Gayle King snagged a high-profile interview in her new role as co-host of the CBS This Morning. She traveled to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to interview First Lady Michelle Obama about reported tensions between her and White House top advisors.
Mrs. Obama told King, “One thing is true. I talk very candidly to my husband about how I feel, but that’s the kind of relationship we have. I wouldn’t go to his chief of staff about something that I would talk to my husband about. If I didn’t agree with something, I would talk to my husband about it.”
The subject just became a hot topic with the release of a new book The Obamas, written by Jodi Kantor. The author bases her claims on second-hand accounts and her own interpretation of events, according to a strongly-worded blog post published on the White House website by press secretary Eric Schultz.
He wrote, “The book, an over-dramatization of old news, is about a relationship between two people whom the author has not spoken to in years.”
Regarding a Halloween Alice in Wonderland bash featuring Johnny Depp, the author claims the White House hid the “lavish Hollywood-esque event” from the public for fear of a backlash during hard economic times.
Schultz called this ridiculous, “This was an event for local school children from the Washington DC area and for hundreds of military families, and certainly nothing that the White House was ashamed of.”
Check out an interview clip after the jump:
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