sources. no white house source would dare put his name on that quote for woodward and bernstein. it was a very hot quote, controversial quote. the white house isn t supposed to sound like that at all. the white house is supposed to speak with a calm, reassuring voice. witch-hunt. that s not white house language. the white house is not supposed to accuse the senate of conducting a political witch hunt. the white house has to do business with the senate every day. you can t talk like that. so no one in the nixon white house would allow themselves to actually be caught by name using that phrase then, witch hunt. at 7:52 a.m. today, the president of the united states was awake and tweeting. this is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in american history. last night, the white house
and it also means that it adds up to nothing. in the end. just a confusing bunch of nothing. nothing criminal. and everyone in washington always wants to know exactly what they re dealing with. exactly what it is, or at least to be able to pretend to know exactly what they re dealing with. and until they do, they will mostly default to the model of watergate on this one, to understand where we are in america tonight. and now we re hearing the language of wargate. not just in comments from senator john mccain comparing the current situation to watergate, to the size and scale of watergate. but this the language of the president himself. on july 22nd, 1973, bob woodward and carl bernstein reported in the washington post that president nixon and his top aides in the white house, quote, believe that the senate watergate hearings are unfair and cute a political witch-hunt according to white house sources. no white house source would dare put his name on that quote for woodward and bernste