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country and for what barack obama wants to do-- which is get things done. not win reelection, he cares about that, but in the next year plus he cares about getting things done he promised the american people he would do, i didnt think of a better person he could have picked than bill daley. >> i think if you asked ask the president what he thinks they failed at. and when i know i say "they" i think he would say himself in some cases and his team in other cases. i think he believes they...

though-- and i dont want to say... its trivializing to say they had communications failures but thats a big part of it. i think he believes they did not fight for those things in the right way in some cases, did not make the argument in the proper way, consistently and compellingly enough. i think he feels as though they failed in some respects politically as they achieved a great deal substantively. >> rose: also columbia university professor tim we looks at technology companies. his ...

i think that he feels as though-- and i dont want to say... its trivializing to say they had communications failures but thats a big part of it. i think he believes they did not fight for those things in the right way in some cases, did not make the argument in the proper way, consistently and compellingly enough. i think he feels as though they failed in some respects politically as they achieved a great deal substantively. >> rose: also columbia university professor tim we looks at t...

is whether theres happening again. >> rose: we conclude with pulitzer prize winning biographer edmund morris. his third book at teddy rood veldt is called "colonel roosevelt." >> power became him, adulation became him, he loved celebrity. but he did even at that height of fame want to spend the rest of his life as a literary gentleman and retire to sag her hill. and the pathos, the tragedy of which i speak, of which johnson speaks in our prologue is the fact that he was pulled back int...

mccain. people were shocked when it happened and that the time the mccain campaign said she had been on the list under consideration for a long time she received as much background check so-called vetting as any of the other people john mccain considered part of their skepticism about that at the time but is so much we are right in game change the political journalism parade moved on. there were other things to cover, sarah palins incredible speech so this is one case where we went bac...

discovery here. and certainly, even the sigtarp was told not to share documents with us that they had. chairman towns decision to go along with this effort really has a lot to do with the media shedding light on it. were very pleased. obviously we want to get to the bottom of why the american people were not protected, nor was transparency observed. even though it was under the last administration, it still is something we need to make sure is changed, and changed for good. >> where ha...