Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Thursday, September 6th. In today's news, Brett Kavanaugh dodges questions about executive power.

Tech companies are alarmed after the Justice Department threatens them.

And another ally of Roger Stone has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury.

But first, the big idea.

Donald Trump and his aides reacted with indignation Wednesday to an opinion piece by an unnamed senior

official in his administration that blasted the president's

immorality. The op-ed launched a frantic hunt for the author who claims to be part of

a secret resistance movement inside the government protecting the nation from its own

commander-in-chief. The extraordinary missive published anonymously in the

New York Times surfaced one day after the first excerpts emerged from Bob Woodward's new book in which

Trump's top advisors paint a devastating portrait of the president and describe a

quote crazy town atmosphere inside the White House.

Taken together, they landed like a thunderclap,

portraying Trump as a danger to the country

that elected him and feeding the president's

paranoia about whom around him he can trust.

Trump reacted to the column with volcanic anger and was absolutely livid

over what he considered a treasonous act of disloyalty.

He told confidence that he suspects the official works on national security issues or in

the Justice Department, according to two people familiar with his thinking. The column which is entitled,

I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration, describes the

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