of the criticisms that comes to you when you write these books is people think you must give truth serum to the people you interview but also people come off best are the ones who talk to you the most. how you would respond to that? >> well, i talk to nearly everyone in this case, including the president and the vice president, secretary of defense have said they talked to me. the key to this in the spine of the book are these notes of nsc meetings, the documentation. so, it's not somebody's favored spun recollection. it is exactly what happened. and, you know, some people -- there are many -- this is what can make your head hurt. you can look at it, like the white house read it, people there, and robert gibbs, the press secretary, essentially embraced the book. said, read the whole book. this is a story of a president struggling. other people have read it and said this is a story of a president who doesn't know exactly where he's going. >>s it t depends on your -- where you come from, what you take away from it, without question. one of the other very telling things is stanley mcchris e