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Bush years or the white house in which i served, but its a goalpost for what was normal, what was normal was tension with the media. what is not normal is what went down in the briefing room today. >> and the rally in pennsylvania. there is no point at which the media is spoken to or treated as though they are members of -- and protected members of a fourth estate, a fourth branch of government. i feel like every single day the relationship further deteriorates and were going to a place where i ...

Pennsylvania. there is no point at which the media is spoken to or treated as though they are members of -- and protected members of a fourth estate, a fourth branch of government. i feel like every single day the relationship further deteriorates and were going to a place where i dont know that we can come back from this. >> annie, its the right word, it is the responsibility of the white house to protect the press corps when they travel with them and advocate for their rights to be in pool spr...

Questions. the first oval office with a foreign leader since the incident that you faced last week. you asked a question of the president, then after that you were told you couldnt cover the event afterward because they didnt like what you asked. what happens today, kaitlan? >> reporter: we expect it to be business as usual. reporters will go in the room at the beginning of that meeting with the italian prime minister. we do expect them to ask questions, as we do at every opportunity that we hav...

Punish a cnn reporter for asking questioning in such a space. >> when youre in these pool sprays, very often the presidents done answer you, its just for pictures. what makes trump different is he answers questions and now they want to say oh, were not going to take a question for kaitlyn because she violated decorum. that is so ridiculous. who is less def rouse than the president. >> my question is that among the reasons she didnt is because he answers questions in that forum all of the time. >...

Preferable to all-out standout with democrats. >> this president is a bully and he will try to intimidate all of us. hes not going to shut down anything. we are not going to be intimidated by bluffing or bullying. >> some republicans voice reluctance of idea of shutdown before the midterms. >> i think we are going to make sure we keep the government open but we are going to get better policies on immigration. the president i think wantstous have policies that work for america and work for americ...

States very badly. i hope they change their ways, thank you, everybody. >> helsinki? >> or vienna? >> the point im making there joan, is bill shine is saying you were asked to leave and then you asked a question, that was disrespectful. >> that is what happened right there the president was happy to answer, thats just q1 of many examples whether its with this president or other presidents. >> right. the other problem here, erin, is that this president has given one official news conference. one ...

Tell me what happened then. >> reporter: thats right, erin. to give a little background of what i was doing in there, i was the only reporter representing all of the networks there. so i wasnt just acting on behalf of cnn, but its therefore all of us, so fewer reporters can go into a smaller venue like the oval office and still be able to pose questions to the president. this is a very regular occurrence. also, when there are these type of pool sprays, as theyre referred to back a hehere at th w...

Media because of the questions that i asked and that they believed they were inappropriate and inappropriate for that venue. i reminded them that often these pool sprays are often the only time we are able to ask and to pose questions to president trump. now, he certainly has a right to not answer those questions. sometimes he does, sometimes he doesnt. today was one of those days where he didnt. but then it turned into a much larger event with the white house then saying that i would not be all...

But he didnt want to talk about it. so they knew this was the question they were going to get. they dont live on mars. >> but, you know, but erin, but going back to, i think, the entire point, you know, when you have a pool reporter thats coming in, obviously, theyre representing an entire number of different journalists. so i think it has to be a to higher standard, if you are going to go and say that there is inappropriate behavior before you go and take that type of action. but heres the thin...

In those pools, with kim jong-un resident trump, i was excluded and the reason i was given is because they were concerned that kim jong-un had not been around american reporters yelling and shouting questions and so on and so i was excluded from that first couple of pool sprays. i registered my objections and then we were allowed into a couple of opportunities and when you heard me ask the president -- how are things going and kim jong-un will you give up your nuclear weapons, that is when they ...