@snood,
He's what we used to call a smooth talker, he dances around the answers and just gets his message out without directly answering any questions put to him.
As an example: He never did say whether that guy who was fired was because of leaks, but then he went on to talk about leaks of the WH. He never really said if it was proper for Trump to diss Session on Twitter rather than talking to him face to face, just said if you are going to work for this President, you have to toughen up. Guess, that was straight up.