expected to come hear the president speak in just a few hours. the president calling for action across the country as he now steps into the 2018 campaign blitz. we re going to keep all things california for you and bring you president obama s comments later. in the between time, the president calls on his attorney general to investigate the author of the new york times op-ed. do you think jeff sessions should be investigating who the author of the op-ed? i think so, because i think it s national security. i would say jeff should be investigating who the author of that piece was because i really believe it was national security. author described being pat of a resistance movement inside the white house while undermining the president s agenda. joining me now the former director of the national counterterrorism center and msnbc intelligence and national security intelligence nick
destabilizing environment, in that kind of environment, if the president doesn t feel he can convene his closest aides, the people in whom he s supposed to have trusted enormous amounts of confidence and authority. if he can t bring those individuals into a room and have confidence that those people are on his side searching the administration s best interests, that certainly sets up a dynamic that we haven t seen in-mile-an-hour foreign policy in a long time. it s certainly not a healthy dynamic. and as i said, i worry how our adversaries can capitalize on that as much as everything else. nick rasmussen, thank you for the chat. protecting trump from trump. new insights from bob woodward s book on how the president is trying to dissuade him from talking to robert mueller.
rasmusse rasmussen. nick, the op-ed writer says it s causing concern. thanks for having me on, alex. i would think of the turmoil this week as creating damage in three different ways. in the first instance, it s certainly among the allies and friends around the world to introduce a significant degree of doubt into how the american government is functioning, in how the administration is making decisions and whether their interests, the interests of our allies and friends be can be safely entrusted to, you know, their traditional american partner. and that s something that they ve been able take as a given for decades but the other can i ask you before we go on to the other two points, i hope you don t lose your train of thought. but this out there eliciting dowd in the minds of those around the worlds allies and
could be someone in many different corners of our government. or our executive branch of the white house. yeah. i think someone has given the approximation, maybe 100 different people can be. we have 27 denials. i was a senior administration official in this administration and last administration, but you wouldn t have called me a close white house aide or anything like that. again, i think it s worth bearing in mind that this person could be in the close the inner ring of decision making or perhaps a little farther out. quote here, one of the major headlines from this article, given the instability many witnessed there were early whispers within the cabinet invoking the 25th amendment to removal the president. if the president cannot trust his staff, nick, can the country potentially be at risk if the staff begins to diminish? again, that kind of environment. it s hard to imagine an unhealthy, potentially