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Embargo it. let it be used but not on live tv. better for the public, white house, and press. here with reaction, sara carter and ari fleischer. here's my take on it. they all want to get their clip of the night, of them being tough, in this case poor sean spicer or sarah huckabee sanders, it's vicious. and i don't think it's productive and i don't think the american people are getting anything out of it unless you want to watch a remake of -- >> they get their news from phone calls and other ways that reporters dig for information. it has been a tv show and it's been one for years. stop the l...

Briefings. embargo it, let it be used, but not as live tv, better for the public, the white house, and the press. >> here with reaction, sarah carter and former white house press secretary ari fleischer. they all want to get their clip of the night of them being tough, them grilling in this case poor sean spicer or sarah huckabee sanders. it'san vicious. and i don't think it's productive and i don't think the american people arepr getting anything out of it unless you want to watch a remake of morton downy. >> the fact is most white house reporters get their news not from the briefing. they ge...

Mccurry came out today on twitter with identical statements. saying we support no live tv coverage. embargo it and let it be used. better for the public, the white house, and the press. so, abbey, ari is arguing here that having no live coverage would make things less combative. what do you think about that? >> yeah, i've talked to both ari and mike about this very issue at length, and i think both of them are coming from the perspective of people who were running press briefings at a time when they were first being televised and broadcast in a sort of 24-hour format. i think they view them as...

Do. it's disheartening that so many people will believe what is said without at least checking the facts out themselves. >> john, the question of the white house briefing, this has become a really hot topic. should they be able to have more control of it? should it be live? should it be audio only. we heard ari fleischer come out and saying we support no white house briefing, embargo it, but not as live tv,tion better for the white house, the public and the press. >> is the white house just trying to control the flow of information here? is that what we're seeing? >> of course it is. let's not...

White house. >> well, i think the american people need transparency and normally we wouldn't be having this conversation, we'd be sitting and listening to sarah huckabee sanders because the briefing is happening right now and even the audio is embargoed until after the fact. so last quick question, brian. we heard from two former press secretaries, ari and mike, who co-wrote a tweet today. we support no live tv coverage of the white house briefing. embargo it and let it be used. better for the public, the white house and the press. do they have a point. >> i don't think it's surprising that pr...