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Shannon, i wanted to ask you something that popped into the inboxes, we have this new speaking point circulated from speaker pelosi and among the talking points, the administration knew that there was a possibility that kabul would fall to the taliban and not inevidentability, but possibility. so that is in line with what we will be hearing? >> yes, it is in line for what we have been hearing from officials in the last 24 to 48 hour, but they don't get to the core criticism that we are hearing not just from the republicans, but from the democrats in washington, from former obama administration...

Dead on arrival. so is it right to discount the political realities facing the administration during that time? >> i don't discount the political realities. i think they definitely existed. what i think was a problem was this meshing of economic advice and political advice. in the book, i write at length about how larry summers sort of made the mistake of superimposing the political advice on the economic advice he was giving the president. i think the president should have had unvarnished economic advice from the economic advisers. then he could hudle with his political advisers and figure ou...

That threshold up. so it may help on messaging, but it hurts them in the accounting. the obama campaign likes the tax issue, not just because it polls well. it does. but because they believe it allows them to tie together a core criticism they are doing of romney now. his personal wealth and their economic arguments. the campaign is out with another video doing that this morning demanding romney release more tax returns. yesterday for the first time the president himself dipped into the issue of romney's offshore investments. came during a series of local tv interviews. he was talking to new h...