joining me now is the republican chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, ed royce of california. the apparent split between the president and the trump administration was on full display. take a listen to the president s top national security intelligence officer s speaking from the white house podium this week. russia attempted to interfere with the last election and continues to engage in maligned influence operations to this day. we acknowledge the threat is real. it is continuing our add sers varies have shown we have the willingness and capability to interfere in our elections. so that s all the president s men and women. but yet the president tweeted, quote so president obama knew about russia before the election, why didn t he do something about it? why didn t he tell our campaign? because it is all a big hoax. that s why. how do you as the top foreign affairs republican in the house, somebody who clearly believes that there is a threat that
welcome back to state of the union , you would imagine a warning coming from inside the white house could send the president directly to the situation room and told there was a serious response. instead president trump continued to call the russia investigation a democrat inspired witch hunt. joining me now is the republican chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, ed royce of california. thank you for being here. thank you, jake. the apparent split between the president and the trump administration was on full display. take a listen to the president s top national security intelligence officer s speaking from the white house podium this week. russia attempted to interfere with the last election and continues to engage in maligned influence operations to this day. we acknowledge the threat is real. it is continuing our adversaries have shown we have the willingness and capability to interfere in our elections. so that s all the president s
calling trump jr. quote a patriot and a good man. which is unlikely to placate the president who has already slammed bannon with his unflattering nicknames calling him sloppy is steve. all the president s men and women going on the offensive against the picture that wolff points of the president who repeats the same thing over and over in a matter of minutes. in a white house where he says staffers mention the the 25th amendment at least 20 times. that would be the amendment allowing the cabinet and the vice president to initiate removal of the president. allful this has the president adopts his best what, me, worry? that attitude. reliving his election victory at his speech tonight in nashville. oh, are you happy you voted for me. you are so lucky that i gave you that privilege. joining me now is mooi come wolff, the author of fire and fury, inside the trump white house. what a book.
tell wolff, quote, they re going to crack don jr. like an egg on national tv. that apparently fracturing bannon s relationship with the president, forcing the flame-throwing former chief strategist into a sort of apology calling trump jr. a patriot and good man, which is unlikely to play indicate the president who has already slammed bannon with one of his nicknames, calling him sloppy steve. all the president s men and women going on the offensive on the 3ik picture that wolff paints. staffers mention the 25th amendment at least 20 times. that would be the amendment allowing the cabinet and the vice president to initiate removal of the president. all this as the president adopts his best what, me worry? that attitude. reliving his election victory at his speech tonight in nashville. oh, are you happy you voted for me. you are so lucky that i gave you that privilege.
states that since the booked admits in the introduction that it contains untrue statements that it s not going to be difficult for him to prove actual malice, which is reckless disregard for the truth. now, that introduction by michael wolff does state that many of the accounts of what has happened in the trump white house are in conflict with one other. many in trumpian fashion are baldly untrue. those conflicts and that looseness with the truth if not with reality itself are an elemental thread of the book. and this is the fundamental problem with this threat of a lawsuit. if malice can be proven for wolff, it can also be proven for president trump and all the president s men and women. my panel is back with me. the white house is hammering the author, michael wolff, going after inaccuracies in the book. i want you to listen to the deputy white house press secretary hogan gidley speaking on cnn tonight. this author is quite frankly a crackpot fake news fantasy fiction writer an