broadcast tonight was the first excerpts from a warning, a senior administration official raising the prospect that a senior administration official should have potentially resigned en masse after charlottesville, raising the possibility the president needs things to be dumb down for him so much he can t even as has been reported, raise picture based briefings or briefings with more than one point in them. this is sobering stuff. and i know there s going to be a frenzy over who this person is. but the title here is out. this is real warning. all right, we ll be right back. stay with us. stay with us performance comes in lots of flavors. there s the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. and then there s performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. that s the kind lincoln s about.
for forthcoming iran sanctions. trump was elated and tweeted the image out to his followers at once, resulting in a cycle of memes mocking the graphic. seeing this type of behavior was both educate [jarring to the burgeoning steady state. it was a visceral lesson we weren t just appointees of the president, we were glorified government baby-sitters. the feeling of unease was cemented by having to deal with the president s penchant for making major decisions with little forethought or discussion. when trump wanted to do something aides might only get a few hours notice from him before he announced it. they then launched a frinetic response effort, a race against the clock to reshape his views before the tweet out. this could up end entire workdays. over time the last minute warnings actually became to see as a luxury. it s better to have a few hours or minutes for that matter to intervene than have no opportunity at all to convince trump to hit the brakes on some
preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting mr. trump s impulses until he s out of office. americans should know that there are adults in the room. we fully recognize what is happening, and we are trying to do what s right even when donald trump won t. wow, right? that s september 5th of last year. the author got specific in terms of outlining concerns among those closest to the president, got very specific about that in one particularly unnerving way that went onto dominate the news for quite a few days afterwards. the author asserting there were, quote, early whispers within the cabinet of the 25th amendment as a means of removing trump from office from within. just gob smacking stuff. and of course it would be hard to overstate the gravity denying level of intrigue that anonymous op-ed generated.
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after president trump already got on the phone and told the ukrainian president that he needed to start doing investigations of people for trump. people like former vice president joe biden. at this meeting after that phone call we know that vice president pence told the ukrainian president in person, face-to-face that, yeah, the u.s. government is holding up military aid to ukraine unless ukraine takes action on corruption. well, one of things we ve been focusing on is who else was in that meeting. you see energy secretary rick perry there and the former national security advisor john bolton. there is gordon sondland, donald trump s hand picked ambassador to the eu. just yesterday we learned he now admits after revising his testimony to the house impeachment proceedings, he now admits when pence was done with that meeting, sondland got up and did his own meeting with the ukrainian government on the side lines of this event in which he personally reinforced to them what they needed to