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And a third of them have never heard of this guy. phil, are we giving too much attention to him? >> i think so. look, he's a very prominent figure, he has a lot of bold ideas, he wants to be a key player on the political scene, but at the end of the day, he's just a strategist, an operative, and right now he looks to be an operative without the funding and infrastructure he once had, and so he's a little bit less of a threat to the establishment republicans today than he was last week, but i don't think he's going disappear quietly. i think he's going very much be a force in the months to come...

We might be able to do something here and they saw him over that time come to the conclusion he cannot do this job. >> pretty explosive charge there, phil. >> that's right. you know, it's an explosive charge there. if you read the book, it looks like that's a charge leveled by a number of other people in and around trump and the white house. there are a number of aides, many of them described anonym s anonymously in the book who take issue and have concerns about the president's ability to conduct his business, about whether he's even reading the briefing materials presented to him, whether he...

So it will be up to the author to bring out the evidence, bring out the recordings, bring out the issues so that he can regain his credibility as this book goes to market. >> so just to be clear, congressman, so your concerns are not about the president's mental or cognitive fitness for office? i just want to put a fine point on this. >> yeah, you know, hallie, all i can tell you is from my experience. look, during the first year, there were a lot of personnel in the white house leading a lot of different parts of the white house. some of them were friends of mine before we got to the white ho...

Rattling the west wing, author michael wolf on the "today" show. what he's saying in face of the threats from the president. the book as of 61 minutes ago on sale coast to coast. days earlier than expected. >> my credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has walked on earth at this point. >> reporte >> with us now to kick off the show, michael schmidt, nbc's kristen welker is standing by at the white house, also onset here, former deputy assistant attorney general, robert driscoll, and our panel for the next 60 minutes, white house reporter for b...

Trust. do you think based on what you're seeing from this book that people inside donald trump's west wing have respect, regard and trust for this president? >> certainly not in the way michael wolf writes about it. that is going to be the question of how credible the sources are. and savannah guthrie pressed him on his recordings and so forth. i think shannon's got it right about how you conduct an interview in the white house. but in our case. and just talking to other people close to president bush and president obama, there's a respect in align wmt the president and what he's trying to do,...