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And myself at "the washington post," we did not use a named source in more than 250 sorries we wrote -- stories we wrote in the two year period of water gate. they were all anonymous sources. you can go down to the university of texas, look at our papers and learn who some of the people were, and i dont believe we made one real mistake, and that fact was based on our misinterpretation of what an anonymous source had told us. but also, our business in the press is the best obtainable version of t...

Whats wrong with that? >> because someone in this white house needs to answer questions from the press corpse. someone needs to be accountable what the president is doing on a daily basis, whether its her, a deputy of hers, but someone needs to do that. its enough for chopper talks where the president pontificates for a mew minutes and gets on his chopper to the next rally. they need to answer questions whether they want to or not. that is the functional role of a democratic government with a sm...

I have seen enough of you peter. i know where you were going. but the reality is, is that he made a decision. he briefed the press first. no one had a problem, by the way, in the press corpse. he briefed your colleagues before he briefed anybody else. i dont hear too much crying about that. reality is, and then he made a statement. said im going to come down to the white house and share the information with with the president as has been noted. he told us he made an announcement. im coming down ...