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In a disturbing declaration during Monday’s Newsroom following President Trump’s controversial press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, CNN analyst and former CIA and FBI official Philip Mudd called for a self-appointed “shadow government” to step forward and counter the democratically elected one. He then had the audacity to complain about “Trumpianism” fighting Americanism.

Fresh off of declaring the Trump-Putin press conference “one of the most disgraceful performances” by an American president, host Anderson Cooper completed the CNN’s feedback loop by touting Arizona Senator John McCain (R) saying the same thing. He then turned to Mudd and asked if he agreed.

Of course, Mudd did but his next concern was in regards to who was going to step up to oppose the President. “You have seen senators come out. In the past, we have seen the senator who is in the midst of a painful illness, Senator McCain. Senators like Jeff Flake who are leaving the Senate. Now you see Marco Rubio still, obviously, in the fight speaking out,” he boasted.

He spoke glowingly about how there were many people at different levels of government who were saying and doing things contrary to the President. “Curious point in American government. When do we see almost a shadow government come out and say, ‘We cannot side with the government, whether its cabinet or the Senate.’ I think that's the big question,” he opined.

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