scott horsley: it's fine for them to find all of these other things.if they were doing that and not answering questions at a briefing, or not making the president available, which he has recently been very available for as far as press conferences are concerned. there has been a unique rash of press conferences lately. that would be an issue, i think. if they want to put an unfiltered message. first of all, audiences are smart enough to know that that is an unfiltered message. they really are. that's fine. if they did that and then the president didn't come out or josh didn't come out and sit in front of us, to me that would be an issue. i don't find it is issue as long as we continue to do that. there is an issue that they do not make people outside the press office available. that could be a problem. i would doubt that you have that problem. and i don't really have that problem. but i understand, smaller organizations or maybe smaller and fox news -- one they would deem as combative might have an issue. i don't. peter baker: we don't do that today. w

. >> i want to go now to scott horsley. love his reports because i know when i hear his voice, i tune in, because he has chosen something located and he will explain it to me in a way that makes sense. what about personal favors? his concept of pensions moving by comparing it to pension smoothie? he puts it in a blender with the audience. anyway. scott, could you talk about how you approach the story, how you choose your stories. scott: you try to get good sources. but we do in radio is that we do not have the advantage of pictures. we try to bring sound into the story either it be a blender of the smoothie or something else. sound is the one thing that the white house thinks, not at all about. i don't know how many times we have been on the road with the president, and they will have choreographed a beautiful picture of the golden hour, he is standing in front of a colonial building in cartagena and the sun is sinking at the right angle. it is gorgeous. just then, the children's choir comes out as we are walking away. that

. >> i want to go now to scott horsley. everybody listens to npr here, right? i love scott's reports because i know when i hear his voice, i tune in, because he's chosen something complicated and he's going to explain it to me in a way that makes sense. one of my personal favorites is the pension smoothing his explanation of -- the concept of pension smoothing by comparing it to pension smoothie. and then he -- i think there was a blender in the audio somewhere. anyway, scott, could you talk a little bit about how you approach the story? which stories you choose, what you look for at the white house, what your general approach is? >> the stuff is the same as anybody on the panel does, get good information, good sources. the twist we have with radio is we don't have the advantage of pictures, so we try to bring sound into stories whether it is the blender of the smoothie or anything else. and i have to say sound is the one thing that the white house thinks not at all about. i don't know how many times we have been on the road with the president and they will have