event. this is the united states government saying we can t have cameras on inside the white house briefing room for an event typically covered with cameras. i ll let the viewers decide why they re being kept off, but i tried a couple times during the briefings to get a question to sean spicer and ask why these cameras are not being turned on. trey engst, at a to his cried, he did ask the question and said, hey, let s get this out of the way, why are in the being kept off, and spicer basically punted there will be times they re off and times they re on, but make no mistake, this is the gradual erosion of the expectations of the traditions that have been in this city for about a quarter of a century, that these briefings be held on camera. further this openness and transparency point, the president will be making a statement this afternoon with prime minister modi from india.
degradation inaccess to the white house, not only to the white house, but access to information. we live in this world where in i reach over it takes me three buttons to go live on my phone. so to see the white house rolling back on access is strange, it s kind of like they want to go back in time to the pre-cable news, pre-tv news days, but that s not possibility, but this is not the behavior of a confident administration. a white house doesn t do this because they believe they have all the answers and they re proud of what is going on, they think they re winning every day. no, this is the behavior of an administration that s struggling to answer basic questions. a couple conviction examples from this briefings, spicer was asked why didn t the white house hold the traditional dinner to end ramadan. spicer said, i don t know. what about the promise from trump for a press conference
administration is looking at what the supreme court set to understand the implications and what they do do moving forward. he did not have any hard answers as to what the justice department, what the department of homeland security will be doing to enforce this ban, which apparently will partly go into effect, so at this point, they re analyzing it, but they certainlier feeling good about that decision today. you had a couple heat the exchanging to do on-camera briefings. this again was off camera, we couldn t use the audio until the briefings was over. we did hear you try to ask decisional questions. reporter: well, a couple issues, and let s separate them. one is shaunl spicer has refused to take questions from cnn for weeks now. it has been going on for some time. you know, he may have taken a question here or there, but we ve largely been just blackbald during these briefings.