thinks and speaks strategically, but why would the president help evaluate joe biden to front-runner status so early? why not just pretend that joe biden doesn t exist, at least for a few months? i m with you. i don t think there s a strategic rationale here. traditionally, presidents especially during a primary process, adopt this sort of olympian posture where they sit back and scold the field, further the squabbling and portrays himself as very presidential. this is not this president s style. he likes to get down, he likes to get into the mud. and i think that s just instinct chul. i don t think it s indulging in any sort of strategic approach. and it may end up hurting him in the long run, because the classics ensue, just let these guys fight. by evaluate joe biden early, he s evaluating his chief competitor, his most viable competitor. and joe biden s big advantage here is his predictability, as ali was saying, he s sort of a known quantity and donald trump is somebody who stir
stories told by my guest in his new book. joining me now, james stewart, the author of tangled webs, how false statements are undermining america, from martha stewart to bernie madoff. good to have you. nice to be here. how did scooter libby get caught up in that investigation and why was he the only one caught lying? surely nehe was not the only on who at some point lied? he wasn t. and one of the extraordinary things was, if he hadn t lied, he never would have been charged. because he was not a source of the notorious column by bob novak who outed valerie plame as a cia agent. the actual sources were karl rove in the white house and richard armitage in the state department. but scooter libby had outed her to other reporters. he was doing his best to get the story out. he told first, bob woodward, and then judy miller at the new york times. they didn t write the story, but he then lied, saying he had never leaked her idea. was there something instinct chul going on? you lo
how false statements are undermining america, from martha stewart to bernie madoff. good to have you. nice to be here. how did scooter libby get caught up in that investigation and why was he the only one caught lying? surely he was not the only one who at some point lied? he wasn t. and one of the extraordinary things was, if he hadn t lied, he never would have been charged. because he was not a source of the notorious column by bob novak who outed valerie plame as a cia agent. the actual sources were karl rove in the white house and richard armitage in the state department. but scooter libby had outed her to other reporters. he was doing his best to get the story out. he told first, bob woodward, and then judy miller at the new york times. they didn t write the story, but he then lied, saying he had never leaked her idea. was there something instinct chul going on? you look at the libby case, and you think, this is a trained lawyer. it s his first time as a
strong bond to me and his really my best friend and 90% of the time, he s at the sanctuary and 10% of the time gets to interact and have the companionship with me. martha: tell me why you wanted to teach him and you you saw the bears doing these things in the wild and he can t, because he wasn t raised by the bear cubs mama. and, we have pictures of you trying to teach him to swim and catch fish like the ones in alaska. the things we think are instinct chul but are actually behaviors mom teaches the cub and so, brutus never had the opportunity and i wanted to try and emulate mom and go out there and teach him the same things he would have learned if he was a wild bear, how to fish and swim and it is funny, the learning curve and he struggled, and had a hard time, and a just could not replicate what a mother bear does and it is a very, very crucial thing to happen out there. martha: and, the swimming pool, too, i think, and, how were you able to sort of play the