but you will not read about this aspect in her life in all the profiles of valerie jarrett. instead, just like with michelle obama. we know what label what's on back of her designer clothes, we know what shoes she's wearing and the fashion designers she's hanging out with, but we don't know about this history. and on the day before my book was published, july 26th, the "new york times" magazine did this massive profile of valerie jarrett. had this glamorous photo of her on the cover. it was absurd. 7100 words poured about how she was barack obama's brain, you know -- essentially the karl rove figure in the obama administration. it talked about the role that she played in ensuring that obama remains authentic. and what they meant by that was his racial authenticity because she shares sort of a similar background as he does of being, you know, multiracial and she's there as a check and a balance on him, apparently. but it didn't talk about all these chicago connections. and the way that she had made money and the failures of her and richard daley's vision. and then this whole

. >> who did an incredible investigative piece of valerie jarrett real-estate dealings.turns out one of the public housing complex that she saw while she was president of habitat company became a dilapidated mess. there were pictures and the testimonies from people who lived in a public-housing project talking about what the danger was to the people who live there, filthy, rats, invested and it is interesting in a telling illustration of the gap between the rhetoric of hope and change and the reality of how things are with barack obama chicago because gallery jarret and richard daley who she was very close to which is how she got into political life. she was general counsel and also worked in the panic of days spending department came up with the vision of reforming the incredibly dangerous housing complex in stead it enriched a lot of real estate moguls and slumlords like valerie jarrett. you will not read about this aspect of her life in all of these slathering profiles instead just like michelle obama of reno what label is on the back of her designer clothes and what

valerie jarrett spoke on sunday morning about the stimulus jobs. >> remember where we were one year ago? we were in the middle of the worst economic meltdown in our nation's history. the financial system was on the brink of collapse. what has happened over the last 12 months? we are no longer losing 700,000 jobs per month. that number has been cut and the less than 10%. we have turned it around invite in the right-. -- turned it around and brought it in the right direction. >> you cannot say that you have turned the economy around when the stimulus has not done what the president said it would. >> i disagree. we pulled back from the brink of disaster serial -- disaster. this is a long haul, and we are not satisfied, having any american at work on a buoyant. the president takes at the heart each and every day. -- takes it too hard each and every day. that does not mean that we give up and that jobs are not priority one. host: democratic caller, georgia. caller: by agree totally with the young lady. -- i agree totally with the young lady. the people that have the money and have the right

david axelrod said over 2 million jobs saved or created reduce said 1.5 million, and valerie jarrett more careful in saying, thousands and thousands. does that add to the confusion for people try to figure out did this stimulus work or not, if you got three different answers? >> the report that came out two weeks ago from the council of economic advisers gave the number of 1.5 million jobs to 2 million jobs saved or created. maybe i am guilty of being less of a glass half full kind of guy than david axelrod. but i think that the answers were given consistent with the range that cea -- >> but did you also say a week ago that you would not used "sadr created" anymore because christina romer was saying it was not the best way to present it? >> the answers that we gave on sunday were based on a report that came out i would point you to the report. >> a lot democrats are drawing parallels between what happened in 1994 and what might be happening in 2010. and marion barry is quoted in an article saying that the president said to one group behind the scenes that the difference here and 1980