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Since you've stepped forward for the first time to refute this article, that implies that every previous article's correct. i don't really sign out on it, there's no implied sort of approval of it, but it's a point worth thinking about, obviously. but this one was so egregious because the reporters really were swinging for the fences, the old baseball term, because to say that michael cohen said that, that's fine. you know, everybody would work with that legally and try to discredit him and then the government would try to prop him up. but when you say the special counsel interviewed two peopl...

Other tweets, it's over, jeff flake. oh, yes. if it was a drinking game, it looks like in this report, this is a drinking game guys. apparently you are a bunch of geeks who have never played it. >> you have to give don lennon some credit. he accused me of being racist because i criticized kamala harris andha cory booker for thr outrageous behavior. it's racism. but it's okay to pick on a catholic? >> laura: didn't they say that relationship went down in a black hole some months ago? >> that could be racist, too. >> the eye much more careful with my fs. fantastic segment, we will stay on the le...

>> i thought it was interest issing. you have pointed a bleaker picture of what you think the rank and file are going to think there than i would have expected. he really got into the leak issue. and the four of us around this table were talking about, okay, the fbi needs to stop leak iingo the press, but sometimes they are communicating with congress and it's members of congress that do the leaking issue that comes with fbi information. that, to me, is a part of this perception problem that i don't know how the fbi can fix. >> i agree with that. and a lot of the disclosures of investigative m...

>> you have to have the freedom to speak in private. we've said things in private that we would never say publicly. i think she's handled it appropriately. i'm astounded she would undermine the president like that during a private meeting. >> pamela, why hasn't she apologized in public? >> reporter: it's clear white house officials are digging in their heels and making it a leak issue. the leak of this comment clil s -- kelly sadler made in this meeting that john mccain opposed the pick for cia director and she said he's dying, anyway. this is a white house that rarely, if ever apologizes, but...

Acknowledging that the comment was made. instead, focused on the leak issue because it was a private meeting. and that's uncomfortable to watch. and it may continue if the white house doesn't do something more, perhaps other news events will overtake it, it seems the simple gesture of saying it was inappropriate, i'm sorry, is not something this white house will do, and they're sticking to it. alex? >> okay. kelly o'donnell, thank you very much from the white house. joining me, jane newton small, "time" magazine contributor and national policy reporter. big welcome to you both. i am going to r...