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Mccurry came out today on twitter with identical statements. saying we support no live tv coverage. embargo it and let it be used. better for the public, the white house, and the press. so, abbey, ari is arguing here that having no live coverage would make things less combative. what do you think about that? >> yeah, i've talked to both ari and mike about this very issue at length, and i think both of them are coming from the perspective of people who were running press briefings at a time when they were first being televised and broadcast in a sort of 24-hour format. i think they view them as...

With these immigration officials is that's just simply not the case. you know, i think there were moments there when the white house could have gotten its message across. yes, there were hard questions, but, don, maybe you're right to some extent. when the cameras are off and perhaps there's less coverage, they do feel like their message is a little more unfiltered. but the reason why i don't buy that is because had they just had the cameras on live, you know, those officials would have had at least for a brief period of time during that briefing, unfiltered coverage. >> live coverage. the ent...

The things that the president peddalled out on the campaign trail is is undocumented people are scary in this country and what we were trying to get at during this briefing today with immigration officials is that's simply not the case and there are moments web the white house could have gotten their message across. yes, there were hard questions. don, maybe you're right to some extent, when the cameras are off, they feel like their message is a little more unfiltered. the reason why i don't buy that is because if they had just had the cameras on live, those officials would have had at least f...

Briefings not consistently being on camera, it seems like it's a missed opportunity for this white house to talk about those things that they want to get accomplishe accomplished. >> sarah huckabee sanders came into the briefing room today. she slammed the news media and said if we didn't have these immigration officials who came into the briefing room today by surprise, you would have never covered them. but at the same time, because they did not have the cameras on, those officials received less coverage. there were some pretty illuminating moments. just for a second here, the acting i.c.e. ...