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Fire. for example, he tried to take down tom king jr.'s son who was trying to get another term as senate minority leader. so he personally got involved in trying to thwart another term for tom cane jr. because he was upset about tom cane's handling of the senate legislative races. so what's ironic about that is that tom cane sr. was chris christie's mentor and chris christie would probably have no career in politics if he didn't show up as a 16-year-old in tom cane's house in livingston, new jersey, in the 1970s to be a campaign volunteer. and even dick cody, taking on dick cody. now, dick cod...

[ breath of relief ] thanks. [ male announcer ] you're welcome. ready? go. get it! [ male announcer ] can't find theraflu, try alka-seltzer plus for fast liquid cold and flu relief. >> this week, this story in new jersey became the biggest thing in politics. for good reason. for once, we weren't having a he said/she said argument about something that could be proven but nobody chose to prove it. it's not a fight over insults or accusation or trumped up outrage. this is a story of legitimate wrongdoing on a big scale, waged by political partisans with innocent citizens caught in the crossfire. ...

>> is that all it is, brit? >> it's an interesting way to put it. basically what he's saying is, politics ain't beanbag, and he's right, politics ain't beanbag and there is a certain amount of rough-and-tumble that goes on and a certain amount of exaggeration for effect that happens in campaign ads. that seems to be what he's saying. the question is, a thorough follow-up on this would have been nice, it didn't happen apparently. to say, well what exactly are you talking about mr. president? are you talking about factual assertion tph-s your campaig assertions in your campaign ads or statements...

Suit jackets and put down our steaming mugs of political correctness and see how funny governor romney was trying to be? i mean, come on. what's a little humor predicated on fearmongering and race baiting? this campaign needs levity, people. the real shame is that president obama didn't participate in the governor's 2012 laugh riot by making a joke about mormonism or polygamist compounds on next me or whether mitt romney was born in the united states. that would have had everyone in stitches. there will continue to be those who think this is much ado about nothing. politics ain't beanbag and c...

Sense that i had going into the book was that the president really had some sort of a internal struggle from 2008 and what he had to do to get elected into 2012. to my surprise in interviewing two dozen former and current staffers, people in his orbit i didn't get that sense. he understands this is the kind of campaign he has to run. moreover, there's a little bit of revisionist history going on where by folks in obama's circle saying in 2008 we weren't playing paddy cake with mclean or clinton. the thing that surprised me the extent he's all in on the project. >> words of mitt romney, politic...