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toys that come>> and i think on things that is i see is even if he doesn't want to play politics, he's also missing the political game that's being played around him. and that was one of the things that did come through in the book as i was reading it. >> and lara brown is the author of jockeying for the american presidency, the political opportunism of aspirants. dr. brown if you wrote president bush of his book what would be your study. >> i talk about his election campaign in 2000. and i basically see similar problems with him that i see with most of the modern presidents. a...

washington dc. hello young man great to have you here. got himself an autographed baseball. nationals and dodgers go at it. rubber game. each team won one. john my holiday and ray knight. yesterday's game had a little bit of everything. >> it did. great pitchling, bullpen, great defense. a lot of good things happening this ball club just getting better and better. for my money the best game played all yearlong. so enjoyable to watch. as someone said earlier it seemed like 2 and a half hour game even though it went into the 4th hour. >> dodgers come in after winning 8 and 9. let's go ...

period to defeat soviet expansionism, and does he not recall that it was governments of all colors -- >> order. we got the question. prime minister? >> mr. speaker, i think it's important, i mean, i think it's important in this house that people recognize whether there is agreement and where there is not. and there is agreement on our membership of nato. there was agreement on what we had to do to end the cold war. there's been agree but that we need to finance our defense forces more, and there has been agreement that we need to take action in iraq and afghanistan. and i got to say ...

Politics has barely fractured. there's a lot more parties running, there's not just a big sunni block, a big shia block. that's a good thing. but that means it's going to be a lot harder to form a government and i have no idea who's going to win and nobody knows. that's what makes it interesting and very challenging and that dynamic is very difficult and we have to remain flexible. that's what tom ricks is saying and i think he's probably right. >> real quickly before we let you go, what do you think is iran's influence in this process? >> iran's influence is tremendous. not just iran, you hav...

Ahead. >> brett mcgurk served on the national security council under president bush, and among his duties, overseeing iraq policy and negotiating with the government that is in baghdad. and let me start with two sort of competing theorys that are out there today. you've got the "newsweek" cover that says "victory at last when it comes to iraq." and then we've got thomas ricks righting in "the new york times" today, talking about nervousness, just as iraqi political leaders are struggling to form a new government, american military leaders will be distracted by the myriad of tasks of supervisin...