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Things we think the country needs to do, and they're all very interrelated, but you're pointing to the first and most important one, andrea, and that is public awareness. there are two things that happen when public awareness rises of this epidemic. first of all, we can start getting rid of the stigma associated with addiction. it is a disease, not a moral failing, and i think americans are beginning to realize that, so we have to treat it like that. another thing, if public awareness raises, then we can put pressure on the political system to provide the resources that are necessary to fund t...

>> nbc national correspondent peter alexander is at the white house. peter, the continuing reaction, the tweets from the president today, fury inside the white house, attempts to try to block the book with legal threats, if not going to court. so all that did was have the publisher publish four days early and it's already jumping off the shelves. we got our copy first thing. what more reaction is there from the white house today? >> reporter: andrea, the point you make, i think, is striking. that's why we understand from the conversations i've had privately here was there is a lot of push towa...

Back fiercely today. you hear the president calling this going after the author, one of his aides calling it a crackpot fictional writing, sarah huckabee sanders trying to downplay access michael wolff had to the president. wolff said earlier today it was three hours in total, including the campaign. sarah huckabee sanders saying there was one short phone call and it wasn't an interview in any way. the white house has said these are misrepresentations of information, that this is just all to sell books, and the bottom line, they insist, is it's gossip tabloid fodder. andrea? >> at the same tim...

Schmidt reports that an aide to the attorney general was up on the hill before the firing asking congressional staffers to dig up dirt and get it to press about the fbi director. if that was something the attorney general was doing as part of the conspiracy to obstruct justice, if that was an overt act he took to further that conspiracy, the attorney general himself could now be a subject of that investigation. that is a very difficult place for the chief law enforcement officer of the united states to be. >> and jeremy, we also learned that reince priebus was taking notes. first of all, one o...