mostly to his fans. we should point out here, all governments try to withhold and try to avoid tough questions. it's just that the trump administration is doing it much more egregiously than bush or clinton or obama or past presidents did. normally we'd have an off-camera briefing almost every day of the week. now we've seen them once a week in this new strategy this month. it may hurt the white house, it definitely hurts the public's access to information. >> bill, do you think that it might hurt the white house cutting off his opportunity, one of the biggest opportunities they have to get their message out? >> well, i think it's hurting them with an awful lot of people. it's not hurting with their base as brian points out. and, you know, he has a propaganda arm he can go to to reach that base in fox news. so he's using that effectively, but it's not expanding his base and it also is just denying the rest of the country access to their president. he's not just president of those people. he's president of all the people. so if he cuts off these people, it's not just that he can't