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 policyy 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 t

not many people outside of peter doocy seem very interested in doing that. lou: doocy's doing a terrific job in his new post as white house correspondent for the fox news network, and we congratulate him, and he is doing a terrific job. one of the things -- we should put this up. peter asking mr. biden a question about a phone call with putin. could we roll that, please? >> muslim ban, he also, though, has supported and himself even before -- or we did, i should say, even before he was inaugurated, travel restrictions in order to keep the american people safe. lou: well, that wasn't the right sound bite, but you take my point. save me here, joe. save me. [laughter] >> all right. peter's a jersey guy, by the way, north jersey guy, so we can all appreciate that on some level, lou. basically, today here you had, again, president biden signing all these different executive orders, right? and he won't take questions afterwards to, you know, explain exactly what he's doing without going through a democratic congress and a democratic senate. so then peter doocy, ag