INTERVIEW – MERCEDES SCHLAPP – White House Director of Strategic Communications @mercedesschlapp – discussed former President Obama’s speech on Friday and the anonymous NY Times op-ed writer.

• President Trump’s top officials on Sunday said the anonymous senior White House aide who allegedly wrote the infamous New York Times op-ed last week should leave the administration and that an investigation could be needed … “If they are that senior administration official — they’re violating an oath, not to the president, but to the Constitution,” Vice President Mike Pence told “FOX News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace. “Look, it’s un-American.  And I think that’s why you’ve seen Republicans and Democrats condemn this.”President Trump, Pence said, was concerned about the national security implications of the op-ed. “To have someone who literally celebrates coming in every day to frustrate the agenda that the president and I were elected to advance — it really is an assault on our democracy,” he said. Pence added that he would be willing to take a lie-detector test to prove he was not behind the op-ed.