1) Why is what “a friend,” of anyone, says about something they are not personally involved news?
2) How did we fall to the point a “conversation” between 2 individuals, again not personally involved in an event, rate a “story” in national news media?
You don’t recognize a veiled threat in the open?
IIRC, Wittes is the Comey friend that leaked info to the media, which got the whole Mueller investigation started.