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It's all about him. >> reporter: appearing on nbc's "today" show, wolff defended his portrayal of a deeply dysfunctional west wing. >> my window into donald trump is pretty significant, but even more to the point, i spent this -- i spent -- and this was really sort of the point of the book, i spoke to people who spoke to the president on a daily sometimes minute by minute basis. >> reporter: secretary of state rex tillerson told cnn's elise labbot he did not agree with those who questioned the president's ability to serve. >> i've never questioned his mental fitness. i have no reason to questi...

Minute-by-minute basis. so this book was really -- i mean, in a sense there was one question on my mind when i began this book -- what is it like to work with donald trump? how can you work with donald trump? and what is the -- how do you feel having worked with donald trump? >> and i want to get to the substance, what you've written in the book in a moment. but to clear this up, the president is saying it's full of lies, that you didn't have the access you said you had. >> i think one of the things we have to count son that donald trump will attack, he will send lawyer letters, this is a 35-y...

Points anonymously to other sources, michael wolff is not the first reporter to get this kind of a story out of the white house. it just goes to show you how little donald trump actually seeks genuine input. how difficult it is to actually work with him as -- on a collegial basis because if you've got a boss that's listening to you, that's absorbing, that you believe in, that you fight for, that has a similar philosophy, you don't go and do all this. >> you don't trash him. >> you don't talk to reporters that way. >> jackie, initially people quoted in the baook said i neve said that, and then ...

The president, senior advisers, family members, every single one of them, questions his intelligence and fitness for office. >> let me put a marker in the sand here. 100% of the people around him. >> jared kushner, his son-in-law, ivanka trump question his fitness for office? >> every time i -- and i want careful about who i spoke to because the nature of this kind of book is you kind of grant everyone a veil. but having said that, certainly jared and ivanka in their current situation -- which is a deep legal quagmire -- are putting everything on the president. not us, it's him. >> what are so...