emotional level get in the way of getting business done when you hear from lisa murkowski, susan collins, people he needs in his camp to get things done to, get a win on the hill, but when they re saying, stop it. they re saying it, and there s been some decent reporting about potential nominees who are saying you know what, i don t know if i want to throw in my lot with this administration because we don t know what he s going to say or do at some point in the future, and that could be as soon as tomorrow. let me go quickly back to the white house to follow up, sara murray, with you on this on/off camera briefing period. has the white house previously said they don t do on camera briefings on days when the president is making public statements? what happened to that? obviously, there have been a lot of issues with press access here at the white house. with the fact that they ve closed the briefings and for the most part to cameras. today s was on camera with sarah huckabee sande
and she was asked about the off camera briefings versus the on camera briefings. i want to play the audio of this for our viewers. did the president go too far with this tweet in its deeply personal nature? i don t think so. i think that the president has been attacked mercilessly on personal accounts by that program. he is very clear when he gets attacked, he will hit back. i think the american people elected someone who is tough, smart and a fighter. that s donald trump. and i don t think it is a surprise to anybody that he fights fire with fire. the things that this show has called him, and not just him but numerous members of his staff including myself and many others, are very deeply personal. so to then turn and pretend like this approach is, i guess it is like we re living in the twilight zone. they do it this day arrefter da
questions. so i do think that there is a great point and a great part of being able to have a mix of doing both on and off camera. bill: suggestion the cameras will stay and will not be turned off permanently? i don t know that that s ever been suggested. i think since back in december sean spicer was very clear that we were going to look at a lot of different ways to get the president s message out to promote his agenda. we re doing that every day whether it s through the well over 100 million followers the president has on different platforms of semed. whether it social media, org interviews like this. on camera briefings and off cameras briefings. one-on-one with reporters and the president going out and speaking to the american people. we are constantly looking for the beth ways and continue doing that. bill: i appreciate you being here today. absolutely. sarah huckabee sanders do. we get a briefing today? yes, sir. we will be doing a briefing
melania trump spoke about it. i ll play the sarah sanders clip. this isn t about the president. this is about you journalists. just to be clear, i wasn t in the room. i was right behind the room in the little reuters office but i was paying attention to the briefing as all the journalists were. and unfortunately, this theme of us versus them that has developed. i don t think, i think it is unfortunate that is the theme. i think that journalists are here and want to do their jobs. and when the president makes news, whether it is via tweet or in another way, they ll get follow-up questions about it. we re having some on camera briefings and off camera briefings. this is the second one this week. sean spicer doesn t seem to show up for these but sarah huckabee sanders does. they ve been hot. quite heated.
at first it was a closed event and the deputy press secretary justified it by saying there was a political event and they wanted to keep it separate. then they decided to open it up for a few reporters and one camera. then they changed their minds again and now no press is being allowed in at this event for the president where he is delivering remarks to want. now, this isn t that surprising because the president has increasingly distanced himself from the press in recent days. there have been very few on camera briefings and they haven t taken any questions when foreign leaders are in town. thank you very much, kaitlyn. as you heard kaitlyn saying, a lot of questions without answers. more now, general counsel at the campaign legal center, general counsel, former republican congressman from georgia, former senior advisor to the trump