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Dni. so he is getting the president's daily brief. i suspect what happened was he saw the reaction on capitol hill. he hadn't paid attention to what the details of what the briefing bore today. so he said let me look at what they actually said, especially when republican senators came out after him and said this ain't working too well. let me backtrack a bit. this is about politics. it's not about national security. >> carrie, to your point and to phil's point about this being about politics, essentialry what you're saying is the president is skewing what he is telling the american people abou...