RACHEL MADDOW: The president reiterated that same point today saying there's no point for asking on the part of Congress before I know exactly what it is that's going to be required for us to get the job done. So dialing it back. But honestly, this is the thing. Because the president telling the media directly you're getting ahead of what we're doing or thinking about or planning, we don't have plans to bomb Syria, stop reporting that we do, but the president saying that, that will change the way the press talks about this issue. Basically, the press got direct instructions from the president today that we've been getting something wrong about what they're doing. But the rest of the story here is the U.S. is already fighting military battles against ISIS in Iraq.