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During the day when been able to see out the window occasionally fighter aircraft above or below. as we came into the national capital two f-16s took up station at the wing tip of air force one, giant bird upcoming f-16's, you can make out what the pilot's features are. i took a picture, which is in the book, of the plane. then you realized i was sobering, they were not there for display. this was the last disparate defense of air force one. if something came towards the aircraft and they couldn't bring it down further away these guys were supposed to put their bird between whatever is coming ...

>> chris: carl rove was the focus on intense interest during his years in the bush white house. now, he tells his side in his new book "courage and consequence" in which he admits mistakes, defends other action and takes shots at president obama. now, he joins us to talk about it. karl, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> chris: you write a little about barack obama and say not much is good and you describe his audacious hypocrisy and you say chicago politicians will always be chicago politics. do you think this president is a phoney? >> he holds himself out as a bipartisan politician when ha...

>> chris: carl rove was the focus on intense interest during his years in the bush white house. now, he tells his side in his new book "courage and consequence" in which he admits mistakes, defends other action and takes shots at president obama. now, he joins us to talk about it. karl, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> chris: you write a little about barack obama and say not much is good and you describe his audacious hypocrisy and you say chicago politicians will always be chicago politics. do you think this president is a phoney? >> he holds himself out as a bipartisan politician when ha...

>> mike: he's one of the most controversial political figures of the century and he pulls no punches in his new autobiography, "courage and consequence." welcome the architect, mr. karl rove. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> mike: welcome. >> i love it you the texas state capital with the flag right there. >> mike: we can talk about texas but no longhorn stuff that is forbidden this studio. >> you are no longer in our same conference. >> i know but we still hate texas. >> we love playing you. >> mike: speaking of texas. you come from texas. but your political life started very young, 9-years-old,...

>> here is what you write in "courage and consequence" the failure to find stock piles of wmd did great damage to the administration's credibility. our weak response in defense of the president and in setting the record straight is, i believe, one of the biggest mistakes of the bush years. with hindsight do you wish you had paid more close attention to the raw intelligence itself? >> the raw intelligence was carefully reviewed by democrats and republicans who came to the same conclusion. that he had wmd. look, we had to act on what we knew at the time. it is nice in retrospect to say somebody ...