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
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
you see there s no consequence. they will not move to expel me from the senate for violating the committee confidential rules and i will continue to do so because i believe the public has the right to know where he stands oft stands on these issues. 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 cle
sham rules. lawyer overseeing the release of documents said this is a stunt you pulled because they cleared the documents. cory booker is grand slamming. is that clear? did you violate the rules? i am violating the rules. why would john cornyn do something i have never seen before in the senate accuse me of breaking rules and telling me i was facing an ousting of the senate. if what he is saying is true, john cornyn wouldn t have gone there. this is a small thing but i want to make sure, you go there and say this is a ridiculous rule, what is the possible rational for keeping them. john cornyn reads you the riot