when knoller reported that george w. bush had spent more than a year at his texas ranch, it came up at a white house christmas party. >> i come up to shake his hand and he says to laura, this is the guy who tells everybody how often we go to the ranch and if we get there at 10:00 in the evening, he counts it as a full day. and i corrected him, i don't count it as a full day, and he seemed glad to hear that. >> do you think it's a tad obsessive? >> okay, i'm obsessed with doing my job well, doing it thoroughly. you got me. >> reporter: knoller has been covering presidents since jerold ford. at age 60, he's never married. but he has no regrets. is this job, is this roof, is this your family? >> sure. it's my life. i'm able to cover this place exactly on my terms. and i find that very satisfying. >> since we brought you the story in february, the president has added 29 rounds of golf, including 27 holes yesterday. and on a personal note, i sat elbow to elbow with mark knoller in that little booth for seven years and every d

just for perspective, cbs's mark knoller is a enencyclopedia of these types of statistics, presidentresident obama played golf 141 times. so there is a, change here. i mean look, what is so striking is, the president builds up the syria intervention for months, changed his mind at the last minute, goes to play golf and then the next day "the new york times" says president puts congress in box, making it sound like president obama is some kind of mack developly, outsmarting congress. president, oops, secretary of state kerry making the case on all sunday shows. looks like he is in charge now. gregg: i was anchoring at the time when secretary kerry made his speech on friday. incredibly dramatic, powerful, alan, very energetic, i think we have some video on that. all of sudden after he arguably gets sandbagged by the president, yesterday he looked like a sick oyster at low tide, stuffing knocked out of him. boy, what did you think. >> i was wondering why when john kerry was addressing the nation he was doing it and not the president? obviously secretary of state has standing to make the

i love that mark knoller does this chronicling and you compare that with all of his golf outings and their children, how about we finish the deal with ours? of course, this coming the day after 9-11 and you talk about gitmo, these guys getting out, waiting and waiting for the trials. khalid sheikh mohammed and others. >> yeah, that's right. i think it's worth reminding people, especially after the september 11 anniversary yesterday, that it has been 12 long years in this endless journey to provide some sort of quote, unquote, justice for the 9-11 plotters and ksm and his crew at gitmo have been sitting there pretty, availing themselves of fresh halal meals every day, enjoying movie nights, art classes, language classes, hardly languishing while this terror coddling administration drags its feet on military tribunals. the reason why it's taking so long is because the department of social justice, certain generic holder, along with president obama, had initially tried to shove civilian trials down the throats of new yorkers and it was because of the 9-11 families who raised such a huge