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Profile of the president. they need me. i dont need them. abby: i dont need another gala to go to. you have had outlets up to this point that said they are not going to go the new yorker. vanity fair. clayton: going to go but not have the after parties. abby: they spend a lot of money on these extravagant parties. clayton: bloomberg reported they are not going to have their after party to. get up there and be as funny, look. george w. bush in his early days doing it was not kind of on but then i...

First of all, is it healthy for the country? lets put aside president trumps charges or the medias countercharges. is it healthy for the country for the president of the united states to be selective on who hes going to talk to in terms of bringing in the white house press secretarys office, and to just keep every opportunity, taking shots by name at members of the media, rather than deal with the issues that the people of this country need to deal with? >> absolutely. and i think -- lets be cle...

Wub stabbed were starting with pushing back the white house. denying any wrongdoing asking trump to speak out about reports between the trump campaign and the russians. >> the revelations is raising decades olds questions, can the white house have an open discussion with the fbi when theres an a discussion ongoing. >> and how should that conversation happen. and the president unleashing another round of attacks on the news media, cnn and other outlets are blocked from attending a press briefing....

Correspondents association, go to the briefings, every day for the last eight years. we watched with just afraid of what might happen, watching during the campaign when donald trump called on certain reporters by name, banned certain outlets from coming to events been afraid since then that would happen. two things. throw the press out of the briefing room, havent done, and two, start to cherry pick people allowed in. exactly what happened today, appalling and huge mistake. this was called as ga...

Story that were not completely accurate, the essence of it is true, which is that there were contacts with associates of the donald trump campaign, and people in russia, people in the u.s. intelligence community. and this is a very serious issue, because this was happening at a time when the russians were trying to interfear with the u.s. elections. thats the essence of what the noshlg times has reported, what cnn has reported and what other media outlets have reported. th >> not to mention the ...

Wonder because there were certain specific people not included cnn among them, the "new york times." if it was just that the room was too crowded it wouldnt have necessarily targeted those individual outlets which led them to, you know, feel hurt and left out and to lash out. but, at the same time, it also pushed the other story that was our top story about the fbi and russia story sort of all the map. do you think it was intentional? >> i do think everyone should be on guard whenever something ...

That put and will put its own citizens first. >> all: usa! usa! usa! >> and jon with us live from the white house tonight. we understand there was a press briefing today, but only some news organizations were allowed in? why some, not others? >> reporter: some of the largest news organizations in the country, including the "new york times" and cnn, were denied access to that briefing. while smaller conservative outlets were allowed in. its highly unusual to exclude major news organizations that ...

We talk about some outlets are fake news. it looks like a discrediting campaign thats preemptive to me. im very concerned about it. >> if you like, the best form of defense is offense strategy? >> yeah, exemcept were supposeo have a white house thats transparent. were supposed to know whats going on. were not supposed to control the outcome of news by trying to manipulate reporters. look, i know hundreds of reporters that -- reporters are not going to be manipulated. theyre going to report the n...

Unfortunately didnt have a chance to. look, i was there, i was with a number of other reporters in sean spicers office yesterday, and, yes, it was particularly geared towards the pool, as you mentioned, but also right-leaning conservative outlets. there were some radio reporters there, but you didnt have the presence of, you know, cnn, "the new york times," the "l.a. times," a number of outlets were ex excluded. the administration said this has nothing to do with us being upset with their covera...

One of the only countries in the world where prosecution is done by the department of justice. in britain and others, department not beholden to the president. need to change the rules. >> in petty -- cnn and others blocked from attending white house media briefing today. you werent on the list. what happened? >> certainly a bizarre instance. normally if the white house press secretary is going to have a briefing, holds in briefing room on the on camera. and had offcamera gaggle and decided that...