The President and the Publisher

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week, “The Daily” is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of 2019 and checking in on what has happened since the stories first ran. Today, we return to the exclusive interview in the Oval Office between the publisher of The Times, A. G. Sulzberger, and President Trump about the role of a free press. Guest: A. G. Sulzberger, The Times’s publisher, who joined two White House reporters, Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker, to interview Mr. Trump. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading:In his remarks on the media, Mr. Trump took credit for popularizing the term “fake news,” but declined to accept responsibility for a rise in threats against journalists since he took office. Read excerpts from his exchange with Mr. Sulzberger.Here are five takeaways from the interview.Mr. Trump said he wanted evidence the world was getting more dangerous for journalists. Here it is.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Michael.
0:02.4	This week, the Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes, listening back, and
0:07.8	then hearing what's happened in the time since.
0:10.9	Today, the President and the publisher.
0:14.5	It's Thursday, January 2nd.
0:17.5	From the New York Times on Michael Barbarale, this is Daily.
0:27.0	Today.
0:28.7	From Thursday in the Ulval Office, the President of the United States debated the publisher
0:34.6	of the New York Times about the role of a free press.
0:40.8	It's Friday.
0:50.8	February 1st.
0:52.8	Oh, for the purposes of his interview, I would like me to refer to you.
0:58.8	In terms of your actual name, do you want to be A.G.?
1:01.4	A.G.
1:02.4	Yeah.
1:03.4	Good.
1:04.4	A.G.
1:05.4	Tell me the story of what happened this past summer.
1:09.6	Well, I had recently been named publisher of the Times, and I was coming back from dinner
1:17.6	one day, and I got an email from Sarah Sanders, not someone who had emailed me before
1:22.8	and she asked if I could come to the White House later that week for a private off-the-record
1:27.9	meeting with the President.
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