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Inside Look Into the Obama White House

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    “The Amateur” author Edward Klein gives a behind the scenes the Obama Administration.

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An explosive new book pulling back the curtain on the way Obama White House spending a picture of amateurish leadership.

Joining me now former New York Times magazine editor in chief Edward Klein his new book is.

The amateur Barack Obama.

In the white outfits on Amazon stopped and best sellers list great to have you here that you hear all man have you been raised in -- and but let's start with first that -- Bill Clinton deciding that he wanted his wife to him to run against President Obama I mean that's -- -- -- -- -- August 2011.

-- his private office in Chappaqua.

And typical bill he didn't do it just secretly with Hillary get a whole bunch of people in there friends.

As you know hangers on people coming in and out -- and he's carrying on telling Hillary you've got to challenge Barack Obama.

For the presidential nomination.

Even though the sitting president because I've done a secret poll and I know you can win.

And she sets -- What about loyalty he says there's no such thing as loyalty in the vocabulary -- Or perhaps President Bill -- orca killer.

And it is we look at also -- the idea that there are some and so many of his.

The president's.

Cronies around him and the role that they play.

One of the things that I that I.

Amongst many and I'm -- -- that you know.

Obama warned about selector yet they pretzel.

And the White House its reach.

Through the Department of Energy which was spending the loan guarantees.

And you write that that's because crony capitalists connections -- go back to the epicenter of at all that is Chicago that's right.

Here we have Valerie Jarrett in the center of the White House.

The what they call ground zero in the White House people call her because she is the best friend of the president best friend that the the Euro First Lady on the chance connections back in Chicago that go back.

Years and years and years including with the Kaiser Foundation.

That owns 37 point 9% of Solyndra.

Charles Kaiser the the billionaire -- In Solyndra and when she was chairman.

Of the board of the University of Chicago medical center.

Kaiser donated hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Now her her friend.

Eric Whitaker is -- vice chairman of that very hospital.

And he's just gotten what six million dollars from the United States government.

And the connections -- -- the White House and sisters so the president's -- sort of work.

The connections are so complete in the circle around.

The president that's overwhelming.

Very quickly we're out of time.

The allegations that.

And president met reverend Jeremiah Wright then and he acknowledged that he had been approached by a friend of the president.

Offering a 150000.

Dollar bribe due to stay out of -- -- -- -- I tape recorded three hours with the Reverend Wright I have -- And in those tapes he says that.

The president's closest friend Eric Whitacre who -- just said is the vice president of the University of Chicago medical -- sentiment.

150000.

Dollars if they stay silent.

During the 2008 campaign.

Now it strikes me as pretty hard to believe that Eric Whitaker we do that on the -- Well it's a great read in the book is the amateur.

Barack Obama in the White House they -- is Ed Klein had great to have you with us all the best to -- -- -- -- much.