Getting that from the administration, correct . Guest no. I am glad to see that briefings are taking place, but if you look at the briefings, they are very short events. They are almost always less than half an hour. Sometimes no more than 15 minutes, and they have fallen into a pattern where there is kind of an opening monologue that is meant to, you know, either attack the people in that room, the reporters in that room and the news organizations, or to promote some political issue that the president is harping on. And then they closed in kind of precisely the same way. And it almost seems to me that the purpose of the briefing is, one, to promote the president s political prospects, and, and to, to go on the attack against reporters instead of trying to inform reporters. In your article, your essay, you point out one exchange in which you asked the press secretary about the president s tweet regarding nascar, lets watching a reaction. What is the president s position . Does he think
Cspan radio app. Joining us from the d. C. Bureau of abc news is Jonathan Karl chief white housewh correspondent for abc news. His new book, truck front row at the trump show last year he served as the president of the White House Correspondents Association thank you for coming back to cspan we appreciate it. It want to begin what you wrote with the Washington Post for this last weekend you wrote the following, as a reporter and president of the White House Correspondents Association ive often advocated a return of regular briefings by the White House Press secretary which lasted early 18 america over the years can be debated by think the white house spokesperson has an obligation to regularly answer questions aboutha the policies and pronounces of the executive branch for the whiteus House Press Secretary differs fundamentally from that of a spokesperson for a candidate or Political Party the White House Press secretary serves at the pleasure of the president but also a Public Servant
Tell us how this pandemic has affected you, your family, and your loved ones. If you live in the eastern half of the country, 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001. You want to text us, 202 7488003. Twitter andon facebook. A lot to get to over the next three hours. From the core of her story debt from the cover story of the New York Times from the cover story of the New York Times sunday magazine. America on track for the worst front of virus response in the developed world. All of us are asking, is a vaccine ready . Cnn has this headline as we continue to break new records with coronavirus. The u. S. Breaking its single day record of new cases nine times in a month. Casesesterday, 70,000 new in a single day. For web md tv, there exchange h dr. Anthony found she there exchange with dr. Anthony fauci. [video clip] why are they working with some populations, particularly the younger population . Is it a failure of Effective Communication . It is mul
Happened . That is pretty warm, not as one, fog back, big impacts tomorrow and friday and saturday. , a lot of red on that map we will look forward to that more cooler weather, bill, thanks, soon of it. In san jose, the heat is prompting officials to open cooling centers despite the coronavirus, our reporters as he kerry has more now on the ways that people are trying to help those who are need. By midday wednesday, the mercury was well into its latest assault on the record books, 90 degrees with listerine son, singh volunteers delivering water and other items to a homeless encampment on story road. Is actually dangerous because you know first of all, the homeless die of exposure, cold nights, hot days, so you are talking about something almost apocalyptic. For the third consecutive day a searing heat, blankets the bay area, weather forecasters say that the source is hundreds of miles to our south. Have hot air leaking off from that great desert, southwest, places like phoenix and tucs
About this wonderful book you have written. I want to start with you by the beginning and end of the book. You have two different encounters with donald trump or the first is when you are a young cub reporter and the lasses when youre obviously a big white house hotshot reporter. But described this to different encounters with trump i think that is kind of the ark of the book. It goes between those two. s really incredible book ends. The first was i was in my 20s, working for the New York Post. As actually assigned to city hull there was a guy there a mayor at that time who would just become mayor called rudy giuliani. [laughter] somebody who we might know. Smack yes. There is this absolutely unbelievable story that had gripped new york city at the moment. Its not story is particularly interested as working for the New York Post and its all my editors cared about. News had just broken that Michael Jackson, the king of pop had just married lisa marie presley, Elvis Presleys daughter. Th