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Administration officials considered resigning en masse last year in a, quote, midnight self-massacre, to warn the public about president trump's behavior. >> if it was pretty senior people and it was a lot of them, it would not only have affected the actual operations of the government, but it would have underscored and made very real one of the big concerns about this administration, which is that people are concerned about the president's very erratic nature, and i think it could have had a big impact. >> reporter: the author says the officials decided against mass resignations, fearing it w...

According to the post, the new post says senior trump administration officials considered resigning on mass last year in a quote midnight self-massacre to warn the public about president trump's behavior. >> if it was senior people and it was a lot of them, it would have not only affected the actual operations of the government but underscored and made very real one of the concerns about this administration which is that people are concerned about the president's very erratic nature, and i think it could have had a big impact. >> reporter: the author says the officials decided against mass res...

Would have been in a normal situation room raw transcript. so my initial thinking when i saw these ellipses was that somebody on the nsc staff, rather than having some clunky looking notation just put ellipses where the president's voice trailed off. >> reporter: lairie pfeiffer ran the situation room white house for two years under president obama. he oversaw more than 100 calls between obama and foreign leaders and says during those calls, some aides are huddled around another phone in the same room as the president while others are connected on phones in other offices like the situation roo...

That's what they do. so "a." let's go to another unapologetic they are well known note takers. >> i just mean the transcript that we all are hungry for of one in the race. elizabeth warren. i gave her a b-plus. the moment, there might not be because ambassador sondland at why? she by rights in terms of where she is in the race, she should least was smart enough to say let's not have any transcribers get an "a." i've given her an "a" before. on this call. >> not just telling advisers he she's the front runner in iowa. will investigate but going $20 million-plus if the bank. forward. going to th...

Weight in the president's mind against having a meeting that some aides wanted him to have, others did not? sure, certainly. >> and by the way, part of why we don't know what happened in these meetings, at least the may one with prime minister orban of hungary is because there were no note takers. >> this has been an issue repeatedly with this white house where the president has tried to keep note takers out of certain meetings, and they did it because of leaks early on about these foreign leader interactions, but it's going to limit the availability of the information. >> and the other charac...