the nazis. >> why is that? >> that's the way president-elect trump characterized us after that 6th january briefing in his news conference on the 11th of january, which is what of course occasioned my call to him which i did more to defend the intelligence community. >> when was that? when did you all have this informal dinner? >> it was about three, four weeks ago. we clearly, and certainly jim understood, that there's going to be a firestorm in terms of reacting to the book. of course we're all having is a discussion about the book. at least for my part i vice president read it. all i'm aware of is excerpts that have been reported in the media. we knew there would be high interest in it. you know, this is a period of