Episode Details

Jon Herold opens with Katie Zacharia's first White House press briefing, and it was a rough one. Jon plays clips from her opening statement and the questions that followed, including the moment she mixed up her president and her husband, and the awkward exchange when a reporter asked where she passed the bar exam. He compares her to Karoline Leavitt and Kayleigh McEnany, floats a theory about why someone with her history of Q and devolution posts would be put front and center, and says the real test is whether her next briefing gets any better. Then it's on to Kimberly Guilfoyle's resignation after the Wall Street Journal story on her Signal messages, and Trump's post on the Houthis and Iran. From there, Jon gets into how the headlines frame Trump's diesel deal with Russia, the UN's political declaration on pandemic prevention, voter ID and the midterms, and why he expects the Democrats to try to impeach Trump again. Pull up a chair, it's a good one.