How did Michael Wolff do it? Did he break journalistic rules?

Update: 2018-01-05

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The Atlantic's Michelle Cottle and author David Cay Johnston evaluate the accuracy and ethics of Michael Wolff's reporting in "Fire and Fury: Inside the White House." Cottle wrote a groundbreaking profile of Wolff in 2004 and Johnston has been covering Trump for decades. Johnston's book "It's Even Worse Than You Think" comes out later this month.

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