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pool spray

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An event in which photographers and other members of the news media are allowed to visit briefly with the US President or other top US government officials, especially on the occasion of a meeting with leaders or high-level officials from other countries.

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First comes the "pool spray," where the two leaders exchange pleasantries before the cameras.

The calculated results show that the pool spray can make up the UP inventory against small leakage.

It's really difficult to take this out of the context of what happened at the Putin summit in Helsinki and at a pool spray.

In addition to their statements in the Rose Garden, we're adding a pool spray at the top of their dinners this evening.

At a pool spray [photo call] in the East Room, I feel a cold draught behind me and turn to see Steve Bannon lurking in the corner.

Then, last week, shouted questions after a pool spray resulted in Trump saying he doubted Russia was still interfering in the United States.

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So rather than let him do his own thing at pool sprays, they are scaling them back and excluding a reporter who asks questions they don't like.

He responded by pointing to the "pool sprays" — where a small group of reporters and photographers are briefly allowed to interact with the president and attendees of White House meetings before being ushered out.

"I would never have been bold enough to say totally ignore the mainstream media when it comes to pool sprays," said Ari Fleischer, a White House press secretary for President George W. Bush.

Trump's irritation has flared the most when he has been peppered with questions from reporters on formal occasions, such as Rose Garden announcements, or during what are known as press pool sprays, when a handful of journalists representing the White House press corps covers meetings or events in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room or Roosevelt Room.

(Last week, in Davos, the president acquiesced to interviews with CNBC and the British presenter Piers Morgan, who has usually been friendly toward Mr. Trump). But he has embraced the so-called "pool sprays" — journalist jargon for a White House photo-op — to spar with reporters off-the-cuff, sometimes for nearly an hour at a time.

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