it s not illegal, the president is certainly entitlee to know about a meeting between his son and someone who wanted to give him dirt on a candidate, or want to talk to him about maybe changing rules involving sanctions, those are all perfectly proper meetings. but cnn is in a box and i want to put the best possible light on it. let s assume it has one or two other sources in addition to lanny davis who did the right thing by coming forward and acknowledging that his story he doesn t have any support for his story. but they can t reveal their sources.in i have two suggestions for them. number one, they tell us the nature of the sources without telling us the names.e are they eyewitnesses, is it hearsay? or second, that they give their source to their expert on journalism and let their expert decide whether or not they should stick with the story. or some outside expert, someone from the columbia school of journalism, who could learn the