>> i would rather she did what bob gates did. if i am one of her advisers, i would tell her to do exactly what you did which is you wrote a very careful, not particularly revealing book that does have some very interesting moments. she mostly gets right up to the line of something interesting and then pulls back. there are couple of interested -- and thiinstances. she doesn't go into the great detail about how controversial they are. >> you would think that would be harmless for her to argue. it is about revelations about a friend of hers. >> someone she was very close with. the wayompare that to gates handled that very same business in his memoir which i have read. he is pretty -- he talks about the whole group being controversial but then he almost always agrees with the position on every aspect of afghanistan. >> the argument that you have more thing that you can use as tools offensively the military. >> gates had nothing to lose. hillary clinton in this book -- i think for the light reader would think she did a lot. she was o

. >> bob gates felt that no one woule better to replace jim clapper than mike to be the undersecretary for intelligence. i think it's been masterful service, mike. we've been lucky as a country to have you at this crucial time. i know it's been challenging and wearing assignment, but you've shouldered it so wonderfulfully, and the whole community is grateful for what you've done. we're going to have a very interesting session this morning, and kath is going to be leading the question and answer period. so would you, with your applause, please welcome mike vickers, undersecretary for intelligence. [applause] >> well, thank you, dr. hamre, for that really gracious introduction, and thank you to dr. hicks for your distinguished service to our country and to csis more putting on important forums such as this. i thought i'd make a few remarks this morning for about 20 minutes and then take questions as the standard format. next slide, please. >> [inaudible] apologies, technical issues. >> okay. which one hits it? that center button? okay, good. all right. [inaudible conversations] >> all ri

the republican hold over bob gates, you had hillary clinton at state. a lot of people look at this team when they say, no, it's not worth doing, not tough enough of a deal. they look now and see the president has surrounded himself with people who nod when he has an idea, they nod. secretary hagel at the defense department, secretary kerry at the state department, susan rice at national security. before we continue the conversation, let's listen to what hillary clinton talks to abc where she doesn't endorse the decision to make the swap, but doesn't criticize. >> of course there are competing interests and values. one of our values is we bring everybody home off the battlefield the best we can. it doesn't matter how they ended up in a prisoner of war situation. >> it doesn't matter? >> it doesn't matter. we bring our people home. >> she says that very clearly there, although, maeve, her people leaked quickly she wanted a tougher deal. >> her allies came out earlier this week and said she would have gone for a tougher deal, would have pushed for a tefr d

why bob gates was very uncomfortable with this idea in the past.ent obama, have you seen this? work out caught on a cell phone camera. we will talk with a man who was in the room and happened to be working out with the president when this was taken. >> welcome back. more now on all the backlash against the release of bowe bergdahl. you are report iing we're heari from bob gates that he was very uncomfortable with swapping detainees for bergdahl back in 2011. we have heard skept similar from hillary clinton that they would turn around and fight with the bad guys. but despite all of that, green light. >> pretty powerful group of people. of of who were uncomfortable with it. they are gone. so the question we are asking is the appropriate one. what the white house is starting to do know is lift the veil there were concerns about sergeant bergdahl's life and that there were also worried about his health. also, you know, i would have to say the timing of this is important. this is a president who has wound down wars in iraq and afghanistan. this is a leg

and that included hillary clinton, leon panetta, and now we know former secretary of defense bob gates. i'm told that he was, quote, very uncomfortable from a source who is familiar with this and the fundamental discussion at the time that made him uncomfortable and the others uncomfortable was about the negotiating with terrorists and hostage takers. they did not want to do that. they are all gone. something else transpired and we have this deal and early on it was something that i was told that they didn't even consider. >> if hillary clinton and leon panetta and bob gates had accepted this do you think there would be this problem? >> i think if you had a hillary clinton and leon panetta who had a lot for service and friends, if you will, in congress and including some republicans and a lot more standing on some of the national security issues, not criticizing secretary clinton but congress said perhaps. and more liberal, less cautious and less likely to have a debate in the oval office about these big decisions. they think secretary hagel and president obama are three people who, fo

bob gates came up this morning and we arranged the meeting ths afternoon is 2:30 for the president to receive mr. gates which he did and the president issued this statement which i will also be handing out after the session. the statement is as followed and it is a statement for the president. with great regret i have agreed to the request that his name be withdrawn as the nominee to be their rector of central intelligence. i met with bob this afternoon. he asked me to withdraw his nomination rather than to proceed with extended consideration by the senate under a new director and i look forward to working with him during the next two years. he is remarkably talented and dedicated who's serve five presidents with skills and integrity i've been impressed with the class under the enormous pressures in the recent weeks and any other time he would have easily been confirmed without delay. the confirmation proceedings would not be in the interest of the cia or the nation. the president has discussed a number of names to be submitted to the senate of the united states and i asked the direct

but i think a lot of them are thinking about it when it comes to bob gates and others. really saw this process going. and so we need to explore some of the aptitudes. >> 70% of the people, 47%. >> this is one of the first statistics that was suggested. >> it's astonishing because you think tibet and china are about the dalai lama. >> are you optimistic about our future? >> oh, yes, i still think it's worth getting out of bed for in the morning. >> rising tide, at a bookstore near you. time now for a few of your comments. border war. my new fiction book. we asked if he believed defense secretary chuck hagel's claims. linda said no, he would've been told there were possible complications, but let's face it, he will have to retire after obama. misty said, even the most casual citizen knows credible reports were in the media and they were indeed end obama lied, says bruce. career before country seems to be a return theme. keep your comments coming, we thank you for posting on her facebook page and going to loudobbs.com. that's it for us tonight, coming up tomorrow, we conti

. >> i know bob gates, who is now heading up the organization says look, wouldn't have been my policyprivate group. you have a new book about eric holder and you don't think this is unusual for him to be crossing a line he should not cross? >> well, in our book and my co-author, we say that eric holder is the most politicized tern general. time and time again eric holder had sided with the president's team and their political priorities rather than the legal priorities. >> is that unusual? do you think that's unusual. >> it has enormous consequences because i don't think previous attorney generals would say we should have traded bergdahl for five taliban terrorists and shouldn't worry about the fact they could be dangerous to american interest asks we should ignore the law that says we should tell congress. >> how does he compare? you think back like on ashcroft, i don't know he was that political. he got incoming on that, too, and that position is such an attack position. >> john ashcroft was not sen toured by the house of representatives for refusing to turnover documents. in the fa

i first week on the jockey talked to my defense secretary bob gates and older and been there a long time. do you have any advice for me, bob? one thing you should, mr. president, at any given moment on any given day somebody in the federal government is screwing up. gerri: you know, i don't find that acceptable coming from the president. the organization i run, he says, is a screw-up. that to my is astonishing. >> listening to that quote, gerri ask he referring to the irs erasing incriminating files? is that what he means by a screw-up. gerri: irs, va, there is a long list. gao. >> you know, i think there is real appetite from the american people of next president, whoever it might be coming in and not just talking about screw-ups but really holding people accountable. i believe having been in washington for 30 years, could you come in and could probably eliminate 15% of 20% costs in every agency. this is what businesses done over last five years. they have cut costs. they have reduced their debt. their balance sheets look good. the balance sheet that looks awful today is washington's. g

she's going to have to figure out how to deal with the hawkishness that bob gates describes in his memoir. which is exactly what a memoir should be. totally candid he's not looking for a job anymore. >> let me go to joan for a minute here. a couple points raised by joe is interesting. one is, can you convey charm and still keep control of the conversation? you don't just spit it out there? public. it's not easy to convey that ease when you're talking to the world. mitt romney taught us a all that as well as the workout video from the president. my question, sure she has to deal with bill and sure she has to deal with other thing, but in a sense, can she come on spontaneously? is it doable? >> it's tough. it's doable, but it is tough. joe has named some real problems for hillary clinton. around, i think martin o'malley would love to have these problems. and probably vice president biden, god bless him, would love to have these problems. but they're problems nonetheless. i feel a little sorry for her. we put her in a box and look at her all the time and then say stop being in a box and bein

>> i was told that secretary of defense bob gates was, quote, very uncomfortable with the idea of thisuantanamo prisoner swap for bowe bergdahl when it was raised in 2011. this has been a topic of discussion for a couple of years. the fundamental discussion at that time, i'm told, was over the notion of whether you should negotiate with terrorists and hostage takers. and we now know that former cia director leon pa netter, former secretary of state hillary clinton and gates were part of a powerful triumvirate that rejected this idea at the time. what my source would not confirm that gates still opposes it because the secretary doesn't want to go there at this point, but leon panetta yesterday gave a speech and according to the pittsburgh newspaper he said, i don't fault the administration for wanting to get bergdahl back. i do question whether the conditions are in place to make sure these terrorists don't go back into battle. and that was a key concern that was also raised in 2011, when they were there. how can you ensure they don't go back. >> all of the president's top securitied a

it was the first conversation that bob gates relates that he had with the incoming administration that they had underestimated how difficult it would be to close guantanamo. it's a priority, but it isn't the number one priority. and i think a lot of people -- >> what is the number one priority? >> i think american national security. that means if you have a due process that ends up in a situation where you do have to keep some of these camps open until some of the people die in the same way you kept nazi prisons open in the wake of world war ii in the '80s, that's a viable scenario but would take bipartisan support for a due process of some kind. >> so larry, you want to respond to that? there's a process. there's three categories. the 78 who have been cleared for release. many of whom have never been accused of doing anything wrong. there are people who are going to be prosecuted on the military commissions and then there's the third category of which the taliban commanders were too dangerous to release, not enough evidence to prosecute. what do you say? >> basically according to the

i think bob gates book was one of the more interesting. the headlines for more sensational than the book itself turned out to be, but i think that for people who have had a lot of years of experience in who have the perspective of having worked in both administrations is helpful. i think borofsky made some very important points in his book about the administrations choosing the banks over the homeowners. >> one last clip. this comes from november 7, 2013 . it is a clip of the president talking about health care. i want to get your view of this. >> i regret very much what we intended to do -- that what we intended to do, which was to make sure that everybody is moving into better plants because they want them, as opposed to being forced into it, that we weren't as clear as we needed to be in terms of the changes that were taking place. i want to do everything we can to make sure that people are finding themselves in a good thanion, a better position they were before this law happened. >> what grade would you give the obama administration on

when you read bob gates' memoir -- >> the former secretary of defense. >> the former secretary of defensehe kind of got into it. he got into the personalities. he got into the real fights. help g he got into the kind of -- how he felt about joe biden and what he felt about joe biden's policies and the white house staff. you know, the hillary clinton staff and barack obama staff, you know, were going at each other. but she pushes that aside because i think it's, you know, she clearly has miles to go here. to me, it reads like somebody who's not yet done with her political career. >> she's obviously not done with her political career. she's seriously thinking of expanding that political career, making an effort for the white house once again. there's always a dilemma in writing these kinds of books, especially if you're looking ahead to a political career it on the one hand, she spent four years as the secretary of state. this is a memoir of her experiences. she wants to tell all of us what happened, whether she agreed with the president, disagreed, stuff like that. if she does too much lik

to illustrate this, i would like to tell a joke that my former boss, secretary bob gates used to love to tell about the old way we did business. many, many years ago, supposedly, an intelligence officer was working in a foreign capital -- at a diplomatic cocktail party, trolling the diplomatic service as we often do, looking for hard targets and unfortunately this officer had a little too much to drink. so his mission attention wandered a little bit towards more amorous pursuits. across the room, he spotted what he saw was a vision of loveliness in a flowing red gown. so using all his appropriate trade craft, he approached the target and made a pitch asking the target if he could have a dance and then the target immediately rebuffed him, and said i'm rebuffing you for three reasons. first, you are drunk. second, this is not a waltz, it's the peruvian national anthem. third, i'm not a woman, i'm the cardinal archbishop of lima. today, we enable our officers with more precision targeting. next slide, please. so i'm going to go through a range of national security challenges, the continu

. >> as a journalist i would rather she did what bob gates did. if i'm one of her advisor i would tell her to do what exactly she did to write a careful at times not revealing book and does have some very interesting moments but she mostly gets right up to the line of something interesting and then pulled back and doesn't share more. she talks about richard holbrook not being a favorite of the white house but she doesn't go into the great detail that wasn't around at the time about how controversial he was for instance. >> rose: you would think that would be harmless for her to argue it's not about a policy position it's about revelations. >> she was very close and felt very strongly -- that's right. >> you compare that to the way gates handled that very same business in his memoir which i have read. he is pretty, i mean he talks about holbrook being controversial. but then he almost always agrees with holbrook's position on every, you know, on every aspect of afghanistan. >> rose: the argument that you had more things that you could use as tools

mainly -- and this is the first conversation that bob gates relates in his book that he had with the incoming administration, that he felt they underestimated how difficult it would be to close gitmo. from my perspective, it's a priority but not the number one priority. >> what is the number one priority? >> i think it's american national security. 2/3 you end up in a situation where you do have to keep camp x-ray open until some of these people die in the same way you kept nazi prisons open in the wake of world war ii until rudolph hess died in the '80s, i think that's something that is a viable scenario, but would take get take bipartisan support for due process. >> it's a problem, right? there is three categories. the 78 who have been cleared for release have been rotting in guantanamo, many of whom have never been accused of doing anything wrong. they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. there are people who are going to be prosecuted on the military commissions and then there's the third category of which the taliban commanders were too dangerous to release, not enough evi

this is not bob gates book, doesn't let it rip at all. >> she does say in answer to cynthia mcfaddener comments about sarah palin when after the candidacy was announced her advice about not going after palin as a woman. let's watch this. >> the day she was nominated, the obama campaign did contact me and ask me if i would attack her. attack her for what? for being a woman? attack her for being on a ticket trying to draw attention? there will be plenty of time to do what i think you should do in politics, which is draw distinctions. >> and sarah palin has tweeted back about this saying, look who fired the first shot in the real war on women, hint, it wasn't the gop? see this excerpt from hillary's book. a politically fun tweet from sarah palin back. chris cillizza, you've been reading the book and watching the politics of all of this. it's very clear from her response, for instance, on benghazi which she was asked by abc about benghazi, would that be a reason not to run. she said that would be more of a reason to run. >> i would say look at the response you play at the start of the se

that's what bob gates did and that's what big ceo does.en he went to meet with so-called everyday people in minnesota that he understands their pain. he feels their pain. >> the scandals, they're all phony, he said. and he says, i don't even watch the news. but i understand if you're discouraged. i can't even watch it. listen. >> i don't watch tv news generally, or cable shows. but i suspect if you're out here going to work, picking up your kids, taking them to soccer, at night, sitting there paying the bills and you just turn on the tv, sometimes it must feel kind of discouraging. >> i think the president is talking about watching fox because the other channels aren't actually covering the scandals. what's curious about what he just said is he doesn't watch the news and yet, if you look back over the last year or so, how many people of the administration, including the president, say, i didn't know about this problem because i learned about it on the news. >> the fast and furious program when in fact, everyone knows, the president did not

might also say that we hand out a copy of the letter to the president of the united states from a bob gates. , who is thetes deputy director of central intelligence and i will read that to you. president, it is apparent that there are strong to where the -- i believe a prolonged period of uncertainty would be harmful to the cia and potentially to our national security. i respect that you withdraw my nomination to be director of central intelligence. i am deeply honored that you chosen for this high position and i pledge my. port and assistant to whomever you -- and i pledge my full support and assistance to whomever you choose. gates came up and advise me of his intention. we arrange a meeting this afternoon at 2:30 for the president to receive mr. gates which he did and the presidents turned in a statement that will be handed out after the session. the statement is as follows and of the president -- "with great regret, i have agreed to robert gates requested that his name be withdrawn as a nominate to be. i met with bob this afternoon and he asked me to withdraw his nomination rather than

he did a great job and bob gates felt no one would be better to replace jim clapper to be the secretary for intelligence. i think it has been masterful service. we have been lucky to have you at this crucial time. i know it has been challenging and wearing but you have shouldered it so well and the community is so grateful for what you have done. we will have an interesting section this morning and kathleen is leading the q&a period. would you with your applause would you with your applause welcome secretary of of intelligence. >> thank you for that gracious introduction dr. hamre. and thank you dr. hicks for your service for our country and to csis for putting on important forums such as this. i thought i would make a few remarks this morning for about 20 minutes and then take questions as the standard f format. next slide, please. >> appaollgies we are having technical issues. which one hits it? all right. which one? >> good. i am qualified on this now. i am going to talk about these four topics and given that this is a military strategy forum, i am going to try to move beyond my inte

i remember the first week i was on the job i talk to my defense secretary, bob gates, who is older and had been there a long time, any advice for me? one thing you should know, mr. president, at any given moment on any given day someone in the federal government is growing up. charles: someone is growing up but never heard the president say he screwed up. >> doesn't. it is all about him. that is why you hear i in his speeches all the time but to say bonehead about a scandal like the va scandal where people died, 60,000 veterans waiting for care, and 19 office since 2005 about these wait time problems, this presidency is going nowhere and for him to come out and ignore these problems in the run-up to november gives republicans a gift. charles: if i'm a democrat i'm shaking in my dudes. you don't want the president anywhere on camera little coming to the campaign district but i agree it is interesting you would use such -- not when people die under your watch. thanks, right now let's check the big board. the market has been wishy-washy all morning long. technical wall street term, down 1

illustrate this, if you'll will indulge me, i would like to tell a joke that my former boss, secretary bob gatesused to love to tell. , supposedly, an intelligence officer was working in a foreign capital at a diplomatic cocktail party, trolling the diplomatic circuit as we always do, looking for hard targets. unfortunately, this officer had a little bit too much to drink, so his mission attention wandered a little bit toward more amorous pursuits rather than the traditional hard targets. across the room at this big reception, he spotted what he saw was a vision of loveliness in a flowing red gown. so using all his appropriate tradecraft, he approached the target and made a pitch, asking the target if he could have a , the, and to his shock target immediately rebuffed him and said i am rebuffing you for three reasons. first, you are dropped. second, this is not a waltz, it is the peruvian national anthem, and third, i'm not a woman, i am the cardinal archbishop of lima. so we are little better than that today. next slide, lease. to go through a range of national security challenges, the continue

so unlike bob gates' book where he actually takes you inside the west wing, and says, this is what it like when we had that fight over x, she said, i disagreed with the president. i was for arming the rebels in libya. but leaves it at that, right? so she kind of walks a fine line here because she is a soon-to-be, or at some point-to-be presidential candidate. >> time magazine michael sheerer just published a review of "hard choices," and he said it was like she walked up to the bar, handed her credit card to the bartender, and said, i'm not sure if i'm going to order a drink or not. the fact that she's at the bar speaks volumes. >> the only way it's different, and this is so interesting to me, both as a woman and somebody who covered her campaign in 2007-2008. not every day. but she's sort of a different person now in a funny way. and she's letting us know that, both in the book and in these interviews. she's sort of like, i'm done with caring what people think about the way i look. i'm older, i'm wiser, and i'm celebrating the fact that i'm a woman so now i can talk about sexism. whe

i remember the first week i was on the job i talk to my defense secretary, bob gates, who has been thereg time. he said one thing you should know, mr. president, at any given moment on any given day, someone in the federal government is screwing up. areh is true because there 2 million employees. somebody out there, if 99% of people are doing the right thing and only one percent are not, that's still a lot of people. so my job as president, working with congress, is to make sure taxpayer dollars are spent wisely, efficiently. we should not be wasting one dime. where we see waste and things not working the way they should, like recently these long waits for folks trying to get into the ba health care program, we've got to crack down and reform. we cannot paint it with a broad brush and say somehow stuff not working. carein the v.a. health system, once people get in the quality of care, the satisfaction rates for customers are actually better than in private sector health care. generalize like this. the last point i will make, going to your question him a federal workers have generally not

a couple of months ago i reviewed bob gates' book and he refers in the book several times to the con trant -- contract on him. it's always about ensuring the public we weren't going to stay. we weren't in there forever that we were planning for the exit sort of thing. which if you know anything really cuts against the strategy because if you're trying to convince the people you're protecting in these countries, they want to believe you're sticking around and he had to worry about the public at home that was worried about us staying too long. so that is a constraint. now, the neo conservatives and the liberal hawks both have an answer to this problem and whether you look at it as a problem or not, it's a fact. the public is strongly opposed to military intervention. even the smaller than small ones. now the simple response is that this could be solved by leadership. you hear this all the time. leadership. strong leadership. if only the president or if only the national security team were committed to a particular mission they could bring the public along so it's solely a function of t

i remember the first week i was on the job i talked to my defense secretary bob gates who is older and had been there a long time. i said do you have any advice for me? one thing you should know, mr. president, is that at any given moment or any given day somebody in the federal government is screwing up. which is true because there are 2 million employees. somebody out there if 99% of the folks are doing the right thing and only 1% aren't, that's still a lot of people. so my job as president working with congress is to make sure taxpayer dollars are spent wisely and efficiently. we shouldn't be wasting a dime. and where we see waste where we see things not working the way it should like recently these long waits for folks trying to get into the v.a. health program we've got to crack down and reform it. but we can't paint with a broad brush and say somehow stuff's not working because even in the v.a. health care system once people get in the quality of care the satisfaction rates for customers is actually better than in the private sector health care. so we can't generalize like this.

and then bob gates felt that no one would be better to replace jim clapper than mike to be the undersecretary for intelligence. i think it's been a masterful service, mike. we've been lucky as a country to have you at this crucial time. i know it's been a challenging and worrying assignment, but you shouldered it so wonderfully and the whole community is grateful for what you've done. we're going to have a very interesting session this morning. i expect this is going to be a very vivid and lively session. so would you, with your applause, welcome mike vickers. [ applause ] >> well, thank you for that really gracious introduction and thank you and to dr. hicks for your distinguished service to our country and to csi for putting on important forums such as this. i thought i would make a few remarks this morning for about 20 minutes and then take question as the standard format. next slide, please. all right. i'm qualified now on this thing. okay, so i'm going to talk about these four topics and given that this is a military strategy forum, i'm going to try to move beyond my intelligence brief a

you, along with bob gates and others, were the ones who destabilized the soviet when is they were in of the major contributors to the fall of the soviet union. so yes. >> give us an idea, if not specifically, roughly, what five higher ups in the taliban now rereleased into that region can do. >> i think the problem in their case is they're not foot soldiers. foot soldiers if they return can bel=r would you have recommended the deal? 'cause the c.i.a. evidently wasn't consulted. >> the key point to the deal to me is can you guarantee that they're not going back to afghanistan? i would add to that that you can keep them under sufficient surveillance in qatar that they are not carrying out operations and directing operations from qatar. so we will know in our rearview mirror whether the deal has an addendum that provides enough confidence that that can be done. i will tell you that maintaining surveillance over anybody, even f.b.i. in new york city, you can lose people with even a massive amount of surveillance. >> i believe they're only in qatar a year. and the president admitted they'

>> first of all, our military commanders, our secretary of defense at the time, bob gates, our chairman00 troops should be left behind, not in combat roles. to help train iraqis, to advise iraqis, to do intelligence gathering. but not actually be in front line combat roles. so the president rejected that ultimately, claiming because of these immunity issues. the reality is the president himself made a pledge to get all of our troops out of iraq by the end of his first term. when he -- fourth quarter of 2011 where he announced the full withdrawal, he said, i am fulfilling the pledge today that i made. it was about fulfilling his pledge. it wasn't about maliki's failure to cut a deal. if you look what he and other senior administration officials said at the time, they're saying the iraqi military is in great shape. it's proven, it's well trained. it's equipped. it can handle the situation. this is a success. now he didn't say my hands were tied. i had no choice. maliki made me do this. he said at the time, this is my choice. it is a sign of our success. >> he was checking a box and that's

i remember the first week i was on the job i talked to my defense secretary bob gates who is older andave any advice for me bob? he said one thing you should know, mr. president, is that any given moment on any given day somebody in the federal government is screwing up. >> i don't think the republicans are going to buy that one, although it's probably factual. >> yeah, and that's one of the things he was going to fix, and it may be one of those things that once you're there it's a lot harder to do than when you promised, but there's been some inconsistency. you know, you have on the irs. you have him saying this is a problem, oh, no it's a phony scandal, oh, no it's a problem and when you have those openings you're -- republicans are going to jump. now, it's up to the republicans not to overplay their hand, and they have been doing quite a bit of that. >> let's move on to how you go from dead broke to truly well off, borrowing some words from hillary clinton. from 2001 to 2013 the clintons made $105 million, bill clinton making that in speaking fees and 56.3 million from speeches over

. >> reporter: brooks says the grace report has been impact behind the gates of bob jones. >> there'sore out there about sexual crimes and victims that we wanted to commitment it will show how the church has, perhaps, been involved and covered up things. >>> demrators at bob jones university -- administrators at bob johns university declined to go on camera and will not respond to investigations until the grace investigation is complete and results released. we reached out to jim burg aring a former dean and counsellor to one of the women. we are yet to here back from him. however, we did receive a response from pat burg, through a university representative saying: >> reporter: this former student continued with counselling at bob johns despite the unsettling nature of the sessions. >> the reason i wept was i was -- i wept was i was desperate for a ray of light. i thought if this is what my life is going to be loib, i don't want to live. >> reporter: after graduating she took matters into her own hands and appointed her rapist to police. he was convicted of sexual battery of a child u

gates -- aapose bob lot of unsettled scores about who was good, who wasn't, what happened behind thelinton book and has none of has none of this stuff. the biggest problem she had in 2008 was her vote for the iraq war. having covered through that campaign, she went through contortions to explain how she didn't really vote for the war and she doesn't bear responsibility for it. here she comes out and says it was a mistake to vote for that. clear is that off the table long before a campaign ever begins. i see this as a precampaign. after she ended her candidacy, you wrote about all the infighting that took place in 2008. sameshe go back to that well of consultants and managers? clock stoutly -- >> hourly the answer is no. shia still in contact with a lot of these people and she needs to get a new campaign team. >> i would say the group reviews -- the book reviews are skating. a success the president had with that little book. did she try to do too much? isn't too much of a reach to write 630 pages? garnerpurpose was not to excellent reviews from book credits. it was to set the stage fo

gate scandal. former virginia governor bob mcdonnell at one time a rising star preparing for a trial after having been corruption charges. wisconsin governor scott walker believed by prosecutors to have been at the center of a, quote, criminal scheme to violate election laws, mike huckabee and rick santorum speaking at yesterday's sad, sad anti-gay marriage rally in washington. which attracted less than 2,000 people and felt like a funeral ceremony for an outdated world view. indeed, what had once been billed as a republican party's deep bench of rising stars for 2016 is starting to look, well, more like a one-legged stool. but there is a man who might just be the gop's great hope for 2016. let me tell you his resume. he's a successful businessman, a proven leader. former governor of a blue state, incredible fund-raising acumen, beautiful family. this guy has it all. and his name is willard mitt romney. >> hey, i get to be up here. who's got your camera, though? who let the dogs out? who, who? thanks, guys. >> there is, i kid you not, a gra ground well of elite support for mitt romney to throw his hat