Lars Larson Was In The Room Where It Happened

Thanks to the miracle of technology, Lars Larson was in the room where it happened Wednesday. The Portland-based popular conservative radio host got to ask a question at the White House daily press briefing - thanks to Skype.

"Commander Spicer," Larson started off, thanking Press Secretary Sean Spicer, a commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

Larson was one of four local media figures who had the opportunity to take part in the press briefing via Skype. It was an innovation that Spicer had announced in his first official press conference at the White House.

Larson used his moment in the sun to knock the United States Forest Service and land management policies under President Obama.

"The federal government is the biggest landlord in America," Larson said. "Does President Trump want to start returning the people's land to the people. Can he tell the Forest Service to start logging our forests aggressively again to provide jobs for Americans, wealth for the treasury and not spend three and a half billion dollars a year fighting forest fires?"

Spicer seemed to indicate that Trump is of a like mind without committing to anything.

"We've got to utilize the resources that we have that the federal government owns whether that's the forest or natural resources or minerals that exist above and below the ground," Spicer said.

Larson was be "joined" in the Skype row by Natalia Herbick of Fox 8 in Cleveland, Kimberly Kalunian of WPRI in Providence, R.I., and Jeff Jobe of Kentucky's Jobe Publishing, a group of newspapers in the southern part of the state.