>> i think george mitchell was a great guy. i think the mitchell report was baseball's attempt to look like it was doing something when they understood it would be profoundly unfair to actually punish the people singled out in that report. unfortunately federal investigators have leaked names. grand jury testimony has been leaked. these investigations into steroids in baseball and professional sports has led to i think serious, serious violations of people's personal rights. i think the mitchell report was a pandora's box that then led to a lot of what i consider to be really unfortunate stigmatizing of people. i understood why they did it. i thought it was well intentioned. i think there's a real witch-hunt mentality when it comes to athletes and steroids. >> what's your opinion when you see those men sitting at the table. you probably snow them all. i know this is a broad question, representing their different sports to the federal government? >> i think they do a good job. roger goodell is an incredibly intelligent man. david

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but despite a really sort of heavy effort on the part of then senate majority leader george mitchell and house majority leader dick gephardt, they were never able to get the factions and the faction leaders in the democratic party to sit down and say, "here is what we can take to the floor." and the story that we tell in the book, which really was told us by tom foley, then the speaker of the house, about to be defeated as speaker in his re-election in washington state. foley said that the most maddening thing to him was that for a full month in the summer of 1994 when health-care reform was hanging by a thread, he had to arbitrate over and over again jurisdictional battles among house democratic committee chairmen about the question of who was going to control this program in the future if, by some miracle, it was ever enacted. and that, i think, gives you some measure of how parochial and sort of inbred the democrats had become at the end of that 40-year reign on capitol hill. c-span: we only have about a minute left and i want to ask you, when did the president say to you, "i set