successful in getting broadcast producers who don't really want to deal with the headache of it, why put on these controversial stories that we are going to have to fight people on when we can fill the broadcast with other perfectly decent stories that don't ruffle the same feathers. >> so you are saying that you and other journalists have made these observations. are you saying you personally got pushback from the obama administration and white house officials or they went over your head and tried to apply pressure to your boss sns. >> both. they worked through you me and they often went over my head to the bosses. i didn't always know what they did so. they would sometimes refer to it later or i would be coped on an e-mail or bosses would copy me on an e-mail. they would consistently tell me if i would write an article on line, which would be the fallback position when something couldn't get on television, but it was still a great story and i would circulate it online, they