what used to happen. stoking the fire. watching trump s twitter feed. but that process does force some accountability. right because it forces everybody in the government to prepare answers to the questions that are on the minds of the american people and the american press. without that kind of accountability loop in place, you re just totally cut off from reality. you re sitting there in the white house and i react negatively to the kind of partisanship thing, sure people spin left and right, but facts are facts. and once you cut the rope that ties what you re saying from the white house from any factual basis, we re just living in a reality emanating from donald trump as hi views. and you cannot govern in democracy that way. and that s how you get policies that ignore the reality of climate change. that s how you get policies that ignore the reality of what s happening to people around the world. so to me, it s not just the question of like should we have a press briefing or not