Mike Pesca

Right.

Is you there to broadly inform everybody that is there?

Are you there to make an assumption that people already know certain things?

And that that to me is a bit of a yellow flag on her news instincts.

Now, she may have just said that as as part of an email that she knew was going to going to go public.

Obviously, what doesn't look good for her on this is the fact that that she missed four screenings of this piece and then weighed in very late, basically less than 48 hours than when the piece was going to air.

So it's it rings of, oh, she got a whole bunch of complaints from people inside the administration.

And there were a few complaints that she thought rang pretty true.

Like, hey, they didn't have a voice in the piece or they didn't have this.

And I think she's right that it could use a voice.

It certainly would improve the piece.

But when you come in that late in the process, it certainly looks like you've let outsiders manipulate the process, whether or not that's true.

And it's her timing of it.

Now, so I think a few things here.

Let's take her at face value.

I don't think...

She wants to be seen as a political pawn.

OK, so I have some of you may have a very snarky view of her that she just wants to be an apparatchik.

I don't believe that.

I believe she thinks she can do this better.