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To find the author, whoever that senior administration official is, and he wants them turned over. and as the president was unleashing on air force one, something we have not seen yet. former president obama breaking precedent and taking aim at president trump by name. it was a rare moment, and all of it playing out at once. abc's chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl leading us off. >> reporter: enraged at the idea of an enemy within his own administration, president trump declared today that attorney general jeff sessions should launch an investigation into "the new york times" essa...

President trump as you reported is calling on the justice department to investigate that letter in "the new york times." is there anything illegal about what the author did, and what can the justice department do here? >> reporter: there certainly doesn't seem to be any classified information in there, so it's unclear what law could possibly have been broken. we have asked the justice department if they are actually investigating. they said simply the department does not confirm or deny investigations. and "the new york times" responded with a statement, harshly worded statement saying, we are...