i ll be happy to answer that. given that resounding endorsement, i will move on to the other must talk about piece of news, which is what books will be on the bedside tables of d.c. movers and shakers, biographies, satire and crime fiction are jodi, as an author, governor bob mcdonald is reading washington. senator mikulski is cleopatra, a life, which a book i have, and am excited to read chris matthews they eat puppies, don t they? i do read want to read cleopatra. you know, i think the dilemma for both politics and political reporters, when it s 10:00 at night, do you want to read anything political? i think most of us look for
staff, there s not going to be a james carville on this campaign. this campaign is about the candidate. kasie, i want to bring in you, since i ve covered it so well. politico has a story which echos a lot of what in romneyland, he is the decider, as it were. when it comes down to it. mid romney both holds himself accountable and ultimately the one deciding the past forward. no you re seeing this, too, if you talk to romney aides about who they re considering and going through that vetting process, the number one thing they ll tell you is we want somebody to tell you for being as advocate for getting mitt romney elected. they re not looking for somebody who has other concerns, advancing for whatever political interest they have of their own, they want something who is going to be behind mitt. that s it. which is interesting, because, jodi, the administration and the obama reelection campaign is
months of theater to do something in the last two to six hours. the student loan rates is everyone knew this was happening, the deadline was very clear. and we re going to have to go through these letter-sending exploits in order to get to the inevitable conclusion, which is we ll figure this out with 30 minutes to go. i guess i wonder, because there s been some analysis that at certain moments the bringsmanship has hurt certain parties, which is to say republicans didn t do well under the debt debacle. the president lost some steam last summer, early fall, do you think either party stands to gain anything from this bringsmanship? we re facing even more of this with the so-called fiscal cliff. that will be an entire accomplice cal game, because it will be a push and pull, do weft to do something on the lame duck session, mitt romney, of course, has said he wants congress to put it off after the election if he does in fact win. the lame duck session of congress could be
to do something on the lame duck session, mitt romney, of course, has said he wants congress to put it off after the election if he does in fact win. the lame duck session of congress could be the least lame duck session of anything. i also want to bring? jody kantor, from new york times who has joined the program. great to see you as always. thank you. as we talk about the republicans versus the democrats, i am sort of obsessed with the dynamics in congress. harry reid, talking about a transportation bill, and this is what he said you have heard as i have heard that there s a battle going on between eric cantor and john boehner to whether or not there should be a highway bill, which is the transportation bill. kantor, of course, i m told by others, he wants to not do a big to make the economy worse, because he feels that s better for them. i hope that s not true. kantor s response rather than making up stories that have no basis in reality, leader reid should fol
you missed i carly. a good show. i said what is that? do you have a little girl? i do but she s too much. okay, okay, i m going to get blown up on twitter for saying i don t know what that is. but i think that she is such a fascinating and powerful figure, but also i think is having to deal with and navigate a set of confining roles and expectations about what she is in public. jody, obviously, your book got a lot of attention when it first came out and there was a lot of backlash in sort of, i think, both from the white house and in other venues that you had, you know, portrayed her as an angry black lady. she had even used that phrase here is an interview with her on cbs morning news talking about sort of in vague terms about response to the book. i guess it s more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here and a strong woman and, you know, but that s