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>> joining me now is michael wolff, the author of "fire and fury: inside the trump white house." what a book. >> what can i say. >> lets start the president and his lawyers have responded with this book, and theyre saying that theyre questioning its authenticity. theyre calling it fake. theyre saying its gossip. is it gossip? is it journalism? what it is, michael. >> its what i saw and what i heard, in front of my face and any ears. what is that? i mean, you know, my goal in this book, when i wa...

Difficult relationship with the truth where you dont have scenes that are conveyed to the reader but scenes that are made up. so this is -- its like the old fake but true from the left. heather: right. >> but you cant have that, this is a serious business and a bit of a panic, if you will, because of the presidents excellent first year and the fact that this year is going to be good as well. heather: right, amazing whats become of journalism when this book is admittedly gossip even by the author...

Context instead of seeing this as a book. a book is an entirely different thing. i am telling a story. i am pulling this together. i am trying to -- i am trying to put the reader right where i was on the couch in the west wing. >> the criticism of michaels book, though is that he doesnt get everything exactly right. thats what happens when you interview a thousand different people and everybody comes from their own version. there are things people said to you about us and our show, not accurate,...

>> lets not forget about brian ross. right after that report to the stock market went down 350 points. there are real-world repercussions when they lie and mislead. this is why i kind of like the michael wolff book. its nothing new, its what newspapers and so-called journalists have been doing at "the new york times," "the washington post" on page ten when he says some of this is not really true, but im good to let the reader decide and determine what it is that they like. >> sean: what a standa...

Unbelievably successful. when i endorsed him in december of 16, all these people in manhattan told me i was crazy, ahead no chance, the cake is baked in hillarys favor about that but you know, every weekend, hillary was in nantucket, was in marthas vineyard, was in the hamptons, was in hollywood with the richies. and trump was giving seven speeches in ohio, pennsylvania, michigan. and i saw him really connecting with the average person. so he is not an avid reader, but he is -- has the best poli...

Great review of that earlier, sean. right after that report, the stock market went down 350 points. there are real-world repercussions when they lie or mislead, and let me just say, this is why i liked the michael wolf book, its an example -- it is nothing new coming newspapers and jurors have been doing at "the washington post," "new york times," on page ten of the prologue in his book says, some of this is not really true, but i will let the reader decide and determine what it is that they lik...

>> lets not forget about brian ross. right after that report to the stock market went down 350 points. there are real-world repercussions when they lie and mislead. this is why i kind of like the michael wolff book. its nothing new, its what newspapers and so-called journalists have been doing at "the new york times," "the washington post" on page ten when he says some of this is not really true, but im good to let the reader decide and determine what it is that they like. >> sean: what a standa...

The call that he made over to sessions office was about the conference call, not about this issue of the recusal. let me read you a little bit of the response here. he said for eight months the narrative was that i was out of the loop and now im part of it? i dont think so. so spicer pushing back on the suggestion that he was part of an effort to get sessions to stay on top of this case, however, this story is clearly not going away. >> all right. abby phillip, so appreciate the reporting. thank...

>> it says the president doesnt read and doesnt like to read, brags about the fact he never bought a textbook in college. if you try to give him too much information, he says, no, no, dont ask like a professor. you can hate barack obama or love him but he is a constitutional scholar. george w. bush and bill clinton were vor ricious readers. >> the president is a best selling author and reads. people get information in a different way. the richard branson is a reader of people. >> he is dyslexic....

See, i got you there. you stepped in there with the looks. i didnt talk about his looks. i said hes unattractive intellectually. >> if hes unattractive intellectually. >> very much so. >> you said call people in there. ive called people inside the white house who said there are things in there who are not true but the spirit is true. thats number one. >> okay. what spirit about it is true? >> -- what does it -- >> -- in the book thats true -- >> what do you think about the fact -- >> hes dishone...