on this question and prepared to act across a broad range of contingencies in support of our interests. >> this is vintage secretary gates, he is an insider, he knows how to play this game, he was the former head of the cia and this memo was leaked and what is extraordinare about it as senator mccain said, i don't need a three-page classified memo to tell me we don't have a well-conceived iran policy. >> so it was leaked by someone close to him. what does he get out of it. >> he gets distance from a failed policy. it remind me a lot of what don rumsfeld did when the iraq war turned south in 2003. gosh, are we making things worse in iraq? that strangely ended up on the front page of the paper, too. >> jon: next, news room drama on nbc. why the anchor angst at club peacock. >> he's suspended, he's suspended and nobody really