dan ponce spoke with jim mullen tonight. dan? >> reporter: word is spreading quickly throughout the 41st ward tonight. jim mullen in the race for alderman. the current is ben dougherty. jim mullen is paralyzed from the neck down but he says that wouldn't effect his ability to serve the 41st ward which runs along the edge of the city. he is officially in the race for alderman. officer mullen was responding to a call when a gunman hit him one in his spine leaving him a quadriplegic. >> it's going to be a little different but it would put me back on the beat. >> reporter: he tells me he tries to keep on a positive outlook on his life. many high profile figures have spent time with him throughout the years. his wife hasn't left his side and looks forward to helping him throughout the campaign. if elected, his top priority will be to get more people on the streets. >> we're not policing out there. we're reacting to crime. we're not preventing anything. and we can't because we don't have the man power to do it. >> reporter: he also wan

mullen. against general petraeus. the top security adviser, jim jones, reportedly referred to his aides as water bugs, the mafia. he says the cia has set up a 3,000-man paramilitary force, a secret force, that fights the taliban in afghanistan and pakistan. >> all this comes as another top economic aide is set to leave the white house. we'll have more on the white house shakeup ahead. >>> and also this morning, it's been a political flash point this year. we're talking about islam, with the proposed mosque near ground zero. we begin an in-depth series. and we kick that off our next half hour. >>> we begin over the fallout over bob woodward's book "obama's wars." jake tapper is at the white house. >> reporter: the book is not even in stores. already, the white house is responding. a senior administration official says that in the book, the president comes across as analytical, strategic and decisive. and the official goes on to say that the infighting portrayed in the book was already well-known. excerpts from the new book "obama's wars" by bob woo

jim jeffry. >> mr. vice president, mr. prime minister, honorable ministers, mr. secretary, ambassadors, chairman mullenral mattis , general odierno, general austin, distinguished guests, colleagues, first, it is an honor to be here today representing the men and women of the u.s. embassy at baghdad from 16 different u.s. agencies participating in this chain of command -- change of commensurate t -- change of comd ceremony and representing secretary clinton as well. as president obama's plan for u.s. engagement in iraq, vice president -- president obama's point man for u.s. engagement in iraq, vice-president biden is a familiar face to all of us got engaged and off in the vital partnership here. his commitment to iraq goes very deep. as vice-president and previously as senator, he has visited over a dozen times since to thousand three. the vice-president knows what it's like to have a close family member deployed in the u.s. military here. it is good to have you among us again, sir. distinguished guests, colleagues, iraqis and americans, allies and civilians, the vice president of the united states. [ap