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Care act, obamacare. you would think that an important day like this they would want live coverage of what the white house reaction to all of these developments is. but they've decided, what, only after the briefing will we be able to play the audio only but no video. is that what i'm hearing? >> reporter: that's right. it's essentially embargoed audio until after the briefing concludes. you will not be able to listen live. and one of the things that's worth pointing out is obviously people who are watching this at home, people whether they vote for president trump or not, may not agree with e...

It's going to be embargoed until after it's over. that means there will be no live coverage for us to bring you. again, this isn't -- there is breaking tradition. it's something new. huckabee is coming out now. >> unfortunately, you saw sara huckabee sanders walk up to the lectern at the podium. the white house rules are that none of the cable nor broadcast networks are allowed to carry this briefing even though it's a briefing that's very, very important on a day where there's a new republican health care bill that affects tens of millions of americans out there. one-sixth of the economy. a d...

Conversation. obviously in some ways he did. he reported them in memos. but there don't seem to be tapes of the interactions. i think there is another instance of the white house essentially not getting to the bottom of something they don't want to talk about anymore. we've seen it over and over in these briefings, them punting questions they don't want to answer. >> stand by. the deputy white house press secretary is about to begin -- unfortunately, they're not going to allow any of the cable news networks to broadcast it live. we would, of course, taken that live. they will later allow us to...

Taken. -- actions that are taken. or with donald trump or members of his staff. so the law of conspiracy and the fact that the special prosecutor's investigating is very important. >> senator, i want you to stand by for a moment of we've got sara murray, our white house correspondent in the white house briefing room right now. i just want you to explain why unfortunately we're not going to be able to show the white house briefing live to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. >> reporter: we are now about two minutes away from the white house briefing. we just got the anno...

The white house press briefing has just wrapped up. the reason we weren't able to watch it live here on cnn or on any of the other cable news networks or broadcasts is because the white house decided to bar the news media from airing the briefings live for the american public for people who may be watching around the world as well. the white house has, however, now given us permission to air audio, audieno only, from the briefing now that it's over. here's the white house deputy press secretary. >> this morning, the senate released a discussion draft of its healthcare bill. the president looks...