President Trump’s Press Secretary – Karoline Leavitt – held her first briefing and our White House Correspondent JON DECKER was there. Decker has worked with 17 Press Secretaries since he has been covering the White House and has a review of her performance.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on Your Morning Show with Michael Del Joono.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We contrasted, if you've never listened to the podcast, go
to the iHeart podcast section and search Michael del Journal
or Your Morning Show to pop right up hit subscribe.
That way, it's waiting for you every morning. But in
the five o'clock hour, we contrasted Caroline Kennedy and Caroline Levitt, who,
at twenty seven years old, is the thirty sixth White
House Press Secretary. And if you think this administration is
(00:28):
one hundred and eighty degrees different from the previous, I
think the two press secretaries were as well. But let's
get John Decker's take this. This is his room, White
House correspondent John Decker joining us. Overall, a pretty impressive
first day on the job for her. I thought, well,
let me just correct something. You misspoke.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
You refer to Kareeme Jean Pierre as Caroline Kennedy, So
I just wanted to correct the record there.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Oh no, no, you were actually both. We contrasted both
of them. Why Caroline Kennedy felt the need to attack
Robert Kennell, you know, when the senators can handle that
for themselves. But we contrasted the two Carolines, but on
Caroline Levitt, she had her first date. And I'm already
a fan. You know why ask me?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Ask me Decker, why are you a fan?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Michael? She called on you. I like that right off
the bat.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, thank you, I said, Well, I got called on.
I got caught on pretty regularly by Kareeine John Pierre too.
You know, she's the seventeenth White House Press secretary that
I work with and will work with. And I thought
she did a commendable job her first day as the
White House Press Secretary in the briefing room, handling questions
for forty seven minutes. And you know, to me, it
(01:41):
was pretty interesting. The news organizations that did not get
called upon. I made a note of it. I'll run
through some of them, The Los Angeles Times, the Wall
Street Journal, the Washington Post. In addition to that, who
else Reuters did not get called upon, MSNBC did not
get called upon, BOP's business did not get called upon.
(02:03):
So I'm appreciative of the fact that Caroline called upon
me her first day out there in the briefing room,
and I thought that her tone was perfect in terms
of handling questions from a variety of news.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Organizations, because these organizations should be asking questions on behalf
of their viewers or their readers or their listeners, and
be interested in the answer, whether they agree or disagree.
And it's turned into a big attack and gotcha session. Well,
she's up for the gotchas, and I think it's them
that have been gotten. They're playing checkers against chess. We
had a big question today, which was she made the
(02:35):
announcement They're going to open up the room to what
might seem like to people in the room as untraditional sources,
but for where America is. I mean, we were comparing
the fifty five million just on YouTube alone that watched
Trump with with Joe Rogan compared to the one hundred and
eighteen thy twenty five to fifty four viewers on CNN.
I mean, you know, America has moved on and moved
(02:56):
these plays. There are TikTok influencers who have really reached
my college children. Maybe they should be in that room.
Joe Rogan maybe should be in that room. I don't
think it's in his best interest, but Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly,
I mean, should this room reflect where we're watching and listening?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, what she announced was that they're going to sit
aside two seats on the side of the briefing room,
not one of the forty nine seats occupied by the
White House Press s Corps. And that means she's taking
away two seats from her own press team that's where
they typically sit. And so what we saw yesterday journalists
(03:35):
from Axios and Breitbart starting off the briefing with questions
posed to Caroline Levitt, and then the more traditional news
organizations asked questions as well. AP I think was the
third news organization posing a question to Caroline Levitt. I
was the only person who actually asked a foreign policy
question during the course of that forty seven minute long
(03:57):
briefing that she did yesterday. You also know, what is
Michael No briefing book Caroline Levitt Carrie's and she doesn't
need one. She has all the information right there in
her head. And that's what we saw. A briefing book
is what we saw with the prior three press secretaries Karine,
John Pierre, Jensaki, and Kaylee Mcadeedni.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know you mentioned John Decker is our White House
correspondent that you've been. There was seventeen different press secretaries
for a first day. I mean, I'm watching this and
I'm thinking, all right, I expect nerves on the first day.
You know, you got you got to get your rhythm,
you got to get your confidence.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Repetitions. You know that from Little league in tennis. Repetitions
that's how you show up and win matches, repetitions in practice.
If she was that good on her first day, how
good is she going to get twenty seven years old.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
John, Yeah, really impressive. I agree with you. Incredibly poised.
No surprise to me in the sense that she was
the spokesperson for the Trump presidential campaign over the course
of the last few so she's had that experience. And
it's not her first time in the White House. She
was a junior pressade during Donald Trump's first term in
(05:08):
the White House. So for all of those reasons, you know,
it's not a surprise to me that she hit it
out of the ballpark yesterday.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
On her and for my reason, she called on you,
you got in a tour of three questions. I think
it was John Deckers. Always appreciate our visit. We'll talk
again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you it's your morning show with Michael del
Chrono
Previously on Your Morning Show with Michael Del Joono.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We contrasted, if you've never listened to the podcast, go
to the iHeart podcast section and search Michael del Journal
or Your Morning Show to pop right up hit subscribe.
That way, it's waiting for you every morning. But in
the five o'clock hour, we contrasted Caroline Kennedy and Caroline Levitt, who,
at twenty seven years old, is the thirty sixth White
House Press Secretary. And if you think this administration is
(00:28):
one hundred and eighty degrees different from the previous, I
think the two press secretaries were as well. But let's
get John Decker's take this. This is his room, White
House correspondent John Decker joining us. Overall, a pretty impressive
first day on the job for her. I thought, well,
let me just correct something. You misspoke.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
You refer to Kareeme Jean Pierre as Caroline Kennedy, So
I just wanted to correct the record there.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Oh no, no, you were actually both. We contrasted both
of them. Why Caroline Kennedy felt the need to attack
Robert Kennell, you know, when the senators can handle that
for themselves. But we contrasted the two Carolines, but on
Caroline Levitt, she had her first date. And I'm already
a fan. You know why ask me?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Ask me Decker, why are you a fan?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Michael? She called on you. I like that right off
the bat.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, thank you, I said, Well, I got called on.
I got caught on pretty regularly by Kareeine John Pierre too.
You know, she's the seventeenth White House Press secretary that
I work with and will work with. And I thought
she did a commendable job her first day as the
White House Press Secretary in the briefing room, handling questions
for forty seven minutes. And you know, to me, it
(01:41):
was pretty interesting. The news organizations that did not get
called upon. I made a note of it. I'll run
through some of them, The Los Angeles Times, the Wall
Street Journal, the Washington Post. In addition to that, who
else Reuters did not get called upon, MSNBC did not
get called upon, BOP's business did not get called upon.
(02:03):
So I'm appreciative of the fact that Caroline called upon
me her first day out there in the briefing room,
and I thought that her tone was perfect in terms
of handling questions from a variety of news.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Organizations, because these organizations should be asking questions on behalf
of their viewers or their readers or their listeners, and
be interested in the answer, whether they agree or disagree.
And it's turned into a big attack and gotcha session. Well,
she's up for the gotchas, and I think it's them
that have been gotten. They're playing checkers against chess. We
had a big question today, which was she made the
(02:35):
announcement They're going to open up the room to what
might seem like to people in the room as untraditional sources,
but for where America is. I mean, we were comparing
the fifty five million just on YouTube alone that watched
Trump with with Joe Rogan compared to the one hundred and
eighteen thy twenty five to fifty four viewers on CNN.
I mean, you know, America has moved on and moved
(02:56):
these plays. There are TikTok influencers who have really reached
my college children. Maybe they should be in that room.
Joe Rogan maybe should be in that room. I don't
think it's in his best interest, but Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly,
I mean, should this room reflect where we're watching and listening?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, what she announced was that they're going to sit
aside two seats on the side of the briefing room,
not one of the forty nine seats occupied by the
White House Press s Corps. And that means she's taking
away two seats from her own press team that's where
they typically sit. And so what we saw yesterday journalists
(03:35):
from Axios and Breitbart starting off the briefing with questions
posed to Caroline Levitt, and then the more traditional news
organizations asked questions as well. AP I think was the
third news organization posing a question to Caroline Levitt. I
was the only person who actually asked a foreign policy
question during the course of that forty seven minute long
(03:57):
briefing that she did yesterday. You also know, what is
Michael No briefing book Caroline Levitt Carrie's and she doesn't
need one. She has all the information right there in
her head. And that's what we saw. A briefing book
is what we saw with the prior three press secretaries Karine,
John Pierre, Jensaki, and Kaylee Mcadeedni.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know you mentioned John Decker is our White House
correspondent that you've been. There was seventeen different press secretaries
for a first day. I mean, I'm watching this and
I'm thinking, all right, I expect nerves on the first day.
You know, you got you got to get your rhythm,
you got to get your confidence.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Repetitions. You know that from Little league in tennis. Repetitions
that's how you show up and win matches, repetitions in practice.
If she was that good on her first day, how
good is she going to get twenty seven years old.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
John, Yeah, really impressive. I agree with you. Incredibly poised.
No surprise to me in the sense that she was
the spokesperson for the Trump presidential campaign over the course
of the last few so she's had that experience. And
it's not her first time in the White House. She
was a junior pressade during Donald Trump's first term in
(05:08):
the White House. So for all of those reasons, you know,
it's not a surprise to me that she hit it
out of the ballpark yesterday.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
On her and for my reason, she called on you,
you got in a tour of three questions. I think
it was John Deckers. Always appreciate our visit. We'll talk
again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you it's your morning show with Michael del
Chrono
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