From the state department but from Valerie Jarrett in the white house who is essentially a political adviser not a policy person. I think that says volumes about how this administration is run. Host mr. Klein the cover of your book features but cut coupled bill and Hillary Clinton and michelle and barack obama. Talk about how they Work Together as a couple but also in the political sense. Guest how they Work Together . That would take us a long time but basically i would say that as quickly as i can say this, that the clintons have a marriage that is somewhat similar to the marriage of Franklin Roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt. Its essentially a working relationship. They have gone their separate ways in many ways. They dont live together often. But they are colleagues and collaborators on policy as eleanor and franklin were. On the other side, excuse me. The obama side, we have a first lady in Michelle Obama who is best friends with Valerie Jarrett and who is a behindthescenes adviser
your husband moved toward the middle. i think that s that s sort of the conventional wisdom. but i don t think that bill changed his principles or changed his objectives or reversed course in any way. i think what he did was take a very clear-eyed assessment of what was going to be possible with the congress after the election and moved on every front that he could to get things done. i think that s what you ll see president obama doing. interesting. good morning. it s wednesday, november 10th. welcome to morning joe. 6:00 on the east coast. how comfortable do you think she was with that question? can obama pull a clinton? that is the key que. do you think he can? i don t know. nobody knows whether he has it in him. we shall see. something we ll be talking about with tina brown who is joining us this morning as well as msnbc contributor michael barnicle. we ll be at the 92nd street y talking about tissue whether clinton has failed clinton. whether obam