david steinberger is the head of the perseus book group. if you would, tell us for those who don't know what is the national book award? >> the national book awards are given to the best marketing books in four categories every year so fiction, nonfiction, poetry and literature. it's the pantheon, the greatest american authors, saul bellow, john updike so it's a pretty good big deal to win this award. >> this began 63 years ago? do you know the history when it began or why it began? >> m it was a group of people who are interested in making sure that great looks have the greatest possible impact on the culture and that is still our mission now. the first winner was the man with the golden arm which was later made into a film starring frank sinatra. >> mr. steinberger recently "the new york times" there was an article about the national book awards and some of the changes that you as chairman and your team are trying to implement. what are some of those changes? >> part of it was trying to make towards as exciting as possible. we have red ca

. >> on my next show, comedian david steinberg joins me.undred and forty times on the tonight show, i think he owes me a few visits. >> obama: if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody they should go after me. >> jennifer: that's president obama standing up for susan rice the woman that many believe will become the next secretary of state. with me to talk about the president's new-found moxie is keli goff she is the political correspondent for the root. keli welcome back inside "the war room." >> always great to be back. >> jennifer: great to have you. president obama has been known for his cool demeanor. do you think we'll see a more forceful president in his second term. >> if that press conference is an indication, apparently so. i wrote a peace about how a lot of african-americans and progresses wanted him to be a little more forceful. and i compared him to arthur ashe who let his racket speak for him, which is different than the serena williams of the world. and i think we might have seen arthur ashe in

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[applause] we made a second bet that david could shine as "foreign policy" version of ellen degeneres. that also paid off. we started with jim steinberg reminding us today that we cannot predict the future, but there are three things, i think, it is fair to say over the course of today we learned we can do. the first is that we can define the kind of future rewards for our interest and the common good. the second, we can identify the transformational trends that will shape the future without worshiping those trends, because they can always be reversed. and we can construct policies that match those trends and tell the future in our favor. that is the spirit and purpose of today. there were a few answers, a lot more hard questions. both the people at the foreign policy group and we at the state department look forward to engage in with everybody here to grapple with those hard questions in the days to come and to try to translate them into real policies that affect real people in the real world. with that, i will turn it over to david to introduce the secretary. it is not just because i work for her that i can say we have saved the bes

. >> on my next show, comedian david steinberg joins me.er a hundred and forty times on the tonight show, i think he owes me a few visits. >> you know there, was one really ridiculous player in the elections, michael and trish and that was dick morris. this is his major prediction of how the election would turn out. >> it's going to be, well, you can call it a landslide or not but 325-223 is pretty landsliding in my view. >> okay, that was a foolish and ridiculous prediction. he lost. he's allowed to make a bad prediction. he's a journalist, an analyst. let's listen to her justify it. >> i hope people aren't mad about it. i spoke what i believed, and i think that there was a period of time when the romney campaign was falling apart. nobody thought there was a chance of victory and i felt that it was my duty at that point to go out and say what i said. at the time that i said it i believe that i was right. >> he said that fox news, he said this last week, does not have an agenda. if they don't have an agenda they should not have people like