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crisis, we ve confirmed 215 judges and defeated two. we took exactly the same view senate democrats took during the bush administration. i would summit up by saying it s a sad day in the history of the senate. joining me now is john heilemann, msnbc political analyst, mark halperin, authors of double down, game change 2012. lets talk to you guys about the nuclear option and what happened on capitol hill. we know harry reid didn t want to do this. talking about vote after vote for d.c. court of appeals, second highest court you said supreme court, eminently qualified people. what do you think forced harry reid finally to take this step which john heilemann, could hurt the democrats if they become a men ort in 2014. this frustration has been building for a long time. there s no question if you look
with senate approval. and to both of you guys we watched yesterday president obama awarding the medal of freedom to bill clinton. in so doing saying he appreciates the counsel he gets on and off the golf course from bill clinton, which immediately made everyone think of double down and when you guys reported how after that first make up golf game he said they didn t complete 18 holes. he said he likes bill clinton in doses. is that right, mark? that s right. their relationship has taken lots of twists and turns. we wrote about in game change and since in double down last week with president clinton s comments on affordable care act not doing any favors in the short-term. yesterday president obama speaking publicly and warmly. i think the golf reference was pretty funny and testament to
make his speech, whether he gets good news or bad news. just a year ago, both president obama and mitt romney were in the same situation as chris christie, waiting for the polls to close, the votes to be counted and a winner declared. of course, we all know how that turned out, spoiler alert, obama won. but what we did not know was all the behind the scenes drama like how president obama s mock debate performance, his rehearsals were described by one of his debate coaches as creepy, according to the coach, and it led to an intervention. it s all in our latest lead read out today, the book is called double down, game change 2012. the book s co-author john heilman joins me from new york. mark halperin i believe will be on anderson cooper later today. thanks so much for being here. i spoke with governor christie, who said it was disappointing that his vetting process, some of the documents were leaked to you. how do you know when you re writing a book like this whether or not sources ar
you know, i never like to take exception to the question but if you go back and look at game change the vast majority of the book was about the democratic nomination fight between barack obama and hillary clinton. there was very little relatively speaking in terms of page quantity, there wasn t nearly as much about the republican race or sarah palin as there was about the obama and clinton campaign. i guess i just mean there weren t as many skeletons is what i mean. well, there were some pretty interesting material but we re here today to talk about double down. we got a high degree of cooperation from people inside the white house, from people in president obama s re-election committee in chicago. we also got a wide degree of cooperation from all the republican candidates and from governor romney staff. governor romney encouraged his people, as did governor romney encouraged his people to cooperate with us and though the white house was very helpful throughout, you know, w