Anonymous ID: d10899 Nov. 18, 2018, 8:13 p.m. No.3957404   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7424

It Was A Normal Morning Until We Got The Notification. 45 Minutes Later, We Were Sitting In Front Of Trump Himself

 

We’d recently done a sit down interview with the president and, while we’re always ready to sit in the Oval, weren’t expecting another interview anytime soon. Until the call came. it in the Oval, weren’t expecting another interview anytime soon. Until the call came. Could we, Saagar Enjeti and Benny Johnson, be at the White House in 45 minutes? “We’ll be there.” Cue an instant flurry of newsroom activity. I sounded the alarm to Johnson, who ditched his jeans to wedge himself into a spare suit I keep in the office. Another colleague coughed up some dress shoes in Benny’s size. Meanwhile, the five o’clock shadow on my face suddenly felt like a full beard. We tore out of the office.

 

Headed for the White House, my mind teemed and calculated what the news of the day was and what I could realistically ask Trump about. Benny and I quickly thought up a few must-ask questions and decided the order of who would ask what. I noted to Benny that given my experience interviewing Trump two months earlier, it was best to ask shorter, big-picture questions. The most interesting things the president says are often embedded within monologues, though some probing is necessary to narrow specific bits of news.

 

As we ventured over to the White House and scrambled to get Benny cleared through the Secret Service, the Caller’s most senior editors convened in a conference room back at the office. They began to also brainstorm newsworthy questions important to our audience and rank them in order of importance. As they decided on questions, they began to email them to me in a list. Nearly to the White House, just blocks from our office, I had a docket of questions on my phone, both those given to me by my editors and those I had crafted myself. I called our editorial director — Vince Coglianese, who accompanied me on our last interview of Trump — to again go over the best strategies. For any president, wording must be precise to yield maximum result. They tend to be masters of filibuster, and Trump loves veering off topic to a side story or anecdote. Moments later, my phone rang again. It was time. Armed only with my notes and recording app, we ventured into the famous office and placed our phones on the Resolute Desk.

 

Trump was only slated to speak with us for 15 minutes, but we pushed 30. Several senior White House officials were in the room with us as the interview progressed, and the president rattled off on subjects ranging from the professional fates of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and CNN reporter Jim Acosta, to the Florida recounts, Amazon and Antifa violence. The president is a singular force in these interviews veering off into any subject he wants, drawing connections you would never think, and talking over you if he feels that he hasn’t been able to fully make his point. This time, he was in a lighthearted mood, joking around with Benny and me, answering parts of questions he felt like expounding on. Throughout the interview, the buzz of the U.S. government’s center-most element could be felt around us. The door to the Oval Office remained open and aides stalked the outer office waiting for us to depart.

 

Trump’s aide came to inform him after only 20 minutes that he had his intelligence briefing to attend. The president nodded, seemed unbothered and continued to speak. I hardly registered at the time as I was so focused on getting as many questions in as possible. Trump answered one last question on his takeaways from the 2018 election, and we were hurriedly ushered out of the Oval Office by his senior staff. The hallway by the Oval Office that guests wait in to be received was packed full of harried national security officials waiting to deliver a briefing, including CIA Director Gina Haspel herself.

 

I thanked the president’s senior aides for the opportunity and racked my brain for all of the newsworthy headlines we had accumulated. It’s only after you’ve left the Oval Office do you really appreciate the historic place where you were just standing, the significance of the things you have just heard and the exhilarating task you have just completed. “What were you guys doing in there?” a fellow correspondent asked as we left the White House. I gave a mischievous smile and said “oh you know, just the usual” and hurried away to write to my stories.

 

https://www.dailycaller.com/2018/11/18/45-minutes-trump-interview/

Anonymous ID: d10899 Nov. 18, 2018, 8:22 p.m. No.3957470   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7653

>>3957227

To be clear are you saying that both images are cabal submission? I understand that Brown & Newsom are showing signs of submission in your image, but what is the message in the other one? Is POTUS signaling agreement of submission in both of those images?

Anonymous ID: d10899 Nov. 18, 2018, 8:24 p.m. No.3957489   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Agreed and this portion of their take on the interview proves they get him:

 

The president is a singular force in these interviews veering off into any subject he wants, drawing connections you would never think, and talking over you if he feels that he hasn’t been able to fully make his point.

Anonymous ID: d10899 Nov. 18, 2018, 8:36 p.m. No.3957589   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7701

Trump considering changes in as many as five Cabinet positions

 

President Donald Trump said he is considering making changes in as many as five Cabinet positions during an interview with Fox News that aired Sunday. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Trump told Chris Wallace he values the ability to be flexible with his staff amid speculation Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and White House chief of staff John Kelly may soon depart from the White House. “I have three or four or five positions that I’m thinking about. Of that, maybe it’s going to end up being two. But I need flexibility,” Trump said.

 

Trump told Wallace he was looking for Nielsen to improve her handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. “I like her very much I respect her very much I’d like her to be much together on the border. Much tougher. Period,” Trump said.

 

The president also said he and Kelly “get along well,” but said Kelly was likely to “move on,” suggesting he may not remain as chief of staff with the White House through 2020. “There are certain things I love what he does and there are certain things that I don’t like that he does — that aren’t his strength,” Trump said. “It’s not that he doesn’t do — you know he works so hard. He’s doing an excellent job in many ways. There are a couple of things where it’s just not his strength. It’s not his fault, it’s not his strength.”

 

Addressing the replacement of one of his administration’s most recent departures, Trump said he wasn’t aware that Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker had been critical of Special Counsel Robert Muller’s investigation into his possible role in Russian interference in the 2016 election when he selected him to replace departing Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “I did not know he took views on the Mueller investigation as such,” Trump said. He added he “would not get involved” in Whitaker’s decisions overseeing the Mueller probe as attorney general. “It’s going to be up to him,” Trump said. “I think he’s very well aware politically. I think he’s astute politically. He’s a very smart person. A very respected person. He’s going to do what’s right. I really believe he’s going to do what’s right.”

 

https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-considering-changes-in-as-many-as-five-cabinet-positions/