shepard: and now first more on the new book that the president s, on the president s administration, and how it is prosecuting the war in afghanistan. the name of the book is obama s wars. covering the 20 months since president obama took office and the struggles over the war that have come during that time. as we prepare to start the 10th year of that war, and we send an additional 30,000 troops to the battleground we have what is scened as an inside look at the infighting over what should be done in afghanistan, what shouldn t be done in afghanistan, and what can be done in afghanistan. a lot of the book is about politics. for example, president obama is quoted as saying i m not doing 10 years. i m not doing long-termination
impose marxism on the country. that is not what he is doing. what he is doing is imposing theory on the country and when it does not work he does not back away and you cannot do that. shepard: which theory? guest: the giant health care apparatus will lower health care costs. it s not. did you get your health care bill in the mail? shepard: one thing, the news corporation pays for it. i appear lucky. i count my lucky stars. guest: and people will not be hired because business know they have to pay more for health insurance. shepard: how is politics? guest: interesting. some people are wondering why i am in the doing this or another thing. i watch them all. shepard: i have been impressed. what do you thing of christine o donnell? egging she will not come on guest: she will not come on the program.
mcchrystal. shepard: that was a fair question. and there are other tensions. all administrations have tensions and they talk things out. more are exposed in this book. reporter: and you look at the timing which is coming out at an intense political season. there are also revelations that will be difficult in terms of the war effort in afghanistan, things said about karzai, the president of afghanistan, the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan called him manic depressive, and said he is either on the meds, off the meds, that will not go down well in the capital. shepard: delicate and weird. you look great. good to see you. more coming up.
guest: he said it was bankrupting families and businesses and the government. shepard: getting health care reform was a huge accomplishment for the president. but democrats are not running for re-election and largely, the democrats and the white house, completely lost control of the narrative on health care. it is a bad thing, not a good thing. guest: less than half the country thinks it was a good idea and the white house is trying to down play that saying in the districts they will run on the issues that are important to their voters but it has to be a disappointment when you consider how much time and energy and effort they did to make this law happen. shepard: they think people like it down the road. and the matter of rahm image, rahm emanuel, and he could be out by october. guest: in the coming weeks during the month of october, he
has a huge job right now, as white house chief staff so the white house wants to make sure if he goes they have a backup plan and i hear the name of an insider, a guy well connected on capitol hill would be an interim chief of staff but in the coming weeks we will hear if he wants to go back to chicago. it sounds like he does. shepard: it is the first time the job has been available in longer than we have been alike of the especially me. guest: forever. shepard: a prominent wisconsin prosecutor facing harassment allegations from at least three different women all claiming the d.a. sent them sexually charged text messages and two of them were tied directly to his work at a prosecutor. stay tuned.