okay, what do we got? okay, watch this. do the thing we talked about. what do we say? it s going to be great. watch. remember what we were just saying? go irish! see that? yes! i m gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. well, it s been quite a week and ended today with a first for the network. the first courtroom style sketches, as far as we know, of a white house press briefing. these are by the very talented bill hennessy. the day just ended with the president weighing in by singling out the prior administration, just out, the obama administration knew far in advance of election meddling by
answers. they refused to be recorded on camera. brian, this is the only way people can see. it s ridiculous. this is cnn getting creative. other television networks will be able to use these images later today as well, brooke. this is by artist bill hennessy, a well-known courtroom artist. he works at the supreme court all the time for cnn and other news outlets. he s covered a lot of trials but i believe it s his first day sketching a white house press briefing. he was in the back of the briefing, didn t have his easel the way he usually has but he was able to draw the briefing. he s working on color versions of these images now. the point here is serious. cnn did not send a cartoonist in order to make fun of the briefing. they sent an actual sketch artist because it s a way to create a picture, paint a picture of these briefings for people because we weren t able to watch on camera. this is an example of the white house rolling back press access. we ve seen what is normally on came
a tough campaign for dean heller this season. got it. thank you for that. thank you also very much, bill hennessy, thanks for the sketch as well. coming up next here on cnn, this bomb shell report out of the washington post today detailing how the obama administration confronted vladimir putin in 2016 about russia hacking the election. did they do enough? that s next. (dog barking) whoever threw it has to go get it. not me! somebody will get it. (dog barking) anyone can dream. making it a reality is the hard part. from the b-2 to the upcoming b-21, northrop grumman stealth bombers give america an advantage in a turbulent world. and we re looking for a few dreamers to join us.
today with some serious discussions. of course that can happen on camera as well. this would not be all that unusual if this happened to be the anomaly. if there were three or four daily briefings and once a week or so i can remember back in the obama days, back in the bush administration, which i was covering as well, the press secretary would have a group of reporters in his office to talk about things in a more substantive way that weren t necessarily in sound bytes but that s not what this white house is doing. this white house is trying to avoid questions about the russia investigation over and over and the president also, i believe, is trying to have the media sort of fight with itself and talk about itself. he relishes the moment when the media is talking about the media. you know, he enjoys this. but seeing this sketch artist there, i was just talking to bill hennessy just before i came out here and i can tell you, he is a very talented artist as we ve seen, and he has, you k