any longer. a poll showed 60% of texans thought he should go. and a lot of it is because of how his presidential race played. the washington post dan bowles has a book coming out on the election collision 2012. in there he talks to governor perry about his oops moment when he flubbed it in the debate and perry blamed it a little bit on his back surgery saying that he had been a runner, he had run a ton, and that was his decompression method because of his back surgery he couldn t run. that was part of what put him off his game. mark, you were also putting the finishing touches on a book about the 2012 campaign out this fall. based on what you know about the performance of rick perry and that 2012 race, would he be able to recover and run again in 2016? plenty of people run and fail. he doesn t feel clearly he got a clean shot at it.
0 welcome to morning joe. with us on set former communications director for president george w. bush and former senior adviser for the 2008 mccain presidential campaign nicolle wallace, msnbc and time magazine senior political analyst mark halperin, and in washington, d.c., senior political editor and white house correspondent for the the huffington post, i think he would like calendar model in there as well, sam stein. he is hot. joe holy cow. yes. i think that s a word that comes up with sam. don t you think, guys? that is. the guy is so hot, how hot is the guy? this guy is so hot, he should run for comptroller of new york city. exactly. we are going to get to that, joe. i don t i m not going to read them out loud. i don t know if you can see this. willie geist, what do we have? don t say willie geist, what do we have? better than that. it s hold them up. willie geist, read them. i am i don t like that one. mika, hold up the newspaper. n
host: let s talk about writing a book and the differences from writing a column. guest: they are totally difference. a column is 800 words, and length is absolutely everything. you start how many words, how many letters, you really have to compress the length so there s a couple things you can t do at that length. first, it s hard to tell a narrative story because it tames time to set up, hard to do in-depth reporting because by the time you set up a scene, you ate 700 of your 800 words. you have one ideas and hammer it. i try to use my columns narratively like a legal brief, try to tell the story, but it s compressed. with a book, you can spend a couple years on something, develop the knowledge, and you do it in a more narrative form, and you can do a little better of capturing the climate of something. with a column it s pretty much who is doing what, and it s very specific. i think we re influenced by cull [cheering] more than by personalties than individuals, you can
600 of your 800 words. so a column you just have one idea, and you hammer that idea. i try to do my columns more narratively, try to tell a story, but it s really compressed. with a book you can spend a couple years on something, in-depth knowledge and do it in a more narrative forum, more natural thinking in terms of. and you can do a little better of capturing the climate of something with a column it s pretty much who s doing what, and it s very specific. but i think we re actually influenced by culture more than by personalities, more than by individuals. so you can try to capture a whole culture in a book. host: we want to focus on your columns later, but let s begin with your books and whether it s a book that you ve written or read, what makes it a good read? what are you looking for? guest: yeah, well, you want it to, at the grandest, you want it to change your life in some serious way. you want it to lodge in your head. and i m a big believer in books. i think bo
john harwood and dan bowles. i want to get into the substance. john, you tried to save him? i did, and i sympathized not in a you were trying to trying to give him the opportunity i wasn t sure whether, when he referred to the epa after another candidate prompted him, whether he had come up with a third one, and ask him and have him it was a remarkable moment that i sympathize with. all of us have brain freezes, though i ve never seen dan do it, and you can start an answer and make three points, you make the first two and you say, where was i going with that? it s unfortunate for a candidate running for national office, especially one that came into the debate with people concerned he wasn t able to handle himself on a stage against barack obama,