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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR.

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Speaker 2: Here's Larry Minti with more of the WR Saturday Morning show.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm sure you noticed how different the White

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Speaker 2: House press briefings are in the Trump White House compared

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Speaker 2: to the Biden White House. Let's talk with Daily Caller

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Speaker 2: White House correspondent. Reagan rees about both of them because

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Speaker 2: she had to deal with both of them every day.

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Speaker 1: Reagan.

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Speaker 2: I was watching a White House briefing the other day

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Speaker 2: and I saw Caroline Levit as she was asking she

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Speaker 2: wanted to get away from some reporters, and she went Reagan, Reagan,

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Speaker 2: and she was covered. I assume you're the only Reagan

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Speaker 2: in the room, aren't.

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Speaker 1: You, Yes, I am.

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Speaker 2: She seems they're away like you.

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Speaker 1: I would hope, So, I mean, you know, that's always

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Speaker 1: Do you want to be liked by the press secretary?

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Speaker 1: You know, I could go either way, of course. Do

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Speaker 1: you want to keep a professional, cordial relationship, but you

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Speaker 1: also want to ask questions that are tests of the administration,

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Speaker 1: you know, no matter where you fall on what side

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Speaker 1: of the aisle. So you know, I hope she respects me.

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Speaker 1: I respect her, and I think we have a good

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Speaker 1: working relationship.

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Speaker 2: You know, It's funny. When we were first talking to you,

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Speaker 2: it was when Biden was in office, and you talked

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Speaker 2: about the fact that how long you went without being

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Speaker 2: called on. Wow, that changed. You seem to get called

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Speaker 2: on constantly.

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Speaker 1: Now, yeah, I mean you hear a lot of talk

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Speaker 1: I think from you know, just outside voices, sometimes within

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Speaker 1: the mainstream media. I gave a lecture at Berkeley a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and the students were kind of

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Speaker 1: pushing back on something I had said about Trump and

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Speaker 1: his administration being good to the press and being accessible

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Speaker 1: to the press, and I just pointed to the fact

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Speaker 1: that I was shut out of the Biden White House

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Speaker 1: because we I write for the Daily Caller, which is

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Speaker 1: a conservative outlet. My colleagues, other colleagues of mine, that

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Speaker 1: our conservative reporters were barred from the events. A lot

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Speaker 1: of us conservative journalists were uninvited to the Biden Christmas party.

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Speaker 1: For journalists, it's completely a one Adyen. If you look

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Speaker 1: at a press sector, you look at a Trump press briefing,

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Speaker 1: you look at Carolines press breefings, they're not just calling

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Speaker 1: on as friendly is or the people that they think

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Speaker 1: are going to align with them or ask them a

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Speaker 1: good question. They're sparring with CNN, with NBC, with ABC,

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Speaker 1: they're taking those tough questions, and she spans the room,

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Speaker 1: so does President Trump. Sure they might insult those mainstream

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Speaker 1: media journalists, and that's probably the biggest difference between maybe

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Speaker 1: me and them, But in terms of access, it is

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Speaker 1: far more fair and balanced than it was in the

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Speaker 1: past administration.

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Speaker 2: Right, and nobody called out the Biden administration on that.

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Speaker 2: This is extremely important. What you're talking talking about is

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Speaker 2: to call on everybody in the press corps, whether you

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Speaker 2: agree with them or whether they agree with you or not,

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Speaker 2: whether you feel like you're going to get the coverage

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Speaker 2: you want or not, you should call on everyone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. And I think it's it's like

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Speaker 1: a great opportunity for the administration to, you know, answer

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Speaker 1: those tough questions, push back on them, to start with

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Speaker 1: those tough reporters, and that I think is one thing

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Speaker 1: that the Trump administration has strength. Is they will take

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Speaker 1: CNN and ABC and NBC and they'll answer those questions

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Speaker 1: and they're not afraid, they don't shy away from them.

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Speaker 1: And that's probably one of the things that rally's President

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Speaker 1: Trump's face the most is when they call out the

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Speaker 1: fake news media. And so the Trump administration is very

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Speaker 1: good at also just wanting to go into tough situations.

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Speaker 1: We see President Trump go do interviews with CNN, ABC

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Speaker 1: sixty Minutes, and CBS. We never saw President Biden do

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Speaker 1: similar things. We never saw White House Press secretary Underbiden,

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Speaker 1: Cream Jean Pierre, do similar things. And you know, part

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Speaker 1: of it is because Kream Jean Pierre couldn't handle those

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Speaker 1: tense questions from those who disagreed with her. She just

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Speaker 1: wasn't a talented press secretary. But you know the other is,

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Speaker 1: I think I had a different view of outlets and

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Speaker 1: reporters like.

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Speaker 2: Myself, right, but it's you know, it infringes on freedom

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Speaker 2: of the press, It infringes on free speech. It was,

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Speaker 2: it was horrible. But let's talk about the H one

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Speaker 2: B visus. Explain to people what they are and why

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Speaker 2: this is such a controversy right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the basis of the situation is essentially, do we

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Speaker 1: want to bring immigrants in to in a legal way

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Speaker 1: to help with the workforce in America? And that's a

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Speaker 1: big debate right now within the Maggie universe. And I

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Speaker 1: think when you talk to people who are typically aligned

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Speaker 1: with the President and have an America first viewpoint, they

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Speaker 1: will probably break with him on this issue where he

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Speaker 1: is saying that the workers we have in America right

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Speaker 1: now are not talented enough to work in America. They're

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Speaker 1: not talented enough to work in manufacturing plans or in

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Speaker 1: the industry, and so therefore we need to bring in

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Speaker 1: immigrants from other countries to fill those jobs because they're

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Speaker 1: more skill than the Americans we have. Now, this is

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Speaker 1: something that yeah, really breaks with the America first base,

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Speaker 1: and it's you know, the President's faces a lot of

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Speaker 1: backlash for it. Some of his previous opponents are capitalizing

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Speaker 1: on it right now. But that's the basis of the issue.

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Speaker 1: And it also ties into the President wanted to bring

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Speaker 1: in six hundred I was in Chinese students over the

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Speaker 1: next few years to America. You know, that's this could

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Speaker 1: be a traded situation, that's being him trying to make

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Speaker 1: a deal with people. But it's these two issues are

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Speaker 1: really causing the president headache with the American first base.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it, and I think he was inarticulate

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Speaker 2: on that, although he'll never admit to that. And I

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Speaker 2: do think that it's just like in a South Korean plant,

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Speaker 2: you want South Koreans, and so I'm not sure this

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Speaker 2: is as much of a controversy as it should be,

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Speaker 2: but I think it was just the way he spoke.

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Speaker 2: Reagan Reese white House corresponded for The Daily Caller, an

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Speaker 2: independent women's foreign visiting fellow.

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