me for insight are analysis abc news correspondent katy tur, democraticrn pollster l belcher, danielle pletka of the american enterprise i and erick erickson, editor of the resurgent. welcome to sunday. it's "meet theress." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, th longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. it's not every day that we have rds and phrases likehese thrown around so freely here in washington. constitutional crisi 25th amendment, sleeper cells, polygraph examinations, nervousa own, orange jumpsuit and administrative coup d'etat, but that's what happened this week when we retreated to two disturbing accounts of white house dysfunction, a one-two punch describing top officials working quietly to thwart a prident they see as uninformed, unprincipled and perhaps unhinge first came bob wood describing aides so unnerved by president trump's impulses that they have taken to swiping papers from his desk. "the new york times" printed an extraord op-ed he is say in effect confirming woodward's reporting that senior offi

panelists here democratic pollster and nbcca poli analyst, cornell belcher, danielle pletka, nbc newsspondent katy tur and erick erickson a wsb radio hostand he had core of the conservative website the resurgent. welcome all. katy tur, did we actually learn anything new this week about how donald trump runs the white house? >> no, we didn't. and this is the thing about tat op-ed, it only underscored what was said in the woodward boo ich only underscored reporting that many outlets had done including nbc which underscored the themes in the omarosa book and the "fire and fury" book and the same thing we knew during the campaign. this idea that suddenly peopl are worried about the president is just not new. they have been worried about him since themp gn. i had countless conversations with sources during the campaign who went oto work in the white house who would say things like, this man is not fit for office, this man is dangerous, this man worldng to get us into war iii and those people went on to work in the white house and then started talking about how great he s. so this is -- wha

danielle pletka is a vice president at the american institute and sahil kapur with bloomberg. and i have a mitch mcconnell response to the op-ed and he does his best bill belichick impression. here it is. >> were you surprised someone would feel this way and act that way? >> well, "the new york times" is putting stories all the time based on anonymous sources, so i guess this is just the most recent example of it. >> but it means that someone near the president is actively working against him inside the white house. are you surprised that someone would do that, rather than say resign publicly? >> yeah, i really don't have any further observations to make about it. >> on to cincinnati. >> i was doing going to say, th the mitch mcconnell way of saying, on to cincinnati. first of all, can i just like step back for a little reality check here. the question that was just asked of the speaker of the house, paul ryan, no, it's not congress' job to try to suss out who the anonymous source of, you know, an op-ed is. come on, let's be real here. but having said that, to me, the big take