biggest challenge is that it s not about running for president. and having to go into the homes of people to hear their stories. these stories exist in the communities that we live in. and what we really have to do is to be empathetic, to be able to hear and listen to those perspectives and experiences that are different from ones that we know. i think that is what and i think obama writes about this. and before he was president in dreams for my father when he talks about the constitution. you know, and he kind of says that, look, you know, because the power in our government is so diffuse, the process of making law in america compels us to entertain the possibility that we are not always right. and sometimes, we can change our minds. and it challenges us to examine our motives and our interests, constantly. and it suggests that, both, our individual and collective judgments are, at once, legitimate and highly fallible,
i think it s a strange story that he s defending his rageful past, but at the same time in that interview you saw some fire in the belly from dr. carson. yep. i think voters need to see that. i think it s whether this helps him or hurts him, i think it s how he plays it as sara mentioned bashing the media is always popular. i thought he played it pretty well, but it s an unstory. but i think that if he stories that he s tough, he s been a bit mild mannered in the debates. i think that has translated into good numbers for him, but i think it s good that he s showing some fight. ryan, i think it s really important to also point out here how much president obama s book dream s of my father before h became president was indeed vetted. dr. carson said in the interview with alison that basically the media doesn t hold the president to the same bar they are holding carson when he wrote in his book. what the president said in an - interview with vanity fair, i m about what really
the names in their memoirs all the time. but they note that. they note that at the beginning if they say that fictitious names are going to be used. but nevertheless you changed it again to say he was not your close friend, he was a family member. he was a family member. okay. and, you know, i really don t want to expose him further, you know, i talked to him, you know, he would prefer to stay out of the media. and i i think i want to respect that. look, dr. carson, i know you call it tactics. it s called vetting in politics. you know it well just in the short time that you ve been involved with the campaigns. is that what you did with the current president, is that what you did with him? yes, in fact give me a break. dreams of my father was also vetted. are you kidding me. don t you remember there was a whole question about his girlfriend and people went back to try to find the president s girlfriend and it turned out that she may have been a composite char
him over this period of time. so he s raised a lot of questions and i m glad he s coming forward giving us new pieces of information. because hi campaign did not agree to cooperate with us. when we went to them and asked for the identities of these people some time ago they did not give us names and all of a sudden these names are fictitious he says. right. i know that you emailed them twice before and also once you had your findings and the campaign said they weren t going to comment. correct. let s talk about this. the issue of dr. carson in the interview saying, you know, you don t vet president obama like this. and in fact the media did in dreams of my father when he wrote it. and he s come under scrutiny because of part of how he documented his past, i m talking about president obama, specifically a past girlfriend here in new york city who he wrote about in his book dreams for my father. in an interview with vantty
especially if you re looking ahead to a political career it on the one hand, she spent four years as the secretary of state. this is a memoir of her experiences. she wants to tell all of us what happened, whether she agreed with the president, disagreed, stuff like that. if she does too much like that, it seems to be she s distancing herself from this president who, as you point out, is going through a rough patch. the truth is, she s going to need to do that if she runs. she s going to need some of that distance. at the same time, she served in his cabinet. what i think is kind of fascinating is look at president obama. he wrote, dreams for my father, long before, i would say, his presidential aspirations were in the forefront. in a way that was very unique. we got a sense of him as a person. certainly when he wrote the audacity of hope leading up to his run, he was much more careful. we just sort of see that with these books. there s another first lady that s been in the news