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When the moments got tough politically for the president what was going on? in terms of the iraq war. every morning the president would get intelligence report, blue sheet to talk about what happened overnight. in 2006, the sheets were grim. we were losing. at one point the president looks up from the sheet and says this isn t working. we need a new strategy. he was of course right. that s really what started the whole review that ended up in the surge which turned around the situation that otherwise seemed loss lost. the review led by steve. he was a little band in the white house. a band of brothers and sisters that were fashioning a strategy that would work. we didn t believe in defeat. there was a moment and you write about it in the book where senator mcconnell came to your office and said mr. president, you have to pull out. you ought to think about ....

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