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Welcome to another episode of Keep Minute 1600. I'm John Fabra. I'm Dan Fyffer.

And we are here today with our special guest, Tommy Vittor. Good morning.

Tommy was national security spokesman in the Obama White House, one of Barack Obama's first press secretaries on the 2004 Senate race and then the Senate office.

I'd like to be defined by my year in Iowa during the caucus.

Yes. The Iowa press secretary from 2008.

One is the state under the tutelage of one Josh Ernest. We brought it home for the Obama campaign until the New Hampshire people ruined it.

Well, Josh is the White House press secretary and you're on our podcast.

And I'd like to do it. And 9am.

Okay, so we have a lot to talk about today, big day.

But I want to start with a quick recap of the White House correspondence center since that is the place five years ago where we first, the three of us helped troll Donald Trump into running for president.

Good work. So it's it's our fault.

So I think I think the president did did pretty well this year.

Yeah, I did do. I mean, I don't think that you total up the funny of all the jokes and then divide by the number of minutes. And that's how you did judge these things.

It's like, what were the big funny moments in the speech? And I thought he had some absolutely laugh out loud, hilarious things.

The bainer's get was amazing. He was unexpected.

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