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Which men had traditionally dominated, so he had a very unusual parenting experience. i think one of -- in answer to your question, one of the interesting things that i stumbled upon in indonesia, write went several times during the course of working on this was the notion that there was something almost javanese about our president. this is a view you hear from indonesians, that having gone to school at a critical time in his development, between the ages of 6 and 10 in a culture that inculcate...

Think most americans do many people find it baffling. >> i do >> he, himself, has said that this is a product of probably several things, one of which is just innate temperament. >> janny, im not at all like president obama, i look up to him like that way, i guess, i dont know how behave that way. that mother looks so interesting and sewn gauging. i hope that book sells well. "a singular woman" about how this mother raised the president. thank you very much, janny. congratulations. >> thanks. ...

>> let me ask but whether he resisted how he might have without a firearm. do you know what the means of resistance was? >> no. were still trying to learn more about that. that has been from when we talked to officials on sunday night, they said he resisted but there was no more detail than that. and it did come out today that he was never armed, so we are trying to find out how he may have resisted. >> do we know if he knew that the special forces were working their way up to his top floor? was...

I started working on this during the campaign and the issue did come up then but it kind of receded and so i really wasnt -- it wasnt a preoccupation of mine when i was working on the book. i did, though, in order to do this i spent two and a half years, i talked to close to 200 people, not a single person ever mentioned any knowledge of having spent any time in kenya around the time of the birth of her son. so i felt pretty comfortable about that when it resurfaced, a la donald trump, i have to...

>> in every one of them, you have talked about this. >> every one. >> and what have you gleaned from those interviews with the president? >> well, im so glad that you asked it that way, because the president has got to be given credit for having done exactly what he said he would do. if you go back to the spring of 2007, when he started to say, i will move on actionable intelligence in pakistan if i dont have confidence in the pakistanis doing so, and i then perpetuated that question and would a...

And i think its a big tipping point in my view, a big tipping point between the parties that didnt exist before. >> todd? ike was restrained. he didnt use military force hardly at all. carter didnt use it. but theres a difference between restraint -- >> most of our lifetime its been the reverse. but i think one of the things that president obama may have put to rest with this, there will be some people that never like him, but you really cant say he is not a man who has a certain amount of darin...

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As a loss of self. >> you see him today in that way, you see the president as he behavedst and conducts these dark arts of going after a bad guy like we did, you see that as cool, zen-like behavior? >> i do see a cool in him, as i think most americans do many people find it baffling. >> i do >> he, himself, has said that this is a product of probably several things, one of which is just innate temperament. >> janny, im not at all like president obama, i look up to him like that way, i guess, i d...

Point in my view, a big tipping point between the parties that didnt exist before. >> todd? ike was restrained. he didnt use military force hardly at all. carter didnt use it. but theres a difference between restraint and pa restrai restraint -- >> most of our lifetime its been the reverse. but i think one of the things that president obama may have put to rest with this, there will be some people that never like him, but you really cant say he is not a man who has a certain amount of daring, be...

The gop descended into a party that questions things like the presidents birth certificate and his college grades. after the death of bin laden the other day, republicans get more serious. is this their defining moment as they prepare for 2012? jonathan martin is a great reporter on politics, especially, and michael is an msnbc political analyst and national syndicated radio host. and more to the point, you have been the guy chasing -- who is that guy in lesmis who kept chasing the guy and could...