two, she would get up and high and spin and would not give us any information to use. we didn't want to subject ourselves to sitting in a press briefing with sarah sanders or whoever comes after her because of the lies but also because at the end of the day, president trump thinks he is his best own press secretary and communications director. we'll take his word for what he says and i think that's better than listening to someone like sarah sanders to who just pushes false narratives on behalf of the president. >> bravo. >> van rhodes, someone writes, the press secretary's role as withered under successive presidents and in the donald trump era has been functionally distributed. halfway between the west wing, the president's office, and the briefing room where the press gathers and the occupant is supposed to be behold on the both. he or she is supposed to carry some waters from the president to the reporters. how much has that broken down as