senator chuck schumer. start with you, vdh. coordinated, woodward calling up omarosa manigault, calling up, this, is that what you mean or just the no, just the laura: constant drum beat? i didn t say people got into a room as senate democrats did with the kavanaugh hearing, not like that. here we are, 60 days out and suddenly, we have on-sourced, unnamed, anonymous op ed, rare in journalistic process by the new york times alleging bad things trump did and stylistic, i mean, not any citation that the iran deal, council in the iran deal, getting out of paris accord or impeachable offensives. member of resistance, and four dayss later, the same theme is again, exhibited in bob woodward advance copies of incompetence and terror and barack obama decides to go out on campaign
i don t believe it s stylistic and i think the last two days have proven that. this is not a management style. if this is true by any measure, what s in the woodward book, what we read in that op-ed today, there s a problem going on in that white house that you see as a contagion in terms of every situation you ve just seen. the chaos to get to a point that you could have gotten to otherwise. always using hostility. using aggression where at some point you have to act or be acted upon. those are real problems. no one in your party stands up about it. look, i learned early on in my job when i had a fight with the unions that sometimes you have to fight and stand tough. but if you do it all the time it s distracting. you can t achieve your bigger purposes. and it s not about some it s not about i win, you lose. the other thing is when you look at the congress, though, it s like 24 hours since john mccain was put to death and look at this circus of a hearing that s going on.
clear, send it to the american people, which is clear that things are amiss and there s a serious problem in the white house. so this is a fair warning. do you think this person is alone? do you think it s one person? i said the same thing when people asked me when i took a one shot guess is it just one person and i said not necessarily , it could be in the process of it could have been multiple people. it looks like it was edited by the new york times. most white house staff don t write in tight little journalistic paragraphs. they said it was brian stelter s said it was edited for stylistic conformity to the new york times but not editorially, they didn t change words. i would agree with that. they would haven t access to the information that s in there so yes it could be more than one person. but i think this person is worried. i think it corresponds with what
ultimately they strike or they resent it. that doesn t mean that we should not be tough, but we have to be more selective and we have to recognize we need our allies. let me give you one more. the chinese. we need our allies to be working with us to tell the chinese to knock off the ripoffs, tell the chinese that we expect better behavior out of them. who do we go have a meeting with? i talk to these people around the world who are they re just really uncertain about where we are. and he says that s a strength for him and his people say this is all style. i ve fought that notion because i don t believe it s stylistic and i think the last two days have proven that. this is not a management style. if this is true by any measure, what s in the woodward book, what we read in that op-ed today, there s a problem going on in that white house that you see as a contagion in terms of every situation you ve just seen. the chaos to get to a point that you could have gotten to otherwise.
talent. the truth is i m an a conservative businessman who stands with and voted for president trump. it s like a stalin trial now. it s unbelievable. when you wore a collectivist tie you re out of order. it is the new reality of the republican primary. when al and i were do republican politics, you lineup what you can use in the general election. you re the tax cut guy. you re the business guy, you re going to fix school. not only your party, but swing voters. now you come out of this thing from the trump church in the republican primary with a big trump halo. in the general election democrats all hate trump. in the independents he s upside down. what s your magic light sword in the primary becomes an anchor around your neck in the general. so much of this is stylistic. they want to be seen as pugelist inside the gop.