reserved for a -- emergencies, moments of urgency, when americans need to know moment by moment what is being said. but people are tuning in, not for news, not to hear the debate on healthcare, tax reform, infrastructure, whatever issue that the republicans are letting slip away by the day, but to watch what sean spicer will say next, to be entertained by what is happening in the white house press briefing room. >> i wonder what happens when they realize that there is a life after there and there are other jobs and there is also credibility and you can look this up in the mirror every day. >> i think what michael bender was making there, i think the reason why the briefings have been must-see tv -- >> because they're "snl" at the middle of the day. >> it's hard to figure out whether this is "snl" or real life. i think what we're watching unfolding here, don, and i hate