he's like a dead man walking in d.c. it looks like he'll be a zombie character. they won't take him out of the job. they won't let him do his job. he has to stand out there and be a pinata for a press. >> van added they hope they put him out of his misery. his day-to-day role seems to be diminishing. press briefings are shorter and fewer of them. no longer daily press beefgs. >> no longer on camera. jeanne moos gives us her take on the incredible shrinking spicer. >> reporter: now you see him. >> you're shaking your head here, it's true, you did. >> reporter: now you don't. >> you're free to use the audio. >> reporter: sean spicer is a little like the incredible shrinking man in the 1957 movie. not in a doll house but in the white house, playing cat and mouse with the press, briefings have been rare. friday, spicer resurfaced,