as that made you return to your vow to never do it again kamakura or is it making you want to go out and do it again, especially if hillary clinton is on the campaign trail? >> i think my days of following the press train are over. i was hoping for a general petraeus and hillary clinton match up, which would have been catnip for me. i think if hillary clinton is involved that is going to be the best thing. how do you cover it in an interesting way? tavis: there's a lot of news i want to get to given your expertise. let me stay with "panic 2012" for one more question. you admitted in other died whenons you hadn' you had the opportunity to ask the president some hard questions you did not. tell me what you said. tell me what you said and what you meant by it. >> the first time was 2006 in baghdad. he was the senator from illinois. he had to check that box, and i was a correspondent for newsweek at the time. i will be totally honest, and this is going to get me hate mail. i have never opposed for a picture with any other politician or celebrity i have interviewed, but senator obama was