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Americans are used to when a disaster happens in this country. obviously this is a developing nation. but what's the problem? >> jake, i think the problem is that the malaysians don't have experience with this kind of disaster. it's up with of these kourncoun, that it hasn't been tested with a disaster like this and i think stress -- on a stress test they are failing in terms of coordination among interagency process and communication with the world and with their partners. >> and what is the culture there in terms of transparent in terms of the government as quickly as possible and expeditiou...

Some of the press coverage has been overwritten, he's harshly critical of the political operation, i think that would include you, political advisers to the president -- >> i think he intimated i might have been the deputy secretary of defense. ? and he's critical about interagency process, in other words, there was a feeling that the president himself had that the military was trying to jam him on the idea of surging up forces. >> i think one of the things you take away, at least from the excerpts of this book, is that bob gates doesn't like any questions about bob gates, whether they're from...

I'm reading the book and i think some of the press coverage has been overwritten, he's harshly critical of the political operation, i think that would include you, political advisers to the president -- >> i think he intimated i might have been the deputy secretary of defense. ? and he's critical about interagency process, in other words, there was a feeling that the president himself had that the military was trying to jam him on the idea of surging up forces. >> i think one of the things you take away, at least from the excerpts of this book, is that bob gates doesn't like any questions abou...

Commander, can't stand afghan president hamid. for him it's all about getting out. chris, how scathing is this of obama's leadership? >> it has a certain tone to it but i think he is right in the sense that president obama ran on the campaign do get us out of afghanistan. that was his mission. there's nothing wrong with that. he makes it sound like there's something wrong with that. the policy of the president coming into office, got into office is wind down two wars. he did so. maybe that's not gates' point of view but it's obama. >> it is clear, robert gibbs, i'm reading the book and think s...

Attention to warnings and why would we need that, either? >> congressman, there are people, democrats, saying the republicans on a witchhunt because of this but reading that sentence like that, that sure as heck sounds like the democratic administration was playing politics with this last fall. >> i think what was happening here is you had two facilities, one a state department diplomatic facility, one that was an agency facility. and so, state department i think felt why is cia trying to set it up like they were warning, doing everything right when, in fact, the cia facility just as vulnerabl...