the american public a disit wsee if they can t see or hear what s happening in their house, the people s house. this is not democrat or republican. viewers the home might be asking, why not just skip the briefings? david drucker, this becomes the new normal. one on camera briefing a week, four hidden off camera. why shouldn t journalists just leave? look, i think that i think often we are too compliant as journalists to the conditions laid out for us by politicians. they give us things on background. they say it s got to be off the record. i think we have to at times i think we should be more aggressive in pushing back and say if you re not going to give us this in a fashion where we can report real news, we re not interested in talking to you. i do think that the real issue here and i think april speaks to it, whether or not they re answering our questions in an attributable way. i m sensitive to the needs of