He later revealed if presidents were bound by law to put their business interests into a blind trust while in office, or if president-elects are legitimately allowed to opt out of intelligence briefings as Trump himself has reportedly been doing since winning the election.
He recently said that he would not avail himself of daily briefings about security threats from intelligence officials -- making him the first president since Harry Truman to avoid them.
The actor also admitted that in earlier press briefings, during which he had described himself as "impotent", he had not fully understood what the word meant.
Then-press secretary Sean Spicer, when asked to clarify the difference between messages on Trump's Twitter account and what Spicer himself said in press briefings, snapped at the questioner.
Ed Balls has condemned the former Labour spin doctor Damian McBride as "despicable" and denied that he himself had ever given negative briefings against colleagues while in government.
He has assailed the network all year as "fake news," ridiculed its reporters at press briefings and even posted video online of himself body-slamming a man with a CNN logo superimposed over his face.
After deciding to reject a confirmed university place studying international politics in favour of the apprenticeship, Hawthorne Pink made a name for himself in the parliamentary office, giving briefings for House of Lords oral questions.
The press demanded regular briefings, and on more than one occasion Brodhead found himself confronted with an unexpected development even as he was speaking to reporters.
The billionaire investor Paul Singer, who has given at least $1 million to the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC Restore Our Future, has booked Karl Rove and Condoleezza Rice for invitation-only briefings, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin for a private dinner, and himself for a breakfast seminar titled "A Pro-Growth Agenda for a Romney Administration".
