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“The Amateur” author Ed Klein on former President Bill Clinton hitting the campaign trail for Obama.
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Super storm Sandy's.
Devastating the East Coast New -- the hardest hit.
Storm ripping through the state seaside resort towns causing massive flooding billions of dollars in damages throughout the region.
Including the nation's largest city New York.
President Obama I will be touring the damage in New Jersey tomorrow he will be -- governor Chris Christie the president canceling his campaign events through tomorrow.
That certainly hasn't stopped President Clinton however from well playing the the role of sort of hitting the campaign trail.
I as effectively the campaigner in chief.
Stumping in Minnesota today for the president for more on hurricanes and his impact on the selection in the politics of it all and more.
We're joined by a clock author of the New York Times best seller of the amateur -- all about the Obama administration.
They're good to see you let let's start with -- that sound that we just.
Shared with our audience.
Bill Clinton.
Not really performing up to Bill Clinton standards he he was mocking governor Romney.
Talking about while I don't know you know about other folks -- -- Arkansas.
We would -- black President Obama to have had the power to turn back the -- -- break it I mean it didn't make a lick of sense.
Now there was Obama himself.
Who said ongoing you know rehab.
In this campaign that.
We've turned the tide back we've -- the planet we brought everybody together it was he who made -- -- these outrageous comments.
As a candidate siren call and and Romney mocked him in the Republican National Convention -- -- there was nothing.
Current about what it was being quoted as saying by President Clinton.
There's -- contemporaneous even it was a silly silly remark if we can make any sense that if we're talking about sarcasm.
Who has been the most sarcastic in this whole campaign spend Barack Obama.
I think he's taken a a lesson from the shell his wife and he super sarcastic about everything that Romney does but well let me just say.
Ridiculing the president what Boeing gets that figure of ridicule led -- -- -- to ridicule this president to.
Second guess this president actually asked -- question.
There's no one in the national media.
The liberal national media asking questions and there and it was astonished this past Sunday -- only four out of five shows Chris Wallace.
-- are standing tall as always.
But that idea that they would push back instead of bringing up -- Ghazi.
They pushed it away when it was brought up by their Republican guest.
The mainstream media has not.
Spent a -- hardly a word.
On -- -- it has spent no words at all on the fact that we have a former president of the United States.
For the first time in our history how they're campaigning as a partisan.
Pro Democrat.
Spokesperson.
This -- never happened before we've never seen this -- And I I don't wanna say -- think about what -- is saying here.
What we're talking about folks is that the national liberal media is an even taking note of what is -- historic.
Departure from convention.
From tradition.
And and a sense of propriety such as in the exists still and -- -- presidential campaign thank you George W.
Bush were out campaigning.
For Mitt Romney -- that there would be all over the place in the what does this former president doing campaigning -- think about this think about what the difference in history is.
If Eisenhower is campaigning for next exam in 1960 and now and we've seen that our former presidents.
Maybe with the exception of Jimmy Carter who who -- -- while sticks that the needle into somebody's back but basically he even Carter.
Hasn't gone on the campaign trail in favor of one of his democratic candidate it a lot of lot of journalists are trying to catch -- -- climb.
Reporting on the of them massive nations of the Clinton the secretary.
-- state and her legal team trying to match your reporting.
Her role the president's the former president's role.
In taking responsibility.
For Ben Ghazi -- stepping back from a leaving her -- non heightened elevated if you will.
Memory at least -- them those who follow politics but taking effectively no responsibility the president.
Stepping forward -- -- what's going on here and the president was asked today -- believe.
About this being godly thing and he said as I said I -- outraged.
And you don't completely befuddled by why anybody would suggest for a moment that.
We handle this and have put partisan.
Political way well.
At the very least they handle it in an amateur realistic way they were cult totally incompetent.
On the big guys -- matter and perhaps also covered up as well I I wondered you know I personally.
I don't think there's an ending amateurish about this other than the fact it's an amateurish copper -- -- -- for these are questions that the president United States irrespective of any investigation going on -- by the FBI or any other agency or department.
Could answer himself that's -- who denied the security request for big dollars.
Who chose not to go in and save those Americans who died on September -- A car chargers to thanks.
