presidents have a protective pool, president-elects have a protective pool. you don t get to go anywhere unannounced. tonight donald trump appears to havee da. he appears to have made an unannounced stop in new york city. he did this without alerting his protective press pool. indeed, it maybe seems like they tried to tell the protective press pool something that was not true perhaps on purpose. and i say that because tonight at around 6:30 p.m., the press pool was given what s known as a lid. and a lid essentially means that we re done for the night. no further movement from the president-elect is expected. here is your lid. it s over. that notice was given to the press by trump s spokeswoman hope hicks tonight. then some time after that, the president-elect apparently left trump tower and went to the nearby 21 club to go have a steak. this is supposedly a photo of donald trump entering the 21