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Government accountable. it makes it harder to hold the commander in chief and people in congress who seem adverse to wanting to debate americas role most notably. so when you pull that kind of information out of the public eye, youre making the job of holding the federal government accountable for difficult and thats the kind of stuff that really that actually probably worries me more than the frequency or infrequency of the daily briefing. >> im glad you brought that up. i see you tweeting abou...

Time that the white house is briefing on background and wont let any other white house be a rather normal briefing that you would attribute to actual people. they insist that it be anonymous. >> they dont want to be seen talking to reporters. >> in the briefing room with several people, they each have positions. its anonymous. it cant be attributed to any one person. so perhaps the white house press core should stop taking people on background. make them go on record. >> that wouldnt be a bad id...

Guest at the westin hotel, in flip-flops and white notre dame t-shirt waiting for a delivery from shake shack. it would be unremarkable save the lead, robert mueller in the trial of paul manafort. muellers spokesman who is no comment replies become a running dark joke among the washington press core would not confirm his order from shake shack. talk about how locked down, how locked up the mueller probe is, even during their first trial. >> absolutely. and we even got word from the press officer...

Operating on the theory that that was the way things were, and that that would hold, that he could basically do what he wanted to do, and nobody would write about him. >> gary hart did not recognize that there were now women on the campaign reporting, and that that whole kind of male secrecy bond that extended from jfk to ben bradley, the washington post, to many other politicians was broken by women reporters. >> the nature of the washington press core changed. it became more feminist, more sen...

Whose actions were not adequately dealt with by the obama administration in realtime. and the president says no, putin is someone that i can do business with. showing complete inngnorance of what the russian government has done in recent years, askewing the national security team and saying attempts to hold them accountable for that is brought to you by a press core that is an authoritarian of the people. he says the people must not know what were doing. lets keep this information away from the ...

How did you decide that this was the moment? this was the moment where you werent going to play the game, you were going to hand it back to hally jackson and let her have your opportunity? >> well, thanks, lawrence. and, look, a lot of us in the white house press core have been talking for a long time about press core unity and sticking together and making sure, you know, all of us can do our jobs and get the questions that were asking answered. i thought that was an opportunity to sort of step ...

The moment? this was the moment where you werent going to play the game, you were going to hand it back to hally jackson and let her have your opportunity? >> well, thanks, lawrence. and, look, a lot of us in the white house press core have been talking for a long time about press core unity and sticking together and making sure, you know, all of us can do our jobs and get the questions that were asking answered. i thought that was an opportunity to sort of step aside and let hally get her quest...

Equivalent on the other side. >> the rest of the washington press core rounded up behind -- [ overlapping talking ]. >> the other interview donald trump granted the sun, rupert murdochs paper. the one who won the apprentice also. >> john roberts was completely classless at that press conference. trump is attacking cnn on a televised stage. this wasnt a sideshow at the white house or something like that. british press was -- john roberts jumped in. he issued a feeble statement saying it was unfai...

Because of this. >> all right. were going to sneak in a break. were going to watch how white house press core tries to keep this administrations feet to the flames in the briefing. thats on the other side of the break. i want sta thank jacob soboroff who has done some of the most important reporting during the trump administration. ashley parker, you, too, thank you for spending time with us. both of you come back if anything dramatic happens in this hour. you never know. well be right back. ind...

Seen my gosh susan page, you were there during the clinton administration as was peter as was i. and in different positions. but you saw time and again the clinton administration. we all did. where they told lies. they told half truths. bill clinton shaded the truth with great regularity. but still, when you had mike mccurry go up behind that podium, mike mccurry was always careful to defend the president as much as he could but also to make sure that he maintained credibility with a very hostil...