>> reporter: it's a bit tense, brian. i can tell you there's really a full court press to try to push back against bob woodward's book. press secretary sanders out shortly after that tweet went out that you mentioned and she was digging in. we pressed her on this point, that stephanie makes, that this book is not an anomaly and echos and builds on the reporting our team has done here and nbc on other books that we have seen throughout the past year and a half, the fact that particularly in the early days there was chaos and dysfunction throughout this white house, that the president has at times been paralyzed by the russia investigation. take a listen to what sarah sanders had to say. >> these are the same rehashed, retold stories, certainly, just because they keep getting told doesn't make them more true. i think that's a ridiculous accusation and just because the same people write the same type of books you have a bunch of elites and left-leaning individuals who have a narrative