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Lebron james but then the white house adviser had to answer much more important questions from candy crowley who joins me now. >> well, you know, the white house doesnt send anybody out on the sunday shows unless they have a message. david axelrod was on three of the sunday shows, robert gibbs was on one of the sunday shows. the message is because weve been seeing signs of an economy thats not quite strong enough, is that, a, the economy is better than it might have been without them. >> but sti...

He thinks about questions. he answers exactly what youre asking normally. >> i found his responses to be pretty candid. he repeated certain talking points. were you disappointed by that? >> i thought -- i couldnt see him when i was interviewing him. >> you should have been sitting next to him. >> should have been. as far as i was concerned. i thought he was shaken. and i understand that. i thought he would be shaken. i anticipate him being shaken if his answer was not cleveland. if his answer wa...

Comment. even if he didnt want to comment, he would talk around it. >> youve known him for a long time. >> ive known him -- and ive gotten to know him pretty well in the past two or three years. and especially, howie with the free agency thing going on, hanging over everybodys head. ive never had lebron james not answer a question or say im not going to talk to you about that or say this is off limits. so no, i did not feel uncomfortable because i had no contact with lebron before the show and i...

Now people saying kevin dufrnt, who had no special tv hour, who just sort of said im staying, whether theyre praising him for doing it the right way and oklahoma city, this is we are, or green bay or new york or cleveland its all the same top its the number one way people have some sort of civic identity. >> ive got 15 seconds. will we look back a year or two from now and say boy, the media really went overboard on one free agents decision? >> no. >> no? >> no, because we dont look back and thin...

Build-up, get to the chase. because you know how this is. youre thinking of this as a reporter. and we are old print, ink-stained people, and they were thinking of it as people in television. and then youre thinking of it as a viewer. get to it. thats what i want to hear. lets start this. lets go. and people -- look, i mean, i know that people disagree with that. and i guess there are those who found building the moment necessary. i didnt. >> okay. now, we know that lebron wanted to be interview...

Cleveland questions were coming. >> i think he did. its not like they havent come before. in private conversations those questions and those topics have been gone back -- you know, batted back and forth. i think theres a different thing, though, howie, when you have to sit there and you know this moment is real -- heres the other thing. how soon? he said he decided thursday morning. so 12 hours before the interview. before the announcement. that he was going to miami. id like to press him on tha...

Against the spurs three years ago. so i guess from that standpoint theyd say yes. >> lets say some of the people watching dont care about lebron james, dont care about pro basketball, but just as an example of sort of the overheated media culture that we live in, this was basically 70 minutes because it ran over, for one minute of news, was it not? >> 30 seconds of news. contrast it with the previous day. dwyane wade and chris bosh. and that was sort of drawn out a little bit. i mean, we talked ...

Different for you. >> oh, absolutely. i know its going to be a transition. >> you played the first seven years of your career in a place where you pretty much got unconditional love. how much more pressure is going to be on you to win now that youre part of this super team? >> its not a super team right now. >> so have media organizations and especially espn gone utterly overboard over one basketball stars big fat contract? hours after the lebron-a-thon i sat down with mike wilbon, the "washingt...

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