Ep. 231 - Major Garrett

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Major Garrett, Chief White House Correspondent with CBS News, chats with David about the most important story he ever covered, his time at Fox News, the sources of friction in Trump's White House, and more.

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your
0:12.5	host, David Axelrod.
0:16.8	I got to know Major Garrett when he was the White House correspondent for Fox, and I was
0:21.0	the senior adviser to President Barack Obama, so you can imagine that that wasn't necessarily
0:27.2	a comfortable relationship, but the truth is Major was a really fine journalist.
0:33.1	I always felt like he dealt with me fairly and tried to do a straight-up job of covering
0:37.7	the White House, and he still does today as the Chief White House correspondent for CBS
0:43.0	News.
0:44.0	I sat down with Major in Houston, Texas the other day.
0:46.8	We had a chance to talk about what it's like to cover the White House in the era of Trump.
0:54.5	Major Garrett, good to see you.
0:56.6	Great to see you, David.
0:57.6	Fellow podcaster.
0:58.6	Yes, indeed.
0:59.6	It's the wave of the future.
1:00.6	It really is.
1:01.6	It's shocking to me, actually, that people make the time for podcasts.
1:09.8	And in a sense, what I really like about it is that we've been told again and again that
1:17.8	sort of rat-cat, tad, bite-sized stuff.
1:21.6	You know, that's all people can tolerate.
1:23.3	I think people are sort of rebelling against.
1:25.4	They are.
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