please welcome to the program ray nagin, sir. (applause) >> very nice to see you. >> how are you, sir. >> you know, i'm good, jon, how but. >> i'm doing very well. >> explain this to me this is self-published. >> yeah, self-published through create space. hi spoken with a couple of agents and just didn't get comfortable that my voice would come through. because once you turn over your man you script to a publisher you never know what will happen. >> jon: they will just twist it around. >> they want immediate to tone it down, tone it up. >> jon: there were things in there that i was somewhat surprised at when i read, the governor of your state. >> right. >> jon: kathleen blanco at the time does not come out well in this book reasons really? (laughter) >> jon: you have seen the book. >> i've seen the book. >> jon: it's self-published. >> yeah. >> jon: you wrote it. >> yeah, i wrote it, every word. >> jon: you thought she came out okay? >> there's a scene in the book where you describe her as because you supported her opponent bobby

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el alcalde ray nagin estÁ con nosotros hoy en "enfoque".ido recopilar? >>al principio, no busquÉ escribir un libro, pero despuÉs que salÍ de mi puesto como alcalde, en mayo del 2010, empecÉ a crear mi propia biblioteca y me di cuenta de que esta es una historia increÍble que yo necesitaba contar. en mi lbro, doy a los lectores un asiento en primera fila, por decirlo asÍ, porque yo estaba en medio del desastre desde el principio. fui parte del plan de recuperaciÓn e interactuÉ con todos los aspectos del gobierno, cumplimiento de la ley y la armada. asÍ que quise dar a la gente una idea de lo que ocurriÓ exactamente y de mis experiencias directas. >>alcalde, lo felicito por el libro, muy interesante, fascinante leer sus experiencias. hubo muchos errores, tanto por el gobierno federal como por el estatal y hasta el municipal. ¿cuÁles son los errores mÁs graves? >>katrina fue un evento histÓrico tan catastrofico que resultÓ ser el desastre natural mÁs grande en la historia de nuestro paÍs. hubo muchas cosas que pudimos haber hecho mejor y yo cr

now pack to my conversation with former new orleans mayor ray nagin.here talking about his book, "katrina storm secrets." let's pick up with the federal government. you talk a lot about fema and talk a lot about the federal government, very much slow to respond, and you specifically talk about the president bush speech, we all remember, washing him in jackson square. you right about the valuable lights and the generators and write specifically that the disney like magic left almost as quick as it arrived, and your point here, and correct me if i'm wrong, that the white house was just very out of touch. >> well, out of touch and basically in a reactive mode. they were spinning and that whole scene in my humble opinio. there were no lights. there still was water in many parts of the city, and it just points to how out of touch are you concerned at all going forward, mr. nagin, that people may not want to work with you down the line? >> i don't think that. the main reason for my book is to give an insider's perspective on what happens. do you think at all

. >>> and tomorrow, when we meet again, new york's mayor, ray nagin and i will meet again to talk aboutts he regrets. >>> time for political pop. it turns out the president's afghanistan poll satisfy is not the only issue muddling up the white house this week. the president is also taking heat for his environmental policy. joe johns is here with the political pop. joe, what's the story? what do you say? >> this guy started last year when the administration said that it was going to put in solar panels at the white house, not a new idea. something jimmy carter did when he was president but when ronald reagan got in, the solar panels came down. president obama comes in and he's going to put them back up, new ones. the expectation was that this was going to be done by spring. summer is here. no local lar panels. this has created some heat for the administration. and environmental groups are saying, if you're not going to do it, who is? >> and what about al gore? >> that's another story. that's, of course, a big story. he actually put a 7,000 -- >> i'm sorry. this is my bad. we reached out