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Barack Obama to Michael Wolff: “In every way

be David Letterman’s comfortable” with Trump book

first Netflix guest

NEW YORK (AP) — David
Letterman has lined up
former president Barack
Obama to be his first
guest when he returns to
a TV talk show later this
month.
Obama will join Letter-
man on Jan. 12 for the
launch of the new “My
Next Guest Needs No
Introduction with David
Letterman” on Netflix.
Other guests slated to
be on the show include
George Clooney, Mala- In this Saturday, Oct. 7,
la Yousafzai, Jay-Z, Tina 2017, file photo, David
Letterman speaks during
Fey and Howard Stern. In the unveiling of a Peyton
each hour-long episode, Manning statue outside
Letterman will conduct a of Lucas Oil Stadium, in
long-form conversation Indianapolis.
with a single guest and Associated Press In this April 12, 2017, file photo, Michael Wolff of The Hollywood Reporter speaks at the Newseum
explore topics of his own since he stepped down in Washington.
outside the studio. from CBS’ “Late Show Associated Press
It will be the first talk show with David Letterman” in By LAURIE KELLMAN day that Wolff’s book was Wolff has given Trump’s al-
Letterman has hosted May 2015.q
Associated Press fiction and reliant on fake lies fodder, particularly with
‘Jeopardy’ host WASHINGTON (AP) — Mi- sources. an acknowledgement in
the introduction that he
“I authorized Zero access
chael Wolff’s a provoca-
Trebek has surgery for teur who’s said to love to White House (actually could not resolve discrep-
ancies between some ac-
turned him down many
a brawl and once be-
times) for author of phony
moaned the glare of the
counts in a White House
blood clots on brain spotlight — and the bigger book! I never spoke to him riven by rivalries.
“Many, in Trumpian fash-
disappointment of watch-
for book. Full of lies, misrep-
ing it move on. resentations and sources ion, are baldly untrue,”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Long- Obscurity is a threat to that don’t exist. Look at this Wolff writes of some ac-
time “Jeopardy” host Alex Wolff no longer. guy’s past and watch what counts. “Those conflicts
Trebek had surgery for His incendiary new book happens to him and Slop- and that looseness with the
blood clots on the brain, on President Donald Trump py Steve!” Trump wrote. truth, if not reality itself, are
but assured fans he’d be is drawn from what he said White House spokeswom- an elemental thread of the
back reading clues to was regular access to the an Sarah Huckabee Sand- book.” He says he “settled
contestants soon. West Wing and more than ers said the White House on a version of events I be-
Trebek appeared in a 200 interviews, includ- had rejected some two lieve to be true.”
video on the “Jeopardy” ing some three hours with dozen of Wolff’s requests For example, Wolff writes
Facebook page Thursday Trump himself. It blew open for an interview with Trump. in the book that Trump
to announce that he’d what seems an inevitable The author retorted on didn’t know who former
had the surgery during the feud between the pub- NBC’s “Today” show: “I ab- House Speaker John Boeh-
show’s holiday break. licity-loving president and solutely spoke to the presi- ner was on election night
Wearing a “Jeopardy” his former adviser Steve dent. Whether he realized 2016. Sanders disputes
baseball cap and using Bannon, who is quoted it was an interview or not I that, pointing to public
the same tone he employs extensively and unflatter- don’t know. But it certainly photos that show the golf
to explain difficult subjects ingly describing Trump, was not off the record.” enthusiasts had hit the links
on the show, Trebek says “I In this April 30, 2017 file his family and advisers. Wolff said he spoke with over the years. Two peo-
had a slight medical prob- photo, Alex Trebek speaks Trump’s lawyers sent Wolff Trump for a total of about ple close to Boehner con-
lem, subdural hematoma, at the 44th annual Daytime and his publishers cease- three hours over the course firmed that and said they
Emmy Awards at the
blood clots on the brain Pasadena Civic Center in and-desist letters, as they of the campaign and af- had spoken before and
caused by a fall I endured Pasadena, Calif. had to Bannon. Instead of ter Trump’s inauguration. after the election.
about two months ago.” Associated Press halting publication of “Fire He added that he has re- Sanders also derided
“Surgery was performed,” and Fury: Inside the Trump cordings and notes and Wolff’s contention in the
he continues, “after two return. White House,” Wolff’s pub- remains “absolutely in ev- book that Trump and his
days in the hospital I came The 77-year-old Canadian lisher accelerated its sale ery way comfortable with family had not wanted to
home and started recov- has become an American to Friday, due to “unprec- everything I’ve reported in win the election.
ery. The prognosis is excel- institution in the decades edented demand.” this book.” For his part, Trump went af-
lent, and I expect to be since he started hosting “Where do I send a box “My credibility is being ter Bannon in an unusual
back in the studio taping “Jeopardy” in 1984, be- of chocolates?” Wolff, 64, questioned by a man who White House statement.
more ‘Jeopardy’ pro- loved for the way he calmly said on NBC’s “Today.” has less credibility than, Wolff and his publisher
grams very, very soon.” delivers tough trivia to the Earlier, he had tweeted: perhaps, anyone who has did not respond to a re-
He gave no specific time- cognoscenti that make up “Thank you, Mr. President.” ever walked on earth,” quest for comment and an
table for when he might the show’s contestants.q Trump tweeted late Thurs- Wolff said. interview.q