Why, pray tell, can’t she ask the question he was going to ask?
Really!
A Fifty Shades of Grey BSDM moment?
Because the point wasn't to ask the question. The point was to try and embarrass Spicer. Only he refused to play along. These idiots still haven't grasped that not only have the rules changed, but the entire game has changed, and they keep trying to play the old game.
Obviously there was collusion behind the scenes that’s not being admitted to. This had to have been planned, and the planning is the real story in this story.
She could but what she really wanted to do is “prove” that there is a “chill wind” blowing through the ranks of the elites (reporters) and that their (NYTimes...who’s next????) civil rights to ask fake questions and print fake news is being infringed upon.