>> 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 which i regret. it is not the job of cnn to apologize because i am a cnn commentator. i took responsibility for my actions. that is what you do when you have integrity. that is what you do when you feel you have done something wrong. i don't believe it is the responsibility of the white house to go and apologize for every single thing or anything that any staffer says. >> who does she work for? >> the american people. >> and the white house who is the immediate boss. >> you go straight to the source. she felt she should apologize and she did that to several people and it was the right thing to do. >> if cnn does in fact, if a commentator or someone who works for cnn does something. they would fire them secondly, she has a boss at the white house. if you said that brought shame or disgrace to cnn. it is in all of our contracts, they can fire you. >> this is one of the rare times