is burt lance running the white house?at least they talk to the press and are not afraid. >> is burt lance running the white house? someone is threatening bob woodward? >> it's like the conclave. okay. >> wow. >> do you want me to keep going? >> they threatened -- so the white house threatened bob woodward and said you would regret writing a story. go ahead. go ahead. that's fascinating. >> for writing a story that talked about the proposal for the automatic spending cuts and where it originated from and that would be from within the president's inner circle. >> it makes me very uncomfortable to have the white house telling reporters you're going to regret doing something that you believe in and even though we don't look at it that way, you do look at it that way and i think if barack obama knew that was part of the communications strategy, let's hope it's not a strategy -- that it's a tactic that someone has employed saying, look, we don't go around trying to say to reporters if you in an honest way present something we d