woolsey left. bill clinton turned to one of his advisors and said, i never want to see that man again. he almost never did. woolsey had literally one meeting with the president and at one point there was a freak accident on the south lawn of the white house, a small plane crashed and killed the pilot. afterwards, woolsey said to the press that was me trying to get an appointment with bill clinton. >> oh, my god. >> so was not a very productive relationship and woolsey met his demise over the james scandal, that case was the most serious mole probably an american intelligence history. intelligence history happened on his watch, and it essentially ended his tenure. >> and what about the best relationship? >> there would be a number of contenders for that probably. i would say that bob gates and george h.w. bush had a very good relationship. leon panetta and barack obama had a very good relationship. john brennan and obama certainly. here's a spoiler alert. for those who know that i wrote another book

, where very it rations were presented, l37 partners entered into discussions with the friends of woolsey. our office has hosted those conversations and so impressed with the good faith and progress with which they have moved toward an agreement on several options for the future of this parcel. i don't know if those options match the alternatives that were presented today. my understanding is that the underlying terms of this agreement have now been accepted by those parties and the project attorneys are wrapping up the details. we are looking forward with great optimism to see the m.o.u. executed by the end of this year. it's really been remarkable to witness turn around from a point where there were meetings where people were pointing and accusing and yelling at each other to a time where there is compromise and common ground. i do thank you for giving me the time to speak and we are looking forward to the future of this project with a partnership between l37 and friends of 770. i also want to mention that supervisor ronan is very supportive of items 10 and 11, which you continued today

"afterwards", woolsey said to the press, that was me trying to get an appointment with bill clinton.oh my god. >> was not very productive relationship. he met his demise over the james scandal. that case is the most serious in american intelligence history. it happened on his watch and it essentially ended the. >> what about that relationship? >> there are a number of contenders for that probably. i would say bob gates and george h.w. bush had a very good relationship. leon pannetta and barack obama had a very good relationship. john brennan and obama, certainly. a spoil alert, for those who know i will another book called the gatekeeper is about the white house chief of staff, some of the attributes that make a great white house chief of staff also served cia directors as well. it is not coincidence in my view that leon banana with the gold standard at both. there were certainly other great cia directors but pannetta was right up there with the best. that's partly because it's a lot to do with the fact that when he became cia director for obama, he was 70 years old and had been arou

needless to say, woolsey did not have much of a relationship with president clinton. rarely saw him. they met only a couple of times in formal meetings. you heard the old story about the airplane crashing on the white house lawn and people joked that that was jim woolsey trying to get an appointment to see the president. [ laughter ] and he'll be the first one to tell you that he was pretty much read out of foreign policy. the clinton white house, national security environment was run by the national security advisers, secretary of state, secretary of defense were predominant figures and such. george tenant becomes his third director. and tenant is an interesting individual because he's the only director who falls into two categories, from 1997 to 2001, george tenant was not much of a presence at cia. he was popular and people loved to see him down in the cafeteria, backslapping and viewing his sigcigar, but he wat a person of clout at the agency. the agency was moving along in this post cold war period, finding its moorings, looking for new targets and avenues of int

, where very it rations were presented, l37 partners entered into discussions with the friends of woolsey. our office has hosted those conversations and so impressed with the good faith and progress with which they have moved toward an agreement on several options for the future of this parcel. i don't know if those options match the alternatives that were presented today. my understanding is that the underlying terms of this agreement have now been accepted by those parties and the project attorneys are wrapping up the details. we are looking forward with great optimism to see the m.o.u. executed by the end of this year. it's really been remarkable to witness turn around from a point where there were meetings where people were pointing and accusing and yelling at each other to a time where there is compromise and common ground. i do thank you for giving me the time to speak and we are looking forward to the future of this project with a partnership between l37 and friends of 770. i also want to mention that supervisor ronan is very supportive of items 10 and 11, which you continued today

of it down across a good parts of western europe through the british isles down across france to woolsey out small snow for the alps will snow for the pyrenees as well i'm all showers mobic somebody down pulls there into central parts of the mediterranean around course karate push across to will see which was italy as well heavy rain in play there across a good parts of greece just not seeing across much of i so want to make its way a little further east which is because through sunday some big downpours could lead to some localized flooding but there's that dry weather pushing into the hearts of europe as we go on through sunday down towards the southwest said lousy dry and. brought blustery showers rattling in across the northwest 10 celsius for london in paris in the cloud and the ranks out a bright supercross know the pulse of africa will see some showers there from northern parts of algeria good put it to this is seeing some wet weather along with northern areas of libya. but. dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic let's start with some of the on the ground realities af

in some cases, there was very little relationship as woolsey would tell you and brzezinski to some extent but if you try to evaluate a director's success on some kind of objective indices, these would be the types of things that you would look for. and if you were to try to tell a new director how to do his business based on what predecessors did or didn't do, i would suggest these kinds of things. if you're going to come in with an agenda, make sure everybody knows about it from the outset and you keep them posted. nobody likes surprises. least of all intelligence professionals. we like secrets but not surprises. you want to make sure that you are ultimately the man who takes the fall but you also want to make sure that you push out authority to the operational level so people can do their jobs. and then you back them up when they need resources and when they get into a bit of a bind. you don't bring in, especially if you're an outsider, outsiders to run our professional organization. you use the professionals to administer your changes. this was hayden's success. this was mccone's succe