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I havent read the book. most of us probably havent. i read the excerpts, which are probably not as knew wanlsed as the book, which jeffrey has read. i dont know if others here have read it yet. i wish he had waited to write this book for two reasons. number one, i think he would have thought differently away from the heat of battle. but number two, i dont think its so cool to write a book during the term of the guy you serve, especially when you got the medal of freedom. and i hope that leon pan...

Jeffrey goldberg. and chris mathews. i want to get to the substance of the debate about the presidents leadership in national security affairs, particularly afghanistan. here is a key excerpt from the book. gates writing about the march 20 meeting in is the situation room. gates write, "as i sat there, i thought, the president doesnt trust his commander, cant stand afghan president hamid karzai, doesnt believe in his own strategy, and doesnt consider the war to be his. for him, its all about get...

And so he is the one who needs to be making these decisions. i havent read the book. most of us probably havent. i read the excerpts, which are probably not as knew wanlsed as the book, which jeffrey has read. i dont know if others here have read it yet. i wish he had waited to write this book for two reasons. number one, i think he would have thought differently away from the heat of battle. but number two, i dont think its so cool to write a book during the term of the guy you serve, especia...

Another 33,000 american troops in afghanistan that was even remotely politically popular. the war right now is as unpopular as anything going in america right now. the notion that the president -- and i think this is why, again, its maddeningly self-contradictory, gates puts in front of the fact that somehow that politics was drive deg situation, yet each and every decision the president made was absolutely contradictory to the politics of the moment. >> gates does give him credit for that, fo...

Youre saying is, we are learning things that go beyond this obscure lawyer, rick gates, at the time whose supposed to be doing his day job, running the donald trump campaign, and yet youre saying hes being picked up in some investigations. >> i think it wasnt gates, it wasnt this lawyer that cooperated against gates, it was the other way around. i mean its been rumored for a long time that gates was going to be cooperating with the government. i dont think he had any choice. as i said before, it...