obama was elected to the u.s.ank you so much, gentlemen. >> cassandra west was a "chicago tribune" reporter who interviewed mrs. obama in this time of transition. >> at that point, how important was her career? >> i think her career was still important to her. the candidate's wife part was new to her. that -- when i talked to her later, that was never part of her plan. >> and just three years later, another curve ball. mr. obama planned to run for the white house. she was stunned. >> no. you can't be serious. because we had just come off of a few years ago, a tough u.s. senate race. we're going to press the easy button for a little while, right? >> wrong. the campaign hit full swing and sacrifices had to be made. one of those sacrifices? mrs. obama's own burgeoning career. >> it was not an easy decision. >> jane newton-small covered mrs. obama for "time" magazine. >> it was something they obviously spoke a lot about. and they used to have these sort of kitchen table sessions where, you know, they would sometimes m

"michelle obama turns 50." >> please welcome the first lady of the united states, michelle obama. >> december 16th, 2013. michelle obama shares the stage with santa claus at a washington, d.c. children's hospital. one 13-year-old patient has a very important question. >> i know your birthday is coming up. and i just wanted to know what you're going to be doing. >> you know, i'm going to be 50. yeah. 50. 50 and fabulous. january 17th. and i'm not exactly sure yet what i'm going to do. but it might involve some dancing. >> it's all about dancing. the guests have been told to wear comfortable shoes. >> "people" magazine reporter sandra soberi westphal scored an exclusive interview with the first lady about her milestone birthday. >> she had a girls week with her girlfriends from chicago, oprah winfrey, gayle king. they spent a week in hawaii. now she's coming back for a dance party being thrown by her husband. michelle had thrown him an epic 50th birthday party. and they are so competitive that he really wants to one-up her. >> mrs. obama was extremely candid about ageing and fitness. >

my name is michelle obama.ed to this guy, barack obama. >> and she came under fire for this controversial statement. >> for the first time in my adult lifetime, i'm really proud of my country. >> and it caused this enormous firestorm, and it was one example of several that the campaign cringed over. >> after some polish, and some practise, mrs. obama's campaign skills would culminate here. >> you see, that is why i love this country. >> as soon as the american people could see her and judge her for themselves, she was a hit. and it's been that way ever since. >> the sacrifices, travel and hard work would pay off, in an historic election result. >> the nation's next first lady, michelle obama. first lady. hey guys! sorry we're late. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster talking on

my name is michelle obama.is guy, barack obama. >> and she came under fire for this controversial statement. >> for the first time in my adult lifetime, i'm really proud of my country. >> and it caused this enormous firestorm, and it was one example of several that the campaign cringed over. >> after some polish, and some practise, mrs. obama's campaign skills would culminate here. >> you see, that is why i love this country. >> as soon as the american people could see her and judge her for themselves, she was a hit. and it's been that way ever since. >> the sacrifices, travel and hard work would pay off, in an historic election result. >> the nation's next first lady, michelle obama. >>> coming up, an unconventional first lady. [ male announcer ] the new new york is open. open to innovation. open to ambition. open to bold ideas. that's why new york has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new yo

but in the obama economy, in the obama economy saying let's cure income inequality, let's raise taxes, soak the rich, that doesn't work altogether. we're living in the fifth year of the obama economy, you think things are going well? then tell the 54% of americans that disapprove of the job he's doing. >> let me switch gears because there's a big story out of "the new york times magazine" about hilly land and the planet that is the center of the universe that is now hillary clinton. the president is going to lay out benchmarkers in his 2014 state of the union address next week. do you think that he has to consider hillary when he lays out those benchmarkers and think about the fact that she will have to own or disown many of the failures or successes that he lays out over the next year. is that something he is thinking about as he prepares this speech? >> i can't speak for him. i highly doubt that he's viewing a speech in 2014 as a benchmarker as anything more than what he wants to set down as his stake in the ground to continue bringing our economy back from the crisis that we walked

i think in the general, obama will have terrible ratings and obama care will be her big obstacle. but there is a real challenge that a left wing challenger like elizabeth warren could derail her in the democratic primary. there is a new finite defined left wing of the democratic party that is emerging. elizabeth warren is probably a prime example, bill de blasio. they want to raise the social security benefits, reduce the retirement age, eliminate the ceo salaries. and those are not positions that hillary will support. and with hillary's contributions from goldman sachs and others she is really vulnerable to a left-wing challenge, just like she was in 2008. >> why do i keep hearing whis r whispers that she had health issues that were par more severe than was publicly revealed? have you heard the same things, and if so what? >> no, you know, i don't have any information. but the minute she left the secretary of state, the first two things she did wasches for goldman sachs at $200,000 each. the left wing of the democratic party is not going to be happy about that. and hillary's clos

and the inner obama doesn't like war.ne >> well, the inner obama went e out.litary said we need this many troops to do the mission, he gave them considerably less. again, i repeat -- >> at bob gates's recommendation. that was gates' number.ep >> and, again, i repeat. he pulled people out in the middle of the fighting season. if he really didn't believe in policies, if he didn't think it was important to inflict maximum damage on the taliban and ally extremist elements and then whys did we even have the surge to begin with? >> george, 30 seconds left.ge where do you think the biggest 3 impact of this book will fall? >> i think it will fall on the i general assessment of the obama presidency. and particularly the statement of hillary clinton and barack obama saying that they opposed the iraq war surge for purely political reasons. >> we've got a take a break here. when we come back, more on the legacy of former israeli prime o minister ariel sharon. stay with us. in my world, ll isn't a street. return on investment isn't the only return i'm looking foard to. and

she supports obama care, i'm against obama care. i'm for energy production, she's for embracing the obama style epa practices in texas. so she's a dead loser on the issues that matter most to texans and so her only hope is to get caught up in all these kind of ridiculous a arguments that are taking place right now. >> it is disheartening when a race gets to that point, but anyway, attorney general nice to see you, sir. >> you too, greta, thanks. >>> joining us a panel jason riley from "the wall street journal," a. bmt stoddard. am i being too sensitive of this use of standing in so much literature or is this sort of a covert way to mock greg abbott because he's in a wheelchair? >> i wouldn't put it past some of these activists to go there. but i think it's the davis campaign that's desperate. it's interesting that they're calling abbott desperate. but if you look at the polling, in november, there was a poll that showed abbott 15 points ahead. davis got caught in a lie and it's brought her this national attention, and a lot of ameri

are you an obama supporter? >> i'm an obama supporter. with a lot of ink in it and start doing the things that need to be done to get the country moving, get jobs out here. if the congress doesn't want to work, fine. we'll do it another way. >> i think that's a reference to the executive orders he promises he's going to do to work around congress to try to get the agenda done. all right. thank you. sir, what are you hoping to hear tonight? >> i'm hoping to hear more about student indebtedness, getting students where they can be able to afford to pay their loans. and also more information about background checks in the field of mental health because the people with mental health disabilities. >> thank you very much. wolf, getting a good cross-section here. we're going to get back to you, get those dials going. people are going to tell us what they like, what they don't like. we'll be here all night. >> suzanne with a focus group in des moines. we'll get back to you as well. you can also follow the president's state-of-the-union address in

we are now more than five years of the obama presidency and despite the big legislative successes of his first year in office has for years have been very difficult for those for president republicans have done their best to sabotage and obstruct his every move and at times he has seemed all too willing to compromise with his opponents on the right according to pew research center poll numbers on the eve of last night's state of the union address show that the president had an approval rating of forty three percent just two points higher than his all time low forty one percent last november last night's state of the union was no doubt an important speech for. obama needed to both redefine his own agenda heading into the second year of his second term and at the same time as the effective head of his party give democrats campaigning in this year's midterm elections a message to run on so how did he succeed joining me now for more on this is shanna bellows democratic candidate for the u.s. senate in maine and adam green co-founder bolpur resins and the progressive change campaign commi

obama. to some degree the president is promoting his friend and his friend's company. at the same time i think slightly trying to shame walmart. >> how? >> walmart is did etested by th left? >> they adopt shop there. >> i didn't say that. >> come on. >> walmart is nonunionized and has always opposed unionization and the left accuses it of being big, bad, and ugly. i think the president is trying to shame them tonight. >> he talks about executive orders back in 2007 he said there's been tendency on the part of this administration, speaking of president bush, to hide behind executive privilege. every time there's something a little shaky taking place. sounds like himself right now. >> may i suggest one executive order right at the beginning of his speech tonight. ladies and gentlemen, please hold your applause until i finished, so we don't have this constant bobbing up and down countless times which makes the hall of congress look not to -- >> the speech goes on. i'm going to high-five you. gr

obama was against the war in iraq. my guy, john edwards, had come out and given a speech saying he had made a mistake when he voted for it. at this point everybody in the party was moving towards being against the war, which, you know, and so she -- yeah, it's a political campaign for president. i don't think there is anything wrong with had she been secretary of state and done that, yeah, i think that would have been a mistake. >> i think it's lousy any time. this is one place you don't play politics. >> you know, again on the schizophrenic nature of the book, he says that she was a great secretary of state, a really strong on national security and an ally he could count on on security issues. in the book he says that and then does this sort of off handed, said that she was political in her decision against the iraq surge, not afghanistan. >> that's what i said with mayor giuliani. so weird on one hand he slams someone and then he says he is the best person. >> he slams himself. in the book he does. it's pretty intere

i did not see president obama do that. and i said, as i write in the book, it was this absence of passion. this absence of a conviction of the importance of success that disturbed me. >> one democratic senator points out, despite any disputes, the president did send a surge of troop as gates wanted. >> very interesting in his book, he gives high praise to president obama making decisive decisions. and just about every decision he made, secretary gates agreed with. so the bottom line was that there was more harmony than you would think the headlines on the critique of his book. >> gates also asserts that former secretary of state hillary clinton said she voted against president bush's surge of troops into iraq for political reasons. here's what one gop senator said about that. >> i think that for her to say that she, of course, she may deny it. i haven't heard any response from her. the fact that i hnl heard anything from her leads me to believe she probably won't. but to be politically motivated to make those very signific

their argument being made on the right is obama has become a tyrant and that this is. too much executive power well the beltway is all about blame that's how you get ahead and this is at least two countries and obstructionism when you have deadlock you have gridlock that's an expression of the democracy of the electorate itself but one thing that i do believe that i think the politics of this may work this executive action i believe with the numbers you showed with the fifty one percent and what over eighty percent may be good politics to try to point out to the american people i'm not to blame they're to blame or they're more to blame but again the executive action is going to cut both ways i think even especially progressives are going to start to say wait a minute if you're so willing to unilaterally at why are we still at war why is one top of the not closed why haven't you shut down the n.s.a. as a lot of how do is not close because there is actual law this in all cases this is like reagan you know with the senate needs to i mean by a late at the law there is some

as obama stops -- lisa stop being nice and call republicans out -- to stopt obama needs being nice and call republicans out. john boehner would not even bring it up for a vote. you have a jobs bill. john boehner would not bring it up for a vote. it is a huge opposition to obama. i think it is personal. i think obama needs to acknowledge it and call it out for what it is. >> thank you. independent line. because i amalling concerned about the unemployment as well, especially extended benefits. i want to see what president obama has to say about that. >> and you have been out of work since? caller: may 2013. i'm a veteran. i'm 60 years old. is they income we have money she gets from social security. >> what have you been doing when the unemployment benefits are cut off? caller: living off the money i have saved up. right now that is pretty much gone. >> thank you for the call. the president will address the long-term unemployment issue and extending the benefits for americans who lost their benefits as of december 28. this is the scene outside the white house. we will continue to watch as

ok sam i'd like to go back to you what what president does barack obama. remind you of can you name one one that he has successfully or unsuccessfully. i think he's aspiring to be a democratic reagan i think he's someone who has had a number of bold policies particularly with obamacare he's inherited a great recession he's had to face two wars that he inherited so i think that is probably the president that he wishes to be and he mentioned this in his initial campaign in two thousand and eight really got under the skin of the clintons when he made that comparison to ronald reagan it's very interesting doug it seems like any president now that wants to be successful has to be one variant of ronald reagan in one way or another because we saw the clintons you know bill clinton tried very much the same thing even george w. bush did and least imagery in language maybe not necessarily in policy but perception and in politics perception is about ninety nine percent of the job that's true and particularly they like to copy reagan's lack of guile he just wouldn't a

obama's psyche and state of mind. just when you thought the polar vortex was a thing of the past, another round of bitterly cold air sweeping across the nation, temperatures near zero in upper midwest, expected to hit northeast tomorrow, experts believe this will last a week or more not just a few days, freezing temperatures also brings with them, snow. 4 to 8 inches forecast for the east coast from washington to new york, news day, last month's polar vortex helped make it coldest december on record since 2009. >> directv whether or no weathel blocked out, second biggest pay tv operator wants to reduce fees it pays to weather channel by more than 20%, channel wants a slight increase. directv, which accounts for 50% of the weather channel's poll revenue has replaced the channel with weather nation. on wall street, markets closed for the martin luther king holiday, police arrested two mexican citizens in connection with a target security breach, the man and woman were arrested at the texas border, nearly 100 fraudulent

>> obama inherited a mess because bush refused the demands. if you read the book, he talks about the fact -- don't ask the troops. >> when obama came in he gave them more troops as he said in the campaign and then when the military said it is not enough he gave more, when he announced it he said until 2009. he asked them. the military can you turn it around by then and they said yes. and then they started leaking things to the press. general mccrystal goes over and gives a speech in europe at the international institute of strategic studies criticizing obama. ask then petraeus leaked it and said he doesn't like the fact that there is a day to withdraw. obama said that can you get it done by the end of 2011 and they said yes. >> i appreciate that history and that background. as for right now today with this kind of, i think, top level betrayalal on the part of a former cabinet member, how can anybody take this guy seriously? he apparently does not tell george bush the truth about what he thinks and does not tell the president of the united stat

i did not see president obama do that. >> and president obama had a chance to respond to some of the comments in the book. >> secretary gates did an outstanding job for me as secretary of defense. as he notes, he and i and the rest of my national security team came up with a strategy for afghanistan that was the right strategy, and we are continuing to execute it. and i think that what's important is that we got the policy right. whenever you've got men and women that you're sending into harm's way, after having already made enormous investments of blood and treasure in another country, then part of your job as commander in chief is to sweat the details on it. war is never easy. and i think that all of us who have been involved in that process understand that. >>> okay, he had a lot more to say and a lot more coming out about the book. we got a first glimpse last week. now the book will be on sale tomorrow, and both gates and president obama have been able to comment. amongst many other people. one of the things i wanted to ask is that robert gates for a long time has always been pra

i mean obama's been saying it. sebelius has said it, hillary clinton said it, harry reid said it, that, you know, socialism, which is what single payer health care is, is their explicit goal. they've essentially established it, eric, because in obama care they've made health care a right. the gop to their great detriment never challenged that. you got obama care, we've talked about for weeks is essentially fascist. privatelied only owned in name only controlled by the government. just like student loans obama will say we have to cut out the middle man, the private sector, and make it completely government controlled, that's next. >> now, like rats off a sinking ship, michael moore's bailing on the obama care. how long before the rest of them, rest of the liberals start saying this wasn't such a good idea after all? >> i'm pretty sure that michael moore never liked obama care to begin with. now, i think if you look at where senior citizens are with medicare, which is a single payer system, most americans want a litt

then president obama became there was tremendous change.ple in the pentagon realized here was the guy that did not like the military, not supportive, things that he said talking about guantanamo like it was shameful and that was insulting. talking by repealing don't ask don't tell that is what he was the most energized about. he had a whole different set of priorities to usher in all these cuts over the next decade so people knew president obama was going to make the military smaller and weaker in bow progressive and people in the pentagon understood that lori: so what was the white house response to his comments? >> it was bin to say they established a team of rifles? that sounds like what they said about benghazi. oh ya. the video after 12 versions of talking points. is seems like damage control the white house is very concerned about obama is a legacy because this is very hard-hitting talkg about how obama was making decisions based on politics like in 2007 a purge -- oppose the search also hillary clinton is damaging for purchases to be

president barack obama tells congress he is willing to go it alone in his annual state of the union address. he says he is willing to use executive orders to get past partisan gridlock blocking legislation on capitol hill. the government in ukraine could decide to grant amnesty to jail activists. pressure from the opposition has led to the resignation of the prime minister. for the protesters, that is not enough. the un security council hands european trips the right to use force in central african republic. the u.n. says 10,000 troops are needed to store order to end the deadly chaos in the country. also coming up, french footballer is leaving newcastle united. all the details on the 24 million-euro deal coming up and sports. china takes over france is the home of the most red wine drinkers in the world. it is as much about the color as the taste. head to the united states, where president barack obama delivered his annual state of the union address. speaking tuesday in washington, he put congress on notice that he is willing to go it alone. the president has made no bones about his frustr

obama invoked executive privilege to keep us from finding out. in fast and furious, obama was directly involved in sending susan rice out there. and these two cases alone, not to mention the irs, by which the administrative agency was doing obama's bidding and now the irs is doubling down. >> there's nothing that shows that obama was kicked to the irs scandal. >> is obama ever accountable to people, the mainstream media is demanding that christie maybe even be fired. and but he's fired four people and taken action obama never apologizes. christie apologized. >> david, you can't seriously be comparing, aides that directly report to christie or his like childhood friend who worked for him to -- >> holder and obama are siamese twins. >> he doesn't even know these people. >> holder, are you saying holder and obama don't have a direct relationship between each other? >> we're jumping from topic to topic. were you just talking about the irs. >> hang on. let me focus this. it's aides of christie's and their appointments of obama on this whole series of

when obama came to power. he wanted what he called a reset with russia and maybe it failed maybe it succeeded but it ended and there is a debate who caused this reset or what you and i larry used to call detente they got all these new words but it's the same thing who caused it and moscow blames washington washington blames moscow but here's what's interesting in katrina made the point and the point was made to us to katrina and i me when we were in moscow last week by some of our friends that were before putin came forward with this plan that syria would turn its chemical weapons over to the united nations for total destruction. and that was putin's doing he compelled syria is partial ally to do this at that moment we were on the verge of a i have a reward against syria or if you remember obama was begging congress to authorize a military strike and it looked like congress even the democratic party was not going to give it to him which would have been the collapse of obama's presidency i mean it would have be

you said the obama economy, as if obama is somehow directly able to direct this economy. the last time president obama i saw him at a signing ceremony, he had black hair and he looked like tiger woods. okay? it's been three years since you guys have been able to work with him or willing to work with him to get anything done. it's not the obama economy, it's the obstruction economy. at what point will you find something you can work with this president on. it seems to me people are just waiting him out. >> there are bipartisan things that republicans and democrats agree and one is the pipeline. the president looked me in the eye and said by january 1st i'll make a decision and you will know what it is. republicans and democrats overwhelmingly support this. he has done nothing. republicans and democrats agree with repealing the health -- the tax on medical devices. republicans and democrats agree on sanctions against iran. these are being blocked from votes in the united states senate. but what we're seeing are additional regulations coming out of this president that are ma

but now president obama has something to say about it.ight, saying, quote, i'm not the caricature that you see on fox news or rush limbaugh. so what does the leader of the republican party have to say about that? >> the subtext of this is that you, if it weren't for me or fox news, you'd love obama. but you are nothing but sponges. you are incapable of other words, of seeing the truth. you believe the lies about obama that you hear from me and on fox news. now who is delusional? who is absent reality? you or obama? >> delusional? huh? so the president hasn't been distorted or attacked from day one? really? >> barack obama does not have his hand on the bible. >> is he really president? >> i still don't know what the man is going to do. >> he is not going to succeed. socialism has failed. >> deep seated hatred for white people. >> in obama's america, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, yay, right on, right on, right on, right on. >> to these muslim terrorists some would say instead of taking them on. >> you are goin

president barack obama. and he's actually the president and i've seen nothing like the kind of passion and intensity that we've seen -- >> about obama on tv? >> about obama in terms of potential wrongdoing and investigation from any network certainly like msnbc other than fox. >> we can get boo a whole obama discussion, but the media keeps talking about was this obama's worst year ever. but let's get back to christie. i mean, i think what is interesting here is not putting aside the criminality because i think it matters, lauren, but because he's running for president, just saying that people have this temperament in new jersey doesn't mean that temperament works nationally. and i think the media has honed in on something which is does this guy have the temperament to be president? is he too nasty? and now we're finding out does the nastiness move to -- >> i agree with you and i agree that it was overhyped and this is the fall that comes from being overhyped. at the same time, i think one of the lessons all

you blame liberals on a sore foot. >> i blame president obama. >> okay, fine, you blame obama. okay. all the liberals. but let me say this about hillary clinton. i think she's comes out of this great. everything i have said about her, she's been an exceptional secretary of state, gates backs it up 100%. i think hume is right. gates could have waited. he decided not to, and the other thing that, what brit said was, why didn't you say something about it? where is the courage to stand up and say this is wrong? he didability have the guts to do it then. >> i don't think it's about bravery or guts. i think it was about respect. one of the things he says is he was so surprised as he was sitting there in the oval office and obama -- or it might have been, i don't know if it was the oval os, but in a white house meeting, that both obama and hillary clinton are talking about very openly how they made political decisions to oppose president bush's surge strategy in 2008. maybe you can paper that over as oh, well, that's politics, but people who oppose hillary clinton say that's one of th

michele obama. openly at among others, including the chief of general motors it was brought out by a concern. president obama: mr. speaker. mr. vice president, members of congress and my fellow americans today in america, a teacher spend extra time with a student who needed it and did her part to lift america's graduation rate to its highest levels in more than three decades. an entrepreneur flipped on the lights and did her part to add to the more it an 8 million new jobs that are businesses have created over the past four years. [applause] and autoworker find tunes some of the most efficient cars in the world and did his part to help america wean itself off foreign oil. a farmer prepared for the spring after the strongest five-year stretch of exports in our history. the rural doctor gave a child he first prescription to treat asthma that his mother could afford. [applause] and a man took graveyard shift while dreaming big dreams for his on. in a tightknit community all across america, fathers and

>> i think it comes down to ma michelle obama brings eyeballs.helle obama is more than a political figure, she's a pop culture phenom and that's why she's getting all this etension. i have interviewed her twice over the year, she is a rock star, if you travel with her, people come out in droves in the street. i have seen it in pennsylvania and i have seen it in south africa. she's bigger than a political figure. >> the news media has made her a rock star. laura bush was an incredibly popular first lady, i don't remember them celebrating her like they celebrated michelle obama. >> she's very media savvy. >> dynamic character. >> she goes on jimmy fallon or elon and she dances and she does a lot of stick, but just because she's popular and drives ratings and we're all sensitive to that, it does raise questions of fairness, that if we're in a position of celebrating her and she's a democrat and a republican first lady didn't get the same treatment, that trouble mels a little bit. >> where's the agenda, the high turnover in the east wing, some of her

president obama moves to limit the nsa's surveillance powers. what he is proposing, will it put america at risk? and newly released enrollment numbers raises concerns over just who is signing up. and it will send the administration to attract younger. and as the west gets set, the iran nuclear record, will it be the window of opportunity that president obama hopes it will be? >> welcome to the -- to "the journal editorial report." president obama laid out his plan to secure the once secret surveillance programs on friday setting limits on the collection of foreign intelligence and appointing a public advocate and making major changes to the agency's controversial collection of bulk telephone records. the president's speech is after a month-long review of the intelligence-gathering practices prompted by last year's leak of classified documents by former nsa analyst, edward snowden. june -- joining the poll will you please. matt, what do you make of the proposals the president is making here? >> i think he has gone very far toward unilaterally ris

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i'll be interviewing president obama there on thursday. in an interview that's going to air friday on cnn. i believe that the democratic candidate who is running against the incumbent republican governor scott walker, i believe she is not going to be appearing with president obama in wisconsin. that also happened when president obama went to north carolina and your colleague senator hagan did not appear with him. if president obama wanted to go to alaska to campaign with you, would you want him? >> first i'll tell you when i ran and won was the same year he ran for his first election for the presidency. he lost alaska by 22 points. i still won my election. if he wants to come up, i'm not really interested in campaigning. what i'd like him to do is see why his policies are wrong on anwar for example. he opposes oil and gas development. i'd like to show him why we need to create jobs in oil and gas. he talked about energy a little bit tonight. we have it right there, a store house of energy. i'd like to be able to show him some of the issues

so is president obama does do that. i keep coming up with president obama because he's president now of course tgs terrific pollsters. if anything, he probably should listen to them more. i gather they saw some of this with the health care love it president obama's other advisers were not telling him about. so you talk about the bubble. i think they gave him a disservice in an effort to protect her and a sense of hubris. it didn't work out that way. >> one of the contacts that a president inevitably has outside of his elbow as leaders of other foreign countries. she went to korea said it could check and balance? >> it's a very good question. presidents tend as everybody does to have more of a relationship for some people than others. sometimes it can be surprising with the president's bond with. if you look at president reagan and president bush the father in president clinton, somehow it was one world leader they would all call during the crisis and just because this person may didn't feel good that things would work o