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President is coming back from asia? mark knoller's on it. tail winds from japan. what was in the bags of food handed out at the white house charity event? mike knoller's on it, and it includes yams. i'm thankful that in just a few weeks, the great city of chicago is going to be organizing a welcome home parade to mark the end of the iraq war. a parade on december 15th to thank americans who have fought in iraq and who have fought in afghanistan. i am thankful for the iraq and afghanistan veterans who themselves decided to self-start veteran's cleanup and recovery crews for the coast in new yor...

Less consequential pursuits. he played golf 104 times according to mark knoller of cbs news. he asked superior players for tips to help lower the scores. given the tone of the article, jim, i'm surprised he found a superior player? >> [laughter]. one rare moment of, i think it is also mentioned in the article when he was with a bunch of famous basketball players. i'm used to be the most famous person here but gee with all the basketball legends i'm fifth or sixth. obviously deeply disappointing to him and self-reference for himself. >> oh, jim. he comment about the golf. he has been president ...

They want to take whatever the news is of the day and turn it their advantage. they're going back to the donors and saying to the ones who haven't maxed out to the small dollar donors, we have a lot of them, we need to do more, give more. and we're going back again and again and again. bill: seems that president obama is the only one who can raise real money on the democratic side. which means he is on the road to these fund-raisers all the time. what do you make of that strategy? >> i mean it is pretty amazing. mark knoller, who keeps track of this from cb. is news, the president is having tw...

The president's opponents like to call attention to his golfing. i want him to golf or shoot hoops or whatever else he needs to do to maintain his mental edge. after all, as mark knoller the white house correspondent for cbs news once told me, the president is the president wherever he is. he maintains lists of everything the commander in chief does from bill signings to pardons, vetoes, air force one flights, marine one trips, and vacation destinations. knoller spends an hour every day updating his searchable database of presidential activities. as of father's day, president obama had played ...

morning. ets it's going to go like that today. also joining us is jeff toobin the cnn senior legal analyst. thank you for joining us and hank of political strategist, iconic political strategist. nice to have you joining us. >> thank you. >> lots to get to. the afghan man who hijacked a car and then breached security, drove on to the runway in kabul just as the pentagon chief leon panetta was landing. that man has died. he died from burns he received after he lit himself on fire. we learned that he apparently was trying to run over a group of marines who had assembled to meet the def...