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But in those cases i go back to my source, i say look, i can't ignore this, i'm going to have to report it or i'm going to have to confirm it somewhere else. and there might be a price to pay for that. that person -- >> i disagree. i disagree with jamie there. i know what he's talking about. you know, sometimes if a general officer or a senior official says something that's so outrageous, so egregious that you have to go back and say i know that was off the record but i'm going to report it anyway and i'll pay the price down the road, i disagree with jamie. once you say it's off the record, it...

But the most damaging thing she said was when she made the comment disparaging michael hastings by referring to the fact that he hadn't served his country the way the military did. >> i didn't agree with that either. >> the problem with that comment is -- and i appreciate the sentiment of appreciating the sacrifice of people in the military. anybody who covers the military gets that. but it feeds this perception, that comment fed this perception that we're more interested in protecting the members of the military than pursuing aggressive journalism. and in that sense it was a very damaging com...

You want access. you want access for your audience. it informs your reporting in the long term. if a general officer, there's a gaffe or he says something that is impolitic you let that go as a beat reporter because you're there for years and years. you know, you're not a lapdog. you're not an attack dog. you're a watchdog. and that's what makes you an effective journalist. so yes, you know, jamie's right, you do let some things go. but it's for the greater good. >> in letting things go, and i'll come back to jamie, michael hastings, for example, says that people like you, your colleagues who ...

The small minority. you don't do that because it's a bad idea. >> actually i think we make laws based on small minorities and lobbyists all the time. bob, go ahead. >> all of this discussions presupposing people are going to remember all of this and the votes on this by november. >> oh, they will. >> i think by then we may have had other issues that come up like say employment, say whatever our current war situation is, that type of thing. i've always believed, frankly, that the electorate and all of us in the media have the attention span of a gnat. i think we'll be far passed that by then. >...

Constructive. that was the iran deal model that obama used. there are differences with north korea, as i interviewed some of barack obama's lead negotiators and particularly wendy sherman, she said even with a democrat we would get to a kind of war-like verge of war situation before north korea moved. but donald trump has not invested anything at all in the diplomatic process of trying to unite the frustration of the neighborhood against north korea. it's all one-on-one and it's just slipshot. >> roberttraynam, as we look at the potential response coming from the united states, we heard the re...