Upper right side of the page. And now on booktv, from the 30th annual Miami Book Fair international, peter baker, chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times. He answered viewer phone calls about his book, days of fire bush and cheney in the white house. This is about 40 minutes. Host and joining us now is peter baker, chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times and author of this newauo book, days of fire bush and cheney in the white house. First of all, peter baker, weerb are just watching president bush. Whatd you learn from decision points . Guest i learned a lot. I think he was willing toh revisit and open up about events that he didnt feel comfortable talking about in quite the same degree of detail when he was in office. Be a part of this, he didnt talk about it to the same degree, he talks about how katrina was handled and he still obviously believes in the iraq war, and he talks about how he feels in particular and i thought it was a very interesting memo
Present his presidency and his own terms. He wanted to be the decider as he put it. Host we have been talking with peter baker chief White House Correspondent for the times and the author of this new book days of fire bush and cheney in the white house. You are watching booktv on cspan2s. Booktv attended a book party for New York Times reporter peter baker. Author of days of fire. Mr. Baker mingled with guests and made formal remarks. The party was held at p. J. Mob mob p. J. Clarkes in washington d. C. Its not really a reality show. I had to wait because the president was on the bench. Susan got stuck. Did he get through . Yeah he did. Oh thats good. See how are you . Hi buddy. How are you . Its good to see you. You know the president tried to block it. I thought it was actually like oh is this a favorite . Its drying up and attention. Maybe his stopping by. That would be enjoyable if he could come by. There was a whole group of us stuck on the other side of the street. Two blocks awa
We were anxious to get the website up and running and functional, which we clearly have failed to do to date, although i would suggest the website has never crashed, it is functional but at a very slow speed and very low reliability and has continued to function. And at the very moment that sebelius made that statement, the healthcare. Gov system was down. And it stayed down for the duration of the hearing. Sebelius did offer an apology, and she told the committee to hold her accountable for the obama care failure. While insisting that the president did not lie when he repeatedly told americans they could keep their Health Care Insurance if they liked it. But when pressed on whether the president was ultimately responsible for the laws failures, she got visibly agitated, tersely saying, quote, whatever. Yes. He is the president. Fox news chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill tonight with our report. Reporter lou, Kathleen Sebelius defended the rollout of the pr
We were anxious to get the website up and running and functional, which we clearly have failed to do to date, although i would suggest the website has never crashed, it is functional but at a very slow speed and very low reliability and has continued to function. And at the very moment that sebelius made that statement, the healthcare. Gov system was down. And it stayed down for the duration of the hearing. Sebelius did offer an apology, and she told the committee to hold her accountable for the obama care failure. While insisting that the president did not lie when he repeatedly told americans they could keep their Health Care Insurance if they liked it. But when pressed on whether the president was ultimately responsible for the laws failures, she got visibly agitated, tersely saying, quote, whatever. Yes. He is the president. Fox news chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill tonight with our report. Reporter lou, Kathleen Sebelius defended the rollout of the pr
We were anxious to get the website up and running and functional, which we clearly have failed to do to date, although i would suggest the website has never crashed, it is functional but at a very slow speed and very low reliability and has continued to function. And at the very moment that sebelius made that statement, the healthcare. Gov system was down. And it stayed down for the durion of the hearing. Sebelius did offer an apology, and she told the committee to hold her accountable for the obama care failure. While insisting that the president did not lie when he repeatedly told americans they could keep their Health Care Insurance if they liked it. But when pressed on whether the president was ultimately responsible for the laws failures, she got visibly agitated, tersely saying, quote, whatever. Yes. He is the president. Fox news chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill tonight with our report. Reporter lou, Kathleen Sebelius defended the rollout of the pres