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And hes doing things that i approve of for the military, that i approve of for the economy, that hes picking judges that i would have picked. whatever differences i have with the president, i like what hes doing and the people working for him, i think, feel like theyre doing the country a great service by being part of the trump administration, to those who believe that this man is a fool, that this man is crazy, that theres something wrong with donald trump and its just the people around him th...

But cnn has learned that hes privately trying to hunt down the legendary journalist sources and likely punish them. and kavanaugh under fire. all of this comes as mr. trumps supreme court nominee is facing contentious questioning by democratic senators, democrats pressing him about his views on executive power and whether the president could pardon himself or if the president could be subpoenaed. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre i...

News on an unprecedented firsthand account from within the trump administration of internal efforts to thwart the president by people he appointed to serve. a senior official writing anonymously in "the new york times," citing the presidents lack of morality as the root of many misguided actions that are detrimental to the nation. theres a lot to dissect with our legal and political experts and gloria borger, the person, writes this, among other things. many of the senior officials in his own ad...

Justice have made that the president feels like were not good decisions. >> you mean the two republican congressmen who have been charged? >> no, im not talking about that. im talking about the zero tolerance policy, a few other things like that. >> because yesterday the president went after jeff sessions because of those two republican congressmen who have been accused now, and he said, what are you doing, jeff sessions? what are you doing? >> yeah. >> its going to be a close race, we need thes...

He also said only a very small number of people within "the new york times" know the persons identity. wolf, the detail that stands out most to me is the detail about the cabinet. this op-ed writer said there was talk within the cabinet about trying to invoke the 25 tth amendment, but the cabinet officials decided not to, because they didnt want to provoke a constitutional crisis. that suggests to me that this person had some visibility into cabinet-level discussions, at least early on in the ad...

Criminal investigation of this president. >> you know, you questioned kavanaugh back in 2006 when he was nominated for his position as a judge on the d.c. federal appeals court. and in 2007, you told npr that you felt, quote, perilously close to being lied to by kavanaugh when he said he wasnt involved in questions about detained combatants. today he told you that answer was 100% accurate. do you feel that his testimony today was 100% accurate? >> no, i dont. quite honestly, he gave me an answer...

Immorality, and how this president is not really a conservative, and also praises somebody like john mccain in this, which i thought was kind of interesting, but also confirms the whispers that we were hearing early on this administration about members of the cabinet talking about invoking the 25th amendment early on to find a way to tell the american public, you know, this person should not be president, but decided not to proceed with it, because these people did not want to create a constitut...

>> well, all i can say is that now its 2018 and muellers investigation is very mature. im sure hes on path to issue a report, probably after the election. im committed to him doing his job without political interference. but in the last year, things have transpired to the point now that its not about recusal, its deeper, in my view, and if the president wants to choose an attorney general he has a better working relationship, he has that -- >> i want to be precise. does he blame jeff sessions fo...

From involvement in the russia probe -- >> its unfair to jeff. >> did jeff sessions do the right thing? >> he had to. ive been a lawyer all my adult life. you cant investigate a campaign of which you are a part. so he had to recuse himself, but theres a lot deeper stuff than just that. all i would tell the president, if you want to replace jeff sessions after the election, there are people that could take this job that i think would get confirmed. but heres the bottom line. nobody is going to re...

Writes, "the root of the problem is the presidents amorality. anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making." the legendary "washington post" journalist of watergate fame defending his book in five simple words. i stand by my reporting. in the presidents first public comments about the book, he denied ever ordering or even considering the assassination of the syrian leader, as woodward reported. >> that was never even contempl...