Following Katie Zacharia’s first White House press briefing as President Trump’s new Press Secretary on Tuesday, CNN’s co-hosts of The Situation Room mocked the “few questions” asked, claiming the reporters “were basically sympathetic, supportive of the Trump administration.” They even trotted out a former Clinton Press Secretary and praised him for how good he used to be.
The bashing of Zacharia’s press briefing erupted with CNN’s chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins’ report on the minimal questions asked by reporters, with comment on the duration of the briefing taking only 15 minutes. Co-host Pamela Brown laughed at Zacharia’s end to the briefing, quoting that when she “closed her binder, I thought, wait, this couldn’t be it, right? And sure enough, sure enough that that was it.”
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