cnn has been in the basement since 1980. this is what we affectionately call the booth. we were assigned there as a startup network. fox is right next door. it s a very small space. nine by nine. about half the size of a bedroom. we re literally on top of each other. right. you better not bring smelly food to work. upstairs is a break room and a coffee machine with quite a back story. this is the tom hanks espresso machine. tom hanks came into the white house for a tour probably 20 years ago. he said, where can i get a cup of coffee? somebody directed him right back to this room. to an old coffee dispenser where you put in a coin and the cup drops out. the front display was crawling with ants. he said, i can t believe the press drinks it. probably two months later, and up in the mail comes a beautiful coffee machine, espresso machine. now somebody s got to put it
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startup network. fox is right next door. it s a very small space. nine by nine. about half the size of a bedroom. we re literally on top of each other. right. you better not bring smelly food to work. upstairs is a break room and a coffee machine with quite a back story. this is the tom hanks espresso machine. tom hanks came into the white house for a tour probably 20 years ago. he said, where can i get a cup of coffee? somebody directed him right back to this room. to an old coffee dispenser where you put in a coin and the cup drops out. the front display was crawling with ants. he said, i can t believe the press drinks it. probably two months later, and up in the mail comes a beautiful coffee machine, espresso machine. now somebody s got to put it together. this is the third one. about every four years we get a letter from one of his
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mr. president, we re going to board over jack kennedy s swimming pool. and that s how the present briefing room came to be. but the room you re used to didn t look this way when first constructed. mr. president? says ann compton. she reported from the white house for more than 40 years. the briefing room itself looked like a doctor s waiting room with big stuffed sofas and captains chairs and people milling around all day. behind and under the press briefing room, the nixon administration built office space for the press corps. on the first floor. down below, there s a basement which we nicknamed after a russian prison. cnn has been in the basement since 1980. this is what we affectionately call the booth. we were assigned there as a startup network.
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