it put him on the path to winning in iowa. >> host: the guest is richard wolffe. the book is "renegade." door is on the democratic line. >> caller: good morning. i would like to ask richard, first i would like to say i watch him on msnbc. >> guest: thank you prieta >> caller: i would like to ask two questions. what does he think about the president's cabinet and what does he think about all of the flip-flops' he has done? >> guest: that is a good question. you know, the most striking thing about the cabinet is frankly hillary clinton's presence would and given the bitterness there was between the two individuals come naturally in many ways there was more bitterness of on the people and they are working together have a staff level i think it was quite an extraordinary move to bring hillary and as he told me in the oval office this was a decision he made before the primaries were over so when ceilings were still high the wones hadn't healed so any cabinet is a mixed bag and he has a number of republicans and they've been smart about pulling in the republicans again n

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. >> host: baton rouge on the independent line with richard wolffe. good morning. >> caller: good morning. how are you this morning? well, i have heard a lot, and the only thing i hear is how great he is, which may be he is, i don't know but there was a lot of it with the reason that mccain lost was because of the media. the media was square behind obama and they never denied it for crying out loud. everything, they pour palin , everything that came up the media went after. >> host: let me do my for you right now, number one, if you think the media was always in love with him and only gave positive coverage you must have forgotten the two month period for basically all the way through the pennsylvania primary and beyond which was dominated by one man called jeremiah wright and i assure you remember him. it was compounded by candidate obama singing people were bitter in small towns in america and this was two months of the worst coverage of any candidate in any election. so i guess if you set that aside and say well, that never happened, then you could

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richard wolffe is going to be joining us in about 15 minutes with a full hour looking at the presidential campaign that led to the election of senator barack obama last november. marlene, jefferson township, new jersey. good morning. caller: i do not know where to start, but i know someone in the family that takes corporate minutes and types them up. about five years ago they were very upset when general motors was talking about how they were going to bring cars that they were making in china into this country. they planned on bringing 50,000 cars per year from china. they are building and upgrading ports in mexico, building a huge highway that goes from the ports of mexico through the united states and into mexico. there is virtually no news media talking about this. what happens? for general motors, the cars that they are bringing here, they are european cars. most americans have no idea how small they are. when you are mandated to put your child in a car seat, they will lead even fit in those. what do you do? host: we are getting a bit of an echo from your phone call. thank you for sha

. >> and next on "washington journal," author witched wolf -- richard wolffe discusses his new book. then george runner at 8:30. after that darrell