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But, i mean, is there something in his argument? and i know his critics will say it was a self—serving argument and all the rest of it and hes clearly made a lot of money from going in and all that. but that argument that says that for politicians and political argument to cut through, going into the places where there are big audiences, where people are seen in the round, everyone is three—dimensional but sometimes the prisms of westminster can crush people down to a caricature, its kind of...

It was a self—serving argument and all the rest of it and hes clearly made a lot of money from going in and all that. but that argument that says that for politicians and political argument to cut through, going into the places in the round, everyone is three—dimensional, but sometimes the prisms of westminster can crush people down to a caricature, is kind of worth doing, actually? i think its really interesting. - was it was barack obama i who said that his campaign started by going to peo...

Publicly at the time or do anything publicly about it at the time? >> thats a great question. and its one i as a white house reporter and others grappled with sort of constantly. and different people have different reasons. when you put that very question to him, if you knew he was going to do this or worried he wasnt mentally fit for the job, why didnt you come out and say so? the answer is often that it wouldnt necessarily matter and they felt they could do a better job on the inside running i...