Now remember, this is the woman McCain says is ready on Day One to be president.

What are they hiding? Here’s ABC’s Kate Snow on what happened when Gov. Sarah Palin hit the United Nations today.

Palin is scheduled to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai shortly, followed by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and then with McCain advisor, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

The networks had arranged for a “pool” camera- one camera to cover the first few seconds of the meetings, whose video would be pooled or shared with all networks.

Such arrangements are standard when dealing with intimate high-level meetings between leaders and candidates.

But typically, along with cameras, there is an editorial presence– at least one print reporter, one television reporter, and one radio reporter is standard.

However today the McCain campaign told media covering Palin’s trip to New York that they would allow only one editorial person inside.

Then the campaign scaled back further, saying it will only allow a camera and no editorial presence.

In other words, they allowed only a camera operator without anyone to make the raw footage into a news story.

But the press finally stood up on its hind legs and barked back, refusing to cover the story if McCain, Etc. wouldn’t let them cover the story.

The networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox fiercely objected to the McCain campaign’s apparent effort to try to shield Palin from questions. Networks voted today to not use any video coming out of Palin’s meeting as a protest.

Palin has not held a news conference since being selected as McCain’s running-mate, nor taken questions from her traveling press corps…

…the McCain campaign finally allowed one CNN pool camera and one pool producer into the meeting room.

As she arrived for her meeting with Karzai, Palin avoided reporters who were camped out at the main front entrance of the hotel, instead pulling up in a motorcade to a side entrance and quickly sneaking inside.

Palin’s dance with the press continued during her meeting with Karzai. After being told that an editorial presence would be permitted in Palin’s meetings, pool reporters were asked to leave after the first 30 seconds, according to the pool report. Print pool and wires were not permitted in.

“The decision was made for this to be a photo spray with still cameras and video cameras only,” Palin spokesperson Tracey Schmitt told reporters.

Reporters in the room for the brief period only heard Palin, who was accompanied by foreign policy advisers Steve Biegun and Randy Scheunemann, inquire about Karzai’s son.

The McCain-Palin campaign allowed a “full pool” into the meetings with Uribe and Kissinger but the sprays were even shorter, and reporters heard nothing more than pleasantries being exchanged.

The exchange of pleasantries was likely the most substantive part of the meetings. From there, Palin probably attempted to get Kissinger and Karzai to accept Jesus as their personal savior and filled in Uribe on the latest advances in the rhythm method.