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we run everything straight by the book. not sure what book he s talking about but not much book on governance that seems to be going on in this white house or anything this anonymous official describes. the president is said to be volcanic about it and said nothing this afternoon going to a trip to montana where he will be speaking tonight and sarah sanders spoke about this gutless loser and the times for being deceitful of this act and tweeted the times phone number. sarah sanders called on him or her to come forward and resign. no takers so far. these are all the senior administration officials up to and including the vice president who have denied writing the piece. secretary mattis, and pompeo and dan coats and more than two dozen top officials in all, one exception chief of staff john tweet asking whether or not the journalists of the new york times are going to investigate themselves and reveal who this anonymous source is. i can tell you talking to sources clo ....
administration, not only conducted by white house officials but allies of this white house want to know who anonymous is. how much weight is the white house taking these. you say they re printing them out and basically showing them to him. reporter: my understanding is that, yes, he is, remember, this is a president who likes to have cabinet meetings where he goes around the room and cabinet officials and secretaries praise him for the work he s doing. this is very much in line and character with that. i will tell you, anderson, talking to sources close to this white house, i talked to one source earlier today raising questions about the strength of some of these statements coming from some of these cabinet officials. i think there is, in sort of the same way they were going through that new york times op-ed searching for clues whether this person or that person wrote this in the new york times. there are allies of the president going through these cabinet officials wo ....
Before the high court. and whether booker would risk expulsion from the senate as to e-mails he sent out as committee confidential. i knowingly violated the rules that were put forth and i m told that the committee confidential rules have knowing consequences. so, sir, i come from a long line, as all of us do as americans and understand what that kind of civil disobedience is. i understand the consequences. i am right now before your process is finished, i will release the e-mail about racial profiling. i understand the penalty comes with potential ousting from the senate. if senator cornyn believes i have violated senate rules i openly invite and accept the consequences of my team releasing that e-mail right now. republicans pushed back later and said he and his staff had already been informed those documents could be released. i spoke with senator booker just before the broadcast. senator booker, you just finished your second round of ....
But, again, what my duty is, is to try to properly vet this candidate so that i can give advice and consent. it s written in the constitution. and to properly vet somebody, you should have the fullness of their record. for some reason, the fullness of their record is being hidden from the american public. we only have about 10% of these documents. 90% of his résume is being hidden. i pushed documents out about a lot of different things today against the rules of the senate against the rules, excuse me, of the committee. that s just the tip of the iceberg. that s just a drop in the bucket of the totality of the documents out there that they ve been hiding. appreciate your time. quick reminder, don t miss full circle on facebook. you get to pick some of the story we cover. join us at 6:25 p.m. eastern. if you haven t seen the show, it s a lot of fun. one of america s most recognizable, beloved movie stars has died. coming up, the life and career of the one of a kind burt reynold ....
was it a violation? bill burke said he cleared the documents before 4:00 a.m. per your staff s request and that they had told you you could use them publicly. grassley s office also confirmed you were told that the restrictions on the documents had been waived before you spoke today. so how do you square that with the idea that with what you ve said? well, i square that very easily. number one, last night i broke the rules before they then they scrambled to release the document. but i continue to release documents. i ve released 20 so far that they have not cleared. i am breaking the rules. i am breaking the sham rules. 20 documents if you check my twitter feed. anybody in the public now can have access to the ones they wanted to hide. they haven t cleared those yet. maybe they re rushing to catch up to me and clear those as well. today, though, earlier had those been cleared and did you know those had been cleared? again, when i broke the committee rules last night, thos ....