said we could have all handled this situation better. i asked what specifically did he think could have been done better and he said everything was fine. there was nothing that they could have done better. and people have used that statement to point out that this is something that you would maybe hear the president say, the president has a long history of sort of take no prisoners and never admit mistakes and never look weak. we saw a little bit of that -- i saw a little bit of that from john kelly in the hallway there. the problem here though is that not only did that conflict with the white house said a few days earlier, the idea that they did nothing wrong, while we have evidence here of a changing story and we still don't understand -- if he believes they did nothing wrong, the white house needs to better explain why that is. >> and indeed, it has been reported that you were invited to an off the record meeting with rob porter shortly after