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Days ago and that the special ops guys, the afghan commandos, they spread them thin in many of these capitals, these provincial capitals and they were fighting and they were dying. and they were trying to defend their homeland. so, this notion that the taliban showed up at every place and the afghans handed over their weapons is not true. that's one thing i noticed in the past couple days is people trying to connect that narrative and that intelligence, that statement on background statement. that seemed to me to be a little bit course correction on that idea, as well. but another, you know, w...

Department in advancing their own personal agenda? >> no. i don't know if he knows who the sources are in our story. but the only thing i'd point out is that in our story, we say that a spokeswoman for the justice department provided us with a background statement from someone that was in the room who said that rosenstein had said this. they don't contest the fact that he had said this but that it was done sarcastically. and that is in our story but as we pointed out earlier, the -- rosenstein was asked in the meeting whether he was kidding. and he said he wasn't. that's where we ended up on o...

Not sure if that's meant to reassure any of us. but an interesting parse denial. do you have any idea who he's talking about when he references anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department in advancing their own personal agenda? >> no. i don't know if he knows who the sources are in our story. but the only thing i'd point out is that in our story, we say that a spokeswoman for the justice department provided us with a background statement from someone that was in the room who said that rosenstein had said this. they don't contest the fact that he had said this but that it ...

Those moments for you. >> let's go back further than that. we could go, james comey was fired and the president got very upset about the fact that his communications shop didn't seem to have an instantaneous plan in place. we were left to run around and collect as much information as we got at that point. last night, we had h.r. mcmaster, the national security advisor, come out about two hours after the news broke about the russian story. tonight we have a background statement from the white house. apparently they are now, at least the medications staff, in a meeting with the white house corre...

Addresses in that statement and here's what i'll read to you. these particular individuals are hardened terrorists who have the blood of americans and countless afghans on their hands. i am eager to learn what precise steps are being taken to ensure that these vicious and violent taliban extremists never return to the fight against the united states and our partners or engage in any activities that can threaten the prospects for peace and security in afghanistan. the american people and our afghan partners deserve nothing less. and the white house addressed that minimally. in a statement, a ba...