Stephanie Grisham is — yes, really — taking our questions now

NPR's Book of the Day

NPR

Arts, Books

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham famously held no press briefings during her time in the White House — but now, she's ready to talk. Her memoir, I'll Take Your Questions Now, is the latest tell-all from a former Trump staffer — and Tamara Keith, from NPR's Politics Podcast, hit her with some tough questions about whether the book is simply an image rehab project. "Too many books have been out there to help one person's reputation so they can be rehabilitated ... or to try to rewrite history," Grisham says. "I just want to tell my story and have people take what they want from it."

See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.

NPR Privacy Policy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbong. Our buddies over at the NPR Politics
0:07.9	podcast did this interview with Stephanie Grisham, the former press secretary for President Trump.
0:13.3	She's the latest former Trump White House staffer to put out a spicy new book, and it's called
0:18.1	I'll Take Her Questions Now. It's got the usual dirt and score settling,
0:22.6	and her conversation with Tamara Keith is worth listening to because she really pressed Grisham
0:27.3	on some key issues. Like, is this book just a reputation rehab project? And why did you stay
0:33.5	after so many controversies? I mean, there's even a part where Grisham reveals she didn't even
0:39.1	vote for Trump in 2020, even as she was still working in the White House. And then, of course,
0:44.3	there's Trump's attitudes towards the press as an institution, which Grisham herself pretty
0:49.8	famously never held any press briefings while she had the job. Anyway, here's the interview.
0:55.3	In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life.
0:59.6	Distant wars, murky conflicts, diplomacy behind closed doors.
1:04.2	On our new show, Sources and Methods.
1:06.2	NPR reporters on the ground bring you stories of real people,
1:10.0	helping you understand why distant events matter here at home.
1:13.5	Listen to sources and methods on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:19.8	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House.
1:24.4	And I'm Ayesha Roscoe. I also cover the White House. So today we are going to hear from a former Trump administration senior official about
1:32.7	what things were really like inside the Trump White House. And I mean, we saw chaos from the
1:38.6	outside, but it turns out there was even more going on that we didn't see, at least according
1:42.8	to this new book.
1:45.1	So Aisha, set it up for us. This is Stephanie Grisham, a former press secretary who wrote this new
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.