>> no. it just makes it worse. when you say you have information that you can't give out, that raises everybody's antenna. there's three basic rules we have in the white house for communicating a situation like this. number one, don't make a bad story worse. here we are a week after the story broke still talking about it. number two, speed kills a bad story. kill it in the crib. don't let it walk, don't let it crawl, don't let it run circles around you like it is now. if you change the story, you prolong the story. so you have a situation now where everyday, almost every news cycle we get a new iteration, a new version of what happened. that's prolonging it and making it look worse. by the way, this is a problem that is in many ways obscuring the bigger problem which is that we had somebody who didn't have security clearance who has one of the most sensitive positions in the white house who never should have had that job. >> i do want to get into ma momentarily. first with the coms problem. anita dunn, you had hope hick's