are the leader of a city? but he it s this mixture of entitlement and a sense that everyone else is a hypocrite because everyone s getting hammered and i m just a man of the people. we all have feet of clay. it was fascinating. i can throw several recordings of us asking him directly have you ever smoked crack before? that s just a complete lie. he is saying everyone was saying do you smoke crack now? that is not true. i have several recordings on my phone as recently as two weeks ago. is that like a ring tone? have you ever smoked crack before? robin, certainly a lot of people ask, how does a guy like this get elected mayor? look at him. this doesn t look like canada.
person it s a staggering thing. that talking point about i never lied about it, he was ready to jump on that. he had misheard my question which was doesn t smoking crack in the first place indicate a huge lack in judgment when you are the leader of a city? but he it s this mixture of entitlement and a sense that everyone else is a hypocrite because everyone s getting hammered and i m just a man of the people. we all have feet of clay. it was fascinating. i can throw several recordings of us asking him directly have you ever smoked crack before? that s just a complete lie. he is saying everyone was saying do you smoke crack now? that is not true. i have several recordings on my phone as recently as two weeks ago. is that like a ring tone?
great captain but not his job. the phrase he uses is chairman of the most fractionus marshal enterprise on earth and i think he is quite brilliant at that. i have lived with him now 14 years and my administration for him has only grown in that time. i certainly see he has got enormous feet of clay like all of us and that makes him more interesting to me as a writer. explain his feet of clay. well, he s he comes in tow the war in north africa having never commanded a platoon in combat and suddenly he is a theater commander. a very steep learning curve. he makes many mistakes. he doesn t see the battlefield in the same way so consequently he makes a number of mistakes and those mistakes go into late 1944. you know, i went back and i looked at life magazine from 1945 and we sit here and, of course, we tom knows this
did that work? well, it was actually one of the debates that i won. i think it was actually the tenor of the debate more than anything else rather than the art director. steve: last night you said, i want to acknowledge a god not just of second chances, but of a god of third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, nine chances because that is the reality of our shared humanity. what did you mean by that? i meant by that, we all have feet of clay and we re all imperfect and i think that this larger notion of god s grace and human grace which is an extension of it is incredibly important to every one of us sort of walking through this journey we call life. and i think that this notion of forgiveness, which i think is what god is all about is part and parcel to this larger notion of taking events of life and making them sort of refining points as opposed to defining points. i think a lot of people in
the event of your life define or redefine your life. people want to take any event that was not good and make it definitional to your life. and i think a lot of conversations have moved, talking around through people in the district, no, we re all going to make mistakes in life. we all have feet of clay, but those events can be not definitional but refining to our lives and become a better person for it. one, there s been conversation on issues, the other has been a conversation on the degree to which this race has been nationalized. this is the first congressional election, special congressional election since the president was reelected. it s the only special election now taking place in the country. and what many have said is, wait a minute, nancy pelosi and associated groups didn t pour in more than $1 million into this race for independents. they poured in for a safe vote and has much to do with the president s strategy of taking back the house in 2014 because what many people hav