the daily beast and also a fox news contributor. welcome to both of you. hello, jon. jon: so, judy, this has been consuming washington. in fact, we put a stop watch on the president s, not the president s news conference, his spokesman s news briefing yesterday and more than half of the time was occupied by discussion of what bob gates had to say in the book. does it deserve this kind of attention? well you know, it may eventually when the book is out and everyone has a chance to read it but what is astonishing, and actually a little disturbing that the media are involved in a full-fledged campaign to help bob gates sell his book. i mean knopf must be delighted by this. the advance orders must be incredible. look, lots of people are very upset, even by what they have seen so far including howard kurtz of this network, accusing gates of basically betraying the man he worked for by reporting