across sensitive information, went to u.s. officials beforehand and had a discussion about what could be public, what couldn t be public, what shouldn t be published. there is much that has been withheld over the years for national security reasons. it is but everything s extraordinary these days. it s extraordinary they didn t ask. they didn t even ask. that is extraordinary. the washington post s brad miller, thank you so much. we greatly appreciate it. so, donnie, here s the operating theory that we heard people talk about last night and that some might say some might say you have this extraordinary leak damaging supposedly to the white house and damaging to the allies but really is damaging to the press because everybody came out yesterday going this is a shock, you saw it on tv, suddenly