please welcome to the program jodi kantor. ( cheers and applause ) how are you?he book is called "the obamas." i'm not going to lie to you. i heard a tremendous amount of controversy about this book. the portraying the first lady very poorly, as an angry woman. she was out on gayle king show talking about it. i saw you on cnn where the woman was yelling at you. so i made the mistake of listening to that before reading. so i was very angry at you. >> and then what happened? >> jon: i read it. >> and? >> jon: she seems nice. >> (laughing). >> jon: really. i'm surprised at the controversy because the book seems to portray michelle obama as a complex yet human individual struggling with this unbelievable situation yet remaining the moral compass and center of an administration trying to find its footing. the only thing i would say to you is, how dare you? >> it is really weird to me. i've been covering the obamas for five years. basically i asked two questions: what happens when you take these two pretty regular people and put them in the extremely abnormal situation

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and jodi kantor joins me now. welcome, jodi. >> thanks so much for having me. >> you're getting a lot of flak for this book. how are you dealing with that? did you expect it? >> well, actually there's been a lot of praise and excitement for the book. it's gotten some great reviews. you know what's exciting about this book is that it shows how the personal intersects with the political in this white house. and you know, there were some big headlines and scoops that came out of the book. but the real book that exists for people who are reading it as opposed to the abstract thing that a lot of people have been discussing on tv without reading is this sensitive nuance texture portrayal of the obamas in the white house. >> that's clearly not how they're seeing it. i can tell from the first lady's reaction in an interview yesterday with gail king. she's not happy. >> i was surprised by her reaction. and i assume what she's reacting to is the coverage of the book, which has been a little distorted rather than the book it

jodi kantor says valerie jett and former press secretary robert gibbs white house special who she broke. obama among her sources for the book valerie jett and former press secretary robert gibbs. coming up could we get more snow and the coming days and look at the seven day forecast at a later sports blackhawks continue to get production from the young players try to pick up points against minnesota tonight. wgn news @ 9 tonight chicago first snowstorm of the year more snow down that all season 4-8 in. likely before it is over depending on where you live hundreds of flights canceled at one point midway was shut down midday trouble could be slow and dangerous tonight especially out by area's high wind and plunging temperatures kicking in city and crews working around the clock plowing and salting roadways when will it taper off and in the next seven days more snowfall? >> absolutely correct we do have a more chance higher chance for snow in the last seven days tapering off by the clock in the morning winter storm warning for chicago area expires notice winter weather advisory is outlying

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i'm pleased to have jodi kantor back at this tae. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: it is good to see you. now i know you what have been doingince those interviews we had back during the campaign. books often are defined in a limited way, as you well know. because they are early sort of discuions about specific things and they miss those larger picture because they haven't-- it becomes a conversation about controversy. tell me what you think this book is about. >> i think it's about three things, charlie. it's about watching these two people learn to translate their partnership into a white hoe partnership. a couple of decades ago they just had a normal marriage like the rest of us. and now they have this kind of supermarriage where the back and forth between them really affects the whole country. there's a sense in which we're all married to the obamas now. it's about michelle obama's turn around in the white house. >> rose: evolution or turn around. >> turn around, she had a really rocky aively radio. she was just a stranger in a str

"the obamas" written by jody kantor. she writes about the relationship about the president and his wife behind the doors of the white house. mrs. obama not so thrilled with the book. we'll talk about her reaction and talk with the author this morning. stephen cobelbert is exploring possible run for the office. >> i am proud to announce that i am forming an exploratory committee to lay the groundwork for my possible candidacy for the president of united states of south carolina. >> finally, i'm feeling excited about this. race, we get to weigh in and what it all means for the republicans and that, of course, hear about this? the conductor of the philharmonic, cell phone rings in the middle of a performance and you know what he did? he stops the orchestra. i am cheering for him. we agree with this. i love this man. we're going to talk about that and much, much more as we begin qu "starting point" right now. okay back. we are back once again inside the tick took diner as ashleigh and zoraida told you about. they were stosz

jodi kantor talks about her new book, "the obamas." it has drawn attention after several passages detailing alleged tension between the first lady white house staffer made public. ms. kantor is interviewed by david works at the historic sixth and i synagogue in washington d.c. we are expecting this to get underway momentarily. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> this is the historic sixth and i synagogue in washington d.c. we are waiting on washington correspondent and author jodi kantor. she'll be talking about her new book called "the obamas." [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> this is a look at the historic six then i synagogue in washington d.c. were expecting "new york times" washington correspondent trained to talking about her go but "the obamas." if your attention in recent days after several passages that deta

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i don't see that coming through even when jodi kantor wrote.erviews where she feels like she's been misrepresented, and jodi kantor came back and said i didn't really say these things. this is something that people who are detractors of mrs. obama, i think, have taken away wrongly from the book. jon: well, let's take a listen to mrs. obama said to gayle king when she was interviewed earlier in the week about this on cbs. >> who can write about how i feel? who? what third person can tell me how i feel? >> uh-huh. >> um, or anybody for that matter. jon: judy, does she have a point? >> el, not really because -- well, not really because as long as she doesn't grant access and talk about how she feels, people are going to have to surmise how she feels through 33 aides which is what jodi kantor says is the number of people she talked tonight -- to about mrs. obama and the relationship between her and the white house staff. i find the fascinating parts of the book which i haven't read in full to be the relationship between her and the staff in the whi

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only on cbs this morning, eric kantor of virginia responds to president obama's push for higher taxesn the wealthy. it starts at 6:00 straight up on "cbs this morning." >> thanks, gayle. we'll be watching. >> we'll take a closer look at the president's state of the union speech. joining me is felicia with "the washington post." i read a headline this morning it said a compelling powerful road map or a re-election speech that points fingers. did we have any doubt the state of the union would be launch to the president's re-election campaign? >> no doubt it would be a campaign speech. frankly everything that's happening in washington is campaign-related. the number two democrat in the house steny hoyer came forward and said as much. i think the main take away from this state of the union yesterday is the issue be of incoming quality and along the campaign trail, that's been something that's come up a lot. you've seen it on both sides of the occupy wall street and on the republican side. i think the speech last night really solidified that for the democrats to say they're going full spee

it's written by new york reporter jodi kantor. we're going to try to get her on.he interviewed, by the way, the author, 30 current and former obama staffers, but the white house has pushed back against the book saying it's an overdramatization of old news and noting kantor did not interview the obam as. of course, they don't let them interview them and they say they didn't interview the governor of pennsylvania is an analyst, i don't know how he got dragged in this thing, there is no way, governor, you can say anything about that this doesn't cause more trouble, that is why we're doing it. i'm not going to knock it, i have another book on kennedy i would rather people read, i wonder if it's overwritten? is there something that justifies 200 or 300 people hashing over the relationships between the obamas and their staff, like valerie jarrett and the rest of them? >> look, it's fascinating, it actually is, we care about these people, they are our leaders. so i think there is enough potentially there. i think the problem is i respect jody kanter, one thing she does i

it's called "the obamas" by jodi kantor. "the new york times" writers says it was her goal to write the book from the first lady's perspective. >> the tension was not the kind of spectacular tension we see, you know, on tv shows and in television. it was very muffled. they had a kind of distanced relationship and the truth about those two figures is that they were philosophical foils. they had two different visions of the presidency. a wife and a chief of staff are in some sense the president's two spouses. >> did she ever -- meaning mrs. obama -- communicate her displeasure or dissatisfaction directly with rahm emanuel or were these things that were spoken in back corridors? >> my impression from my reporting is much more back corridors. >> kantor says the book is based on interviews with 30 current and former staffers. president obama and the first lady declined to be interviewed. the white house called the book an overdramatization of old news. >>> we are enjoying a revisit from winter out there this morning after spring

the new book by author jodi kantor says the first lady felt pressured to look perfect because everyone was waiting for a black woman to make a mistake. mrs. obama also rejects the book's claim she clashed with her husband's aides, former chief of staff rahm emanuel and former press secretary robert gibbs. >> i can count the number of times i go over to the west wing, period. >> reporter: the book suggests mrs. obama did not want to be like hillary clinton, who had her own office in the west wing. according to the book, mrs. obama told an aide, i don't want to be hillary clinton. i can't be that person. white house offices acknowledge moments of tension between the first lady and the president's staff, but they say far less than in past administrations. they say the book doesn't fully convey the personal bond between the obamas. andrea mitchell, nbc news, manchester, new hampshire. >>> up next tonight, what could be the beginning of the end for a classic american guilty pleasure. >>> more incredible pictures tonight out of that town in alaska that winter clearly hasn't forgotten. while

the problem is i respect jo jodi kantor.eporters and writers do. she acts like she's sitting there and she's michelle obama when she hasn't talked to her. she's reconstructing it from other people's accounts. and i do think that's dangerous. i also want to say, i admire the first lady, and i have that in common with the rest of the country. she's one of the most admired women in america. so this notion that the right has -- she's right behind hillary clinton and oprah winfrey. this notion that people are not going to like her if they know her and that they can damage her is kind of ridiculous. we love her. and i just wish she wouldn't fight down. i wish she wouldn't dignify people by responding to some of the garbage thrown at her. >> she never said, nor did he, barack obama, as a candidate you get two for the price of one. there was never any presentation of the two of them as political partners, as hillary clinton certainly has been for all these decades with her husband, bill. they are political partners, both political p

joining me now is the author of "the obamas" and "new york times" correspondent jodi kantor.for joining me tonight, jodi. >> thanks for having me. >> jodi, your book has provoked the famous michelle obama quote of last week, the so-called angry black woman quote. and i just want to run that quote again, to show how she said it and what she was referring to when she said it. let's listen to that quote. >> it's more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here and a strong woman and you know, but that's been an image that people have tried to paint of me since, you know, the day barack announced, that i'm some angry black woman. >> who can write about how i feel? who -- what thirty person can tell me how i feel? or anybody, for that matter. >> so just to be clear, that reference to angry black woman was not to your book, which michelle obama says she has not read and has no intention of reading. the quote did come up in the context of a discussion of your book. she was saying that that image is something people have tried to attach to her for a long time. for example,

. >> a book published this week called "the obamas" by jodi kantor, a "new york times" reporter, allegestion in the relationship between the first lady, michelle obama, and the staff of her husband. the presidential staff, of course. the book says that tension was because mrs. obama was interfering with the way the president's staff wanted to do business. the book details the friction, name well former obama press secretary robert gibbs and former obama chief of staff rahm emanuel, now the mayor of chicago. mrs. obama had this to say about rahm emanuel. >> one thing is true, that i talk very candidly to my husband about how i feel, but that's the kind of relationship i have. i wouldn't go to rahm about something i would talk to my husband about. if i didn't agree with something, i would talk to my own husband about it. >> the cantor book also details an alleged incident in which a french book says that carla bruni, the wife of nicholas sarkozy, asked mrs. obama how she liked living in the white house. mrs. obama reportedly replied, "don't ask. it's hell. i can't stand it." both mrs. obam

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. >> in a new book, new york times reporter jodi kantor says, the first lady clashed with top aides like rahm emanuel. >> the president told the former chief of staff his wife was displeased with the handling of the healthcare battle, emmanuel was indignant. >> rahm emanuel is a very difficult person and i am sure that michelle obama was probably deeply offended by rahm emanuel's style. >> cantor also writes, mrs. obama's reported comments to carla bruni that living in the white house was hell created problems for former press secretary robert gibbs, when he learned she was upset with his efforts at damage control, he cursed the first lady to staffers. >> well, i mean, that is shocking. first of all, it is really stupid. they don't understand that she is the wife. and that she has got the power. >> the book reveals the evolution of michelle obama from the harvard educated mom who felt that everyone is waiting for a black woman to make a mistake to a formidable first lady. >> i think that she is now getting her sea legs. it is about giving you a voice with decision makers. >> the book say

it was written by jodi kantor. she's going to join us for breakfast with soledad.t it. the first lady not so happy with the content. we'll ask her which where she got her sources from, did she actually talk to the couple at all and we'll have a conversation about some of the impact of this book. >>> killer tons loose. we've been talking about this national nationwide manhunt after the mississippi governor pardoned four killers. today they're rying to get those four killers that report back. broving unsuccessful. we'll sit down and chat with jeff toobin about that. that's all ahead this morning in ten minutes. y r skin looks bettr even after you take it off. neutrogena® healthy skin liquid makeup. 98% saw improved skin. does your makeup do that? neutrogena® cosmetics. [oinking] [hissing] [ding] announcer: cook foods to the right temperature using a food thermometer. 3,000 americans will die from food poisoning this year. check your steps at foodsafety.gov. >>> welcome back. it's 6:50 in the east. we're getting an early read on your local news. this morning we have p

the book is how movie stars shaped american politics and -- "the obamas" and the author is jodi kantor. >> and thank you david. [applause] >> here's a short author interview from c-span campaign 2012 is as it the country. >> what function does the media served when there are outbreaks? >> well, when there is an outbreak on the media has two different functions. one comment the media looks at its coverage of convening information from the public to humanities. in the same time, should work as an analytic tool. they provide different information, diverse days. but it is very important for the media to focus on their object is coverage will as well as providing a lot of different petitions. >> what constitutes an outbreak? been that well, outbreak did a search and abnormal disease occurrence in a certain community or region a group of people. so in case of, for example come in case of west nile virus, nobody expected west nile virus would occur in the united states, but it had been. maybe not in ms's gift, but it occurred. so it was defined as an out rate. >> do think the new media list t