make those decisions. that s true. but it does still seem putting some separation between himself and this. although he did go on to say that these are dangerous missions. they re there for a reason. they re facing danger in carrying out what he described as a very important mission. so perhaps not the same separation he tried to establish with that yemen raid some months ago, but perhaps some separation nonetheless. thank you. and when we come back, the president again insisting he was nice to dpoeld star widow mrs. johnson and knew her husband s name. it was in front of him on a chart, he says, the whole time. why can t he just let the johnson story go? you know who likes to be in control? this guy. check it out! self-appendectomy! oh, that s really attached. that s why i rent from national. where i get the control to choose any car in the aisle i want, not some car they choose for me.
i don t know about that, but absolutely what people can do is place the credit freeze at all three credit bureaus and that s really what we re recommending that people do. they re free right now in only seven states. we re working on making that the case in other places like massachusetts and illinois, but really, congress should step up and make them free for everybody in the whole country. mike, good to talk to you. thank you so much for doing this. mike licht is a consumer advocate at the u.s. public research interest group. we re going to stay on top of this story until we get to the bottom of all of it. when they knew, why they didn t tell us, who sold the stock, when they sold the stock, what they knew when they sold the stock and whether the expense you have to go through to keep your credit safe is going to be reimbursed by equifax. i promise you personally i m not letting this story go. i do have to let the show go, though, because i m out of time and it s someone else s s
rear-view mirror. it s hard to remember that a week ago we felt like we were in a nuclear edge with north korea. we have almost too good a metabolism for news these days. we need to stop and say let s not let this story go. let s continue to chew on it. i think this is one of those stories. i couldn t agree more, sam. what is it four days since the press conference? uh-huh. i think we need to count it out. this is day four since the press conference, and we need to remember it. we will keep counting. bob corker has spoken out. corporate and military leaders are speaking out. who else is going to speak out, and who else is going to remain quiet? andrea, i want to bring you in for a sense of perspective. there s a lot to be discouraged about, but using the line from
hey, rod, it s ed. a couple minutes ago i got a note that we have the full, uh, attention of the white house on this. and, tomorrow, let s close this deal. whatever we ve got to do, but you can feel free to say that the white house is onto this now. the white house is onto this now. jonathan capehart opinion writer for the washington post and msnbc contributor. jonathan, if the president or his staff were involved in this as mr. butowsky asserted, what does that mean and where does this story go from here? it means that the administration from the president on down, that
side and where does this story go from here? that s the big question. everybody wants to know, you said it at the top. wouldn t you have liked to have been a fly on the wall for this meeting that nobody knew about outside of the folks in that room. and the white house, when you talk about that big pushback, they say it wasn t even a meeting. that this was a social event and that there was music being played and sitting down to dinner and then perfectly normal for world leaders to get up to circulate, to talk to each other. and, in fact, the president said that the press knew about it. the press was able to take pictures. what we call the family photo. that they knew this dinner was happening and he criticized the press for making it it look sinister. they say there was nothing sinister about it. and, in fact, they called this one on one with vladimir putin a brief chat. that is a completely different story than we got from ann brenner. he is the person who broke this story, first of