managing editor nancy gibbs was there and is here with me now to talk about that and this is the covertime magazine" out this week, the firing of james comey after hours in the white house. take me there. >> well, it was a remarkable evening. if you -- you know, you've had the experience when you are seeing the president at the white house, his time is so regimented. every minute accounted for. and i have never seen anything like this where, when we walk into the oval office, there are a dozen people there, people are coming in and out, it is like a theater in the round. it is clearly a showplace. >> rose: let me back up one second, what's the purpose of this visit? >> we're looking to tell a different story which is about what the presidency is doing to you and what your life is like in this place, so we want to see something a little different. one thing that was remarkable was that from the oval office he took us next door to the private dining room, which he explained how he had had it gutted and completely renovated and the table is covered with, you know, newspapers and sharpies

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we join nancy gibbs from "time." great to have you on.ve been to the white house so many times. your team described the oval office more of a royal court for the president. how different was it for you? >> the last time i had been there, every minute of a president's meanted. you know exactly where he's going to be. in this case, the free form, improvisational feeling was unbelievable. the college dorm common room fooming from the early days of the clinton administration. an enormous amount of energy, not a hot of structure. that's the feeling now. >> a few feet away is the private dining room. he's made changes. he discoed gold beneath layers on the wall. >> gutted it to the studs. we built the moldings. put an enormous chandelier in the room. >> he said he paid for it. by the way. it was a gift. >> that's what he wanted to show us. he had teed up the highlights for him. it was watching a play by play of your favor sports moments o in the testimony that afternoon which he had watched in real time. i asked him, were you watching this when

we join nancy gibbs from "time." great to have you on.hite house so many times. your team described the oval office more of a royal court for the president. how different was it for you? >> the last time i had been there, every minute of a president's day is so regimented. you know exactly where he's going to be down to the half minute. in this case, the free form, improvisational feeling was extraordinary. the only thing it can be like is maybe the early days of the clinton administration where that sort of college dorm common room feeling of people wandering in and out and working and a dozen people in there at a time with an enormous amount of energy but not a lot of structure. that's the feeling now. >> a few feet away is the private dining room. he's made changes already. he said he discovered gold beneath the layers under the wall. >> gutted it to the studs. we built the moldings. installed an enormous crystal chandelier in the room and of course the flat screen tv on the wall. >> he said he paid for it. by the way. it was a gift. >

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joining us now, editor of "time" magazine nancy gibbs.ite house earlier this week. how did that go? >> it was fascinating. inevitably this would be not only because time we spent with him in the oval office, in the private office in which he literally had tivo'd the hearings that day with henry yates and clapper and wanting to show us the highlight reel but taking us through the lincoln bedroom and talking about lincoln and then quite a long time over dinner of him really wanting to provide the alternate narrative of this presidency which he is absolutely convinced is not being told and he's getting a bum deal from the press. and it's extraordinary when you think of the events of this week, what happened less than 24 hours later to be exposed to what feels very much like a royal court. who is saying no? every president i've ever talked to talks about the effect of the office and even the oval office. you walk in and people come in intending to tell the president you're full of it and you're doing this wrong end up saying, nice tie, mr. pr