war against fox news, the white house never banned fox from attending any sort of press gaggle or broiefing. this is clearly president trump punishing news organizations for providing basic accountability. >> reporter: well, jake, it was a little perplexing to see how this played out. it is not unusual for the white house to do something like that with a pool, which is of course a small group of reporters who represents the entire press core, or even if they wanted to do a private meeting, for instance, with a group of columnists. but what is bizarre to see the white house hand-selecting ava right of different news outlets across the board and blocking others. for instance, they allowed every other major television network except for cnn into this briefing, which is outside the realm of what we normally see from the white house. it's very bizarre to allow newspapers into a briefing like this, but to exclude the new york times. so, they did seem to opt for some outlets they believe are more favorable toward the president, places like breitbart, places like the washington times, and opted to