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And general mcchrystal was kind enough to write the forward. i was not invited to write the forward. thank you so much for coming in. i want to get to the book in just one second. on the news of the day, on the claims from russia that they say they may have taken out al baghdadi, there's clearly a lot of skepticism, general. do you believe the russians on this? >> well, i don't know if it's true. it almost doesn't matter. it's important to take out a leader like al baghdadi, but it's not sufficient. it won't change isis demonstrably. isis is an idea that's franchised itself, and so it's a litt...

That's how self-deception, level of self-deception the state department is accommodate. libya, syria, all the places we've done things. state department has failed. yemen, iraq, i mean, iran, it's altogether, it's all completely failing, so as a policy. so, baghdadi is not correct either in that, you know, he's talking about things he wants to do. pete, the most important thing we need to focus on here is not what baghdadi said, it's the fact that he said it. that tells me everything by the fact that we have not done what we need to do to both eradicate his personal message as well as eradicat...

We all miss reality and this can be our perception of distance or maybe of time passing but these little gradeiations in perception are actually much more widespread and subject to change than we realize. these acts of self-deception infiltrate and influence every major aspect of our lives. joseph halinan is the author of "kidding ourselves." joe, welcome. >> thanks for having me here. talk to me about this notion of self-perception. give us examples of how we do this in everyday life. >> the easy one, report cards. researchers found that when they ask people, for instance, just to remember th...

>> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >> you heard her sing good wine and bad decisions. let's talk about the hidden power of self-deception, how to harness the civility not for evil but for good, next.

To some degree or another, we all miss the degree of it. it's much more widespread and subject to change more than we realize. the acts of self desemgs influence every aspect of our lives. the author of "kidding ourselves," joe, welcome to cnn. i guess we're all guilt and all kids ourselves to some degree. >> to some degree. >> talk about this notion of self-deception. give us examples of how we do this in everyday life. >> the easy one, report cards. researchers found that when they ask people, for instance, just to remember their grades in high school, a funny thing happened. they exaggerate...