passed. it gives families the rights to have briefings in the beginning of the investigation, daily briefings, sometimes twice a day. when families are granted access to the crash. it gives them rights to view the site when the plane the found. it requires the airline to help them out financially and take care of them. it gives them access to personnel and information. and most importantly, u.s. laws provide protection during the agonizing grieving process. the ntsb in the briefing rooms has a separate room for the families so they don t have this horrible scene like today with the poor families being dragged away. for heidi snow, it s a state of limbo when families are most vulnerable. we re all just in such a state of grief at that time. we want as much information as possible and patience begins to wear thin as the days go on. it was just last month, the u.s. department of transportation showed that it meant business, issuing the
you will see i would suspect this week the president s list of travel will go from smalltory none because i don t think he can afford to spend, politically affords to spend tens of millions of dollars on this travel right now. martha: i mean it is so curious, the way some of these countries, i was looking at the urgent queue, confirmed. he will not go to malaysia. he will not go to this country the philippines but he will likely go to bali and indonesia. makes you scratch your head, either the president has to go on these trips and see these countries for diplomatic reasons and a must-do, or why would you ever be doing that at all? that is application of a little bit of horse sense. that is not always common in the briefing rooms of washington, d.c., martha. yes, the reality is he must go or he doesn t. he doesn t have to. and that s the reality. the reality for the administration now is, they re saying we will not talk. we will not negotiate in the belief that republicans will
biden. i think that was the line that really upset vice president biden and caused him to put pressure on president obama to relieve the general. and the reaction to it was incredible. from the united states government because of the way you got the information. they said you took advantage of them, that you were in a bar and they assumed everything was off the record. to that you would say. i would say that s not true at all. and if you look in the book, where most are from, it s from briefing rooms and interview situations. i mean, i think the sort of what it caused. if you re actually writing about how people talk and what they say, it can be shocking, especially if readers haven t been exposed to that. for instance, we re used to hearing joes down on the front lines discussing all sorts of outrageous things. what i was trying to do as a journalist was take that sensibility and bring it to the top brass of the people running the war. i don t know at the time people weren t rea
he referred to vice president as vice president joe bite-me biden. i think that was the line that really upset vice president biden and caused him to put pressure on president obama to relieve the general. and the reaction to it was incredible. from the united states government because of the way you got the information. they said you took advantage of them, that you were in a bar and they assumed everything was off the record. to that you would say. i would say that s not true at all. and if you look in the book, where most are from, it s from briefing rooms and interview situations. i mean, i think the sort of what it caused. if you re actually writing about how people talk and what they say, it can be shocking, especially if readers haven t been exposed to that. for instance, we re used to hearing joes down on the front lines discussing all sorts of outrageous things. what i was trying to do as a journalist was take that sensibility and bring it to the top brass of the people
huckabee standers. what is that dynamic like. it seems different than previous briefing rooms. what is it like. the sharp shift here in the briefing room behind the scenes in this white house is that previously you would all count on the associated press to be called into the briefing room and you could count on there being a policy question and sort of news of the day first and that is something this administration has done away with. and so that is why you ll see them going to other outlets across the room and you never know if you are going to be the first one to get called on. so have to you be very, very prepared in this administration. because what if they come to you and it is your day, you got the top question and every network in america cameras are rolling. michael, one of the things that when i was in washington, there would be certain kinds of information that would be released by a white house that even though you are sort of trained as a journalist, they wouldn t