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Atmosphere that gets created. its extremely cut throat. every white house is probably tough but especially the atmosphere that's been created there that encourages a lot of the infighting. one of the things i tried to do in the book is get people inside of donald trump's head. sometimes you're just like, what are we doing? one of the points i make in the book is for him, everything is personal. everything is a personal relationship, so that manifests itself in foreign affairs, his personal relationship with the foreign leader is more important than geopolitics. everything for him is deeply per...

You have all this juicy detail in your piece about trump -- they were wrestling within the white house of how to respond. tell me -- tell me what some of the advisers were urging him to do or not do? >> they were telling him that they would take care of it, go run the world. don't worry about this guy who you barely remember and instead, president trump's tweet only makes cliff simms richer. more people will buy that book because of the president's tweet and so kind of backfiring with the president's reaction. >> so he's a go fer, according to the president, hardly knew him, referred to as jus...

If they were able to contain him and his urges, it might have helped and i think it will be fascinating to hear from chris christie tomorrow and talk about the conversation you guys just had with his insights because he really did see a lot and did sea lot. tomorrow morning we'll be joined by white house aide cliff simms. in the book simms writes that president trump relishes giving friends, acquaintances and strangers tours of the white house. this we know we had one ourselves making sure to point out the spot where -- oh, god, really? where all that monica lewinsky stuff happened simms the s...

Opening scene is kellyanne conway leaking, correct? >> it is. the opening anecdote is kellyanne conway leaking which has come back into the news. >> because cliff simms who worked in the white house, left and has a book coming out called "team of vipers" and dribs and drabs are being released. he goes after kellyanne conway calling her a leaker and depicts her as a cartoon villain in the white house. he says, she was a cartoon villain brought to life. her agenda which was her survival over all others including the president became more transparent. she was cloaked in an invisible fur coat, cas...

That have been part of the fabric of the trump white house. the former aide, his name is cliff simms wrote about it in a book that comes out next week called "team of vipers." simms writes about one particular day he was writing a statement on conway's laptop while she was texing on her phone. the two devices were connected and he writes for 20 minutes he could see the text conversations conway was having with at least a half-dozen reporters from all over the place she and president call fake news and she was trashing jared kushner, steve bannon, reince priebus. and talked about him like a chi...