steven moore and maggie has beenerman. why wouldn't the white house say that the president believes it's a hoax. >> probably because if the answer is yes i don't think therapy they are prepared to deal with everything that would come with that. they don't want to get into having to explain away a tweet from a couple of years ago that having been said this is sfvgly fair game legitimate something he said as a candidates something i he put out in the medium many that he continues to use it's his favorite way of communicating with people. i think it's a problem on its own it's not going away. it's emblematic as the jim said the white house has hungered down on everything these days very, very hard to get a direct answer on a number of topics. we have gone from to be fair to the president early on in the administration -- well we're still early on. earlier on in the administration he was much more accessible then president obama was. reporters able to talk to him more easily. people were while sean spicer was aggressive to put it mildly