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Successful as we've seen them be so far, they're not going to provide more spending for more military devices and goals and agendas that the left feels like we already are overfunding. >> how did we get here? you go back and look, this was kind of a throwaway line in a speech the president delivered. now when he goes to these rallies, it is one of the lines that gets the most applause if you look at the white house pool reports. as i mentioned, you got the defense secretary questioning the need for this, why this is a priority here for the administration. what is your take on that? how does it...

This a rather expensive political stunt on taxpayers' dime. no one is questioning whether the vice president should be flying on air force two. that goes without saying, but what they are saying is whether they knew that they were going to do this ahead of time. you mentioned the president's tweet. about talking to the vice president and telling him to leave. also we know from pool reports there, the press was told stay in the vab van because the vice president won't be here very long, so the criticism is they knew what they were going to do going into this game, dana. >> thaupg so much. that'...

Reince so strong, that didn't bother the pot and he didn't fight back and played into that notion the president had of being weak, unclear, you can understand why somebody like reince priebus after six months on the job might want the public to believe he resigned, obviously the writing was on the wall, it's hard to see somebody putting themselves on the pace of today, going on the plane, having to walk off the plane, as the president is fired via twitter. certainly the first fired over twitter and being in the motorcade, to be in his own van, leaving the motorcade before the president gets of...

To white house officials, to sean spicer, he's still the press secretary, to others, to change access to the traveling party? and what was the formal and informal response? >> absolutely. the white house correspondents association made their case known. if you follow the pool reports, we often made it clear that we would not be getting much access. and we tried to make it clear, as well, to sean spicer. i think a lot of people were really upset when they saw that secretary of state rex tillerson gave a briefing to saudi arabian journalists and american journalists were not invited to that. you...

Memo to speak for itself. they could not get it out quickly enough. they had to tell us. we kept asking again and again to repeat himself to make sure we heard it right. it was such bombshell news. >> jeff, was there a moment where he shut the door and locked it and you could not get more information. >> in fairness, not everyone sits in the briefing room whitiwhit waiting to get the information out. the reuters booth is behind the press room. that is where i was sitting with my colleague. they brought out the paperswork which is old coschool. they drop off pool reports or other information vi...