don imus had this same appeal and the same slot and mike allen and again is the convenience of the morning sell-off in. today's media environment allows for that to be electronic were before maybe it was the power breakfast at the madison hotel. >> started the book with tim russert its funeral. could you talk about that? >> tim russert was very well loved and very effective and a newsman and died in june june 2008 i remember walking into the kennedy center where he had a state like year-old clintons, obama is, and the king, bushes, all mafia families paying respects. >> the book was not even a glimmer in your eye? >> was taking notes on the program that is tacky but people were scalping tickets. it was like a social event of the spring. i thought this is a funeral that i sought a producer for countdown literally read of to have recanted and said senator trying to broker at the funeral and just watching the cocktail party and fold at this the radically sacred event and jockeying for power. extending to the eulogy. the procession in people try to help to each other out they were enough about