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. >> on that note, then, earlier this morning my colleague thomas roberts talked to jill abramson, hers one of those not invited yesterday morning. >> things like the white house gaggle, like staged press conferences, i wish more reporters in washington were out doing their own enterprise story than focusing so much on what is essentially often spoon-if he had, spin-room-type information. >> peter, it sounds kind of like what elise was just saying. what's your response to that? >> it's partially correct, jill's got it right, the white house briefing room is just a cage, and once you're in there you're just waiting for some meat to be thrown out to the cages. i'm not that concerned about what spicer did, because in every administration, you want to punish those that you feel have ininaccurately reported what your boss has done. but what trump and his team have done is taken it public. usually those things happen behind closed doors, they're done and handled much more elegantly. but there's a whole concept here i'm starting to call cluster bombing, where as elise says, they start to dist

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. >> i remember, john, the former executive editor, manager at "the new york times," joel abramson, saidhe at least transparent she ever covered. i'm careful in being critical of trump for not giving access. the fact kelly o'donnell got the statement from him on the night of the ruling of the ninth circuit was outstanding. >> the obama administration iced out conservative publications, the "weekly standard," they weren't friendly or responsive to us. i both sides were open and transparent, no matter publications, ideological leanings. i hope the conservatives who get questions they don't embarrass themselves with sieyfofantic questions. they should ask hard-hitting questions whether from a conservative perspective or just the news of the day. >> and, of course, eliana, the president sometimes bypasses us all together, just goes to the people on twitter. >> he's unpredictable. he does sometimes go to twitter, sometimes he talks to reporters. in general, this anti-establishment aspect of broadening the pool of reporters, taking skype questions, i think is great and i think the complaint, t

joining me now is jill abramson, former executive editor with "the new york times."reat to have you here with me in person, especially as we begin this new adventure together covering this administration this a paradigm that is completely unique. so when you heard about this move and no organization was banned from the information that was given from sean spicer to reporters, why the big deal? >> well, the big deal is just the symbolic barring of reporters as they tried to go in as they customarily do to a briefing. and because it was "the new york times" and cnn and buzzfeed, which of course published the dossier and very much angered president trump, you know, it seemed like a targeting or a kind of unofficial black listing of certain news organizations. >> i think the buzzfeed dossier, it probably also angered many media folks because of -- >> yeah, it was criticized. >> because of the fact and merit of it. but when it comes to the bigger deal with certain more conservative folks were granted access. >> right. >> over other people. >> so there was a more inclusive