call the failing new york times that s talking about he s part of the resistance within the trump administration. an anonymous editorial. can you believe it? gutless.it an anonymous, really anonymous, gutless, coward. but for the sake of our national security, the new york times should publish his name at once. we should find out who it is because why should we live withi somebody in the white house who is really subversive in a sense. if you look at it, it s subversive. y jill, subversive for the sake of the national security, the new york times should publish their name at once., this by the way, has remarkable parallels to the whistle blower story we re in right now. this seems to be an attack the president is used to. is this view shared by others in the white house?
trump s come pulse for attacking critics.ki what will he do when there is no person to attack, only an idea. jill, that s a compelling case because as we ve seen again with the whistle blower, it has gone well beyond the whistle blower s allegations into things that have been proved and yet, the president stays on the whistle blower s identity. donald trump does like to stick to associate people with his ia criticisms. absolutely. look, you ve seen over the course of the last couple of weeks, the president coming closer and closer to unmasking the identity of the whistle blower. we saw the president s own son tweeting an article that claimed to publish the identity of the whistle blower and seen when they don t have that, you know,n on conservative media, they were going after the lawyer digging up tweets of his and using those to discredit that information. we ve seen a republican allies of the president go after all of
white house when the president tweets. quote, it s like showing up at the nursing home at daybreak to find your elderly uncle running pantsless across the courtyard and cursing loudly about the cafeteria food as worried attendants try to catch him. you re stunned. amused and embarrassed all at c the same time only your uncle probably wouldn t do it every single day and his words aren t broadcast to the public and he doesn t have to lead the u.s. government once he puts his pants on.le here for the lead off discussion on a thursday night, phillip rucker, politzer prize winning n white house burro chief and jill, white house reporter for the associated press and peter baker, correspondent for the new york times and co-author of the book impeachment in american history. phil, you have read this book. what is it, other than a collection of anecdotes that
on this every day. were there things in the book that surprised even you? you know, the book other books about the trump presidency have been reported sort of collections of anecdotes. this book is more of an observation of a commentary on what it s like inside the government. the author actually writes at the beginning of the book that he or she watered down a lot of the scenes, stripped details from these anecdotes to protect his or her identity, so what you re not going to find in the book is sort of a page turner of every day, what the president was saying but rather you re going to just find alarming statements about the president s conduct and his behavior and his character, his morality, his fitness for office, his mental acuity and on and on. jill, i want to play for you various things that donald trump has said about this editorial and this author. we have somebody in what i