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Indicated it may turn out to be something perhaps different than we think. >> reporter: that's right. let me take you for a second, behind the scenes here. secretary mattis does not come out in front of cameras very often. every couple weeks, he comes to the press area where we are in the pentagon, the resident press corps and he will talk on the record, not on camera. that's what he did yesterday. understand, that's what all of his remarks come from. he was asked about the progress the pentagon was making on instituting what the president believes will be a ban on transgender persons serving ...

Hallie, i know there will be a briefing on camera with sarah sanders, at 2:00. >> reporter: that's exactly right, andrea. sara huckabee sanders will be at this podium about an hour and six minutes from now, talking about obviously what we have all been talking about, which is her boss basically leaving. we have not spotted sean spicer, at least not recently. as you have seen, the crowd of people who is standing here, what we call the lower press area, has started to dissipate after the news of this briefing. people getting ready to start taking their seats and carry it live, as i'm sure you mi...

Mind-set, a sense of globalism and nationalism and all of those things lining up as well so it's a very different relationship. >> and julie, what about the new espresso machine tom hanks sent to the white house press corps, a new espresso machine with a note from tom hanks to the white house press corps "keep up the good fight for truth, justice and the american way especially for the truth party" or the truth part rather, signed tom hanks. >> it's quite a fancy -- i have not personally had one but i will tell you it's very fancy. it's very shiny. it's the third espresso machine that tom hank...

That was a very warm personal greeting. when you say, peter, that the president hasn't in the past, this president with two foreign leaders has, what we mean is in the past presidents usually don't come out to greet their foreign guests. this is certainly a gesture of respect in the trump style as we see it evolving. >> i think that's exactly right. this president, let's be clear. have done a lot of things differently as past pridents, no betteredf last night with kelly o'donnell and hallie jackson in the press area of the west wing, they were told there would not be any further statement from...

Administration when george stephanopoulous and others tried to close the door between the white house press area and the staff. when the obama administration went after fox news and got brushback you cannot go after reporter this is way and be president of the united states. we have freedom of the press and first amendment. >> i want to interrupt you for a second. martin luther king iii, mlk jr.'s son, oldest son, and donald trump, the president-elect, who just had a meeting, we're hoping to hear now from mlk iii who, by the way, over the weekend, as we're seeing donald trump go back, i believ...