into the oval office and witness president trump signing executive orders. of course the senate just confirmed general mathis and kelly. and what happened almost immediately, a falsehood is told about removing the bust from the office. that is flat-out false. and it was corrected immediately. but why was it said? chuck, why was it said in the first place? i don t know. everybody is so presumptively negative. climb into the head of that reporter. oh, no, no, no. that reporter was writing on behalf of the press pool. i understood that. that falsehood got spread 3,000 times before it was corrected and is still out there. you did not answer the question. yes, i did. you did not answer quet as to why the president asked the white house press secretary to come out in front of the podium for the first time and utter a falsehood. why did he do that? it undermines the credibility of the entire white house press office on day one. no, it doesn t.
as an american, i m concerned about that. i do think this the interaction that takes place in here on a daily basis is one that s good for our democracy. it is valuable. it s instrumental to holding people in power accountable for their actions, accountable for their statements and accountable for their promises. brian stelter interviewed him yesterday, our media correspondent, and that s what he said. so go ahead, what s your reaction. accountable for their comments. that said, i agree. it is important. we ve seen candidate trump chafe even coming into this, remember, the press pool. they initially were ditching their protective pool, the reporters who are there to record history, to record if the president is alive essentially is how it started. it will be interesting to see if
comment forever if he decides to lock out the press for the duration. this extraordinary thing, where his commentary is mostly through twitter. now that is the way he has been communicating with the american people. millions of people, and i think a lot of his supporters don t mind that but it means you re not subject to the kind of scrutiny that the press provides. reporters don t do that for reporters. reporters do it because we re there as a representative of the american people. for instance, the press pool was there on 9/11 and travelled around with then-president george w. bush. turning to tom price, the congressman tapped to be the new secretary of the department of homeland of health and human services. what does this mean, do you think, in terms of the american people and in terms of insurance and in terms of presumiums. he is one of the few republicans who has had a plan to repeal and replace obamacare. i think from like 2007, 2008 on 2009, excuse me. so he is not s
there s always at least one person on you. presidents have a protective pool, president-elects have a protective pool. you don t get to go anywhere unannounced. tonight donald trump appears to have gone dark. 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.
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