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Secrecy. >> he used to work there. watch how they handle him when he was there. >> there is a michael wolff here to see you. >> read michael wolff. thank you lucky stars, hes not writing about you today. >> this is off the record >> really good. >> do we know anything of past controversies. >> the idea of that about ten years ago. the owner of fox news and 20th century of fox. he wrote a flat ritering profilf murdoch. the book that came out about the murdoch empire was not very friendly. murdoch...

Top republicans putting on a united front at cam david today touting their 2017 win and looking ahead for the new year. >> we got a lot of work done. we are excited of the progress thats already been made and we are excited for what we have in store for us in 2018. >> mr. president, thanks for the opportunity for being here, we are excited to get ready to work. >> the bomb shell book, "fire and fury" is raising a lot of questions in the white house. joining us now, cnn commentator, republican st...

>>. >> it is very peculiar writing style. >> he will say this is what they would have said in the circumstances. it is a little bit of art that he sticks in there that makes it not quite a hard quote. >> so there are some questions about some in accuracies of this book. what more can you tell us? >> there are errors. the errors i found are small. when you see a tiny mistake or reading your local paper, it makes you wonder of the rest of the paper. thats the issue of wolff and the sloppiness. eve...

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The other things are and again, when you have somebody that was so close to the president, at least for a period of time go on the record that can lend a lot of credibility to a book like this. >> all right. i want to turn, shift gears here label the, caitlin, we have new reporting that the presidents going to the into the office later in the morning than he has previously now around 11:00 a.m. the white house put out a statement explaining this way. he always has calls with staff, hill members,...

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Paul ryan in that group, whats going through your mind as you stand behind the president at that press conference? >> obviously hes distracted and their efforts to get on the same page as far as the legislative agenda that the media was called to hash out, the efforts are being diverted. the fact that hes repeating the charge that is made by sources who talked to michael wolff, the author of this book in the book and repeating other charges to deny them is drawing attention to them in a way that...

The book, and if i didnt know better, i would think that president trump and mr. wolff were colluding together to increase sales of the book. and thats -- thats a very wise media strategy, but the president trump continues to give a spotlight on the book in his attempt to discredit some of the more salacious items in there and some of the more troubling items in there, and the interesting thing is i think that if the president just left it alone and let his allies do the work of undermining, the...

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Just given his position at breitbart. so that he let this fester out raises the question of why now. why what is he apologizing for? what is he regretting and trying to do here? it is important that this comes against the backdrop of the mercer family severing ties or saying they were severing ties with him. breitbart perhaps facing some pushback on this, and a lot of folks kind of wedged in between support for trump and support for bannon. >> sarah, normally the news cycle for this presidency m...