you're going into the craft of journalism and you're told leave these facts out, don't say that, el pravda from russia has more credibility than the new york times in my opinion. y'all have lost the information battle and pretty soon every print, media, all the fox news, all that, it's all going down. host: mr. eichenwald. guest: i hate to keep saying this. you'll notice there was one conspiracy theory in there, that journalists are being told to leave things out. i've never been told to leave anything out unless i had something that was patentliery dick louse. yes, i've been told that. i've never been told to leave anything out. i take my reporting and, yes, we have standards. we have standards of what we can say. i have to have proven it. i can't just spin theory. i have to have a document or people who are telling me who are people in a position to know. and people in a position to know don't have to be big authorities. someone who is a secretary, someone who -- he was talking about being told to cut corners. well, that actually can be an actual conspiracy. and i could talk to that gent