(Full transcript of Russert, after Fitzgerald's press conference, explaining his phone call from Libby:)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5961048/
" MSNBC: So, your sole contact with Scooter Libby in the period in question here was he called to complain about programming, something that was said or covered on one of NBC’s cable news programs.
Russert: Correct. And that was the extent of it. I immediately, obviously, called to the president of NBC News and shared the complaint — which is why it was memorable in my mind.
And to the notion that I somehow was the recipient of a leak, which wasn't the case, or that I had shared information that I did not know — the first time I heard of Valerie Plame and the fact that she was a CIA operative is when I read Robert Novak's column the following Monday. "
(There's obviously a record, (not necessarily a recording) of Russert's call to NBC president describing Libby's call.)
Huh? There's a record of Russert's call the president of NBC to relay Libby's concern about programming.
There is no record about anything else discussed by Libby and Russert (unless Russert recorded the call, which is illegal in DC).
Further, it's actually more than plausible that Russert would choose not to mention Plame during his discussion with the NBC exec. Why would he? Plame would be a news matter, and not pertinent to an executive business matter (Russert is also a VP at NBC, he wears two hats as a news guy and as an executive manager).
So again all you have is Russert's word against Libby's.
The "record" you assert shows precisely nothing.
That sounds like a pretty good supposition. However, it only proves that Russert didn't tell his boss that he and Libby discussed Joe Wilson, not that the discussion didn't take place.