didn t utter the catch phrase you re fired, i fell like i had been. you considered quitting at one point. why did you decide to stay? there was no one else in the white house. tony and bob and steve hahn were in their respective agencies and working as hard as they possibly could, and that s also what i wanted to show, how people were working to make a difference. someone had to be there to constantly get the information out, the correct data, what needed to be done. and that was the thing i always that was the kind of schizophrenic nature of the white house. at one point, the president is saying this. and i m funding, and he s writing defense production to do this. and so as long as we were able to move the ball closer and closer to the goalpost, i felt it was valuable for me to stay. you re critical of the cdc in the book. you write, quote, in many ways, anti-trump sentiment has prevented people from seeing the full spectrum of the breakdown