eight years, and huge pieces of his earlier life remained undiscovered. and it's not just a girlfriend in. it's his closest intellectual companion, his closest friend from harvard law school, the person who actually helped edit his autobiography memoir, dreams from my father. it's remarkable that journalists didn't do this basic legwork back in 2007-2008. >> tucker: in the book, you say that the former president reached out during the course of a splitter go career to a number of people who might have given interviews and laid on them not to talk to journalist because they might hurt him. to think that was part of the problem? >> the barack obama from 1985 to 2002 in illinois was a wonderful progressive politician. i'm a progressive democrat