have stayed away from completely. so, listen, others took editorial steps that we did not. >> and that's the reality in these situations. different news outlets make different choices about how much to share and how much not to share. i feel like viewers oftentimes don't realize that. that there are these weeks of conversations about what to say and what not to say in these sensitive stories. >> yes, there is. and also, folks will often have the impression, you'll get this in some, particularly the conservative media coverage afterwards, that, oh, jim sciutto was spoon fed this story by this person or that. >> they've been trying to guess your source, yeah. >> but first of all, as you know as well as me, that's a fundamental misunderstanding of how reporting happens. no one's ever walked up to a door with a piece of paper and said, here's your story, right? this is -- you gather information, you test it, you speak to a number of people, you make editorial judgments on what you believe and what you don't believe, right? and when you have conflicting accounts, as you did here, you present those conflicting accounts and then you test them. you test them. by the way, one thing that was