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as story. >> i dont know the facts of when his wife got sick or when she died. >> this is an ad by an entity thats not controlled by the campaign. i certainly dont know the specifics of this mans case. >> but yesterday on air force one, the obama campaigns traveling press secretary jennifer saki corrected the record. >> no one is denies he was in one of our campaign ads. he was on a conference call telling his story. >> there you have it. the priorities ad, by the way not yet aired on ...

>> in reading the book and talking about the book, i called it a great story. it feels like a dance. [inaudible] [laughter] [laughter] >> is beautiful. we hope you enjoy it. we have a great band here who will now play a classic composition from my book. [laughter] [laughter] thank you. [cheers] [cheers] [applause] [applause] [music playing] [music playing] [music playing] [music playing] >> on book tv, nancy gibbs and michael duffy report on the relationships between sitting american p...

on the ticket. oh, no. not perfect enough for the team. no. we are talking outsourcing. have the big noise from jersey do the nasty stuff. pick a pleasant, you threatening fellow like, say, tim pawlenty for the ticket. christie now joins the tuba section along with john sununu and other big boys brought in to pound away to obama. having won the nomination in a clown show, here come the parade of elephants. uh-oh. look out. theres rogues out there. republicans who wonder why mitt romney...

take a look at this. by choosing chris christie to give the big keynote speech to set the tone for the convention in tampa, romney is ensuring what the theme of the campaign will be. come out snarling. here are examples of christie at his most charming. >> real big shot. >> on monday, are you going to be addressing the legislature? >> did i say on topic? first off, none of your business. i dont ask you where you send your kids to school. dont bother asking me where i send mine. it is p...

clinton who is in tokyo today for a series of talks on the u.s./nato role in afghanistan or the next decade. will get your calls and comments about u.s. foreign policy generally and the performance of the secretary of state, hillary clinton specifically. our phone lines are open -- you can join the conversation on our twitter page and facebook. or send us an e-mail. there are a couple of articles related to the secretary of state and this one is from cbs news. she beat the former recor...

he basically says if you elect me i will bring electricity. well, they elected him. let me just go back and lyndon johnson was a political genius and he gears his campaign to the women and what he said the line that he uses is if you elect me you wont look like your mother does. they elect him, but no one really believes that he can bring electricity. i mean, there is no dam, no source of dam in the hill country and a dam has been started at the edge of the hill country, but its the de...

stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you. please be seated. as i was preparing for the arrival of our special guest today, not that it had anything to do with them, but i ran into some depressing statistics. dont worry, while this introduction will start on a low i promise it will end on a high. the stats that i ran into were all about who was reading books these days and how often. some of the numbers concern me. now, dont hold me to them...

often look at the relationship at the cia has to do the rand has been very much apparel is the relationship the cia used to have but the soviet union. it took a long time for any of us in the civil set here to learn about the virus which was fascinating to me that it has happened to them and there is a delay and rumors that it was americana coming aside and russia and not kinds of things. no one in the no one in the government said anything until recently. the former cia director went ...

movie rights? shall we? i am just saying. >> a lot about what they learned how to do. did that cross over into bond, working at that depth? >> the work on the brooklyn bridge using essentially diving techniques that had been developed over the ages. you had people--not significant depth but working under pressure to keep the mud and the water away from them as a working environments like money to miss or something. they go down to the chamber and creative drive space to working and a p...

>> u.s. senator bernie sanders from the state of vermont and we are delighted to be here with author ira shapiro, and we are going to talk about the new book the last great set courage and statesmanship in times of crisis published by public affairs. welcome. >> guest: thank you, senator. thanks for doing this. >> host: let me start off with a hard question, who are you? what is your background and how did you get into this book? >> guest: line from new yorker originally, born in new y...