Administration, not only conducted by white house officials but allies of this white house want to know who anonymous is. How much weight is the white house taking these. You say theyre printing them out and basically showing them to him. Reporter my understanding is that, yes, he is, remember, this is a president who likes to have Cabinet Meetings where he goes around the room and Cabinet Officials and secretaries praise him for the work hes doing. This is very much in line and character with that. I will tell you, anderson, talking to sources close to this white house, i talked to one source earlier today raising questions about the strength of some of these statements coming from some of these Cabinet Officials. I think there is, in sort of the same way they were going through that New York Times oped searching for clues whether this person or that person wrote this
in the New York Times. There are allies of the president going through these Cabinet Officials wondering if theyre loy
We run everything straight by the book. Not sure what book hes talking about but not much book on governance that seems to be going on in this white house or anything this anonymous official describes. The president is said to be volcanic about it and said nothing this afternoon going to a trip to montana where he will be speaking tonight and Sarah Sanders spoke about this gutless loser and the times for being deceitful of this act and tweeted the times phone number. Sarah sanders called on him or her to come forward and resign. No takers so far. These are all the Senior Administration officials up to and including the Vice President who have denied writing the piece. Secretary mattis, and pompeo and dan coats and more than two dozen top officials in all, one exception Chief Of Staff john
tweet asking whether or not the journalists of the New York Times are going to investigate themselves and reveal who this anonymous source is. I can tell you talking to sources close to this white hou
reporter: like this. it may be cold comfort in this chaotic era. others are speculating it s the president s chief of staff. an unnamed senior administration official. kelly would be high on my list. reporter: general john kelly has a military background and the buzzword lodestar, used in the op-ed is a military term. sounds like a military term to me. reporter: others are quick to point out lodestar is a word mike pence likes to use. vigilance and resolve will be our lodestar. be our lodestar. with vigilance and resolve as our lodestar. it s too obvious to say lodestar when you re pence. you ve used it a million times. if you want to be conspiratorial, it s even possible someone wrote it knowing that the word lodestar was a favorite word of vice president pence and wanted to either cast suspicion on the vice president or wanted to distract attention from themselves. reporter: the guessing game moved into hyper drive with
anonymous could be a speechwriter, too. it reads like a speechwriter and a lot of illeration, starting the same way. like this. it may be cold comfort in this chaotic era. others are speculating it s the president s chief of staff. an unnamed senior administration official. kelly would be high on my list. general john kelly has a military background and the buzz word lodestar, used in the op-ed is a military term. sounds like a military term to me. others are quick to point out lodestar is a word mike pence likes to use. vigilance and resolve will be our lodestar. with vigilance and resolve as our lodestar. it s too obvious to say lodestar when you re pence. if you want to be conspiratorial, it s even possible someone wrote it knowing that the word lodestar was a favorite word of vice