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>> can it. >> we can talk about this stuff whatever, i never use it. i just rinse off with water. but we started talking about ricky gervais offset. and the whole thing last year was great. this year it was so self-congratulatory. and he wasn't that funny. he was like, everybody look at me, i'm sorry dangerous. i'm dangerous, my middle name. >> dirty. >> i find him generally to be outrageously funny, i found the lead-up where he said it's going to be the worst thing you've ever seen, here i come again, america, you can't handle me. i think he built himself up too much. >> danger is my middle n...

Filmmaker michael moore's documentary "fahrenheit." mr. wolfowitz primping himself for the tv cameras. mr. wolfowitz all smiles as he heads up the bush administration selling the iraq war the guy wh forever changed the way you think about harmless black little haircombs, he's known around here as mr. wrong. wrong as in wrong. wrong about everything. the more important the task and the lead-up in execution of the bush administration's wars, the more likely he was wrong about it. here he was addressing the american public two months into the war in afghanistan. >> the american people have to be ...

And the lead-up, they weren't going to vote with republicans to repeal it. they're not stupid. they can see the writing on the wall. they can see repeal isn't even popular among republicans, this sort of zealotry to tear this thing down is dissipating. that's why i think you see excitement in somebody like nancy pelosi. and breaking news at the top of the hour, joe lieberman being reported by "new york times" that he's not going to run for reelection in 2012, are liberals happy with that one? >> liberals are think are having as complicated feelings about joe lieberman as they always have. >>...

Decided even though they may be even campaigned against it during the november elections and the lead-up, they weren't going to vote with republicans to repeal it. they're not stupid. they can see the writing on the wall. they can see repeal isn't even popular among republicans, this sort of zealotry to tear this thing down is dissipating. that's why i think you see excitement in somebody like nancy pelosi. and breaking news at the top of the hour, joe lieberman being reported by "new york times" that he's not going to run for reelection in 2012, are liberals happy with that one? >> liberals...

It was a shame. now to our summer book series. today's book leads up to the lead-up of the spanish-american war. let's take a look. we ore here with editor at large for "newsweek" magazine, ethan thomas, author of "the war lovers." a great book. great to have you in the studio. >> thanks, mika. >> you talk about the blowing up of the "uss maine" as what people used, many, actually, to push president mckinley into war. explain. >> we had a battleship and it blew up. it was a spanish mine or torpedo but it was an accident, a faulty battleship design. but it was useful for us to find