he s basically a 65-year-old version after underwear bomber. there was not going to be a conspiracy between the media. we don t regularly meet with roger ailes and decide which stories to croak. it was a news worthy story and made more news worthy by what malaki and petraeus said over the weekend. it required a i response by the president. when george stephanopoulos asked the question you knew was going to be asked. he was there to talk about lis speech in cleveland yesterday but george asked the question. the president answered it and pretty soon the race was on. that s why the fbi was there today i m sure, why secretary gates made the call because once the president starts to apply pressure, you don t want the president not to be successful. a good point you raise, john. in a world that s almost like, to use an old reference, an old pin ball machine where you put one ball in the machine and all the lights go on and all the bells ring, it s hard to say i m not going to pay att
he s basically a 65-year-old version after underwear bomber. there was not going to be a conspiracy between the media. we don t regularly meet with roger ailes and decide which stories to croak. it was a news worthy story and made more news worthy by what malaki and petraeus said over the weekend. it required a i response by the president. when george stephanopoulos asked the question you knew was going to be asked. he was there to talk about lis speech in cleveland yesterday but george asked the question. the president answered it and pretty soon the race was on. that s why the fbi was there today i m sure, why secretary gates made the call because once the president starts to apply pressure, you don t want the president not to be successful. a good point you raise, john. in a world that s almost like, to use an old reference, an old pin ball machine where you put one ball in the machine and all the lights go on and all the bells ring, it s hard to say i m not going to pay att