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But as the president himself said, you can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. >> when you were writing this book, what are some of the things that people might find surprising? >> i'm very interested in how obama is not really a politician as we kind of conventionally define that. he doesn't enjoy a lot of the normal parts of politics, the back-slapping. we saw him in the house chamber -- >> state of the union, going in and -- >> yeah. but he inhabits the role. but that's not really what he prefers to be doing. and on the one hand, that has hurt him in washington in the inside game. b...

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Has been making a more emotional appeal to get stiffer gun legislation passed. that is an uphill battle he's going to have once he leaves his vacation here in florida. another fight he's going to face with congress, of course, over the sequester, those deep spending cuts that are set to go in effect in just two weeks now. >> thank you very much, kristen. joining me now, washington bureau chief for "usa today," susan page and jim warren, washington bureau chief for "the new york daily news." let's go with ladies first. are you surprised the president talked about his father like he did in pub...

Think it's probably going to happen, we're going to go to the sequester? that means that you and likeminded democrats of which you seem to be much more coalesced around one concept and your party's platform on this as opposed to to the splintered-up gop. are you willing to go into sequester to stay to your party's ideals? >> we don't have much of a choice. i think the gop in the house is not willing to share any sacrifice or make a balanced deal. so we don't have a whole lot of choice. i think we're subject to this internal divide among the gop. but what i do think is going to happen is a sequ...

>> we have a relationship with china that it's a competitive relationship. do we have leverage over them to do this? not really. the united nations does not, although china listens to the international community, and ban ki-moon has a lot of respect in asia. but i think we also need here south korea. south korea has most of the stakes in this. they've provided humanitarian aid to north korea. eventually if there's a unification, south korea is key. south korea is upgrading its own military. the new president of south korea, the woman whose father was a very, very hardline dictator, i think has...