wolf? afghanistan. some excerpts are appearing in told she tore into the media the nude media. he offers this take on winning the war. i think about it more in terms of do you successfully prosecute today? that s right. a strategy that s stronger rather than weaker in the end. gary tuchman was at an event she spoke to a women s group. the book underscores the political calculations behind the first words is i m the president s demands for an exit strategy. he s quoted as saying, let me disapointed the media is here because now i can t talk as quote again i can t let this openly as i want to. be a war without an end. this is a loose quote from her. and i can t lose the whole she said they record everything democratic party. but twist the truth. she did mention cnn s reporting let s bring in democratic of the financial impropriety correspondent chris lawrence against her. who s doing the story. she said you ve seen the cnn a key point in the brand new book reporting that the cia ha
and a testy relationship with top military advisers. at one point the president abruptly telling his military brass i m done doing this while discussing troop levels declaring i want an exit strategy. i can t lose the whole democratic party. it s not starting out as a good day for the white house. a new poll shows the approval rating is near an all-time low at just 46%. a majority of americans or close to a majority of americans now disapprove of the job he s doing. if you head to cnn.com this morning, ed henry examines how the president went from rock star status to rocky road in 20 months. ed s live at the white house this morning. a lot of people are asking whether or not he s lost his mojo. we ve been in one of the toughest economic times of our generation. what is behind the numbers besides the obvious? well, kiran, it s interesting you put it that way. robert gibbs and other white house officials say, look, this whole frustration that we re seeing, especially over the e
graham, republican of south carolina, that he had to impose a july 2011 deadline to begin withdrawal because otherwise, he said he was afraid he would lose the whole democratic party. and you see him pressing his advisers, give me an exit strategy, tell me how this ends in effect and he quietly told the vice president, joe biden, a skeptic of the war, to push his alternative plan in these private meetings. so he was trying to sort of look for ways out before he eventually did approve an increase of another 30,000 troops last winter. jenna: you talk about afghanistan in the strategy in your writeup for the new york times . you ve also said that as afghanistan goes, so does the president s reelection, or that is something that you took away from the government. from the book. why do you think that? clearly, this is a central issue, i think, that this withdrawal next year, 2011, will come at a time when people will begin to focus on the election of 2012, if things are going
ever, we absorbed it and are stronger. what about the book and fall-out in washington? the panel, charles? the most troubling aspect of the obama surge in afghanistan, ever since the speech in december when he announced it was the uncertain trumpet you heard when he talked about withdrawal. everything since i think has supported the suspicion that the heart was not in the war. even though the rhetoric is how it is in the supreme interest of the united states. that we succeed in the war. now we have shocking evidence, shocking evidence that our suspicion, our skepticism about it, his heart is in the war is in the excerpts. i m not talking about the calling of names or in fighting but what we just heard. this is a president that says of the generals i want exit strategy. i don t want a success strategy. i want an exit strategy.
the staggering salary scandal happening in belle, california. it s a story we ve been following very closely here on american morning. the mayor along with seven current and former city officials will be arraigned today on criminal charges. accused of misusing more than $5 million in public funds. the former city manager was making about $800,000 a year. he alone faces 53 corruption counts. and crews trying to reach 33 trapped miners in chile are turning to plan c to speed up the rescue. the operation involves a special drill, which is normally used when drilling for oil. officials have previously said they could reach the miners in late october or early november. the men have been trapped since the 5th of august. well, there s a new book out by bob woodward. describing some deep divisions within the white house over the war in afghanistan. painting a portrait of a president desperate for an exit strategy.