a media legal analyst argued the administration sought to separate fox from the other networks. >> you can all interview mr. feinberg, the pay czar, but fox news, we don't like what you have been doing in your news programming. and in your opinion programming. you can't come along. >> because the network pool was involved and fox is a member, the other networks questioned the move. >> the white house specifically sought to exclude fox. they were ultimately unsuccessful because of the intervention reportedly of other media. but they didn't want to let fox in. >> today, white house spokesman jay carney tried to put it all in the past. >> that was then, and, you know, we obviously deal with fox news regularly. call you regularly and we give interviews to fox news, including bill o'reilly. >> fox did get the interview with feinberg after all. the senior vice president for news for fox today said on and off-air relations with the administration has come a long way since then and if the