it opens with a scene from helena, montana. i had asked steffie, "go through the local paper and tell me what happened in helena on d-day," and she came up with this just crackerjack of a story that opens the book. grace has done similar research for me in my other books. c-span: that chapter, as you can see here, it's greatly underlined ... >> guest: it was great fun writing that chapter. c-span: let's go back to that. "the official nazi news agency" -- it looks like "trans-ocean" -- "was the first to announce the invasion." >> guest: yes. c-span: what was the premise of this chapter? what did you try to do with this chapter? >> guest: i just wanted to know the answer to what happened around the world as the news came, and i just walked my way around the world. new york, of course, was a magnet to me because you got so much coverage. you got the times. they did a great editorial that began on june 7, "this is the moment for which we were born." you had the new yorker, and the new yorker had a wonderful "talk of the town" the w

aid were hamas to win in those elections -- again, helena, before i can even answer these i think you need to look at exactly what was said prior to the election and what was implemented as a jet -- as a direct relationship to that election. >> the vice president went to 11 on. >> i cannot say the people around the world do not listen to the news. >> the biggest thing to come out of the g-20 was the international monetary fund. the u.s. portion of that is now hung up in congress because republicans are calling it a global bailout and will not votes on a bill that has that im itf money on it. what does the white house wanted you to unstick this -- want to do to unstick this? the would have this separate from the worsening to see if you get it to pass that way? -- do you want to have this separate from the more spending to see if you can get this to pass that way? >> that money and funding will be there for afghanistan and the critical needs of what is happening in pakistan as well as the commitments that were made internationally relating to the imf. i think this is a process that is o