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Imperialist state. they would pass things around in note form. it would take on a life and mythology on its own. so it is a dig with russia but its really evoke active phrase. >> the way things are passed around among the aides at the white house, there is an open whisper campaign. you never know whats on the record and off the record because everyone is whispering. >> the truth is being told but under the subrosa. >> he could have said a lot of things. but using that term, a.b., seems like an i...

Its a basic reporting technique in journalism and it is a basic law enforcement technique that you talk to the most important person at the very end, after youve got as much other information from everybody else as possible. then you go to the principal, your most important figure in your story or in your investigation and you ask him or her to tell their version of events. will it happen? you know, i think its certainly sounds like the president wants to. hes the president. so we should take hi...

Have intelling -- you believe in integrity of the media and you ask top editors to come to this off the record spin session. its not unlike how he describes learning about what he calls the magnitude of the whole situation. he was sitting at his breakfast table two weeks ago reading about this in the "the washington post" when the "the washington post" broke the rosen story and then he suddenly feels this sense of remorse and seems to understand the magnitude of this search warrant that he signe...