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
you ve been talking to sources, what s going on behind the scenes? it really is still an explosion of anger. what we saw in the initial outburst yesterday we saw in public when the president came out and talked about all the great things his administration has done, has become a little bit less so according to people i m talking to who are speaking to those in and around the president, and more kind of a i wouldn t say shoulder shrug but more of a hope that this is like so many other big explosions in the media that make the president look bad and ends up being sort of overtaken by something else that happens in the world and maybe something else that the president is doing. he knows how to try to distract. this does seem different but we have seen that before. there actually is more than i thought there would be, anderson, even from people who might at least on some level
randi kaye, cnn, new york. cnn chief political correspondent, dana brash and douglas brinkley, saw in randi s report. you ve been talking to sources, what s going on behind the scenes? it really is still an explosion of anger. what we saw in the initial outburst yesterday we saw in public when the president came out and talked about all the great things his administration has done, has become a little bit less so according to people i m talking to who are speaking to those in and around the president, and more kind of a i wouldn t say shoulder shrug but more of a hope that this is like so many other big explosions in the media that make the president look bad and ends up being sort of overtaken by something else that happens in the world and maybe something else that the president is