Maggie Haberman Talks to David Remnick About Trump and the Gang War in the White House
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 24 July 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Maggie Haberman covered Donald Trump years ago for the New York tabloids. Now she has a front-row seat in the White House.
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| 1:12.2 | I'm Dorothy Wickendon. On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remnick talks to Maggie |
| 1:17.5 | Haberman of the New York Times. Haberman's coverage of the Trump White House has drawn |
| 1:22.0 | ire from the president and from some of his followers. |
| 1:26.2 | Now, long before she was a White House correspondent at the New York Times, |
| 1:30.7 | Maggie Haberman was a local reporter for the New York Post and the Daily News, |
| 1:34.7 | the tabloids that really get into the politics and personalities of New York City, |
| 1:40.3 | which is to say she had a front row seat to the Donald J. Trump show for a very long time. |
| 1:46.4 | Covering Trump as the leader of the free world, though, is something altogether different. |
| 1:51.2 | The president sometimes isn't very happy with her, and in a moment of peak, he called Haberman |
| 1:55.9 | a third-rate reporter. But it's clear that she's also earned his wary respect. Last week, when Trump went after |
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