Good for sleeping. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is at the white house right now. Trump claims obamas speech put him to sleep, but we know its keeping them awake, you know, who is at the center of this oped. The effort is still under way at the white house to root out the Senior Administration official who penned this oped in the New York Times which really does not portray the president in a positive light. It portrays the president as somebody who makes reckless decisions, whose impulses must be constantly checked by the advisers around him. And the white house is still trying to figure out who this person is. A source close to the white house telling cnn the list has been whittled down to just a few people. One Senior Administration official whos already denied writing the oped is out with a rebuttal, nikki haley, the United States ambassador to the united nations. She writes in the washington post, i, too, am a senior trump Administration Official. If i disagree with something and believe it is important enough to raise with the president , i do it. And he listens. Sometimes he changes course. Sometimes he doesnt. Thats the way the system should work. The American People should be comfortable knowing thats the way the system does work in this administration. Whats more she says by throwing gas on a fire of endless distraction, the reaction to the oped have hurt all of us trying to do our jobs for the country. That is nikki haley who we know at times has broke within President Trump on policy, particularly when it comes to her forceful position with regards to russia. Here shes saying look, if i disagree, i raise it with him in person. We know the president is still obsessed with this notion of figuring out who this anonymous Administration Official is, in fact, yesterday, he said he wants attorney general Jeff Sessions to launch an investigation to uncover the identity of this official, degs spite the fact that the president has not identified any crimes that have been committed. Thats typically required for the Justice Department to get involved. The New York Times did respond to the possible investigation. They say were confident the department of justice understands the First Amendment protects all american citizens and it will not participate in such a blatant abuse of government power. Fred, back to you. Jeremy diamond, appreciate it. As President Trump intensifies his search for this anonymous writer, he now wants the u. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions to launch an investigation to find the author. I would say jeff should be investigating who the author of that piece was because i really believe its National Security. With me now is surmichael pemberton, a political strategist. And greg bauer, a former u. S. Attorney. Greg, you first, do you see anything in this oped that would warrant an investigation by the u. S. Attorney general, were there any crimes committed . On the face of it, no, there doesnt seem to be any indication that the writing and the publication of the oped was in any way criminal. I have to believe that doj based upon my experience, doj is likely simply ignoring the comments by the president. It will be interesting to see if the president continues to talk about a doj investigation and i guess what will be more interesting is to see whether or not general kelly or don mcgahn or someone else from the white house actually calls over to doj and asks for an investigation. I have to believe at this point doj is simply ignoring it. You prefaced it by saying on the face of it, so youre saying potentially there could be an area . Well, i just dont see it. Ive read it every which way and i cant imagine how doj might see any evidence of a crime there. No, i cant believe this will actually ever turn into an actual criminal investigation. Okay, so it is clear, however, that, you know, the hunt for this writer is all consuming for the white house and this is how senator Lindsey Graham put it. Ive talked to him a bunch, yes, absolutely. Well, hes pissed off. He feels betrayed. I dont blame him. So feeling betrayed, he doesnt necessarily blame him, you know, is that enough to precipitate trying to get the attorney general engaged here, involved, snuffing out whoever may be responsible for this oped . Right. Im not sure, fred, that the ends justify the means here. But i do think that said individual should be found and they need to let that person go. I think its extremely troubling to have individuals within the white house essentially sglirnding the president. That is not the way our system whats the troubling part . That someone would feel that way or the troubling part is they would write the oped, make it public . Well, no, no, its okay to have dissent i think within any organization. If what theyre alleging is true, they should resign publicly and bring those things to the American People so we can all have the dialogue about what our next steps should be as a nation. But to essentially undermine the president by taking documents off of his desk, et cetera, i am just not certain that is the best way to move forward here. I think president obama talked about this and others on all sides, pretty much agreed, at least on this, that its not the way our democracy works, by undermining the president. Even if you disagree with some of his worst instincts, resign and bring those things to the public fold so we can have that dialogue. Kellyanne conway told cnn she believes the writer is someone in National Security and not in the white house and believes that the person will likely out themselves. This is her sentiment. Im not interested in investigating. Those who are investigating, great. I hope they find the person. I believe the person will sus himself or herself out though. Because thats usually what happens. People brag to the wrong person. They brag that they did this or they did that because i assume part of this isnt the goal here not what the oped pretends the goal is, isnt the goal here really to sow chaos and get us all suspicious of each other . Is that whats happening, getting suspicious of each other . If the person announces themselves, if they brag or if someone is to find that person out, isnt the issue or unissue is theres some real common denominator to the sentiment in the oped . You see it in books. In Bob Woodwards book that is coming out that really describes this white houses president as being impulsive, potentially reckless . Consensus among the left, certainly the people i know and work within the white house dont feel that way at all. But those people quoted even with bob woodward. Its not a left or right. Its certainly not a left these are people who were in there, who are being quoted as expressing the same kind of sentiment. And theyre collectively on the right. Remember, bob woodward has made a career out of quoting mr. Anonymous in this town. Ronald reagan actually called him a liar which reagan never did barack obama said he willfully uses willfully wrong information. President clinton, president bush, both bushes have all criticized bob woodward for having a real loose relationship with the truth when it comes, again, to his beloved character, mr. Anonymous the question and the issue is about the Common Thread of the complaint of being impulsive and reckless lets just you read that in this oped and were seeing that expressed sentiment in books that have been written about inside the white house. Well, let me say this what about addressing that is really the question. Well, this cowardly peep squeak who is probably not even a staffer. It could be a staff turf battle for all we know. Ive seen those in washington where people take to tactics like this. If they really were a serious person, if this person was a patriot, if this person was an adult, he or should we step forward and say look, i was there when the president did some irrational act. We got to evoke the 25th amendment immediately. Its a matter of National Security. I took an oath not to the country but to the constitution. Theyre not going to do that because the case is not there. I can tell you, they would be a hero if they could say i saw the president do something wild, weird and wacky, but theyre not going to do it because thats not what has happened. So i wonder, greg, you know, is this oped or those who decided to, you know, express themselves, maybe theyre revealing themselves or not. Is this really a challenge to being constructive or a challenge to the institutions of checks and balances . In some ways, i believe it is. I do believe i agree with jack, this person should come forward and likely will be identified at some point. Its hard to remain anonymous with respect to something this significant and this explosive in washington for very long. But i think the focus really should be on the substance and not the form of what has happened here. The substance suggests a dysfunctional white house in some significant ways. I think it is incumbent upon congress in terms of checks and balances within the system and coming upon congress to at least take these allegations and suggestions and indications of dysfunction seriously and do some serious oversight, ask some serious questions about what is going on in the white house. And if nothing else, this oped has sort of teed that up for the first branch of government to take a hard look. We find out who, you know, who penned this, but then what . Well, look, i mean, as the author of the piece states throughout, there are other individuals within the administration and throughout the Government Agencies that do find many of the president s directions to be problematic as it relates to the National Security of the country but, again, i think, come november, if democrats do indeed take back the house, and i think you may actually begin to see more of a Public Movement on trying to have hearings about the president s ability to actually lead and continue to be president. All right, greg brower, jack kingston, surmichael, appreciate it. Stumping for seven democrats looking to flip congressional seats in november. Will we see another stinging critique of President Trump by the former president obama . Plus, the east coast closely watching a Tropical Storm gather strength as it heads towards the carolinas. Forecasters saying it could be a major hurricane by the time it arrives. And this puzzling story out of dallas. 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