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>> good morning. >> i went back, jonathan, and reread this book about what went wrong in 2003 by greg mitchell. "so wrong for so long." it points out you were one of the few to ask the right questions before the invasion. the book points out in early 2005 you wrote that the u.s. won't win the war. you came to that conclusion very early on. what has it been right in the last week or two to be watching and reading the coverage? has it been deja vu for you? >> it's been i think the word maddening is a good one. i've run out of adjectives to describe the way these people who were the architects of...

Very cheap is a problem that this book deals with very effectively, but the issue of food stamps as a safety net program has to be one that we protect. >> in terms of the quote that we let in from the book, the notion that those who are on food stamps are the ones that could probably make the most effective argument for food stamps, but they are literally scraping by, and so the dialogue is missing those voices, and has been fairly unmanufacturetive at best. >> i think that's the key thing to focus on. the fact that people involved here, particularly children, are not only vulnerable, but they...

Constitution. so perry's book points out things that are unconstitutional, and there is a sense that people have that what is underlying the discussions particularly on the tea party side, and then in general it's to take the other side out of politics. >> i think what we are looking for exactly the opposite. what we are looking to do is to engage everything in politics, regardless of their ideology. we want to make sure people under control of the cyst pump we have congress re-enter prau tinge the constitution. regardless of ideology, we believe the people should be in charge of the system an...

Steinbrenner assisted the fbi on national security cases. what he did exactly is unclear since specifics on the cases were adapted in the documents. but it's a chapter in steinbrenner's life that was unknown to veteran sports wryer bill madden, author of "steinbrenner on a bridge: the last line of baseball." >> one thing that was a surprise was george the spy. george was a lot of things and as my book points out graphically he was a complex human being. >> reporter: part of the story revolves around richard nixon. steinbrenner was convicted in 1974 for conspireing to make illegal contributions...

George steinbrenner was linked to two cases. and justice department memo states that he provided the fbi with, quote, valuable assistance. it was part of an effort to get a pardon before a conviction over an illegal campaign contribution that the files were a source of embarrassment for the late yankees owner. the late george steinbrenner had become a larger than life character far beyond new york. owner of the yankees for more than 30 years. what wasn't known and what fbi files now reveal is that steinbrenner assisted the fbi on national security cases. what he did is unclear since specifical...