Wolff: I Went into This with No Agenda, I Have No Bias When It Comes To Trump

CHUCK TODD: And the author of that bombshell new book joins me now, Michael Wolff, welcome to “Meet the Press.”

MICHAEL WOLFF: Chuck, glad to be here.

CHUCK TODD: Let me just start with this. You talk about “fly on the wall” access. Explain to me what that was like. Walk me through how you were a fly on the wall in the West Wing.

MICHAEL WOLFF: You know, I literally kind of knocked on the door and said, “Can I come in?” and they said “Okay.” And I came in. I sat on the couch and that’s the point of view that I’ve written this book from. I mean, in the real intention of this book, is to have readers sit with me on the couch and watch what’s going on in the West Wing. I went into this with absolutely no agenda whatsoever. I have no particular politics when it comes to Donald Trump. This is really all about human nature.

CHUCK TODD: Did you feel as if you were a blessed guest? Meaning that the assumption was “Yeah, you can talk to Michael Wolff.” We’ve - meaning the president - was it the assumption was you were blessed, it was okay to talk to you?

MICHAEL WOLFF: I think it was. There was no official - I was certainly not brought in to be the -

CHUCK TODD: You weren’t invited to write this book?

MICHAEL WOLFF: - the court chronicler. I was sort of invited. I mean, Donald Trump is sort of “Oh, yeah, yeah.” And I said to him, I said, “Listen, I would like to do a book.” And I remember because I remember he seemed deflated, a book, who cares about a book? I said, “No, no, I’d really like to do this.” And then he named a couple of other authors, who he knew, who he said, “Oh, yeah, they’d like to do this too.” And I said, but, you know, is it, is it okay? “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.” So then I went around and so it was basically me saying, “The president says this is, this is - he likes this idea.” Um, and then everyone would say, “Oh, okay, great, sit down. Talk.”