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For him it is all about getting out. alan, why don't you take that on first? >> why didn't he quit. martha: good question. >> if he felt so bad as commander with the chief he should have quit sooner. i thought obama was right about one of these decisions, he calls obama man of integrity. will the real robert gates stand up. he said contradictory things in the beak. those who like president obama will take some of this and those who don't like president will take some of these other, but he is not consistent in what he writes in this book. martha: i want to get to him why he is writing the book...

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 bi...

He was also awarded the presidential medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor by president obama. the president calling him, one of our nation's best. >> a humble american patriot. a man of common sense and decency. quite simply one of our nation's finest public servants. bill: that june of 2011. now we will have more on the bombshell book throughout our program today. has the president as bob gates alleges, put politics before country? alan colmes, tucker carlson, tackle that. should we be surprised by any of this? ralph peters will get on that a bit later in our program today as well. ma...

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 demonst...

>> he said you are the taxi driver i was looking for. >> who doesn't want to ride on a pope mobile? >> we are waiting the start of the white house briefing. we expect new reaction to the bombshell of a book from former defense secretary robert gates. kristep powers and blake blackman. >> hello to you. christen, what do you expect him to say? is it a defense or, this is a cabinet member who worked close with each other? >> yeah, they put out a statement saying they disagree with the assessment which is what you expect. i would assume it will be respectful but they will claim that a lot of the...