Hello from Washington. I'm Jonathan Carl and this is the Carl cast.

Alright, I'm from April Fool. There you go. But later in this pod I will be talking to the guy you just heard left there, my cross network colleague, Chief White House correspondent for ABC News, Mr. Jonathan Carl.

John is also the president of the White House Correspondents Association author of a new book, Front Road, The Trump Show, and its father. So he's got a lot going on. And later in the show, we're going to take a few more of your primary questions. So keep sending those in as we have Bernie Sanders now being the latest person to say maybe postpone the Wisconsin primary.

And once again, we are recording from a social distance. So we apologize for any audio glitches. It is a brave new world for us all, but first the unfloppable unstoppable.

John Carl, welcome to the podcast, Mr. Carl.

Hey, it's great to be with you. I wish I was we were in person, but but it's good to be with you virtually.

We'll let a few secrets out of the bag. We actually both live in northern Virginia. We're probably, you know, accidentally shop at the same, you know, grocery store every now and that in the neighborhood. So I should ask, I have had this strange, you know, I have not actually been in Washington DC in two weeks.

It is the strangest feeling since I did my last meet the press in the studio. You are going in. Are you going in every couple of days on the rotation of the White House? How are you guys handling your social distance work from home, all of that business over there?

I'm going in more frequently than my family likes. So I've got I've got the full house. I've got my, you know, my daughters, ones in college, ones just out of college.

I've got a wife. Nobody likes it, especially when I go to what they see is the most dangerous place around, which is the White House. Yeah.

So, but I mean like, you know, not every day, but pretty close. I try to, I try to be in as little as I possibly can. And it's very strange. The R A B C bureau. I'm sure if you crossed over and you went over to NBC. It's empty, basically.

Yeah. It's basically nobody there. The White House is a lot emptier than it usually is. Obviously. House, oil. We're all going to worry about oil. I mean, you know, what if we don't, if there wasn't a White House press room to hang out in, what would that guy do for a living?

Well, it's a great question. So, oil, the, the legendary, there's a lot of these, what we, you know, Chuck, you can appreciate this. You know how, how, how that real estate is now eager and sought after that real estate is, we've had to really

know White House press. Yeah. Oh my God.

You guys accomplished that because this is such a challenge. I mean, you are, you are, you know, it's so funny. Being president of White House Correspond Association, that's why something I'm like, what did you do wrong?

John, you know, it's like, it's that it is, yeah, it is sort of a weird thing. You're like, you know, there, it's a lot of responsibility and you could become a punching bag.

But this year, I have to say, I say this, my bullshit, you know, anything, blown smoke. I'm thankful that you sitting in that post this year at a time when the position is actually consequential.

I mean, I don't mean this with any disrespect to the position in the past, but it has seemed more consequential this year because you've had to make some tough decisions. You've had to participate in some tough decisions. How are you policing this?

Well, it's really, it's really tough because, you know, first of all, just just coming with what to do. We face the situation. You know how crowded that place is on any given day, but especially if there's a briefing and especially by God, it's a president of the United States.

It comes into the briefing room. Yes, you get your armpit to armpit. Oh my God. So, so with this, so we had to act really quickly to say we are going to limit who can come. And that's the most political thing you can imagine.

First of all, way to us corresponds. We all like, you know, we fight for more access, more people, all this stuff. And now we had to say we're going to go the first step was go to every other seat.

And, and then that wasn't far enough away. Yeah.

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