It’s one of the biggest journalistic gambles in recent memory: an anonymous New York Times op-ed from a “senior administration official,” who claims there is a group resisting the president from the inside. Two days in, the story is only getting bigger — but whether the Times made the right call is open for debate.

On this week’s edition of Beat the Press, Emily Rooney was joined by former NECN anchor Mike Nikitas, former CNN White House Correspondent Dan Lothian, Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University and Callie Crossley of WGBH News.