the president responds, i ll be a real good witness. dowd told him, you are not a good witness. he quit the next day. then number one, the white house needs a new line of defense to accurate criticism. everyone denies everything. they say it s all fake, all 448 pages of hundreds of hours of interviews that echo exchanges and explosions that many of us have heard about from similar sourcing. one particular bad move, trump tweeted his typical fake news fist in defense of mattis and kelly. he put up there that their quotes were made up, frauds, a con on the public. likewise other stories in quotes. woodward is a dem operative. woodward of two pulitzer prize fame. he s talking about that bob woodward of watergate. again, this isn t some gossip from a bar. he s got hundreds of hours of background interviews, dozens of firsthand sorurces, includes those in trump s inner circle