commander-in-chief. what's your response to secretary pompeo? >> well, what he knows in fact or should know is my book went through a four-month-long pre publication review process precisely to make sure there was no classified information in the book. it was arduous at times i can tell you. the national security council senior director responsible for that review cleared the book, and inside the white house, because donald trump didn't want the book published before the election, he fired the senior director, a career employee of the national archives from her job and tried to get another review going. an interesting point here, and this is critical, before the justice department was ordered to bring the suit to stop publication of my book, they interviewed the senior director ellen knight for 18 hours over five days in the white house. they must have forgotten the thumb screws and the rubber