personal observations about the rich and famous about their wives and children. he once send his child to steve ratner's house and people were appalled, but he knows that readers love that stuff and controversy is his friend. >> reporter: and that means he's in friendly confines now. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> with me now, cnn political analyst and "new york times" white house correspondent maggie haganman and back with us jim sciutto. magge maggie, you've read the book. do you have a sense of how much the book is accurate? i mean, can you put a figure on it? >> i couldn't weight it to scale. >> right. >> it was funny, though, listening to the michelle coddle interview and thinking about who else we can think of that likes to issue what is described as convention and make personally cutting remarks, it sounds a lot like the person this book is about. there is a similarity there.