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States very badly. i hope they change their ways, thank you, everybody. >> helsinki? >> or vienna? >> the point i'm making there joan, is bill shine is saying you were asked to leave and then you asked a question, that was disrespectful. >> that is what happened right there the president was happy to answer, that's just q1 of many examples whether it's with this president or other presidents. >> right. the other problem here, erin, is that this president has given one official news conference. one regularly scheduled news conference. his whole term, with groups of people. >> ha, ha, ha. >> sto...

Tell me what happened then. >> reporter: that's right, erin. to give a little background of what i was doing in there, i was the only reporter representing all of the networks there. so i wasn't just acting on behalf of cnn, but it's therefore all of us, so fewer reporters can go into a smaller venue like the oval office and still be able to pose questions to the president. this is a very regular occurrence. also, when there are these type of pool sprays, as they're referred to back a hehere at th white house, the president is asked questions quite often. and sometimes, a lot of the times, eri...

Media because of the questions that i asked and that they believed they were inappropriate and inappropriate for that venue. i reminded them that often these pool sprays are often the only time we are able to ask and to pose questions to president trump. now, he certainly has a right to not answer those questions. sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't. today was one of those days where he didn't. but then it turned into a much larger event with the white house then saying that i would not be allowed to go to this event, to the rose garden, and every other reporter was allowed to go to. and t...

But he didn't want to talk about it. so they knew this was the question they were going to get. they don't live on mars. >> but, you know, but erin, but going back to, i think, the entire point, you know, when you have a pool reporter that's coming in, obviously, they're representing an entire number of different journalists. so i think it has to be a to higher standard, if you are going to go and say that there is inappropriate behavior before you go and take that type of action. but here's the thing about president trump that i think paul maybe kind of, i know, deep down inside would have li...

In those pools, with kim jong-un resident trump, i was excluded and the reason i was given is because they were concerned that kim jong-un had not been around american reporters yelling and shouting questions and so on and so i was excluded from that first couple of pool sprays. i registered my objections and then we were allowed into a couple of opportunities and when you heard me ask the president -- how are things going and kim jong-un will you give up your nuclear weapons, that is when they were heading in one of the pool opportunities where i was excluded. but later on when kim jong-un wa...