c-span: how did you and haynes johnson divi up the work? >> guest: well, haynes and i have worked together for a very long time, first at the d washington sr, when it was in business,and th for many years at the washington post. we had collaborated on lots and lots onewspaper projec, so we were very accustomed to sharing each other's reporting notes, to writing drafts and passing them back and forth, and basically that's what we did with this booc. many of the interviews we did together. when the effort reached capitol ll, i did most of the reporting on the house side, and haynes did most of the reporting on the senate side, but we were back and forth on both sides of the capito and both ofs were talking to people in t administration and in the interest group communi. what we did at the outset, brian, was to make arrangements, work out, and if you will, deals with many of the people who were clearly going to be important players in this whole process, from the administration, the white house, the departments, republicans, demrats on both sid

. >> i want to rock some dan balz and haynes johnson they both have long careersor journalism.s a political editor and white house correspondent and he has won several prominent awards for his politics and presidency. haynes served as a national correspondent in during that time he who won the pulitzer prize with coverage of the civil rights crisis has bn a columnist for the "washington post" and assistant managing editor of "the post" until he left to join the academic world. he is not a university of maryland and also had the academic appointments at a number of other universities including princeton, a berkeley and to. i do not know how manyf you watch "meet e press" on sunday when dan balz and haynes johnson rolled out their new book. ever since then i don't think there has been too many moments during a 24-hour period where they have not been auntie me or radio granted some of it is rerded. i thought they might be sown exhausted we may have to stopped in the middle to give you a coffee bre. [laughter] i ought maybe we could do that but on the other hand, i think you got su