and other media outlets were excluded from the briefing. other administrations have excluded certain organizations in the past, early on in the obama administration they attempted to exclude fox news from the press pool. does this feel any different to you? did you see it coming? >> i didn't personally see it coming. i thought it was straininge tha they changed the on-camera gaggle to an off-camera gaggle in the spokesperson's office. when we were making our way into sean spicer's office, the person who was shepherding us in said to some outlets, "absolutely, absolutely," and was cold to some others. when i asked can i have a statement about why this is happening because i thought it was unusual, the word that came out of this aide's mouth was, "you're threatening me." that's not -- >> what? >> exactly, that's not what we were doing, i was trying to figure out why politico wasn't allowed in, why cnn, why