they need to bring back the guy with experience. >> everybody loved pete rouse. women wanted him to be chief of staff. this white house is in a game of lowering expectations about the economy, sort of admitting some of the things that have gone wrong. they're making course directions in the wake of this book that came out about all the trouble happening. i think you're seeing course correction. >> the hero of the book was pete rouse. it is one of those things in washington. be careful the book that praises you the most. kevin, i want to play for you this daily sound bite from this interview, more serious about the process of washington. gets to what christine whitman was talking about earlier too. here's what he said. >> i would take some responsibility for the relationship that's part of my job. i think everybody in this room, everybody in media, everybody in this town. everybody active in politics has to take responsibility for some of the way our political system has gone. >> there's nodoubt it has hit a low point and the assumption was the affable daley and b

pete rouse became the chief of staff -- obama said something moving, a moment of doubt, a moment of confusion says to one of his aids, i don't want the rest of the aids -- i don't want them to see me like this, not sure of myself basically, you know, better they not see. you know, my god, who of us would have managed better? he becomes the intern chief of staff, and obama says i can do this myself. he engages you or nay, you may disagree, but engages on the bush tax cuts trading if -- it for a lot of payroll, there's a boost, makes the trade, does it himself with mcconnell, passes something like 82 to 16 or something in the senate, unheard of, and his numbers start to go up. then he gives that extraordinary speech which many of you heard after the tragedy, after gabrielle gifford was shot in tucson, brings in a new staff, and then when i interview him in february, he's got bin laden in the cross hairs, so at the end of the book, obama is feeling a kind of a recovery, a resurgence, and he talks bouts that in the last interview. some of it is, you know, boast illuminating, and a little unsettli