jonathan mentioned, it is a martyr complex, it is egotistical. some people said, you are being egotistical. it was month -- none of those things. he wanted attention in the case because he knew that it would help him win the case. it would affect the prosecutor's decision. it would affect the judge if it ever got to the sentencing phase. a ultimately, he won the case. your concern the influence the way public defenders are portrayed in news media, and perhaps those who write for the entertainment media. >> before i move into how we can change the image, and want to ask jonathan a question. today, how would you cast for the role of a criminal defense attorney for television? >> i have had the pleasure of doing that twice. i created two series that nobody really watch. i have had the experience on two separate occasions, sitting with casting directors, trying to cast the role of defense lawyer. it is interesting, a defense lawyer can look american. kathy bates is playing one. jimmy smits is planning one. they focus group test television shows, like

biden for instance calling richard holbrooke "the most e egotistical bastard i've ever met." reported elsewhere "there are too many senior aides around the president, they're like water bugs, they flit around" so that's jim jones calling the political side water bugs. general petraeus calling david axelrod a "complete spin doctor." one wonders whether petraeus can be open in this book and not face the consequences that others have faced previously when generals in the military crossed the white house. >> yeah, i mean the one thing that helps general petraeus is the fact that david axelrod's position is a little bit vulnerable, one question people have asked in the past and will ask again in the context of bob woodward's book is why is david axelrod involved in the meetings in the first place? why does he have a relationship with david petraeus? he's a political person in charge of the president's message. it's not necessarily my position but some will say that. a couple of other examples you gave, jim jones you are exactly right there's not a lot of love loss between a lot of

joe biden called holbrook egotistical. many describe these differences as a healthy debate the president has when making key decisions. white house officials made clear joe biden's description of richard holbrooke was followed by the comment that he was the right person for the job. officials insist no one has time to read the book, they are focused on the mission in afghanistan. >>> it has been six months since the health care reform bill was passed. tomorrow some key elements will go into effect. children can stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26, companies can no longer deny coverage based on pre- existing conditions. president obama went to falls church to hold a backyard chat. this comes on the heels of a new poll that shows 40% of those surveyed are against the health care reform bill. >> health care was one of those issues we could not ignore. we could not a ignore it because the cost of health care has been escalating faster than just about anything else. >> there are 20 people at today's event in fal

. >> imagine a pastor so egotistical he would sacrifice the lives of initialnaries and soldiers to go forward. >> officials urge reverend terry jones to cancel the karan burning. welcome news to many local muslim leaders. terry mcsweeney joins us now with more how local leaders are responding. >> yeah, local religious leaders calling on the reverend jones to not burn the karan but local muslims a bit shaken by this incident. leaders of faith groups got together in palo alto to urge peace and tolerance. one even had a suggestion that might have been successful had it been brought up a couple weeks ago that the world ignore the karan burning. too late for that. the scheduled event brought back the topic of islamic phobia and that puts muslims on edge before hillary clinton and david petraeus strongly and publicly denounced the book burning. >> two days ago before all these statements surfaced, we were all very scared, very nervous. it was very uncertain. >> those guys are digging in their heels. the reverend jones has no intention of backing down. local organizations say they have no in

holbrook called the most egotistical bastard i've ever met.isliked talking to david axelrod calling him a complete spin doct. >> how the president has really handleboth wars in afghanistan as well as iraq and show how he has led on these two issues. i don't think it's going to distract democratic candidates. >> woodward reports karzai has been diagnosed as manic-deessive and treated with medication. >> the book isn't even out and the white house already responded making them look strategic and decisive. >> a santa cruz county won is on capitol hill testifying about the salmonella contamination from eggs that made soe 1600 people sick. sarah lewis appeared before the house energynd commerce subcommittee. she became sick last may and spent nearly a week in the hospital losing some 30 pounds since then. lewis' family runs a butcher shop in freedom. she's apolicied by the conditions of two iowa farms that produced the eggs seen in the photograph at the hearing. >> when i show pictures to people of our facility, they're amazed how clean it is and h

"he's the most egotistical bastard i've ever met." these kind of quotes. petraeus referring to david axelrod, the president's spin doctor. he called him a complete spin doctor. i guess that is what you are supposed to call a spin doctor. but a lot of these quotes are they going to cause trouble politically and in terms of policy or are they just the usual, as i said, kibbitzing? andrea? >> i think inside the white house and we should point out what the vice president said about richard holbrooke is he is the most egotistical bastard i ever met but he is probably the right guy for the job. so there are extensions and contexts there when you see the book that some of the newspaper headlines did not pick up. but i think it does cause problems and i think it does sort of precede an exit strategy by some people, like the national security adviser jim jones it is very clear that he feels ostracized. that he didn't have access to the president on the president's first european trip, the white house aides, he had to go to the president and complain. that kind of t

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in the book he says joe biden called richard holbrooke the most egotistical bastard i ever met. am i invisible. spencer pratt posted a video online of him shaving off his beard. yeah, if you watch it, i would just like to remind you can never get that time back. . >>> finally on november 9th, susan boyle is going to release her new album "the gift." although you may know about it by the regift. i'm just kidding. the first track is called keep the receipt. >> tonight, jimmy welcomes amy poehler and pavement, musical guest weeknights at 12:35, 11:35 central time on your local nbc station. time for your "first look" at entertainment news. a slimmed down clean-cut joaquin phoenix made his return to the show. he apologized to the host for his bizarre apeernls a year and a half ago. both made an effort to stress that letterman was not in on the joke despite one of the writers recently saying he did know. as for what's next, "new york" magazine says he's in talks to appear with leo dicaprio in the upcoming film about j. edgar hoover and his love. >>> was levi johnston glued to the tv w

holbrook called the most egotistical bastard i've ever met.isliked talking to david axelrod calling him a complete spin doctor. >> how the president has really handled both wars in afghanistan as well as iraq and show how he has led on these two issues. i don't think it's going to distract democratic candidates. >> woodward reports karzai has been diagnosed as manic-depressive and treated with medication. >> the book isn't even out and the white house already responded making them look strategic and decisive. >> a santa cruz county woman is on capitol hill testifying about the salmonella contamination from eggs that made some 1600 people sick. sarah lewis appeared before the house energy and commerce subcommittee. she became sick last may and spent nearly a week in the hospital losing some 30 pounds since then. lewis' family runs a butcher shop in freedom. she's apolicied by the conditions of two iowa farms that produced the eggs seen in the photograph at the hearing. >> when i show pictures to people of our facility, they're amazed how clean

intense in-fighting, for example, vice president biden reportedly calling richard holbrooke "the most egotistical bastard i've ever met." quoted it as a disaster if donilon became national security adviser and david axelrod as a complete spin doctor and discloses that u.s. intelligence reports, hamid karzai was diagnosed as manic depressive. karl eikenberry talks about him saying "he's on his meds, he's off his meds." bob woodward will be a guess on "morning joe" next wednesday. "the new york times" got its hands on a copy. that's where a lot of this is coming from. more on the book and a full discussion of what it means on "morning joe" >>> a senate vote on repealing gays serving openly in the military will have to wait until after the midterm elections. after the measure failed to advance yesterday. republicans with the aid of two arkansas democrats voted unanimously against taking up the bill calling it a political ploy used to mobilize special interest voters ahead of the elections. shortly after the vote, senator john mccain had a testy exchange with reporters where he challenged assertions

and for being an egotistical, ruthless self-publicist who took young lovers and sired a legitimate --legitimate children. this is all true, but it is really about him as a broker. he rejected others ideas of painting everyday life and ushered in a new age would work like this. -- with work like this. a painting of two parts/the trunk of a -- divided by the trunk of a tree. one side represents truth, the other fantasy. he uses color as a metaphor. the red here represents the supernatural. it inspired some of the surrealist works from 30 years later. it is all very good, but why put on the exhibition at this moment? is it simply a case of his turn? maybe there is a need for a blockbuster. is there more to that decision? >> he is very relevant to us today because of the way he explored, through his life and art, and alternatives in terms of what he rejects in terms of civilization and capitalism. he is drawn away from that and knowing that his art depends on it. he is fully aware of the contradiction that we are conscious of today. >> his concerns resonate with our modern world. to his p

the vice president says of richard holbrooke, he's the boast egotist call bastard i've ever met. general david petraeus tells aides david axelrod is a complete spin doctor. most of this infighting over the war plan for afghanistan. timely, the president blows up. november 25th, 2009, only days before announcing his decision, the military asks for 4,500 more troops. woodward writes the president erupts saying, i'm done doing this, we've all agreed to a plan and we're going to stick to that plan. i haven't agreed to anything beyond that. six days later, his big speech at west point. >> the review has allowed me to ask the hard questions and to explore all the different options. >> reporter: the next day, the president explains why he added a timetable to begin withdrawing, telling republican senator lindsey graham, i can't let this be a war without end, and i can't lose the whole democratic party. >> you really want to see this kind of conflict and disagreement. through history that usually makes the best strategy, especially in a war. >> reporter: but the book reveals the success

biden also addressed the part of the book where biden reportedly called richard holbrooke "the most egotist cal bastard i ever met." >> it may not shock you that people talk about dixie just about they talking about my being too loquacious. they didn't say the end of the sentence. i told the president he's the best man for the job. he should have the job. this is one of the most talented diplomats we've had in 30 years. he's been my friend for 35 years. i think he's the right guy for the job. and so richard knows that. >> just to be clear, he is one. >> bob woodward will be on "morning joe" tomorrow for his first cable interview for that new book that caused such a stir. in last night's interview, the vice president also revised comments he made earlier in the day that the democratic party's base should "stop whining." that's a quote. speaking at a fund-raiser in new hampshire yesterday for three congressional candidates, biden said democrats should "remind our base constituency to stop whining and get out there and look at the alternatives." last night biden dialed back that criticism. >>

. >> imagine a pastor that is so egotistical that he would sacrifice the lives of missionaries and soldiers to go forward with something. this is so stupid. >> reporter: and abc news has learned that evangelical leader franklin graham has reached out to jones to try to dissuade him. so have others. today, in a remarkable development, a local muslim leader paid a visit to jones at his church, and offered him friendship to diffuse this. >> and i said, i'll stand with you. i will talk to the muslim world. i will defend you as my neighbor, regardless of your faith. i think he was very receptive to that message. >> reporter: still, jones vows to go forward, convinced he speaks for many americans. a brand new abc news poll confirms some disturbing facts. 26% of americans admit to feelings of prejudice against muslims. and only 54% of americans see islam as a peaceful religion. 31% say mainstream islam encourages violence against nonmuslims. still, terry jones seems to have crossed a line. a line that is clear to so many christians, like pastor dan johnson of the trinity united methodist church in

vice president biden called holbrooke, the most egotistical bastard i've ever met. >> very nice to see you. >> reporter: and general david petraeus, now the commander of u.s. forces there, says he dislikes speaking to white house adviser david axelrod. calling him a complete spin doctor. the book also reportedly highlights the president's own doubts and frustrations about the war. i want an exit strategy, he implored at one meeting. woodward reports that hamid karzai, the president of afghanistan, with whom the administration has had a strained relationship, has been diagnosed as manic depressive and is being treated with medication. >> the senate has not -- >> reporter: the book comes as several key members of obama' taed f xittiy defense secretary gates said 2011 would be a good mefr him to and jim jones is expected to leave after the midte and the president's econom team has be national economic council director larry summers will leave after midterms. budget director peter ors left. and so has council of economic advisers chair christirom only treasury secretary tim geithner remain

he called him egotistical.arently quite a bit of infighting between the top advisers there. >> apparently bob woodward interviewed the president for this ok. any reaction from the whit house? >> none so far. he interviewed several top administration officials. the white house givi no comments o this. this all sort of broke out. "new york times" got an advanced copy of the book. they posted something overnight taking about -- basically a previewwhat we can expect from the book. no comment from the white house, though. we could hear something later today. >> also some insight into the leadership in afghanistan. can you talk about that. >> report: interesting, one of the allegations in the book that hamid karzai is manic depressive and on medication. there have been a lot of questions about his leadership in afgnistan. this is something new being revealed by woodward. he apparentlies the u.s. foft has some documentation of this. it'sll in the book. the book is coming out next week. >> tracie potts li on capitol hi

president is putting out is in the working and the vice president biden saying this is the the egotisticalastard and then blair is arguing with rahm emanuel who saying you are telling us things just to cover your butt in case there is an act of terrorism in the united states. and blair is fighting with general brennan, the national security advisor, over that christmas bombing attempt. remember that? how this is put forth to the public and blair is not seen as a member of the team or if line with the obama administration. >>shepard: the swlows saying we are happy about the book and the president's detractors are going crazy over it. it is like the last administration when a similar book came out "inside story," all of president bush's lovers and keepers and political people were saying, no, no, no, defending him and the people on the other side ... it is a broken political record every cycle. much acts like it is new again. this is old. >>guest: it is always positive ads, the military versus anyone else. in the book woodward said general petraeus cannot iceland axelrod and his job is to sp

there's the famous now biden quote about richard holbrooke being egotistical.and as you continue in the book, but he is probably the best guy for the job. i had the vice president on monday night, was his first interview since that quote came out. and he was dealing with me with that quote, while dick holbrooke was here having completed an interview with "the rachel maddow show" before this. do you feel the press will grab little nuggets like that out of this book, which is so much more important than an individual's ego or adjectives about an individual? do you feel the press seizes on that so easily? >> sometimes, but it's part of the story. this book and the national security team are key, like any team. and there is antagonism and there is name calling and there is distrust. and when you look at it, try to step back, what is the show, it shows many unsettled areas in the war in terms of this strategy. what are we really trying to do? what is july of next year mean in terms of draw down. does the present have the will to win. does he not use that kind of, ye

vice president joe biden calls richard holbrooke the special rep the most egotistical bastard i've ever met. he has written extensively on war strategy. thank you very much for joining us. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> president obama is quoted as saying, this is a direct quote from the book. this needs to be a plan about how we're going to hand off and get out of afghanistan. then he repeatedly, apparently, pushed his top military advisors for an exit plan and they didn't give it it him. does this in a way summarize the dilemma overall. the in fighting in afghanistan? >> it does. people seem apparently shock that there's infighting in the white house. and i would be disappointed if there wasn't. this is a badly flawed strategy. it has a number of holes in it. not least of which is it's not properly resourced. if you were really serious about standing up a functioning nation state in afghanistan, which is our professed goal, you can't do it with even 100,000 troops. you need far more troops and to be there for a very, very long time. >> that's exactly what general petraeus said and i'll

. >> just for the audience's sake you said he was egotistical. to use. >> most would agree with the second part of my sentence, he's the right man for the job, one of the most talented diplomats we've had in a generation. >> i want to read a sentence the president is quoted by bob woodward as saying. we can absorb a terrorist attack. we'll do everything we can to prevent it. even 9/11, the biggest attack that ever took place on our soil. we absorbed it and we are stronger. how did 9/11 make us stronger? >> it made us stronger by demonstrating to the entire world there is nothing, nothing, nothing that can shake our conviction of everyone under the constitution has equal rights. we have not gone underground. we have not turned to repressive measures. we are the same open, strong, vibrant society that the rest of the world wants to emulate. so that's the reason they took the shot at us. they took the shot at us to try to prove to the world that we weren't who we advertised ourselves to be and we are. the rest of the world has looked at that. they l

you have the vice president saying about richard holbrooke he's the most egotistical bastard i've everet, general petraeus said about axelrod, that he's a complete spin doctor. do these personal tensions get in the way of what's best for afghanistan, get in the way of what's best for our military and get in the way of what's best for the american people in. >> i don't think so, as a matter of fact. there's always going to be squabbling in government. there isn't any workplace, you know, if you pull it back, people say things about each other. this is just always much more public when you're talking about the white house, and the government, but these are substantive disagreements, so take joe biden and hillary clinton. >> right. >> they're on opposite sides of this issue and they still like each other a lot personally. so what's more important, whether people are squabbling or whether they disagree on the substance? and what's so interesting about these inside accounts that come out is you see the inner play between the personal squabbling and the substance and of course, bob woodward

among them richard high school brook who vice president joe biden called egotistical.lso new details about how general david patraeus dislikes some of the president's top aids. as for president obama he repeatedly pressed his team for a withdrawal plan last year that was never delivered. he immotherred at one meeting i want an exit strategy. and the book says he set an exit timetable because "i can't lose the whole democratic party." now obviously the white house gave boob woodward a bob woodward. for now live in washington d.c., allison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> another one of president obama's top economic advisors is leaving the white house. larry summers is stepping down from his position as head of the national economic council. he plans to go back to harvard university at the end of this year. summers is the third member of president obama's economic team to step down in the middle of the economic crisis. >>> senate democrats attached a revision to repeal don't ask don't tell to a popular defense spending bill but it was defeated with all republican voting

in the book, he says joe biden called middle east advisor richard holbrooke "the most egotistical bastard've ever met." then rahm emanuel's like, "what am i, invisible? what, i mean -- what do i gotta do to get recognized?" [ laughter ] [ chrs and applause ] forget it. and listen to this. woodward's book also reves that afghan president ham karzai has severe mood swings. but karzai was like, "that is not true. i'meally offendedhat you would say something. and it's funny. it's funny, you know, it's hilarious how much i love you." [ laughter ] check this out. the airline industry expects to make $6 million more in profits this year than originally expected. yeah, mostly because eight more people plan to check their bags this year. that's what they say, "it's all" -- [ applause ] "it's all about checking -- how much is that? $10,000." i love how they charge you for it and then they make you lift it and put it on the thing. like, "that will be $150. do you mind lifting that and putting on the conveyer belt? i just want to sit here and point at stuff." speaking of air travel, i just read that

joe biden calling richard holbrooke the most egotistical bastard i've ever met. general david petraeus calling david axlerod a complete spin doctor. president obama's desperate search for an exit strategy from reluctant military advisers and they don't give him one. mike is at the white house, and, yeah, mike, what's the reaction there? >> well, apparently a lot of china got broken in the west wing, chris. when you remember that review of the afghanistan policy, that the president undertook last year, there was a series of meetings. they've released photos, letting us know it went two hours, three hours. the president was taken a deliberative approach to a policy announceind decembd in d but there was a lot of disagreement. bob woodward chronicles it all in this book. he's done it again, a great deal of controversy there. the president, very concerned that he felt as though -- frustration boiling over, according to the book, that the military was boxing him in. general mcchrystal, he asked for 40,000 more troops in afghanistan. the president undertook that review

for example, vice president biden called richard holbrooke, quote, the most egotistical bastard i'vegates allegedly warned that tom done lynn -- >> wait, you say that all the time. >> he would be, quote, a disaster for him to be national security adviser from his current position as deputy. gates, who is a man who usually keeps things very close to the vest said that. >> i look forward to reading this book. >> general petree yus said to believe that david axelrod is a complete spin doctor -- >> axelrod -- >> in addition the book discloses that according to u.s. intelligence reports afghan president hamid karzai was diagnosed as a manic depressive? u.s. am bass dorm carl ooik en bury talks about karzai says, he's on his meds, he's off his meds. according to secret meeting notes cited in the book president obama repeatedly pressed top military advisors for a way out of afghanistan last year when they only offered options requiring adding significantly more troops, the president crafted his own strategy that called for 30,000 troops in a short-term escalation. we'll get more on that boo

oh, and for being an egotistical, ruthless, self-publicist who took young lovers and sired illegitimatechildren. all of which is true. but what this show is really about is gaugin the artist and pioneer who a as a stockbroker collected the work of pisaro and cezanne. rejected their ideas of painting everyday life and ushered in a new age with works like this. a painting of two parts divided by the trunk of a tree. the left-hand side depicts reality. a group of women, a priest. the other side is a fantasy. a vision of jacob fighting an angel. he uses color to express emotion or metaphor. the red here, for example, representing the supernatural. these ideas led, in part, to the expressionism of his quartersree friend, vin vent van gogh. some 30 years later. which is all very good. why put on the exhibition at this moment? it is simply a case of gaugin's turn. maybe there's a need for a blockbuster. or is there more to this decision? >> gaugin is very relevant to us today because of the way he explored through his life and art alternatives to what he rejects in material terms of civilizati

. >> vice president biden called richard holbrooke the most egotistical bastard i've ever met.d axelrod, calls him a complete spin doctor. robert gates, what could be a complete disaster if promoted to national security advisor from his current position. they were at each other and don't trust each other and the war is paying the price! >> sure and then, you know, when president bush was president of the united states, famously he had said he would do anything he could to protect the people of the united states. well, apparently, according to the woodward book, that the white house was barraged with so many warnings about terror threats here and abroad, the president in his sit down interview with bob woodward said this -- he said we can absorb a terrorist attack. we'll do everything we can to prevent it. even 9/11, even the biggest attack ever, we absorbed it and we are stronger. and it almost sounds like he's saying, you know, we're doing everything we can but if another one happens, don't worry about it, folks. we got hit in the solar plexus once before, we can do it again.

. >> imagine a pastor so egotistical that he will sacrifice the lives of missionaries and soldiers tois so stupid. >> also voicing opposition to the protest of the islam's holy text leaders were such diverse views as conservative sarah palin and secretary of state hillary clinton. >> we wanna be judged by who we are as a nation, not by something that is so abberational. >> the reverent jones appears to be turning a deaf ear but here in the bay area just hearing u.s. officials make those pleas is comforting to some muslims who is for a while were feeling isolated. >> two days ago before all these statements surfaced we were all very scared very nervous. it was very uncertain. >> link tv in san francisco broadcast arab and muslim news reports focusing on the quran burning as well as the debate of the ground zero mosque in new york. >> the report has a big question and the question is about questioning the rise of islam-phobia in the united states. >> one local muslim is comparing the man at the center of the protest over the events of 9/11 with the master mind of 9/11. >> i think mr. te