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Commended him for his clear thinking. late this afternoon, the attorney general pushed hard for the ginsburg's nomination and dodging any blame. >> together we provided the information to him and he ultimately made the selection. >> reporter: nobody in the white house is blaming anyone for the ginsburg's fiasco. ginsburg was never asked if he ever used drugs or whether he had an addiction problem. former white house says - >> in this case the president must look at the justice department, why didn't you do this right? >> reporter: the next nominee is likely to be california, federal appeals co...

Nomination to the court. >> late this afternoon, attorney general ed meese, who had pushed hard for the ginsburg nomination, was dodging any blame gl nobody had a candidate. i didn't have one. howard baker didn't have one. this is something where we had a list of candidates presented to the president. together we provided the information to him. and he ultimately made the selection. >> nobody in the white house is blaming anyone for the ginsburg fiasco but privately many are fwrumbling that the justice department didn't do its homework. in the preliminary fbi investigation, ginsburg was never ...

That is when i asked when did he leave and they would say we won't comment on the personnel matter, which as we at cnn know that they talk about the personnel matters all of the time. so what we are a abble to see however is that the white house e-mail active all week when i was reaching out for comment was no longer active on saturday. >> all right. andrew, thank you so much. >> straight ahead, less than a month after the president issued an all caps warning to iran, cnn sits down with the foreign minister who says that he believes that the u.s. has an addiction problem. that exclusive interv...

Who are they? >> part of managing drug addiction is avoiding triggers. so that people who abuse and people would be a bad influence or people that are also under the influence of some substance and don't have the judgment. a big part of addiction is ambivalence. the new models of treatment really try to address that, things like harm reduction and motivational interviewing which looks to basically help people reconcile or address or resolve some of that ambivalence. whenever someone is abusing drugs, typically there is a lot of conflict within them about continuing the drug use or whatever sub...

Addiction is avoiding triggers. so that people who abuse and people who would be a bad influence or people that are also under the influence of some substance and don't have the judgment. a big part of addiction is ambivalence. the new models of treatment really try to address that, things like harm reduction and motivational interviewing which looks to basically help people reconcile or address or resolve some of that ambivalence. whenever someone is abusing drugs, typically there is a lot of conflict within them about continuing the drug use or whatever substance. >> laura: i've got to say i...