wow. welcome back to hardball. we are getting a stunning look at how officials view the man they work for. until the op-ed that will run tomorrow, writing the root of the problem is the president s amorality. the author describes the daily disbelief. meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails. engages in rants. and his impulsiveness results. let s bring in the roundtable. david, i want you to start this thing. the message, what do you get to the message, when you read today in the afternoon, somebody comes running in at 4:00.
discernible first principles that guide his decision making. from the white house the executive branch departments and agencies senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief s comments and actions. most are working to insulate their operations from his whims. 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 that have to be walked back. this is describing someone in this op-ed who does not appear to meet the basic standard of fitness for the office. there are millions of americans right now, including myself, who are trying to temper their rage when they read this. these are the words of a coward, not a patriot. there are two questions. first, should the new york times have published something with anonymity. they probabliery erred on the s of getting information out.
that of course will be hard to investigate if there is no specific crime, jim. if the president s already upset with bill shine, shows you how short the honeymoon period is for new hires in the white house. we know that to be the case. jeff zeleny, thanks very much. sure. with all the talk about the mole hunt, we don t want to lose sight of the message this official was sending. that after all, remains the most troubling part of this story. so in that spirit, here are a reminder, a few key passages. quoting here, the root of the problem is the president s amorality. anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making. moving on, meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails. he engages in repetitive rant, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back. and this, given the instability many witnessed, there were early
this op ed writer says meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails. he engages in rants and impulsiveness ill informed and reckless decisions that have to be walked back. how shocking to you is it that a senior member of the trump administration would write this and on top of that, there are multiple suspects? i think it s shocking but not surprising. what he s laid out here, i think all of us have heard versions of, this right? it s rarely been laid out as clearly and in as much detail as an op ed. it comes in leaks like wood ward s book and if you have this view and you are truly a senior official in the trump administration, what are your options? why do you do it this way?
with him veer off topic and off the rails. he engages in rants and impulsiveness ill informed and reckless decisions that have to be walked back. how shocking to you is it that a senior member of the trump administration would write this and on top of that, there are multiple suspects? i think it s shocking but not surprising. what he s laid out here, i think all of us have heard versions of, this right? it s rarely been laid out as clearly and in as much detail as an op ed. it comes in leaks like wood ward s book and if you have this view and you are truly a senior official in the trump administration, what are your options? why do you do it this way? i m not really that thinks this