This is a bonus podcast for the New Yorker Radio Hour. It was recorded at Public Forum, a series of events

moderated by David Remnick at the public theater in New York. This event marked the first 100 days of the

Trump administration. Joining David to talk about the challenges of covering this presidency were Lydia

Pullgreen,

editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, Eli Lake, a correspondent for Bloomberg View,

MSNBC host Joy Reid, and Washington Post reporter David Ferenholt.

So it's 100 days of the Trump presidency. How are you feeling, okay? You're all right.

Whew. Yeah.

And the only good thing about, in my mind, Eli, you may disagree, the good thing about this

is that time moves so slowly that we will never age.

It'll be all right.

Four years will seem like 20, but it'll only be four.

Everybody was worried in November that the press was

going to come under fire, the First Amendment we suspended, we'd all be in trouble. Meanwhile,

I go to work, everything works, computers are on. No trouble, right? Lydia? So far, so good.

Okay.

But what is the relationship now between the press and the President of the United States?

Is it any different than with any other President?

I mean, I would say that there is an extraordinary level of extremely intimate access to the president. I mean,

I'm stunned by how many reporters he's talked to one-on-one, both informal and informal and informal

settings. The difficulty with this is that nothing he says is of any use. I mean, if the

president speaks and the things that he says don't make any sense, what are we supposed to do with that?

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