From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.

Today, a new book has the White House in a fury.

Its key source is Steve Bannon.

What he said and what the president is saying in response.

It's Thursday, January 4th.

All right, Peter's in one second.

Peter, are there? Hello. How are you? I'm good.

Peter Baker got an advanced copy of the book.

The book called Fire and Fury by Michael Wolfe is a look inside the Trump White House first year

and it's a very sensational account of a White House in basically turmoil, dysfunctional White House fill with tribal rivalries and led by a president who at least in this portrayal is not a very serious character.

Not somebody who takes the job seriously, not someone who even wanted the job to begin with.

For instance, Sam Dunberg, who is an aide to President Trump on the campaign.

I went point was sent to explain the Constitution to the candidate.

He's quoted in the book saying, I got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.

That's an on the record quote and pretty striking, right?

It's part of this overall portrayal of the candidate and later a president who's not very serious about this unlike any White House probably we've seen in modern times.

How did Wolfe actually do this reporting?

He says he had 200 interviews with people who round the president, people who are key to the president's team.

Some of these interviews are on the record and those are obviously the easier ones to evaluate.

Some of these episodes he talks about are not sourced to anyone in particular, not somebody who's named and there's a harder of course to know how accurate they are.

There's already been some pushback by some people around the president saying that things they were reported to have done is not accurate.

But certainly the overall portrayal is one that's very, very vivid and one that enhances what we've already seen I think publicly in this last year.

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