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Newsweek columnist joe klein as its author which eventually led to this. >> my name is joe klein and i wrote "primary colors." i did it by myself with no help, no secret sources. >> david is with me, former white house chief speechwriter. david, welcome. nice to have you on. >> thank you for having me. >> so lets first start with, it was a source in the west wing saying that aides are following leads based upon the writing style in this anonymous opinion piece. so i want you to go back when you ...

That consumed washington for months during the clinton president. 1996, january, primary colors, a fictional political novel, was printed anonymously, but the characters were said to mirror and critique the clinton administration. when the book was adapted into a film, john travolta was cast as that president. >> so you know what im going to do? im fgoing to do something realy outrageous. im going to tell the truth. i know, i know what youre thinking. youre thinking he must really be desperate t...

>> thats right. we like a lot of alliterations. words starting with the same way. and what im thinking is that the person, either it was written for somebody by their speechwriter or written by someone who maybe didnt work full-time as a speechwriter, but someone who has written for other people before. >> you hit on noteworthy your point about unmoored. but the lodestar point, yes, everyone is jumping on this word, lodestar, a word not a lot of people were familiar with until this story was thr...