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Policy and the agenda ahead, he was asked about why he felt the need to tweet about the book and the subject matter while at this important confab with the top lawmakers as well as members of his administration and cabinet. here's how the president responded when asked that question. why tweet today? >> this morning you were tweeting about your mental state. why did you feel the need to tweet about that this morning? >> only because i went to the best colleges -- or college. i went to -- i had a situation where i was a very excellent student, came out and made billions and billions of dollars,...

Of any white house interview with the author of the explosive new book "fire and fury." what did you make of all of it? >> reporter: he was certainly trying to discredit the credibility of the author and undercut many of the headline-grabbing assertions made in the book "fire and fury" where author michael wolff talks to a number of insiders, as he describes it, who paint a picture of a white house that has been not only chaotic but where people around the president have described him as child-like in his desire for instant gratification when it comes to any sort of policy or action or power o...

My real concern is that we now have, as my colleague just said, a stable genius who is probably closer than anyone since the invention of the nuclear weapons to an impulse launch. that's what i'm most concerned about. >> understandably so. james, you have the president who also took shots at michael wolff, of course the author of "fire and fury" and he says he doesn't know me, he never interviewed me and pointed out that michael wolff's credibility has been called into question by many out there. though previously he said he'd spoken to him at least and there is on the record a phone call that...

Book, which certainly hit the newsstands and the bookstores and online with a particular fire and fury, to play on the book's title. so the president pushing back hard. also talking about some of the policy and political goals for the year ahead with the midterm races in just a matter of months now and those will be heated contests. he says more republicans are needed in congress at the same time. he said he wants to work with democrats on issues that range from infrastructure to immigration and that will be difficult certainly because there are not a lot of ways to attract democratic support ...