no mention of that fact. >> we have video -- i don't know if you've ever seen this from general tommy franks. >> i'm interested in knowing it because that's a readiness issue now. if we've got that many people deployed into your part of the world and we don't have the ability to support them and the first people onscene were a french medical team and then a royal navy vessel of some kind, then we start getting people on by air shortly after that, that skip her his hands full for a long time before anybody could help them. skipper had his hands full, skipper lippold. and if i could say before this body, did an absolutely miraculous job both on behalf of his crew and his ship. >> without having had any other briefing, i would have concurred because his ship is still afloat. >> surprised that he gave you that support? >> actually, i'm not. general franks is a very, very generous and kind man. he also is very good at recognizing superior performance. the only thing -- when he was aboard that morning, he just appeared to not really -- just really understand the impact that this attack had had on

the reason i held it up, there was a point in your book were you are quite irritated by general tommy franks. >> i would not say i was irritated. i was just astounded at the fact that he came aboard the ship and was totally disconnected from the reality of what we had been through. he was walking around the ship like it was a garrison tour. he kept walking around saying, you are doing a great job, have one of my coins. and backslapping with the sailors. it was not that i thought the crew did not appreciate what he was doing, but he was the central command commander. he was the guy responsible for putting my ship into that port and having the access to the broadest level of national intelligence, should have been able to make a determination as to whether we belonged there or not. we were completely blindsided. and yet he made no mention of that fact any time during the thivisit. >> we have some video, though. i do not know if you have ever seen this. >> i am interested in knowing because that is a readiness issue right now. if we do not have the ability to support them and the first people o