we have some record of what it was like to be a child of barack obama sr. none of which is very pretty. obama sr. had eight children, two of whom he may not have fathered. one of them died in a motorcycle accident leaving five. after after obama became president all told four of them have written memoirs about their father. one of them is mark assange of who lives in china now. he may -- wrote a semi-autobiographical fictional but in it he describes what it was like to be waiting for his father to come home after work and they were all nervous because he didn't know he writes is he going to be drawn? is he going to be angry and as the day goes on they get more and more anxious and suddenly obama seniors back. nine times out of 10 he is drunk and he is angry. he bangs on the door and says why have you gone to bed and not stayed up and maybe my dinner he shouts. we have witnesses. it is not just her son. we have neighbors, etc., the wife. sometimes he would come in and drink more and he would beat his wife. mark describes listening to her screaming in the othe

she's been to kenya many times and she talked to everyone who new barack obama, sr., and she has put ther his life story in a way that is riveting, wresting and revealing and i say, you know, if president obama read this book, he would learn things about his father that he doesn't know. and i think it's an amazing contribution to our knowledge of the president and his family. >> what's it editing a journalist? >> it's an interesting process. journalists on the one hand can write very fluidly and they're used to the idea of changes and rewrites so, you know, they're not kind of hugging their precious prose but sometimes the book -- the arc of a book versus the arc of a series of featured stories can be very different. and i think our editors often find that's the thing they most work on is getting the arc and getting the story line together. the arc of this book is amazing. the focus is where it should be on barack obama, sr. it's his childhood in kenya. it's his time in the u.s. including the time at the university of hawaii and including harvard. it's the story of how harvard and imm

. >>> a new book due out next week suggests that barack obama sr.cussed putting his son up for adoption. >> sally jacobs uncovered a memo in the honolulu office of the ins. the mother was making arrangements with the salvation army to give the baby away. president obama has said he's absolutely convinced that did not happen. all right. well, overseas, arrests are expected today in london as the hacking scandal involving a british tabloid escalates. >> the former "news of the world" editor is accused of paying police for information. this follows the announcement it will cease publication this sunday. jeffrey kofman reports from london. >> reporter: "news of the world," for years the biggest english language newspaper in the world is dead. a desperate move by the world's biggest tycoon to contain a scandal that has stained his entire global empire. >> nothing to say at this stage. >> reporter: rupert murdoch was in sun valley, idaho, where he was tight-lipped. >> i'm not making any comments. >> reporter: that was left to his son and heir. >> we now k

barack obama up for adoption. do you believe they were actually considering it, given the evidence that you've seen? is >> i think it's more likely that obama srat to make them think the baby was going to vanish. it gave a cleaner profile for him to immigration officials. the only thing i do wonder about is he said the salvation army. the salvation army did have a maternity home in honolulu. it's interesting he mentioned that. maybe they talked about it, didn't go ahead with it. i don't think they made arrangements to actually do it, though. >> he speaks so sweetly about his mother. do you think, if he was raised by his father, he would be president today? >> you know, this is certainly speculative. myself, it would be unlikely. obama sr. was a brave person in some respects. he was extremely self-destructive also. i think he wasn't a very nurturing person and was very self-absorbed. i think obama jr. might have chosen a very different life, would be a different person in many respects if he'd grown up with that kind of a paternal figure. >> in all of your research for the book, what surprised you most about obama sr.? >> well, the two events i

now the article says that barack obama sr.gration officials back in 1961 that he and his then-wife were planning to give the baby away. relatives say they never heard anything about it. a writer, sally jacobs, says it's possible that the elder obama was a kenyan native, of course, just saying this to immigration officials to appease them as they were questioning his marital status as a sophomore in college in hawaii. >>> all right. tim farley's here, host of "morning briefing" on sirius xm radio live from washington. good morning, tim. look -- >> good morning. >> you got a lot of hard work, we hope, going on between congressional and white house staffers. they'll be working trying to hammer out a deal to reduce the deficit, extend the debt ceiling. this after the president met with top congressional leaders yesterday and reported some progress. what does progress mean in this big fight? they've been pretty entrenched up until now. >> yeah. they've agreed to meet again. that's progress, i guess. i think one thing that's a littl

i want to ask how that meeting went, but also talk a little bit about the marriage of barack obama, sr. and why he left the family, what happened there? >> guest: welcome he met her in a version class of 1960. she was very taken with him and he would hurt, genuinely. she would write to our friends in seattle i'm in love with an african. and i think they were struck with one another. she gets pregnant within a few months of that. they get married in february of 61 and together a very short time i was able to get some of the documents at obama, sr. and all the wood is believed they were together for about a year they were not even living together with an about five or six months while she's still pregnant she's living with her parents and he is somewhere else. she has the beebee in august and he is starting to look around where she's going to go to school next. he's done well the university of hawaii and completed phi beta kappa and applies to all these schools. he is really smart. he's an african at a time many people wanted africans in their schools. he applies to many schools. he gets