doocy were boxed occupant. so is this surprising? not really, no, considering that this is an administration, the communications team that wants to control the message and keep things as scripted as possible. and kudos to those three white house correspondents that spoke up and said, this is wrong if you're asking us for questions. and what about everybody else in that room in what about reporters that may be actually acquiescing to this so they can the get more access. it's not why you become a reporter, so it can be a fixed fight. the white house press secretary should be able to answer any question about policy and perspectives of the administration without a cheat sheet, so to speak, lou. lou: yeah. and, really, the contrast between this and trump and the obama administration which was very, had so few of these, what would we call them, confrontations over time. this is a very press-unfriendly administration already, and we're not even two weeks into the thing. >> and that's the irony, lou, right? donald tr