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Central. gillian: right, is all of this hurting michael wolff or unintentionally helping his street cred? >> i think its helping him in terms of sale because its dominant in the national discussion. there was one bookstore in washington d.c. that opened at midnight a couple of nights ago. gillian: cramer books and the line sort of circled around the block. >> it would have been a big book had the president said nothing, but now its in the center of this huge storm, i think it sells more copies. ...

This. i applaud the president for bringing governor chris christie on. i think its one of the most important things he will do in his political life. >> hes been eloquent. >> he has. i see it as not just a public crisis, this is a national emergency. this is not just about losing people, its about the tragedy that goes along with their kids, its about what the white house itself has said is a $5.4 billion a year hit on our economy. a lot of this stuff is coming in from overseas, black tar heroin...

Needs done. >> speaking of getting done, lets talk about immigration. you have the president demanding there be a wall because of this, border security. you and others are spoken about a virtual wall instead of a brick and mortar wall in all cases. are there compromises for democrats to the president and to democrats? isnt there something that could be worked out? >> i absolutely think there is something that could be worked out. the last several months most of our meetings have been about daca ...

By the special counsel. one is theyre handwritten, second, theyre contemporaneous, and third, theyre kind of a statement against interest, in other words, a statement against reince priebus boss, the president, basically corroborating james comeys testimony. the president reached out to him and said, i want you to spread misinformation about the status of your investigation, which of course comey said he wouldnt do. back to matts point, i think what we learned from this new reporting is that fir...

To protect any money laundering allegations against his own real estate interests, to take it another point further. but in your own column, youre writing that no competent white house communications shop would have given such access to any journalist, let alone one known in new york media circles as a shark among sharks. day after day wolff feasted. >> he did. can you imagine any white house, a journalist, just sitting there in the lobby of the west wing? somebody would ask, what is he doing he...

Things we think the country needs to do, and theyre all very interrelated, but youre pointing to the first and most important one, andrea, and that is public awareness. there are two things that happen when public awareness rises of this epidemic. first of all, we can start getting rid of the stigma associated with addiction. it is a disease, not a moral failing, and i think americans are beginning to realize that, so we have to treat it like that. another thing, if public awareness raises, then...

>> nbc national correspondent peter alexander is at the white house. peter, the continuing reaction, the tweets from the president today, fury inside the white house, attempts to try to block the book with legal threats, if not going to court. so all that did was have the publisher publish four days early and its already jumping off the shelves. we got our copy first thing. what more reaction is there from the white house today? >> reporter: andrea, the point you make, i think, is striking. that...

Back fiercely today. you hear the president calling this going after the author, one of his aides calling it a crackpot fictional writing, sarah huckabee sanders trying to downplay access michael wolff had to the president. wolff said earlier today it was three hours in total, including the campaign. sarah huckabee sanders saying there was one short phone call and it wasnt an interview in any way. the white house has said these are misrepresentations of information, that this is just all to sell...

Schmidt reports that an aide to the attorney general was up on the hill before the firing asking congressional staffers to dig up dirt and get it to press about the fbi director. if that was something the attorney general was doing as part of the conspiracy to obstruct justice, if that was an overt act he took to further that conspiracy, the attorney general himself could now be a subject of that investigation. that is a very difficult place for the chief law enforcement officer of the united st...