January 24, 2021: Three former press secretaries share insights; Trump's final favor to a Fox News star; is Biden making the news boring again?
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🗓️ 24 January 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Brian Seltter Live in New York, and this is reliable sources, where we examine |
| 0:06.7 | the story behind the story and we figure out what is reliable. |
| 0:11.2 | Today with President Biden now in office, former Trump aides are speaking out. |
| 0:15.0 | I'll show you brand new comments from Dr. Deborah Burks about how Trump hurt America's pandemic response. |
| 0:21.0 | Plus, what should we expect from Biden's new press shop? |
| 0:24.8 | Press secretaries from the Bush, Clinton, and Obama White Houses are all coming together |
| 0:28.8 | here for the first time to talk about that. |
| 0:31.8 | And later, Trump's final act in office, literally as he was |
| 0:34.3 | touching down in Florida, his final act was a favor to a Fox News star. We will |
| 0:39.7 | have the pardon details and we will close with some wisdom from the late Larry King. |
| 0:46.0 | But first, this question, is President Biden making the news boring again? |
| 0:51.9 | People are always asking what the media will do post President Trump. This |
| 0:56.0 | week after Biden's inauguration they've been asking are reporters going through |
| 0:59.7 | withdrawal? Are they missing Trump's tweets? Are they lost without outrageous to cover? |
| 1:06.3 | These headlines from Axios and other websites point out that the Biden's plan is dull by design. So is he making the news boring again? Let me answer all |
| 1:16.6 | of those questions the way Biden would. Come on man! No way. The Biden White House is clearly a break from the chaos and |
| 1:26.0 | incompetence of Trump world. But we are living through history right now. |
| 1:29.9 | January alone has been one of the most tumultuous months in all of American history. |
| 1:35.0 | The follow-ups will take many months and maybe years. |
| 1:38.0 | There is so much to report, and there is nothing boring about the COVID-19 crisis. |
| 1:43.8 | Nothing boring about this national emergency as Biden has rightly identified it. |
| 1:48.9 | With more than 3,000 Americans dying from COVID-19 every single day. It is a story that demands our |
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