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Acosta slams White House announcement that it will decide who is in the press pool.

The Jim Acosta Show

Jim Acosta

News, Politics

4.9634 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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0:00.0

But something really important has happened, and I want to get into it.

0:04.6

And it deals with the White House and press coverage.

0:08.8

And I just think, you know, just as I've been doing lately, I want to call this out.

0:12.8

The White House press secretary, Caroline Levitt, you know, who's been doing her thing to try to out Spicer, Sean Spicer, and so on.

0:23.0

Anyway, she's put out a statement today saying that they're going to redo, they're going to,

0:29.6

they're going to change the way that the White House press pool operates.

0:34.7

And, you know, just to give you a little bit of a sense as to what is going on,

0:39.7

the White House press pool, I mean, I know this from covering the White House back in the day

0:44.4

during the second Obama administration, the first Trump administration. The White House press

0:48.8

pool is essentially the pool of reporters that travels with the president, goes on Air Force,

0:52.8

one, occasionally goes into

0:54.7

the Oval Office on a daily basis. And the people in that pool rotate from day to day,

1:00.4

with some exceptions. Traditionally, the Associated Press, Reuters, New York Times, newspapers,

1:05.9

that sort of thing. They would be in the press pool just about every day. The TV network

1:10.1

would change every day. So one day would be ABC, the next day would be in the press pool just about every day. The TV network would change every day.

1:12.4

So one day would be ABC.

1:13.7

The next day would be CBS, NBC, and so on.

1:16.6

And, you know, that setup is necessary.

1:19.8

So when the president says something, these remarks can be covered.

1:23.9

They can be recorded.

1:25.1

They can be videotaped and so on, and then sent out to all

1:30.6

of the major networks and all the major news outlets that subscribe to the White House pool reports.

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