become secretary of state and had a checkered time within the very complicated national security council. of advisors under george bush. privately, he was against the iraq war, and then mistakenly, to his great regret, even though he vetted all the analysis at langley, at the cia, the weekend before that fateful u.n. security council meeting in february of 2003, he accepted the final version from the cia and mistakenly told the world that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction, which was not true. >> cori, we've been talking about him and covering him, and this is obviously a vital part of the sort of policymaking life. i, in my time in politics, don't know that there was an endorsement in presidential history more impactful than his 2008 endorsement of president obama.