CNN’s Bernstein: ‘Is It Time’ for Military Leaders to Oust Trump?

CNN's Carl Bernstein is suggesting the military push President Trump out of office. 

Appearing as a panelist on Sunday's "Reliable Sources," the former Washington Post reporter said Trump is "unstable," temperamentally unfit for office, and select military officials should attempt to remove him. 

"Is it time then for the president to be urged to leave the office by those in his party and perhaps those same military leaders who understand the dynamic at work here," Bernstein asked. 

"We are dependent," Bernstein said," on "four of five" military officials to protect America from Trump.

Here's the transcript:

STELTER: “Carl, is there a risk of an over-reaction from the press here? The Access Hollywood tape came out in October, a lot of journalists wrote off his chances and now he’s in the White House. Is there a risk of an overreaction this week?” 

BERNSTEIN: “Not if we are reporting and see that as our real function and not do opinion pieces as our primary functions. Look, there are many commentators who do opinion pieces — I’m talking about reporting. I’m going to look at a quote right here from one of these Republicans I talked to last week: ‘We have a fundamental problem that the president in the United States does not know right from wrong and is not stable.’ 

That’s the kind of thing we’re talking about here. But also: We keep hearing about these military leaders keeping the president from doing dangerous things. And I would say as somebody who spent 50 years as a reporter around Washington that this is an unprecedented situation, a dangerous situation such as we’ve never seen for an extended period of time; we had Nixon in the last days in the White House — yes, he was a bit unstable perhaps then, but understandably given the circumstances of him having to leave office. This is different. It’s ongoing. And I would say if we are dependent on the military leaders in this country, four or five of them, to protect us from the United States. Then that too is a story. And part of that story is: Is it time then for the president to be urged to leave the office by those in his party and perhaps those same military leaders who understand the dynamic at work here.

And there’s also the question of the people in the other White House, when do they become collaborators, as opposed, ah, particularly to what the president is advocating, collaborators rather than people who are simply trying to push him in a good direction— “