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About. reporter: right, wolf. stand by for a moment. jamie, you have read the book. the president was ranting. sort of underscored and he was saying all sorts of wild things, several of those things clearly not true. but in the op-ed, senior official writes this. i ll read it once again about off the rails. meetings with him according to this official veer off topic and off the rails. he engages in repetitive rants. and is impulsiveness results in half baked ill informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back. it sounds like what he was doing right there. and it also sounds like what i ve been reading in bob woodward s book. for the last couple of days. in fact, some of words sound like the way woodward quotes chief of staff john kelly. off the rails. other ones talking about rants and impulsiveness. one difference. this is anonymous. ....
President reacting to the bob woodward which is clearly a bombshell. listen to this. the book means nothing. it s a work of fiction. already general mattis has come out very, very strongly. and i think you know general mattis, he does what he wants to do. he s a very independent guy. he was insulted by the remarks that were attributed to him. he came out with a very strong statement. general john kelly, the same exact thing. he was insulted by what they said. he s right here. he s insulted by he couldn t believe what they said and he put o out a very, very strong statement. and many others, other statements are coming out. the book is a work of fiction. if you look back at woodward s past, he had the same problem with other problems. he likes to get publicity, sell some books. that s pretty much in contrast to what he, himself, told woodward a few weeks ago, when he called woodward, and was complaining, how come you didn t interview me, i didn t know you were doing the book, i wi ....
Joey, inside the trump administration. the congress is a different body, obviously. democrats are outraged. republicans are holding back. but there s another strong line in this op-ed. i ll get phil to weigh in on this one. there is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. i think and dana hit something that might not be visible outside washington, d.c. there is a direct linkage of the woodward book and this editorial today. i think you are seeing people typically saying i m part of the reagan revolution or trump revolution saying i know where the tides are going and i know what history s going to judge and anonymous or named in the book that came out, coming out next week, i want the record to show i was part of the resistance. i think you are starting to see people on the inside, not bureaucrats but appointees to get the name on the record and where the book and editorial are ....
Greater bunker mentality than in the past and now the op-ed and looking around saying, who can i trust? and for somebody that we think has boutds of paranoia at times a and bouts of anger and not able to keep it in check is scary. bob woodward writes in the book and describes that his aides think the president is lonely. they think he s paranoid. there is a quote where he says i think people are out to get me. i think in that case talking about robert mueller. that he is watching six to eight hours of television. when you have this and you have the op-ed and next tuesday you re going do see names attached and great detail in the woodward book i think it s going to add to the can i add one other thing to just sort of atmospheric observation that people who i talk to in and around trump world who are hopelessly optimistic no matter what ....
A lie is a lie. as mark pointed out, bob woodward has won two pulitzer prizes. he has extraordinary credibility. but just to go back, i think it s important to say, how did he write this book? the sources and methods. he interviewed dozens of inner circle administration officials, firsthand sources in the room. and almost all of them agreed to be recorded. he has hundreds of hours of tape recorded interviews. he did agree to do it on deep background, which means he can use whatever they say, but he won t identify them publicly. but there are names throughout the book. so it s very easy for people to deny, now, oh, i didn t say idiot, although that was the chief of staff, he didn t say, i didn t say unhinged or erratic. ....