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Author michael wolff is back with "siege," a new book depicting a chaotic trump white house after releasing "fire and fury" last year. his newest tell-all is hitting the shelves this tuesday but the media and critics already widely panning it. a review in "the washington post" is slamming wolff for overrelying on a single character, factual errors that mar the author's credibility. my next guest warns that wolff's anonymous sources raises questions about the book's essential lack of verifiability. joining me is ron elving, npr's senior washington editor and correspondent. ron, you wrote that i...

Donald trump's isolationist vision. >> ian, while you also cite that letter says it shows an essential lack of respect by mattis for the president, you don't see this as a larger crisis on par with say bannon's departure. explain that. >>le wit well a couple points. the most important relationship the u.s. has with china, mattis has been a big player in that regard. it's been driven by secretary of state pompeo, much more effective than rexrillerson was. something worth reminding people. >> eennia, i've been speaking to folks on the ground in places like syria and afghanistan serving members o...

Gave an antic speech. i should say this, i'm a little antic myself. but he gave, i thought, a little bit of an antic speech. and it didn't, you know, again, it had this sort of essential lack of soul. i think chris matthews said that he seemed like he was pedaling merchandise. melissa, what was your impression of the contrast? >> yeah, i would agree. santorum had his opportunity right in that moment. and he took it. here's my sort of immigrant story. here's my hard working story. here's my family. here's my understanding of the human condition based on the experience of my children. you know, ...

And it didn't, you know, again, it had this sort of essential lack of soul. i think chris matthews said that he seemed like he was pedaling merchandise. melissa, what was your impression of the contrast? >> yeah, i would agree. santorum had his opportunity right in that moment. and he took it. here's my sort of immigrant story. here's my hard working story. here's my family. here's my understanding of the human condition based on the experience of my children. you know, he really rkts , for that moment, said a lot. now, he said a lot in that moment. so the fact is it now becomes part of the re...

And then romney came down and gave an antic speech. i should say this, i'm a little antic myself. but he gave, i thought, a little bit of an antic speech. and it didn't, you know, again, it had this sort of essential lack of soul. i think chris matthews said that he seemed like he was pedaling merchandise. melissa, what was your impression of the contrast? >> yeah, i would agree. santorum had his opportunity right in that moment. and he took it. here's my sort of immigrant story. here's my hard working story. here's my family. here's my understanding of the human condition based on the experie...