people around me that would say to me hold on, that s wrong. my wife played that role quite a bit. was there any one around john edwards who said that s wrong? the thing about now, that you read the book, the thing about john edwards is when first came to washington he was an oner to work for. whether you believed in his causes or not, he did some very inspiring things. he was gifted. whether you liked mike: a great communicator. yes. mike: a great communicator. but d.c. changed him. he got up there and within a year and a half or two years of him being elected he hadn t even voted in several presidential elesbianss and within two years of being there gore almost asked him to be the vp. he was number 100 out of 100 freshman senator. he couldn t get anything done. he jumped. his ego let him jump into this national platform and i said it was one of the times where he
with us i reserve the right to crush you. mike: like you use a knife we use a gun. you send us to the hospital and we send you to the morgue. the difference here if president obama and rightly i think is having good treaties with the form erosiveout union. by and large it as good thing. what he is not doing is making us safe from all the other threats you talked about. pakistan potentially. pakistan s nuclear weapons falling into bad hands of jihaddists. iran getting nuclear weapons and launching that whole region in a nuclear arms race as saudi arabia and egypt and turkey feel that i need nuclear weapons of my own. or israel looks at iran and says we cannot allow them to get nuclear weapons because that is the end of our existences and we will have a preemptive strike. mike: the united states for the first time in our lifetime
simplier for them to call upon the past and to look to a time when there was disarray in the country in the 60s and to use that to paint a negative portrait of these true god-loving people who, you know, and they try to paint them as racist. i have been among these people and i know that this is there is nothing true about these fabrications. mike: we heard there were people yelling racial epitaphs at some of the members of congress. when you saw this, folks or read these things or saw them on the television. these rumors, which have no foundation, no backing, no background, no nothing vetted, are being distributed as truth, right? mike: yeah. and i m going to tell you the quality of the people that are in the tea parties are such
through what we have made it through. mike: i m not sure either. and we love each other more and realized that all that really matters is what it in our house. did i become cynical? yes. people asked if i would be involved again in politics? only if i was running the other correction. we doppler. and emotionally we were torn apart for a long time. just recently after the book came out we finally are building strength again so. mike: well, i think you have told the story in a very compelling way and again it surprised me that i actually enjoyed the book because i was determined to not like you. having been a person who trusted people and thought you betrayed him. he betrayed you but then you turned around and betrayed him. i think what you did in the book is you helped me to see that you weren t justifying what you did. you simply told me how it happened and how we need to protect ourselves from that.
i felt the same way because i m loyal to a fault. sherry will tell you? you think? mike: good point, sherry. i think that is definitely the case. but i felt really torn when i wrote the first part of the book because i don t get to they wanted me to write a back just about the scandal but you can t understand why we did what we did unless you talk about including my father and everything that led up to that. i waited two years to tell the truth. i gave him every opportunity. more than two years. and when i was writing the part about him, the guy that i loved, the guy who was inspiring, gifted person the first five or six years. after he lost with john kerry in the 2004 election, he became a different person. his i like to say that his ego became egone. and he believed that it was his destiny and that he was doing people a favor running for