I also love the book is so good.
My favorite thing is that you interviewed Situation Room staff.
I've always said that it's White House staff whose names
you'll never know,
that are like the writers of history.
They'll tell us so many details.
That was my favorite part about doing the book.
I interviewed about 100 duty officers from the White House.
And these are people that come,
they're relatively young people who come from all over the
government,
the CIA, the DIA, Defense Department,
military. And, you know, some people like to call those
people the Deep State.
Well, the big thing I learned doing this book is
that the deep state is packed with patriots.
People who go to work every single day on the
front lines of the most intense crises the country faces
and do it to serve their country and to serve
the presidency, not the president.
They don't care about political parties.
They're there to serve the presidency and the institution,
and they're doing it anonymously.
As one of them told me,
Mike Seeley said. You know,
we serve in silence, yeah.