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Time when i was a random unranked radio host and i had very little idea who this barack obama was and what he might have to offer as a potential national leader, the very first thing that ever impressed me about this guy, barack obama, was when i learned that he had apparently impressed a person named samantha power. because at the time, i knew a lot about her and i knew nothing about him, and she just didn't seem like a person who would be easily impressed. her liking him made me more interested in him. in 2002, samantha power had published a big 600-page-long book on a dark topic, a book tha...

Favor as kind of a hail mary, that she persuaded new republic books, basic books, to publish that book. which, again, is called "a problem from hell." and the reason you've heard of that book is because it would go on that next year to win the pulitzer prize and, as i said, to become one of the century's landmark moral arguments about america's way in the world. it almost didn't get published. samantha power had emigrated to this country from ireland at the age of 9. she and her family moved to pittsburgh where she became a pittsburgh pirates fan and she forced herself to lose her irish accent...

Extremely dangerous. >> and ambassador i think one of the most critical parts of your book and a part that will be read is a warning for future generation of leaders is actually what happened in syria. barack obama rightly saw the mistakes of bush and cheney and decided to not rush into a war, a military intervention with syria, but we remember on this show reports of 10,000 dying, 20,000 dying, 40,000 dying, and it kept going towards half a million. you were arguing, and of course i think most of america first learned about you from your book "a problem from hell" that talked about our failur...

Every foreign policy leader said it's just hard. we don't know what to do when we could have done something to stop the scale of this carnage. >> samantha power said it in that clip we played. we all know what was happening. she was addressing assad and putin. she could have been saying it for herself and president obama. she's written a book, an incredible book, "a problem from hell." she understanding this problem better than anyone. we had michael mcfall on yesterday. served under president obama as ambassador to russia right in the heart of this. 2012 to 2014. he laid out three point for p...

It's the first time -- how are we doing? how is everybody feeling today? everybody doing good? so, mike barnicle, we love larry, don't we? >> yes, we do. >> he's written a great book about bobby kennedy. he wrote this great op-ed in "the philadelphia inquirer" talking about how rfk could help democrats today. >> bobby kennedy defied people's prototypes of pandering politicians. he told college kids everywhere he went that they could change the world so why weren't they? it happened again in a luncheon -- i don't know the word civitans a men's service club as his audience chewed on salisbury st...