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With some of the stuff going on. i think he would be railing against what is going on and i think john provided a lot of cover for other members and when he would do it and they could get behind him kind of thing and i'm not seeing that this right now in all of this. >> cindy john mccain went on to say republicans may be afraid to take on president trump in afraid of not being reap elected but she said, quote, you have to do what you're elected to do and that is represent the country, unquote. coming up, an anonymous senior trump administration official is celt to real estasl tell-all book. ...

That yet let me ask you this. since you are the critic for "the new york times" what is your critique and how well is the book written? >> the writing is very clear. the person puts together, i think, a very methodical case of the things that they have seen in the past few years in the white house. i wouldn't say that the writing is necessarily quite beautiful to my ear, but that is maybe just a malts of taste. i mean, there is a lot of invocations of, you know, quotations from presidents like teddy roosevelt, eisenhower, you know? it's cast in those terms and then different events that are re...

Tell in the book essentially was, quote, the last straw for anonymo anonymous. and that last straw wasn't the president's faux pas or may uncouth behavior, it was the way he of spoke senator mccain when senator john mccain died. anything surprise you by that? >> it was interesting to me because at that point when senator mccain died last year, several things had already happened that i think other people might have taken as a warning that the president perhaps was not rising to the leadership opportunities in his office. and, you know, for instance i mn mentioned in my review the unite the rig...

Dealing with each new political crisis, like a 12-year-old in an air traffic control tower pushing the buttons of government indiscriminately different to the planes skidding across the runway and the flights diverting away from the r runway, obviously, another quote there. jennifer is here to talk about the nonfiction book critic i should say for "the new york times." thank you for being here. i know at some point in this book anonymous writes, trust me. do you get the sense we should trust this writer who will not reveal him or herself? >> well, so i think this is sort of -- it cuts to the h...

Actually trying to cast doubt on the facts that they are described, because i think for a lot of readers they are going to sound very plausible because it isn't very different from a lot of what we are heard in the past three years. i think one of the issues with this book mainly is that because the author is determined to keep themselves anonymous, what ends up happening is that he or she can't get into too many specifics. and so they end up talking about things that have been reported in the news for the past three years, like president trump's tweets, you know, the fact -- you mentioned the...