and the mutual-fund of hours, john berger had written a story about fortune, a key in and helped me at the end and helped so enormously, helpful and fun to work with and it was easier to edit someone else's work, he invented my work and not would at his and it was the blender that created this book. >> host: you got indoctrination into journalism. >> guest: welcome to journalism, welcome to writing, this is the stress, the stereotype of the writer is so fraught. this is it. and at the end, a lot of work yourself and i commend you for that. >> guest: the easiest parts were getting the interesting stuff, the hardest part was writing anything about myself. entirely uncomfortable about that. i had gotten a number of offers to write the book absent a financial crisis. i have no interest in doing that. i wanted to write about it and john forced me to put some stuff in about myself which i was very uncomfortable with. >> host: i read a lot about my own child in my book and that was my favorite part to write. i am more of a narcissist, i don't know. i think we have a question over here. >> new

another mutual friend of ours john berger who had written a story, the story about me on fortune, came in and helped me up and and was so enormously helpful and fun to work with. then i could have -- it's always easier to edit someone else's work so he would edit my work and i would edit his. sort of the blend that created this book. >> got it indoctrination into journalism. every time you called me and said i don't know what what to i said welcome to journalism. it's not easy. this is why the stereotype of the writer is so fraught. you really experienced it because you did write the book yourself. and with john's help again but you really did a lot of the work yourself and i commend you for that. >> the hardest part -- the easiest parts were getting the interesting stuff about the states down. the hardest part was writing anything about myself. that was entirely and comfortable so i had gotten a number of offers to write a book after the financial crisis and i have no interest in doing that. but i really believed in this topic so i wanted to write about it. john forced me to put some

another mutual friend of ours john berger who -- she wrote the story about me on fortune. he came in and help me at the end and was so enormously help all in fun to work with. so then it was easier to edit somebody else's work so he would edit my work and i would edit his and it was the plunder that created this book. >> ugandan and dr. nation into journalism. i don't know what to do. i said welcome to journalism. welcome to writing. it's not easy. this is the stress and angst and this is why the stereotype of the writer is so fraught. you really experienced it because you did read the book yourself with john's help at the end but you really did a lot of the work yourself and i commend you for that. >> the hardest part -- the easiest parts were getting the interesting stuff about the states down. the hardest part was writing anything about myself. i was entirely uncomfortable about that. i had gotten a number of offers to write it look after the financial crisis and i had no interest in doing that. i really believed in this topic so i wanted to write about it and john forc

john king, gloria berger. gloria, first to you. did you get the sense from the president that if the house of representatives would reject this resolution, he would still be determined to go forward with a strike? >> yeah, i did. i got the clear sense that he feels the moral obligation to go forward with a strike. what was so interesting to me, wolf, was that the president said, look, this is not my red line. this is the world's red line. this is not my credibility, this is the world's credibility. and this is not iraq. okay. because this is not the question of weapons of mass destruction. we know he said that this chain of custody of these chemical weapons both directly to assad and he also made the case, i understand why people were questioning my not going to congress because if i had been in congress and been a senator, i would have demanded congressional authorization and that he said this change of course had been brewing in his mind for quite some time. but he said, you know, i'm not in this alone. it's congress' credibility