Sometimes, the gov’t will provide the press w/classified information if the topic is hot enough. This could be what the meeting was about and why it needed to be off the record.
I.e., they may have been ready to provide info on what information was really compromised and what steps they took to get it, in classified detail.
Just guessing. I’m not privvy to anything.
Yeah Michelle will fly before the DOJ provides any media outlet with classified info
This would have been a birch fest. Possibly threatening reporters