it's much more mitt cal. i'm not a political person. i'm not writing a protest book. i'm writing a thriller that take place in a certain place there are lot of great stories the oligarchs are varied. when i approached the book i knew this is a vast subject. but i'm not going to write a vast book. i'm going to right this thriller that takes place in this setting and hopefully you'll learn about everything. so that's only really four main characters and it's boris, roman, and putin, and those are the four main characters through which you read the book in a lot of places i have to figure out what their point of view might be, putin is a very inscrutable individual. but building on all the legal documents and deposition is think i was able to do that. >> so, have you any -- do you have any idea what will be your next project? >> i do. i will say i have four movies in the predevelopment stages. this one, i wrote a book called "seven wonders," an indian jones type. and i wrote a book called "sex on the moon" a while back, being made into a movie, and i just sold a new proj

he was not a mitt cal person. he was vie voted to make sure the management aspect worked for bush. >> host: one person had the authority and responsibility. that was one of the key points. >> guest: yes. and so in going out, josh bolton, who dealt with all of the white house operations, but for departments and agencies, for some of that work that clay johnson worked on through the president's management council, as he was -- as the deputy of the office of management and budget, which he was at the end of the administration. he chaired that committee, which is made up of all of the departments and the most important agencies. so he had them come together in the spring and talk about the transition, what information did they think a new administration would need? and so they worked through that, and then in summer -- i think it wase july, july 18th -- he sent out a memorandum to the departments and agencies, directing exactly what they were to gather, information they were to gather. it and it shows the importance o