ryan gives the response. >> this weekend on book tv, almost ten years after the attacks on the world trade center, cnn national security peterergen looks at the longest war. also this weekend, william hartonk and david eisenhower on the grote of the military complex. and edward mcclellan on president obama's run for the illinois state. >> tonight we'll talk with former president bush about his life and book. >> you're through with politics. >> yeah. >> define that. >> i don't want to go out and campaign for candidates, i don't want to be the money raiser, i don't want to be on talk shows giving my opinion. i think it's bad for the country, frankly, to have a former president criticize his successor. look, it's tough enough to be president as it is without a former president undermining the current president. plus, i don't want to do that. in other words, i don't want to be on tv. >> it's about over. >> it is. but i like -- i tell people that one of the interesting things, sacrifice. i don't think you sacrifice to run for president but to the extent you do you lose your anonymity. and i like the idea of trying to regain anony