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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Friday,

March 17th. I'm Evanos, staff writer at the New Yorker, filling in for Dorothy Wickenden.

This week, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson broke with a longstanding tradition by setting off on a major

foreign trip, in this case to Asia, at a moment of high tension with

North Korea, without allowing the diplomatic press pool to come along. He chose only one

reporter to join him on his plane, a 33-year-old journalist from the Independent Journal

Review, a conservative website geared for millennials, which was founded in 2012. At a press briefing on

Wednesday, State Department spokesman Mark Toner defended the decision.

And I can say going forward, sorry, let me finish, and I can say going forward that,

and I've said this, that every effort will be made to accommodate a press contingent on board

the plane.

But in this specific trip, an instance, it was decided to make an outside the box,

if I could put it that way, decision to bring somebody in who doesn't necessarily cover the State Department.

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