So theyre scrambling. Theyre trying to figure this out as well, chuck. No indication as to whether the president has been briefed on this. Hes about to hold an event with sheriffs. In fact im told he just entered and so well try to get more questions to him about all of this. But this is unprecedented, as you say, the fact we have someone inside sounding the alarm like that. Thats what it is, someone sounding the alarm. The call is coming from inside the house. By the way, i should make a point, no Press Briefing today, no Press Briefing yesterday. How many are we up to how many Press Briefings have we had in the last six weeks . We havent had one in two weeks and we had less this summer. I think then its typical, for the record. So its becoming sort of the diminishing Press Briefing. Now, they would argue, hey, look, you had four different chances to ask the president questions today. That is true, and well take it. But of course shouted questions, yeah. Exactly, exactly. Shouted ques
on the offsite of the white house. he is a former special assistant in the trump administration, in the trump white house. mark, thank you for doing this. you re joining us on the phone, i appreciate it, last minute. let me ask you straightforward, what s your initial reaction to this? this is perhaps a colleague of yours? perhaps somebody that shared the same title as you, not some midlevel staffer. what s just your gut reaction? thanks for having me, chuck. i, like many people, just finished reading it just moments ago for the first time. and it concerns me for a couple of reasons. first off, we don t know the rank and the title and the position that this person holds. and while and i ll include myself in this as well. while my position sounds you know, when i was in the white house, special assistant to the president sounds very senior. there are a lot of meetings that took place at a lot higher