being excluded from a white house briefing. take a listen. >> the thing that was most jarring to me is when we were trying to make our way into sean spicer's office, that the person who was sort of shepherding us in said to some outlets, "absolutely, absolutely," and was very cold and blocked others. and when i asked, can i have a statement about why this is happening, because i thought it was really unusual, the word that came out of this aide's mouth was, "you're threatening me." >> what? >> exactly. that's not what we were doing. i was just trying to figure out why politico wasn't allowed in, why cnn, why buzzfeed, because that's a story, at the end of the day. >> amie, can you clarify that for me? a lot of us are thinking, how does this work, it almost sounds like a bouncer at a club, this person can come in, this person can't. >> it's interesting what tara said. i would say i covered the white house for all of obama's --