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.
a way to hang out with the elite that he really is fascinated by. reporter: michelle coddle, a contributing editor for the atlantic who interviewed wolff years ago describes him as part gossip columnist and part psychotherapists whose writing is so distinctive, it is more like art. it s his very peculiar writing scene so he ll set the scene that someone said and then a quote, this is what they would have said or would have said in these circumstances. so it s a little bit of art that he s sticking in there that makes it not quite a hard quote. reporter: in fact, whfl has been accused of inaccuracies in his reporting over the years and his style is anything but conventional. coddle says that wolff doesn t work the phones like most reporters. he doesn t go on the record and off the record either. in fact, she says he frowns on conventional reporting, instead choosing simply to observe and take in the atmosphere.
and clarence page. michelle, democrats need to find a way forward in trump era. they can t blame the minority vote that was there, but many women, whites, came and did not vote for mrs. clinton. how do they re-energize their base white vote, white working vote, and energize the minorities at the same time? well, just on that point exactly, white women usually don t vote for the democrat. white women usually break for the republican. even when it is a woman candidate that is going to break the glass ceiling? even a woman candidate, women don t vote with the block. and the republican party that had done things that many women consider offensive? even exactly. it is surprising what people will put up with from their team s standard bearer. so going forward, though, the problem was hillary clinton was
they plan to block all of his legislation and plan to make him a one-term president. they didn t have any period, they waited to become the party of no, they planned that the night of his inauguration. difference between one term president party of no, i don t think that democrats are going to go and declare that donald trump is going to be one term president. that s like declaring war which was something the imprudent republicans did. everybody can see what they re up against. let s take obamacare, for example. even donald trump just at a wall street journal interview that hasn t aired yet, has indicated there are some parts of obamacare he may keep. he seems to be back tracking a little michael jackson moon walking. that s right. michelle, let me ask you. you heard congresswoman schakowsky this morning. do you think because hillary clinton did get the majority of the popular vote that democrats
i doubt chuck schumer and other democrats are going to go along with that. this reminds me of the robert bork hearings. we may see that sort of thing coming up ain where they said, well, you know, we ll approve a republican, but not that republican. he s too conservative. so much so that it begins to challenge the constitution as democrats interpret it. so i can see that possibly happening. at least they will moderate the pick. but i think merrick garland is probably toast right now. we re in a crisis there. let s go back to something you said, michelle, about republicans, nor democrats, we don t know what donald trump believes and i ve known interacted with donald trump for 30 years, nothing really sporadic sporadically, but we know what he says and we know the bombast that he represented. what do you expect to happen in the first 100 days?