'Open split' in White House as insiders spill exasperation with Trump

There is growing frustration within Donald Trump’s White House over the way the war in Iran is going, and insiders are going behind the president’s back to call reporters and complain about him.

Reporting on MS NOW’s "Morning Joe," journalist Katty Kay reported that European leaders have been telling the president he missed the perfect opportunity to declare victory in Iran and dial back the attacks.

“I was told by a senior European intelligence official this weekend that the best time for Donald Trump to have tried to call victory and end early was actually last Monday or Tuesday, and that now it's getting harder for him to do that,” she told the panel.

“And you're seeing these splits begin to appear in the White House quite openly in public,” she elaborated. “I mean, David Sachs, the White House advisor, was on the ‘All-In’ podcast over the weekend, saying it out loud that there are two factions.”

“Now there is a faction that is pushing the president to escalate, and there is a faction that is pushing the president to de-escalate. The tech bros and the vice president seem to be in the latter camp,” she continued. “But the idea that there are two camps in the White House and that one of those camps is now openly talking about this in public and openly reaching out to journalists to say, we are trying to get the president to find an off ramp, but there are people who are pushing the president to escalate much further, significantly further.”

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