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Of his past books, he did a book on rupp ert measuert murdoch, a expose and false, so much of it was false, i consider it a work of fiction, i think it is a disgrace that somebody is able to have something, do something like that, the libel laws are weak in this country. >> the president calls it fake news when he doesnt like it, we follow the ethics of journalism. the president noted, though, the author michael wolff is no stranger to notoriety, part of that is due to his unconventional style. ...

He got fired and begged for his job. >> this were learning after wolffs explosive tell all book claimed that people around president trump questioned his fitness for office. plus, the president is huddling with top gop leaders at camp david this weekend but its guest list does not include attorney general jeff sessions. its a glaring omission given that the calls for sessions to step down. >> so president trump as we said really digging into michael wolffs book. he says that the book is phony, t...

>> absolutely everything in the book. >> this is definitely a moment for michael wolff but its not his first rodeo. randi kaye tonight has more on that. >> this is the most extraordinary story of our time. >> reporter: once a copy boy for "the new york times," michael wolff is now medias favorite bad boy. at 64, wolff is immersed in a world of media and money, power and politics. >> he has always been very up front about the fact that thats who he wanted to be. he doesnt have an interest in bein...

Book. my credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point. ive written many books. ive written millions upon millions of words. i dont think there has ever been one correction. >> so you stand by everything in the book, nothing made up? >> absolutely. everything in the book. >> this is definitely a moment for michael wolff but its not his first rodeo. randi kaye tonight as more on that. >> this is the most extraordin...

>> its a tremendous successes as you probably have heard, ran for president one time and won and then i hear that this guy that does not know me, doesnt know me at all, by the way, didnt interview me for three -- said he interviewed me for three hours in the white house, it didnt exist. its in his imagination. >> and then trump went on to call the book a disgrace and called the author, wolff, a fraud. questions are now swirling about wolffs credibility. so who is michael wolff anyway? heres cnns...

And undermine the department of justice. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. is warning iran that the world is watching how it deals with anti-government protests. nikki haley discussed it on friday and said it was an abuse of power. "fire and fury" is extremely unflatering to the united states president. mr. trump has dismissed it as phony and full of lies, but the author of that book, michael wolff, stands by his every word. michael wolff is not a conventional journalist. many of his critics w...

Pay for it and that is apparently why mr. papadopoulos decided not to go. sarah sanders i think is being misleading at best here in trying to portray him as some low-level copy boy volunteer. he had more to do with the campaign than that. >> errol louis is up earlier with us. good morning to you. i want to read to you this "the new york times" piece that we are talking about. it seems significant. they say the hacking, meaning of democratic emails and a revelation of the trump campaign may have ...

Intense but more substantive. the focus on war and peace, not burns and retweets. our next guest was at the center of the shifting role in american politics and culture. he got his start as a copy boy and a supports reporter at the "new york times." he hustled his way into covering more serious stories seblding him to places like selma during the 1965 protest which he reported he saw to a national audience like marchers facing down the threat of violence. there were young blondes and hipsters wi...

About anti-semitism. his family is jewish. one of his senior aides is his son-in-law who is a jew. the prime minster of israel has known him for years and is pleased to be dealing with him. its those things that need context, contest all the time. thats in essence the complaint and i think that overtime, he could be to the press and media. this has been going on for 50 years in the television age. i think he could be nixon goes to china moment here and work with the press. the press should not b...

May make trump power. >> moved from new york to washington. i think its moving back to the financial -- not just because of trump and trump towers. looking at people across the spectrum in the cabinet who made their money on wall street or in finance in large part and so were looking at that power center shift back to new york. and to get the economy going, perhaps thats not a bad thing. >> now, lets talk a little bit about you and your distinguished career. a lot of people probably dont know th...