CBS White House Correspondent Major Garrett

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🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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CBS News' chief White House correspondent Major Garrett has covered the last 4 administrations but says nothing could prepare him for President Donald Trump. He recalls his strange first encounter with the reality TV star who would become President and the craziest 11 days he’s ever experienced as a White House correspondent. He discusses the many ways in which the President is his own worst enemy, how the President’s failure at healtchare reform lead to his success on tax reform, and yet he learned nothing from it. He shares some of the reasons why many Republicans have said no thanks to a job in the Trump Administration, why the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation is a must win for Trump, and why he believes we are already witnessing a transformative Presidency. Order Major Garrett's new book MR. TRUMP’S WILD RIDE: THE THRILLS, CHILLS, SCREAMS, AND OCCASIONAL BLACKOUTS OF AN EXTRAORDINARY PRESIDENCY on Amazon. See Major regularly reporting from the White House on CBS News, subscribe to his podcast The Takeout on Apple Podcast or wherever you like to listen, and follow him on twitter at @MajorCBS. Today’s episode was sponsored by Heineken. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:35.3	Major Garrett has been reporting on the White House for nearly two decades, covering four
1:39.6	different presidencies for three different news outlets.
1:43.1	When he covered the Obama White House for Fox News, he was often called into press secretary
1:47.8	Robert Gibbs's office for an impromptu tongue lashing about Fox's coverage of President
1:52.9	Obama, and now Major Garrett on more than one occasion is found himself on the wrong side
1:58.3	of a new president and his deadly Twitter feed.
2:01.8	But if he thought that his distinguished journalistic career had prepared him for the unique challenges
2:06.4	of covering Donald Trump, he was in for a surprise.
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