Joe Concha on Phil Rucker Breaking Off-the-Record Agreement: It’s a Fireable Offense to Break this Rule

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CONCHA: “As you mentioned, Tucker that is a commandment that should never be broken. It’s like Vegas, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. When you have an off-the-record conversation with a reporter, it is understood as long as the parties establish beforehand that this is an off-the-record conversation that is not going to be mentioned, it’s not going to be published, it’s not going to be talked about in any capacity. It’s like seeing your psychiatrist or a priest during confession. It’s not supposed to get out. And in this case, there was also some other reporters there as well. Reporters from Bloomberg and Reuters and the “Wall Street journal” and then Phil rutger who you mentioned from “The Washington Post. It can’t be confirmed, however, that rutger actually burned this source here in Madeline westerhaut that’s what a lot of sources are reporting now. I can’t confirm that and I’m not going to do that here.”