the fact that there is in this big resistance, i haven t in my reporting, come to see that yet. do you think that the author is withholding their identity because they re still active in the administration at the senior level. not knowing who anonymous is, it s hard to say. i think anonymous is with holding their identity for a variety of reasons, including bringing attention to the book. jonathan allen, alayn alayna treene, good to see you guys. new transcripts are giving us a better look at the impeachment testimony. the biggest take-aways and what it means for the administration. g your vision to life and save in more ways than one.
like any good investigation brooke, facts dictate how long this process goes. if people keep coming forward, evidence keeps coming forward, documents eventually produced this will move quickly. if the administration fights back, don t cooperate, don t send documents some has to go to court. they ll have to sue to try to get the administration people to come forward. white house counsel, secretary pompeo declared the state department won t cooperate until a vote on impeachment. a lot of this is unknown and will stretch beyond this year probably into next year because of the situation so fervent and in not cooperating and irresponsible to wrap something up so quickly without getting all the facts. that s the important thing is here. finding out exactly what happened, who did what, when, where were. who directed money or who didn t. until we have all of those answers you can t vote on this thing one bay oright. interject based on my reporting, though might find information. hearing lead
national security adviser john bolton. and john bolton said he quit and either way he is out. let s bring in our national security experts to discuss. gloria, the tweet was stark. i informed john bolton that his sefss are no longer needed at white house and i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions. bolton 12 minutes later said he resigned. this whole scenario is a little sessions like. and maybe even ruder. he might have been more rude to john bolton than to jeff sessions if that is possible. our reporter, my reporting, dana s reporting and our white house team reporting is that this was kind of the final straw, this question of the meeting with the taliban which john bolton opposed. he didn t want it at camp david. he had a very bitter i was told conversation with the president and that kind of exploded the whole thing. but it doesn t come as a surprise to any of us. i mean these two people
inch, and mcconnell. depend what you mean by an inch. based on my reporting red flag law is dead on arrival. you have a member of the leadership saying he has due process, and senator ben sasse up for reelection. being championed by senator graham, talking to president trump on the goflf course about it. the only game in town if you want gun control based on my conversations with top republicans, toomey manchin, it has to be revived. it doesn t threaten the nra much but it does widen the background check law, right? it does. it includes gun shows. listen to rush limbaugh s somehow on friday. they know they re dealing with a president who s not ideological at the core and may be looking for a win as the trade deal stalls with china. if he starting looking for a background check, you have people beyond the nra boosting
all the actings we have here. it s going to take a while. we can start talking while people see here. these aren t small agencies either. this competency question. the president doesn t mind it, though, chuck. he thinks and based on my reporting, the president truly believes he has more flexibility when he has more all these acting positions in place. he has a new acting position, obviously, with the labor secretary, who just stepped down two days ago. when i talk to folks in and around the white house, it s not necessarily homeland security. it s not necessarily dhs. it s the defense department still without a permanent defense secretary. that s a concern for the president s allies, for people who support him in and around washington. and really thumbing the nose at the constitution. these people are supposed to be confirmed. that are leading these agencies. that s the way our founding fathers wrote the constitution. i m so sick of some in your party, carlos, waving the constitu