bush administration justice department official who went on fox and says this sounds like espionage, but later he went on cnn and said he regretted his words, he meant the ukrainians, not colonel vinman. people are attacking their own over this sr. -- very sensitive question of the witnesses and their motivation. >> all in a scramble to prejudge what the result. everybody wants to write the last story of impeachment before we've even started the damn thing. vinman's testimony is not a matter of public record. nobody knows for sure what he said on the record except what's been leaked since after his testimony. the dark art of discrediting in the modern media with world is to start whispering about other things other than what he said, and that's what happened with vinman. howard: what explains what you call the rush to prejudge? why not cover the story one step at a time based on what we know? his opening statement was put out. leaked, to be sure. so is it that we -- everyone