carl bernstein earn him fame and the paper pulitzer prize. he's since gone on to wte merous books aboutashington, including onhe presincy, the preme court and the milary. he recently accompaniedational securitydvisor jim jones to afghanistan and wrotabout the trip in the "st". i am pleased to have him back on this broadcast. welcome. thank you. >> i want to take the temperature of washington today as you see it. wh are pros saying about the presidt so far? >> they don know and there's a lot politics and a lot of rhetoricets thrown arod on bo sides. but thinkeople are ki of... if you're looking for at's going on or what's the sens and obvisly there's ner agreement, but it'sind of t shakespea

the fight at that point. going after terrorists or sponsors of terrorism like iraq. >> rose: woodward and graham on washington. next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: bob woodward joins me tonight from washington. he's an associatedtor for the "washington post," he's considered one of the pre-eminent investigative journalists of our time and certainly the most famous. his investigation into the watergate coverup with fellow "washington post" reporter carl bernstein earned him fame and the paper a pulitzer prize. he's since gone on to write numerous books about washington, including on the presidency, the supreme court and the military. he recently accompanied national security advisor jim jones to afghanistan and wrote about the trip in the "post". i am pleased to have him back on this broadcast. welcome. >> thank you. >> i want to take the temperature of washington today as you see it. what are pros saying about the president so far? >> they don't know and there's a lot of politics and a lot of rhetoric gets thrown around on both sides. but i think people are kind of... if you're looking for what's going on or what'

the broadcast. night, two washington repoers take a look at the city, e obama administratio and the foer secretarof defense dold rumsfeld. woodward of the "washingnter bob post >> here ts very young, inexperienced president s put so mucon the tabl once i had somebody count it up and it s 131 major initiatives legiation,ajor appointmts majo ideas. the da this came to me, 131, on the front pe of my own newspaper, the "washgton st," president obama issd an executive order ying he was going to clean the chapeake bay. he is undertaking just about everything and all of those things are le planes unlanded at t airport. they're circli and we n't know wt order they're going to land in, whether they're going to land at all. >> we conclude wi bradley aham, our "washiton post" ntagon corresponde talking about his book "by his own rule the ambition, successes and ultimate failures of donald rumsfeld." >> he was veryquick, whin hours after the attk, to focus on some kindf military action against ir. and even while planning proceeded too io afghanistan rufeld continued toargue thin the administration about wideng the fig at that point. going af