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New book about the president which mr. Trump is dismissing as fiction. Pardoning himself. Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces questions about the president s legal problems and the Mueller Investigation but he wont say if mr. Trump has the ability to pardon himself. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following multiple breaking stories this hour, including a truly extraordinary attack on President Trump by one of his own Senior Administration officials. That person writin...

Truth necessarily. That one person can dictate on high in terms of policy issues or social issues or Economic Issues and that the truth or at least best answer emerges after debate and over time and that freedom of speech is important to help advance that cause of the debate. And its important just as an individual matter i think to have that protection written into the constitution because you may have an unpopular view at a particular point in time and if that view were suppressed okay. Well c...

They realize theyre on the wrong side of history . No. George wallace realized he was on the wrong side of history when he was in the middle of it . No, first of all, ignorance and arrogance is a deadly combination. You have people who should know better but dont. And they believe they know whats right. Thats a dangerous thing. We saw a lot of that in the 60s. What were seeing today, i have a different read on. People are willing to forgive too much based on what they like from this administrati...

Person reads i am part of the resistance inside the Trump Administration. The headline is not even the most stunning part of what this person has to say. The official writing in the New York Times, quote, we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic. That is why many trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic stuginstitutions whi thwarting mr. President trumps more misg...

Just five hours ago, think of it, the president s biggest problem was a book that is still days away from going on sale in bookstores. Then came the bombshell late today, an anonymous oped in the New York Times titled i am part of the resistance inside the trump administration. That pretty much says it all. The tiemps says the author is a Senior Administration official known to the papers editors and whose job would be jeopardized by the disclosure of their identity. They first called the source...

President anonymously and in print as this president is fond of saying, the likes of which we have never seen before. In the course of just this one day, the president called for a tightening of libel laws, called out an employee for possible treason and asked a newspaper to hand over someones name. Just five hours ago, think of it, the president s biggest problem was a book that is still days away from going on sale in bookstores. Then came the bombshell late today, an anonymous oped in the New...

What were hitting at. In this case were the pinata. It feels like we are not in control of our destiny because we dont know what options are available to us. I dont know about you. But a few minutes after i fin h finished my first read of the op ed piece, i had my guess about who the author was. I spent some time working on it. I am now prepared to label it an educated guess. Really . Based based on my own years working in washington and observations made at the time and a close study of the tex...

This same director came out with seven days in may. It was made in 1964, but because it was thought of as such a sensitive subject, they set it a decade in the future in the 1970s to try to not freak people out so much because of the plot in the movie potentially unfolding right then and there in the United States in the early 1960s. Seven days in may is another classic scary american political thriller. Its about the u. S. Military rejecting civilian control of the military. The u. S. President...

Of saying, the likes of which we have never seen before. In the course of just this one day, the president called for a tightening of libel laws, called out an employee for possible treason and asked a newspaper to hand over someones name. Just five hours ago, think of it, the president s biggest problem was a book that is still days away from going on sale in bookstores. Then came the bombshell late today, an anonymous oped in the New York Times titled i am part of the resistance inside the tru...

Who of course is the man who oversees the russia investigation. This afternoon the New York Times dropped an extraordinary story that says rosenstein suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump by wearing a wire. And according to the times, rosenstein also discussed lobbying the cabinet to potentially remove the president from office via the 25th amendment, specifically singling out two cabinet secretaries, Jeff Sessions and then dhs secretary john kelly as people who might be re...