Vice president pence called the article false, illogical, and gutless. Secretary of state mike pompeo slammed the New York Times for taking a, quote, disgruntled, deceptive, bad actors word. Director of National Intelligence dan coats says, quote, speculation that the New York Times oped was written by me or my Principal Deputy is patently false. The list goes on and on and its growing right now. Lets bring in jeff zeleny. Give us a sense of how all of this is playing out inside the white house. Reporter wolf, we know the president likes a strongly worded denial. Im told hes watching and reading all these denials as theyre coming in. Im told aides are printing them out for him and bringing them to him. Hes reading them and watching them. Who is issuing them and perhaps who is not issuing them. But wolf, this is not necessarily answering the question of who wrote this editorial. Certainly it does not go without belief that the person who wanted to remain anonymous could also be issuing
One of his most emposseimpestuos in office. He warped about the deep state and its threat to democracy. Its a message we may hear twice more today. He is traveling to for go, nort dakota. He says its not the deep state whom he intends to blame if he is impeached. Here is who the president says would be at fault. Listen. If it does happen, its your fault, because you didnt go out to vote. You didnt go out to vote. You didnt go out to vote. Thats the only way it could happen. We expect to see the president in a few minutes. Lets go to the white house. Good morning, abby, to you. I dont know. What struck you most last night . Was it the fact that the president said, seeming a little bit its your fault if i get impeached. Was it he spent so much time talking about this oped that was bad for him and talking about impeachment that would be bad for him . Reporter maybe it was a lighthearted joke. Maybe it was a signal to his base. It seems impeachment was on his mind. It could be because this
Part i work for the president , and likeminded colleagues and i have vowed to to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. People are calling the author gutless. When you tell me about some anonymous source within the administration, probably who is failing and probably here for all the wrong reasons and the New York Times is failing. The feeling New York Times has an anonymous editorial. Can you believe it . Anonymous. Meaning, gutless. A gutless editorial. We are doing a great job. The poll numbers are through the roof. The poll numbers are great. Sandra ellison barbers life from the white house. Any idea who is behind this article . A lot of speculation, but no official word just yet. The New York Times identifies the author as a senior official in the trumpet administration. There has been a lot of speculation, particularly online, on twitter, places like that. People hopping on specific words to try and identify who authored this oped. The chief of staff seemed to add
You have done in a lower court. Thats the best basis for knowing whether or not you ought to be on the Supreme Court. We have 307 cases that this nominee has written decisions on as a basis for that. Weve had 488,000 other pages. Maybe the senators havent read them, but their staff is fully informed. Last night, before 11 00, on the 42,000 pages that have come to our attention, the staff on the republican side has gone through them. Sir, why did you ask for the white House Counsel documents . They were not germane to this hearing. Why would you ask for them . Senator feinstein . For the record, thats a rate of 7,000 pages per hour. Thats super human. Yeah. Theyre amazing. Theyre amazing. Mr. Chairman, if i may . Yeah, proceed. Ive been through Nine Supreme Court hearings. Is this your Opening Statement . It is part of it. Why dont you make your opal statement. Shall i . Yeah, would you, please . Mr. Chairman, i ask for an opportunity to respond to my colleague from texas because he is