observations which you go on. now watching it from a computer screen and in a battle center. he is wedded to win thing war and this is a conflict going on about this t strategy and timeline. this open talk, this open mike, reveals it may bring the general down. no good choices here today. >> so -- bash remarks you have been imbedded p times. how do you decide what what to say and what not to say when you are privy to off-the-cuff remarks? >> i want to tell you our pentagon producer is now telling me that the meeting between general mcchrystal and admiral mullen and defense secretary robert gates has happened. it happened at 8:30 this morning. we do not know the results of that. this could signal a possible acceleration in today's schedule of events. we will keep on it and get back to you. let me turn back to the question of embedding. look, no one is saying that -- in any position of authority