fascinating we are actually saying this about a president. jamie, i want to read a quote from the president s first chief of staff, reince priebus. when you put a snake, a rabbit, a shark and a seal in a zoo without walls things get nasty and bloody. that paints, you know, quite a picture of a chaotic white house, doesn t it? it does. i think that we ve all known about chaos and dysfunction, and there s been quite a bit of reporting, of course, since he took office about that. but i think what s shocking here is the level of detail. you go inside the oval office, inside the white house residence. there is a scene at the pentagon that is best scribbled,describe say from woodward s reporting, as an intervention, where they bring the president to the pentagon to try to explain to him diplomacy, defense, the
go on quickly. i write about it in my book a lot. these people are terrified of donald trump s twitter. they re terrified of fox news turning on them and so they re willing to put the country at risk. they re willing to lie constantly to their own constituents, their own friends, their own families and yet they know what donald trump is. they know he is a guy without any impulse control and they know he is a danger to this country. alison, not to be redundant because again i think it is stunning, some of the allegations in this book according to woodward. the die fenefense secretary desg him as having the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader. it is not coming, as jamie said, this is not coming from trump-hating democrats. this is coming from his aides and cabinet officials. sure. and the reality is, look, we all knew that the president himself had a potty mouth when he ran for president, but hearing these stories of the president and his senior team calling each other
that, in my view, as we move further into the midterm election. well, what are you going to do? i mean it is just beyond belief to me that some people can just read this and say, oh, that s okay. so, jamie. yeah. this is the a tweet from the president and i think it deserves to be talked about quickly here. the woodward book has already been refuted and discredited by secretary of defense, james mattis, and general chief of staff john kelly. their quotes were made up frauds, a con on the public. likewise, other stories and quotes. woodward is a dem operative. notice timing? woodward is a democratic operative? i mean that s beyond ridiculous. first of all, the president will have a little trouble here because he has been very complimentary of bob woodward in the past. i think if we want to go back to that audio tape, he says that bob has been fair to him. do we want to play that tape
one meeting. woodward s reply, yes. well, see. and then nothing happened. so do you believe woodward or do you believe the man who told you this. just remember what you re seeing and what you re reading is not what s happening. so let s discuss this. a lot to get to in the coming hours here on cnn. i m going to bring in jamie gingell, cnn political commentator alice stewart and republican strategist rick stewart the author of everything trump tubes dies. good evening on this busy tuesday. i hope you got lots of rest over the labor day weekend because we re back at it again. jamie, you were the first to obtain the book outside of the washington post and read it cover to cover several times i heard. right. these devastating pouring out
know he is a danger to this country. alison, not to be redundant because again i think it is stunning, some of the allegations in this book according to woodward. the defense secretary describing him as having the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader. it is not coming, as jamie said, this is not coming from trump-hating democrats. this is coming from his aides and cabinet officials. sure. and the reality is, look, we all knew that the president himself had a potty mouth when he ran for president, but hearing these stories of the president and his senior team calling each other idiots and retarded and a dumb southerner and f ing this and that and the fact it is crazytown, the white house, this makes for a great book. the reality is speaking with some at the white house, i talked to kellyanne just a short time ago, a lot of this comes from former employees who are disgruntled and want to make sure that they have a story that is salacious out there in order to make their time in t