for that. the reason is, the colleagues respected each other. you worked together in the bush administration and you weren t going to do that you could clash like foes in the oval office so the president could hear two sides but not turn on one another that is called teamwork. that s what anthony has to inspire in everybody at the senior level at the white house. that s how you serve up trump and the nation. neil: doesn t that work both ways? when the president once again was talking act his beleaguered attorney general and raising eyebrows about his job security, if i m watching that and seeing that, i m thinking not only if i m jeff sessions or anyone else, will the boss have my back if he demands that i have his? a great point, neil. the structure and the sentiment of the white house, the morality and behavior starts at the top. the president wanted a team. he built a team and we act like a team. you have to say the same thing
consequences, unintended consequences and do real damage. admiral, do you see what s going on now as a different situation than has happened in past administrations? this president has criticized the intelligence community early on in a way that was at the time kind of considered very surprising and people warned you do that, you are going to end up with people annoyed and leaking information. clearly the obama administration went after leakers more strongly thank past administrations. they did. absolutely did. i have been in washington too long, i guess. leaks are just a part of the fabric of everyday life here. i agree with jeffrey. there are leaks and then there are leaks. leaks of classified sensitive information, shouldn t be tolerated. should be investigated and prosecuted. i totally support the administration with respect to that. this does feel different to me. in terms of the speed and the
frequency with which leaks are happening under this administration so early on. president obama struggled with it. so did president bush. this does feel different. it feels more aggressive and vindictive. thank you both very much. are you done yet? does it look like i m done? shouldn t you be at work? [ mockingly ] shouldn t you be at work? todd. hold on. [ engine revs ] arcade game: fist pump! your real bike s all fixed. man, you guys are good! well, we are the number-one motorcycle insurer in the country. -wait. you have a real motorcycle? and real insurance, with 24-hour customer support. arcade game: wipeout! oh! well. i retire as champion. game hog! champion.
they re not going to make an exception for jeff sessions coming in as a senator to be the attorney general. we have lots of congressional representatives who go into cabinet positions. they do it for all or none. we should be able to find out if there was something special or unique or really suspicious here. we should be able to find out if the fbi person actually did say that to sessions. richard painter, the former white house ethics lawyer for the bush administration said, quote, in the bush administration, someone who lied on a security clearance form would have been out the door within 24 hours. what do you make of this? well, people have steve. yeah. there s a couple things that strike me about this. first is, it doesn t ring true to me that would you have even if there was an fbi officer who said don t worry about this one little bit, you don t have to be as clear as you need to be here, there s all sorts of senior folks, senior staffers that a guy like sessions has
in a formal administrative capacity. this week happens. what changed or was this always the plan? i think she was denying the obvious, right? she was the one that moved the washington and she s influential on staffing. she brought in dina powell who was a friend of her and worked in the bush 43 administration and her husband as one of the most powerful people in the west wing, jared kushner. i think when she was fighting against the idea that she was an adviser most people knew that she was. you think she was in denial contador did you think she was trying to keep it as under the radar as possible. i think she was trying to keep it under the radar. we never had a first daughter who has had an office in the west wing and who s a crucial part of her father s