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Baretende, you've gotten up as a comedian in front of rooms, give us an idea of what may be going through michelle wolf's head. >> i don't know michelle well enough to know, probably some great jokes that she and her team have come up with. she's very much a professional. i'm sure she's probably not that queasy. this is a weird audience, though. an audience of political people, of media people. 3,000's a pretty big crowd. it's in a hotel, that's an awkward venue. so i any whatever the expectations i've heard from the people who have done it in the past, it's not like anything else. >> stand by...

White house correspondent mark noeler, bush made 77 trips to his crawford ranch over the course of his eight years in office. bush, like many other presidents, argued getting out of the white house bubble was a good thing. >> life is a series of contrasts, and i like it here a lot. i really do. and i'm in my element here. we really like it. but i also like, you know -- i wouldn't have run for president if i didn't like the challenge. >> reporter: president obama faced similar criticism as he embarked on annual trips to martha's vineyard or hawaii. >> now i'm going to go on vacation. mahalo. >>...

Up and that skip gates knee jerk reaction, that was a threat throughout his presidency. >> cbs' mark noeler said obama gave a thousand interviews over the eight years. so he was visible everywhere, using social media yet a lot of reporters didn't feel like they understood him. >> i would need two hands to count the times in which i had an opportunity with other reporters to sit down with the president off the record or informally to talk to him. i think those who cover the white house on a regular basis got a pretty good idea of what made that mind tick and that's what worries me about going f...

Man kbrivened for spying. last year, you may remember, the irs came under fire for gilligan's island and star trek themed videos which reportedly cost taxpayers $60,000. today, the president sat down with cbs news major garrett. according to a running list by mark noeler, president obama has 28 interviews with cbs, 12 with cnn, 27 with nbc, and 32 with abc, while fox has had only 8. but not for a lack of

Mark noeler is talking about are meticulous records he keeps on almost everything the president does. think we're exaggerating. >> i keep logs on number of speeches. did he use a teleprompter. how long did the speech run, where did egg, how many times has he been there before? the number of flights on air force one. number of flights on marine one. >> we squeezed into noeler's cramped booth in the press room where he showed us his file on each of the 114 rounds of golf president obama has played. >> i keep a log, what date did he play. how long did he play it. who was in the foursome. what tim...