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Further. they say aside from mr. sherman never interviewing the main suspect of his book, he and your publisher random house refused to submit fact checking questions to fox news prior to the books publication. what do you make of that charge? were you able to fact check with fox or others? >> this book was rigorously fact checked. i had a team of two. i reached out to roger ailes more than a dozen times in writing and in person to have him participate in the fact checking. ultimately roger aile...

If the em blem is this is -- this is a crisis is a beautiful thoing thing to create, to understand his behavior in early october, you have to understand the disaster in september. he suffered two huge obstructions both involving core presidential powers. the power to use appointment and -- he suffered at the hands of democratic senators. he wanted larry somers to head the fed, the most appointment hell make in the second term. democratic senator -- he wanted the power to threaten or wage a strik...

These issues till the house republicans get a clean continuing resolution out of the house that keeps the government running or opens it up again and until he gets a measure that lifts the nations debt ceiling so the country doesnt go into default on october 17th. so you heard the president reiterate that. another interesting thing that came up, wolf, as you heard the president talk inside taylor gourmet just by the white house here, he was asked about that comment in the wall street its "journa...

Ed henry is live with an up close and personal look on this. is anybody sincere about reaching a deal? >> reporter: that is the big question and the white house has faced this question about the presidents outreach in part because youll remember that story a few days welcome back in the national journal magazine where an unnamed white house official says all this outreach, charm offensive was a joke, a show if you will for the media as benefit to make it look like the president is reaching out t...

They didnt get that through. they pursued some of these policy goals that may pay off in the long term, not in the short term as much as the president would like. >> you also have folks on the left who said it wasnt big enough, right? and that 800 billion was a magic number they could sell to the public but in reality, christina romer, one of his chief financial advisers, said, no, it should be in the criminals but that expedie expedient. >> you find in the reporting of my book is he could not h...

Made it easier to unionize, had the gi bill, people went to college. this is all thing government did. tax rates soared. top marginal tax rate in 1994 was 84%. it stayed close to that for a while. government made a decision to create this middle class, and one thing was wrong with that. that it left a lot of african-americans and latinos out. all of these programs that ive described left out either affirmative -- people of color. there are two problems. white people dont necessarily believe they...

Negative? 6% say more positive, 36% say more negative, 41% says not much of a difference. 36% is nothing to sneeze on. >> this is hurting him. theres no question, its going to keep hurting him. its why harry reid used the blunt instrument of an anonymous quote, the kind of thing that no journalist would do. nobody would come out with a story saying that, but harry reid was doing that as a sort of political club that is clearly effective and the republicans are stuck. if you talk to republican co...

About the lobbyists, the wall of special interest money, the corrosion money in our system? why not focus on that as much as this kind of hyped partisanship problem that has been your card? >> first, katrina, i dont know who that anonymous quote was from cnn but they did not quote me. i did not blast the left wing bloggers. i think everyone has a right to have their say. that was not me. and whoever said that was not portraying my views correctly. i agree with what you just said. there are serio...

Thursdays convention program includes a spotlight on man who built businesses like staples and sports authority. so what does romneys business record tell us about the kind of leader he would be in the white house? the new issue of "time" magazine examines the mind of mitt and details his tenure at bain capital. barton gellman writes, "for most of romneys career he could afford to be fastidious in the extremes about his quarries, far more than a government leader or traditional corporate executi...

For instance, after rush limbaugh called sandra fluke a, quote, slut, following her testimony on a selective committee on contraception, it took romney two days to respond and timely said, thats not the kind of language he would have used. his campaign was asked whether his campaign agreed with the lilly ledbetter act, and paused for six long seconds before saying, well get back to you on that. supporting equal pay for women warranted testing and prediction models. michael crowley, senior corres...