joining me now, a man who has seen that war, sebastian junger. he was embedded with the 173rd air brigade combat team in a remote corner of afghanistan. he tells the story in his book "war" and sebastian junger joins me now. what do you make of the president's visit to afghanistan yesterday? there's a debate really over whether he spiked the football. is that a fair allegation, do you think? >> well, i don't know if i'm qualified to judge politics, but i think there is a convergence here. it's the one-year anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden, and arguably that was the point of the past ten years of war was to accomplish that. and it's the beginning of the presidential election for next november. so these two things kind of converged. i think it was sort of a little too much to pass up for him. >> yeah. i mean it would be pretty staggering if an american president didn't do what he did, i thought, but let's move to the afghanistan conflict. i call it conflict because i would say the jury is out whether this was ever a proper war. whether

. >> sebastian junger, thank you very much for joining me. >> thank you. >>> as president obama deals with fallout from his afghanistan trip and faces down mitt romney in the political battle of his life, i want to turn to a person who knows the president pretty well better than most of us. it's his sister who grew up in kenya. didn't meet her younger brother until the early '80s. they have been close ever since. she is author of a new book "and then life happens." welcome. >> thank you. >> you have the obama smile. i would recognize that a mile off. >> thank you very much. >> it's a wonderful title, "and then life happens" because your life must have changed so dramatically, i guess in several ways. once when barack obama, who is nowhere near being president at the time, he's just a young man, after the death of the father that you shared, decides to contact you. tell me about that moment first. >> that was -- at that time when it happened, it was actually initially quite a big shock because i write about that in my book, about the fact that i got this letter. there was an address wr

sebastian junger joins me exclusively. >>> also barack obama's long-lost sister. >> i have brothers,, neew

and sebastian junger doesn't consider himself to be the next earnest hemingway.s olympics. maybe he will want to show me some moves, but i'm wearing a skirt. not doing that. >> i would stick around to see that if they bring out a wrestler. >> no, you can leave. >> thank you, alex. >>> coming up, my defense of nerds and geeks everywhere. def nerds and geeks everywhere. on e teachers academy... ...and astronaut sally ride's science academy are helping our educators improve student success in math and science. let's shoot for the stars. let's invest in our teachers and inspire our students. let's solve this. the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. kiwi. soy milk. impulse buy. gift horse. king crab. rhubarb pie. lettuce shower. made by bees. toucan sam. that's not cheese. grass fed. curry. gingersnaps. soup can tower

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. >>> let's go to the best of office politics, from author, filmmaker and war correspondent, sebastian junger we go inside their offices for a side of them you haven't seen before. so, take a look, here it is. >> favorite for re-election, no matter what the state of the economy, i will say that until election day, because he's a well-funded, talented, likable incumbent. >> ha do you think are obama's strengths? >> well i do think he's a good campaigner. i think he was a lot stronger in 2008 when he wasn't as well known. when he represented kind of real outside force. you know, i don't know that he's the most natural campaigner that i've seen. >> i don't particularly care about individual candidates, i don't particularly care about individual parties other than using them to explain what's going on in the world. >> does mitt romney have a chance of winning in your mind realistically? >> i think he has a chance, no matter what. no matter what the state of the economy. because the president has been in office a long timing and even if the economy is getting better, i think it's going to raise qu