a coordinated scheme to sabotage his policies or worse, oust him from office. trump s critics who are rooting for an actual resistance have let their imaginations run wild with the idea of public servants frustrating the fears of government to bring down trump. if this kind of conspiracy exists it s news to me and would be disturbing. public service is a public trust. any government employee with such a nefarious end goal should be condemned. instead the early steady state formed to keep the wheels from coming off the white house wagon. when presidential appointees started conferring about their shared concerns with the chief s executive, it was not in the dimly lit smoke filled back rooms of washington. it was done informally. people who compared notes in the workday and in the normal course of business realized that the administration s problems were more than fleeting. they were systemic, they emanated from the top.
to stand by their own claims with their own names attached, showing up in person to talk about their concerns about the president s behavior in the context of this impeachment. i mean, if all of these people can stand up and testify and put their names to this stuff, why not anonymous? well, anonymous makes his or her own case for staying unknown in the book. and for what it s worth the author s representatives say he or she does not stand to make money off the book, which is interesting. the author reportedly did not receive an advance turned down an advance and intends to donate a majority of the profits from the book to non-profit organizations that focus on press freedom including the white house correspondents association. we re advised any profits that aren t so donated as far as we understand it may be set aside to contend with any legal fees that arise from the publication of this book. so, again, we ve obtained these first excerpts. i ve got one more little bit of
part of what s been so difficult about the last three years is that i don t think that our system ever anticipated that someone like donald trump could become president. you know, the way in which the founders designed the system, the way in which candidates were nominated, someone like this is not supposed to be president of the united states. i don t know how to put it more bluntly than that. the gravity of the job is just too much. i would also say, rachel, i m appalled not just necessarily this person is anonymous, but there are a lot of people who have seen this president up close who know these things. they need to tell us what they know. there is an election in one year. if this president is allow today be in charge for another four years, god help us, rachel. and the reality is it is getting worse because he s increasingly surrounded by sycophants and people who tell him what he wants to hear. and that s just going to get
today he quit his job at the white house, his resignation is effective tomorrow. so we get in quick succession, very quick succession this week we get gordon sondland revising his testimony about that meeting to say actually at that meeting that s where i delivered the definite specific quid pro quo demand that you re not getting your military aid unless you investigate the bidens. then we get pence s aide from that meeting, surprise, agreeing to testify behind closed doors today. and while she was testifying behind closed doors today we get a surprise announcement that this other person from the national security council who was staffing that trip, sitting alongside her, while she s testifying, he quit today, effective tomorrow. and maybe these are all unrelated things but a lot of those things are happening all at once in quick succession right now, and you have to wonder what it all means for vice president mike pence. the president is being impeached
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 briefings or briefings with 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. warning all right, we ll be right back stay with us