White House Interview Special Part 2: Harrison Fields Talks SignalGate, Gaza, Car Tariffs; Alex Pfieffer Talks White House Media Strategy

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Mo News visited the White House recently to get insight into the Trump agenda 60 days into the administration, including their messaging and approach to the media. The previous special included conversations with RFK Jr and a top White House policy official. This episode will include two additional conversations with two members of the White House communications team: First, Harrison Fields is the Special Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Press Secretary. We talk about how he got into politics, SignalGate, and the Trump Administration’s new car tariffs. Fields also worked for the first Trump Administration, and talks about how Trump 2.0 is different from Trump 1.0. Second, Alex Pfeiffer is the White House Deputy Communications Director. We talk about the Trump Administration's approach to the mainstream media, whether he thinks Republican support from young men will extend past President Trump, and Pfeiffer’s own “media diet.” Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Jill Wagner (@jillrwagner) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. She's currently the Managing Editor of the Mo News newsletter and previously worked as a reporter for CBS News, Cheddar News, and News 12. She also co-founded the Need2Know newsletter, and has made it a goal to drop a Seinfeld reference into every Mo News podcast.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back to a special edition of the Mo News podcast.
0:07.2	I'm Osh Winoon, here.
0:08.7	As some of you may know by now, in recent days we visited the White House.
0:11.8	Jill and I traveled to Washington for a number of interviews as part of what the White House is dubbed podcast row.
0:18.7	We were one of a handful of podcasts that had the opportunity
0:22.9	to interview senior members of the administration, include the cabinet officials and senior
0:28.3	White House officials. Some of you may have listened to our first special that included
0:32.3	an interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, as well as a
0:36.6	top policy official
0:37.8	at the White House.
0:39.4	Now, for two more of our conversations during our visit to the White House last week, we spoke
0:44.2	to a couple members of the communications team at the White House.
0:47.5	I think these interviews will give you a lot of insight into how the White House press
0:51.6	team is approaching the media, this administration, we're just
0:54.6	about 60 days in here. They're taking a new approach. They're embracing new media like all of us
0:59.8	here at Mo News, as well as conservative media. And so if you're interested in what to expect
1:05.4	in the months and years ahead from this White House, I think you'll get a lot out of this episode.
1:10.1	First up here, we have Harrison
1:11.3	Fields. He is a special assistant to the president, a principal deputy press secretary. He was part of
1:16.5	the first term. So he talks a bit about Trump 1.0, Trump 2.0. We get into Signalgate. We get into
1:22.4	the car tariffs. We get into a number of issues that we've been covering of late hearing the White
1:27.4	House take on it, challenging some of their policies. So you'll get all that from our conversation with Harrison Fields. Following that conversation, we talked to Alex Pfeiffer. He's the White House Deputy Communications Director. He actually spent time as a journalist for several years for conservative outlets like The Daily Wire as well as Tucker Carlson show on Fox News. So we talk about that transition from the media to the press
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