phone had to tell his senior aide, no, we re not going to do any of that. we re going to be much more measured than that. there is an effort by all senior officials in the administration to be guardrail for what they believed would be very dangerous and unwise actions that the president wanted to do. i intend to act john brennan a question about that in just a minute s time. jeremy bash, in your lifetime did you ever think you d read about or hear about a letter being swiped off the desk of the president of the united states lest he read it or even worse sign it? no, brian. what we see here is our system of government is heaving under enormous strain because we have a president whose cabinet does not trust his fundamental judgement. they believe he s unfit to make core decisions about national security, about life and death, and they not only are alarmed as was just referenced, but they actually believe that his actions are a direct threat to national security and they have
but i say these things are very disturbing and if i was a lawyer defending president trump, i would raise them all day long and say, we re very worried about this. as i get brian fallon here, let me raise one fact, and that is that we learn very importantly from cnn exclusive reporting this week from our white house and justice team that peter strzok, who did send anti-trump text messages, who also sent anti-clinton, anti-bernie sanders text messages, but a lot of anti-trump text messages, he was one of the key people who decided days before the election to reopen the e-mail investigation into hillary clinton. brian fallon, to you, your counterargument? thank you, poppy, for raising that, just going to mention it. this goes to the heart of how crazy the conspiracy theory is that trump supporters are peddling to try to justify the release of this memo. if you think about the 2016 campaign, you had jim comey give that press conference in july, you had that letter being sent ten days
than against us and we presumed kevin would reach out and say what do we need to do? changes do we need to make. reporter: moderates worry it will be hard to find a republican member that will appeal to conservatives but lead the entire house as the constitution requires the speaker to do. the next speaker should not apiece those who make unreasonable demands. there are a number of members of the conference who simply cannot get the yes on anything. reporter: daniel webster and jason chaffetz are speechless but still in. because we need to find somebody that our whole body can unite behind and do what we were elected to do. a lot to talk about. dana joins me now along with nia mallika-henderson and gloria borg borger. dana, i understand a letter being circulated on capitol hill is making its own waves today. what is that? that s right. this is a letter sent by walter jones, a republican congressman
and again and again his military leaders, general dunford, for example, secretary mattis, the defense secretary, and others just being alarmed by this president, by decisions that he wants to make. for example, he said in a phone call to general mattis, the defense secretary, that he wanted to assassinate bashar al assad, the leader of syria and his people. and mattis when he hung up the phone had to tell his senior aide, no, we re not going to do any of that. we re going to be much more measured than that. there is an effort by all senior officials in the administration to be guardrail for what they believed would be very dangerous and unwise actions that the president wanted to do. i intend to act john brennan a question about that in just a minute s time. jeremy bash, in your lifetime did you ever think you d read about or hear about a letter being swiped off the desk of the president of the united states lest he read it or even worse sign it? no, brian. what we see here is our
information about the world. a lack of curiosity in alarming his advisers. what woodward details is again and again and again his military leaders, general dunford, for example, secretary mattis, the defense secretary, and others just being alarmed by this president, by decisions that he wants to make. for example, he said in a phone call to general mattis, the defense secretary, that he wanted to assassinate bashar al assad, the leader of syria and his people. and mattis when he hung up the phone had to tell his senior aide, no, we re not going to do any of that. we re going to be much more measured than that. there is an effort by all senior officials in the administration to be guardrail for what they believed would be very dangerous and unwise actions that the president wanted to do. i intend to act john brennan a question about that in just a minute s time. jeremy bash, in your lifetime did you ever think you d read about or hear about a letter being swiped off the desk of the