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>> even michael wolff and his authors note, does a nod to how difficult it is -- how slippery the truth is in a trump administration. does his best. there's an illuminating passage about them expecting to lose. once he lost, trump would be insanely famous and a martyr to crooked hillary. his daughter, ivanka, and son would be international celebrities. kellyanne conway would be a cable news star, and melania trump, who had been assured by her husband wouldn't become president, could return to inconspicuously lunching. losing would work out for everybody. winning was losing. >> and i think ther...

Cnn is hearing that some white house staffers are frustrated over this new ban prohibiting the use of personal cell phones within the west wing. the move comes days after details emerge from the bombshell book about the inner workers of the white house. we hear this has been in the works for six months. first appointed by obama later resigned after clashing with the trump administration. welcome back to you. and joining me kim zeter long time cyber security journalist that covered for wired and other publications. so, kim, i want to start with you. because does this have -- how unprecedented i...

White house. was no secret that he was writing this book and talking to senior advise rers not just bannon, all of them. mr. quoted in the excerpts, i expect they'll be quoted in the book as well. but they were cooperating with this book because they thought that wolf was going to offer a positive portrayal of trump in his presidency. and at the time he began hanging out with the trump people, it was during the transition. they all thought he was there to document this great victory and enscribe their place in history. instead, he had his note book open and apparently listened while a lot of t...

>> going back to what jim was talking about, the idea that these guys, i think what with you were saying that these guys did not expect trump to win. >> no. >> and that includes people inside the campaign. >> right. >> i think that say theme that we keep coming back to as we've been covering this story now for the past year, which is that it drove a lot of the decisions which is coming back to bite them. >> they did not -- for instance, they talk about michael flynn accepting this $45,000 payment for going to russia. on the expectation that trump wouldn't win therefore it would be a problem if...

Credit for it has always been something that enrages trump. in the trump myth, he was on time magazine cover, he got angry at bannon, he doesn't want a co-star. bannon used that line with me, trump doesn't want a co-star, he wants all the credit for himself. the fact that a book like wolf's is coming out and insulting him and suggesting that he's an idiot and that he's stupid and that other people get the credit for his presidential victory is exactly the sort of thing that's going to lead to a statement -- >> there's a pattern too. >> there's a pattern here. it's not just about the credit. he...