Can record audio and you can quote the principal speaking. but i m not getting this trend of not allowing cameras in the white house briefing room to show us the press secretary. so this odd answer to this incredibly odd overnight tweet is all cloaked in this odd audio. is it television punishment? do you know what s motivating this? sean spicer s been doing this since the beginning of the administration. today got a lot of attention because of all the news about russia and there were a lot of questions asked. but he s been doing it maybe once every week or two weeks since the beginning of the administration. what the reason is? i think they feel tensions will be lowered if the cameras aren t on. that reporters won t be acting out in front of the cameras and asking so many questions or hard questions and sort of and there s not that back and forth. the reality is i ve been through many of these, it s exactly the
Gaggals, which are you can record audio and quote the principal speaking. but i m not getting this trend of not allowing cerasthe white house briefing room to show thu press secretary. so this odd answer to this incredibly odd overnight tweet is all cloaked in this odd audio. is it television punishment? sean spicer s been doing this since the beginning of the administration. today got a lot of attention because of all the news about russia and there were a lot of questions asked. about he s been doing it about once every week or two weeks since the beginning of the administration. what the reason is? i think they feel tensions will be lowered if the cameras aren t on. that reporters won t be acting out in front of the cameras and asking so many questions or hard questions and sort of and
melissa: a fox news alert. white house press secretary sean spicer just wrapping up his off camera briefing with the media. chief white house correspondent john roberts was there. when the cameras aren t on, is it any less contentious, john? reporter: it s a little less contentious. i have got me back in my ear again so let me turn it down. it s a little less contentious than it is on a typical day. sean spicer probably getting the same number of questions that he gets on a daily basis. lot of those questions were, of course, about the information that the president shared with the russian foreign minister to the united states. but what was interesting is that a little bit of a development after it was revealed that israel was the source of the intelligence document that president trump shared with the russians. sean spicer pointing to a statement from ron durmer the israeli ambassador to the united states which would seem to indicate that there was no damage done to the intelligen
Tom price was asked about that this morning on state of the union. let s listen to the secretary s answer. what the congressional budget office looked at is simply this first piece of legislation, which is not the plan in hirtsz entirety. imagine a plan that actually drives down health care costs for individuals, that s the one that we envision, imagine one that actually provides patients with an array of options, something that works for them. not something that the government requires them to purchase. they can have the doctor they want, they can go to the hospital they want. those are the kinds of things we envision. secretary price went on to say that this cbo estimate didn t account for the whole plan. does that answer for the count of the house and senate republicans who aren t on board yet? reporter: several republicans have been concerned that you can t be asked to imagine some
this sets the bar high. it is ironic. he clearly knows nothing about the missouri protest. and he s used it as an occasion to spout off and show himself as, you know, i don t take any stuff from anybody, which is basically his campaign. bob, it seems if anywhere in our public affairs, if a line seems to form that has black people on this side of it, republican presidential candidates want you to know they re on whatever side the black people aren t on. i ve argued for many years now that the republican party unfortunately had become what i called the safe house for bigotry. and it continues that way. it continues that way in the face of demographic changes that are really if the party continues the way it is now is really going to be relegated to