the washington post. the whole who done it, let s start with you, sir, on what you know about the film call that came in to the times. we ll go from there. this was an intermediary, someone the writer had known for a long time and trusted who was told several days ago, i have a senior official who wants to go and write this op-ed. the response from the times was, let s wreed it, see if we like it. of course, the paper knew what it had once this is a controversial topic. i still think this is the kind of scoop that anybody would have been excited to receive. the times 24 hours ago published it. it is still the talk of the country. we have the press secretary sarah huckabee sanders telling people to call the new york times and complain, call the opinion section. you can see the statement here. in response the times confirms it is receiving a large number of calls. the fact that it is of all
i have asked the paper. they are not going to comment. there has to be a point where enough people know the identity of this person. it could well leak out or the person could choose to come out publically at some point. i wonder if that is the end game. you have to wonder what the piece accomplishes as an anonymous piece of writing. it doesn t add to anything. a lot of critics were like this is old news, guys. can t we retain our capacity for shock and surprise to some degree? what does it do? what does it give us more than what we knew already? it s an entire piece ptfull this person s words. it s not like a senior administration source says. this is a wealth of information in his or her own words. you can argue you can see it the other way around.
papers that this senior administration anonymous official went to the new york times, the president s hometown paper, the paper that he hate reads there wouldn t be that many choices of a paper that you would go to. i could argue that the washington post is a fabulous paper. trump has a specific relationship with the times. he loves to hate it but he also cares about it more than any other outlet that is out there. it is sort of a perfect trolling of him in a certain way. don t you think unlike what we were talking about and how he initially denied it and it took decades. it is 2018. someone is going to figure this out if the person doesn t come out before. i had someone ask me what happens if this cabinet official comes out and denies being the source but is the source? will the times out the person? i don t think so.