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for more, we turn to james fallows, national correspondent for "the atlantic."his latest book is "china airborne." >> my pleasure. >>. >> what do you make of this announcement, it's significance and it's typing. >>. type-- timing i think the announcement she has been formally indicted for murder. we have seen that coming. the story has a whole nobody hs considered this. her lawyers are not able to argue her innocence. and no one knows if she will get the death penalty or not. >> this won't be an american-style capital case where you have lawyers and pleadings and trials and appeals. >>. >> there are no judges. the lawyer will argue rrow grounds. they will say she was concerned for her son's welfare and that is why she should be punished in some other way than sentenced to death. what has been the political fall out from this for the communist party and for china? >> it's enormous. six months ago or a year ago most people would have thought the husband of the gu kailai was a rising politician. he had been expecting to be one of the members of the standing committ

historians and presidential biographers, they are doris kearns good wins, jon meacham, robert caro, james fallows. >> what about the president, obama is the living proof that, you know, we talk about a narrative, what is obama's place right now in the american narrative? that he is the first african-american president, so 43 years ago, blacks still did not vote in substantial numbers in the south. >> i mean, he made a lot of talk about theodore roosevelt and learned lessons from fdr and from the do nothing congress of harry fru man, you see right in this campaign, i think the most important thing that jim fallows talked about in the great atlantic piece is his ability to learn from mistakes and to change as time goes by and if he does get a second term, that ability which made fdr a much better president the second term than the first made lincoln a better president will have a chance to play out. >> rose: the american presidency when we continue. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. >> additional funding provided by these funders. >> and by bloomberg. a provider of multimedia