that said, i think david ignatius is on to something very important. way this president has chosen to lead consistently right from the beginning does not fit the normal pattern we have seen in the past, after all, his formative experience as a leader was as a community organizer, and as a community organizer, you tend to lead from behind, the famous phrase now, you tend to herd people along, and that's a style he brought to the white house. it doesn't fit our stereo typical sense or the hunger people have for a leader who is out front, visionary, brave, that says this is where we ought to go and fights in the arena to get it done. and americans have had a very hard time adjusting to this very different style, which was i thought exemplified by that clip that david ignatius pointed out. >> what is it in his style, character, that leads to you see this? and i want to quote from your column. "the bow yam white house is blessed in having such an irresponsible republican opposition in congress. as the debt limit day of reckoning approaches, the gop will pay

. >> for more on the power vacuum the assassination leaves, i am joined by david ignatius. thank you for joining us. with ahmad wali karzai gone, who will fill his shoes? >> we do not know yet. the key strong man in this area of kandahar has been ahmad wali karzai. he said that wali karzai, who has been such a problem for the u.s. and coalition -- a corrupt or lower, -- corrup warlord -t d -- with him gone, they will look for somebody else, but it is not likely they can fill the role quickly. >> why did he say they worked too closely -- he worked to closely with the taliban? >> we do not know that the taliban did this. it is entirely possible there is some feud we do not know about. there is an assassin -- the assassin was an elder from a village. it could be a very complicated dispute. one factor in the current relative stability -- one factor is that the current relative civility has been taken away. >> do you think this will have any effect on plans to withdraw u.s. troops? >> no. i think president obama has been clear about a timetable. this does show the vulnerability

i want to ask david ignatius a question.k, in washington, lately, has been the move of david petraeus from afghanistan to langley. david ignatius, i've got a feeling you're going to have a few columns that are going to write themselves over the next few years over director petraeus. i certainly hope so. i just spent a week with general petraeus in afghanistan. had a chance to talk to him a lot about the past and the future. it is striking that president obama has managed to take george bush's favorite general, a symbol of george bush's surge in iraq, and make him one of his absolutely key advisers as cia director. petraeus understands that his job going forward, in part, is to try to deal with the loose ends in afghanistan, in iraq, using paramilitary forces, using intelligence assets of various kinds. i think that's part of the deal that he's accepted. petraeus, as we all know, is an unusual leader. and he's been given a chance by president obama to do something really significant. it will be absolutely fascinate -- that, t

he discusses his analyses with david ignatius, foreign affairs columnist for "the washington post." >> host: i'm david ignatius, columnist for "the washington post" and author of a new novel, love money. i'm here to interview charles hill, who is the author and nonfiction book called "trial of a thousand years world order and islamism." very interesting book, and we are going to try to draw on some of the themes. let me begin, charles, asking you -- this is an unusual sort of book. it's more like an old-fashioned essay that some of the monographs see coming out of the academy, and perhaps you can just say the to state simply what we see as the subject of the book, what is the issue that you are seeking? >> guest: the subject is in the title and that is world order and in some sense that has put the legs on the mind of leading statesmen i believe, and also within that world order, the international state system going back 350 or so years and evolves to order itself internationally, and what we see here and what i am addressing is kim is from work islamism come as the word that we have

ignatius here. i am a proud wild cat. i went to college at loyola- marymount university in los angeles. i had a scholarship to play baseball. i remember coming down here to christie field, when my dad was in the military, seeing how the beaches have transformed into but we have today. you cannot beat the views, of course. it just holds summoning memories and i can come here with our kids, our family. i ended up going to ireland to get a master's degree at the university college of dublin. i went back to the states and went to law school at university of pennsylvania. then i came back, and choosing to live in san francisco was natural to me. when you are a child, you do not realize what you had until you leave home. i had the opportunity to live in los angeles, abroad in ireland, and there is no place like home, when you are from san francisco. i have been a corporate attorney at palo -- in palo alto. i became an >> i worked in the finance industry about 5 1/2 years. in the summer of 2009 i joined a venture capital firm wi

>> host: i'm david ignatius, a columnist for the "washington post" and author of a new novel. here today to interview charles hill who is the author of a nonfiction book called "trial of a thousand years: world order and islamism." it's a very interesting book. and we're going to try to broaden some of the themes and let me begin, charles, by asking you -- this is an unusual sort of book. it's more like an old-fashioned essay than some of the monographs that we see coming out of the academy. and perhaps you could just state simply what you see is the subject of this book. what is the issue that you're seeking to unlock for us? >> the subject is really in the subtitle and that's world order. in some sense that has slipped away from the minds of leading statesmen, i believe, and also within that world order the international state system, which is the way that the modern world going back 350 or so years has evolved to order itself internationally. and what we see here and what i'm addressing is can islam or islamism as the word is that we have come to employ for this -- can it f

ignatius. he owned flanagan's pub. loyal patrons of hearing his stories and his knowledge of golf and baseball. we all miss him. supervisor weiner: submit. supervisor cohen: thank you very much, colleagues. it is a very exciting day. today i am introducing a resolution that simply is expressing concern over the treatment of mr. de sean and buy it the u.s. airways staff and to develop and the torment a consistent dress requirement for passengers. this was a 20-year-old student from san francisco. he attends the university of new mexico albuquerque and is a resident of san francisco's hunters point neighborhood. he was a passenger to albuquerque on june 15, 2011. although u.s. airways has no written dress code policy, he was asked by a ticket agent to pull up his pants on the flight, which he agreed to do so once seated. when asked about how the airline into men's dress code requirements, u.s. airways made it clear they have no formal dress code for their passengers, who instead are -- but instead are subjectively enforc

ignatius, we were all playing ball together. that's the reason i'm interested. i believe we need laypeople like myself involved, actively involved. supervisor farrell: feeling disenfranchised, how is redistricting going to change that in your head? >> said the good question. if you look at the district map right now, it just looks like a jumbled up jigsaw puzzle. i fail to see how one little block could be stretched out or make sections -- it looks like they're trying to divide individuals from a greater community at hand. there are problems in the city we have to address. there's a growing divide between those who are very wealthy and those who are very poor. that's something that has to be addressed. if it is not addressed, in 20 years' time, i truly believe we're going to have a lot of very old and very simple people living in san francisco and their nurses are going to come from davis city to take care of all of them. more and more families are leaving. why is it? we need that extra bedroom. where are you going to get that in this city? the better health car

ignatius. i'm a very proud wildcat. i went to college at loyola marymount college in los angeles. i had a scholarship to play baseball down there. ended up going to ireland and getting a master's degree at university college dublin. came back to the states and went to law school at the university of pennsylvania. spent three years in philadelphia. came back, and ever since coming back to the bay area, professionally, i have been a corporate attorney down at palo alto. i left after about three years and became an investment banker here in san francisco at thomas was all partners. working the industry for about five and a half years. in the summer of 2009, joined a venture capital firm. i am happily married. my wife and i lived around laurel village in district 2. we have two small children. our goal is five and our boy is three. how parents and excited to be here on the board. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? and tell us about what motivated your interest in politics. >> choosing to live in san francisco was natural, given that i was born and raised here. when you ar

of that sort of damage that we can the government actually stuck to him the scandals for stress ignatius' all round top executives at news corp and the u.k.'s two most senior police officers many are asking if the prime minister will be next to find himself lying face down in the gully. david cameron's promised a full some apology if it turns out and he calls and was lying to him about his involvement in phone hacking but some say that won't be enough when this is over and we're a long way from that it's far from clear who can survive the frames still to come and remain standing at the top of the media the police and the government. we. know we're at it ought to. go to dave cell danis communications director of the american n.-g. o. free press he told me we've only seen the tip of the iceberg in the crisis as he sees it. there's been a very cozy relationship between media and government throughout western democracies it's no less true in the united states than it is in the u.k. . and what we've what we've seen is is sort of a laying bare of that relationship in a way that that everybody

reiterated by david ignatius in the washington post, an interesting piece about president obama not lookingceptionalism and leading from behind. >> the afghan withdrawal. the military commanders say keep the surge troops in place, he's more interested in ending the war. my old boss donald rumsfeld said weakness is provocative. if you keep sending these signals, it will come back to bite us. >> thank you for being in the studio. coming up on show. imagine sleeping in a tent and a bear breaks in. >> ainsley: no thanks. >> clayton: it happened to a 13-year-old. >> ainsley: wow. >> clayton: everyone's fear of camping. >> ainsley: and everything is on the table now. brings tal palin sits down on our curvy couch. what she nis about john mccain and her mom sarah palin potentially running for president. >> she's up next. @ ♪ sing polly wolly doodle all the day ♪ ♪ hah @ >> she was living life as a typical american high school student when all of a sudden, this happened. >> governor sarah palin of the great state of alaska. >> dave: her mom, as you all know, sarah palin, went from governor of alaska