the information was there to connect the nixon white hse. >> he is going to disagree me. >> know. i would not disagree with me. we asked the question and trying to recount some anecdotes from working on the watergate story, how do we go about it? it is empirical. still think there is a lot of empirical recording and it really is the key. i did four books on president bush and his wars. i had the luxury to spend a year or to getting documentation, getting memos, beginning minute notes that would describe exactly what wentn. for three of those books, bush allowed me to come and interview him for hours about what he did and how he made theseecisions. i think it kind of got lost. some not my fault. the extent to which he and knowledge to, particularly in the last two years, the extent to which he became disengaged from the presidency. let me just give you an example. and we published it in the post and in the last bush book cause it shows something and i think it applies or may apply to the presidency in general and at is the fatigue factor. you'd just get tired. when i interviewed bh

bush and ross perot battle for the white hse. stronger numbers now?st: we thought it was interesting, particularly the 1994 election. you thought there would have been a surge then. but there was not. but there was not. the next highest total was in 1992, when you had that memorable presidential race between clinton and george stage h. bush and ross perot. the record 100 candidates that year. -- there were 2100 candidates that year. host: tell us about what you are watching. with the runoff and arkansas, battles and nevada, california. guest: therere 12 states with primaries. it should give another indication of just where the electorate is, just how angry voters are. there are two races were incumbents seem to be on the ropes. in arkansas, blanche lincoln, a two-term democratic senator is being challenged from the left by the lieutenant governor. she was forced into a runoff in the primary and their runoff is tuesday. it is never good for an incumbent when you are forced into a runoff. so she has her work cut out for her. and in south carolina, a six

want to show a piece posted on "the telegraph" last night that rahm emanuel is expected to quit the white hse over frustration with the unwillingness of those around the president to get policy pushed through. guest: there have been rumors that he is leaving since the day he got therr. suddenly, this would not be an abnormally brief stay. there's generally a big turnover after the midterm. there would be nothing etraordinary if he did decide to leave. third, newspapers have lower standards of when they consider a rumor to be accurate. host: what are the british newspapers'standards? guest: two independent sources for the american newspaper is -- then there's would be one and a half. they will go with a story more quickly. for me, i defend that. i think there's a lot of stuff that people in washington know, a special reporters, that they do not report because they feel they do not ha it 100% sure. but they're pretty sue and use it in their analysis. i think maybe the readers have righto know that stuff. host: as editor of largeditor al you be doing? >> i'm writing a column three times per we.