adviser, but the book shows another side, someone who grew up without a lot of money, worked hard to get where he is, and sometimes as a teenager he was in real emotional turmoil, and he acknowledges at least one real big mistake. it s a book about setting the record straight. looking through the rearview mirror, carl rove says had the world known that iraq did not possess weapons of destruction, things might have been different. would the iraq war have occurred without wmd? i doubt it. congress was very unlikely to have wanted the use of force resolution without the threat of wmd. but rove says that was a hypothetical because conventional wisdom was that saddam hussein had weapons.
he used to call him private rove and he used to say, get down and give me 20. one day rove in his full suit did just that, so you can see that was essentially the nature of their relationship. but throughout the whole book, rove remains very dedicated and very loyal to president bush. carl rove can do 20 push-ups? this is a big book, too. it s a lot of pages he s written here. 600 pages. and he covers a lot of ground. he doesn t actually spend a lot of time in the book talking about his family situation. he starts off the book that way to give a little background about him, but most of it is chapter by chapter, detailing the eight years or so with president bush. lisa, thank you very much. lisa sylvester will be back in a few moments. officials say he calmly walked up to the busiest entrance of the pentagon and started shooting. why? they are revealing bizarre details surrounding the suspect s background. we ll share those with you. stand by.
politics. the low point for rove personally was when candidates camped out in his home and the stress fell on his wife and son. upon finding out that federal prosecutor patrick fitzgerald was not likely to charge him, he said he placed the receiver in its cradle and we want. ron christy is a friend of his that worked with him in the white house. i asked what he wanted to accomplish with this book. carl wanted the world to see the other side of him, rather than just these nicknames you hear about him, he wanted people to see him as a human being and as a very warm person rather than caricatures that are out there. wolf, he also talks about some of the differences he had with secretary of state colin powell. in one instance he said powell thought of him as a politico.
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not calling back, and the attorney general was out in public today, and he did not talk about this, but alluded to the controversy when he got some applause, he said it s nice to get a standing ovation especially today. he knows full well this is a big political firestorm that s brewing. ed henry, thank you. there may be valuable lessons for team obama from within the pages of karl rove s new book. he s opening up about some of the toughest moments in the bush white house. our lisa sylvester has a copy of the book. what are you finding out? this is a fascinating book. as you well know, he s seen as this brilliant political adviser, but the book shows another side of him, someone who grew up with not a lot of money, worked very hard as a teenager, and during the bush years, sometimes he was in real emotional turmoil and acknowledges at least one big mistake. it s a book about setting the record straight, looking through