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Being a member of the White House press corps is a job that allows you to ask the most powerful man on earth for insight into what he says and does. It requires a broad knowledge of current events both grand and minute. It involves traveling to the four corners of the globe to follow the President of the United States as he shapes events that affect millions of people. It means following events day and night until the concerns of the public are answered. WOR White House correspondent Jon Decker- who now has a new daily podcast on iHeart called “The White House Briefing Room with Jon Decker”- has been following the stories that originate or terminate with a statement from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. With the debut of the podcast happening yesterday, he appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to discuss some of the story lines that occupy the minds of the reporters in D.C.
Decker told host Larry Mendte that the Jeffrey Epstein case file is still the long, dark cloud that hovers in the room, and will probably continue to do so for a while longer: “It’s going to take a while for a federal judge to determine whether or not to adhere to the requests coming from the Justice Department to unseal that grand jury testimony. In the meantime, Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, has said that she’s not going to release to the public what she calls ‘a truckload of documents’ that she says the DOJ has concerning the criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.”
However, Decker says there is a lot more to discuss with Trump on today’s docket than just the shady financier’s case file: “Just ten days remain until those tariffs that the President has promised go into effect. We’ll see if the President makes a trade deal with the Philippines… I want to hear from President Marcos about the threat China poses to his country and ti the entire region… [And] now that he has complete control of Congress, [will Trump] focus on legislation, making his legacy permanent.”
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