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Comment from the president's lawyer or anyone here at the white house about this bombshell, wolf. but in about a half an hour or so, sarah huckabee sanders, the deputy white house press secretary will be briefing reporters off camera, but we will have a chance to ask her about this. of course, everything else that's going on here today. >> as you point out, a couple tweets. official tweets from the president of the united states including the one that says you are witnessing the single greatest witch hunt in american political history led by some very bad and conflicted people. #magamake ameri...

Spicer does it once a week or once every two weeks an off camera briefing. and they do plenty of off camera briefings with cabinet officials or other senior aids all the time to give information about things they might be doing. >> right. you can critique his answers as journalists tend to do, but he's doing a difficult job. >> next don't library the off camera briefings because they can't use it. that's really what that -- >> it really strikes me, jillian because some news networks are proclaiming and the fact when he was overseas sean spicer if he does hang onto his job, he's not going to do...

The people the truth we have a huge burden imposed on us. it is voluntary. the president of the united states could change that without walking away. >> reporter: backlash growing among american business leaders who lobbied president trump to stay in the deal. tesla and spacex elon musk and bob iger from disney is quitting the council. industry must now lead and not government. cities are vowing to step up. governors and mayors pledging to uphold the commitment of the paris agreement. today the white house press secretary is expected to give one of his increasingly rare on camera briefing and ...

Let's bring in tonight's starting panel. three of the best names in print journalism cover this white house. "washington post" reporter robert costa. ashley parker, and peter baker chief white house kroerpdent for the "new york times." welcome all three of you. peter i'm going to begin with you. you today were admonished for shaking your head at that briefing. i've heard people speculate there were a lot of things we were watching today. perhaps it was sean spicer's last and he knew it. what do you think we witnessed in that room today? >> that's a good question. you saw a press secretary who ...

Calizz, and you can take it live, why not let the cameras roll and we can see and hear what so going on. why can't we do that? >> well, the gaggle, and you know this well from covering the white house, and it is once thought to be informal thing, and done informal in the press secretary's office and not in brief iing room. the growth of the press corp, and the more formalizing has faded a little bit. i think that what i am odoing if i had to make an educated guess which is what i feel i make most of these days is that they are trying to fiddle with the formats here, and so a cabinet secretary ...