Michael Scherer: ‘We Should Take’ Trump’s Threat to End Press Briefings ‘Seriously’
‘The president has a long pattern of raising ideas like this that seem outlandish and then a couple weeks carrying through with them’
May 14, 2017 10:13 PM
By Grabien Staff
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STELTER: 'Let’s bring in two well sourced reporters to talk about this. Olivia Nuzzi from New York magazine and Michael shearer from “Time.” How seriously should we take this suggestion that there will be no more White House press briefings?" SCHERER: "We should take it seriously. The president has a long pattern of raising ideas like this that seem outlandish and then a couple weeks carrying through with them. There is a thing he threatened during the campaign of not going to a debate unless CNN or some of the other networks paid money to a charity of his choosing. He actually went forward and carried through with it. I don’t think this is something his staff would recommend. I don’t think this is something the press operation wants. But if the president continues to feel the sense of grievance he feels now that motivated a lot of decisions he made this week and last week I wouldn’t be surprised to see it happen at least on a temporary basis."
