for the press when it comes to the government that that is something that you can't ban an entity from. you know, conservative, liberal, or otherwise, i think that's what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship. >> what are you learning? >> i think part of what you're seeing there, sean spicer back in december was him trying to comfort people that, don't worry too much, we are going to be a white house that is the way other white houses, george w. bush, the way they have related to the press. i don't think it's particularly surprising, though, just being familiar i think certainly with what we've heard from the president and also what we know about sean spicer from the past, you know, i was talking to a former republican colleague of his, and back when he was at the rnc he talked about internally banning outlets. he talked about sending out memos that would call out what he felt was false reporting and we also know that mashable