through the white house. and so mrs. bush had made sure that any of the resident's staff that were still working in the white house that had been there in the johnson time were there to greet mrs. johnson at the diplomatic reception room door when she stepped in. and in addition, one of the butlers that had worked for the johnsons, mr. german, was now a part-time elevator operator, operated the president's elevator in the white house, just a few days a week, mrs. bush made sure that he was there and that he was the one that greeted mrs. johnson when the door was opened of the car for her to get out. and the way that mrs. johnson reached up in recognition to embrace mr. german and how he embraced her, is really would just make you weep. but would also, the two last things that i'll just say about mrs. johnson's visit, her last visit to the white house, is, mrs. bush wheeled her into the vermeil room on the ground floor, which had just been repainted under one of the restoration projects that mrs. bush did, tha

white house?" i was just stunned. >> the white house neither confirms nor denies... >> what do you see? >> gold! [ laughs ] >> let's investigate! >> i scrape the paint layers down to the wood. >> and when you heard what it was worth? >> and sold! [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today i'm in boston to meet an heir who has an inheritance so strange, it takes years just to figure out what it is. >> my name is mike meister. my siblings and i inherited something that goes back to our great-uncle more than a hundred years ago. we'd always been told that it came from the white house, but it was just a family story. hi, jamie. welcome to boston. >> thanks, mike. nice to meet you. >> yeah, nice to meet you, too. >> mike leads me inside, saying he has something amazing to show me. he keeps it in its own molded, air-tight protective case. can i take a look? >> sure can. >> you brought me all the way here, mike. this is... what is it? mike's strange inhe

the white house simply is not saying. all of our sources in president white house in washington as well as here say they simply are not sure of the status. rod rosenstein is not going to be around for long. in a weekend interview with geraldo rivera made clear that rod rosenstein is a jeff sessions man, hired by jeff sessions. we know what the president thinks of jeff sessions, obviously. i'm sorry i can't clear up any more confusion hereali at the u. the president will get a read from him in a couple of hours. he may have to be the 1 one to y if he is on the job. by the end of the day, we think he probably will not be. >> a request to laura. if you have anything within the hour, the associated press, cnn's manu raju and kate lynn col collins. he has gone to the white house to say i resign or say fire me? >> it's pretty safe to say he is not going to walk out of that meeting and have the job he has now. they are there hash things out and what they say going forward. they had a conversation last week where rod rosenstein o

>> white houses do not, in the white house, they are probably not. white houses do not protect their security punitively. they protect their security by inspiration. people believe in the president, and people who believe in each other. presidents are politicians, they rise to the ability. and what has been true about this white house is because of the president's utter lack love leadership. recording devices are now pretty small, but the reason that no one checks is because they trust them. they don't check if they have a pen recording device. there is a sign to remind you if you regret. remember the story about a white house staffer saying hurtful things about each other, that was leaked by another staffer, they were just trying to setting a vendetta. >> and the author of this op-ed will soon be outed, is it dangerous? >> i don't imagine, it is hark to crack they are dealing with a number of false clues. we may assume they are going to stay currently employed. they may not be employed now, it may be more than one person. so there is indirection her

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he did not talk about it on his way out of the white house on his way to the rally, but the white house has been struggling to contain the fallout from this anonymous op-ed all day long from a person claiming to be a top administration official slamming the president. cabinet secretaries have been coming out with statements saying don't look at me. trump world has gone -- it's become a washington who done it as in the history of the senior administration official who anonymously wrote a scathing op-ed in the "new york times" claiming to be a part of the internal resistance. so far more than a dozen top officials a who's who from the vice president to cabinet secretaries released statements to say not it. >> i think it is a disgrace. the anonymous editorial represents a new low in american journalism. i think the "new york times" should be ashamed. i think who wrote this editorial should be ashamed. >> reporter: the daughter of u.s. ambassador to russia said it wasn't her father. >> my dad works for the administration. >> did you write it? >> i did not write it. my dad did not write it a

which is that today with his white house in crisis over people within the white house expressing their dissatisfaction with the trump administration that when they have a meeting about that and when they have a discussion about that and when they reduce their suspect list to 12, that it is immediately leaked to "the new york times" that their suspect list has been reduced to 12. >> yeah. you know, of course it's also in their interest, perhaps, to make clear that anybody that might think about doing the same thing as this author that they are doing to respond, right? a white house wants to have discipline. they don't have any discipline, as we see in this white house at the moment. so they're trying to basically send a signal this will not be tolerated. there will be repercussions for anybody that might think about it. you can play it out a couple different ways. it is not clear whether this list or the idea of it will go any where. it is an indication of just how, you know, anxious in exercise this white house is, particularly because you have a president raging in volcanic terms abou

to try to show the white house what he has. and then he told the president in that phone call, i taped people for hundreds of hours. and so now tonight donald trump knows that bob woodward taped members of the trump team for hundreds of hours. no one works harder at trying to find out what has happened inside the room in washington than bob woodward. and no one has more sources than bob woodward. when bob woodward was working on a book about the clinton white house called "the agenda," he came to me because so much of the clinton white house agenda had to pass through the senate finance committee where i was the chief of staff. and i will never forget, bob woodwa woodward's first question to me, with no smalltalk, no beating around the bush, he wanted to know about what happened in a meeting with president clinton and congressional leaders in the cabinet room at the white house. and so his very first question to me was everyone in the cabinet room meeting says that you were taking notes, can i have your notes? if those days the

this is white house dr . >> is this white house distracted by chaos? is that fair? >> it is fair. you talk to some people and they have gotten more used to it than they were at the beginning of the administration. they are almost always operating against the backdrop of chaos. that's given some of them the piece of mind to whether these crisis with an attitude of this too shall pass. for instance, the woodward book was explosive. it was a day and a half, two day story because then the anonymous op-ed came. now we're back to the woodward book. there's is sense they can handle one crisis because it will be is up supplanted by another. >> that is true.s up supplanted by another. >> that is true. up supplanted by another. >> that is true.up supplanted by another. >> that is true.p supplanted by another. >> that is true. supplanted by another. >> that is true.supplanted by a. >> that is true.upplanted by an. >> that is true.supplanted by a. >> that is true. >> it's good to get on the record to say anonymous sources are not anonymous to the reporter. they are not calling up and saying h

laura: wt do we learn about the anxiety and the white house -- the anxiety in the white house over the russia probe? anthony: what we saw w according to woodward, donald trump was having a sitdown session where they were talking about these are the types of questions robert mueller might ask you, and donald trump spent 30 minutes on a rant on how awful it was an how it was a hoax. they are concerned that anytime he sits down with mueller it will be bad news and tuldp rather km away from all this. it is a preoccupation not just in these instances with his lawyers, but even in conversations with foreign leaders. laura:nthony zurcher, thank you for joining us. also in washington today, the confirmation hearing for president trump's supreme court how many turned very -- nominee turned conntious. judge brett kavanaugh listened as democrats called for his hearing to be suspd ded so they me to review documents. multiple protesters tried to shout down the proceedings. here's how the first few minutes played out. sen. grassley: i welcome everyone to the nomination hearing -- sen. harris: mr. ch

. >>> white house witch hunt. president trump orders a hunt to find out which aides talked to journalist bob woodward for his new book about the president which mr. trump is dismissing as fiction. >>> pardoning himself. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh faces questions about the president's legal problems and the mueller investigation but he won't say if mr. trump has the ability to pardon himself. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> we're following multiple breaking stories this hour, including a truly extraordinary attack on president trump by one of his own senior administration officials. that person writing anonymously in a "the new york times" op-ed says the president is acting in a manner detrimental to the country and many administration officials are working from within to, quote, frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. and that seems to corroborate the explosive reporting of the president in the new book by journalist woodward. cnn learned the president telling aid

and certainly white house officials thought he was coming there to resign. the justice department people were telling us, no, he's not going to resign. if they want him out they're going to have to fire him. so that was the narrative that we heard mid-morning. and then it became clear that there was a third option here, which was neither of those two things were going to happen, that he was going to leave with his sword intact and he was going to go back to the justice department still being deputy. and then you have this extraordinary picture of the white house chief of staff john kelly, that man in the blue suit that you can't quite see through the leaves, walking out with him, sort of downington abby style, thank you for visiting the white house, clearly to be seen sending the message that all was still right, everyone was still in their places. so, we have to wait until thursday. of course, a couple of other things to note. you have sean hannity to whom the president listens closely saying, don't fire anybody. the possibility that this meeting is going t

white house spokesman raj shah says the senate sets the scope and the white house is letting the fbi agents do what they're trying to do. saturday night at a rally in west virginia the president reiterated his support for hiso. >> a vote for judge kavanaugh is also about to reject the ruthless and outrageous tactics of the democrat party, mean obstructionists, mean resistance. for the last 18 months, democrats have spent every minute trying to overturn the results of the last election. >> michael avenatti cover the attorney for a third accuser says he has yet to hear from the feds. the investigation is expected to wrap up by the end of this week. >> chris: kevin corke reporting from capitol hill. thanks for that. joining me now, white house press secretary sarah sanders, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> sarah: it's great to be with you, thanks for having me. >> chris: let's pick up on this report overnight. as the white house limited in any way who the fbi may talk to and specifically, has the fbi been given a list of potential people to talk to but does not include julie, the t

the white house is nervous about that. they don't feel confident. they don't want to speak about a plan b for the record because it would cut his legs out from under. they will be watching on thursday just like everybody else. >> we could fill an hour with our big 3 tonight without breaking a threat. we regret calling an end to thio conversation.nd thank you so very much for starting us off. >>> coming up the other big story of the day, the latest reporting on rosenstein and hise job future. later, new numbers tonight on where these midterms may be headed, exactly six weeks from now the 11th hour just getting started with a new week on a monday night.th please stay with us. this isn't just any moving day. this is moving day with the best in-home wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. and this is moving day with reliable service appointments in a two-hour window so you're up and running in no time. show me decorating shows. this is staying connected with xfinity to make moving... simple. easy. awesome. stay connecte

and after attending a meeting at the white house this morning, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders issued this statement. at the request of rod rosenstein, he and president trump had an extended conversation to discuss the recent news stories. because the president is at the u.n. ga and has a full schedule with leaders from around the world, they'll meet on thursday when the president returns to washington, d.c. when asked about rosenstein's future, the president was vague. >> i'm meet with rod rosenstein on thursday when i get back from all of these meetings. and we'll be meeting at the white house, and we'll be determining what's going on. we want to have transparency. we want to have openness, and i look forward to meet with rod at that time. >> what this all means, rosenstein as of this hour is still overseeing bob mueller's investigation. but his fate remains far from certain. sources telling nbc news that rosenstein spoke to white house counsel don mcgahn over the weekend and made clear in that conversation that he would not resign. rosenstein reportedly said he would

house and you described the clinton white house as running a, and i'm quoting you here, a presidentially approved smear campaign, was one phrase you used, a disgraceful effort to undermine the rule of law was another phrase you used, an episode that will forever stand as a dark chapter in american presidential history. >> that was about something different. >> and you presidentially approv approved smear campaign against starr. you said in a later memo that the president has tried to disgrace starr and his office with a sustained propaganda campaign that would make nixon blush and he should be forced to account for that. have your views of presidential interference or smearing of independent or special counsel changed sense you made those statements? >> those comments were in a memo written, as i recall -- >> two, actually. two memos. close enough. yeah. >> well, the one that i'm remembering writ ten late at night an an emotional meeting in the office. i think i told some of the senators in individual meetings, it was heated, and i understand that. but that was my memo at the time. i hav

all that time in the white house. here is what the chairman of this committee chuck grassley said this morning. >> it's equal to or more than all five supreme court nominees prior to him. so we've got more documents on this person than anybody else in the history of the supreme court nominees. >> as you know, republicans hold the slightest edge here now in the senate and when they get to the floor there are two senators everyone will be watching on the gop side senators collins and murcowski want somebody who will recognize abortion rights. they're going to be respectful of the roe versus wade precedent. keep an eye on them. they haven't said where they're going yet. the aba gave a unanimous well qualified rating to judge kavanaugh. not one discenter. schumer and leahy have said that's the gold standard. hopefully they will cast their vote for judge kavanaugh. >> shannon. >> let's bring in john cornyn a member of the judiciary committee. thank you for your time. if every republican votes for him brett kavanaugh is a s

white house. there is that shot that we're going to keep our eye on. he's en route to the white house. we do not know the status, though, of his employment at this moment. there's a lot of confusion over rod rosenstein after that bombshell report coming out friday night in "the new york times" that rosenstein is offering up his resignation or if he's expecting to be fired or some combination of both. we're waiting for more detail on this. let's go, as we do that, let's get over to cnn's senior congressional correspondent manu raju on capitol hill. manu, you can be sure a lot of folks are not reacting yet because they don't know what they're going to be reacting to. but this potential has been a topic of conversation for months on capitol hill. >> yeah, no question about it. republicans have actually been urging the president not to take this step of firing rod rosenstein even after that "new york times" report from friday, saying that doing so right now would cause a major distraction for the part

that is really the challenge every white house, i don't care what people say, every white house has had officials in it that have sought to do something different than what the president says. that's not the problem here, the problem is how donald trump reacts. >> does the president need to assert publicly, though, that he's in charge? i mean, look at the number of people that crit -- i want to put this up here. the chief of staff is quoted as calling him an idiot, the defense secretary says he has the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader, a former economic adviser calls him a professional lawyer and rex tillerson the former secretary of state used f'ing moron. president obama had to fire stanley mcchrystal when he was -- when his staff was humiliating vice president biden. there was this sense of the commander in chief has to assert himself. doesn't the president of the united states need to assert himself. >> who is he going to hire to put in these places? >> in this case it's the 25th floor of the trump tower. >> the reason why those ring true is because we've been hearing the sa

kristen welker is covering the white house today and kristen, the white house found it impossible to keep quiet while his nominee is on the hill. at least on twitter. it's clear the president sees this book as a clear and present danger. >> reporter: very clear, brian. the president and his top allies really trying to dismiss this book. digging in. i can tell you one white house official saying we're laughing off these headlines. i said your boss certainly isn't. he's been on twitter throughout the day, let me give awe small sampling of what we saw on twitter from the president earlier today tweeting the woodwood book already refuted and discredited by secretary of defense james mattis, john kelly. quotes were made up frauds a con. wodwa waroodward is a dem opera. so many lies and phony sources. calling jeff sessions mentally retarded, an a dumb southerner. i said neither. then this. this final one, brian, a little threat almost. isn't it a shame someone can write an article or book, totally make up stories and form a picture of the person that is literally the exact opposite of the

resistance at the white house. the fear, bob woodward's explosive new book describes a near mutiny in the white house against president trump. >> this woodward book is a total -- it's a total fraud. these people, libel laws, libel laws. >>> the resistance, an anonymous white house official writing that colleagues are working diligently from within to frustration parts of his agenda andist worst inclinations, the president calling on the justice department to investigate. >> i think it's a national security matter, they should look at it, they should look at it very strongly and we should find out who it is. >> is president trump in charge of his own white house? >>> plus the supreme court, brett kavanaugh says very little, while protesters and senators. >> there is clearly rule that applies. >> then apply the rule and bring the charges, bring it. >> take the spotlight. >>> my guests this morning, counselor to president trump, kellyanne conway, republican senator ben sasse of nebraska and democratic senator dick dur

kennedy had been to the white house. he reportedly believed himself that he had been picked for the court. but then at the very last minute, conservative staffers in the reagan white house intervened and said no, no. we have a different guy we would prefer for the seat. better choice. somebody we like more. and so this man, who you see here with reagan, douglas ginsburg, he jumped to the head of the line and he got the nomination. and then it all fell apart. reagan didn't get him on to the court. and immediately everybody started to try -- everybody started trying to figure out who they were going to blame in the reagan white house for this political disaster. >> president reagan today suffered his second defeat in trying to fill a seat on the u.s. supreme court when the man he nominated only nine days ago, douglas ginsburg, asked that his name be withdrawn. it was an embarrassing admission of marijuana use that doomed ginsburg. white house officials knew he could never win confirmation. the front-runner to become the ne

senate access to 100,000 pages of white house counsel documents. and what did this individual say when he was exercising this power of sensoring the documents that would be obtained by the senate? he said the white house has directed that we not provide these documents. that is a direct interference in the advice and consent deliberations of the u.s. senate and all of us together, democrats and republicans, northern senators and southern senators, eastern coast, western coast, heartland, all of us should defend our responsibilities under the constitution to provide advice and consent, which means the ability to review the record of the nominee. and then there's a third occasion where defendant burke proceeded to label documents being presented to the senate as committee confidential. in fact, the committee consulted with him during the process to see what the extent of this was and why they were done. now, there is no index that provides information to the senate on why so many documents were blocked by burke from ever getting to us. that's logged,

confusion at the white house that says u.s. deputy attorney general robert rosenstein is summoned for an extended phone call with president trump amid speculation that his. two are due to meet in person on thursday what's in store for the man in charge of the russian investigation we're live in washington the victims. also chancellor admits she lost touch with the people in a dispute over germany's domestic spy chief says she'll pay more attention now to voters' concerns but have the missteps in the look there permanently damaged her coalition government. plus is superstar cristiana rinaldo still the world's best footballer he's won the best award for the last two years but tonight he faces some serious competition. well i'm terry martin good to have you with us the white house says issued a statement saying that president trump is to meet with attorney general deputy attorney general rod rosenstein on thursday this after rosenstein was summoned to the white house amid speculation over whether he would be fired meeting comes ju

. >> setting off a fire storm of white house fury. >> this idiot, woodward, who wrote this book, which is all fiction. >> the big pushback tonight and the new details now emerging. the legendary watergate reporter standing by his story no matter what. >> too many people are disturbed and worried about what's going on in the trump white house. >>> plus -- >> did you just take my picture? erase it. >> i guess i'm probably not the kind of person you're normally friends with. >> oh, you do not want to be friends with me. trust me. >> blake lively and anna kendrick in "a simple favor." >>> a not so simple clash between two moms with sinister secrets duelling in unexpected ways in this twisty mystery. >> i think the idea that there are these dark secrets is really exciting. >>> but first, here are t the "nightline" five. (music throughout) >>> good evening, and thank you for joining us. we begin here tonight with an all-out assault by the white house on a new book that contains explosive allegations of chaos in the west wing. current and former members of the administration coming out today

you know, to get into the white house, everybody wants to work at the white house, until they get the job. then they don't know what to do with it. i really mean it, that's the truth. you have to understand this job is very scary. because of the people you are serving. you're no longer serving just anybody like in a restaurant or hotel or whatever, you're serving people that have achieved great things in life, that have great jobs, great things, so you better be on the same level with your food. i also served numerous of emperors, kings, head of states, all during my tenure. but when i started at the white house, i was already in that line of work for 20 years learning under the best chefs available in paris, france, in germany, and especially the hotel that i always mention because that particular hotel used to be known as the number one hotel in the world. still exists today, but i think it lot a little bit of its luster through the years, because now it's part of a chain. those days the savoy was owned by a family. big difference. big difference. and the customer, the guests that w

the white house sets the parameters. the reason why this matters is the limited scope seems to be at odds with what some members of the senate judiciary committee expect when they agree to give the fwi the week to investigate the allegations. we have seen the white house defending brett kavanaugh and the entire confirmation process. kellyanne conway brought up her own history of sexual assault and defended brett kavanaugh. >> i feel very empathetic, frankly for victims of sexual harassment and rape. i'm a victim of sexual assault. i don't expect judge kavanaugh or jeff flake or anybody to be held responsible for that. you have to be responsible for your own conduct. >> it's the first time i heard you talk about something personal like that and i'm really sorry. you work for a president who said all the women who accused him are lying. >> don't conflate that with this and what happened to me. it would be a huge mistake. >> this other issue about the kavanaugh investigation, we asked him about the role in forcing the week

this is, in their words, a functioning white house. >> a functioning white house. i do want to point out as peter was saying, the president completely focused, overwhelmed, wanting to know who wrote this op-ed. and just yesterday, his press secretary sarah sanders sent out on twitter the phone number for "the new york times." saying if the media obsessed reporters want to know who wrote this, call "the new york times." well, i invite you, sarah sanders there is someone who's obsessed with the identity of who wrote it, it's your boss, why don't you give him the number. i want to bring my panel in. christine quinn, new york democratic party. and tim o'brien, bloomberg opinion and someone would knows an awful lot about president trump and his tactics. okay, tim, to you first, what do you make of the way president trump has reacted to the op-ed? >> this is his worst nightmare. it's the whole media enterprise turning against him. he's a 72-year-old man. working very hard to keep himself front and center in the public eye. he's done that through a variety of methods, ano

. >>> an explosive new book about the trump white house is making waves in walk. journalist bob woodward is painting a fortress of chaos inside the white house. the administration is hitting back. plus a contentious first day of confirmation for judge kavanaugh, bickering breaks out before questions start. tropical storm gordon makes landfall, drenching southern states with heavy rains and high winds. ♪ good morning, everyone, it is wednesday, september 5th. we got a lot to get to, including another big upset in a primary race. but first, fear has struck in washington. that's the title of bob woodward's new book, which describes in part, why the president's lawyers are so adamant against an interview with special counsel robert mueller. the book provided by abc by a source alleges in the white house on january 27ing, the president's then personal attorney john dowd pep perred trump with questions ab the russia investigation, provoking stumbles, contradiction and lies until the president eventually lost his cool. dowd said, don't testify, it's either that or an o

-- into the white house. then there was one elevator to go up but those were very tiny. it was better than nothing. it worked for me very well. i was given an additional room, that was the chocolate room of the white house. so you see, everything is possible to give it time. and the white house, i always said, was a place made for me. i love to work there because they let me produce whatever i wanted to. but all my desserts had a significance in some way. >> sometimes, we had desserts from italy. i find something special around the town and that will be duplicated in the pastry of course. i did that all the time, all the time, all the time. one of the first ladies, she was great. i loved to work for her because she knew what she wanted. personally, you better do what she asks you to do and do it the right way. there is nothing wrong there. again, i love to work with people like this. i would rather do that then people who say i do not know. the last one with mrs. reagan, we were doing sunday noon at the white

the white house gives the green light to the fbi probe. is it now the white house who gives the direction to how the probe goes? how extensive the fbi will search or how limited in scope it will be? >> it seems to be coordinated between the senate judiciary committee and the white house counsel's office. the president has said free reign, but the reporting is don mcgahn, white house counsel working with the senate judiciary committee are trying to set parameters for the investigation. that's not are inially bad if the parameters are brought enough to allow the investigation to proceed from step know to step two. you can't know where the investigation is going to take you. you have to have the authority to follow leads as they evolve. we will see if they have free reign or whether it's cirque um scribe and not legitimate. >> kellyanne conway said earlier it will unbiassed. listen. >> the white house is not getting involved in the fbi investigation in that way. the president very much respects the independence of the fbi and feels as he said

and white house officials saying that he was coming to the white house to resign. so neither of these two -- beneath neither of those statements is -- one or the other is right, they can't both be true. and they could reach some sort of compromise in which rosenstein agrees to stay on for some period of time. this is not merely the fact that this is the number two official at the justice department, that this is the official since the beginning that brought in robert mueller to be the special counsel and that he supervisors the special counsel's investigation. if rosenstein does end up leaving, we're told that the day to day supervision of the mueller investigation will fall to the tony general, who's not acting in -- and now we have noel francisco, who is now the u.s. solicitor general, who's basically the top courtroom advocate and the deputy attorney general's other work would wibe taken over by a man named ed o'callaghan, who is the so-called -- he's a long time federal bruprosecutor in new yo and also here in the main justice and national security division. so

a white house spokesperson said his denial has not changed and the white house and the judge still stand by it. there's a statement, i categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. i did not do this back in high school or at anytime. the white house is letting up a bit when it comes to the process. yo u saw what kellyanne conway said. she says christine ford should not be ignored, the claim should be heard. conway putting the ball back in the court of the senate judiciary committee to weigh this claim, perhaps publicly. professor ford is willing to testify before the committee. that's what her attorney told the "today" show this morning. the attorney also addressed this notion that ford's allegation might be politically motivated. take a look at what she had to say. >> no one, in their right mind regardless of motive would want to inject themselves in this process and face the annihilation she will be subjected to by those who want this nominee to go through. this is not a politically motivated action. she was quite reluctant to come forward and she was outed after she made the d

first up, cnn's chief white house correspondent jim acosa, this book must be rocking the white house right now. >> reporter: there is certainly fear inside the white house over this book, wolf. the white house released a statement this afternoon slamming the book. sarah huckabee sanders saying, quote, this book is nothing more than fabricated stories many by former disgruntled employees told to make the president look bad but the book is the latest deep dive into the trump white house full of bombshells that reveal top administration officials are worried, deeply worried about the president's behavior. >> hello, bob. >> president trump, how are you? >> reporter: before the release of his new book on the trump white house, entild, fear, bob woodward managed to get the president on the phone. mr. trump's assessment of the woodward book, not good. >> sounds like this is going to be a bad one. >> reporter: there are devastating episodes throughout the book. woodward explains how the president's former lawyer john dowd attempted to do a mock interview with mr. trump to demonstrate how he

white house will be? we were talking at the beginning of the hour about how some of his officials act as guardrails. do you think if he wants to investigate and really go after "the new york times" and try to get them to reveal the author of this piece, who will try to stop him? >> this will be another telling moment. whether someone actually does. whether there are people who, as described in the woodward book and as we've heard in our reporting to slow walk it and hope the president moves on to someone else or whether someone will get up in his case and defy him, which happens rarely, not very much in this white house. >> mcgahn has been fired and kelly is on his way out or on the outs. >> while sitting here reaching out to trump administration officials both inside and outside the white house and allies, my colleagues and i at the a.p. have been asking what is the reaction there. to a person, they're blindsided and they're asking us, who do you think it is? which i guess if you're the author, that's wh

house and the white house's credibility from the white house. both are under siege today. there's very little trust in the press and there's very little trust among some, anyway, in the information that's coming from the white house. i certainly remember when i was at the white house and when i was bureau chief at cnn, if the president said something or a press secretary would say something that was mistaken or a misstatement there was an effort to quickly correct the record. i remember marlin fitzwater would walk around with his big cigar that he wouldn't light and he would actually walk through the press office and say, what i said or what the president said, let me just tweak that. there was a very good relationship there and he got a lot of credit for that. but we are not at that place now. i mean -- and now there is a very particular and personal and some would say grandstanding environment around this. where do you see this question of credibility now in terms of, again, plugging this into all the technology that we've got and the cameras

give me a sense of what's happening at the white house. >> well, the white house and the president are on the defensive across multiple fronts. you got white house staffers still trying to do damage control over bob woodward's book that paints a picture of a chaotic west wing. and of course, this anonymous op-ed in "the new york times" serving up a scathing indictment of president trump. i've got to tell you, when you ask white house officials about this, alex, they often say, why are you so obsessed with this. but it's clear the president himself is still obsessed with finding the author, although we understand he is being counseled by senior staffers at the white house to let this pass. the concern is he's bringing more attention to the claims in the op-ed, which as we know, raises alarms about his fitness for office. and suggests there's a resistance working within the station, really acts ago a check on the president's more dangerous impulses. now, to be clear, there is no active white house investigation all of this. but there has been talk of using lie detector tests and sworn af

the white house. we don't know yet what's going to happen. in an interview with geraldo over the weekend we'll see what will happen. >> we'll see. we heard a lot of we'll sees before our former secretary of state was gone. >> brit, a little more from john roberts reading this off the email. rosenstein not expected to be fired. he is expecting to be fired. got it. okay. >> thinks he may be fired. >> you see through it now. what happens within d.o.j. catherine herridge is trying to be careful not to get ahead of this and rightfully so. what is the impact within that department? jeff sessions has been criticized almost on a weekly basis by the commander-in-chief. >> he certainly has. the question then becomes who would take over supervision of the mueller investigation? they would have to get -- the job of deputy attorney general can't remain unfilled for any period of time in the midst of all this. i believe it requires senate confirmation. i'm quite sure it does. and i'm not sure whether the president

and after attending a meeting at the white house this morning, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders issued this statement. at the request of rod rosenstein, he and president trump had an extended conversation to discuss the recent news stories. because the president is at the u.n. ga and has a full schedule with leaders from around the world, they'll meet on thursday when the president returns to washington, d.c. when asked about rosenstein's future, the president was vague. >> i'm meet with rod rosenstein on thursday when i get back from all of these meetings. and we'll be meeting at the white house, and we'll be determining what's going

want to go to jim acosta our chief white house correspondent who is getting reaction at the white house as well. this is a bombshell if this "new york times" story is true, that the deputy attorney general actually secretly recorded conversations with the president of the united states, and actually discussed with other members of the cabinet the possibility of invoking the 25th amendment to the constitution to get rid of the president because he felt that there was chaos going on. what are you hearing over there, jim. >> reporter: wolf, i just went into the office of the deputy press secretary, hogan gidly here who is essentially mining the fort when it comes to dealing with the press. the press secretary sarah sanders is with the president right now on this trip, he was in las vegas last night for a rally, he is in missouri in just the next hour or so to talk about veterans issues. he is at a va hospital there. we're expecting to hear some comments from him shortly, wolf. it would be extraordinary if the president were to weigh in immediately on all of this. i can tell you that hogan

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you know, in the white house i was in, and previous white houses. there were people who had a longstanding association with a president there. there were bonds of trust that he simply hasn't had. other than with his own children, his daughter, and son-in-law, perhaps that's one of the reasons why he wanted him there. but it's very hard to run the united states government like your family business. and you need to rely on others and this is just a very toxic environment. >> you know, one of my favorite shows it on the weekend now, don't tell fareed, it's "the axe files." >> thank you, sir. i appreciate that. >> thank you. mr. david axelrod. enjoy l.a., whatever you're doing there. thank you. >> i will. >>> as the president rails against the writer tonight, is that writer courageous or is that writer a coward? ♪ introducing e*trade personalized investments professionally managed portfolios customized to help meet your financial goals. you'll know what you're invested in and how it's performing. so you can spend more time floating about on your infla

white house on the offensive. aides slamming the senior official who wrote "the new york times" op-ed and bracing for the bob woodward book which comes out tomorrow. >>> and the east coast is bracing for a hurricane when florence hits this week. >>> and cbs's long time chief executive is out amid new allegations of sexual misconduct. reports from damascus and the white house. >> good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. we start with the author of the scathing "new york times" op-ed. appearing on the sunday talk shows supporting the president's claims saying whoever wrote it is guilty of criminal behavior. vice president mike pence is denying any involvement and calling on the one to come forward. >> let me be very clear. i'm 100% confident that no one on the president's staff was involved in the editorial. i know my people, margaret. they get up every day and they are dedicated as much as i am as advancing the president's agenda and doing everything for the people of this c

rod rosenstein is either headed to the white house or white house complex right now. that's the first thing. the second thing is it's the expectation of rosenstein we are told that he will be fired. his expectation. now, the major outstanding question separate from that, of course, is will rod rosenstein be fired if he is, of course, that would no longer be the deputy attorney general, the number two at the doj. stepping back from that for a second, this all sort of came to the forefront or at least bubbled up on friday when "the new york times" reported that rosenstein had suggested in 2017 a few weeks into the job that he secretly recruited president trump and recruit over cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment, the process by other members will oust the president from office. that happened friday, here we are monday morning, rosenstein and expectation that he will be out of the job. reason why or one of the reasons why, stuart, this is so important because as the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein oversees the special counsel probe, if he is no longer in

as a surprise to the white house. that they knew of this story at least as of yesterday, and they're plotting their response to all of this right now. but kate, i find it to be very interesting at this hour that the president has not weighed in on all of this and i talked to a source close to the white house earlier this evening and i thought this was very interesting, they said that the president and people here at the white house, they hate -- they do not like this narrative of the 25th amendment, this thing that was talked about, obviously, in the bob woodward book, this notion that officials can go around and conspire around the president, they hate that narrative inside the white house, so the possibility, i suppose, exists that the reason why the white house, the president have not weighed in on all this is they don't want to feed into that narrative and of course, kate, at this hour, as you know, they are very much interested in trying to get brett kavanaugh through supreme court nomination process and the pres

house stand on this privilege where no white house in the past has done this? but john i think the consequences here, this person will go on the supreme court at a time that we have a president who is under investigation, so legally exposed civilly and criminally and this judge said a president is above the law and cannot be sued or prosecuted so we should put the screws to him and find out if he can apply the law independently or recuse himself if necessary. >> i know why you think judge kavanaugh has said that and you may be right -- it was a law review article in the university of minnesota. >> what he says he was writing is that congress should pass a law which says that a president can't be investigated or indicted, not that judges should rule. now, he may rule that way. it may be a window into his ultimate thinking, i don't know but he's using the language of suggesting congress should pass a law to explain that away. you have been been accused congressman and you have admitted you're considering running for president in 2020. am i correct? >> i'm conside

bush white house. they particularly grilled him about the process of nominating juks by that white house and which of those nominations kavanaugh was involved in. >> charles pickering's nomination to the fifth circuit is, the committee learns he collected letters of support from lawyers who appeared in his courtroom and practiced in his district. it became an apparent some of these lawyers had cases pending before him. when they wrote the letters judge pickering requested. did you know that judge pickering planned to solicit letters of support in this manner before he did so? if not, when did you become aware that judge pickering had solicited these letters of support? >> the answer to the first question, senator, is no. this was not one of the judicial nominees that i was primarily handling. >> brett kavanaugh telling it the senator under oath that this nomination of charles pickering was not one that i was primarily handling. his characterization of that work on the nomination of that judge has now b

house or professes to sit in the white house would get. mine was a reaction to my letter being leaked. this is a proactive cry for help. and i think that's a big difference. >> yeah, certainly a big difference and as you say it also goes to the emergency level as depicted in this piece. mr. ambassador, john feeley, thank you for giving us your insights tonight. >> my pleasure. >>> we go to state of mind with tony schwartz, he says today he has "never seen donald trump," who he knows quite well, better than most, look more "terrified and desperate." we have seen trump rage at those who he feels have been disloyal in any way, and this goes back before politics in the '80s when he was touring his recently purchased plaza hotel, ripping doors off on armoire he didn't like, or more recently berating jeff sessions for recusing in the russia probe, raging in the oval office, it was "the most humiliating experience in his decades of public service." tony schwartz, what are we witnessing? >> well, we're witnessing what happens to a deeply, deeply i