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
the president. is that something you think he should actually do. my sense is you do think that and if you do, why should he? isn t every judicial nominee is nominated by the president and they re not asked to recuse themselves from something about the person that nominated them. i asked brett kavanaugh very directly yesterday afternoon whether he would recuse himself. i believe very strongly that he must do so. he must commit in this confirmation hearing that he would take himself out of any consideration of any issue involving the president s personal criminal or civil liability. remember, that i and 199 of my colleagues in a lawsuit i ve led have sued the president of the united states for his violation of the emoluments cause, the chief anti-corruption of the constitution and that will reach the supreme court and the president is an unindicted
the vice president or others in the administration. cory booker asked judge kavanaugh at the hearings you re a big part of if he would recuse himself from issues involving the president. is that something you think he should actually do. my sense is you do think that and if you do, why should he? isn t every judicial nominee is nominated by the president and they re not asked to recuse themselves from something about the person that nominated them. i asked brett kavanaugh very directly yesterday afternoon whether he would recuse himself. i believe very strongly that he must do so. he must commit in this confirmation hearing that he would take himself out of any consideration of any issue involving the president s personal criminal or civil liability. remember, that i and 199 of my colleagues in a lawsuit i ve led have sued the president of the united states for his violation