recently served another president. as he confided to one of his closest advisers, after a private display of uncertainty, i can't let the people see that. i don't want the staff to see that. i get up every morning, it's a heavy burden. nia henderson has read the book, gives her a strong position. richard wolffe is a journalist and an msnbc analyst who has written extensively on the president's economic team. let me ask you about the book. we have all these weird embargo rules about what we can say. whatever you can say, this book, does it ring true? >> well, in parts it does read true. i mean, some of the things that have come out, we've already sort of knew. i mean, whether it was about this whole idea of the white house as a boy's club, that is something that we've already extensively reported on, here at "the washington post," at "the new york times," there had been pretty lengthy stories about this. of course, now we have anita dunn pushing back specifically on something she supposedly said in the book, saying that the white house was a hostile environment to women, that it