because some reporters weren't here because this had been nothing on the president's schedule today. then the president came in with these members of the border patrol union and spoke briefly and invited them up to make brief remarks. then the president, press secretary and white house communications director all left the room without taking any questions from the reporters who were sitting there. now, as this was going on, there was supposed to be a briefing with the customs and border patrol commissioner today on the record, on camera briefing where he was going to take questions from reporters about the state of what's going on at the border, but they bumped that briefing because they were told that the white house was doing a briefing instead. so instead, that briefing didn't happen. they had the president of the union come out, but he didn't answer questions either, and no questions were answered today. >> so while we're waiting for the house to vote on a bill to reopen the government, the white house has already responded. >> reporter: yeah, we knew this was going to happen, but they put out this statement saying if those bills do get to the president's desk, he's not going