striking after the excerpts, the early excerpts or reviews of bob woodward's book, is that both ari fleisher and paul begala, who worked for president clinton, immediately came out sand, hand hey, we didn't like the books he wrote about our president but they weren't false. he certainly knows who they are and, you know, has the tapes, one assumes, from the way he works to prove it. >> and let's look at how extraordinary all of this really is. you have what's described as a senior official within the administration talking about undermining the actions of a sitting president deemed to be a moral reckless, you know, just too impulsive. and then you've got that with this theme, recurring theme, from other published books, whether there's anonymity or whether there's really, you know, named sourcing. there's a really -- there's a common thread here. so what's your view on how potentially damaging this is or is it really just adding to the chorus? >> i have a couple of thoughts here. first of all, bob woodward's book and his account, it echoes many of the themes we saw in michael wolf's fire and