it. the sad thing is, there is obviously real news in the book like, hamid karzai, the leader of afghanistan is clinically manic depressive and we re asking american men and women to die for a man who has to take his meds and that i found shocking and media paid little attention. jon: the bbc s mark marredle called it, the book, a scathing portrait. that s pretty strong. we ll see what happens when it gets more coverage as it gets released in the weeks ahead. time for a break. first check out the new website and keep an eye on the big media stories in our watch list section. you can also go behind the scenes and listen to the discussions we have in here during the commercial breaks. it s all very interesting and it s right there for you. up next, delaware s republican nominee for the u.s. senate christine o donnell is done with the national media at least for now. smart strategy or will it back fire on this tea party
then i want to move on to some they can t believe how stupid our representatives are that u.n.-related issues. they are getting away with it. the new book by bob woodward, this is in the washington post i don t blame them. i m just saying that they are getting away with murder. today. they are selling us product at i want to read from story. afghan president hamid karzai with very low currency, and they was diagnosed as manic are getting away with murder. depressive according to u.s. and they can t believe they are getting away with this murder. intelligence reports. he s on his meds, he s off his who is stupid? name names? well, you have the start by meds. woodward quotes u.s. ambassador karl iken berry as saying. saying the person that appoints based on all of the reports you the people. who appoints the people? the president. the president appoints the people. read, is that true? when i negotiate with china, i want our business leaders, our hamid karzai on meds as a manic best
karl ikenberry accuses the afghan president of being manic depressive and woodward quotes him as saying, in fact, quoted, he s on his meds, off his meds and, dismissive of president karzai and that is nothing compared to what national security advisor jim jones says about members of obama s political team, referring to them as, quote, the water bugs, the poe lit bureau and mafia and dismissively as the campaign set, bill. bill: always has been a must-read book for politics in washington. thank you, the whole town is talking about it today, in moments fox news security analyst k. t. mcfcfarland is he, what does it mean for men and women overseas and, national securities and all that, to come, here in a few moments. martha: and looking forward to that. new video in fox, an explosion killed ten people and injured dozens more in a military parade in iran and comes as iran s president is in the u.s., in new york, for meeting at the u.n.
shepard: hey, woodward also writes that the cia is running what he calls a secret parliamentary team i should say paramilitary team, parliamentary might be more effective. what are the details here. yes. 3,000-strong afghan paramilitary group that is supposed to go after top al qaeda leaders. top senior official told me it hasn t yielded much and the cia had considered business disbanding it more that the afghan president is manic-depressive. the u.s. ambassador is quoted saying he is on his meds, off his meds. not very diplomatic language out in kabul. shepard: not very diplomatic at all. jen in kabul tonight. making clear it is ready for a military battle as well if it comes that. iran showing off a high tech missile which it says is capable of hitting targets as far as away as europe. the 150-mile range of this
ambassador richard holbrook says it can t work. but petraeus said i don t think you win this war. this is the kind of fight we re in for the rest of our lives and probably our kid lives. the book reveals that the c.i.a. is running a 3,000-strong force to hunt top al-qaeda and taliban leaders but a senior military official says the group never yielded much. some comments undermine the diplomacy with cable, such as those kabul, such as those attributed to john ikenberry about hamid karzai who he describes as manic depressive. he is on his meds, he s off his meds. the white house sounded pleased with the way the president comes across in the book saying he s portrayed as analytical, strategic and decisive, but still begging the question why did he authorize more troops to afghanistan and then order that they begin withdrawing next july? the answer has to do with politics. bret? bret: more on this with