mo joe reruns continue with colin powell to discuss his book. lessons in leadership and life. the humble beginnings from scraps of paper in his desk. >> you start the book by talking about when you left the white house. you talk about how you would put slips of paper under your desk and they would be your rules. it was an informal thing, but you are doing the article and they noticed that you had these slips of paper loved under your glass on the desk. >> he asked my secretary is there anything about the general to close this piece? he said he has all these slips of paper. he asked me, what about the slips of paper. i read off 13 of the roughly 25 that were there. the clean ones. they made it into an article and 23 years, we have been giving out the rules. i started thinking about a new book and i never explained the rules. the first part of the book is how they occur to me and how to use them over the years. >> there is fascinating ones. the first one, it ain't as bad as it seems. wait until the morning. even if it is as bad as it seems, leaving an option for the optimistic e

you know, this morning is our "mo' joe rewind." we bring you the best guests, the most compelling discussions, the most insightful interviews. and we've already seen a lot of great ones already. >> and we start this hour with the man who perhaps loves politics the most, former president bill clinton. >> there's not a close second, is there? >> yeah, there might be. >> that campaign -- >> yep. just a few weeks after holding court at the democratic national convention, the former president kicked off his annual clinton global initiative conference in new york city. >> mika and i sat down with the president at the site of the cgi meeting on the same day that both president obama and mitt romney were set to speak there. >> how would you characterize how he's been handling the collective problems that we're seeing percolating across the middle east? >> well, i think that first of all, i think they've done pretty well in a very chaotic situation. the arab spring was always going to have ups and downs or bumps in the road or whatever you

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