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Government accountable. it makes it harder to hold the commander in chief and people in congress who seem adverse to wanting to debate america's role most notably. so when you pull that kind of information out of the public eye, you're making the job of holding the federal government accountable for difficult and that's the kind of stuff that really that actually probably worries me more than the frequency or infrequency of the daily briefing. >> i'm glad you brought that up. i see you tweeting about the war in afghanistan and wars elsewhere. i get the sense you're trying to get folks not to f...

Time that the white house is briefing on background and won't let any other white house be a rather normal briefing that you would attribute to actual people. they insist that it be anonymous. >> they don't want to be seen talking to reporters. >> in the briefing room with several people, they each have positions. it's anonymous. it can't be attributed to any one person. so perhaps the white house press core should stop taking people on background. make them go on record. >> that wouldn't be a bad idea at all. >> there are reasons to be on background and the reasons are you have a responsibili...

Guest at the westin hotel, in flip-flops and white notre dame t-shirt waiting for a delivery from shake shack. it would be unremarkable save the lead, robert mueller in the trial of paul manafort. mueller's spokesman who is no comment replies become a running dark joke among the washington press core would not confirm his order from shake shack. talk about how locked down, how locked up the mueller probe is, even during their first trial. >> absolutely. and we even got word from the press officer for the special counsel, peter carr, that not only would no prosecutor or bob mueller not be speak...

Operating on the theory that that was the way things were, and that that would hold, that he could basically do what he wanted to do, and nobody would write about him. >> gary hart did not recognize that there were now women on the campaign reporting, and that that whole kind of male secrecy bond that extended from jfk to ben bradley, the washington post, to many other politicians was broken by women reporters. >> the nature of the washington press core changed. it became more feminist, more sensitive, more caring about these issues. >> in the spring of '87, at the urging of his staff, hart ag...

Whose actions were not adequately dealt with by the obama administration in realtime. and the president says no, putin is someone that i can do business with. showing complete inngnorance of what the russian government has done in recent years, askewing the national security team and saying attempts to hold them accountable for that is brought to you by a press core that is an authoritarian of the people. he says the people must not know what we're doing. let's keep this information away from the people, and i will take care of this. >> david gregory says the administration, the president is