>> of course not, because the president authorized bob woodward the access that bob woodward enjoyed. >> as long as the president said-- >> exactly, it's amazing, absolutely amazing. >> obama authorized general jones to call the guy across the hall, and don't think he authorized david petraeus to call him a spin doctor. >> there's more than junior high attitude in this. as the washington post and from the 43 white house written on the commentary blog and one in "the washington post," this is not a warrior president. from the beginning he's not talking about victory and bringing the war to a conclusion that will benefit freedom in america, he's talking about getting out and not spending money on it. >> kirsten, what about it. if you're in the white house why do you let bob woodward come in and expose your dirty laundry? >> well, i think that they presume that bob woodward will get access somehow, he will be able to get people one-on-one to talk and they want a opportunity to tell their side of the story. that's part of it. the other part they're full of themselves and believe, oh, once

why do presidents keep talking to bob woodward? we'll find out next on "larry king live." >> let me say he's an old and valued friend. we go back many moons than we both care to say. he's the associate editor of "the washington post." number one "new york times" best several and number one on amazon. "obama's wars" published by simon and schuster. thanks for being with us as always. >> thank you. >> larry: this has a double meeting, this title, does it not? >> it does. it's specifically the war in afghanistan, which is, of course, the war that obama adopted in the campaign and said he would take seriously and add troops, which he's done. it's also the war within the administration, particularly between the white house and the military. and they have different views. and there are large tensions. and what i've been able to do is get notes of meetings so you actually see the clash and the difference. and a lot of this has just not been settled yet. >> larry: always well annotated in the back. you always put where you were. you don't

tdd# 1-800-345-2550 >> larry: we're back with bob woodward. we'll hear more from his interview with the president, the audio, of course. what -- how do you win this war? there's no mission accomplished, is there? how do you win? >> the secret orders, which are published in the back of the book here, that the president issued to everyone after he'd made his strategy decision at the end of last year, say they're four risks, four things we have to look at. one is afghan governance. president karzai. general petraeus says the karzai government is, quote, a criminal syndicate. now, that's your partner, a criminal syndicate. how do you make that -- this is in the news every day. then there's the second risk is the afghan security force. the police and the army. and this is our way out. we have to train them and equip them so we can get out. >> you quote got to do it but t to get killed while you're doing it. >> as one of the people say the attrition rate is so great, it's like pouring water in a buckette with the hole in the bottom. you can't build

woodward's book, andrea. >> one of the new revelations and we know bob woodward has, for 30, 40 years covered the intelligence and the military communities. he's very well sourced there and he did interview the president and vice president. >> reporter: yes, he did. >> the secretary of state all the players went on the record, thought it was better to cooperate than not cooperate. he reports that the covert war in afghanistan is 3,000 men strong, the cia, people on the ground in afghanistan. that is new. >> right. >> also reporting about hamid karzai, our so-called ally, the leader of afghanistan that he is officially manic depressive, has been on and off his meds, and they never know which hamid karzai will show up for a meeting. >> reporter: that would explain a great deal of the counter tips going back and forth between the obama administration. james jones, national securitier adviser on a flight to afghanistan briefing reporters who had disparaging things to say about hamid karzai and the left of corruption in afghanistan, after the president was on the ground the surprise visit

>>> tonight on "nightline" -- war room -- legendary washington reporter bob woodward publishes a shocking behind the scenes look at the disagreements that tore through the obama administration in planning the afghanistan war. diane sawyer goes head to head with the author. >>> plus -- caught on tape, young u.s. soldiers make shocking admissions of atrocities, abuse and general lawlessness inside their combat unit in afghanistan. we bring you the video in a n investigation. >>> and top shelf -- you voted online to find the country's best local chef and tonight we can finally unveil the winner of our people's "plate list." . >>> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. we begin tonight with politics and the story of what went on behind closed doors at the white house as president obama and his advisers looked for a resolution to the war in afghanistan. what was ultimately presented to the public was, according to "the washington post," bob woodward, a patchwork compromise that required more than a little aggressive arm-twisting by the president himself. tonight, diane sawyer has the exclusive in

but bob woodward has gotten access to the last couple of presidents. the last president as he developed his war strategy and was able to discover, reveal and put a light and illuminate the differences. i think we could have these internal discussions and debates and in a lot of countries you would have those who lost out on the debate defecting from government and maybe attempting a cue. in our country people come together and may say terrible things about one of their partners, allies or war council meetings and then come out as one group saying here's where we're going and here's how we're going to do it. it shows the strength of american foreign policy making. >> christopher, we have just a second, your comment on that. >> this is not the first president by inviting bob woodward in you'll get a good story out of it. it doesn't always mean it's good for the white house. >> christopher, herald, thank you, gentlemen. great stuff. >>> a little later today, the president will continue his campaign strategy getting out and talking to americans. he's going

american people should read bob woodward's book. at the end of the book you'll see a president who is a leader, approached problems in an analytical way and made sound decisions everyone signed onto including joe biden. and the strategy the president put in place i think is the best strategy that we have in play -- we have it in place now. we should pursue it. lawrence, it's only this august, the end of august, that all the troops have been in place and the civilian peace and now we're in the process of implementing it. there's been a lot of positive things that happened so far. we've made great strides against al qaeda, cut into the leadership of the taliban, training afghan security forces which is very difficult. there's a lot of difficult problems ahead. i think the president came up with a strategy that is the best strategy for victory. remember why we're there. we're there to defeat, degrade and defeat al qaeda and sustain the afghan government while they build up their physical capacity to resist the insurgencies that exist a

in our spotlight tonight, bob woodward. bob, can you imagine vice president cheney in that same scene of yours that i just recounted about joe bind? >> probably not. he wouldn't go around and ask that question. that wasn't necessarily his style. at the same time, it's conceivable. but as you know, biden has this curiosity and this drive and this kind of soulful engagement with people and so he goes out and says, hey, what are you doing here? and he was very -- this was at the beginning of the administration, actually before they took office. he made the trip to afghanistan and pakistan. and it upset him deeply, and rightfully so that the soldiers on the ground didn't exactly know what the mission was. >> it really strikes me in this book what a big presence biden is and how open he is with you. i couldn't help compare it to the cheney presence or nonpresence in your four-book series where cheney was one of the four people who refused to communicate with you -- >> actually, that's not true. there's a good deal of cheney in t

woodward. >> a great interview with bob woodward today. bob, i'd ask what you learned today but i have a feeling it has to do with australian reality tv. >> no, it's actually that there's so much in this war, there's so much in the obama administration unsettled. lots of people are going. what's the direction? there is a discomfort level which the polls show and it's not -- it's kind of on everything in obama land. and i suspect he's got to seize the reins somehow. >> mika? >> i am strapped in because i'm scared. i'm strapped in. >> mike? >> make my reservations to get to jalalabad to cover the american invasion in pakistan. >> how exciting. willie? >> i learned bob woodward was taking notes during the levi johnston/lawrence o'donnell interview for his appearance. >> look at lawrence. >> staggering. >> be afraid. be very afraid, bob. >>> we talked about tampa fans earlier this morning. you got an e-mail explaining why no one goes to the rays games. >> know the facts. very high unemployment. no large corporations buy tickets for employees.

woodward, i'd better be careful, sources tend to think, i'm talking to bob woodward, i better tell him something good. pat, was this a dangerous game to play, to give bob woodward this kind of access, do you think? >> i think it was in the sense the obama administration is not completed. it's at the beginning. it was in very serious trouble when bob woodward went to work and it made an enormously controversial decision. everyone knew this afghan battle was going on inside the white house. now everybody is trying to get their story on the record for woodward, and in the first draft of history. what's happened is, i think, we're all talking now about those things people said that trashed others inside the white house. so first, i think it's going to be damaging to white house morale, obviously. secondly, the president of the united states comes off as a very reluctant warrior, very reluctant commander in chief in the war in which we are engaged. >> general, i was thinking about stanley mcchrystal, who lost his job because he gave a reporter too much access. from a strategic standpoint, h

bob woodward has a new book, on national security and war. obama's war, causing a big stirrer, as it is a hocalled. >> the white house chief spokesman, robert gibbs, has said he read the whole thing and he says it is accurate. bob woodward has a very established history writing these books. he goes to everybody. he talks to everybody. we know how many of his books have been out about various subjects, all bestsellers, often giving interesting looks inside the process as is happening and developing. i don't think it claims to make any sort of long-term conclusions and judgments over the strategy, but it is the process as it is going on. i think we know also as the process is going on, the review that took some people painfully long, there were leaks all the time about how many differences there were within the administration over what was coming out. we know for instance that vice- president biden was committed to a counterterrorism strategy, while general mcchrystal and many in the military were advising a counterinsurgency strategy. i think

the storyline from "obama's wars" by bob woodward. do keep in mind since the president was in office, the number of total u.s. boots on the ground in afghanistan has nearly tripled. now, here is what confuses me the most. isn't the president of the united states our commander in chief? isn't it ultimately his decision as to when he wants to put our soldiers and american families' lives at risk on behalf of this country? and if his gut was right, why does it seem he bowed to those around him? even more offensive, or equally so why would any sitting president let someone publish a book revealing his skepticism in the middle of a hot war in which american troops are currently being killed under his command? joining us now matt ho, director of the afghanistan study group and former state department official. your views on this book, matt? >> one echo, what you just said, dylan. since that clip of president obama last december 1st we have had 372 american service members killed in afghanistan and thousands more wounded, both physically as

written by the veteran journalist, bob woodward, top advisers doubted whether increased troops set to the country -- sent to the country would work. steve king and -- steve kingston is in washington forced out. how significant is this? quite significant in the sense that on a deeper level it reveals what we already know, there were difficult decisions involved in sending more troops to afghanistan in terms of personality clashes. the most obvious is from richard holbrooke, the pakistan and afghanistan specialty adviser, referring to a afghanistan troops strategy. no comments today confirming nor denying it, i would be interested and it does show the world is deep division in the policy debate. >> the white house is not quarrelling with any of this substance, as i understand. particularly from general petraeus and a sense of frustration on all sides. >> what comes across is the president, according to bob woodward, everything being hidden. the president has set july of next year as the date at which he wants to begin the drawdown of some american troops. the really interesting thing, i

for the first time since the publication of bob woodward's new book "obama's wars" vice president joe biden is speaking out about his reported clashes with president obama on afghanistan policy. last night on lawrence o'donn l o'donnell's new show "the last word" lawrence asked the president what the situation in afghanistan would look like today if the administration had adopted biden's strategy of fewer troops. >> president obama is president of the united states. i told him i would give him my unvarnished opinion and back it up with the facts as i saw them. the president had the most thorough going review. the american people should read bob woodward's book, at the end of the book they'll see a president who was a leader, a president who approached problems in an analytical way and made sound decisions that everyone signed on to including joe biden. >> that's been the argument from the white house. no controversy here, just vigorous debate at the white house. joe biden also addressed the part of the book where biden reportedly called richard holbrooke "the most egotist cal bastard

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"the washington post" reporter bob woodward talks about an exit strategy note, leaving commanders clamoring for more troops -- an exit strategy, leaving commanders clamoring for more troops. >> at odds with the powerful pentagon machine. the book suggests months of meetings were dominated by the president demands for an exit strategy and said he told one meeting, "i am not doing 10 years. i am not doing long-term nation- building." "i cannot lose the whole democratic party." it says the president was frustrated, and general petraeus apparently said the administration has the wrong guy. the president eventually decided to send more troops, and when the military press for more, he exploded, "i am done during this." -- doing this." this picture of the president worries some republicans. >> it shows he is taking great concern about his political base, looking at how we focus the war first rather than what keeps his base in line with the democratic party. >> the book is by bob woodward. he broke the watergate scandal that brought down president nixon. bush was his most recent target, meticulousl

we would get back to more of bob woodward's book. but we want to take a moment and check in with "washington times" reporter who is following what is happening in the white house. good morning. guest: good morning, how are you. host: thank you for joining us. the story and "the washington times" summers resigning. tell us about the news. guest: the white house confirmed what had been reported earlier today by bloomberg, is that mr. summers is going to be returning to harvard. on the one hand, this is not too much of a surprise. his family had not even moved. they stayed in massachusetts. it is not too uncommon to have this kind of turnover at this point in the president's first term, but as you mentioned, this is the third member of the president's economic team to leave in recent weeks. even though it is certainly not playing this way, it will be reviewed to some observers as a house cleaning. host: how integral was he in creating the economic policy? guest: he was definitely brought on as a guide. we have a real washington veteran

a new book by bob woodward portrays a president determined to find an exit strategy. our north american editor reports. >> the white house says the intermit portrait of the team in action pan's obama as analytical and decisive. the book suggests months of meetings were dominated by the president's demand for exit strategy and said i am not doing 10 years, i am not spending $1 trillion. his reasons were partly political. it says the president was frustrated by the military's desire to expand the mission. there were clashes with general petraeus who told staff to the administration is [bleeping] with the wrong guy. he says i am done doing this. but richard holbrooke said it cannot work. this picture of the president worries some republicans. >> it shows he is taking great concern about his political base. i would far prefer him to be thinking about the war first rather than what keeps his base in line with the democratic party. >> the book is by bob woodward. he broke the watergate scandal that brought down president nixon. bush was his most recent target, the telling e

bob woodward. it's a top inch read. thank you. >> thank you. >> bill: president obama lashes fox news in a rolling stone magazine. what is he doing in rolling stone? didn't they kill his general? later, the obama administration assassinating suspected terrorists. is it legal? the ladies have been investigating, upcoming. >> bill: for some reason, president obama giving an interview to rolling stone magazine, the same publication that ripped up his top commander in afghanistan, general stanley mccrystal. that confuses me a bit. why would the president talk to rolling stone when it did his administration so much damage? the white house gave us a statement, quote, rolling stone isn't the only outlet the president has ever spoken with in which we didn't agree with every article they have written or broadcast. that's a bit convoluted and great ma'amcally incorrect, but it's a sitle shot at us. in the article, one of the most provocative quotes is about fox. it's a point of view i disagree with, says the president. it's a poi

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there is more back stabbing in bob woodward's new book than a shakespeare play. the vice president says of richard holbrooke, he's the most ego tistical bastard i've ever met. although the right guy for the job. the national security adviser, jim jones, cams the president's inner circle the water bugs, the mafia or the campaign set. general david petraeus tells aides david axelrod is a complete spin doctor. most of this infighting over the war plan for afghanistan. finally, the president blows up. november 25th, 2009, only days before announcing his decision, the military asks for 4,500 more troops. woodward writes the president erupts saying, i'm done doing this, we've all agreed to a plan and we're going to stick to that plan. i haven't agreed to anything beyond that. six days later, his big speech at west point. >> the review has allowed me to ask the hard questions and to explore all the different options. >> reporter: the next day, the president explains why he added a timetable to begin withdrawing, telling republican senator lindsey graham, i can't let thi

woodward's obama's wars is peter baker, of the "new york times", white house correspondent for "the new york times", and peter you're one of the few that has actually seen and gotten a look at this book. what can you tell us, what's the most significant thing about this book? >> well, i think it's a book that recounts in pretty vivid, narrative detail the sort of internal struggle, both within the president's teal and even within the president himself, about how to handle this war in

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bob woodward's new book, "obama's wars," shows the white house consumed with the wars. the president told woodward, according to published reports, we can absorb a terrorist attack. even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever, we absorbed it, and we are stronger. just days after his inauguration, the president is forced to confront stark realities about the terrorist threat and the war in afghanistan. in the book, an expert on islamic extremism items the president that the long held belief that osama bin laden was just a figure head is not true. >> bin laden is more than still out there. he's not hiding in a cave somewhere. he's actually directing global terrorist on rations. >> reporter: woodward also reports that there's a secret cia army made up of 3,000 afghan soldiers to go after militants in both afghanistan and pakistan. and, he describes in-fighting among the obama team. general david petraeus called david axelrod a complete spin doctor. insults that come out as the president and his aides form late a new policy for afghanistan and pakistan. >> i think that the re

our exclusive interview with bob woodward about his new book. >>> the feds take aim at some pomegranate products. >>> and hometown solutions for putting people back to work. >>> good evening. just five weeks from tonight, america will be getting ready to go to the polls. and the president pulled out his big halftime pep talk today. he call on the young people who created a stampede in 2008 pushing him to victory to come forward again. as of tonight, only half of those 29 and younger say they're sure to vote. three quarter of older voters say they will. so the president is hitting the road. jake tapper is in albuquerque tonight. good evening, jake. >> reporter: good evening, diane. so much of this four-state swing is about rallying the democratic base, which the white house has a lot of trouble motivating. in fact, vice president biden told a fund-raiser of democrats today that they need to remind the base to stop whining. the president gave a pep talk via conference call today, to college and university students, urging them to reengage. >> you can't sit out. you can't suddenly just che

book by bob woodward. it shows the president was searching for a way out even as they were debating to put more troops in. some explosive details from the book "obama's wars" ahead. >>> the o'donnell campfiring back this morning. the candidate for senate in delaware with the hopes of the tea party on her shoulders says she did not violate election ethics and that her opponent and the national media are just out to get her. >>> super salmon. the government is considering whether to allow a company that has tinkered with the genetic material of salmon to make it grow faster, bigger, can sell it in stores for human consumption. would you eat it? we're going to break down the bitter debate whether it's safe for your dinner plate. >>> as it is every day, the a.m. fix blog is up and running this morning. join the live conversation right now, go to cnn.com/amfix. >> let us know whether you'd eat that salmon. we've been talking about it in the newsroom. >> you could eat more of it for the same price. would you wan

i think now bob woodward tells us what we've known in some ways for the better part of a year. he's not! this was a decision driven by politics. we heard that from bruce rydell conducting the afghanistan review policy when he told it to the "new york times" shortly after the new year. we heard it consistently and anonymously since then. now we hear it from the aides on the record in some cases and it seems that we are hearing it from the president itself. shocking book. >> bret: bob wadboard strikes again. thank you. stay tuned for classic bad news, good news situation. ♪ just one bite opens a world of delight... ♪ ♪ with tasty grilled flavor and goodness to savor ♪ ♪ friskies grillers blend. ♪ feed the senses. everyone has someone to go heart healthy for. who's your someone? campbell's healthy request can help. low cholesterol, zero grams trans fat, and a healthy level of sodium. it's amazing what soup can do. activia is better than ever! hey, you guys. want to try activia's great new taste? isn't this the yogurt that, you know... helps regulate your digestive syst

the book is by bob woodward. and doug luzader has a preview of the book. >> reporter: for months now reporters bob woodward has been investigating the obama administration and some of the first details are starting to come out. when president obama announced his new afghanistan strategy late last year, he sounded resolute. >> as commander and chief i have determined it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 troops to afghanistan. >> reporter: but the president's composure may have portrayed what was happening behind the scenes. for even holbrook said the strategy can't work. it's one of the revelations in woodward's new book. the latest work from the washington post investigator reporter hasn't been released yet but on preorder it's already a best seller on amazon.com. the new york times obtained a copy and there are enticing nuggets about the sniping within the obama administration. in one instance petraeus called senior political advisor david axelrod a complete spin doctor. but most of

the white house gave bob woodward all kinds of access. why? >> reporter: and they always do, don't therbgs administration officials, and past presidents? this is his 16th book, the first 15 were best sellers, i mean, he's arguably the most famous journalist in the country. so the idea from an administration's point of view is to talk to bob woodward and try to manage the message, if you will, instead of having unnamed sores do that for the administration. jon: shifting gears, julie, the president's top economic adviser, larry summers, he is leaving the administration. the question is was he forced? >> again, officials here saying this is no surprise, that this doesn't illustrate a shakeup of the president's economic team. his departure, though, is a big deal, it gives the administration to retool his team, send a message going into the midterm elections. as you know, voters out there are frustrated on employment, unemployment is 9.6%, and summers was a chief architect of the president's policy, from the stimulus bill to financial reform bill,

we're about to tell you about an explosive bob woodward book. it says about what's happening in the white house, they have not walked back because everybody is on the record having talked to bob woodward. >> it's juicy stuff. we talk about that in a moment. right now, start with some head lanes. >> president obama is losing yet another economic advisor. did you hear about this? and word is he wants to fill the position with a woman. politico.com reports that the president specifically wants a female c.e.o. to replace larry summers on his economic team. the rest of the president's economic advisors, as you know, they are all men with virtually no experience running a big business. summers says he's leaving the white house at the end of the year, he's going to return to harvard. he's the third member of the president's economic team to resign in the last couple of weeks following peter orzag and kristina romer. a u.s. army major accused of murdering 13 people at fort hood and a connecticut man accused of trying to blow up times square, this mornin

you can't accuse bob woodward of obama bashing. he wrote four books on former president bush, praising him in the first two, criticizing him in the last two. the third book, state of denial, you can tell from the title it's not going to wind up too well for bush ends up with quote, with all bush's upbeat talk and optimism he has not told america the truth about what iraq had become. he failed to lead even as the iraq surge succeeded. we will have our power panel weighing in on the revelations in this latest book and they go on and on. from the stuff general david petraeus said about axelrod and others to president obama saying he's setting a timetable in the afghanistan war not because it's the best for our troops or nation but because he can't lose the democratic party? that is coming up in 25 minutes. well the gop is getting set for a potentially game-changing move. house republicans less than 24 hours away from unveiling their new agenda. details scarce but fox news has learned some of the provisions include a move to dial back

the white house is putting a spin on the released book by the veteran journalist, bob woodward. a senior official says mr. obama is portrayed as the commander in chief who is, quote, analytical, strategic, and decisive in developing a strategy in afghanistan. some excerpts are appearing in the nude media. he offers this take on winning the war. i think about it more in terms of do you successfully prosecute a strategy that's stronger rather than weaker in the end. the book underscores the political calculations behind the president's demands for an exit strategy. he's quoted as saying, let me quote again -- i can't let this be a war without an end. and i can't lose the whole democratic party. let's bring in democratic correspondent chris lawrence who's doing the story. a key point in the brand new book reporting that the cia has a covert army in afghanistan and pakistan. what do we know about this army? how big is it, chris? >> the cia built a local army. it's a 3,000-manned paramilitary force, all local afghanistans. it's called the counterterrorism pursuit teams. a u.n. offici