charge of these gaggles. john, what s your reaction? well, i think we re talking about different things. of course every president, including president obama, president bush and others, have invitation-only events and briefings involving perhaps the president on an off-the-record basis, or senior officials, the press secretary, no question about it. but i believe this was in lieu of the public press briefing yesterday. i don t think they had a public press briefing. usually the morning press gaggles the press secretary has are open to whoever can cram into the office. and whoever is in the white house goes up for these sessions. so i do think this is different. it is true that presidents have invitation-only things. i think this was a different circumstance. and i also think it was different in the sense that particular news organizations seemed to be singled out for having written things that the