The co-hosts at CBS This Morning on Thursday interviewed a New York Times correspondent on the Wikileaks document release, yet somehow avoided mentioning that this same journalist offered to let the Clinton campaign have “veto” power over what he published. In a Wiki-released e-mail, the Times’s Mark Leibovich said this to Clinton aide Jennifer Palmieri on questions to the candidate: “i wanted the option to use all -- and you could veto what you didn't want. That's why i selected the 5 or 6 I sent to you.” [Punctuation from original e-mail.]

Yet, this major topic didn’t come up on Thursday. Instead, co-host Gayle King said of a recent Leibovich profile of Clinton: “Your article points out that she is sort of tired of selfies as many famous people are. Do you think she is just over it?” Not exactly the most important topic.

It’s not as though the subject of Wikileaks didn’t come up in the segment:

GAYLE KING: Wikileaks is promising more releases up until Election Day. But what you've heard so far, is there anything that has been very damaging to her? It's not getting a lot of attention, but has there been anything you think, "Okay, this is trouble?"

An image from the actual e-mail:

If Wikileaks is "not getting a lot of attention,” perhaps it has something to do with Democrats colluding with Clinton and giving her “veto” power.

In another section, Palmieri explains what she will allow the journalist to use and what she won't:

From last two questions, fine to use everything from the paragraph starting "and to get serious for just a minute..." till the end of the interview as on the record - with the exception of this passage which I ask you leave out: "and gay rights has moved much faster than women's rights or civil rights, which is an interesting phenomenon somebody in the future will unpack." Let me know if that is not clear. Working from an iPhone on the plane so am not able to access the transcript to cut and paste.

She closed by telling the journalist, “Pleasure doing business!”

A transcript is below:

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