the way that it did and surprised at bob gates who harbored the feelings of what went on in the obama administration held his tongue until now. i am not sure it is most flattering thing we say about him. but broadly speaking what he said happen has a ring of truth. >> do i have in to the juiciest tidbits the. starting with the president's style. his white house was by far the most centralized and controlling in national security of any you had seen since richard nixon and henrow kissinger rowelled the roost. >> president obama ran on running the most transparent white house. he promised in 2008. what do you make of that exexcerpt? >> there is no conflict of transparency and keeping a tight reign from the white house on the whole national security. by itself nothing is wrong with that. but gates as you know, goes on to say that he had none too senior of the members of the white house staff making calls to senior military commanders and dispensing orders which is way outside of the chain of command and entirely inappropriate. and he intervened to stop that and had generals and others refer the calls to him. i don't doubt the truth of what he said. >> talk about the next excerpt. this is the one that reveals the naked political posterring if ident obama. of hillary here's what he said. hillary told the president that her opposition to the surge in iraq was political because she was facing him in the iowa primary. the president consoweded vahhingly that the opposition to the iraq surge was political. to hear them making those admissions was surprising as it was dismaying. what do you think? >> i think it is probably true they said that to each other. it tells us more about hillary clinton than it does about president obama. after all he voiced his opinion of the view of the surge at the time. you have to understand this about president obama and military decisions. these at to youeds are what you may expect from someone whose background was a chicago community organizer and later a teacher in a law school and professor and instructor anyway. it is not surprising that he has the same thing that so many democratic politicians have postvietnam in their dna. and that is distrust of command and military commanders. >> what does it say about hillary clinton? if secretary gates is taken at his word, do you think that affects hillary's presidential aspiration. >> i think it is embarrassing to her. she is not as dovish as leading democrats, she was not as dovish as president obama. after all she carried through that primary campaign the burden in democratic circles of voting to authorize the war in iraq. and so along comes the surge that the president is trying to take to redeem that conflict and in return snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and she opposed it and she admitted she did so because she was running against him. i think that is telling and probably true and not helpful to her aspiration. >> his impression of vice-president joe boyd bide. he doesn't have much respect for the vice-president. he's been wrong on every major foreign policy and national security issue for the past four decades. >> he's not the only one that said that about joe boyd boyd and the list of things joe biden was for and against that turned out to go the other way is pretty long. when one thinks, he resisted the persian and cruise missile in europe. and voted against the first gulf war what was a major military victory and the list goes on. and he wanted to break iraq up in component pieces. gates was, felt that was a bad idea. the list is long with joe bide boyd. and gates as i say not the first one who said that about him. >> brit hume, always gret to get your take. >> on the last thing about foreign policy. the book suggests that politics played heavily in the decisions of iraq and afghanistan because the chief did not trust his military advisors. kt, good afternoon to you. you have known bob gates going back four deck readies. >> we both worked for help row kiss ifrmger and our desk were ten feet apart. he is a man of intellect and great american patriot. i take the book as truth. he doesn't use it as an opportunity to make himself look good. the truth, bill, is harrowing. if you have a president of the united states for callous political reasons was for or against the political war, and sent men and women in the combat to do i and bleed and bear the burden and injuries for the rest of their days not because the president thought it was the right policy or win, but because he could get a few more votes. that is an abrogation of the commander in chief's responsibility. we have the greatest military in the history of the world and one of the greatest gifts our founding fathers gave us was civilian control of the military. no where in the history of the world was a powerful military that didn't want to take charge and give orders. we don't do that here. but at the same time the president has a sacred responsibility to the men and women in uniform not to put them in harm's way and fol's errand as the implication of afghanistan. >> that is a sacred trust, you say the comments from the book demonstrate what many long suspected about what, about whom? >> about president obama. was he really in favor of the afghan war? when he campaigned against the iraq war and that was the bad bush war. and he was against the surge. i mean, if he didn't come out in favor of some war, he would look like a typical left wing liberal who was afraid of using the military. he said afghanistan was the right war. he had the surge. and as bob gates in the book points out. obama didn't trust the military or trust his commander or ally hammid karzi and department feel that the military was going to succeed in their mission. so why did he send thousands of more military men and women in a surge that he felt would lose. >> leon panneta, former cabinet member. when he left the administration, he was critical. stanley mccrystal relieved of his duty was critical as well. >> is this what happens in washington or is there more on the book and allegations from this former defense secretary about this president? >> i think there is much more to it, bill. bob gates is someone respected on both sides of the political aisle and not going to puff his own resume and make himself look good in the history books. he is very critical of himself as well as president obama. and to say this, to say that the president of the united states deliberately was willing to send men and women in harm's way for a mission he knew would not suck sowed or early on knew it would not succeed, it is really showing a president that is not fulfilling his requirements under the constitution. and secretary gate said good things about hillary clinton in the book, but in a telling remark, talks about her saying that her position on iraq was driven by politics as well. it is damming for both of them. >> we'll get in that 20 minutes from now. it is a strong charge. kt, thank you for your reaction. kt mcfar land here in new york. the artic blast appears to be easing the grip on much of the country but not before the bitter cold turned deadly. 21 cold- related deaths in the country since sunday. five people died after collapsing while shovelling snow. how is it looking, rick? >> it is better but take a couple of days before it is above average. temperatures 16 in atlanta. nine in new york. seven in bostonment minus 11 in minneapolis. it feels like one degrees in chicago and 11 in new york city. and 41 in atlanta. in the last 24 hours, look at temperatures, for everybody in the eastern side of the country, 15 or 25 degrees warmer than you were. it is not warm, but warmer than you were and that feels better. today's temperatures, all of that peak is gone for high temperatures. for friday we'll improve and be back above freeze nothing chicago. and same goes for saturday. and a warm up by saturday in the eastern sea board back in the 50s. one city, atlanta is breaking records for overnight low temperatures and cold air. typically around 52. and saturday back to 63. people are going to be happy to see that. and i know you are included in that alisyn. >> my closet is confused. it doesn't know what is going on there. speaking of cold a woman delivered her baby by herself. she was alone, she was in a snow storm in indiana. >> a first- time mom in indianapolis always planned to have her baby at home but not the way it happen. she went in labor on sunday, no one could get to her because of the snow. >> once the water broke and i realized this was it, all fear went away. and i realized it was not going to help me and we had to be a team and do it together and so we did it. >> we are told mom and baby are doing well. the baby is evafrjlinbeattrix. >> nickname snow flake. >> what is your best moment under pressure. >> it was not that. >> you can send me your tweet at bill hemmer. >> and to me at alisyn camerota. >> that's right. in the meantime, battle over jobless benefits continues. republicans saying any democratic bill extending them has to be dollar for dollar in spending cuts. will that happen? 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