pete rouse. >> charlie: and the president trusted pete rouse. >> he did. he said, okay. >> charlie: i'll take her. i'll take her. >> charlie: i know -- and he called me. he called my cell phone, and i didn't recognize the number, so i didn't pick it up, but it was him. he called me himself, which was such -- that's not something a lot of people do. >> charlie: said something right there. >> he said, alyssa, let's do this. it's obama. call me back. and that was it. >> charlie: now, go forward to the time that you had during the campaign rented at $30,000 a plane. >> mm-hmm. >> charlie: turns out, you rented that plane for the wrong day. >> yeah. that was actually the fall of 2006. >> charlie: yes. during our campaigning for everyone. the whole front political office, it was three or four people, probably, five people, and i was doing the book tour and all the political travel myself and i made a big mistake and i rented the plane for the wrong day and i cried in the office and called robert and jordan kaplan, the finance director, and i said, i'm so sorry,

pete rouse said, trust me. >> the president trusted him. he called me, call my cell phone, so i did not pick it up because i did not recognize the number. that is not something a lot of people do. he said alyssa, let's do this. it's obama. call me back. that was it. >> go forward to the time that you had during the campaign. rented at $30,000 a plane. it turns out you had rented the plane for the wrong day. >> that was the fall of 2006. the political office was three or four people. i was doing the political travel myself. i made a big mistake. i rented the plane for the wrong day. i cried in the office. i called robert and jordan kaplan, the finance director. i said, i realized the plane is not there. i booked it for the wrong day. and president obama takes the phone. he says, i hear tears. there is a commercial flight in 45 minutes. we will be there in two hours. >> it hasn't turned out like how you imagined. you thought you would ride into washington and eliminate partisanship. >> that was the goal. >> you thought you would do great thin

president of the united states. >> pete rouse says your family. that is beyond staff. >> in a lot of ways, the president sitters a lot about family. he considers pete rouse family because there are people who, even when the polls were bad, no matter if it looked like we were loosing iowa, it didn't matter. we were going to be there with him, win or lose. we are all family. >> to talk to people is different. it is different with you. he fancies himself a bit of a big brother. >> ah. >> he gives me advice. on all kinds of stuff. he likes to call me short. i amver we are having -- diminutive. >> but powerful. small but mighty. >> when we would travel sometimes and be on the road, maybe not everything is going great, we can always make him laugh when we say, let's talk about how short alyssa his. thenalways >> a smile -- he always cracks a smile. >> when were you most elated? what you occupy the white house and out with the day-to-day problems. your first job was you worry -- were a scheduler. afghanistan.ing to >> this is not a conversation. i'm tell

me, john favre row, tommy, robert gibbs and pete rouse was on the other side. >> there's the former chief> mm-hmm. we did okay. >> you sure did. >> from presidential office to the central campaign to the white house. she's one of the last remaining members of the original team. >> why do you think the president of the united states trusts you so well? >> i think over the years of decision-making and navigating some tough times, you know, your mettle is really tested and i think i proved to him that his success was my number one priority, that my hard work on his behalf wasn't self-interested, and that, you know, i had good judgment. >> there you go. that's what it's about. >> my judgment is good judgment for him. thing that it's also -- i think in life i have good judgment but in life, between the two of us, we understand each other and i understand what he's trying to do. >> reporter: in november. two were married. so what about pillow talk. >> i'm not going to light. when we come home at the end of the day, there's a lot of work talk. >> oh, really. pillow talk is about politics. >> yea