These days, American politics is a highly charged and dramatic landscape - and nowhere more so than in the White House press room, which can, on occasion, feel like part reality show, part bear pit. Rarely a day goes by where a press room moment doesn't go viral, for any number of reasons. And, as RTÉ's new Washington correspondent, Galwegian Jackie Fox cannot wait to immerse herself in the belly of the beast.
Acosta, during an appearance on MS NOW on Saturday morning, made it clear he was still disgusted with the president saying quiet, piggy to Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey earlier this month. He said any boss who spoke to a female employee that way would be fired, so it was not okay for the press to just sit back and take it. Other folks in the press in the room should speak up in that moment and say, Mr. President, that is not appropriate,' Acosta said.
Jacqui Heinrich calls it as she sees it. As one of Fox News' senior White House Correspondents, co-anchor of The Sunday Briefing, and the future president of the White House Correspondents' Association, she has earned a reputation for asking tough, necessary questions regardless of who's in power. I build rapport no matter who is in office by approaching my job with integrity, Heinrich told Mediate founding editor Colby Hall on this week's episode of Press Club.
Date discussed his public feud with Leavitt on CNN News Central with anchor Boris Sanchez on Tuesday afternoon. Date, when Sanchez asked for his response to Leavitt, said he was not interested in stenography while covering Trump. I routinely say that the president lies he does. What can I do? That's who he is, Date said. So I don't apologize for that at all.
Every meeting is about the Epstein situation. Every Trump event and every Trump meeting, Trump administration meeting, Trump White House meeting is about the Epstein situation. Everything Donald Trump and everyone in his White House is doing all day, every day now is about the Epstein situation. It's about how to extract Donald Trump from his personal history with child rapist Jeffrey Epstein, who said, quote, I was Donald's closest friend for 10 years.