Will Trump Let the White House Bring Back Cameras?

President Donald Trump’s new communications director says he’s “personally” in favor of on-camera White House briefings, but ultimately the decision will be up to the president.

On CNN‘s “State of the Union” Sunday, Wall Street financier-turned-White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told host Jake Tapper:

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His apparently relaxed attitude toward cameras marks a startling departure from the Trump administration’s hostile and increasingly restrictive interactions with the media. In the past six months, the administration has frequently banned television and audio broadcasting of briefings. Scaramucci, who officially joined Trump’s communication team Friday, also reminded Tapper that Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the newly-appointed press secretary. Scaramucci said he’d given her “the big office” and encouraged her to invite members of the press to her office.

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Huckabee Sanders has defended the White House’s shift toward more off-camera briefings. During her recent off-camera briefing to address the Don Jr. email scandal, she said: “We’re always looking at different approaches and different ways to communicate the president’s message and talk about the agenda. This is one of the many ways we choose to do that.”

Last month, then-press secretary Sean Spicer said the shift was, in part, because members of the press pool “want to become YouTube stars and ask some snarky question that’s been asked eight times,” and that the reporters “are more focused about getting their clip on air than they are of actually taking the time to understand an issue.”