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
you repeated is in that op ed as well. and that was his remark. lode star referring to john mccain, is that a military term? yes. the new york times wrote a story with an unnamed anonymous source. the new york times didn t write the story. this is an op ed from someone, a senior official, the new york times published it. i think they added to it, too. ultimately someone else wrote it. yes. and not the new york times didn t write it. no. it s not a source, it s an unnamed senior official. the president tweeted this out earlier this evening, and here it is, what he talks about treason. he says, treason, that is a legal term, treason against its treason against the nation, not the president? that s right. and then he followed it up with this tweet, if the gutless anonymous person does exist, the times must turn him or her over to the government at once for national security reasons. that is frighteningly
of nixonian to be frank. didn t he prove what bob woodward is saying in his book, and what the writer of this op ed is saying? he did. what nixon did when he had leaks, he put wiretaps on reporters and white house staff. i wouldn t be surprised if trump would do the same. an educated guess, an idea of who this unnamed person is? kelly would be high on my list. you think so? yeah. why do you say that? the off the rails remark that you repeated is in that op ed as well. and that was his remark. lode star referring to john mccain, is that a military term? yes. the new york times wrote a story with an unnamed anonymous source. the new york times didn t write
resistance. resistance is a military term. you are calling for the right-wing militias. jesse: they fired bombed a limousine during the inauguration. we documented that violence on a number of occasions. you mentioned the russia situation. is there you a sniff of collusion? how did this start? i forget. it s town go back and see how these things began. the first time the russia collusion thing was mentioned, it was an excuse by hillary clinton which she has and long history of doing. she blamed jennifer flowers in arkansas. she blamed monica lewinsky on the vast right wing conspiracy.