the fills on forresponsible for getting france and perhaps the world to intervene there. he s just back from tripoli. then as another baseball season comes to a close in america, we sit down with michael lewis, the author of moneyball, to talk about baseball and its lessons for business and life. first, here s my take. regular gps watchers will know that i was in tehran last week to interview president mahmoud ahmadinejad. you can go to our web site and watch excerpts of the interview. being in iran made me think it our policy toward that country which strikes me as being stuck in a time warp. you will remember that early in the 2008 presidential campaign, barack obama signaleded that he was going to have a different foreign policy than george bush, less black and white. and he chose as his example, iran. he argued that simply pressuring the country was not a policy, and obama offered to talk to iran s leaders to try to establish a dialogue and reduce tensions. well,
Libyan airport before she and her boys were able to get to out. and one more voice about libya for now it is arizona senator john mccain. listen to what he told cnn s candy crowley this morning about libyan leader moammar gadhafi s future running libya. i think his days are numbered much the question is how many people are going to be mass sackered between now and when he leaves? we out to shorten that timeframe as much as we possibly k. senator mccain appeared on this morning s state of the union with candy crowlism see the rest of his interabout libya on our website, cnn.com/sotu. you already know that gasoline prices are up but have you heard about coffee? and then take a look right now the red carpet. many folks poised, ready to go there in hollywood for the academy awards tonight. they are awaiting a lot of the arrivals of the stars in minutes. hey buddy, wattaya lookin a-oooh.
Shot off the charts. the state of the union is a tell ashs process because all of the pressures, bureaucratic apprecia appreciate you res come to bear on one point. i think this one, this will be a nonclinton one, i expect. one of the advantages for obama in having lost the house and therefore having lost the chance for any big accomplishments, it opens up more space for a more them attic speech. i suspect we ll get a more coherent literary kind of speech. you ve been in america for a long time but you re british. is this sort of like the queen s speech to parliament? how does this strike you? as a process i would never ever want to be involved with. i think it s interesting that you mentioned the clinton a rifd in 1996 in the clinton era.
Then as david said, the numbers shot off the charts. the state of the union is a hellacious process because all of the pressures come to bear on one point. mainly the speech writing office. this will be a non-clinton one, i suspect. one of the advantages for obama in having lost the house and therefore having lost the chance for any big accomplishments, it opens up more space for a more thematic speech. i suspect we ll get a more coherent literary kind of speech. you ve been in america for a long time but you re british. is this sort of like the queen s speech to parliament? how does this strike you? as a process i would never ever want to be involved with. listening to this. i think it s interesting that you mentioned the clinton a
David fromm was a speech writing, most famous for his 2002 state of the union address. now senior editor and staff writer at the new yorker. and jobs and economy will surely be a main focus of the speech. zanny is the d.c. based economics editor of the economist, say that five times fast. welcome to you all. david, since you had the most recent experience, what is the state of the union in terms of the president how is it different from a speech of the u.n. or inaugural? what is the president trying to accomplish. it s the moon launch of the executive branch. it is made up of so many pieces. it s not written from beginning to end, written in components that are slapped together. getting the components into a speech, i remember you mentioned 2002, i did a lot of work on agriculture section of the 2002 address but it never appeared at all.