now on booktv nancy gibbs and michael duffy report on the relationships between sitting american presidents and predecessors. and shifting allegiancess, one week's supporter and next week's critic. this

so ladies and gentlemen, without, please join me in welcoming nancy gibbs and michael duffy. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. >> we could stand. thank you john for that ridiculous introduction. i wanted to start by saying that in the five years that nancy and i spent putting this but together, we had many hot discovery moments, where we are learning as much about the president as you will learn if you get a chance to read this, things we did know, at things surprised us come as surprise to us about the man we had covered from reagan to bush and clinton and bush and now obama. so for us it is a real journey of discovery to say nothing about what we've learned about hoover and truman and eisenhower, kennedy, johnson come in accent and ford. so we too came away thinking wow, i didn't know that. and it was a journey because people telling us things we don't know. but in some ways ronald reagan was a bigger part of that story than we would've just because we first meet him in 1947, long before his president and as we dug deeper and deeper into reagan's relations with the club,

general have dhea was one of the military officers to defect during the uprising that toppled more michael duffy he was shot down from a car by gunmen as he left friday prayers and there have been a series of murders of military officers who served in the khadafi regime. gyptian troops have detained nine islamist militants supposedly links to the ambush that killed sixteen soldiers on the border with gaza last week the military closed the trap point and launched a major of first have to. and restore security in the area egypt's sinai region remains highly of all the time with militant groups having grown since the toppling of hosni mubarak last year. and staying with the arab spring and rise to power of the muslim brotherhood have soured its relations with israel it's also deeply affecting jews in egypt who until recently considered it their home reports now from cairo. alone frightened and struggling one of the last of her people in a land that no longer wants them selene has merely the photos of her did family for comfort she is one of cairo's few remaining jews once there were eighty thousand

bush this is a man who made a least a couple trips to libya to to have many meetings with colonel michael duffy and i want to show you just really quickly how this story was poetry portrayed by at least one of the mainstream outlets here in the u.s. . a shocking report this morning you know obama's senior adviser cashing and on doing business with the firm a link to iran his government so why is this so shocking look there a few months ago it was the democratic congressional campaign committee that was hitting the koch brothers for their millions of dollars of investments in iran's petro chemical industry which is now sanctioned. just a few years prior this actually this whole incident reminds me of in two thousand and seven when mitt romney was on the campaign trail the first time he was writing these public letters to folks like then senator clinton and other senators and governors calling for them to divest from iran well then it came out that bain and co actually had invested in the ron's oil company and actually was working on a strategy to make that and i.o.c. which is now sanctioned to m

ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming nancy gibbs and michael duffy. [applause] >> thank you. we could stand. thank you for that ridiculous introduction. i want to start by saying in the five years we spent putting the book together we had many discovery moments where we were learning so much about the presidents as you will learn if you get a chance to read this. things we didn't know. thing that surprised us about the men we covered from reagan through bush and clinton and bush and obama. it was a journey of discovery to say nothing of what we learned about hoover and truman and eisenhower and kennedy and nixon and ford. we too came away thinking i did know that. for us it was a journey that continues because people keep saying things we did know but in some ways ronald reagan was a bigger part of that story than we would have guessed. we first meet him in 1937. the 40th president. as we dug deeper and deeper into reagan's relationship we had seen fdr. and gone to truman in kansas city when he was a democrat and be taken under the wing of ike when he

pacific when i am joined by glenn thrush, michael duffy, hugo lindgren, eric bates, sam stein and ezrail then, follow us on twitter. catch a little more of me this evening when our prime time coverage of romney-palooza begins at 7:00 p.m. on msnbc. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. good afternoon to you, andrea, live in tampa. >>> hi, there. thanks so much. right now on "andrea mitchell reports" we will have a lot coming up on the storm. isaac is now a hurricane. we'll have reports coming up from new orleans. we will also hear from the republican convention floor correspondents and also, governor rick snyder from michigan. t dog. every bite goes above and beyond the call of deliciousness. that's a big 10-4 kosher. with no fillers, by-products, artificial flavors or colors. hebrew national. the better-than-a-hot dog- hot dog. is now in our new starbucks refreshers™ -- a breakthrough in natural energy. made with real fruit, starbucks refreshers™ are delicious low calorie drinks you can feel good about. ♪ rethink how you re-energize. ♪ get a boost of natural energy with a new starbucks r