Former Trump Advisers Allege He Has Embedded Enemies; Michelle Obama's Books Sold More Than 1.4 Million Copies In First Week.
PAUL: Well, good morning to all of you wherever you are waking up and if you're waking up in the nation's capital, that is one beautiful view --</s>SAVIDGE: It really is. It really is.</s>PAUL: -- right now.</s>SAVIDGE: I'm Martin Savidge in for Victor Blackwell.</s>PAUL: We are so glad to have you with us. Glad to have you with us too here, Marty, as always.</s>SAVIDGE: Good to be here.</s>PAUL: So let's talk.</s>SAVIDGE: New speculation this morning on who maybe in and who may be out of the White House. The president's holding interviews for top level cabinet members and senior staff at the Mar-a-Lago estate this weekend. This as a new book by a former Trump campaign manager, no guess who that is, Corey Lewandowski will hit the shelves on Tuesday. And according to "The Washington Post" that book alleges dozens of officials in Washington are working to undermine the president.</s>PAUL: CNN chief media correspondent and anchor of "RELIABLE SOURCES" Brian Stelter with us now. Brian, there are some pretty loaded words in this excerpt according to "The Washington Post."</s>BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: Yes, there have been two markets for two different kinds of Trump books in the past year. One is tell-alls from reporters and former aides who were disturbed about what's going on in the White House. The other kind is this book from David Bossie and Corey Lewandowski called "Trump's Enemies." It's There are two books. One is tell-alls from reporters and former aides who are disturbed by what is going on at the White House. The other kind is this book called "Trump's Enemies." It's an unabashedly aggressively pro-Trump book saying that Trump's only problem in the White House are all these deep state figures. This is a book guaranteed that's guaranteed to sell well among Sean Hannity fans and Rush Limbaugh fans because it paints this picture of a administration that is undermined by rats from inside. And it goes in names names. For example, saying that Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort, two former Trump loyalists who flipped on the president and cooperated with Robert Mueller, it describes those two figures as rats. It also describes figures like Gary Cohn, former administration official, as a limousine liberal and it goes on and on like that. So it's a reminder again that the book -- that the book is a reminder that this administration has been rocked by different</s>PAUL: OK. So with that said, how is Michelle Obama's book sales?</s>STELTER: Well, that's what I'm so intrigued by this. With Michelle Obama's book in its first week on sale had sold more than 1.4 million copies. This is an off the charts figure for any author even for a first lady. So 1.4 million copies in the first week. Now the publisher says more than 5 million copies will be out for print available for the holidays. Look, she timed this really well right after the election going into Thanksgiving and Christmas the time when book sales were really hot. But Michelle Obama has accomplished something that few others have, right? She is critical of Trump in the book but the book is not about Trump. So unlike so many other titles this year, Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury," Bob Woodward's "Fear," all of these books that have sold like hotcakes at the Barnes & Noble and on Amazon, Michelle Obama was able to kind of stay above it and actually come out with an inspirational book that people were still interested in buying. So for the publisher one of the bestselling books in the company's history and like I've said it's only been a week. So Michelle Obama has a lot more weeks in this holiday season to rack up more sales.</s>PAUL: Yes, a very good point.</s>SAVIDGE: The Lewandowski book they'll (ph) also continues to point out that there is a huge divide in the perception of this presidency, the depending on where you are politically.</s>STELTER: And people, you know, if you are standing by the president you're going to buy "Trump's Enemies." If you are interested in a critique of the president and interested in reliving the Obama years, you're going to buy Michelle Obama's book. And there's barely any space in between. I completely agree with you, Martin. There's this problem of two different news world serving two different Americas right now which contributes to the divide.</s>SAVIDGE: Yes. And depending on which book you get for the holidays it says a lot about you, unless of course you get all three.</s>PAUL: There you go.</s>STELTER: Right.</s>SAVIDGE: Play it easily down the middle. Brian Stelter, as always, thanks very much.</s>STELTER: Thanks.</s>SAVIDGE: Be sure to catch Brian and his show "RELIABLE SOURCES" that will be today 11:00 a.m. Eastern right here on</s>CNN. PAUL: So the White House wants the Supreme Court to bypass lower courts and fast track the military transgender ban. Kristin Beck is a former Navy SEAL and transgender advocate. She has something say about this.</s>SAVIDGE: Plus, is dimming the sun really a feasible way to combat climate change? Some scientists seem to think so. We will explain how it might work.