bob woodward, it's great to have you on. congratulations on your big new book, "the price of politics." is it true that the brand depended on fighting him to the last man like british style discipline, can they keep it up if they lose the election? >> there are scenes in the book where eric cantor, the majority leader who is much more affiliated with the tea party assembles people like paul ryan in the republican caucus in the house and they are worried deeply, profoundly, that the speaker, john boehner, is working deals with the president and they actually sit there and say, my god, our speaker is like a horse that's out of control. we have to find some way to control him. boehner recounts how his senior staff came to him and said, trying to make a deal with the president, you are going to lose your speakership. chris: that solidarity against that president, that just say no approach, will that die if romney gets beaten, even in a close race? >> we just don't know. of course, there is the other side to this that president o

bob woodward's dramatic book on how close the u.s. actually came to financial meltdown. >>> the anger -- >> i was pretty angry. >> the accusations and for the first time the tapes of two men watching the deal blow up. >> he wasn't going to get a damn dime for it. >> an abc news exclusive. >>> on alert. the taliban announces a plan to kidnap and kill prince harry in afghanistan. >>> and the crying game. letting a baby cry and cry and c cry. some surprising scientific results are in. >>> good evening, as we come on the air in this new school year is beginning, there is an uprising taking hold in the city of chicago. tonight, the biggest teachers' strike in america in a generation is under way. 29,000 teachers out on the picket lines. 350,000 american students shut out of school and here is the heart of the standoff. how do you judge if a teacher is good or not good enough in the classroom and who should decide? even though this is happening in chicago, tonight it could light a fuse in american cities and towns across this country and ab

bob woodward. f politics" get it and read it and you'll know a lot more about how our government works or doesn't work. thanks, bob for your time this morning. >> nice talking to you. >> bill: bob woodward "the price of politics" and now there's even a second round of comments from that romney video where he dismisses any chance of any settlement or any peace process in the middle east. what does this guy believe in? anything but himself? >> announcer: radio meets television. the "bill press show." now on current tv. >>i jump out of my skin at people when i'm upset. they're doing this this corruption based on corruption based on corruption. >>that's an understatement, eliot. gaeme inc. thank you for joining now to my point. (vo) jennifer granholm ... >>for every discouraged voter, there are ten angry ones taking action. trickle down does not work. in romney's world, cars get the elevator and the workers get the shaft. that is a whole bunch of bunk. the powerful may steal an election, but they can't

>> i spoke with bob woodward, associate editor and author of a new book "the price of politics." bob woodward, welcome. >> thank you. >> you obtained this videotape of mitt romney talking about 47%. anything questionable of a journalist getting hold of a politician getting something and recording it? >> no, just the on sit. it's a big scoop and one of the big campaign stories of the year. everyone calls it a secretly -- you know, it's on open forum to a certain extent. it's a fundraiser, anyone can be there. maybe it was a waiter. maybe it was somebody who paid the 50 thou for the dinner. >> you're saying -- >> no one in the world has an expectation of privacy. it doesn't exist anymore. >> i think princess kate learned that as well. but if this tape was given to a lib rat magazine, "mother jones" and jimmy cart 'eers grandson is part of it, did look to the outside world like it's part of a hit job. >> no because it's authentic. they said, you know, this is what it is and its authenticity is the question. and, again, it -- over the decades you and i have known each other, it's one

journalist bob woodward takes an inside look at the debt ceiling crisis. his book "the price of politics," you talk about it as financial equivalent of the cuban missile crisis. >> it's so serious they couldn't tell the world how bad it was at the time. >> reporter: the president and speaker of the house john boehner, the chain-smoking son of an ohio barkeep who is skilled in the art of backroom negotiation, still boehner has to deal with his new tea party caucus. some of whom seem to want to see the u.s. default. >> at one point of the meeting i look at myself, i look at the president and i just started chuckling to myself. >> reporter: here you're listening to speaker boehner when he talks to woodward about one of his early meetings with the president. >> because all you need to know about the ifrps dids between the president and myself is that i'm sitting here smoking a cigarette drinking merlot and i look across the table and here's the president of the united states drinking iced tea and chomping on nicorette. >> did you offer him a cigarette? >> oh,

the book is called "the price of politics" and bob woodward joins us now.come. >> thank you. >> woodruff: so when you started working on this book, what was it that you wanted to capture? >> well, it's clear that the economy is the issue and impacts everyone. and leading up to a presidential-- this year, i mean, it's obvious that what happened and what-- you find when you do these books, the news coverage is excellent but it runs by history and you have to go back and say, okay, let's get the meeting notes, it's get the documents, do the extensive interviews so you do a full excavation of what really happened. >> woodruff: what was it about that-- it was pretty much a six-week period that you mainly focus on in 2011. >> yes, about half the book is that, last summer. >> woodruff: why that period? >> well, because that's when we were at the edge of the cliff and if there was a default, as the treasury secretary tight told thsecretary timgeithner tof we don't fix this we could trigger a global melt down, a depression that would be worse than the 1930s. and the

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serious they couldn't tell the world how bad it was at the time. >> in the price of politics, bob woodward gives a blow by blow account to reach a so-called grand bargain, spending cuts and tax increases to cut the deficit. the deal was close, but broke down near the end when woodward says the president asked boehner to agree to more tax increases. for boehner, that was a deal breaker. he wasn't going to get a damn dime more out of me, boehner told woodward. a critical juncture boehner didn't bother to return the president's phone calls. when they connected, the furious president was spewing coals. the president acknowledged he was angry, but also tells woodward, he had sympathy for boehner because he couldn't control extremists in the new tea party congress. you see how crazy these people are. >> i understand him, the people said. through woodward, the total breakdown of the talks reflected badly on everyone. it was clear no one was running washington. it was trouble for everyone, but especially for obama. >> woodward shows an almost complete lack of communications between republicans in

bob woodward. "the price of politics." the great bob woodward. >>> when we return, let me finish with who's who? the man who's running for president without ever saying anything. ask tom dewey. he didn't quite make it to the white house, did he? he didn't say anything, either. multi-policy discount. paperless discount. paid-in-full discount. [yawning] homeowner's discount. safe driver discount. chipmunk family reunion. someone stole the nuts. squirrel jail. justice! countless discounts. now that's progressive. call or click today. >>> so "let me finish" tonight with this. mitt romney is fretting his hour upon the stage. he served his time getting there running and losing. running and saying what he had to say. signing the documents of admission the right had placed before him. he was when asked to cite his strongest character trait, resolute. resolute, yes, but toward what? some trouble makers in los angeles put out a preview of an anti-islamic movie. it goes viral. gets translated into arabic, hits the high re cairo stree

. >> rose: we conclude this evening with bob woodward. his new book is called "the price of politics." >> it hangs over us. i tell you, the average person in the united states doesn't realize if this isn't straightened out in some form and we get a default or we go to the brink again people... the value of their homes, the bank accounts they have, any investment, anything of monetary value is going to be in jeopardy and we are really on the cliff. obama knows it; boehner knows it; the economists know it and we've got a presidential campaign going on and everyone's whistling past it. >> rose: andy murray and bob woodward when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: andy murray is here, he is the 2012 u.s. open champion. inform a dramatic five-set match last night, he beat the defending champion novak djokovic. tom fordice of the bbc said this "andy murray's nerve mangling history making triumph was many things: one of the great finals of the modern era, a la

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[laughter] they're attracted to it because it's bob woodward, you know?t let me just, i want to say one other thing, megyn, before we leave, and that is the president won. boehner can't control his own caucus, and by the way, the congress has the lowest rating it's ever had, and the president now after the convention has an approval rating above 50%. we're headed in the right direction. and, brad, you need to get a the world is ending sign when you go on the show in the future because that's how you and mitt romney -- >> no, the world will start anew on november 7th. >> it will when barack obama wins and is sworn in. megyn: all right, guys. thank you. good to see you. >> good to see you. megyn: coming up, before aaron vaughn was killed in afghanistan in 2011, he asked his family to keep quiet about his assignment to seal team six and his role with the armed services. but after the bin laden raid, the administration made this elite group a household word and gave film makers special access to the details of their mission. now the vaughns, his family, are u

bob woodward. good to see you. i read the book cover to cover. i want every american to read it for this reason -- it should make everybody angry at the level of dysfunction at a time -- you say, the american people have never had any real knowledge of just how severe this was. >> i mean, it was the kind of crisis that took the country's economy to the cliff. president obama, when i interviewed him for the book said they were days away from having $5 billion in the u.s. treasury. that's it. now, that's half a day's federal spending. if you think about it, to let that happen -- not just the president, but the republicans -- could have said -- sent shockwaves through the country, could have done things to the american economy that tim geithner, the treasury secretary said would have been worse than the 1930s depression. >> sean: i mean, it's so dysfunctional. it's far worse than we ever said. here's what really bothers me in all of this. we have 25 million un- and under-employed americans. one in six americans in poverty. 49 million americans on fo

here's the issue-- bob woodward wrote is this in his book-- the devastating defense cutses were insisted upon by the obama administration so they would not have to face another debt ceiling increase before the election. that's putting politics ahead of national security. more to the point, norah, i authored bill, brought it to the floor, and passed it to prevent the president's irresponsible, devastating defense cuts from occurring by cutting wasteful washington spending in other areas of government to replace these defense cuts. >> congressman, these defense cuts are part of the budget control act. you voted for the budget control act. in fact i went and looked. you put on the a statement at the time it was passed and you called it a victory, and you called it a positive step forward. >> so-- >> so you voted for defense cuts and now you're criticizing the president for those same defense cuts that you voted for and called a victory. >> no, no, i have to correct you on this, norah. i voted for a mechanism that says a sequester will occur if we don't cut $1.2 trillion spending in governme

. >>> coming up, bob woodward's new blockbuster bombshell, president obama is to blame for last summer'sl. how and why? all coming up next. >>> welcome back to "the kudlow report." the explosive book hitting bookshelves today, bob woodward's "the price of politics" all suggests president obama is to blame for last year's failed debt negotiations. with the deal in hand, he relentlessly pushed for more tax increases. and listen to what he toin the interview with bob woodward. >> his best, $400 billion, he knew he wasn't to get a damn dime more out of him. >> woodward's book calls into question the president's leadership or lack thereof. let's talk. we have the filmmaker behind 2016, "obama's america" and author of the book, "obama's america," currently a number one "new york times" best-seller. in honor of your number oneness, i never thought of bob woodward as partisan anything, certainly partisan conservative but he gives a damning indictment of mr. obama's mishandling of the debt deal last year. what's your take on this? >> there are two ways to read obama's behavior, neither one is fla

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for the book at length, he pointed the finger right at the opposition party, the republicans. >> bob woodward, thank you very much indeed for joining us. what started as a dispute over a small group of uninhabited islands in the east china sea has escalated into a standoff between china and japan. the two countries both claim the territory as their own, and now violent demonstrations have led some of the biggest global brands to shut down the chinese operations. >> anti-japanese protests across china showed no signs of abating. in the southern city, thousands of demonstrators surround the japanese consulate. there anger was in full public display. these are being filled by an escalating territorial dispute between the two countries over islands in the east china sea. demonstrators have been targeting japanese businesses operating in china. we are a few hundred meters away from the japanese embassy and they say -- and this area -- many of the businesses here are taking protective measures. they are applying the chinese flag in order to stop attacks by angry demonstrators. the flare-up and tens

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