01-31-25 YMS President Trump has been meeting with reporters nearly every day since he took office. White House Correspondent JON DECKER was in the briefing room with the President on Thursday and will have the latest on how he is dealing with issues such as the Potomac air collision, and his cabinet nominees – both of which have been big topics this week.

President Trump has been meeting with reporters nearly every day since he took office. White House Correspondent JON DECKER was in the briefing room with the President on Thursday and will have the latest on how he is dealing with issues such as the Potomac air collision, and his cabinet nominees – both of which have been big topics this week. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your morning show with Michael dill Chuo.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
John Decker's joining us. You know, John, very interesting, you know,
like yesterday, with all this going on, this, Yeah, there's
no question this is a different presidency. This guy is present.
He was posting overnight, he was meeting with all leadership
in the morning, and throughout the day. He was constantly
checking in with the American people and giving access to

(00:26):
the media every step of the way. Now, America can
have debates over what he said and how he's handling things,
but you have to give him a grades for transparency
and availability.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Right well, he certainly is making himself available since taking office,
that's for sure. I think yesterday the tenor and tone
of his remarks was off because, as you just indicated,
it is so fresh. It is fresh for people that
are still feeling this horrific tragedy and dealing with this

(00:57):
horrific tragedy. It's so fresh here in the nation's cape
capital that there's still a recovery effort going on to
pull bodies from the frozen Potomac. And you know, to
delve into politics at the moment that Donald Trump. President
Trump did yesterday in the briefing room, I think was
off in terms of reading the moment and what people
are feeling right now.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, it was there. I mean, you know, in listening
to the statement, all the empathy was there, all the
pain was there, all the compassion was there. But then
as the day kind of unfolded, you realized. But he
was very brief, and I mean I was shocked. I
said to Rory, I didn't expect to know anything, and
then I was shocked at how much we knew in
the first day. And the first day we know the
day before a flight had to abort landing over a helicopter.

(01:42):
We learned that there was a staff shortage, that one
of the traffic controllers was handling two jobs, not one,
over two different frequencies, that the Blackhawk was out of
position and above ceiling. I mean, there's just a lot
we've already learned. And because it was you that I
actually talked about this with off the air, I was like,

(02:04):
very uncomfortable with where he went. But I think a
lot of it was information he was gathering and pain
mixed with outrage, and I don't think he could resist himself.
I thought a key moment was when the NTSB was
asked by a reporter, don't you think the president is
being ridiculously premature and making this political and inappropriate before
we have facts. And he turned it over to the

(02:24):
chair of the NTSB and she didn't really back down,
and she said every individual, every environment, and every piece
of machinery will be checked. And that's when I began
to think maybe it's everything that came up in the
debriefings that outraged him. And I felt differently by the
end of the day, because I agreed early in the day,
but not so much at the end of the day.
At the end of the day, I was just as mad.

(02:46):
And that's Donald Trump and he holds nothing back. But
we'll see where it goes from there. You got a
major scoop today. How did this happen?

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Oh, I can't reveal my sources, but the source indicated
to me that the president will meet with the founder,
CEO share of Nvidia, which of course is the leader
in AI worldwide. It stock took a huge hit just
over the course of the past week, and there's concern
that Nvidia will not be at the forefront of AI

(03:17):
that everyone thought it would be. And so this meeting
is I think an attempt to provide some confidence for
the financial markets that Nvidia is the powerhouse that everyone thought.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
It would be before this Chinese firm came forward, indicating
that maybe it's the Chinese that will be the leader
in AI.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
And that meeting is today and perhaps we'll talk about
it after the weekend on Monday, and valuable having you, John,
have a great weekend. We'll talk Monday.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you. It's your morning Show with Michael del Churno.