badass teachers or something? you said it. if i said it, it would be part of my style. are there times i wish i would have said something? sure. and i don t think there s anybody in life, particularly somebody in public life and on camera most of the time who ever says oh, i said everything perfectly just the way i wanted to say it. but what i think people see in me is that i m genuine. i am who i am. that sometimes is going to include things that i wish i could take back. and i don t apologize for things that i said. but they never have to wonder what i m thinking and they don t have to wonder whether i m really being myself or whether i m being, you know, focus group tested. i don t think anybody wonders about that. if you were to look ahead, i can t help but think about this new book double down. i don t want to get into all the details. i know you haven t read the book. it seems very clear when you submitted information, confidential information to the
to a point where you actually have the police say that what was had been seen seemed to be consistent with smoking crack cocaine. the bottom line is at some point, you have to say mea culpa. voters tend to be a forgiving kind. i think ford decided at this point he had to give in, he had to throw himself on the sword, he had to ask for forgiveness. for him to continue to deny it publicly would not be the smartest political thing to do. the question remains can he survive, will there be pressure from the city council and from voters for him to resign and i believe we will see that pressure continue to mount. all right. mark preston, thank you so much. when we come back, it s his book that surely made for awkward conversations among obama and romney insiders this week. so what other bombshells have you not yet heard about? i will talk to one of the authors of double down next. customer erin swenson ordered shoes from us online
and what its worries were about governor christie s, the unanswered questions from his vet, the matters that were in the public record but not widely known in the national political or press corps, and that they conveyed to governor romney those concerns. governor romney pulled the plug the next day and that is the fact of what happened. i think in some sense it speaks for itself. one of the things i found so surprising, we touched on this in my show yesterday, is in your first book with mark, game change, bestseller, hbo peabody awards, emmys, there was not a lot about president obama in the book. the obama campaign first of all wasn t as interesting as the mccain campaign but also, i don t think they cooperated as much. i was stunned at how much obama aides shared with you to the detriment of in some cases, president obama, vice president biden, former president bill clinton. were you surprised that they talked so much more this time?
we begin with breaking news. inside the reporting that political correspondents kill for and they did it with the blockbuster game change and done it again. the new book is called double down, game change 2012 and loaded with details how the obama campaign explained dumping joe biden and harry reid got the idea reid didn t pay income tax and more. the book doesn t come out until next week but jonathan martin has all the inside details and joins us now. it s fascinating on your reporting in this. how serious were they looking into having hillary clinton be the vice president? it was serious, not that it was intentionally polled and focused grouped. campaigns don t spend the money on focusing and polling groups unless they are seriously exploring something. it was only known but about a half dozen of the top obama senior advisors, people like david axlerod and most notably the chief of staff william daley, then chief of staff who
for and they did it with the blockbuster game change and done it again. the new book is called double down, game change 2012 and loaded with details how the obama campaign explained dumping joe biden and reed got the idea reid didn t pay income tax and more. the book doesn t come out until next week but jonathan martin has all the incite details and joins us now. it s fascinating on your reporting in this. how serious were they looking into having hillary clinton be the vice president? it was serious, not that it was intentionally polled and focused grouped. campaigns don t spend the money unless they are seriously exploring something. it was only known but about a half dozen of the top obama senior advisors, people like david axle rod and most notably the chief of staff william daily, then chief of staff who became close to joe biden.