this was a very tough time in bob's life. he did not get along very well with burzynski who was national security adviser or was cy vance the secretary of state because fans wanted him to be under him in the state department bob wanted to report directly to the president. bob a few years later said that fans was writing he was wrong. so a lot of what i have learned about was not from him. i learned a lot about his warmth and personality and good sense of humor but as far as what he was doing on a day-to-day basis and the dialogue from the situation room, that was actually dialogue from the situation room that has been released and is that the carter library. so a lot of what i have in here did not come from the emily. it came from archives. >> can you talk about what you said about your editorial? >> oh yes. i was not given editorial control over the book and that is probably because i had just come out of journalism school. i was all wide-eyed and they said no you cannot read the manuscript or reprint it. and he didn't. he an

and this was a very tense time in bob's wife. he did not get along very well with the big new brezinski who was national security adviser or the secretary of state because fans wanted bob to be under him in the state department and bob wanted to report directly to the president. and bob a few years later said that this was right and he was wrong and of course he should have been reporting to secretary of state, but i've got its way with the president. a lot of what i've learned about arbuthnot from him. and learned a lot about his warmth and personality and sense of humor. but as far as what he was doing on a day-to-day basis and the dialogue from the situation room, that was actually dialogue from the situation room. it's been released and is at the carter library and you can go research it. so a lot of what i have been here did not come from a family. it came from archives and talking to people. >> talk about what he said about editorial -- >> yes, i would not give him editorial control over the book. it was probably because i j

: i followed you for a block. >> bob: my worst moment did happen on the show. it wasat ridiculous aluminum hat. do you remember >> eric: greg warned me. >> kimberly: my gosh. >> bob: and then the chin strap. he look like the tin man. the other moment andrea missing the other sleeve on her dress. >> andrea: big salary. we have couldn't afford it. >> bob: now we are going to the best moment. >> eric: for me? 100 show anniversary, surprised you with the cake and candles. the other one, when we had an incident across the street at dell frisco with the trip. >> kimberly: remember that? he saved your life. >> bob: he did. >> eric: here together. >> bob: i am, too. don't eat shrimp. go ahead. >> andrea: best moment. my niece was born in august. here she is. look out. another tantaros woman in the world. christmastime. >> bob: greg, do you have any good moments? >> greg: our 1,000 show "red eye" in february. >> bob: congratulations. >> greg: my favorite achievement is i didn't lose any of the weight i gained. i didn't gain any -- >> greg: didn't gain back any of the weight yo

ambassador of the soviet union at the time it was crumbling. bob landed in the middle of the two when it dealt some was yelling people and he went over and came back from christmas time and was ambassador to russia. he's i think i'm the only fellow that has been fired as ambassador. [laughter] so i did love know that uncle bob flew in to the coup. i just knew he got the cake for my seventh birthday. so i began writing this book of the journalism school. i took a book class with friedman and i think that where he yielded the most power and made one of his biggest mark on history was keeping the democratic party together from 1972 to 1976 and that is when the party was torn apart starting in 1968 after the debacle of the chicago convention and the assassination of rfk and martin luther king and the party was splintering over vietnam and a number of issues and he came and held the party together first as treasurer of the democratic national committee and then as the chairman of the national committee into the democratic party then looked a little bit

bob: sure, part of it. this is something you go through. on the white house, george bush wasradio people there. >> radio row. >> eric: i feel like the only fire hydrant at the westminster dog show. >> andrea: why wouldn't they invite you, bob? you reach more people than any of those people on the list every day. on our show. with our viewership. why wouldn't they call you? >> greg: the most famous liberal in america. >> bob: that is not the case. never mind. i don't want to go. >> eric: can i point something out, the group chatted about the economic messaging. but the one that gets me, the various campaign arguments against different g.o.p. candidates. imagine if the shoe was on the other foot. >> dana: it wasn't an interview. it was a strategy. >> eric: how will we attack the g.o.p. candidates? >> greg: bob brought this up. bush used to have get-together. is there a difference between that and this? >> dana: not really. i have not been in the room. but i know on the right, some people are not happy with president bush on certain things. they ask questions in a respectful way

and it's true bob was the democrat partisan but everyone knew bob knew he was a streak shooter and he was going to tell brigham the truth and give the best advice he could. he loved being called to serve. he said he never turned down a president and that is how he ended up over 70 years of age and a communist country in moscow he turned down bush for that ambassadorship and decided you can't turn down the president said he always tried to do his best. >> was the great line -- >> the jim wright to the 80's he said i don't know who the next president will be but i can tell you who the best friend will be, bob strauss and he had a reputation for getting close to the president, whoever he was and one of my favorite stories and i got it as i was finishing the book and i was excited i went and interviewed tom brokaw and he told me a story about when they were in ohio for the presidential debate between carter and reagan and bob was excluded from the prop. the takeover if they knew he would be free for lunch and they said they would have one martini a piece then they said they would split on

>> bob: i think bob was with that last night. >> bob: i saw that many a nights. istmas thing. >> greg: a couple of weeks ago i was standing outside of a bar smoking a cigarette. minding my own business. i swear, 100, 200 yards away a woman walked across a street, came up and told me i shouldn't smoking. i'm like how can you smell my cigarette from 200 yards away? that didn't matter. because it upset her. lonely hopeless people what wisconsin traveling there because they don't like what you are doing. go away and get a life. >> bob: did you deck her? >> greg: no. >> kimberly: we don't want to start a feud with wisconsin and the friendly loving peaceheads there. this is an organization. >> andrea: you hear this at christmastime and not christmastime. atheists are always meddling to block religion. atheists are free to put up nothing. they believe in nothing and they are displayed next to the nativity scene. >> eric: i said why do you care? he said well, we are a national organization. who complained one of the members? no, not one of our members but a resident. >> b

>> bob: i understand that peka said she doesn't know what "the five" was. times bigger than the dumpy show you got. okay, now, let me go to -- >> eric: dana swore in the break. >> bob: and dana swore in break. >> andrea: want to tell them what i had for lunch? >> bob: i don't. you have really don't want people to know who you had it with. going back to this. i think there is a -- i happen to be, i know this is a surprise to a lot of people. i happen to be very much of a christian. i do a lot of -- i read the bible, go to bible study once a week and go to her, every week. i got that way about seven years ago so i'm sensitive to this stuff. i think they do dump on christians, the media, unfairly. they make fun of it. but in tebow's case, my own personal problem is somebody of faith is that all of these expressions, the public expressions of faith, bumper sticker about love jesus or the thing i said about wearing your jerseys with jesus on the back. i just don't think that christ would have necessarily -- admonished to us use symbols like that. >> eric: glad yo

>> bob: you want to know what my electric bill is? >> andrea: i was,300 and some odd bucks for one month. the year before that i plugged it in the neighbor's house. [ laughter ] >> dana: the neighbor doesn't like the lights? >> bob: a friend of mine who is jewish at christmastime, they leave and go to bahamas so i plugged it in there. >> andrea: do you have any holiday decorations up in your house, greg? >> greg: people like to have their glow external. miff glow is internal. inside. i'm glowing. by taking a lot of nyquil. >> bob: on top of the wine. >> greg: yes. i'm like my own ornment. >> bob: last night i was trying to hire a caroling group to go carol you. i couldn't find one to do it. everybody out there ought to send greg -- if you have a christmas album or a christmas song, send it to greg. >> dana: especially if you made it in your garage. >> greg: yes. exactly. even better. >> andrea: while you are sending greg christmas songs, check out this charity. this is a really good story. it's called let's bring them home. this is non-profit to help

>> bob: i think bob was with that last night. >> bob: i saw that many a nights. a couple of weeks ago i was standing outside of a bar smoking a cigarette. minding my own business. i swear, 100, 200 yards away a woman walked across a street, came up and told me i shouldn't smoking. i'm like how can you smell my cigarette from 200 yards away? that didn't matter. because it upset her. lonely hopeless people what wisconsin traveling there because they don't like what you are doing. go away and get a life. >> bob: did you deck her? >> greg: no. >> kimberly: we don't want to start a feud with wisconsin and the friendly loving peaceheads there. this is an organization. >> andrea: you hear this at christmastime and not christmastime. atheists are always meddling to block religion. atheists are free to put up nothing. they believe in nothing and they are displayed next to the nativity scene. >> eric: i said why do you care? he said well, we are a national organization. who complained one of the members? no, not one of our members but a resident. >> bob: did i tell you i w

bob: sorry. the c.i.a. for years washouse i know. >> dana: not the bush administration. bush 41 had a good relationship. >> bob: you made me read bush's book. he said -- >> eric: no. >> bob: it was a good book. >> andrea: we'll talk about the holiday menu. up next, greg gets down and dirty about the garbage galore at occupy l.a. next. ♪ ♪ let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you're already on or eligible for medicare, call now to find out how an aarp... medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company, helps cover some of the medical expenses... not paid by medicare part b. that can save you from paying up to thousands of dollars... out of your own pocket. these are the only medicare supplement insurance plans... exclusively

bob: sorry. the c.i.a. for years wasi know. >> dana: not the bush administration. bush 41 had a good relationship. >> bob: you made me read bush's book. he said -- >> eric: no. >> bob: it was a good book. >> andrea: we'll talk about the holiday menu. up next, greg gets down and dirty about the garbage galore at occupy l.a. next. ♪ ♪ ♪ it's easy to see what subaru owners care about. that's why we created the share the love event. get a great deal on a new subaru and $250 gs to your choice of 5 charities. with your help, we can reach $20 million dollars by the end of this, our fourth year. >>> i'm bret baier in washington. the big story here today is the congressional action on the payroll tax cut tonight. on "special report" we will tellal you about the fighting over two distinct proposals on how the pay for the cut and what it will mean to the country's bottom line. mike emanuel has that story from capitol hill. ed henry at the white house examines president obama recent comment he may need a second term to fix the econo

no, not one of our members but a resident. >> bob: did i tell you i was baby jesus? stmas. >> bob: no, that's when i was -- >> eric: i really do think this is getting completely -- >> bob: i think this is getting out of hand. it's one thing if you live next door and you say it bothers me. wisconsin to texas. don't go there. a lot of people don't go to texas for good reason. not against texas, don't get me wrong. but who is traveling to wisconsin and texas? >> eric: one more comment from her before i end the discussion she goes people like you, you don't understand that. wait a minute, people like my, i'm just asking you a question. no, you're from fox. >> greg: she must have something against mangers. she's mangerist. nativityist. >> andrea: we're from fox and we have opinions. god foraged we have our own opinions. >> kimberly: this is an opinion show. hi. >> bob: if you don't put something else up religious -- >> andrea: put up a santa claus or santa helper or reindeer, anything like that. >> andrea: but she wants a festvist poll and spaghetti monster. humiliate and

secondly -- >> andrea: a hero. >> bob: a cheap political shot. >> eric: what service was barack obamakimberly: the organizer. paper cuts are dangerous. >> bob: i don't think there is a male or female at this table can be talking about -- unless i missed something. >> kimberly: i do my outreach. c'mon! >> bob: i bet you do. >> andrea: the president can have troops at the white house. he has had them there before. a lot of troops will welcome home in their own community. >> bob: michelle obama does a lot of work. >> andrea: she does. >> bob: what? >> kimberly: she is number three in our poll. >> bob: you like dogs. say something -- >> eric: good boy. barack obama named the dog bo. wow. save us. >> greg: the guys did a great thing for the world, and for america. do what you can. >> bob: women as well. >> andrea: give them a hug and a job. >> bob: give them a hug and a job. >> andrea: they don't want a hug from you. >> eric: coming up, north korean mourning death of the leader kim jong il. was it sincere? we'll show you. we report, you decide. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bob: i was doing air guitar. >

bob: very good. excellent! that's what i was trying to sing. it's not a christmas carol, is it? ght that was a christmas carol. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: no bah humbug here. oh, no. but do you use your cell phone when you're driving? you might not be able to for much longer. the national transportation safety board wants to ban all nonemergency phone calls. and texting while driving. is that too much government intrusion? what do you think? >> greg: i don't know. the real danger driving is checking out attractive people. there is no statistics that show how many guys die getting hit by a buses when checking out a hot chick. >> eric: four out of five. >> greg: that is why people get hit by cars. >> dana: now that i live up here and i don't ever get in a car, pretty soon they are going to ban me from e-mailing and walking at the same time. >> kimberly: good point. you see it all the time on the street. people walking to stuff and get injured and fall down. >> eric: it's dangerous if not more dangerous than drinking and driving. looko have a way to turn off the cell phone all mattic when

>> seventh grade, bob was like the way-cool guy. he was that guy.as like one of the cool kids. for someone like me that never really felt accepted by anyone, to have a friend like bob was like really huge. we spent a whole summer just running amok. i got a call, and my mom said that bob had shot himself in the head. he was playing with a gun. and i said, okay. and it started sinking in. i wanted to kill myself, and i thought of how much i was feeling like then. i couldn't do that to my family, so i just kind of -- i held it all inside, like i'd always done. it was just a long pattern of everything i seemed to care about went away. from friends and animals, and that was just the latest and the hardest one. and that's how i came to the conclusion that when you die, you just vanish and you're gone because no one ever talked about him anymore. no one ever said, how are you doing with that? i mean, it was just gone. it was gone. not feeling loved and having bob die, which was -- when you die, you're gone and that's it. i never seen the body or nothing. i

>> bob: oh, yeah. paul was: why haven't we read all day long about paul breaking the reagan commandment of not talking bad about the republicans. there should be a rule if you want to make a point and go after your opponent, going on jay leno to make a joke is not the best place. >> kimberly: passive aggressive perhaps. go on "red eye." >> greg: he was on "red ey eye." one of the few people i was taller than. or was that kucinich? they all blend in. you can't talk about islamophobia, a cheap shot. especially with the newsletters floating around. questionable stuff. be very careful. look at leno. he asked a main stream stupid question. you have to blame him, too. >> eric: but the thing about the paulites, it is true they are a committed, dedicated group. >> bob: they have been after my pal, eric, who is jumping on ron paul. they will get after you. i don'tthe they sleep. >> kimberly: they work in shifts. >> bob: they ares a close to a colt as anything i've seen. >> kimberly: they are crippling the e-mail box rig

matters worse, obama is upside down in the gallup daily tracking poll, a couple of days after bob beckel wasn right giddy. only 41% approve of obama. 50%, i don't think so. all right, andrea, what do you think about the numbers? >> andrea: he is in big trouble. he saw a very short-term bounce. democrats were starting to rally around him in payroll tax. the optics of that fight helped him because he stayed out of it. now, he has to deal with an economy he hasn't fixed. contrary to what democrats say, it's still in the gutter.

bob: nothing. he thought it was fine. old this story. >> eric: did the boss ask where you were? >> bob: yeah, i told him i was in jail. i sort of was. >> eric: so you called and said they let you out? >> kimberly: yeah. call in sick, incarcerated. >> bob: have you ever been to a place where the fake jails? >> kimberly: have i played in one, bob? what? what is he talking about? i put bad guys in jail. >> greg: that was a real jail. >> bob: this is, got handcuffs and stuff on the wall? >> dana: what in the world -- >> kimberly: no. i've never been so horrified. >> dana: okay. i can remember calling in sick to work with a fake voice. but i did do something. i was telling white lies to get out of going to baby showers. i hate them. >> bob: you don't even like babies. >> dana: i got caught in the white lie web. so i realized what i need is a policy for myself that says i do not go to baby showers so when somebody call mess and says can you go to a baby shower. actually, i have a policy and i don't go. it's worked out brilliantl

>> bob: obama. >> eric: carter was at 51% -- >> bob: i worked for him. >> eric: it was 51%. >> dana: to this race. >> eric: mitt romney, marco rubio or newt gingrich-paul ryan type of ticket, either one of those would beat obama. >> eric: that is a 40-state loss. >> dana: we talked about iowa. >> eric: you would know about that. >> dana: ohhh! >> kimberly: below the belt. >> dana: hold on. i'll let you fight it out in the break. another poll, iowa is in less than a month the voting starts. on the heal of that is new hampshire voting. marist poll, romney leads in new hampshireed 9-23%. could it be, greg, because gingrich is just now becoming a front runner? >> greg: i don't know. in a way it's triumph of the american system. the more photogenic candidates were on top. now we have a situation where the pudgy guy with funny hair who happens to sound the senatorrest on top. that is reassuring to funny looking people like me. >> bob: if gingrich wins he could knock off romney in new hampshire. that race would be over. i don't think it will happen. romney will probably come in third in iow

he was a prince. bob also was smart, smart enough for me to offer him a job as my research assistant and dumb enough to accept. he was a delight to work with, and together, we produced an article -- the energy environment conflict: fighting electric power facilities -- which was published in 1972. when bob graduated from uva he left a real hole in my life, but i knew for sure he was going to accomplish great things. we kept in touch as his career progressed until fbi swallowed him in 2001. bob's legal career has been mainly in public service with interruptions for private practice. all of his focus on criminal law, financial fraud, public corruption, narcotics, conspiracies, money laundering, terrorists. he first became known in san francisco where he served in the u.s. attorney's office, rising to be chief of the criminal division. thereafter, he moved to boston as assistant u.s. attorney and then to the u.s. justice department in washington where he led the criminal division. in 1998, bob returned to sa