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Let's get to the boat out of the gate. We have conflicting stories on the situation in the

Caribbean with this boat strike. So let's back up. The Washington Post and the New York Times

are both out with stories with anonymous sources.

I first have to explain to you the anonymous sources. Your reaction, of course, is going to be to

dismiss the anonymous sources. That is, by design. I don't blame you either, but you have to

understand why are the sources anonymous?

No, no, no, no, no, because we've got conflicting anonymous sources.

We have military sources.

We have U.S. officials.

So in other words, you've got people inside the Pentagon bureaucracy who are enlisted,

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