Inside the Briefing Room

In The Thick

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🗓️ 4 December 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Very few people get access into the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, and even fewer journalists of color do. In spite of the systematic attacks journalists of color—and in particular, black women journalists— receive from government officials and the President himself, they have a responsibility to report for their communities.

Maria and Julio are joined by two journalists who live this reality in the briefing room: April Ryan with American Urban Radio Networks and CNN political analyst, and NPR’s White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe. They talk about the behind-the-scenes of covering the Trump administration from within the White House walls.

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0:00.0	We are who they dreamt to be in that room. We are the fruit that Harriet Tugman tried to say
0:08.3	This is bigger than me
0:25.0	Hey, what's up? Welcome to in the thick than me. And I'm Gullio Ricalo Barela. Yo, I'm seriously very excited today, aren't you Julio? I'm so excited, Maria.
0:28.0	So excited.
0:29.0	Today, my dear listener, I am so excited because on this edition of In The Fake, we're going to take
0:35.9	you into a place that just a very few people get into, and really very, very few people of color get into.
0:45.0	Good afternoon, everyone.
0:48.0	Welcome back.
0:49.0	I can sense the love in the room.
0:51.0	We're going to talk about what it is to be a journalist of color in the James S Brady
0:55.4	press briefing room, the room in the White House where reporters fight to get answers
1:00.5	and the truth from the Trump administration.
1:04.0	I mean just the other day he sat down with Martin Luther King Jr.
1:07.3	I would call him a civil rights leader.
1:09.6	So for his dad was the third.
1:11.4	Well I think this think that's one.
1:14.0	You get one question.
1:16.0	And you get one more. Exactly.
1:17.0	What is the definition of compromise as it relates to slavery and the civil war?
1:21.0	Look, I'm not going to get in and re-litigate the civil war. It's like I told you yesterday.
1:26.0	I think I've addressed the concerns that a lot of people had and the questions that you had and I'm not going to
1:33.5	re-litigate history here.
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