one of the most celebrated investigative journalist of our time bob woodward of the washington post reporter on every president since nixon and he's the author or co-author of a dozen number one best selling nonfiction book. considering what he's covered over the years it's appropriate that he joins me at the historic day adams otel overlooking the white house on next politicking. it's always great to go back to washington especially on a lovely day like today and especially to be with an old friend like bob woodward the pulitzer prize winning journalist work for the washington post since one thousand nine hundred seventy one currently is associate editor author a co-author of twelve number one national best selling nonfiction books most recently the price of politics that is out in paperback with the many of them that is star a k. out on sotelo kate across from the white house and the executive office buildings over there of as the white house president obama and his family say they have the two weeks prior to his first inauguration the president is approaching the end of his fifth year in

bob woodward, former white house chief of staff turned contributor to cbs news, bill daly all of them here at the table today. bill, you actually have some news, i understand, because you've learned that republicans are going to present an alternative to obamacare? >> obamacare is a disaster not getting better but the best talking points, what would you do. just go back to the status question which wasn't great. losing health insurance allegedly with -- you asked me i just had to say it. senior republicans layout the outlines of legislation which will become real legislation that would be conservative reform to obamacare it would deal with preexisting condition problem, tax credits for the poor, it would get rid of all the ridiculous bureaucracy regulation of limitations of obamacare. i think it will senators coburn of oklahoma who is retiring, very well ped. senator hatch the ranking republican will become chairman of senate finance and senator who is senior on health committee. this is seen just piece of legislation, it could get across the board support. there will be tweaks, but w

one of the most celebrated investigative journalist of our time bob woodward of the washington post he's a reporter on every president since nixon and he's the author or co-author of a dozen number one best selling nonfiction book. considering what he's covered over the years it's appropriate that he joins me at the historic a adams otel overlooking the white house all next on politics. it's always great to go back to washington especially on a lovely day like today and especially to be with an old friend like bob woodward the pulitzer prize winning journalist work for the washington post since one thousand nine hundred.

the initial accounts, specifically, bob woodward's account as sensationalized, that people close to gates are saying, hey, you know what, this book is candid, yes, he stands by those quotes about whether it's a biden and hillary on president obama, the whole book is much more measured and much more in line with the picture of bob gates that's been painted for decades in this town. so there seems to be a little bit of a concern or shock in gates' world, how these quotes are playing, and it may not have necessarily -- maybe sending a message that gates, himself wasn't necessarily intending to send. >> i thought the press coverage was trying to make it look like he was painting both with the same brush, saying they were playing politics. everyone who's watching this show knows that obama since the time he was a state senator opposed the whole iraq war. certainly would have opposed the surge in principal we heard his speeches day after day against the war. >> no, it would have been weird. it would have been weirder, had -- it would have been more inconsistent, hillary clinton had the harder t

we have heard in the past gates criticized president obama, for instance, in bob woodward's 2010 book, he did say gates talked about being tempted to walk out of an oval office meeting after a disagreement with tom donilon. but really, as you know, jake, this at the same times it to a whole new level that a cabinet official is making the criticisms while a president is still in office. i did speak with a former official who told me that some of this is is misrepresentative. >> brianna keilar, thank you so much. >>> is this about selling books or settling scores? tells the truth? all of the above? none of the above? let's bring in the editor of foreign -- and -- david and danielle, thanks for being here. i wanted to start with your gut reaction. about what is in the gates book. david, does it surprise you? you know, i think all we have to do is back at the beginning of the obama administration and people were hailing the president for having a team of rivals, that meant discordant voices, a variety of opinions, and what you're seeing is there were a variety of opinions in the middle of

no i don't think this white house gives anything to bob woodward. i think that's why bob a wowoodd is so annoyed about them. i still think he was speaking from that perspective, not being pro snowden. but those guys are not happy with what snowden did. i think he was speaking on their side. what was really fascinating is how ron wyden, who has been one of the fiercest critics of these programs rushed right out to declare victory and to sort of declare total victory and to say bulk data collection has been ended. which i'm not sure the president is doing. it was interesting, the politics of the hill. >> all right. you're as old as me. you're going to be arguing this. >> it's a good debate. >> this is what americans should argue about all the time. rights versus security is the argument. >> it is. and the president did a good job of laying out the groundwork. >> thank you so much, guys. have a nice weekend, david cornyn, joy reid. >>> up next, a judge in pennsylvania, yay, strikes down that state's voter id law. again, the courts are on the good guys'

woodward the bob administration is simply conducted its foreign policy based on domestic appeal within the united states and has never been about successfully accomplishing the task or convening with military officials and making some sort of can call me at results. for the basically for our generation and we are going to have to leave it there but appreciate you coming on the show jacob. clinical research at the university of birmingham thank you. well they were held as the nation's bravest and finest the new allegations say it was all a scam over one hundred public workers including new york city police officers and firefighters are accused of faking depression and anxiety after responding to the september eleventh attacks prosecutors say they were coached to tell military doctors that they were permanently scarred from the tragedy but recorded phone calls and photographs found on their facebook pages paints a much different picture take a look you can see the former members of law enforcement living it up jet skiing golfing taking joy rides on motorcycles shooting seven hoops and mo

one of the most celebrated investigative journalist of our time bob woodward of the washington post he's a reporter on every president since nixon and he's the author or co-author of a dozen number one best selling nonfiction book. considering what he's covered over the years it's appropriate that he joins me at the historic a adams otel overlooking the white house all next politicking. it's always great to go back to washington especially on a lovely day like today and especially to be with an old friend like bob woodward the pulitzer prize winning journalist work for the washington post since one thousand nine hundred seventy one currently is a.

woodward where he talks with larry about the effects of nine eleven on d.c. politics the edward snowden leaks and much more here's a snippet of what's to come. dick cheney told us that he thinks that was snowden did. was treason once an enemy of the united states to reveal that when you think you know i wish he'd come to me instead of others particularly the guardian and i would have said to him let's not reveal who you are let's make you a protected source and give me time with his dad and let's sort it out and present it in a coherent way i think people are confused about whether it's illegal whether it's banned whether it's bad policy. so what he did in it it's pretty clear he's held some things back and he is said he didn't want to do anything that he deemed harmful now you know clearly broke the law like daniel ellsberg and the pentagon papers broke the law and. we're going to see i wouldn't i certainly wouldn't call him a hero ellsberg is now generally in the heroic and disney years because what the pentagon papers showed is massive deception and concea

best way to proceed forward in the war on terror because the job on the eve of the obama war spy but bob woodward that the administration is simply conducted its foreign policy based on domestic appeal within united states and has never been about successfully accomplishing a task or a meeting with military officials and making such work can call me and results up for it. basically for our generation. where then after leaving office there appreciate you coming on this headache is always that was until there is no clinical researcher at the university of birmingham. secure. they were held as the nation's greatest and financed the new allegation say it was all a scam. over a hundred workers including york city police officers and firefighters are accused of faking depression and anxiety after responding to the september eleventh attacks prosecutors say they were coached the military doctors that they were permanently scarred from the tragedy. a recorded phone calls and photographs found on their facebook pages into a much a different picture a lot. you can see the former members of law enf

according to bob woodward, that is actually something bob gates said to a friend while he was secretary of defense. quote, people have no how much i detest this job, end quote. in a new memoir about that job that he detested, gate s reveal that there was nothing he detested more than testifying to congress. all too often during my 4 1/2 years as secretary of defense when i found myself sitting yet again at that witness table at yet another congressional hearing i was tempted to stand up, slam the briefing book shut and quit on the spot. the exit lines were on the tip of my tongue. i may be the secretary of defense but i am also an american citizen and there is no son of a bitch in the world who can talk to me like that. i quit, find somebody else. much of my frustration came from the exceptional defense i took at the consistently adversarial, even inquisition-like temperament of executive branch officials by too many members of congress across the political spectrum, creating a kangaroo court environment in hearings, especially when television cameras were present. having served in that

woodward waxed a bit high per bollic, and said in his mind this -- hyperbolic, while the new york times a former colleague of mine, at the chicago tribune tom shanker really accentuated the positive by bob gates as a rigorous thinker, a guy willing to buck his top aides being decisive, and the key focus, afghan policy ultimates reply was right in he every single key move he made according to gates. >> we'll have to see what points he made when we are able to read the book. jim papa, you were at the white house, you had to deal with staj to deal with bomb shells like this. when was the thinking at the warehouse overnight as this whole thing broke? >> well as you -- white house overnight as this whole thing broke? >> they received the book after the excerpts were in the paper. one person was assigned to read it. they were in fact-gathering mode right now. once they have the facts and can lay out the arguments and the point of view that secretary gates puts into the book they can move to contextualize that. as well as points of view of other people who are in that meeting and lastly, or in

a lot has been done for politics, not by everybody, but both sides do it. >> one of the things bob woodward writes in his report today in the washington post is gates' severe criticism is surprising because at the end of the duty, i believe obama was right in each of these decisions. again, not completely damning for the president. >> one last point, what gates said about congress was exactly right. he called them a bunch of n nincompo nincompoops, none had substance, very few had substance. i was glad to see somebody finally take these guys on, who think they're keen kings and q of the world, who take their own politics and push them through and come out with something they think will help them. >> it certainly was not a pl flattering picture of dwrescong. >> president obama was not put on the planet to rally troops. he was put on the planet to rally activists, and we elected him. kwl and here we are, coming up to the end of an fantastic a-block, and next we'll talk to the rolling stones columnist who defends his role. >> and bob costas takes on a new sport at the olympic games, slopestyle

woodward. follow the money and what the insurers do. you have one big health care company. put out an advisory, make it clear. they were nervous of what the economics need. that stuff is important. unless they get enough healthy young people in the pools, they'll have to jack up the rates they are charging. i would say follow the money. until now the insurers have been in bed, very, very supportive of them. if one starts seeing - come mid march, if one sees fissures in the dam we'll have real problems with this. still we'll be left with what i found again in going to see a doctor, the, you know, craziness of our privatized - privately dominated health care system, where you go to one hospital and spend $10,000 for the same surgery you can get in another part of town. for now the insurers are supportive. the figures will make them nervous. conventional wisdom. the young are slow to do this sort of thing. they'll come aboard. a higher percentage, 18 to 34s had better come forward or the economics

loyal to bob woodward getting their story out there. the bob barnett going to get the book. or bob schieffer want to be on a show like this. it's not on the side of the loyalists but on the side of frankly bob gates. i'm not criticizing what he did, but it did seem to me a move to advance his profile at the expense of the loyalty and sanctity of the policy process which he served. >> schieffer: really does underline both that in washington, the president, i don't care who he is or what the ground rules are, there is nothing that in the end is off the record. people talk to the president in confidence then suddenly it shows up in a book. >> absolutely. no such thing as off the record, all journalists know that. >> the other thing lost in the gates' book that he was hard on president obama in some ways, he was harder on other people. on vice president biden obviously, very hard on congress, almost top to bottom, hard on the white house staff. the president almost gets a pass from bob gates on some of these things because in the end bob gates says i agreed with the decisions th

woodward's portrayal of that in my paper and i think that set the tone for a lot of the coverage. he may be a little more on the one hand nuanced than he's being portrayed. >> that may be true but the idea of putting out in excerpts the juicier stuff, the revealing anecdotes to make somebody look bad is an old game. >> i find it gets boring. you read the actual book and all the juicy stuff is already out there and you just have the"b" matter. pr people choose what to do and how they sell it. i'm done with it. >> you don't want to read the book? >> no, i've heard it all. >> i always saw gates as a guy because he worked for republican and democrat presidents he was above politics. he's hardly the first one to write such a book. >> no, george stephanopolous, paul mcclellan. howie, my question is does it affect the long-term reputation of the person who is being written about and i say no. >> stephanopolous going back to the clinton years, writes in the wake of monica lewinsky and the impeachment drama bill clinton was not fit to be president. he was self-destructive >> who remembers

woodward. follow the money and what the insurers do. you had humana advising risks pool concerns. unless they have enough young healthy people, they are going to jack up rates. follow the money. up until now, the insurers have been in bed with the obama administration, very, very supportive. if one starts seeing, you know, come mid march, certainly the end of the march when the sign up period ends, if one sees some fissures in the dam, there are real problems with this and we are still going to be left with when i found today going to see a doctor, the craziness of our privatized privately dominated health care system where you can go to one hospital in one end of the town and spend 10,000 more or less for the same surgery you can get in another part of town. but for now, the insurers are supportive, but these figures are going to make them very, very nervous. conventional wisdom from the obama administration, the young of slow to do this sort of thing, they're going to come aboard. a higher pe

woodward this morning saying everybody should investigate all of these things. what have you people been doing? the republicans play like they're in little league. >> can we talk about the defense of -- governor christie said i didn't know. you hear karl rove and others saying he didn't know. when the president does that, nobody even questions him. he didn't know. he didn't know about the irs scandal. he didn't know. >> the contrast is this. the fury with which the democrats are going after chris christie in four days, like that, they have committees going, subpoenas flying all over the place. we're nine months into the irs scandal. we're a year and a half since benghazi. we have 179 republican congressmen saying please, speaker boehner, have a select committee to get to the bottom of it, and by the way, it might hurt hillary, and they don't do a thing. >> the democrats play for keeps. the republicans play bean bag. >> they play bean bag and this is the best example. also, they have the press mainstream media playing it with them. >> i was going to bring up the

bob woodward of the "washington post." gop master mind karl rove. fox news political analyst juan williams. let's start off with chris christie. because this is a huge political story. a lot of people say, george, that he did himself a good service on thursday when he came out and forthrightly addressed this. let's start by chris christie denying any connection to what happened with the george washington bridge. >> i had no knowledge or involvement in this issue. in its planning or its execution. and i am stunned by the abject stupidity that was shown here. >> chris christie, of course, the republican front-runner at this point for 2016. has this damaged his chances? >> i don't think so. assuming what he just said is true, and i'm prepared to assume that, it's still too soon to say. the american people are convinced not without reason that the political class is largely composed of synthetic figures cobbled together from focus groups and polling and all the rest. so what they're looking for first is authenticity. but then they have to decide that th

. >> bob woodward writes a review of the book in the "wall street journal," robert gates in "the washington post." robert gates writes his own review of his own book to give a synopsis in the "wall street journal." i would say the president of the united states, he seems to characterize somebody he is relatively ambivalent about. his leadership is lacking in many areas but has no trust in our military officers. in the men and women who fight? perhaps. in the strategy he endorses publicly? no way. here's something i thought is going to haunt secretary of state hillary clinton. when she was senator hillary clinton, she was pressing david petraeus. as you may recall, senator hillary clinton was not for the surge publicly. she says it would not work. here is her questioning and condescending comments to david petraeus as he talked about the positive changes in iraq in 2007 as the surge is beginning to take root. listen. >> i think that the report that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief. >> really? meanwhile on the surface, it seemed that the senator was -- the

bob woodward writes in advance. he also makes the serious accusation in the book that obama was skeptical, if not outright convinced, that the course in afghanistan would fail. certainly some big bombs being dropped on the president in this book. we are just a few minutes away from the opening bell, though. top trades that you don't want to miss, keep it here on "in the loop." ♪ >> welcome back here "in the loop. oh i am betty liu. bloomberg television is on the markets. mixed up here, alex? >> kind of mixed, kind of looks like a snoozer. despite the private sector at 230 8000 jobs. scott, over at t-3 live, says the markets are just working off the excess from 2014. he is looking forward to more from the s&p, any kind of upside data is what they are watching for now, but steady as she goes right now. >> steady as she goes. thank you, alex. the only trades you need to know about today, alex's with me. dallas -- alix steel is with me. apple, the tech giant said that they will open the 10th store in china this week.

bob woodward will write about it in three or four years and that will be the story. there's got to be a way to break this deadlock. he talks, they talk. nobody gives answers and we basically highlight the questions. >> we don't know who is going to be held criminally liable, if anybody is, the i.r.s. if you've got a question for the i.r.s., the national taxpayer advocate, a watchdog group, came out yesterday and said a lot of people called them, 20 million calls went unanswered. and this year we have 400 walk-in centers across the country. what they're going to do is they're only going to answer basic questions at walk-in sites during filing season and after the month of april they're not going to answer any questions for anybody at the walk-in centers even if you wound up with an extension. >> even if you're on hold for 18 minutes, the average wait time. we're not going to wait longer to say hello to heather nauert. good morning. >> a lot of people have questions for the governor of the state of georgia. we're talking about the fallout from the weather. georgia offi

bob woodward, karl rove and juan williams and how the white house is falling all over itself to beat back accusations from a defense secretary that president obama at one time called one of the best defense secretaries that this nation has ever seen. and what about the lengths they're going to to defends vice president joe biden? i covered the white house for seven years and i never remember being invited in to a luncheon for a photo op with bill clinton to say hey, al gore and i, we're okay. or with president bush to dick cheney saying look at us, we're doing well. the white house has got a lot of spin here and it's looking like there is not much transparency. there is a lot of transparency rather, in its attempts to try to set the record straight from the white house. >> you have a lot to talk about. we'll watch you on sunday. >> thanks, brian. >> check your local listings for show times. >>> now heather, you have some headlines. >> i have a lot of news this morning. an accused member of al-qaeda once identified as too dangerous to be freed from gitmo will soon head home to yemen.

. >> i read the bob woodward extortion. then at the end of the book he said by the way, i think every decision president obama has made have been the right one. >> and he breaks the news that their opinions about the surge had to do -- they both admitted it was due to political -- she said she took that position because she was up against obama in iowa. none of this should surprise anyone about, you know, what goes on in washington. >> and the truth is, some of the stuff he started talking about where he said he was ready to quit when he was being flogged by congressmen, he said it was like going up against the inquisition and fighting a war there, too. when you watch the haefrearingsu understand that. >> wore when you watch senator homewood. oh, you're out of homeland, now back in. but he's a classic politician, isn't he? he's going to be in charge of the cia. is he supposed to be a republican or democrat? >> i don't know. i don't know. but the show is so lost to me, i don't -- >> killed some guy with a bobble. that was ki

we have george will, bob woodward, i was just talking to him. he popped in a while ago. he wrote the first book, the first big article on the gates book, carl rove will be with us. as we talk about the rise of al qaeda in iraq with senator ben carden. so a great show coming up this morning. and that's on the fox broadcast network this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. eastern with the fox news channel. >> check your local listings for the show in your area. john roberts, great to see you this morning. >> great to see you, too, thanks. >>> this high school smashes the backboard of his first dunk. >>> and he was the only man to make it out alive from a mission in afghanistan. now his remarkable story playing out on the real screen. the real life "lone survivor" marcus luttrell is joining us here. truck is still missing. so my dog and i we're going to go find it. it's out there somewhere spreading the good word about idaho potatoes and raising money for meals on wheels. but we'd really like our truck back, so if you see it, let us know, would you? thanks. what? ♪ ♪ so you canet ou