written statement to congress. right. which we now know is false. at the time, he carried two cell phones. one was in a black case, one was in a white case. he explained to me that one was his personal cell phone and one was for the white house in washington to be able to reach him. now, he wasn t talking to the president directly at the time at advice of counsel. i always wondered in my mind, if the president is not trying to reach him what s the other phone for? who s trying to reach him from washington? now maybe my question from 17 months ago has been answered. that is remarkable. philip rucker, we know that you reached out to and got a response from rudy giuliani. is the white house saying anything? you know, not at this hour. they re sort of letting that giuliani statement sit, but i don t think they re going to be able to dodge these questions tomorrow. this is an issue that s going to, you know, continue into the news. it s a really important development. and we
written statement to congress. right. which we now know is false. at the time, he carried two cell phones. one was in a black case, one was in a white case. he explained to me that one was his personal cell phone and one was for the white house in washington to be able to reach him. now, he wasn t talking to the president directly at the time at advice of counsel. i always wondered in my mind, if the president is not trying to reach him what s the other phone for? who s trying to reach him from washington? now maybe my question from 17 months ago has been answered. that is remarkable. philip rucker, we know that you reached out to and got a response from rudy giuliani. is the white house saying anything? you know, not at this hour. they re sort of letting that juligiuliani statement sit, but don t think they re going to be able to dodge these questions tomorrow. this is an issue that s going to, you know, continue into the news. it s a really important development. and
apologizes for any i ll feelings the situation has caused. moreover, the board is taking specific policies and protocols to directly address this matter and to prevent any issues moving forward. and we should also say that the employee who is fired told the the huffington post that he couldn t comment because of pending litigation and a board member implicated in those emails has also resigned. all of that though, that mr. haskell was under distress and apologizing, how does that statement sit with you? well, it s one of those i m sorry if your feelings got hurt kind of things. i don t really had hear apology in there. but the truth is there is no apology that covers this. they could apologize for the bad words. they could apologize for throwing around language that we all would agree was inappropriate in any environment. but you can t apologize for creating a toxics culture of abuse in which people are passing around a picture and making fun of a woman s weight.
whipped up as if this is a phony debate, and it s not over fundamental issues where there are arguments on both sides. jedediah, is this a case of the white house perhaps trying to write the story before it had gotten out there? i think it s a case of them counting on us to be ignorant, to be ill informed, and counting on the media not to do this job. they just expected everyone would be so caught up in the moment of an american coming home that they wouldn t bother to ask any questions about him, and within just an hour, reporters were coming out and saying, hold on, let s question this guy. once again, they cart susan rice out just thinking everyone s going to let her statement sit as is, and no one s going to come in and question her statement. to do with them, we learned with benghazi that you have to question susan rice, and they have. i think they re continually surprised by americans and media who ask tough questions. and i think they weren t expecting the courageous soldi
to our roles as members of the armed forces. how does that statement sit to you? well, first off, we re sworn to defend the constitution and follow the lawful orders of the president. we re defending what is present law. more importantly, i was not going to speak about this policy. this was a prayer breakfast or a prayer luncheon and i do this quite frequently as a veteran held in policy issues and i m invited to speak at a church in nashville. i was going to talk about the theme, the theme of the event was back to basics and i was going to talk to jesus new words in the new testaments, the latest commandment to love thy god with all thy heart and soul and love thy neighbor. nothing to do with policy, i ve never injected policy debate into a venue like this. this is the point, this policy change is going to have a