Mort Kondracke is just saying that NBC is going to change their own story tonight: they are going to say that the troops didn't search for the cache.
That would be convenient.
How could it possible go from explosives by the ton not being there according to reporters with the troops, to "WE DON'T KNOW" or they didn't look?
In the end, the press are causing their own demise as they are making themselves more and more "NON-ESSENTIAL"