here simply disagreement with that assessment. as a senator and vice president, joe biden has been one of the leading statesmen of his time, and he has been an excellent counselor and adviser to the president for the past five years. he s played a key role in every major national security and foreign policy debate and policy discussion in this administration, in this white house. he played important roles obviously in the policy discussions in carrying out the policy decisions the president made with regards to iraq and in the policy deliberations over afghanistan. the president has said many times that he greatly appreciates the advice and counsel the vice president gives him on matters both domestic and foreign. that is absolutely the case.
what does it say about hillary clinton? if secretary gates is taken at his word, do you think that affects hillary s presidential aspiration. i think it is embarrassing to her. she is not as dovish as leading democrats, she was not as dovish as president obama. after all she carried through that primary campaign the burden in democratic circles of voting to authorize the war in iraq. and so along comes the surge that the president is trying to take to redeem that conflict and in return snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and she opposed it and she admitted she did so because she was running against him. i think that is telling and probably true and not helpful to her aspiration. his impression of vice-president joe boyd bide.
breaking news from the white house now, we have video now. we could get still pictures, but this is actually a video of a weekly occurrence when the vice-president and president have lunch. why is this significant? it is because secretary robert gates book has come out and excerpts show that secretary gates did not have a lot of respect for vice-president bide boyd. that s one possible cynical answer or they want to show what a great lunch they are having? the white house announced after the gates story started leaking they were going to invite cameras in today. it is rarely if ever done even though there is a lunch regulary
report and hearing from others on the issues raised in the review group s report. the president overall review, not just the review group but others involved in assessing how we gather our intelligence and what reforms we might make to the process. he s at that stage still where he s listening and discussing with a variety of stakeholders these issue and appreciates very much the opinion and counsel he s getting on these matters. do the comments in the book vice president biden prompt decisions to let photographers into the today. you know president and vice president have a standing weekly lunch. when the vice president is in town, he attends virtually all meetings that the president holds especially on national
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