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>> thank you. >> sanders issued a statement saying collins shouted questions and refused to leave. >> let's go. come on, guys. thank you very much. >> "to be clear, we support a free press," wrote sanders. another example of trying to control the white house press corps are the actual press briefings. >> audio check. one, two, three -- >> the white house holding its first on-camera briefing in 19 days. >> over june, july, and august of 2018 there were a total of 13 briefings. september through december there were just five. remember, these used to be daily. and they're getting shorter too. at ...

And refused to leave. >> let's go. come on, guys. thank you very much. >> to be clear, we support a free press, wrote sanders. another example of trying to control the white house press corps are the actual press briefings. >> audio check. one, two, three -- >> the white house holding its first on-camera briefing in 19 days. >> over june, july, and august there were a total of 13 briefings. september through december there were just five. remember, these used to be daily. and they're getting shorter too. at the beginning of the trump administration the average briefing was 43 minutes. during t...

>> to be clear, we support a free press, wrote sanders. another example of trying to control the white house press corps are the actual press briefings. >> audio check. one, two, three -- >> the white house holding its first on-camera briefing in 19 days. >> over june, july, and august there were a total of 13 briefings. september through december there were just five. remember, these used to be daily. and they're getting shorter too. at the beginning of the trump administration the average briefing was 43 minutes. during the summer sanders' solo briefings averaged 20 minutes. >> they're short...

New story about manafort falls in. it's just another piece. it's not going to settle the issue. but to totally ignore it or to deny his relevancy with the campaign is to say, well, i can take each of these pieces and say everything's fine. you're not getting most republicans agreeing with that theory and certainly not getting a lot of democrats. >> jason, the mere fact that the white house is working relatively hard to try to distance themselves from paul manafort on this, where you acknowledge without saying he did have a very big role in the campaign, the fact that they're working and trying...

The world, the one by president reagan about bombing the soviet union. and it resulted in a soviet red alert and it became a campaign issue in this country. now, marvin kalb has learned that the soviets responded in their own fashion. >> the president was joking his way through an audio check on august 11th. >> i've signed legislation that will outlaw russia forever. we begin bombing in five minutes. >> by august 14th, the story became world news. a major item on moscow television where the joke was not treated as a laughing matter. august 15th, a coded message left soviet military headquarter...