>> i think if your name ehud barak hussein obama and you get lkted to the presidency just a few years after the illinois state senator, i think you have you know sort of a belief in you know in your luck maybe and a willingness to take big risks. if he didn't didn't take big risks he wouldn't be president. and i think he knew this was the one this might be our only shot and he had to take it. but it came with great political risk. i think that is one of the things he doesn't get enough credit for but that he is willing to you know risk his political standing at grave risk for to try to do things. >> rose: if he thinks it's the right thing to do. >> saving the auto industry trying to save health care. the bin laden ray across-the-board he is willing to do that. >> rose: you said one of the realities of washington is that everyone looks at things through a political filter and give you political motives for everything you do. >> right. >> rose: whereas in fact sometimes decisions which are always 51-49 which are always, a lot of people say do it this way someone else say does it that wa