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>> the collapse of washington mutual. part of our booktv weekend on c-span2. >> james mann talks about president obama's foreign policy decisions and profiles the people who advise him now on booktv. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thanks to brad and lissa and everyone at politics & prose. this is, actually, the sixth book i've talked about at politics & prose, six out of six, going back to a book called -- my first book, "beijing jeep," in 1989 when politics & prose had just opened, and i had brown hair, and newspapers were thriving, and barack obama was a second-year law stude...

is absolutely and totally plugged into the union. and because obama did not going to wisconsin and campaign for the union for the union candidate. the unions now are going to campaign for him but they are not totally invested in him in a obama any more so if you were to pull joe biden of the ticket they would go bananas and they wouldn't mobilize and to the grassroots getting out the vote to the extent that they would if he is still on the ticket. i'm not sure that is going to happen that in terms of the romney thing, either romney or portman or paul ryan, i could be wrong. could be ...

we have a few minutes left for questions, and i know we have some questions coming off the internet. yes. >> judy woodruff with the pbs newshour. one of the things that certainly has marked this congress is the gridlock. on one issue after another, it seems that while there has been some cooperation, clearly there has also been a lot of disagreement on one issue after another. could one or two of you speak about the difference you think it would make to have more women? what issues could change in the congress if more women were elected. for example, the debt ceiling. >> i will open ...

.. >> in her annual state of the state address on wednesday, south carolina governor, trained to detect a better state's economy and job creation efforts. other topics included a government spending cap cover mental health programs and charter schools. this is 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much. [applause] thank you very much for the wonderful welcome. mr. speaker, mr. president, ladies and joe of the general assembly, constitutional officers to make a carolinians. they sent every year we will continue the tradition that recognizes the certain truth that nothing sad in in ...

open them to build on larger trust and confidence in asia in general. >> i'm going to move to taiwan which just had an election. president moss surprise people that carry the election fairly handily. what is your read on him locations that have been realized to and the defeat his opponent who was perhaps the most much less amenable to cooperative cross straits relations and possibly pushing for independence? .. we would like to see taiwan take some of the necessary steps and other issues that the election is over that will allow us to have the kind of flourishing economic relationshi...