an assault is terrible. i just assumed you were roughed up, and she was roughed up a bit more and now the mainstream media is going to make a big deal out of this. instead of focusing on other events. >> but you want people to believe you were linking to a cbs news statement that you yourself had not read? >> i just heard -- i was sort of retweeting. i heard the word assault. i figured many journalists are being pushed around and roughed up. now one more. >> did you read the cbs statement? >> not at the time. afterwards i did and i realized i was going to be in a lot of trouble. >> you tried to then delete a number of your tweets and then clearly aware that some were owe fended at you, you tweeted, "f" it. i apologize for being insensitive. i'm rolling my eyes at all the attention she will get." at that point your apology seems halfhearted at best and you sound like a bitter jealous reporter, angry at some other reporter who is more well known. >> it sounds like that. that's not the case. but my point was that dozens of women suffer from this attack