comes in for criticism. gates writes, his white house was by far the most controlling in national security of any i had seen since nixon and kissing er ruled the roost. jim sciutto joins the panel now. jim, were you surprised he's writing a book already about a sitting president that's that scathing? >> i've been talking to a lot of officials still inside the administration tonight in terms of their reaction. you get a sense many will say this is washington. ex-officials write sometimes critical about their bosses and former colleagues. but this goes far in his criticism. he said president obama sent troops to war in afghanistan knowing that the policy was a failure. that's an aggressive thing to say about a sitting commander in chief. he said that the vice president of the united states has gotten every, in his words, every major foreign policy and national security wrong over the last four decades. that's a very personal thing.