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Do you go on the record without talking to the principals at the meeting? >> james: the responsibility of "the washington post" in an incident like this is to reach out to the administration and to its press operation and get whatever answer they are prepared to give. it doesn't mean it invalidates the principles. is it possible, juan, that what we have might be a case where people in the intelligence community opposed to donald trump are being tendentious and leaking something to "the washington post" that doesn't quite check out. >> it's always possible, as you said, when you come to intelli...

Relatively new white house press operation is going to find out about that volatile combination of long, overnight flights being in a different time zone, jet lag, overseas press corps and handling first overseas trip can be a real party. >> right. it's definitely -- this is the first trip. this is a home body president. he has not been out to the country very many times, mostly just to his own property. so this is going to be ten days, five stops. they're going to be, as you said jet lagged answering our questions. so a lot of these questions, we're going to have new questions there. but some...

Are, to cut him an extraordinary degree of slack, to overlook behavior that i think they otherwise would not. and i'm -- i think that's going to be the case this time again. >> i want to get a quick last word from anita and jonathan. anita first. in a few day's time, this relatively new white house press operation is going to find out about that volatile combination of long, overnight flights being in a different time zone, jet lag, overseas press corps and handling first overseas trip can be a real party. >> right. it's definitely -- this is the first trip. this is a home body president. he h...

Do you go on the record without talking to the principals at the meeting? >> james: the responsibility of "the washington post" in an incident like this is to reach out to the administration and to its press operation and get whatever answer they are prepared to give. it doesn't mean it invalidates the principles. is it possible, juan, that what we have might be a case where people in the intelligence community opposed to donald trump are being tendentious and leaking something to "the washington post" that doesn't quite check out. >> it's always possible, as you said, when you come to intelli...

Badly, it's not that unusual for a president to want a new look. what is unusual is for it to be happening so early on in their tenure. >> certainly things change within administrations, that's for sure. i'm curious about the ap report and the president being super frustrated about the leaks in the west wing. is it rival teams trying to cover themselves, and is there anything the president can do to plug up those leaks? >> you have to remember, donald trump's lifelong relationship with the press. the press talking about everything the biggest, the most luxurious, the most exclusive. he lived i...