being excluded from a white house briefing. take a listen. the thing that was most jarring to me is when we were trying to make our way into sean spicer s office, that the person who was sort of shepherding us in said to some outlets, absolutely, absolutely, and was very cold and blocked others. and when i asked, can i have a statement about why this is happening, because i thought it was really unusual, the word that came out of this aide s mouth was, you re threatening me. what? exactly. that s not what we were doing. i was just trying to figure out why politico wasn t allowed in, why cnn, why buzzfeed, because that s a story, at the end of the day. amie, can you clarify that for me? a lot of us are thinking, how does this work, it almost sounds like a bouncer at a club, this person can come in, this person can t. it s interesting what tara said. i would say i covered the white house for all of obama s
and other media outlets were excluded from the briefing. other administrations have excluded certain organizations in the past, early on in the obama administration they attempted to exclude fox news from the press pool. does this feel any different to you? did you see it coming? i didn t personally see it coming. i thought it was straininge tha they changed the on-camera gaggle to an off-camera gaggle in the spokesperson s office. when we were making our way into sean spicer s office, the person who was shepherding us in said to some outlets, absolutely, absolutely, and was cold to some others. when i asked can i have a statement about why this is happening because i thought it was unusual, the word that came out of this aide s mouth was, you re threatening me. that s not what? exactly, that s not what we were doing, i was trying to figure out why politico wasn t allowed in, why cnn, why