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Karoline Leavitt got behind the podium to host the first White House press briefing of the second Trump term on Tuesday. Leavitt, serving as the youngest Press Secretary ever, bucked some old habits and introduced the ‘new media’ section of the briefing room. Reagan Reese, White House correspondent for The Daily Caller, talked to Mendte in the Morning about the briefing from the perspective of someone inside the room.
“They’re giving up seats that are reserved in the briefing room for Karoline’s staff and giving them to outlets that do not have a seat in the briefing room,” Reese told host Larry Mendte. “The White House press office staff is going to vet applications, and I assume set a rotation of who is going to be sitting in that seat.”
Reese is curious if the change could cause some stir among the legacy media outlets: “It’s the precedent that the press secretary always starts the briefing with the Associated Press, so kicking it to the new media to start off that briefing, I wonder how that went over with that front row.”
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