Jen Psaki

It's not window dressing.

It's not the convenience of having an office.

This is something that I take to be very deep seated.

Correspondents have been inside the Pentagon for decades.

And that is for one very significant reason.

It is because the U.S.

military and secretaries of defense have wanted them there.

This is the only, shall we call it, ministry of defense in the world that allows journalists in full time to see what they're doing, to report on this.

And it's international journalists, people from multiple countries around the world who come there every day, people from all over.

kinds of publications, not just, you know, the legacy old time media publications.

New media is now accredited to the Pentagon.

So it comes back to what you started off by saying.

If he wants to end this decades long tradition that is so important of letting the world see what the U.S.

military is doing,

Why does he want to end it?

What is he so afraid of?

And it's hard to know the answer with him, you know?

You know, I started off really full time back in the days of Donald Rumsfeld, I would say.

And he was not overly fond of the press, but he embraced the notion that they had to be there.

And he thought they were performing a valuable service of informing the American public.