it's in the library and anyone who reads it other than john meacham just a certain number of years wille shot. >> i guess as an historian, i i'm not going to be reading that. >> well, barb is so unbelievably disciplined. it takes a lot of discipline to write in a diary, and then she would go to the white house pool and swim laps. every morning. >> now i can't. since i have new knees, they sink. i'm in real trouble. >> what fun it must have been to live with you. >> i don't know as george thinks so. >> i think he does. >> so speaking of routines of the day, when i read your memoir, the funniest thing was when you talked about at the white house correspondent's dinner your nightly routine. will you tell these people about that? i loved it so. >> well, the white house correspondents dinner, have you probably seen it every year on television, but it's the evening when all of the white house correspondents, the press that are assigned to the white house and their guests, and they always try to outcelebrity each other and invite lots of celebrities come to roast the president. as george said,

when people like arianna huffington and john meacham and dana milbank are coming out and saying this is really uncomfortable to watch, i think you have to question whether this was a good strategy. >> you have to remember also in 2003 at this exact same time basically may 1st president bush showed up on that aircraft carrier with the banner that said "mission accomplished" behind him. he was re-elected. the mission was not accomplished. some would argue this mission is still not accomplished until day we saw osama bin laden dead. now we have the one-year anniversary of that. doug, the obama campaign has made the president's decision a year ago roughly about this executive leadership. as a.b. brought up the fact that the president's foreign policy and being basically a hawk about military actions has proven to be great risk, great reward for him right now. even the vice president has said they were not 100% sure that this was the right decision to make at that time. again, i get back to this. was this in reflection great risk/great reward and the president is just cashing in? >> well,

now it's time to talk about what we learned. >> i learned that it's a great morning to join john meachamhn, what did you learn? >> that willy was learned to find out from the facebook guy that you're not supposed to send naked pictures of yourself. >> that is a shock. what did you learn, mr. scarf, mark? >> that there's some rogue rules for your kids about how to use social media. >> that is great. by the way, that is an impressive scarf this morning. i like it. what did you learn today? >> joe scarborough would give him a run for his money. run for his money. >> there you go. willie geist, it's way too early -- first of all, happy mother's day, everybody, every mom out there. thank you so much for all you do. >> and "time" magazine says that, too, you're not a good mom if you don't breast feed for a year and sleep with your baby, too. >> willy, it's way too early. what time is it? >> it's "morning joe." by the way, the kid on that cover is like 11 years old. >> whatever. >> we'll see you back on monday. >> mama.

now it's time to talk about what we learned. >> i learned that it's a great morning to join john meachamhn, what did you learn? >> that willy was learned to find out from the facebook guy that you're not supposed to send naked pictures of yourself. >> that is a shock. what did you learn, mr. scarf, mark? >> that there's some rogue rules for your kids about how to use social media. >> that is great. by the way, that is an impressive scarf this morning. i like it. what did you learn today? >> joe scarborough would give him a run for his money. run for his money. >> there you go.

what say you john meacham? >> i think it is totally politicizing it.ot agree. it means the other guy is beating your brains in and you don't have anything to do about it. i thought the ad was fascinating on 100 different levels. one is bill clinton as witness for the prosecution is historically fascinating. and it's political. guess what? it's going to be a close reelection and as mike says democrats have spent every year since 1968 on the defensive about american power. and so the guy -- the president who learned to box from his step father by taking punches is punching. >> the only thing i will say here and mike is right. republicans have politicized this and democrats have in the past. there are some noble examples of men who rise above mere politics in the midst of sacrifice by men and women of the military and the country as a whole. you are going to be writing a biography one day on one of those men, the last gentleman. who refused to make political hay over the wall coming down, the end of the soviet union? refused. in fact, germans will still t