scoffing in disbelief. hey, turn that off. no cameras. audio only. we, too can pull a spicer. his briefings have been getting shorter. thank you, guys. reporter: one online commenter begged, please tell me that news outlets will play the audio-briefings over gifs of melissa mccarthy-as-spicer, be still my heart. no one will never see me again. yes. reporter: it s as if spicer is a hostage at his own briefings, as one poster noted, with a thousand-yard stare. and he got more grief. he wasn t hiding in the bushes, okay? he was hiding among the bushes. okay? reporter: reporters get treated like misbehaving kitties. one at a time. cecelia. hey, major, major, cecelia is
you wouldn t to hear from the president, not from the communications director or the press secretary. when i heard sean say he wasn t going to answer the question, that s the president, i m looking forward to people asking the question. me, too. is this going to be a policy shift? me, too. hold on a minute. if the president you just said that if you re going to talk about global warming and climate change you should hear it from the president. the president just made the biggest announcement on earth about climate change yesterday and didn t answer the question. that s why he s being asked. you can t point to a whoopt literally just had a speech about this and ducked the issue. the incredible shrinking sean spicer. i hope they put him out of his misery. i d love to speak to sean spicer on any show. it s great to see you both. thank you very much. out front, breaking news, the white house finding new ways
where s sean spicer? here s jeanne moos. reporter: now you see him it s true. you did it. reporter: now you don t. you re free to use the audio. reporter: sean spicer is a little bit like the incredible shrinking man in the 1957 movie. you ll come right back? of course i will. reporter: not in a dollhouse but in the white house playing cat and mouse with the press. televised briefings have been rare lately. on friday, spicer resurfaced but wasn t able to give the president s views on climate change an exited asap. today happens to be national leave work early day. reporter: on wednesday, spicer ditched cameras holding an audio-only gaggle with that eyebrow raising answer to a question about president trump s jibberish tweet. the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant. reporter: leaving reporters