Former secretary of state Colin Powell, who served through George W. Bush’s first term, will appear on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, January 13, to reportedly make the case for Chuck Hagel to head the defense department. Powell has been critical of Republicans in recent years and made high-profile endorsements of Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. The retired four-star general was also critical of the Iraq war after leaving the Bush White House in 2005.

Powell’s appearance will come exactly 10 years after a meeting he had with President Bush in the Oval Office. That meeting was first reported by the journalist Bob Woodward in a 2004 book: