origin of this russia probe. you have rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who over sees the mueller investigation, trying to protect the process of a counterintelligence operation, all amid an ongoing investigation. it's an uneasy situation for all of these players. but they're dealing with a president who is combative as ever. >> bob, let's say on behalf of the press corps, the president tried to wave away questions about rod rosenstein, we would love to ask questions about visiting dignitaries but we get no other access to the president, no other news conferences. having said that, what did you make of his lack of an answer until the question do you have confidence in rosenstein? >> he didn't give an answer, and that's telling because he's not expressing confidence at a moment where he could express confidence. the lawmakers who are close to the president like mark meadows and congressman devin nunes, they're very unhappy with rosenstein. the president fumes at times about rosenstein and sessions and how this probe continues to go on and on. but the president has not had a formal news conference in quite some time. many months. these open pool sprays, it's an insider term, but these pool sprays, that's what they're doing, that allows the president to control the question and answer more than he would in that kind of traditional news conference setting. >> derivation of the phrase pool spray for our lay audience, the press pool is the tight group of correspondents and camera crews who cover the white house every day and it's a spraying motion of the cameras so you can get a shot of all involved, lest someone come away with the wrong definition.
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