but jack lou is running through the white house saying "what? the president does not get a phone call returned from the speaker of the house?" and he's right about that. you should be able to have that kind of communication and they should have the kind of relationship where obama should be able to say to somebody on boehner's staff "get him on the phone, i want to talk right now." but they didn't have it. you know, when the election in 2010 as i lay out and the republicans won the house, nobody had the phone number... >> rose: why wouldn't boehner take the call? i know it's come out... when they wanted to congratulate him. what did boehner say when you asked him why wouldn't you take a phone call from the president of the united states? >> two answers: he's trying to work out a deal with congressional leaders, which he was in the process of doing. >> rose: that's easy enough to say to the president "mr. president, i'm not there yet, i'm working on it, call you back." >> exactly. obama made the exact point to me. he didn't understand it. you cou

jack ] hey, who's boring now? [ male announcer ] get more access with the citi card. [ crowd cheering, mouse clicks ] lou: back nowpanel of foreign-policy experts. let me turn to you, what are the prospects now for u.s. interest in policy in the middle east given what has happened now to our ambassador to the embassy and libya and egypt. >> what has happened now over the past 24 hours is the result of our policy, the administration's policy going back specifically since the beginning. we discussed this together the arab spring i spring in egypt aa began with women, minorities, but the administration chose instead of working with them from foreign aid, the white house, they chose with more rebels. muslim brotherhood has allies, those who organized it. lou: is the brotherhood involved at various levels i than what we have seen take place, looking at the streets, live pictures of the u.s. embassy in cairo with more people on the streets. what do you think? >> the first question to be debated today is precisely this. our partners, the government of egypt controlled by the muslim brotherhood are part of it. do you thin

time consecutive games lieder passing lou gehrig on this date 17 years ago and tonight the orioles are honoring him with their living legend statue series. you got jack, you got frank and you got eddie and even got jim palmer up there. what better night to do it than when the orioles take on the yankees in game one of the four game series that's going to be for the division playoff race that we're in the middle of right now. before the game all about cal. >> even though he retired almost ten years ago a little over ten years ago now, you know, people still recognize cal's name no matter where you go across the country. and even around the world. certainly the impact he had on the game transcends just baseball. >> reporter: monica says gates are going to open at 5:00 tonight and the ceremony at 5:15. there's going to be a pre-game only field ceremony at 6:20 prior to the first pitch at 7:05. the game tonight here at the yards is a sellout. but bar low is saying if you make your way out to the ballpark, if you have that ticket, be patient because they're expecting a big crowd. now megan coming up later on "good morning maryland," we're going to take yo