when you cover the white house from the briefing room and there are cameras present and you are a tv reporter, how powerful is a temptation to make it about you? >> well, it's a must be resisted because -- you don't want to advertise your best question. and i guess in this hothouse atmosphere with this antipathy towards the president as strong as it is now, it's a virtue signal to ask tough questions at the briefing. it seems to me, there's no reason to beat up on the briefer. if you want to ask tough questions, ask the president. >> tucker: or call the guy. because they will take the call. >> they will take the call. i asked the question in a press conference in the rose garden on time, ruth bader ginsburg nomination announcement, and president clinton had catherine on process were the white house,