first "rolling stone" magazine executive editor eric bates, the article "runaway general" is in the magazine's latest issue. i have to say as a journalist congratulations. this is an amazing scoop, and i have to ask you about the particulars. here they are as we've been able to get them from your article. tell us if this isn't the heart of your report. a mccrystal aide in your article is described as saying -- he describes the general's first one university one meeting with president obama this way, quote. it was a ten-minute photo-op. obama clearly didn't know anything about him. that's the general, who he was. here's the guy who is going to run this f'ing thing, f'ing war, but he didn't seem very engaged. the boss was pretty disappointed. that's one quote. let's go on further. let's look at other quotes. let's look at other quotes. the article has mcchrystal and an aide joking a bobout how the