york times" he side stepped the front lobby and went in secretly through the back door. there was no video or audio recording of the meeting but the entire sitdown was live tweeted by reporters at "the new york times" who were in the room. the way this all came together today was itself very bizarre. but we did get new information out of it. the big headline of president-elect obama's press conference was that weird nancy reagan seance thing. today's headline topped that by a mile with donald trump insisting he did nothing to regenerate the white supremacist movement. he does not think the person who once ran breitbart, the website that trump chief adviser steve bannon himself, called the platform for the alt right helped perpetuate the white nationalalist movement at all. he made news by backing off some of his previous beliefs.