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Or is it, as it is for so many people, the kind of slow-moving, frog-boiling experiment, of rolling moments every day? >> well, when i talk to people inside the government, inside the intelligence community, inside the defense department, i sense a huge frustration. because their job, in many respects, is to support a policy process, and there is no policy process. there are no deputies meetings, principals meetings. theres no regular order in the way policy is made. i think the woodward book ex...

Issue to say that we do not pressure the attorney general or the fbi to use the criminal justice system to punish political opponents. >> reporter: he hasnt spoken to obama since inauguration day in 2017 responded to obamas hour long speech like this. >> i watched it but i fell asleep. i found he is very good, very good for sleeping. >> reporter: trump made clearests also worried about democrats in midterm elections, planting early seeds of argument against impeachment. >> we will impeach him, b...

There are no principles meetings. theres no regular order in the way policy is made. i think the woodward book explains this. the anonymous author explains this, as well. the president makes up policies and fires them off and decides things at whim without the input of facts, information, expertise. intelligence, and deliberation, so were getting a horrible result. the thing i worry about, brian, is were coming to the mid terms that many people inside the government who are trying to do a good j...

Sense a huge frustration. because their job, in many respects, is to support a policy process, and there is no policy process. there are no deputies meetings, principals meetings. theres no regular order in the way policy is made. i think the woodward book explains this. the anonymous author explains this, as well. the president makes up policies and fires them off and decides things at whim without the input of facts, infrastructur facts, expertise. were getting a horrible result. the thing i w...

The executive branch? does this person have access to top-secret information? is there a national security srisk? if he or she has a problem with the president or his agenda, they should quit immediately. but if they are going to undermine the president, and it deals with intelligence, sources, methods, national security, what if the president was talking about potentially having to go to war against an enemy? are they going to undermine t that, too? think about how profound and dangerous that c...

And ineffective. the president showing how serious he is about the saying "treason?" asked about the op-ed at a law enforcement event, the president ticked off a long list of accomplishments he says his administration has achieved, then he ripped to "the new york times" and the anonymous author, listen here. >> nobody has ever done in less than a two year period what weve done. when you tell me about some anonymous source within the administration, whose probably here for all the wrong reasons. ...

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 institutions while thwarting mr. trumps impulses until he is out of office. that is consistent with bob woodwards new book. all conveying that the officials who know the president best, around him every day, and talk to him constantly, think he is unfit to the office he holds. they wont come ...

Until he is out of office. that is consistent with bob woodwards new book. all conveying that the officials who know the president best, around him every day, and talk to him constantly, think he is unfit to the office he holds. they wont come out and say it publicly. if any officials are watching call us. and we will talk. according to the op-eds anonymous author, the presidents own cabinet trying to remove him from offers. early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th amendment which ...

In that story. and somebody needs to be willing to put their name on this. >> ben wittes, ashley parker, brett stevens, zerlina maxwell, thank you so much for starting us off. and coming up, the question democratic senator kamala harris could not get brett kavanaugh to answer. also, the senator who compared himself to spartacus. >> plus, the trump white house is hiding data that undercuts its arguments about refugees. we have it. you will see it. next, did the anonymous author of this op-ed ...

As i said, this is an alarm being sounded. were not sure how to respond to it. i think that the curiosity about who this is is the rightful province of the white house. i think that what the rest of us should be thinking about is what the constitutional remedy is to the kind of crisis that this anonymous author is alerting us to, and who this person is eventually well know or we dont. but wondering who it is is less important than the strength of this message. ive never seen anything like this. ...