discernible meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails and he engages in decisions that have to be walked back. there were early whispers of the cabinet invoking the 25th amendment which would start a complex process for removing the president. no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis so we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until one way or another, it s over. you have senator rand paul talk about polygraphing people in the administration and polygraphs not admissible in court and not that necessarily reliable. is there a danger how much this consumes the administration and it starts to eat itself. exactly. the polygraph would be an awful idea. i remember when president reagan was very upset with all the leaks and said he had leaks up to his keister and started carrying on and started talking
watching in the president s response to trying to find this one person is an unhinged president looking for someone when in fact he ought to be doing the business of being the president of the united states. to gloria s point, what comes through in bob woodward s book and what comes through in witness after witness after witness is donald trump s lying. the lying being what undoes him, and the reason those closest to him have concluded he cannot be fit to be the president because of the lying. his own lawyer, the last line in bob woodward s book is, trump had one overriding problem that the lawyer, dowd, knew, but could not bring himself to say to the president, you are an f g liar. that is what suffuses everything
what he says is it s a constitutional question as to whether the president can even be prosecuted at all. he doesn t come and say the way he waanswers the question. is that another answer? from him, yes. they are saying this is a serious constitutional question and unfettered powers pursuant to article two and that s the way they speak. he s not deciding the question but saying they are real questions which is saying i don t think the president should be prosecuted while in office. many i mif i may add to that. john dowd and rudy giuliani said a president should not be prosecuted and a president should not be impeached for carrying out functions that are constitutionally within his power even if he carries them out in a corrupt manner.
he s being very careful and if you carefully parse what he wrote in the law review article, what he says is it s a constitutional question as to whether the president can even be prosecuted at all. he doesn t come and say the way he answers the question. this is the way president is that another answer? from him, yes. they are saying this is a serious constitutional question and unfettered powers pursuant to article two and that s the way they speak. he s not deciding the question but saying they are real questions which is saying i don t think the president should be prosecuted while in office. if i may add to that. john dowd and rudy giuliani said a president should not be prosecuted and a president should not be impeached for carrying out functions that are
it s not just that the special counsel looms large, he writes. or that the country is bitterly divided over mr. trump s leadership. the dilemma, which he does not fully grasp, is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. we believe our first duty is to this country. and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic. the root of the problem is the president s amorality. the unnamed official offers a devastating portrayal of trump the president. the president s leadership style is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective. senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief s comments and actions. meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails. he engages in repetitive rants. and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions