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I feel like @KenDilanianNBC tweeted the "news" about Whitaker's remark *seven times* without once posting the video because if you watch the video the comment seems vague, an afterthought, hesitant, and basically nothing like the major news that Ken avers.
2/ Does Ken underscore that Rod Rosenstein (contrary to erroneous early November 2018 reporting) is *still in charge of the Mueller probe*, so Whitaker is only getting *second-hand* briefings? No, as that would undercut how much we can trust Whitaker here. msnbc.com/deadline-white… 
3/ How about the fact Whitaker was clearly unprepared for the question and that his remark (the purported news in all this) came at the end of a sentence he couldn't figure out how to finish delicately? "You know I look forward to, ah, Director Mueller, um, delivering... {cont.}
4/ ...the final report and I, ah, really am not going to talk about, uh, an open and ongoing investigation otherwise but sort of the statements that I made were as a private citizen, only with publicly available information, ah, and, I'm, uh, you know, comfortable that, uh {cont}
5/ ...the decisions that were made are going to be, ah, reviewed, uh, yeah, either through the various means we have, but right now the investigation is, uh, I think, uh, close to {pause} being completed, and I hope that we can get the report from Director Mueller as soon {cont.}
6/ ...as we—as soon as possible." All of the above said haltingly, while perspiring and with a hesitant tone. But then AP and MSNBC and others report this out as "right now the investigation is close to being completed" as though Whitaker was giving a prepared address on Mueller.
7/ Reporters of course had to report what Whitaker said—and equally "of course" they had to provide the context for the statement *and* (because it was so extraordinary) the way in which it was delivered, which changes *entirely* how one would receive it compared to the AP story.
