podium today which was was effectively trying to brush it off as some leak that they weren't going to address. >> it was. >> it was not a leak of an internal white house meeting. >> it was a leak of a meeting with congressional communications people who by the way do not work for the white house. they work for capitol hill. she works for the white house. it was a message meeting. but to describe it as an internal white house meeting is not what it was. and you know that paris. >> is part of the problem that if the white house did give a simple discrete, look, we're sorry this was said. those comments that he made at the kick off of the campaign when he said mccain wasn't a war hero. >> i have said things on the air