luckily for us, pete souza joins me live now. pete, it is great to have you with us.focus is on the other staff who make the white house run. names that we, perhaps, might not know rather than the president himself, right? >> yeah, that is right. this book focuses on people who helped make the presidency work, and it is not just the point he's, there is the groundskeepers, the butlers, the sheriff's, the people who work at the white house no matter who the president is. >> why did you decide to focus on them or make them the subject of this book? >> you know, this was really micro void project. i was looking through my pictures and realized i spent a lot of time photographing things away from the main action it was a conscious decision, i never thought i would do a book, but when i started looking for my photographs, i saw that, maybe i have something here. i think there is a fascination with, not just the west wing, but air force one, the motorcade, the helicopters, and i thought it would make an interesting book for people to take a peek behind the curtain to show t

it's quite different. >> it's quite different. >> we pete souza, the official white house photographere bring it back up so everyone can see it for the holiday purchasing? it's good to see the west wing and beyond. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> okay, the technical remnants have been fixed and ben rhodes is ready to join us. so we will talk with him about the bicycle assassin and putin's nuclear option, coming up next. coming up next. my asthma felt anything but normal. a blood test helped show my asthma is driven by eosinophils, which nucala helps reduce. nucala is a once-monthly add-on injection for severe eosinophilic asthma. nucala is not for sudden breathing problems. allergic reactions can occur. get help right away for swelling of face, mouth, tongue, or trouble breathing. infections that can cause shingles have occurred. don't stop steroids unless told by your doctor. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. may cause headache, injection site reactions, back pain, and fatigue. ask your asthma specialist about a nunormal with nucala. ♪limu emu & doug♪ it's

joining us now is someone who has been there for all of president barack obama's pivotal moments, pete souzar for president barack obama, he is the author of the new book, the west wing and beyond. what i saw inside the presidency. pete, it is great to see you. so all the folks that you put out about the obama presidents have been riveting. the photographs are so beautiful. this one is very much about the presidency around the president. but i want to start with the man himself since you know him in a way that few others do. and you've seen him, and he incredibly intimate, private moments. there was talk in washington that he was a reluctant campaigner that he didn't have an appetite for politics. but man, when you see him on the campaign trail. it's like the most natural thing in the world. what do you know and what can you tell us about the way in which he approached campaigning and talking to crowds? >> i don't know if he was reluctant or not but he sure turned it on. i went to the event in wisconsin and hadn't seen him for a while. and i sat backstage with him and talk to him for probabl

luckily for us pete souza, joins us live now, pete, it's good to have you with us, this book has a different that we might perhaps not no other than the president himself, right? >> that's right, i mean, this book focuses on people that helped make the presidency work. and, it is not just the employees, the obama appointees. i highlight the groundskeepers, the butlers, the chefs, the people that work at the white house, no matter who the president is. >> why did you decide to focus on, them or make them the subject of this book? >> you know, this was really my covid project. i was looking through my pictures, and realized i did spend a lot of time photographing things away from the main action. it was a conscious decision, i never thought i do a book, but i started looking through my photographs i thought,, maybe i have something here, i think there is a fascination with, not just the west wing, but air force one, the motorcade, the helicopters, and i thought it would make an interesting book, for people to take a peek behind the curtain, show them what i saw. >> now, and it's certainly a fa

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