in past administrations for various different reasons. but it's not the actual act of it being taken away. it's the reason behind the decision to decide to take it away. and that is concern that the president has taken the country off the rails, whether it be economically with trade policy or whether that be potentially going to war with north korea. so as you note in there, he doesn't necessarily say it didn't happen. he just tries to go into the jargon of bob woodward doesn't quite explain it how it happens. >> bob woodward knows how this works. >> of course. >> come on. this guy is a staff secretary. he is responsible for putting in the folders exactly what the president sees, takes home at night, reads. et cetera, et cetera. so it's not as if bob woodward has never covered a presidential administration. it's the act of deciding what the president reads that can be substantive. >> yeah. >> and in this particular case, bob woodward makes the case, from his sources, that it was