olympics but to the extent they're paying attention to his trip, the voters that matter, that are undeeb siue are only a handful, saw him standing with bebenetanyahu. he looks very presidential. and an aide yelling at the press -- i'm sorry to have to say, i'm embarrassed to say, is not unusual. we both have been guilty of it. both have almost been fired on multiple occasions. it just happens. what's different now is there's video cameras on all the time. >> there's a lot of coverage of gaffes that he made or criticisms by the british people about things he said about the olympics. there was controversy about a thing that was about the palestinians. you don't think that registers? >> what he said about the olympics was a mild version of what the headlines have been screaming. that the security was in shambles. he said it was disconverting. ahmadinejad is complaining about his saying that israel has the right to defend itself. the labor party in london. if you take the critics, i think -- i'm going to say, again, i think it was fine. my larger point is this. of the things that are relevant in

siu. >> we both are frustrated with the climate and the environment of american politics right now and when he was talking about writing a political book the way i started understanding america was being on the road. if we are going to do this we have to go on the road and we interviewed hundreds of people. we talked to hundreds of people and i think what fascinated us the most is americans are so positive even now. we are in a dark time in a dark procession but everybody still believes in america. there were some people that were negative but we have this feeling that we are in this together. we are in a recession and the really hard time and we thought if we could write a positive look that had a positive spin that yes we are in this together and it's hard on everyone and we are possibly more polarized than anyone but if the two of us can come together and write a book that we think although although championed over-the-top and perfectly reference talking about american politics in a really positive way can help land people because at the end of the days of book for people interested