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 theyre 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 hes 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 oped 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 wondering if theyre loy
We run everything straight by the book. Not sure what book hes 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 close to this white hou
have seen something, what am i obligated to do, what are the legal processes, and he did it. look, i want to hear this information. i want to have this story. i just wish other people in the trump administration would have the courage to come out and say, look, this is what we are seeing, what the american people need to be warned about, and i wish they would have done it earlier and i wish more of them would do it and be willing to step up the way some of the whistle-blowers that we re seeing now have been willing to do through the proper procedures or actually walking up to capitol hill and saying, this is my story. let me read for you guys a part of what we can expect here. this is supposed to deal with things like the president s leadership style essentially being adversarial, petty, ineffective. this anonymous author goes on to say that meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails. he engages in repetitive rants and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed, an
your colleagues. i was in the oval office and there were many people that would come in and out, but i would hope that if there s something important in this book that needs to be said that somebody would stand up and put their name behind it. so one thing that this person wrote, obviously, we don t know the book yet, but in the op ed, the one just over a year ago, this person writes about trump, the root of the problem is the president s amorality and the person goes on to describe trump s leadership style as adversarial, petty and ineffective and the meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails and he engages in repetitive rants with half-baked and ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back. do you agree? i don t think there s any doubt that the president s mind moves quickly and the conversations change very rapidly and one of the concerns that i always had when i worked in the administration was to make sure that he was getting the righ
something they ve faced criticism in the past. indeed, j.w., i want to revisit that the new york times op-ed, that anonymous one written by a white house official in september of last year it said, meetings with him veer off topic, off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants and his impulsiveness results in half-baked ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions. and americans should know that there are adults in the room. that was last year. is there some in your estimation adults in the room? i still have respect for adults in the room. congress is not going to move on impeachment obviously at this point. they re trying to do the right thing and implement apologies and keep things from going off the rails. but public, i think the world is going to remember the decisions